189 – Genius-1
I wanted to live a normal life.
Leonardo wanted to live a life worthy of a human being, not involved in fighting or monsters.
A normal life with no blades or blood to touch.
Giving it was the only thing I could do for him.
So it doesn’t matter if I can’t see you now or in the future.
It would be safe and happy to live a life independent of me.
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But
Why does the girl’s face come to mind only right before her death?
Emotions that were hidden at the time of death came to the surface.
I miss you. Leonardo.
And I’m sorry.
***
“I have to go now!”
As soon as the connection of the scabbard was disconnected, Ariasviel rose from his seat. Gotta go as soon as possible
The later it is, the more one person will die.
“But it could be a trap…!”
“So I have to go now!”
The meaning of a trap means that the hostages used in the trap are dangerous.
It was as if the other knights, including Leo, and even the civilians in the village had already been caught inside the trap.
It wouldn’t be strange if they were killed at any time.
“Then use a warp gate…”
“…No. There is a faster way.”
Warp gates are fast and allow for multiple movements, but they take time to operate and are not directly connected to Leo’s hometown.
Aware of that, Rios suggested a faster method. It was a method that only the wizard himself could do.
“I can move it.”
“…You can teleport? The distance should well exceed 500 km.”
Leo’s hometown was so far away that it could be said to have been cut off from the Reinhardt Mansion in the center of the metropolitan area.
Even a high-ranking wizard decided that teleporting by grasping all the coordinates and variables was impossible even before thinking about overuse.
Using the cumbersome warp gate was also a solution and compromise devised by such wizards.
“…I practiced. I want to help…”
Rios was aware even before the enemy Tower Owner incident that he was of no help to the enemy. He may be someone else, but compared to Ariana and Leo, he is not a decisive help in winning.
So he thought. He knows how to help in his own way.
“…Then move to that teleport…!”
“…That’s the distance, but you can’t move a lot of people. Considering the distance… the limit is about one person, including me.”
However, the flaws were as extreme as the advantages.
In everything, the more people there are, the more strategies you can use, and the less likely you are to fail.
But he couldn’t say it was a good way to move just one person.
“…Then one will have to go with Rios, and the rest will have no choice but to go to the warp gate.”
According to Gladio’s judgment, he had to decide on that one person within a short period of time.
And that one.
“I will…”
Aria wanted to step out.
“No, I will.”
Marken immediately dried it up. He already knew that his granddaughter would do it.
“But what I do…!”
“Everyone here knows that you are strong. But that’s a different story if you’re doing this alone right now.”
Needless to say, Ariasviel is stronger than anyone else here, not only in terms of potential, but also in terms of strength he has already trained.
Theoretically, going to the field would be most helpful.
“If Leo and the rest of the village were in danger, who would you save first? If you can decide right away, you can go.”
“…That’s…”
It was a matter that could not be decided right away.
For the hero Ariaspil, the priority was to save the villagers.
The human Arya will save Leonardo.
Aria knew that no matter which one she saved, there would be scars and regrets.
Marken has already seen and experienced it before his eyes several times.
“Then I will go. Prepare Rios.”
“…But… Do…”
“Even at this hour, one person is dying.”
“…I see. Captain.”
Without going out of the mansion, Rios drew a magic circle. As if a decision had been made, Marken stood together in the magic circle drawn by Rios.
“…This is the best option. Ari…”
“…You will resent it.”
Arya lowered her head and murmured briefly.
At that one word, it was hard to open my eyes to the air like a sheet of thin ice. The hero’s fate, which had been dormant for 300 years, was again entangling the clan.
As a saint, Angela had no choice but to pray for the return of such a fate.
“…I also resent myself for being like this.”
Marken was willing to endure such selling. Although her powers had grown, Arya was still young. Marken didn’t think she would understand right away.
“I will blame myself if I can’t find either one.”
“…”
However, Arya’s selling was directed in a completely different direction. Her girlish eyes had not died even in the hero’s ordeal.
“As her grandfather said, I lack the experience to think soberly. It may be hesitating.”
Arya Spiel grabbed her holy sword. He must have received a job in this holy sword.
She scorned Leonardo because of her.
A human named Ariasviel regretted that he shouldn’t have become a hero in the first place.
