The Melancholy of the Demon Army Officer
Translator: Tsukii
Editor: Shizukuku
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Chapter 103 – Entrusted Things [B]
Leonhart looked at Galtia in front of him and listened to his words.
As Galtia walked towards Leonhart, he grabbed Leonhart by the collar with his left hand and lifted Leonhart up. Then he swung his right hand,
“Wake up already…!”
“gh…!”
And punched him. Galtia’s left hand held onto Leonhart, so Leonhart wasn’t blown away this time.
But instead, Kesselring raised her voice,
“Galtia!”
“Don’t you try to stop me, Kesselring…!”
Galtia didn’t listen to her pleas for him to stop, and continued glaring at Leonhart,
“I don’t mind even if you are being depressed or lethargic! But you see, I can’t forgive you for saying you want to die, Leonhart!”
“…Why…?”
“Aah?!”
Leonhart leaked his voice out in front of an angry Galtia.
It was a simple question and expression of his inner feelings.
“In this unreasonable world… how can you try to live…? She was—”
Indeed, Ssulal was,
“She said she loved this world. Yet despite that… she died unreasonably.”
There was neither goodwill nor hope in this world. There was only a bottomless pit of malice and despair.
We’re just toys to be played with as long as we’re interesting, then abandoned once they get tired of us.
Leonhart might have been able to endure if Ssulal was still with him. Moreover,
“I… couldn’t do anything… I couldn’t protect her.”
Because I chose to protect my way of life, I let the chance to save her slip away.
There’s no way someone like myself has any worth. There’s no value.
In that case,
“Yet despite that… I actually kept living on… such a thing is—”
“—Shut the fuck up!!”
“gh…”
The words that would have followed were stopped by Galtia’s angry voice.
Then Galtia glared strongly at Leonhart again and said with a rough tone.
“You, do you have any idea… the last thing she asked me in the end?!”
That’s, thought Leonhart
Leonhart knew that Ssulal, on her last day, personally visited everyone she was close with. Leonhart had no intention of being away from her, but she wanted to give her last words to people she was close to. Leonhart had no choice but to let her go.
What did Ssulal tell Galtia? Leonhart wondered as Galtia continued his words.
That was,
“‘Please take care of Leonhart’ — That’s what she asked me!”
“—”
“Do you get it now?” Galtia asked him. What it meant was,
“She was still worried about you, even during her last moments. About what might become of you after she was gone—”
“…Ssulal…”
As Leonhart muttered her name, Galtia continued. “Isn’t it the same as when she was with you?” he said.
“Yet you actually want to die? You said you don’t have a reason to live? Stop being stupid!! Isn’t there something you could do…!!”
That was,
“Didn’t she tell you to live on?! She should have asked you something! — Then do it! Don’t go off dying, keep living on! Otherwise, her death will be meaningless!”
“I…”
“…If you still insist of wanting to die despite that—”
Galtia raised his fist and exerted his power.
“Then I’ll kill you myself!”
“—gh”
“So what will you do?” Galtia asked as his angry fist swung at Leonhart’s cheek.
While feeling the pain, Leonhart heard Galtia’s voice.
“Answer me! What will you do?!”
“…”
Galtia asked. About Leonhart’s will. About what Leonhart would do from now on.
…I…
Leonhart asked himself. Will I continue to do nothing and die without leaving anything behind?
Or will I live on and achieve something?
“I…”
Before Leonhart could answer, he heard a voice from the side.
“…It seems things are getting heated here.”
It was a familiar voice.
He looked toward the door, the direction where the voice came from. And as expected, over there was,
“…Hunty… huh…”
“…You look quite terrible right now.”
Hunty, apostle of Leonhart, had an exasperated expression on her face when she saw her master.
As everyone in the room turned their eyes toward her, it was Carol the fellow apostle who raised her voice,
“Hunty-san! Where have you been all this time?! I was really worried…”
“Aah, sorry about that. I had things to do, you see — all for the sake of our master over there.”
Everyone was skeptical of the words Hunty said. They either squinted their eyes or frowned as they looked at Hunty.
Meanwhile, Hunty turned her gaze toward Leonhart,
“…I managed to hear that last bit of conversation… but Leonhart. You… you said you want to die?”
