Chapter 71: Save 37 – Royal Item

After leaving the room, I went to look at some documents that Ixion printed. There are no printers or typewriters, so it was up to me (him) to make one.

The documents said the same thing, that I am innocent and that I am now the vice supreme commander since Liam is the real one.

Is it weird for him to say that after everything that happened earlier?

Of course it isn't!

Who the hell would listen to a teenager with no important origins like me!!!?

Obviously no one, and even if it wasn't me, would do the same.

A guy who doesn't even know his mother wants to order me to die?

Am I mentally retarded?

Obviously not.

That's why Liam is my scapegoat.             

Even if they die, they would blame him and not me. He's your future king so suck it up.

I handed the documents to the drones and they went to hand them out, rather, throw them all over the capital.

There is also the problem of communication.

For a while now, there is no way to communicate with the nobles in the field, there is some kind of interference.

So I created(Ixion) a megaphone and speakers to communicate the situation.

Then, the King spoke and only then the bastards started to mobilize.

The main situation until we set sail to fight, is to evacuate civilians and non-combatants.

Ixion notified me that my family was coming here. I told him to send them a message to evacuate without me. I don't expect anything from them anyway so they will be safer evacuating.

After several minutes of seeing people running, a knight called me to go to the right place.

Everyone I needed was gathered there, with a few exceptions.

The place was a secret door hidden in a party room. Magical torches were lit and stairs appeared.

We went down to see that blissful ship.

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Several minutes of walking through what was a conquered dungeon. We were approaching a light, crossing it we found an ancient subway hangar.

The place was packed with craftsmen and thaumaturgists.

An old stranger came running up to the King.

"Your Majesty! Is it true that today is the day it will work?"

"...I can't answer you Ralph, it is Viscount Bradford who seems to know it without even telling him."

He saw me, the King saw me say that.

Is he upset by any chance?

The strange old man approached me and then asked questions about what Ixion was and if he could touch him.

Ixion, of course, got angry and electrocuted the poor guy.

We were walking and I looked at the place, it was definitely an old hangar with stone pillars, the construction was human according to Ixion.

I turned my head back to look at the structure, I inadvertently saw the people who came.

On the left was Erselica a bit depressed and behind her Liam and the others.

On the right were Airi and Alisa, their expressions were of astonishment as it was the first time they saw this.

I don't understand why so many came?

According to her, we only need Airi and Liam to turn it on, right?

I'm not complaining about Alisa being here, but what did the others come for?

"...And, you know how it works so you know about its existence don't you?"

The King was talking to me, I didn't know what to answer him since Ixion was the one who found him days before all this madness started.

"...I just found it by chance, I don't know how it works."

I told him that so he wouldn't think any weirder of me.

At her side was the Queen who avoided not only seeing me, but also the King, her face pointed anywhere but our direction.

Is she upset?

I hope not, it would crush me to know that I am hated by the only beautiful mature woman I know.

Finally, we reached the end of the hangar.

I won't lie, it's impressive.

The object in front of us was an aircraft not so similar to Brunhilde. It was 200 or 300 meters long. Its appearance was beautiful, it was white in color and the hull was gray.

It was almost similar to Brunhilde, but without embedded weapons with the exception of a large cannon in the center.

It was anchored to the ground and had several marks of having received attacks.

Ixion informed me.

"It appears to be of a later generation than mine. It received engine damage, so it came in for repairs, but they never finished it."

I stood watching him.

But it was Ixion who ruined the mood.

"Even if it's serious damage, my little guy would never have stayed in that condition. Besides, it seems no one knew how to repair him and left him like that. Even the humans who have tried to repair him have done a lousy job, I could do it in less than an hour and still be able to create more."

He's upset, Ixion is very upset since according to Erselica, this ship is supposed to have defeated Brunhilde in the game.

I understand him a bit as I wouldn't think a super tech would lose to this either.

I was glancing at it until I noticed something. There was writing on the side of the ship, it was engraved with something like gold, I didn't understand what it said.

The king noticed my curiosity and as I walked along with the queen into the ship.

"We don't know what it says there, the message and its meaning either, but all we know; is that this ship is proof that the Saint existed and that this is her legacy for the day when she would return and we would need her again..."