She couldn’t deny it. As the former hero said, Leonardo became more unhappy because of himself, and he may have a person who can perform the hero better than he.
“But I will regret and resent myself for not even trying what I could.”
But she already met Leonardo, and she became a warrior.
You cannot change the result.
In that case.
“So I have to go. I will save everyone.”
“…Are you aware of how arrogant that is? Aria.”
She was not only Marken, but she was all in the same mind. No matter how calmly she tried, it was human to be shaken, and even if she was stronger than anyone else, it was human to be broken.
“It could end up losing both. And even you can die. How arrogant is this…”
“Right. Arrogant.”
Ariaspil knows. He got to know him better than anyone.
“But Leonardo would have had that fight many times. I am the target of such a person.”
A human who was forced to make such an irrational choice and fight, and what he meant to that person.
“If I don’t act right now, I will die as a former hero and as a person of Leo.”
Ariaspil pulled out his sword to live as himself.
“Please send it. I will fight to live as myself.”
“… Ha…”
Hearing that resolution, Marken let out a sigh and grabbed his forehead.
He was firmly mistaken.
There is a moment when he is truly helpless.
“…Chris, put the wyvern on standby. If you think about the warp gate time, that’s faster.”
His grandfather himself was too helpless for her granddaughter.
“Thank you. Grandfather.”
“Gratitude comes after work is done. Do not blunt your resolve.”
The grandparents and their families went out of the conference room, and the only ones left were two young people from the new generation.
“…Then let’s go. Aria.”
Looking at Rios’ expression, Ariasviel had no choice but to apologize.
Perhaps from Rios’ point of view, Marken was more like being forced into a risky gamble rather than a safe option.
“I’m sorry. Brother. Sincerely…”
“Don’t apologize. Brother.”
With narrow eyes and a small smile, Rios unfolded the magic circle.
“It’s pure love.”
After that remark, teleportation was manifested.
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………
A dizzy feeling follows. The sensation of returning at 100 km/h while fixing the body on the waterwheel.
Arya could understand why she didn’t use this teleportation often. Even Aria, who gets hit by her, is so dizzy, it must be a burden for Rios, who uses her magic directly.
“…Cool… Are you okay? Oh…”
“Then it’s okay… uhhhhh…”
He knelt right next to Arya and made her vomit. In that he has already shortened several hundred kilometers in an instant, he has done his job well enough.
“…The town is…”
It wasn’t that difficult to find the village. It wasn’t because it was a place he had already been to.
“Evacuate…! aaagh!”
“Cruwaaa!!”
There were already a lot of monsters around. The situation deteriorated dramatically and faster than Dean had reported.
There were dozens of Balrogs all around, and a fire had already swept through the village like a tidal wave.
‘…Gate…?’
At the center of the forest away from the village, six pairs of gates were manifested. Arya had no choice but to hold her holy sword with her trembling hands at the strange sight.
What would Leo do in a hell like this?
How did he endure this hell again and again?
***
“[…I guess persuasion was overkill.]”
The entity that had been hit in the face by a straight blow caressed his face and chewed his judgment.
The premise of planting distrust between Ariaspil and Leonardo is wrong. Whatever the essence, even the fate of beings, Leonardo doesn’t care.
“[You wouldn’t have dealt with me otherwise.]”
But despite this mistake, the being looked at Leonardo with satisfaction. It was a smile like Leo laughing at his rival.
Without such a pure mind and soul, I wouldn’t have been able to fight against myself for decades.
“Call in advance. I’m going to make it so that I can’t speak again.”
“[You’ll regret it if you don’t listen to what I’m saying right now?]”
Kwaaang!!
Cracks form on the ground with one leap. Even bluffing doesn’t stop hitting in order not to give it a chance to try.
However, the onslaught is helpless and no longer able to strike effectively. Without even defending, he was enduring the attack with only evasion.
‘…This guy knows my tactics…!’
The way to evade an attack, that’s not just an evasion method that relied solely on physical ability.
Only those who know their attacks several times and have been hit dozens of times show such a movement.
‘No way…’
To solve the mystery, Leo tried to gamble.
“[My right hand holds the sins and blood…]”
An apocryphal incantation for the use of Holy Blood.
