The position where Reroya and the non-commissioned officer were located was directly south of the city of Belial, and because it was too dark, they could only see the dense forest and not see anything from their position. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But the roar outside the city, and the bright flames rising from the beacon towers above the city walls, seemed to indicate that the night was not destined to be peaceful.

A soldier hurried from the east of the city wall, and shouted at the two men with a panicked expression: "Report ...... Report to the two adults! Enemy Attack ...... It's an enemy attack! ”

When he said this, the soldier suddenly breathed, and could not help but gasp a few times before he said heavily:

"Monster...... Monsters have appeared outside the city! A big one, a big one...... A monster with a hideous appearance! ”

The non-commissioned officer gasped when he heard this, as if he was stunned by his subordinate's description, and did not say a word for a long time.

Seeing that the non-commissioned officer beside him behaved unusually out of shape from beginning to end, Lei Ruoya roughly concluded that this guy next to him should belong to the civilian official line in the Human Empire, and had not received systematic and rigorous training like ordinary soldiers.

But such a guy ...... More obey her orders than the soldiers.

Thinking about this, she waved her right hand and opened her mouth to the non-commissioned officer on the side: "Take me to meet the people who were sent over before." ”

Originally, the non-commissioned officer was still a little anxious when he heard Lei Ruoya's nonsensical order, thinking that why did this adult do something that seemed to have nothing to do with the things in front of him at this moment of burning eyebrows, but when he raised his head and was about to speak, he found that Lei Ruoya was talking...... Although the expression on that pretty face was serious and serious, there was not the slightest hint of nervousness and panic in it.

He was stunned, calmed down a little, calmed down his inner emotions, and bowed down to the emperor who fell from heaven in front of him and replied:

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

……

Nearing the end of the inventory in the barracks, soldiers continued to approach the staff and report to him what the group had found during the previous search.

However, most of the soldiers' searches were fruitless, and the soldiers did not find anything suspicious from the tent with great effort, and the fact that the beloved lord of the castle was a monster was too surprising, and the lord who remained was a staff member whom the soldiers had always hated and even suspected...... The tired soldiers were all a little absent-minded when they reported the results.

The chief of staff was equally absent-minded, his eyes were constantly looking at the body covered by the white cloth, and the pile of firewood that had almost burned out, and even when he listened to the soldiers' reports, his eyes were always there, never leaving half an inch away.

It wasn't until a soldier reported that a soldier's corpse had been found by the gate of the barracks that he raised his head slightly and glanced at Lei Yang on the side.

But then he just said lightly, "Well, I see", and there was not much reaction.

This situation lasted for a long time, and even Lei Yang on the side obviously felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the mood of this staff member.

Lei Yang remembered that his sister asked him to stay and help the staff, and felt that the staff member's situation at the moment must not be able to do what his sister said, so he tentatively said, "The staff...... What's wrong with you? ”

The staff seemed to be in a trance, and there was no reaction for a long time after Lei Yang said this, until Lei Yang repeated the same question several times, he raised his head and looked at Lei Yang on the side in a bit of confusion.

"There's someone who is very important to me...... It's dead. The staff thought for a moment and smiled slightly bitterly at Lei Yang.

The smile was lonely and frustrating...... And full of disappointment and sadness, with such a smile of the staff, like an old man in his last years, swaying in the wind and rain.

"Mr. Lei Yang, do you know what it's like?"

He's dead......

The guy who had grown up with him since the slums of Irun, and who had stretched out his right hand to himself in the most difficult time of his life, died.

For the world-changing ideal in his mouth.

…… Why?

Why is this happening?

He said he wanted to change the world, he said he wanted to escape from the slums of Irun to the outside world......

It's been done, isn't it?

He's escaped from hell with himself, he's become the lord of Belial City, and he's become an official official of the Empire, and although it's not enough to talk about changing the world yet, it's a good step, isn't it!?

So why did he go to become a demon!?

Why kill your own soldiers!?

Could it be that his so-called ideal of changing the world and liberating Iren is to achieve it by guiding the demons to return to the Azure Continent and start a war with other races!?

He said he had never changed......

But he used to be, the boy in his memory......

And how can it be a demon? How can it be a human flesh eater? How could it be......

Deceive yourself.

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and in the end, he realized that he didn't know anything about the city lord beside him...... Obviously, I grew up with him since I was a child.

But the two of them have been dependent on each other since childhood, and they are each other's only friends or relatives, even after being adopted by their father later.

They should also be the most important people to each other......

Why is this happening?