The King suddenly fell silent, I could imagine why.

I turned my face to look at a certain girl and a certain boy. They both had expressions that they didn't want to be here.

Ixion spoke once again.

"Master, I finished analyzing this wagon."

"Don't call him that! Well, what did you find out?"

Ixion used cold words to make everyone feel worse.

"Its physical and defensive capabilities are a joke, no weapons other than that cannon and no defense system, at best it's good for a walk around."

(Hey, shut up, you're making the situation too dark for everyone yourself. Heartless ruthless scrap!)

I was going to tell him just now until he said something that wasn't an insult.

"...Mind you, there's something strange about this ship."

"Strange?"

Ixion directed his eye from my face to the ship, then I project an image into the air.

It was a hole in the deck near the bow, it looked like a ring, he proceeded to explain to me what it was.

"There is something strange about its mechanism, I don't know what it is and I can't identify it either. Everything is designed with simple components, the only odd thing is an area that connects to that hole that I can't identify."

If this show-off said that it means it is truly something unimaginable.

The King and Queen called me to come up as well, after going up, I found something strange that Ixion did not tell me.

They were in front of an entrance that led inside, the door was made of steel, but on one side was something too much the same as in my previous life.

I had no experience with it, but I remember it from many programs having seen it, it was a fingerprint identifier board, the kind where you have to put your hands to be allowed access.

I was surprised to see this and more in a world that is supposed to be a game.

I looked at Their Majesties, but they both looked strange.

"...Are you ready?"

"...I hope it works this time."

I don't understand what was wrong with them, but they both placed their hands on the identifier.

Then, a strange sound rang out.

"Error detected! Incompatibility between male and female! Male: 2 points. Female: 29 points."

A strange electronic voice sounded, it was very mechanical, more than Ixion, in fact, it was just like a message recorded and repeated after a bad action.

The identifier was dark and then, a red light turned it on.

I was stunned at that, but my surprise did not end there. A new voice sounded and it was from Their Majesties, not those present to me but from the identifier.

"...It's boring being King, I already want Liam to assume the throne and go fishing."

"Aren't you ashamed to have a boy the same age as your son say inappropriate things to your wife! To top it off, I was really happy to know that even at this age I still look attractive to men. Besides, why did you let Balzac almost get away with it, are you useless without Mayer or what?"

Words that were the living voice of Their Majesties would be played from the board.

The queen was at the King's side, as if she were a little girl, she quickly hit him on his forearm.

"Ouch, what's wrong with you!"

"What do you mean by going fishing! You already want to retire without having done anything useful! You didn't even manage to leave another heir with the concubines I selected for you! I felt like a real fool believing that I was the one with the problem, but you were having fun without even delivering the final blow!"

"This is no place to yell that you know! And, I'm the one who should be yelling at you rather. What's this about it making you feel cheerful to be considered sexy at an old age? You've already lost the age where you used to be pretty, now you're a wrinkled raisin, there's a reason they hang you!"

"You're the worst husband in the world! If I had known your brother was going to pass away, I would have married him and been a single Queen like this, I wouldn't have an incompetent as a husband and King!"

"I'm of the same opinion! There are plenty of young girls who want to be the King's mistress, the problem is I don't want any more children, you see what happened to Liam for not beating him when it was your duty to raise him!"

"My fault you say!!! I was too busy messing with your mistresses who came demanding the crown or riches for those children who didn't even have your hair to be yours, to top it off, I had to have them investigate the time they came to corroborate that information! It's thanks to me that a worthless one like you hasn't bankrupted this kingdom!"

"You're an old hag who's happy to be thought sexy by a teenager!"

"And you a good-for-nothing whose idiot genes your son inherited! And-and no one has said anything that I liked being looked at like that... it's just a feeling of revulsion at such impudence!"

"Your red face and cheek-to-cheek grin when he said he loved your fat hips say otherwise!"

"I-i-insolent!"

The queen was beating him with her arms and the king was using his cloak to cover himself.

I had heard things I never expected to hear in my life.

I inadvertently looked at the other people and they all averted their faces and covered their ears.

Alisa and Airi did too minus the four annoyances.