If you know this technique, he will somehow…
“[You have no mouth. That’s why you have to scream.]”
“…Eup…!”
The curse of high-ranking black magic, the curse of silence, silences Leonardo.
This made it clear.
Sureung…!
A bloody sword containing divinity forms in Leo’s hand. In the form of a gauntlet, the black stone has already absorbed a lot of blood.
Hook…!
Put that sword into your own mouth instead of the opponent. Only by releasing the silence of his mouth could he move forward in battle.
“…You, how do you use that curse?”
“[If you become my colleague, it’s not even a job to let me know.]”
“Stop talking nonsense! That must have been a curse used by the Death King!”
The only black magician who tried that bizarre idea, the curse of silence that sews the mouth itself, was the Dark Wizard.
“…Not only that.”
The prayer I was just about to write was an apocryphal text, and it was intended to be used for Holy Blood Fighting, so it was normal not to know.
“That prayer was only used on berserkers.”
Nevertheless, the author already knew the danger and used the curse of silence. It is also the highest level of black magic, silence.
“…What the hell are you…!”
“[Well, there must be more important things than that.]”
With that said, the being pointed towards the village and smiled.
I couldn’t see properly because of the barrier, but I couldn’t see the shape of the village because of the smoke and flashes of fire.
“[Right now, we have six gates open around here. Perhaps there is a limit even if your colleagues evacuate somehow.]”
“…You son of a b*tch…”
“[If you come with me, I’ll turn it off. As a colleague, I can make that arrangement a matter of course…]”
Quwaaang!!
Leonardo’s fist pierces the creature’s stomach and blows it away in an instant. The sensation of his organs bursting and the sound of the surrounding small bones being fractured are clearly transmitted to his hands.
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“…If I kill you before then, that’s enough.”
If you negotiate, there’s no way you’ll just cancel it. That’s just a trap to cloud your judgment.
Now the order is to deal with that child.
“[Ah…The blood in the body circulated at high speed. But that skill wouldn’t last even 30 seconds with that body.]”
“…Guck…”
Leonardo didn’t stop attacking even though he coughed up blood alone. Because that statement was true, Leonardo could not stop.
I had to deal with that guy as soon as possible to solve it.
There is an effect. As much as the body of that existence was certainly crushed.
“[…Cuck…Uh…]”
As a reward for the attack, the being shrank for a moment to catch his breath.
Even if it was a chimera, it was an opportunity now, when the human form was clearly limited.
‘…Caught…!’
“[…Sorry…]”
Just as he was about to punch him in the face to finish it off, Leo held up an apology.
“[School, I really wanted to let go…]”
That being is not a mother. Know. I already realized enough.
But body instinct is faster and simpler than reason. Especially if it’s a reflex instinct formed in childhood, it’s a law that can’t be fixed.
“[A beautiful hat.]”
It only stopped for about a second, but already Leonardo’s torso was split by the being’s nails.
“Quaaa…!”
It’s inconsiderate. I hate myself for falling for such a light trick.
“[Don’t worry. I won’t kill you.]”
After a while, the gate opens again behind that being.
A demon that even controls the gate, what can you imagine with such an existence…
“[…The gate is…]”
When the imagination turned towards unknown horrors, the existence couldn’t maintain the relaxed expression it had throughout.
Even though the gate behind it was fine, that being looked towards the village as if there was a problem with the gate.
Chew
“[…!]”
When the arm was cut with a short sound, the existence showed a shocked expression for the first time.
“…Are you okay?”
“…You…”
The girl, covered in blood all over her body, looked down at Leonardo.
It didn’t take long to know that the blood was obtained by killing all the monsters that destroyed the village.
“[…Dragon…!]”
Ariaspil has disappeared. Even though I knew it was moving, I had no choice but to express it that way.
She showed such speed with a simple movement.
“…How can you…!”
Her bloody skin was already flushed red. The whole body was radiating steam and heat like freshly cooked meat.
“…I thought Leo would do this.”
Yes, surely Leonardo would have.
However, Arya’s use of bloody combat was unexpected even by Leo.
Even more so if he had only seen it a couple of times before using the technique he had managed to stabilize after decades of hard work.