“…”
Leonhart didn’t respond. But as he stayed silent, Hunty sighed and said with a slightly hostile gaze.
“…That’s pretty selfish of you. Even though you turned me into an apostle, just so you could keep fighting me, you are trying to quit ahead of me now?”
“What nonsense,” said Hunty as she briefly concluded.
Then as she raised her eyebrows,
“Seriously, it is nonsense. He makes me an apostle without permission, fights me that much and gets me motivated, yet now he wants to quit because he got tired of it, well… that kind of thing won’t happen — don’t you think so?”
“…?”
Suddenly, Hunty was talking over her shoulder instead of toward Leonhart. They were words she asked someone, which raised Leonhart’s suspicion.
But the next moment, a voice was heard from behind Hunty, and Leonhart’s eyes opened just a little bit wider.
That was,
“—I do think so. Even though he had made me so serious about it, I don’t want to say goodbye right after the reunion, you know?”
The one who appeared was a long-eared woman with long blue hair.
The beautiful girl wore a white hat on her head and dressed in an elegant yet loose robe with a big cane in her hand. And she had a blue crystal on her forehead.
It was Kesselring who first raised her voice in astonishment when she saw that appearance.
Kesselring knew that person’s name. Everyone in the room knew who she was. She was,
“—Pale…!”
“Yes, it’s been a long time, Kesselring-sama, Leonhart-san, and everyone else.”
The current chief of kalar — Pale Kalar.
It was the girl who developed a relationship with Leonhart when he came to Kalar’s forest eighty years ago.
As she appeared, Leonhart was also stunned and looked at her.
Pale met Leonhart’s gaze, smiled, and said,,
“…Leonhart-san. I have changed.”
“Pale…”
That appearance was certainly that of Pale.
However, she had clearly become more dignified and was filled with composure.
She seemed to have gotten more powerful as well.
“Because of Leonhart-sama, I managed to change.”
“…That seems to be the case…”
Leonhart was taken aback by her change. He seriously thought so.
Even though her appearance itself hadn’t changed, she seemed to have somehow become more beautiful.
Her dignified appearance should be the result of her desperate hard work and her experiences until now as the chief of kalar.
“I’ve worked hard for Leonhart-san’s sake… and I managed to change myself. I’ve become a proper chief of kalar, all for the sake of meeting with you again.”
“…So that’s how it was…”
Leonhart had told her that himself, to encourage Pale as they separated.
Leonhart also had the thought of meeting her again. And as he thought of that,
“I did my best.”
Pale told him. It was because that encounter and the words he said to her became the reason for her to work hard.
“The kalar settlement also developed well, you know. The number of people increased, the fields have been increased, facilities have been set up, and we grew strong enough to protect the settlement on our own. I’ve already educated my successor, and now, I am the greatest warrior of the settlement— or rather, the greatest magic user, but anyway, I’ve grown stronger, you know?”
“How is it?” Pale bragged a little as she proudly puffed her chest.
“I’ve properly become a great kalar. At the very least, it is enough for me to feel good about myself.”
“Yet,” she continued.
“You actually said you want to die like that… that troubles me. Certainly… Well, having Ssulal-san pass away… also made me sad…”
But,
“If Leonhart-san is gone… then I… I would be troubled by it…! I’d be very sad…!”
“That’s why,” she said.
“Please don’t say such a thing…!”
“gh, Pale…”
Seeing Pale say that as she lowered her head, Leonhart couldn’t continue his words.
However, the words of his companions didn’t end there.
There was a separate voice heard from behind Leonhart,
“—That’s right. Did you truly say such a foolish thing?”
“…!”
The voice was loud and dignified, yet filled with familiarity for some reason.
The voice from behind could be heard from outside.
As Leonhart turned around, suddenly, a shining white claw pierced the window and forcefully broke it.
The arm that entered his sight, no, the whole body — was made of diamond.
That appearance was also something familiar to Leonhart. A being who hailed from a strong and proud race had grown stronger.
A huge body that was about 50 meters in size. His face peeked inside and his voice was sent inside the room.
“…Rai, zen… huh…!”
“It’s been a long time, strong opponent (friend)—”
It was a huge dragon. One of the Four Great Saint Dragons — Raizen, the diamond dragon, had arrived.
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