Volume 1 Against the Tide Chapter 10 Warriors never run away from reality

"Lulu Monogatari can't work on Lord Ernest!"

Ashley quickly interrupted his sister Lulu's thoughts, Ashley didn't want his own sister to have anything to do with Ernest's unclear and unclear relationship.

But Koichiro is not the original Ernest Holler Wallens, and he doesn't have any ideas about messing with flowers.

Hanichiro waved his hand, rejecting Lulu's kindness, only saying that he would go back to make up for sleep later.

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Night.

It was almost early in the morning.

"Ashley, it's time for us to go."

Lilith commanded Ashley to control the huge bone dragon with its wings full of blades and a terrifying appearance, and signaled to hide the dragon's tracks in the sky when flying.

'Mission, it's time to go......

Hanichiro took a deep breath to calm his mood and leapt from the top of the castle, standing firmly on the thick metal armor of the bone dragon, he reached out and pulled Lulu up from the rope ladder.

"Lord Ernest, are you nervous?" Lulu's eyes widened and she asked suspiciously, as the attentive Lulu noticed a fine sweat oozing from his hands.

Koichiro nodded silently and said a word.

It's a lie to say with a relaxed face that I'm not nervous. ’

Although the first time I came to another world, the fighting scenes and bloody Love were indeed terrifying, but now wearing the vest of an aristocratic orphan, I have to think about my family. ’

In the past, when I lived in a society governed by the rule of law, I thought it would be good for the wicked to have a law to condemn them, but here, when the wicked have absolute power, where is the status of the law. ’

'If we can overthrow the tyranny of Campbell's Silides over the Gaiabrand Empire in the future, it would be a good choice to maintain peace on Teyvat with a parliamentary system that combines law and parliament. Koichiro thought to himself.

Therefore, a true warrior will never achieve self-affirmation by escaping reality, and the storm that should be faced will have to be faced sooner or later.

However, these thoughts can only be hidden in the mind for now.

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But now, in front of girls, there is still a demeanor that should be there, even if it is the first time to really carry out an assassination mission, you will be nervous, and you have to pretend to be light-hearted.

Being handsome on the surface is also a manifestation of a temperamental man.

Then Koichiro wiped the tip of his nose with his thumb and said, "Be careful." ”

"Ahh

And Lulu also raised a finger at Koichiro, indicating that there was indeed his sweat on it.

In fact, there are some things that you know and I know, just accept it when you see it, obviously Lulu doesn't understand this truth.

"It was foggy and wet at night." Koichiro casually found an excuse to prevaricate.

"Huh? If you're nervous, Lulu can give you a hug. As he spoke, Lulu, who was sitting behind Hanichiro, reached over and made a gesture to stick to Hanichiro's back.

'Ahh ’

But Lulu was as empathetic as ever. ’

Hanichiro, who was said to be the center, couldn't help but feel a little weak-hearted, and looked down at the saber at his side.

In order to hide his emotions, and it was not good to directly push away the kind warm embrace, he simply got up and walked to the position behind the bone dragon's back armor and sat down, that is, near the tail, with his back to several other people.

At this moment, a hand slightly colder than human body temperature pressed on Koichiro's shoulder and patted it as a silent gesture of encouragement.

Hanichiro turned his head and looked at it, his slender and slender hands, and because they were very thin, the finger bones were distinct.

It's Lilith's hand!

Lilith's silent encouragement only squeezed Koichiro's shoulder and tapped him twice, unconsciously relieving his nervous mood.

After a while, Lilith let go of the hand on Koichiro's shoulder, walked to the hollow of the bone dragon's neck bone, and sat down gracefully, not forgetting to use her hand to tuck the skirt under her.

This time Lilith did not wear the beautiful kimono of the past, according to her, such a beautiful scenery did not deserve to appear in front of the guilty dying man, so Lilith changed into a silk fishtail dress, and compared it and said that this fishtail dress was cheaper and not afraid of being damaged.

'Will combat effectiveness increase with the aesthetics of battle clothing?' ’

The straight man Sakamoto Koichiro still thinks that economy and practicality are paramount, so he wears linen today, and he thinks that if it is damaged like this, he can take it back to the tavern to wipe the floor for the maid.

