Chapter 33 – 33. Far From Home (8)

After Dick took the rest of the people out, my sister and I were left in the room…

No, at some point, my sister and I took out the music box that our father had given us, and went inside it.

Even a broken mansion is a mansion, and of course there is no place like this to share old memories. Above all, this was a more comfortable place for me and my sister than our original home.

For me and my sister, who are truly stellar beings, it felt like we were in a cradle.

Therefore, for my sister and I to have a serious conversation, there was no better place than here.

“Now, it’s time to talk, Clark.”

And my sister and I sat next to each other on the sofa in the living room of the mansion. And next to me, the eyes of my sister who was asking me a question were demanding an answer from me. Naturally, I received help from the monster.

A woman named Withi.

Yes, she must have felt something when she asked me if I was pretty and saw that I cared so much.

…

“Tell me about a woman named Withi.”

“Any personal thoughts I have or anything like that?”

“Huh.”

Nod your head.

And I can even feel anxiety in my sister’s eyes when she asks this.

Just like my father said, I knew that my sister really loved me, and it was only now that I was faced with the truth, but honestly, rather than being embarrassed about this, I just felt like something was coming.

To be honest, even more than my older sister feeling that way, I also depended on her in many ways. The problem was that I was quite young, and my father admitted that he thought my older sister would attack me if I left her alone, so she sent me abroad to study for a while until I was older.

I also vaguely felt it, and as you know, it was my sister who first opened my eyes to sex.

I knew that this day would come someday, and I thought that marriage between half-siblings was a problem that would come at any time for those of us who could.

Now that I think about it, did my father even know that Lavinia would stab him like that?

Honestly, I don’t know.

Perhaps, even if it continued as is, if I think about the true form of my sister and I, we would have survived for a long time longer than her, and she would have longed for me again.

And once again, you’ll want me.

The horse looked at me like it was going to eat me, hugged me back from behind, and touched my body here and there as if it was marking its territory as its own, but now, after facing me like this, it has become as calm as a borrowed cat.

Even though she seemed so vicious, she always became this calm in front of me.

It means that he respects me that much, and that he values ​​me so much that he listens to what I say without threatening me.

About Weedy…

But before that, even after telling that story, she thinks it’s time to tell the stories that happened over the past seven years that her sister may not know about.

“…I think it’s time to tell you all about what happened during my five years of expedition. I also want to tell my sister everything. I don’t want to hide it.”

At some point, we have to talk about it and face it.

I don’t know about anything else, but especially about Elizabeth.

“What is it… Just in case, out of the expedition party, two people were women. The other three, including me, were all men.”

“…With that woman called Elizabeth, Alicia?”

“That’s right, but I’ll kill that damn Kampf bitch behind him as soon as I see him.”

He looks at me with an expression of surprise. Naturally, he couldn’t believe that I would do something like this to a woman or that I would say something like that to a woman I had shared many hardships with.

Of course I answer that.

“?Didn’t we have fun together at the hero party together?”

“…The other four suffered like dogs, and that doggy bitch was such a bitch that I wanted to kill her.”

I came out and found out what it was like to truly hate a person.

This was really a ‘personal’ grudge, so I didn’t want to let my sister get involved. No matter where she is hiding in Elvenheim, she will definitely break her head. Really.

If you have the chance to go, though.

Really, in the situation where Elizabeth retired, if even one person was left out, she was in a situation where everything would have been in vain, and if she had made a mistake, everyone would have been wiped out by Cassandra, no – in fact, it was the same situation as having been wiped out and thrown together.

“Seeing as you’re so angry… What happened?”

“In terms of overall strength, Cassandra was capable of doing so with just four people. She may have been injured, but she could not kill anyone.”

Cassandra was definitely strong.

…Okay.

At least while I was exhausted, if that bastard had supported me properly with spirits and archery, neither Gawain nor Kogan would have been seriously injured, and I would have gained strength and found a way to exploit Cassandra’s weaknesses.

Even though I was hurt and injured.

It’s better than dying.

And even if I was injured, I could overcome it as long as I had a chance to recover.

He ran away, saying he couldn’t sacrifice anything, not his pain, not his pain, he couldn’t allow anything.

That bitch.

“But, after leaving the place, that damned Kampf bitch ran away, and in the end, one of my colleagues died on the spot, my magic circuit was severely damaged, and the leader of the party was in league with the Demon King. That bitch didn’t even fight. “Thanks to you for running away without looking back. That’s how my magic circuit was so overworked that I couldn’t even use magic. You know this, right?”

“…Huh.”

