183 – Madness-4
Originally, Leo’s plan was to run naked and go home.
Trains and wagons leave records and take time. Even so, the warp gate, which boasts fast movement, has the disadvantage of getting too much attention.
Of course, I knew about the shortcut, and if you were as skilled as Leonardo, you could reach a few hundred miles without delay.
“Take me with you.”
It was Ain who modified the plan.
“You laughed at me earlier, what are you talking about now?”
“I like the value for money.”
Praising himself like a tool, Ain took out a small ivory dagger. Then he thrust the tip of the dagger into his own body.
“…You…”
His right arm covered with scales, as if he were in the form of a dragon, made Leonardo momentarily stiff.
“It is possible to turn into a toothed creature just like changing into a snake.”
The scales gradually covered the back and sprouted huge wings. It was a form similar to that of a dragon, the wing of a wyvern.
“Even if you’re Raynald Graves, I don’t think it’s going to be any faster than flying in a straight line.”
On reasonable and logical grounds, Leonardo suspected that the child’s mental age was older than his own.
“…You are much more capable than I thought.”
“Thank you for the compliment. Would you please allow me to accompany you?”
“…If you explain what that flashbang is, I’ll take it to you.”
Ain, who had maintained an expressionless expression in that condition, avoided his eyes while remaining rigid.
“…That…That’s…”
If you say right now, ‘That’s actually a magic tool for detecting lies in my father’s words.’
‘…Is that the only will? Reinhardts and gentlemen?’
Perhaps Leonardo will run amok with his shame and attack everyone indiscriminately.
‘…It wasn’t like me.’
The question and judgment just now was an unexpected action that a child would not normally do. Just because Leonardo told him to value his feelings, he just did it without thinking about it.
“…That’s… That’s why…”
“Why don’t you answer me? Do you think I will look after you as a child?”
Leonardo raised his fist in threat. Perhaps, if the memory of self-proclaimed Ain’s parents came back, there would be no other dark history more terrible than this.
Geeing…!
Don’t do it. Unwittingly, Leo’s remark made the choker emit red light again.
“…Why does this light up again…!”
[How come everything you say is dark history?]
The wise man was the only one who objected to Leonardo’s questioning.
“So, is the old boy dissatisfied?”
[Specifically, from my point of view, I want to somehow get your memories back, so I’m motivated.]
I don’t know about Leonardo himself, but as the sage said, the words he said will be nothing but actions that he will regret for the rest of his life when he regains his memory.
“…Is there a way?”
[Yes. I promised to take responsibility and return it.]
It was a tone that conveyed confidence and wisdom.
He could implicitly understand that he was the person who had the memory of making that promise.
For a moment, his expression was serious enough for Leonardo to look at the wise man again.
{You must have touched the Holy Sword just before, but did anything change?}
Her saintess, Angela, faced the situation with a solemn expression, probably feeling the same responsibility for her memory as the wise man.
“If that’s the case, then I would have used magic and spoke well.”
[To be honest, even if you get your memories back, you would be embarrassed and hide it?]
{I’m pretty sure that’s the case.}
“Did you guys say you were going to get into a fight?”
The superman of the future and the superman of the past glared at each other to the extent that their eyes caught fire. Because of Angela, only Lumine, who was forced to stand by her side, was burning inside.
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“…First of all, all three of you calm down…”
“There was something I wanted to ask from the beginning.”
As always, Leonardo cut off Lumine’s words and steadfastly continued to say what he had to say.
[What is it? If it’s not a quarrel, I’ll answer.]
{What is it? I’ll try to answer as much as possible.}
Even without Lumine’s appeal, they weren’t too excited in the first place. However, her temperament and hair were a little flawed, and she was misunderstood because of her eccentricity.
“Where did you guys meet before?”
At the least hostile question, the two spiritual bodies stiffened their expressions. Even though it was the easiest question to answer, there was a small crack in their expression.
But it was so short and small that no one knew about it except each other.
[Are you giving him any work? Of course we met before. You just lost your memory…]
“Don’t do that. I don’t think I’ve met anything… But I’m used to it.”
