“Dad!”
In the peaceful field, the bright voice of a child rises.
Since it was broad daylight, the sun was floating in the middle of the sky, and it was a particularly sunny spring day, so it was a rather warm weather for excessive activities.
“Hehehe~”
However, there was a girl who looked bubbly even when she walked in the fields until her body was covered in sweat, probably at the age of running and growing up.
“Go with Daddy…”
On the other hand, the young man who appears to be his father, gasping for a rough breath, desperately tries to pursue his daughter.
“Huh… huh… huh…”
Because of the lack of oxygen in his lungs, he continuously exhales and bends his knees, wiping the sweat from under his chin.
“Haha… As expected, procrastination is good…!”
Still, the man, unable to show his daughter his unsightly side, forcibly smiles and praises his own daughter.
“Dad!”
chin!
“Wow?!”
In the defenseless state of her breathing, she was attacked by her daughter, and she collapsed without being able to bear the center of gravity.
He may be healthier than himself, but he embraces his daughter in his arms even to the point of falling into the fatherly love that tries to protect his daughter as much as possible.
“It’s dangerous if you run into it suddenly.”
It’s not really a big mistake, so I carefully look at my daughter in a way that doesn’t hurt her feelings as much as possible…
“But if you have a posture like that, what do you want to be hugged by your father?”
Even though he is receiving instruction, he smiles brightly and says strange things, so even a man can reluctantly put on a light smile.
“Daddy’s arms are always warm!”
At the same time, he begins to rub his cheek near his father’s chest with all his might, as if a dog with a strong bond is being hugged by his owner.
“Aren’t you fond of procrastinating daddy? Daddy doesn’t play for a long time, but he keeps up with me so well.”
Then his daughter inflates her cheeks with all her might, and desperately denies the man’s words.
“No! Daddy’s playing well? It’s just that he can’t do it, isn’t it?”
Those words were the words the man had said to his daughter as a father several times, and it turned into a rather warm expression because he received those words back from none other than his daughter.
At the same time, he quietly hugs and whispers to his father, who is still having a hard time breathing.
“Dad always tried… he did his best… It’s strange that Elric oppa who doesn’t like him…”
Although the atmosphere of joy was for a moment, there was sadness on his face, probably because he thought that his father, whom he respected more than anyone else, had been denied.
“Procrastination?”
I wonder if my emotions change easily. The temperature itself was a unique energy from before.
“You’re a great person, aren’t you the best father to me?”
Her hair was blown by the wind, and she couldn’t tell if sweat was flowing under her eyes or tears.
The man didn’t do anything wrong, but the fact that he made his daughter cry because of him makes him depressed.
“it’s okay!”
However, in order to reverse such an atmosphere, there is a sense of force, but it comes with a lively shout.
The girl’s father, who raised her body while holding her, lifts her body slightly and smiles positively.
“Dad is fine, isn’t it so good to have a daughter who cares about you like this?”
When she calmed her daughter like that, she was a little puzzled, but then she wiped away her tears.
“Yeah! I like Daddy too! Because he plays like this every day!”
Depending on the interpretation, it may have a negative meaning, but in a good way, he was like a cute puppy who really obeyed his father.
It’s not a dog’s tail, but the image of him waving his tail from side to side with excitement makes that feeling even more real.
“Dad isn’t a bad thing! That’s right, my dad is a human race and I’m a dragon race?!
He gives legitimacy to his father, who is struggling so much differently from him because of his physical limitations due to his race.
He seems to fully understand his father’s poor physical strength, but he did it well.
She was a dragon and her father was an ordinary human race.
Miru’s race, which men call their daughters, is a dragon and is so great that it can be said to be the strongest creature next to God, while humans are so ordinary and useless creatures that some races treat them as inferior.
Of course, they do not get tired easily because they are young children, but if it is the biggest cause, it is probably because of the physical limitations due to ethnic differences.
Miru, who inherited the blood of an ancient dragon mother rather than a human father, resembled her mother more than her father.
Even if it was mixed with human blood, the growing horns and black tails grew as if to disprove it.
“Thank you Miru, Dad is happy to be able to receive comfort from Miru.”
He lifts her up and begins to walk slowly through the still vast meadow.
“I’m happy to be able to spend time with my dad too!”
Like the appearance, the child-like riot is momentary, but the man’s center of gravity is shaken.
“Haha… You’re really healthy.”
However, since he was not weak, he quickly regained his composure and smiled bitterly with trouble.
Because his opponent was a dragon, he looked relatively weak, but it was by no means a weak man.