I walked to the smaller pest, took her hand and we walked to a far part so no one could hear us.

As I walked, Ixion informed me that everyone's eyes focused on our clasped hands. Not that I want to do it, but if I don't do it this way, it would look more like I'm doing something perverse.

After we walked away, I pointed to the ship.

"So, tell me what the catch is? It's really weird all that."

She, with her arms slightly raised, was touching her fingers in a circle.

Her voice was very tiny, I asked her again to repeat louder. After telling her to use more force she yelled it out.

"The machine only responds to true feelings between a man and a woman! If the relationship between them is incompatible, a message will come out telling their true feelings towards the person they don't want to see!"

She immediately covered her mouth, glanced at Their Majesties and they were still arguing.

Ixion asked her now.

"I understand. It seems to have a very frivolous sort of lie detector. So, what if his feelings are true?"

I also looked at her when he told her that.

"Let me explain its function more clearly. In the game, a situation was set up to prove that the love between the protagonist and the heroine was true."

I felt nauseous when I heard that.

"It was the meter there."

"Meter?" I asked very curious.

"Yes. In the game it showed a number of points and that number was from 1 to 100. If you got a low score of what was intended, a red light would come up and a voice in negative would say true comments from your heart."

"I think I understand this a little more, and if you took out the destined what happened?"

"Well... if the love between the two gave 100, a different voice and a blue tone would come out followed by their honest feelings."

"I find that attempt to show your love very generic."

"That's because there were complaints from the developers to the programmers about whether there was love or an attempt to do so. And, you see...they decided to put this in to show it."

"...What garbage programmers they were. Tell me, how much do we need that love? There must be some reason for love to keep them from turning it on and also to have been able to defeat Brunhilde."

"That never happened and never will, stop telling lies please."

I used my hand to gently toss it to the other side as it was very annoying.

Erselica was quiet and mumbled under her breath again, I told her to speak it louder I couldn't hear anything.

She had her mouth in a W shape from opening and closing it until I forcibly popped it.

"A 100! If you don't get those two a score of 100, that crap won't light! It doesn't matter if you get 50, 75 or 99! If it's not a perfect 100-point score of true love, it will never ignite!"

"Master."

I smacked my head with my palm when I heard it, really what a piece of crap this was, then Ixion called out to me.

I looked at him and he just pointed with his eye to look back.

As he did I got scared.

Both Alisa, Airi and the other 3 along with Their Majesties were watching and listening to us, the weird old man too, which made it scarier.

"So..."

"It works with love..."

Alisa and Airi said that while looking towards the ship.

Their Majesties had a face to ask how she knew that, but they got into an argument instead.

"See, I told you all those messages were because of something very important we were missing!"

"And what does that matter in itself? You never showed love or affection towards me, not even when you had Liam in you!"

"You were supposed to be my first love as I had never experienced it before! The disappointment of any girl who expects her future husband to be a gorgeous man you destroyed in seconds by burping in front of me! My pregnant state was very delicate and so was my mood, don't compare them to you how happy you were when you came in with various girls to our room!"

"It is my duty as King to sire more than one heir in case the defective product of your womb should be!"

"Don't call your son that!"

"Shut up you old men!

Liam reanimated out of nowhere and punched his parents like a violent movie. He grabbed Erselica's hand and pulled her to the direction of the ship, we could all hear what his heart was saying without the family destruction machine.

"I know I've shown you the worst of me and I don't deserve your forgiveness! I still have an ache in my heart about Klein, but I want you to know!"

He paused to turn around and as he cupped his hands, he took a breath and then at the top of his lungs shouted.

"Erselica-san- no, Erselica, I love you! I've never felt this way with anyone before, my chest has wanted to tell you, but I was terrified that you would reject me or there would be someone else! But I don't care about anything anymore! I'll say it as many times as necessary and I'll prove it to you!"

Immediately after shouting it out, they walked briskly to the machine to place their hands. I walked over as well to see, as I needed real feelings to work, so, these two could make it happen.

Their hands were placed, Liam was bursting with energy, while Erselica didn't want to see Liam because of the embarrassment in her eyes.

Then, the moment of truth finally arrived.

