Black History-3
Maybe it’s a feeling that would explode even if the Senate wasn’t there.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like Aria.
But she always thinks what if.
If only I had talent.
If she had a good background.
If you had a family.
Such families nourished my inferiority complex.
Aria would have won if she had talent.
If she had a good origin, she would have been stronger.
If she had a family, she would have known happiness and contentment.
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Maybe.
But that doesn’t happen.
That kind of inferiority began to eat away at Leo.
There was nothing wrong with that.
It wasn’t anyone’s fault that it started.
It was just pitiful.
In the fate created by chance
***
Leo’s stabbing of the executive knight wasn’t just because he stabbed Chris in the eye, there were several causal connections.
Leonardo was unable to overcome his slump as his mind was becoming more and more impoverished due to continuous defeat and inferiority complex.
Thanks to her late puberty, her emotional exhaustion was more extreme than usual, and her relationship with the knights, which had been amicable, was also ruined.
-A bit calming down, but… Just like you…
-What does the senior know!! On the topic of pretending to be cool with defeatism and making excuses…!!
-…Get some rest. Look in the mirror too.
Even his senior, Alphonse, Leo at the time gave up the conversation to the point of shaking his head. That’s how much Leonardo’s mind was driven.
And
In the operation to capture the warlock alive, things happened.
-Wait!! Leona…!
If only I could have looked at the situation a little more calmly.
– aaah!!!
The disaster of entering the ritual circle that the black magician had just deployed could have been prevented.
Leonardo went out of control. Because of Jin’s forbidden technique, which forcibly draws out the power of the reason being manipulated, none of her colleagues can stop Leo.
-Get out of the way!! I won’t stop!!
If only Chris, who usually felt guilty for not being able to restore his disciple’s sense of inferiority, didn’t hesitate a bit.
Kwaduk…!
-…Uh…?
-…Are you finally… Opening your eyes…
If only it hadn’t been for when Arya managed to decapitate the warlock, and when Leo pierced Chris’ eyes.
-…aaa…!!!
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My mind wouldn’t have been broken this far.
The problem did not end there.
The senate saw this as an opportunity.
It’s an opportunity to definitely get rid of Leonardo, who couldn’t be touched properly because of Marken and Chris.
-Darkness Christina suffered because of your mistake!!
And, meanly, the plan worked.
Chris had been knocked out for months, and Marken was also hospitalized with injuries, confused by what happened to her only daughter.
Leonardo, who would normally defend himself to some extent, accepted it without any response as his mind collapsed.
After that, Chris tried to protest, but Leonardo gave up first.
After that, Leonardo quit his job as an executive engineer.
After that, he was able to go to Hell smoothly.
Gradually, Leo was demoted and went through a downfall.
The thing that broke his spirit more than the loss of his post was the greatest pain he had caused by his own weakness to handicap his master.
The senate was delighted to see it.
Leonardo and Arya Spiel grew apart, and she began to focus on her life as a warrior.
Gradually, the direction of power also began to tilt from the head of household to the council of elders.
But on the other hand, the senators were convinced.
I don’t know if it’s love, but Arya has feelings for Leo.
As evidence of that, Aria always ran quickly to save Leo when he was in danger.
So it was necessary to make it clear.
And then the opportunity came.
-The hearing about the subjugation of the labyrinth begins.
The Senate began to question Leonardo, the only surviving leader of the reconnaissance party that was annihilated by the Balrogs.
No, it was closer to contempt than questioning.
Have you ever asked me to leave, but I was blinded by your achievements and insisted on moving forward?
Are you abandoning your friends to survive alone?
And the aria…
-There has been such a scandal lately. During the mission, the body of the sleeping Ariasviel…!
At that moment, the tether of the exhausted mind was severed.
-Keah!! Guard..! Kyung…!! Aww!!
f*ck! Puck!! Baek!!
Leonardo, despite his injuries, beat and fractured the faces of three senators. Even then, the anger was not resolved, so four guards had to catch and subdue it, so they could barely capture it.
***
“As a result, I will be kicked out by Reinhardt.”
Leonardo, sadly watching the video being sent out, continued to explain further.
“…So… Kicked out…?”
Gladio asked in a trembling tone with pale lips and eyes. Even from the videos so far, it was a story that was more devastating than I could have imagined.
I was just watching the video calmly. The additional explanation was a bonus.
“It is literally.”
The video started as if to help explain. The person in the video was Gladio, the owner of the house.
-…If you want to return to being a knight… They say you have to formally apologize to the Senate… I’m sorry… I can’t help this…
“You’re laughing.”
And the one who quietly recited these words was Ariaspil, who was here right now. He was speaking flatly to his father, but in fact it was also something that most people in this room could relate to.
Gladio strangely felt her shoulders shrink.
-…I will refuse.
With that, Leo left his seat. It didn’t take long to say goodbye, as most relationships had broken down.
Some people, like Chris and Rios, managed to get hold of Leonardo, but Leo had neither the strength nor the shame to stand by them.
And the brave Ariaspil,
Chin…
I threw the glove at Leo.
-You know what I mean?
-This is how we understand it.
That’s how the two started a duel. It wasn’t even a bet. It wasn’t even a decision to stay or go to this Dalian.
Nevertheless, the two exchanged arms. Because that was the way they talked.
-Haa… Cool…
But it was disastrous.
-…Why… Why… Why… Why!! I can’t even get one stick…!! Why doesn’t it hurt at all…! I’m about to die…! Why aren’t you sweating!!
At this point, even Leonardo’s expression trembled.
Because it was ugly.