Leonardo himself knew best that he was talking grotesque bullsh*t.
But he couldn’t express his feelings like that now. Clearly, the memory of the brain thinks of this as the first meeting, but the memory of the mind has a habit of being wet like rainwater.
{…Maybe it is. Since human souls circulate in the cycle of reincarnation, they may have met many times.}
“Who wants to hear the missionary bullsh*t? I’m really… I’m done.”
As if he was embarrassed by Leonardo’s question, he soon turned his face away and turned to another question.
“…Then this is another question.”
Inwardly, Leo admitted that this question was childish. It’s a question that is not the same for a child, so it’s a question that will stop when you grow older.
Even so, he couldn’t suppress his curiosity caused by Leonardo’s inferiority complex.
“If Ruben and Ariaspil fight, who will win?”
“…Is this a serious question to ask?”
Lumine had no choice but to ask a question at the level of ‘If a tiger and a lion fight, who would win?’
“What! That’s important! It is also meaningful to compare the former and the present! Uh?!”
[That bastard must have won Aria with her rotator teeth, but am I better than Ruben now? Uhuhu!’ I’m thinking like this.]
“Shut up! I never thought of that!”
Leo himself erased the shame with a loud voice as if he was embarrassed to ask a question.
{…Hmm, probably Ruben Champion will lose.}
Unexpectedly, Angela was confident of Aria’s victory without hesitation. It was not someone else’s judgment, but a saintess close to the hero, so lies would not be mixed in.
“Oh… Is it unexpected?”
[Look at me! Look at me! Clown ascending to heaven, bite your teeth and bear in mind… Keke…!]
The sage’s provocation could have scratched Leo’s heart, but he was relieved by Ain’s quick handling.
{Of course. There’s no way Ruben is obsessed with winning like that toward his successor and descendants.}
“…That’s what you meant? More than that, that guy named Ruben seems to be impatient because he couldn’t eat Aria?”
I only listened to Aria Spiel, but that alone showed how much Ruben disapproved of her aria.
{…Well. This is just my opinion.}
“A nutritious opinion.”
Angela gave Leo a benevolent smile as he shuddered like that. Leonardo immediately turned away, as if he did not like the answer.
“Hey, kid, let’s go.”
“Yes? All right.”
Ain, who became subtly emotional, had no choice but to follow Leonardo, who had left first, often on foot, even though he was perplexed.
***
“…Are you leaving soon?”
With only simple luggage and weapons, Leonardo headed outside the front door of his mansion. He headed straight outside the mansion without telling anyone else that he was leaving.
“There is no reason to wait. It’s good for each other to go quickly and come quickly.”
“That’s true, but wouldn’t it be better to say you’re going and be seen off?”
As Ain said, everyone in the Reinhardt family would still think that Leonardo was still in his room.
Not only did he not say anything, but when the sun went down, he even used his stealth skills to come out, so it was hard to notice.
“Will these eccentric families make it easy? You cooperated too.”
As he said, Ain cooperated with Leonardo’s escape. The proof was that the sage, who was supposed to be by his side, had quietly disappeared.
“…Not that I cooperated with that intent, though.”
As usual, Leonardo said that wise men are noisy, so Ain just removed his spiritual body as he learned.
It was not according to the order to assist in escaping at night in this way.
“I’m not an underling of that stupid family. Besides, since I said the fact that I was going, there shouldn’t be a problem.”
“…Is there any problem?”
It was the girl’s great-grandfather who refuted Leo’s insistence instead of Ain.
“…What is the Commander of the Execution Knights going to do with a slugger?”
Marken, who managed to track down the huge body hidden in the shadows and darkness, revealed his huge body.
“No matter who you meet, it’s not good to go empty-handed, so shouldn’t you give them a present?”
Saying that, Marken lightly tossed a long bottle of wine. Normally, he would have been able to miss and drop it, but Leo’s reflexes were enough to catch it.
Upon receiving the fine wine, Leonardo showed a subtle smile and teased his tongue at Marken.