He kept shaking his head, and there was an obvious taste of confusion in his eyes: "I don't understand...... I don't know what he wants to do, is there really something that even the most important person who has to turn his back on him? ”

“…… I think I can probably understand how you feel, Lord Staff," Lei Yang scratched his head and said to the staff, "A few years ago, once Ruoya was seriously injured and almost lost her life...... At that time, my mind felt blank and I felt ...... It's as if his whole world has collapsed. ”

"Your brother and sister have a really good relationship." The staff glanced at him, but shook his head again, "But you still haven't lost her after all." ”

"So I'm just saying that I can probably appreciate it...... As for the staff, is there anything you said that even if you turn your back on the most important person, you have to do it......" Lei Yang paused, and after thinking for a moment, he said seriously, "I think it must be very difficult and difficult, because the group of people who hurt Ruoya at that time asked me to hand her over, and if she didn't hand it over, she would kill me...... But I don't want to hand over Ruoya to them, even if it's to kill a lot of people with a long knife, even if Ruoya doesn't like me to do it at all, even if I fight them...... In the end, it will really be killed. ”

"But I still don't want to, I want Ruoya to be behind me all the time."

The staff member's expression was slightly surprised when he heard this, not only because of the experience of the young man in front of him many years ago, but also because of the words in his mouth.

Deville He ...... Was it always for his ideals?

His ideals...... Is it really hard to achieve?

The staff suddenly remembered that since he became the lord of Belia, although Davier still had a smile on his face in front of the soldiers every day, the smile on his face seemed to have really decreased significantly when he got along with the two of them.

I don't know when he started to like to frown all the time as much as he did.

Maybe...... It's really hard.

The staff remembered that they had said that they would always be by Deville's side and help him achieve his ideals.

But now it seems...... I didn't do it.

The staff was silent, and then realized that the ideals of that youth had been thrown out of the sky by themselves at some point.

Heavy duties, very short rest periods, all kinds of emergencies...... He remembered the cup of tea he had in his tent before, the cup of tea that had been cooled from warm to cold in the cold air.

Like that cup of tea, he was assimilated into a mediocrity by his surroundings, and never paid attention to the ideals of the young man.

Perhaps, I don't know when it began, the young man's heart gradually became as cold as tea.

So...... Will he turn his back on himself?

His train of thought was interrupted by two soldiers who walked in from outside the tent, carrying a simple wooden stretcher.

In the army, such stretchers are usually used to carry the wounded or corpses, so when they first saw this stretcher, the staff didn't pay much attention to it, they just thought that it was another soldier who was forcibly killed when Lei Yang entered the camp.

But when he glanced at the soldier on the stretcher, his gaze was instantly captivated.

Because he suddenly noticed that the soldier on the stretcher seemed to be familiar.

And the next moment, his eyes widened......

Because he found out that this soldier was his own guard Ade, the guard Ade who disappeared in the morning!

And Adeshan on the stretcher is still alive, not just a corpse as he imagined.

Ade's chest was rising and falling steadily, and there was even a slight snoring between exhales and breaths.

"Ade?" He looked at the stretcher in front of him in disbelief and called out the names of his guards.

The two soldiers who were in charge of carrying the stretcher were shocked when they heard the words of the staff, and hurriedly reported to the staff: "This brother is a soldier under you, Lord of the Staff?" That's great, we found this unconscious brother and wondered where this soldier belonged to......"

As he spoke, the soldier laughed: "But it is really strange that we found this brother in an idle tent, and then there was a dead pig lying next to this brother!" A dead pig that had been slaughtered and its blood was about to run dry! Do you think this is strange? ”

The staff was stunned, as if he didn't realize what the soldier was saying, but the next moment his eyes became unusually bright.

The soldiers had never seen their staff look at each other like this, so they couldn't help but be stunned.

And the next moment, the staff suddenly laughed exaggeratedly, laughing very loudly......

I laughed so hard that almost tears flowed from my eyes.

- "Big brother, the broth you boiled is so unpalatable......"

――“…… I'm boiling soup at this level, it's good to have meat to eat and soup to drink, where do you get so much nonsense!? ”

- "But...... The smell of blood is really strong. ”

――“…… Then you pinch your nose and drink. ”

At the end of the laugh, the staff suddenly walked around the entire camp tent and found a worn-out oil-paper umbrella in the puzzled and stunned eyes of the soldiers and Lei Yang.

Then he gently stroked the oil-paper umbrella and said to the head of the monster in the camp:

"For so many years...... The soup you made is still so bad...... It really hasn't changed at all. ”

When he said the last word, big tears really welled up in his eyes.

One of them landed on the oil-paper umbrella in his hand with a crisp sound.

The huge monster's head was still in the middle of the tent, and it still looked so hideous.

But the staff members cried at it. (To be continued.) )