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Lilith turned her head to Ashley, who was controlling the bone dragon, and said, "Take off, it's time." ”

"Yes, Lilith-sama." Ashley nodded in response.

"With the Vision of God as the source, the metal frenzy of thunder, and the bone dragon harnesses!" The skeleton of the bone dragon slowly soared into the air like a machine, and then the dragon raised its head and roared into the sky.

The bone dragon is not actually a real dragon, but a blue dragon skeleton transformed by Ash, who is good at mechanical spells, using thunder-based metal spells, because not all members of the Blood Oath have the ability to fly, and the ability to fly is only available to unique races, such as elves, nightdemons, angels, or strange birds.

Above the dark night sky, Ashley also used illusion to hide the whereabouts of the bone dragon, the howling wind in the night still made Hangichiro's eardrum a little painful, and the cold night wind carried moist water vapor to bring Hangichiro a cold feeling like a magic attack, which couldn't help but make him bare his teeth.

'It's cold, and the armor of all things can't stop it at all, but it's nothing compared to the bloody assassination. ’

The night breeze was cold, but Koichiro still enjoyed the thrill of flying on the back of a bone dragon.

When I was in Tokyo, I had many experiences of flying on the plane, but it was not at all comparable to the thrill of being on the back of a bone dragon.

The real sense of weightlessness, the feeling of the night wind whistling on his face during flight, and the heartbeat feeling of flying rapidly in the sky without protection, all of them gave Hangichiro a new experience in his life.

At this time, Koichiro felt some warm light source coming from his body, and he simply groped for his pocket.

It turned out to be the prophetic crystal in your pocket!

A little golden streamer surrounded the crystal, and at the same time it was exuding a little warmth, no longer in the cold and dull state of last night.

'Prophecy? What is the glowing state trying to tell me? ’

Just as Koichiro was thinking this, a picture unfolded in front of his eyes, and he saw the object of the first assassination plan, the berserk demon merchant Richard, who had drunk the wine in the early morning, and walked out of the tavern with a big belly.

Then, Richard got into the car pulled by the four berserk snow wolves in a drunken state, and whipped the snow wolf a few times, and the white-haired snow wolf was instantly whipped with a few more blood-red whip marks on his body, and the snow wolf pulled Richard to his base camp in pain.

However, when Koichiro wanted to know more, the picture suddenly disappeared.

Is this the end of the prophecy? ’

Koichiro took the prophecy prop and looked closer, but didn't notice anything different. A golden streamer of light surrounded the crystal, fading and returning to its former stone shape.

But the picture just now, like the touch in the information book, is the usual time for the daily activities of Richard, a merchant of the berserker demon species. ’

Does that mean there were no accidents on the mission? ’

"Then go according to the plan!" Thinking like this, Koichiro suddenly felt a little more confident.

"Huh? Does Lord Ernest have any plans? Lulu responded.

'Is Dare Lulu so confused that she has forgotten the contents of the intelligence plan?' ’

Hangichiro held his forehead, although the prophecy did not show any accidents, but he couldn't fully believe it, so let's take a good look at this confused guy later.

"Lord Lilith, you've arrived at your intended destination." Ashley said.

"Okay, you hide your body and stand by, and answer in 15 minutes." Lilith methodically arranged.

'She is worthy of being a woman with strong force and a cool head. Koichiro thought to himself, "Such an ally is reassuring." ’

With the sound of "da-da", both Koichiro and Lilith jumped from the bone dragon's back to the ground safely and lightly, and stabilized their bodies.

Instead, the clumsy Lulu jumped down and fell on the ground with a dog-and-a-ah.

“……?”

Lilith turned her head to see that it wasn't the first time something had gone wrong.

“……!”

Koichiro reached out to pull it, but unfortunately Lulu was too short to touch.

“…… I, I'm not, on purpose, the wand is too thin ... Stumbled, stumbled on the forehead hehe. ”

Lulu scrambled up from the ground under Lilith's stern gaze, looking embarrassed.