Yes, honestly, the reason why my magic circuit became so bad was mostly because I overloaded it without having time to recover and supported Gawain and Kogan.

…

I was devastated when it broke, but it was a reasonable decision compared to dying right now.

Gawain’s older brother killed Cassandra, and Kogan opened the way for Gawain.

In the end, I was confident that I would regain the power of the magic circuit, and if I survived, I could build it up again.

I didn’t want to get it by killing my father.

Next is a story about Elizabeth.

“Elizabeth, the princess of the Duke of Pantalone in Phrygia, is currently a living corpse, so I want to save her. Lastly, I held out by myself to bide my time against Diabolus, the son of the Four Heavenly Kings, Cassandra, and his troops…Thanks to her, I’m alive here now.”

If it weren’t for her, the party would have been dangerous.

If she had had the chance, Alicia, she would have run away.

Enemies had already surrounded the surrounding area, and there was only one way out and one way in, guarded by Elizabeth, and even if you went out, you would die.

Although he died, he could survive only by defeating Sana Diabolus and subduing the demonic forces under his command.

“She was that kind of woman, and Elizabeth wanted to be saved, so she asked Solias for a means to restore her person.”

“… That’s right. So, she wanted to save her.”

She nobly stepped forward in a situation where she was sure she would die, and she cried out:

-I’ll leave this to the nobleman. Hehe.

-What are you saying, you crazy bitch? How can you block this road by yourself? You have to hold on to at least two of them here.

-I will take charge of it. Go get rid of Diabolus. A person who suppresses the consumption of power… And has the stamina to deal with a large number of enemies for a long time, has destructive power, and is capable of massacres in a wide range, who else but this ‘noble’? It has to be noon for Gawain to fight, and even if you’re here it won’t be long. Mr. Dwarf is short, so he will die due to heavy overload, and Alicia…Well, let’s pass.

-Wait a minute, what is this woman saying!?

Meanwhile, Alicia was also criticized by Elizabeth.

Such a bitch. Of course, no matter what, it was Elizabeth’s last time on her own terms anyway, so it wasn’t rough. To be honest, if Alicia was there, she would be so worried that she wouldn’t be able to fight properly.

If it were me, I would just say, fuck off, bitch.

Even though he continued to criticize her, Elizabeth took it easy on Canf’s words and spoke to us.

-Go! And save humanity. Responsibility for having nobility and power. I will carry it out, and you must defeat the devil. Let’s go!

A loud voice. Elizabeth shouted as she plunged her sword into the ground towards the monsters flocking into the narrow canyon.

-I have Elizabeth Pantalone here! Let the dirty monsters come here and stick their necks out for the sword of this body! Ohhohohohoho-!

…

She was a woman full of princess disease and self-absorption.

Until she eliminated Diabolus, there were monsters that came across her path that she was blocking, and Alicia, who was facing them from behind, got angry and asked how on earth she was blocking them, but I can tell.

She’s blocking it with all her might.

The vibrations that shake the ground are not just a bloody battle between us and Diabolus. And that Elizabeth is risking her life to watch over us.

After killing Diabolus, when all the monsters fled-

When I went to find Elizabeth, I could see Elizabeth lying dead, holding her broken greatsword and a mountain of corpses of monsters weighing nearly a thousand of her body.

…

-Ah, it was successful…I did it. As expected, this body’s…Colleagues. It’s reliable…Suitable for this body…And reliable…Huhuhu…What do you think? My greatness, now… You can believe it… Right?

I remember.

She is a duke of Frisia.

She is the daughter of the Duke of Pantalone and the heir apparent to be the next head of the family. She was simply a being who wanted to use her own power, her immense power, for the common good.

He was one of the true nobles I have ever seen, who considered it his natural duty to protect his people.

As she said, she was great, and although she boasted about her own power and superiority, she lived up to her abilities, and she was willing to sacrifice herself for her cause.

-…You’re so hot, you crazy bitch. Did you do this all by yourself?

Hehe, Clark…Why is your expression so crumpled? Are you jealous that I killed more people than you?

-…I’ll do something like that.

-Ah…I don’t even take jokes… Hehe… Don’t worry – I’m invincible… So I won’t die, right? For a moment…Just feel sleepy…Don’t recover… I won’t listen… And I have so… Curses… Uh.

-You won’t know until you try.

-…Hehe, Clark…Go ahead. I will fall here, step on the corpses of my comrades… And kill the demon lord. Thanks to you, the expedition wasn’t boring…

-…Do not say.

-…If I die here, Clark…What kind of woman will I be recorded as?