In the end, all I could do was solve my inferiority to others.
As evidence of that, aren’t those who watch this video covering their mouths at my ugliness?
-…Why…I can’t beat you…
-…Sorry.
Watching Ariaspil leave, Leonardo knelt down on the ground and tapped the ground with his hand.
-What…!! I’m a colleague…!! What is a friend…!! You and I are finally…!
With an ugly look of sobbing, Leo shouts.
-It has nothing to do with anything…!!
Leonardo eventually averts his eyes. Even that one word would have hurt Ariaspil a lot. Watching it now had the potential to be disgusting.
Aren’t everyone at a loss for words with that evidence?
“…Uh…Ah…Ah… No, Mr. Leonardo… What happens next…”
Leonardo felt a tightening pain in his chest. This is why I didn’t want to show it.
‘…You must have been disappointed…’
Leo thought that Rios was disappointed in him. In reality, it was different to the level where Leo’s senses were reversed because he didn’t notice.
Then the video begins.
[Swipe over the Touhou video. I don’t have time anyway, and I don’t have translation subtitles.]
The sage gave a rough explanation while fast-forwarding through the untranslated Eastern memories.
“…Ah…Yes…”
The sage was relaxed at some point, and he began to speak frivolously, as he always did. Even with Leo and Lumine, those around them began to question whether that person was really a wise man.
-…Leonardo…You…?
When the video started, this time an emaciated Silica appeared. Silica couldn’t keep her mouth shut at the sight of herself that had changed her face.
-…I’m sorry… The house has become very shabby…?
Everyone in the Reinhardt family was shocked. When he sees his home in ruins, he cannot help but be astonished.
“…Uh…How… This far…”
Before long, Silica begins her story.
When Gladio, the lord of the house, was bedridden due to injuries and poison, the council of elders actually had the power.
As they died on the battlefield one after another, the senators survived by thinking only of themselves, and in the end, Reinhardt even lost the trust of the empire.
In the end, with the death of the senator, the senate actually split into factions as they cared only for each other’s interests.
-…Where’s Arya?
Leonardo asked Silica with a blank, lost expression. In this situation, the answer has already come out, but there was a truth that I wanted to deny.
-… Aria is… She’s already dead…
Leonardo’s expression in the video was… Indescribable. The rest of the shadow on the face was so good that it was mistaken that there was no light there.
-…Arya wanted you to live… So… Never… You…
Sirica said.
Aryaspil didn’t want to bring Leonardo into the battlefield.
So he didn’t contact me on purpose.
-…But I sent the letter…
-…A letter… I’ve never seen anything like that before…
On the same day, Leonardo asked to sleep in the remaining room under the pretext of taking a break. Rather than sleeping, what caught the eyes of the people in the family was the figure of Leo pouring out tears and vomit and self-harming.
-…I… I…Ugh…Ahh…!
The next day.
-…Miss Silica…?
Silica hanged herself from a tree in her garden.
“…Ah…Ah…”
Everyone looked shocked. Especially the person himself, Silica.
Leonardo also understood. Anyone would do that if they saw a video of a person close to them committing suicide.
-…Miss Silica!!
In the video, Leonardo hurriedly cut the rope hanging around Silica’s neck. And then, feeling his pulse, he despairs.
[Leonardo-kun, if I’m alive, I’m sure I’ll be used as a hostage or used by some remaining families.]
[So I decided to kill myself. So it’s not your fault.]
[Please do not write anything on the tombstone. I was a hostess to an incompetent mother. At least if I had just confirmed that the letter you sent went to Arya, this might not have happened.]
[…I’m really sorry…I’m tired too…]
Leaving the will behind, Leonardo dug soil with a shovel at the base of a garden tree. The coffin to contain Silica’s body was replaced with a wooden box left by the family.
Kang…
At that moment, the shovel collided with something in the soil.
-…This is…
It was a black iron barrel. It was an iron barrel locked with a padlock.
Leonardo didn’t even bother looking for the lock, he just cut it open with his sword.
-…This… Stupid…
Inside it was a long sword. It was the same longsword as the first longsword he received in his family.
[Have a wonderful life]
That’s how each side of the sword was engraved.
-…Why until the end… People… Miserably…
Leonardo soon hugged the sword and sobbed.
And at the same time, his eyes widen. It was a look so intense that it made me feel as if I was looking into the eyes of Reinhardt’s family.
The scene changes and Leonardo steps up to the Senate, wearing a mask.
Leonardo’s hair was completely gray.
Then, the senate is annihilated in turn.
-You bastard… What the hell…
-It’s dark, so there’s no need to remember more.
Even those who were not at the Elders’ Chairman, who were elsewhere.
-It was for the honor of the warrior!! To protect the existence of the world…!!
-…Honor…? Survival… Just… That kind of thing… That’s why you killed him!!!
And even the families and collaterals that protect them.
-…What are you guys like, my master’s weapon…!!
-Keah!!
I didn’t care if anyone got in my way and cut it.
As the ugly past continued, Leo stopped the video that soon turned off and said.
“…I intend to ask for forgiveness, but I do not intend to receive it. You can insult me. Because I’m right to deceive you. So, in order to prevent future incidents…”
While Leonardo admitted himself guilty,
“Oh no!! Do… Bocchan…!”
Suddenly, the title Gladio calls himself has been upgraded.
“…Long live Leonardo Reinhardt!!”
“…Hurrah…! Hurray…!”
It was a bonus that Rios suddenly praised himself.
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More than that, why did he have the surname of Reinhard?
Why are you madly cheering me on and apologizing?