"Impossible mistake! Male: 99 points. Female: -200 points."

My mouth opened like a puffer fish upon hearing that disaster.

The torment of the message began.

"Erselica, I want to be with you forever! I would throw away my title and crown just for you, be mine."

"Truly the prince is the worst. What's the use of him being handsome or future King when he's an idiot? I wish he was loving or kind like my brother, I don't want him to be the same, at least always spoil me yes."

(What the hell do you mean by him being affectionate to you! I never treated you like that and I won't! You disgust me, get away from me!)

After thinking about how disgusting that was, Chlust jumped up and removed Liam who seemed unmotivated in wanting to live more.

He too clasped his hands and told his true feelings.

"Erselica, I know I'm not smart, but I still let you down by not being there for you!!! I love you, and I'll do anything to prove I'm worthy of your trust and love!!! Listen to my heart and its truth!"

He placed his hand, Erselica didn't take it away, but she kept looking at him since he placed it with Liam.

"Critical error! Man: 99 points! Woman: 12 points!"

Now Chlust fell victim to Erselica's heart.

"I love Erselica, I would give my life for her even if it means going against the prince or my father!"

"Chlust is an idiot! Every time I see him I picture a very big, hulking red ape, what's the use of him having muscles when his brain is tiny? My brother isn't muscular, but he's smart...somewhat, but more than Chlust and Liam combined if he is."

(Stop it! They're going to think badly of me if you keep mentioning me, even though no one else knows!)

(Frey don't come upstairs I beg you!)

I grabbed the last of the main characters so that he wouldn't fall into the destructive flame that was the heart of this little assassin.

I immediately ran to Ixion to ask him to stop this massacre as I heard Frey entering his grave with his mouth.

"Like His Highness, I too will call you by your name, Erselica, no matter the outcome, I want you to know my true heart, only you own it."

His hand was placed, I shook Ixion to stop him, but he kept looking at the ship until the death signal sounded.

"Fatal error! Male: 100 points. Female: 39 points."

"Erselica, I love you so much that I could kneel in front of my father to have him remove my title as heir and, to his inheritance to be the next strategist defender of the kingdom."

"Ixion stop this massacre please!"

I shouted at him, but nothing did, Erselica's female voice rang out and I covered my ears so I wouldn't hear it.

"Frey... thank you, you are rare, but I appreciate your feelings."

I removed my hands to hear a miracle, I thought the greenish one would be the most criticized.

But it was the most wholesome of all, I looked at Frey who clenched his fist in tears to acclaim victory.

Ixion spoke to me at last after being silent for a long time.

"Master, I made a scan through how those three confessed their feelings Useless, they turned out to be good guinea pigs for being useless."

I really want to hit him.

"When the hand is placed, a scan is performed through the fingerprint, thus managing to analyze a pattern of their DNA showing a very accurate approximate answer of what that person would say."

I stared at him as I didn't understand anything he was saying.

He looked at me too, looking annoyed that he didn't understand.

"To sum it up, what you are saying is what perhaps the person who placed your hand would say, you can't read the heart, it's impossible and absurd."

"Thank you."

I stared at the ship as Ixion continued talking.

"The only weird thing besides the mysterious thing that is there connected, is that the board has for not two but for three people to read their hands. I don't understand what they made it for, but it seems to be more than just something ridiculous like reading love."

(If he says it was created for something else, what would it be? It doesn't make absolute sense to me the reason for doing it that way.)

My mind was thinking about what to do about this thing that made no sense.

"Ixion, it looks like you'll have to use your technology and make it turn on, I don't know if it can be useful to us, but... hey, you two. what are you doing, let go, let me go!"

Out of nowhere while I was talking to Ixion, Alisa grabbed my left arm and Airi grabbed the other. They pulled my arms tightly, the destination seemed to be towards the ship.

That means!

"Wait you two! What's wrong with you?"

"Rudel, it's time once and for all to show us what we mean to you!"

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"That's right, Rudel-san, we just want to know if you see us as your friends or something else!"

"Hah, what are you talking about, let go of me please!"

We were getting closer and closer to boarding the ship.

"It will only take a moment Rudel, after that we will have a talk about our relationship."