-…

-Ah…I’m sleepy. The mansion… The day I was taught by my father… And the way he taught me how to become a knight, even though I like the sword better than ballroom dancing…I became a knight…And…If I go back later, I want to study ballroom dancing…As well.

-You don’t die. Elizabeth.

-…Is that so? Hehe… Are you going to save me?

-I will save you. No matter how long it takes. I will never abandon you, who sacrificed so much. So, I’ll save you. Do whatever it takes!

Saying that, I froze Elizabeth’s body.

It was put into suspended animation.

It was a way to ensure that if anyone was injured, the body would be sent to their home country. If I find a way to save her, if anyone can free her and save her, I will freeze her, take her scroll to Phrygia, and save her. He tore her up and sent her to Phrygia.

“…Of all the female relationships I can talk about, I think I’ve mentioned half of them.”

Elizabeth’s end, if nothing else is done, Pooh will die immediately.

Surely, even if there was someone acting strangely in that house, she would be safe because of that.

To assert her legitimacy, she certainly won’t try to kill her, given her ambition to rule until her resurrection.

In the end, they succeeded in killing the Demon King, and then the Elder God assassins appeared as if they had been waiting.

And after that, I followed Nia’s lead and headed to the monster that could save me. By collapsing around her, I was able to heal the injuries that had accumulated on her hands.

She told me to rest in peace.

He has silver hair and is about 140cm tall? A monster of about that height, with blue eyes and horns on top of its head. However, the strength I felt from her was beyond imagination. Although it was not comparable to Cassandra, I could see that it was quite powerful, although it would not be impossible to defeat if fought alone.

At least, compared to the people out there at that time trying to kill me, she was a disaster-level monster.

-…You can relax and treat it like your own home, Clark.

-…Before that, I have a question. Why do you know my name?

-If you don’t know about the humans who came into the demon world to kill the demon lord, wouldn’t that be strange? However, I intervened because the people who came in to kill those humans and disrupt the demon world… Were massacring the demons. Now my place is in disarray, and they keep coming here.

-…I’m leaving…

-No.

On the day when I was about to wake up, she forced me to lie down in bed again and said,

-The injured person should rest. You risked your life to kill the Demon King after receiving a revelation from God, but the price of that devotion was betrayal. As much as you worked hard for the humans, the Demon King Cassandra, who was a tyrant, was not a good king to other monsters, and thanks to you, he was saved. There are also monsters. So, for now, please let me return the favor.

They said it was repayment.

Now that I think about it, they were waiting for Cassandra to fall. I made a profit from my business as a fisherman, and if I could attract stragglers from there as a bonus, it would definitely not be a losing business.

-We used you. Your struggles, your fights, your sacrifices. But that’s why I don’t want to let you die. If you continue like this, you will die. We used you too, but that doesn’t mean we want to let you die. Please allow me to serve you.

He said he wanted to take me with him. Now that I think about it, I can see that it was a courtship in which she put her all into it. She was calm, had the appearance of a child, and although she was clearly not a pedophile, she radiated an inexplicable charm that made me know she was seducing me.

“Now that I think about it, she was probably trying her best to seduce me.”

“…Then then-“

“Of course I refused and came out. No matter how injured and exhausted I was, what I had to do was go back. Considering the people waiting for me at home, if they chased me… The people at home would suffer even more. Because you’re going through this.”

She said then too. Even after I refused – she kept talking.

-…But I still have to go. There are people waiting.

-Even if you wait, if you continue as you are, you will die.

– Said my friend. You have to do what you have to do, even if it means breaking your head. You may fail while doing what you have to do, but you should not give up. My family is waiting for me, and I have to go back.

Old stories Dick told.

In a story called the Odyssey, it is the story of the events before the hero Odysseus returns home after a terrible war. Odysseus when he escapes from the witch who is capturing him on the island where the witch is.

The witch was tempting Odysseus, and Odysseus refused and eventually decided to go to Penelope, who was waiting for him.

Her the reason I hit her so high, the reason I feel sorry for her a lot.

She didn’t force me any more than was necessary, and most of all, when I clearly showed my intention to go, she obediently let me go.

To her who did not hold on to her sorrowfully like Circe, her witch, and did not threaten her.

Still, unable to hide her sadness, she gave me a gift as she left.

-…Write this. This will hide your identity. Even now, when you can’t use magical power, you can hide your body with just your ‘will’. It will block the observation of the weak, and it will hide you from the eyes of the strong.

-…Sorry. I have no way to repay your favor.

-.. Hehe, don’t be sorry. Because you are a person who holds something more precious in your heart. I don’t hate people like that. But…Still, sometimes, when you look at it, I hope you think of me. And later, please return this fur one more time and come show me… Just your face.