Even in the field he ran to pursue Miru, the distance was far greater than the training intensity of the kingdom’s elite soldiers.
If the blood Miru received was not just an ordinary dragon, but the last old dragon, he inherited the genes of the strongest black dragon, unprecedented in history, so despite his young age, his talent was extraordinary.
Because he had to deal with such a procrastination, he was portrayed weakly as an ordinary human being, but he was strong enough to be said to be at the apex of a human being like him.
Being that kind of person, it didn’t seem like a little bit of weight would fall over again if he ran wildly in his arms.
“Shall we go in a little early today? Do you think the mothers would be angry if we said only the two of us left?”
He inflates his cheeks cutely without any worries about delaying his father’s proposal, which is somewhat compromised.
“Uh… I want to spend more time with you…”
When he protests timidly with an age-appropriate foolishness, the man lets out a light sigh and moves in the direction of his steps.
“Okay, shall we take a rest at the hill where we always rested?”
Saying that, she held her daughter in the princess’s arms and headed up the hill that gave her nostalgic sensibility.
“Okay! I want to take a nap in Daddy’s arms while enjoying the cool breeze!”
She loved her father so much as a family that her mother likes her father so much that whenever she sees Miru, she remembers the time when she was chasing him in full swing.
“So…”
Daughter and father sitting on the hill, quietly resting under the shade, looking at the distant mountains.
“Dad, what’s beyond that blue sky?”
When she sits on a hill and rests like this, Miru always has her own beneficial time, such as holding her in her father’s arms and asking questions she doesn’t know.
“Woah… woah…”
Then, at some point, when the number of words decreased and the weight conveyed to him became stronger, it was a signal that she wanted to sleep.
“Coo…”
After a little more time passes, he falls asleep in the arms of his favorite father, who is procrastinating.
He was so innocent that even the sound of sleeping was cute.
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The blue sky, which had been sleeping for quite some time, wakes up from procrastination only when it is time for the sky to turn orange.
“Ha-am… Good night…”
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Normally, if I wake up with my sleeping habit, I should have always felt the warmth of my father…“Yes?”
I look back with a sense of wonder that is procrastinating because of a different sense than usual.
“uh?”
Her father, who was always by her side, disappeared.
“Dad?”
The situation was not understood, and the voice still seemed a bit calm, but…
“Dad….?”
Anxiety grew for the first time in Miru’s life, where only laughter blossomed at his unseen appearance no matter how much he looked around.
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“Good morning Harold.”
It’s a new morning that comes every day to stretch, but Erina, who got up first, gets up and pulls the curtains down.
Although she probably fell asleep at the same time as she slept less, when I just woke up, she was already dressed in adventurer activity clothes.
“Today is the last day of ordeal, and if we get through this well, we can go back to our adventures and get permission to get married.”
Weirdly, he emphasizes the ending so often that he becomes reluctant to answer anything.
I haven’t been able to tell Erina exactly my intentions yet.
But before I could say it, I gave up.
In fact, there were many times when I almost got into trouble after creating an atmosphere that was not good enough to accept her.
Even though it’s not direct, my pride as a man goes up and down. If I said that, I was hesitant to say it because it seemed really irreversible back then.
“Ummm… I guess so.”
I try to express my dissatisfaction as much as possible without touching my heart by speaking in a slightly pessimistic tone, but…
“If that’s the case, I won’t have anything more to ask for in my life, the daily life of going on a pounding journey with you… Just imagining it makes me happy.”
The best thing I could do was to keep silence.
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“Did you both get a good rest last night? I’ve prepared the final ordeal here, check it out.”
He visits Mirina’s room and greets us with a solemn attitude.
“You may have felt it in the second ordeal, but these trials usually contain social problems, so check it out as it is similar this time.”
Usually, nobles have to show exemplary attitudes and good deeds in order to secure their reputation as their power increases.
This was because he could get into the eyes of the higher nobles and see various opportunities.
The Lovias family is the second most powerful aristocrat after the royal family, so in order to maintain their current position, they have to draw attention to the royal family that is the only one above them.
In fact, he was more thirsty for honors than any other nobles because he had to firmly establish and maintain his current power so as not to be seen by the royal family except for his own family.
So, Mirina’s true intention is to build a karma that catches the public’s attention by using the well-packaged word ordeal and to take advantage of the family.
In some cases, it can be interpreted as having a cunning intention, pretending to do good by saying that we allow our dreams, but in a way, Mirina is trying to deal effectively with whatever happens, so her own cleverness was also glimpsed.
Anyway, going back to the main topic and facing an ordeal, we pick up an envelope of ordeal in order to tear the period apart from our long-lived life in a mansion.