"You have been very much a liar and it's time for you to show us your true feelings Rudel-san."

"That's very interesting, I support that."

Ixion decided to betray me and used his body to push my back.

"Master, it may be just a machine with possible options, but it would certainly be very good if you understand your own feelings."

"What are you talking about!"

We were already boarding, the girls were using magical power to pull me harder. I used my legs to cling to the railing.

"Rudel, we just want to know what we are to you!"

"We're your friends, but even we want to know if we always will be!"

"What are you talking about again, I don't want to! I don't know what you want to know about me, but whatever comes out of my head must stay there!"

I don't know the reason for being after me, but I will not allow myself to be humiliated by that machine about the possible reason for that heart about you.

"Master..."

Ixion stopped pushing me to move in front of my face and speak to me.

"If you don't go willingly now, I will show those two and the Queen the videos with audio about what you have been doing in the nights."

"You fucking traitor! How come you have that?"

"I have eyes everywhere. Now, go so they all know how you really feel or they will give you a face of disgust you can never redeem yourself from."

"You damned enemy of mankind!"

"Thank you."

After hearing that, I stopped using force and the girls dragged me to the board.

I was face to face with the one who will harm me for sure.

Alisa and Airi tightly grabbed my arms after crossing theirs.

I didn't understand why they did it and the same for their faces to be red.

I saw that the board was sized for three hands, just like Ixion said?

Why is there room for a third hand?

The girls spoke to me.

"...Rudel, are you ready?"

"...Rudel-san, please tell us your true feelings."

(No one wants to know what I really think.)

My right hand as well as the girls' hands rose up and in unison we put our hands on the board and....

"Congratulations!"

A blue light glowed and then changed to red.

"Incalculable error! Couldn't detect whose 100 points were whose, but the women rolled blue. The problem here is the man, his dishonesty reaches a level of denial that both his mind, heart and soul don't know which very one to choose! Nor can you gauge or verify whose all the 'I love you's' are in excess! They are required to reinsert their hands for [Liebe] to turn on or until their captain does it manually."

"...Alisa, I don't understand anything, do you?"

"...Truthfully, it's all so confusing and doesn't make absolute sense to me. Rudel, what do you say we try again?"

"..."

"...Rudel? What's wrong with you that you're suddenly silent?"

"Rudel-san? ...Alisa, Rudel-san's eyes being looking up and he's not breathing!"

"Rudel-san?!!!! Ixion help us!"

"Master? Answer!"

"Master!"

"Rudel, please react!"

"Rudel-san, what's wrong with you!!!"

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(Where am I?)

For some strange reason, I can't speak or open my eyes, I can only think and a strange white room appears in my head too.

(What is this place?)

(Did I die of embarrassment because the girls heard my honest and perverse feelings about them?)

(I hope not, I really want to be with them and something like that would destroy our friendship).

I still didn't understand anything, it's almost like the feeling when I died. A place where time I don't know if it exists and I can only think.

I can "feel" turning my head unlike that time, but all there is a white place that I can't identify as big or small.

(...Huh? What about that?)

I could "see" a transparent white shadow approaching. The white shadow stopped and rose to take on an almost human silhouette.

Slowly it seemed to take on the human appearance of a woman in a long dress, something like a staff or scepter in her hand and.... short hair that seemed to sway for no reason.

She would approach me, but then back away for no reason, more and more she seemed more and more human, but out of nowhere the room, or place, began to crack from a strange black slime that ran through the place.

Her body was almost visible, there were parts that were not and others that were, I concentrated only on the area of her hair that was light blonde... that hair reminded me a lot of Airi, even her lips, they moved to tell me something with a beautiful tone of voice, but with fear.

"Please... protect... them..."

(Huh?)

"...Love... the love... will be able to help you..."

(What are you talking about?)

"...Do not allow... the impostor to awaken..."

(Imposter? I don't understand you and who are you?)

The room grew darker and she blurred.

"Heaven... beware of the sleeping impostor... that... girl... protect her."

(I don't understand a word you're saying!? Is anyone in danger?)

"...Aster... go to Aster... before... the darkness takes over the light..."