-…I promise. I, the Golden Sun, Clark – Dawn Bringer will come to return this after everything is settled.

And with that, I left Widi. After that, I heard Weedy sobbing, but despite that, I had no choice but to move on.

Her mournful sound made me pretend not to know, even though I knew there was something on the fur she had handed me. Naturally, it would probably be a painful heartbreak for her.

I know that not all monsters are bad.

Right now, there was Anna, a Kikimora, around me, and I could tolerate them as long as they followed their mutual rules. Therefore, I did not deny that I still had feelings for her in many ways.

There is nothing more deceitful than denying it.

That’s how Odysseus returned home.

Odysseus’s wife, Penelope.

The story goes that Penelope also rejected the advances of her many lovers, and she was finally reunited with Odysseus, who returned, and she lived happily ever after.

…

Unfortunately for me, Penelope was not Lavinia.

“…That’s all I can say. She definitely tempted me, but that’s it.”

“…You did a good job of kicking the woman who was so openly tempting.”

“Because I have a family waiting for me. My home was Magia, not the Demon World. Above all, the people who went to kill the Demon King. Gawain, Kogan, Elizabeth – we have to deliver the news of the dying and the fallen. That’s what those who survived have to do. “And I was carrying their blood.”

So, what I’m saying is that I couldn’t just sit there and throw it away.

“…I just wanted to collapse from exhaustion, the feeling of failure and despair that things didn’t go as planned. And the things that tried to kill me, I wanted to run away from it all…”

Even because of the people who died and collapsed, I couldn’t stop there. I had an obligation to go back and tell their story and their end.

“This is the end of what I have to say. I told you everything that happened and everything here… The last thing I want to say is that I liked her in many ways, but I couldn’t do it because of the work I had to do. . That’s why it stayed in my heart, and I definitely want to repay the favor in the future.”

“…I see. I understand.”

And only then did my sister smile and understand my story. That’s a good thing. Unlike how my sister usually appears, does she literally monopolize me?

No, actually, it was just that I was interested in someone and she didn’t like the fact that she was moving away, so listening to my story, it was just a human favor for her. And when he realized that all that was left was repayment for the favor he had received, his expression became more relaxed than before.

“…Were you very anxious, sister?”

And this time I ask my sister.

Nod your head. Because I know that my sister’s crush is about looking at the opposite sex, I know what feelings she has. Above all, it is a situation where the man I like leaves for another woman, and I may feel betrayed as I tried to do my best with Lavinia.

And it seems like I was filled with thoughts about what would happen if I took more interest in Withi. So, I wasn’t in a very good mood, and even though she could have hurt me, threatened me, or captured me, she didn’t do that.

Now, even when it’s just me and you, my sister was able to do that, but-

My sister was still treating me rationally and gently.

“Because I hated the feeling of being away from you again. Lavinia, you have no idea how much I cried in Gehenna after that damn bitch got engaged to you.”

“…”

“Building a wall between you and me because of your fiancée. Having a wall built between you and me because you have another woman… I feel unbearably distressed.”

I laughed bitterly.

To be honest, it is true that I distanced myself a little from Lavinia after becoming engaged to her. I knew what my sister thought of me, but at least for the sake of family unity, it was right for me to care about Lavinia rather than my sister.

Because it was right.

And I hugged my sister tightly.

“…!”

“…It’s a little sad, and as soon as I came back, a lot of things changed, disappeared, and left me. Anna stayed, and Lorraine stayed, but that damn student ran away from home to get my revenge…”

To be honest, I missed my older sister, with whom I spent my childhood, and who raised me on her back instead of her mother, as much as the blood I shed to bring her back to Magia. Because my older sister was just as important to me as my father.

“Still, I was really happy that my sister came to see me again.”

Hold your sister’s hand.

Then, clasping my sister’s hands, I hold her face.

The faint scent of roses, white skin, and golden sheep eyes looking at me were full of excitement that could not be hidden. As I look at my sister, leaning against my touch, with an ecstatic expression on her face and a look of anticipation on her face, an uncontrollable excitement takes over me.

The immoral desire to embrace someone of the same blood takes over, and I touch my sister’s lips with hers.

And, my sister’s wet eyes, red face, and golden eyes looked at me, stroked my hair, held me in their arms, and said,

“…Welcome back, Clark.”

And then, my sister laid me down under the sofa.

My sister, full of her unconcealed excitement and elation, revealed her own desires to me.

I, too, accepted her older sister’s desires.

The two of us began to clash with each other’s desires.