The color of this envelope is light purple, and if there is something unique about it, the brand engraved for the packaging is more emphasized.
Is it because it is the last ordeal, or is it because it is the most severe ordeal by Mirina-san’s standards…
Anyway, I couldn’t slow down the tension until I checked the contents.
“I’ll check it out.”
Erina opens the envelope, and this time unfolds a piece of paper similar to the color of the envelope.
“The last ordeal, you’ve done well so far. This time—”
Slowly lowering her eyes from the top, she recites the content of the ordeal.
So the final ordeal we have to overcome…
“Recently, it is said that heretics in a certain area within the royal capital are often searched for. The final ordeal is to go to that area to investigate and arrest the fanatics as much as possible.”
heresy
If you look at the story in the game, they are unscrupulous groups that appear several times, and none of them have a proper mental state.
By setting, they were a group that worshiped the old gods that existed only in the past as absolutes, not the gods that rule the world today, and their ultimate goal is to resurrect several old gods who symbolize pure evil through inhuman rituals.
Their uniforms are purple robes, and for a group of crazy people, each and every one of them is superior to a normal soldier.
As for the atmosphere, it is convenient to think of it as a typical fanatic group that you may have come across at least once through various media.
“It’s too deep to determine the level of something… The heretics are so secretive that you can’t even catch multiple people at once… This part is annoying.”
If they were as tenacious as serving the Old Gods, it was their absolute collective consciousness and a twisted bond.
Even if one person is arrested and interrogated, it was their setting to never reveal their secrets out of their mouths, and to hold on to their teeth no matter what kind of torture they were subjected to.
They said that they would rather bite their tongue and risk their own life, and they considered it to be a secret organization whose information was not revealed because of their deeply erroneous religious beliefs.
In fact, when they are active, they are inconspicuous as much as possible, and since they only work in their own shade, it is cumbersome and difficult to find and catch them.
Fortunately, it was the contents of the quest that I knew, so if it wasn’t for me to know what to do, I had to build up debt again to Morione, who felt suspicious.
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Now, as we have experienced several times now, it will not necessarily go the way the game unfolds, but this knowledge will definitely help.“Are you okay Harold?”
Erina says she’s a little unconfident, but I nod my head as best I can, and express confidence in my voice.
“I have a way, let’s go now.”
I said that, but Mirina looked at me with a slightly uncomfortable look, although she didn’t say it because she seemed unfounded confident in her eyes.
“Then let’s go.”
However, she ignores it neatly and this time, I lead Erina out of the room in reverse.
“Are you active today…?”
Erina also looked up at me with a somewhat bewildered expression, as if she felt something different than usual.
The reason I show this attitude is because I have some circumstances.
If you receive these quests in the game, you know when and how many arrests you can make based on the time in the game, so I thought that it was a sense of urgency to proceed as quickly as possible.
I’m trying to get out of the mansion and head to the royal road in such a hurry…
“uh?”
A girl with a familiar face blocked our way.
“Oppa? See you again!”
The black dragon girl I met just yesterday, Miru
With red eyes, short hair, and a dark atmosphere, a little boy standing with a mysterious look that shows off the innocence suitable for a child while waving the tail of a black dragon speaks to us.
“I just met you yesterday, how have you been?”
At the same time as the meeting, which may feel welcome rather than the first meeting, a few questions fly into my head.
How the hell did you know…
When we last met and parted, obviously they didn’t tell us where we were staying.
However, it appeared in front of us as we were about to come and leave the mansion as if it were too natural to know how to delay.
That wasn’t the only thing.
The sight unfolding from the front door is a garden manicured by several people, in other words, the place we are currently standing in is the main gate of Loviasuga.
In other words, it means that it is still within the territory of the Lovias family.
“By the way, where are you going? I think I’m going to do something interesting now~?”
So, procrastinating here is a stranger, and anyone from outside had to go through a screening process to set foot in this place.
If that was the case, the news that Mirina-san or Erina, the owner of the mansion, were coming should have been delivered, but looking at Erina’s face, she felt like she didn’t even know she was here in a dream.
“But isn’t it enough power for two people?”
Also, Mirin seems to be unaware of the fact that there was no mention of Miru, such as a colleague who had to accompany her…
If that is the case, it could be interpreted that the present Miru entered this place through trespassing.
Surprise appearance of Miru, who is really suspicious of everything
Whether he knows our feelings or not, Miru comes to me with a smile with a carefree face and proudly shouts to me.
“Is it okay if I join you? It’s a little stronger than me, so I’m sure it’ll be helpful to you!”