"Hurry... that one they call 'god' is an accomplice of the impostor... the day... where the sky... falls on the earth... no one will be able to stop it..."

She was trying to get closer to me, her mouth was saying nonsense, the scary thing was that the black slime was getting closer and "she" was crying more.

"Please... this time... trust... in love..."

The shadow seemed to rise up and become something strange and inhuman behind her.

"...Save the light... only love can do it..."

"Rudel!!!"

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I had just woken up, the hangar covered the sky, my vision was getting tighter and tighter.

Who was she and more importantly, was that real or just a hallucination?

Aster?

Love?

Light and darkness?

What the hell was going on here. I don't understand, but what matters to me now is the magnificent and pleasant feeling underneath my head.

When my eyes cleared to their fullest, I noticed the girls looking at me.

Alisa was on my left and Airi was on my right.

They were both crying for some reason until they noticed my open eyes.

"Rudel, you woke up at last!"

"Please don't scare us like that again will you!"

They were both crying for me, that made my heart ache for some reason. Oh, that's right, since I will throw away my title after settling this war, I will part ways with them since not only could I not return to the academy, but I will also retire to the countryside.

It would be nice to get back together, but it would really annoy their prospective fiancés when they graduate.

Really, how annoying it will be to not see them again.

"Master."

Ixion approached me, I couldn't move yet for some reason.

"What's wrong?" I asked him very curious since he could only see me from his position.

"I looked back he wants."

I couldn't move my body yet, it was almost like having slept badly and slowly regaining my senses, my head if it could be moved so I moved it to see what this strange guy was saying.

Behind me was everyone present.

For some reason, they were all giving me looks of disappointment, the kind I get when I see them.

The three idiots were looking at me like they were superior to me, Liam was talking to me while covering Erselica's eyes.

"I shouldn't be surprised coming from you, since you are that kind of guy after all."

Hey, don't try to make fun of me you rejected idiot prince.

I then looked at Their Majesties, the King was putting his hand on his head and repeatedly turning his head; in contrast, the Queen had her face covered with her hands, although there was an opening between them so she could see me.

Her face was red and then she blurted out strange words.

"...It's normal that since after all, he's a very healthy young man! It's also an involuntary reaction, no one could have foreseen this, don't feel bad, it's part of growing up... although, I think it's a lot of the word growing up in you don't you think?"

What are you talking about?

I could already feel my hands and soon the rest.

I looked at the girls who immediately turned their faces away from me.

What's wrong?

Alisa and Airi spoke quietly for only me to hear and in a very embarrassed way like their faces.

"I know we told you that we wanted to know your honesty, but you know Rudel-san. I don't think that kind of honesty of yours I was referring to?"

"Rudel-san...I-I heard that when you're under a lot of stress, something like this is normal, but I didn't realize how much stress you had built up...so...please. you would have done it in private before you came!"

I didn't understand what they were referring to or why they were looking the other way.

I could finally feel my feet, I had regained feeling in my body.

...Sensation.

There was something wrong with my body, no, rather it was my pants that felt very uncomfortable.

It was very tight and for some reason it felt like it was about to explode.

(D-don't tell me what?!?!?)

Slowly and panicking, I would lift my head to check the discomfort in my pants.

As I lifted up enough to see, I was terrified to see how my little Battler was in attack position ready to take to the battlefield.

The worst part was that that wasn't his normal size, I didn't even think he could stand out so much to the point of looking like a weapon.

How long had it been like that and even longer had it lasted like that?

Ixion approached me as if he had guessed what I was thinking.

I immediately stood up to cover myself.

"I don't know what to tell you honestly, you fell unconscious for no reason. The two of them used your legs as pillows, everyone came upstairs worried about you. Then your body started to be honest and everyone present watched you get up and want to get out of there. I think you have caught the attention of all the women except Erselica, as your servant, I am happy that women are attracted to at least one part of you."

I didn't listen to what he said, instead, I turned away and then.

"This is the most embarrassing day in my entire life! Uwahhh!"

My face would be turned into that of a crybaby and as I covered this naughty boy with my hands, I ran away while crying.

The girls were calling me, but right now I don't want anyone to see me.

I want to bury myself in a well and die there!