“Still, I didn’t expect you to come, but I knew you would kick me out without seeing me like before.”
Leonardo still remembers. After he stabs Chris in the eye, he sees Marken’s expression, which he didn’t hold back.
There was no sediment. Because that is your own responsibility.
However, this could have been a good hand to get Marken back.
“Because he is a person who will come back, I can at least look at his face.”
“Be snobbish too. After all, you’re saying you’re going to take good care of yourself because you’re a competent person, right? When I was useless, I threw it away…”
“Why don’t you stop acting because of guilt? It’s awkward and doesn’t fit.”
Leonardo, who was ridiculing the work of the first round, kept his mouth shut at the advice of the old man.
People tend to be silent rather than angry when their inner secrets are revealed.
“Has senility come early? Hmm… faster than the future I know.”
“Maybe. This is neither the present nor the future as you know it.”
Unlike usual, Marken didn’t get angry at Leonardo’s taunts and ridicule. Rather, a calming gentleness softened his voice.
“…I heard about the prohibition from Saint Lumine.”
“…That transvestite boy seems to be more lighthearted in her episode now.”
Although he insulted his adult and colleague, Marken could not rebuke him. He knew all the secrets about the ban, so he couldn’t easily reprimand Leo.
“…I have no right to criticize you. I wanted to say this much.”
But because it was Marken, there was something I could say.
“Don’t destroy yourself in revenge. No one is happy with that.”
“…Revenge?”
A look full of murderous intent was shot at Marken at that word. Even Ain right next to him instinctively shuddered with cold blood.
“For revenge, I would have killed everyone. I don’t even know who the revenge was for in the first place…”
“…Isn’t it revenge for the sake of atonement?”
Leo stiffened at the word atonement and unconsciously reaped his life. That old man was finding only the culmination within himself.
“…You know what!”
So this time I got angry. When I got hit right in the middle, I couldn’t help but be angry this time.
“You talk proudly about what you know? You guys always do You still don’t know anything about loss…!”
“There is no way you don’t know.”
Marken removed the glove from his hand. Among his wrinkled fingers, which were only scars, the ring finger was noticeably thinner.
The cause was an old ring worn on the ring finger.
“…Do you know why I’m not serving as head of the executive branch?”
It was a story that even Leonardo, who knew Reinhardt’s future, did not know. He was obsessed with it, and he paid no attention to other information.
To the extent that he doesn’t even know why his son, Gladio, took over as head of the household, even though his grandfather, Marken, hadn’t retired.
“I too lost my wife and went on a rampage to destroy everything. I wanted to kill all demons and warlocks.”
He failed to fulfill his responsibilities as the head of the household and arbitrarily destroyed various organizations related to black magic alone.
Unable to forgive himself, revenge was the only atonement.
As a result, Marken was stripped of his position as head of the household and had to be attached to the Order of the Executive Knights.
“…There is nothing left on the road. You know that too The reason you didn’t actually use the taboo is that you live…”
Wedge juice…!
“If you suddenly come and shake the book, go away.”
Leo’s sword wind brushed Marken’s wrinkled cheeks.
“You want to live? The very thought itself is disgusting. Neither do you. Every time I see it, I get so angry that I feel like going crazy…!”
Ain’s choker did not shine.
“But… You know what’s more disgusting?”
Leonardo had madness.
“Every time I see you detestable people, the ban weakens… My body loses its strength!”
I couldn’t survive without madness.
Because the sense of the disappearance of the power received as a reward for suppressing the desire to die becomes clearer.
“…So don’t tell me. Not just me, but Ariaspil.”
Leonardo looked at Ain and gestured with his chin. Ain had no choice but to hide his crying expression by changing into a wyvern.
“I will be back within the period. So, hide the conversation you just had from Ariasviel.”
Leonardo murmured softly as the wyvern flew up lonely.
“…Don’t let that kid carry more than that.”
Insanity of sorrow led to tragedy.
The tragedy was not avoided even by a girl who hid using a higher level of stealth than Marken, using both the divine and the spirit.
‘…Leo…’
Only tears flowed from the young warrior in the face of madness.