My tears came out like waterfalls as I seemed to suffer some school trauma at the sight of a sensual teacher.

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"Life is horrible..."

"It would be better if I disappeared..."

"No one will wonder where I am since eating dirt is normal..."

I was sitting in a fetal position with a look of having lost my reason for living.

After all, many especially women saw my little Battler waving.

This cannot be erased, I want to go into a pit and never come out.

"Master."

Ixion approached me to talk to me, minutes before I entered the room assigned to me by the palace to rest, I threw him outside so he wouldn't spy on me while I took energy from my Battler.

It was a very sweaty battle that I didn't even enjoy.

I looked at it with a pained face that looked like my normal face.

"After I ran, I made sure to call the robots and my assistant to get the ship repaired so I could get it running by other means."

After hearing that and before I gave my answer, someone knocked on the door, after asking who it was.

"Instructor!?"

I immediately opened it.

My instructor came in with a tea cart.

We sat down on the couch and he went about preparing it without uttering a word.

When I was about to ask him the reason for his visit.

"Rudel-san."

He beat me to it with an unexpected question.

"Are you afraid of going to war?"

I was stunned for a few moments before I answered him, he finished preparing the tea and poured it for me.

I reached my hand over to take it and-.

"Instructor, this tea is cold."

He poured me a cold tea, that's rare for a man gets the way of order.

Is there something strange here?

He poured himself the same tea after taking a seat.

When he drank it, I could hear the sound of it burning.

Then I looked at it again, noticed some steam coming out of it.

What's the matter?

"Rudel-san."

I looked at him when he called me.

"Since I came in, I noticed him very scared. I don't think it's the trouble I went through with the ministers if not for what's going to happen soon."

"What do you mean?" I asked curious.

"It is a fact that you will go to war along with the others. You, you're scared of losing someone important aren't you?"

Hearing that stopped my hand.

I don't have important people other than the girls and my family, I would feel bad if the idiots had something happen to them.

"Instructor, I think you're wrong about me. I'm not that kind of person."

"If that's true, why did you want to be supreme commander and gave it to the prince through the letters to others that it was His Highness who was responsible?"

"So that everyone would obey me obviously, no one would listen to me if Liam wasn't."

"You're wrong."

"Huh?"

"If he really cared about the title. I would have no problem telling many to die, but by passing it on to the prince, you are sending all the responsibility to him leaving you exempt from the blame of those who will die."

I didn't know what to answer him, I said that if they died it would be all Liam....'s fault but, that in truth I subconsciously avoided all blame.

Am I really that obvious?

"Rudel-san, I'm not trying to blame you for anything. I just want your will of what you will do will save more of those who will die. I already fought too and my hands are stained, life is like that. Just because you are going to do something you don't like, doesn't mean you will be a monster."

My eyes drooping in my tea looked at him.

"Instructor. If I become the greatest of demons, won't the people important to me despise and loathe me?"

He took a sip of tea before answering me by looking into my eyes.

"They will hate you for sure, but not your family or friends, but your enemies. But, that's none of your business, since as a knight your duty is to protect your own. Just think what would happen if you fail?"

Hearing that, immediately an image of the girls running away from soldiers flashed through my head, my family was also running away.

"I will never let that happen!"

I shouted unintentionally and he looked at me with eyes that said "then, you must not hesitate."

I calmed down and drank my tea.

"Instructor, no, mentor."

"Yes?"

"This tea, it's chamomile tea with sour lemon isn't it? Its taste is strong, but very delicious."

He laughed after hearing it.

"Indeed it is, I thought a strong, but sweet taste would improve it."

"Thank you, if you'll excuse me, I'll go save this country."

I said goodbye to him and went outside, Ixion beside me asked.

"Master. what will you do now?"

"There was a slight change of plans, you can repair that ship, but I will not use it the same or allies."

"What do you mean?"

My steps were heavy as I walked.

"We'll go just the two of us with all your technology. I'll make them understand the Commonwealth, the Kingsfort and this world - how terrifying the villain Rudel can be!"

I walked to the room where Their Majesties were.

"...Also, this time will be the last time the girls will hear from me."

(This is goodbye forever. Alisa... Airi... be happy.)