197 Chapter 179

Reasons for the creation of the Lifesaving Corps and about Nero Argens.

Now I've heard about the troops Rose used to lead, but they probably have something to do with it.

It seemed vague to me that it wasn't just the injury that caused Rose to get hurt.

"The story goes back to before the demon king is resurrected."

Listen seriously to Rose.

"Until this day, information came into my ear that the demons, who never showed any great movement, were acting suspiciously, belonging to the Knights"

"Is the full-scale battle with the Demon Clan still after the Demon King is resurrected?"

"Right. There was a skirmish, but a massive battle shouldn't have happened in hundreds of years. That is why the kingdom of Ringle exercised more vigilance than necessary over the suspicious actions of the demons"

Well, there's no point in being alert if forces that have never been in a major action before start acting strange.

The problem is what the Demon King Army was doing.

"Well, the place where the devil tribe in suspicious behavior was witnessed was the Darkness of the Ringle, which you also know."

"Isn't it close to the kingdom of Ringle..."

"Oh, that's why the kingdom of Ringle had to move. But the Demons are just people with more physical abilities than humans. It doesn't make sense to turn a half-baked battalion, so I was the captain of the battalion at the time and was tasked with reconnaissance of the Demons."

I was also surprised that the place where the Demons were moving was close to the kingdom of Ringle.

It's a road that takes hours or so, but it's still a long way to go if you want to get there.

I also see the people of the kingdom of Ringle in a hurry.

But Rose asked me to reconnaissance, and maybe his men...

"I've decided to take my most trusted unit, Aur and the others..."

"... Captain?"

Rose opened her mouth again after a brief silence as she tilted her neck at the unnaturally interrupted conversation.

"I have a little something to think about. At that time, I was overconfident in the power of healing magic. If it's not instant death, I won't let you die, and I won't. And my men depended on me for that, and they trusted me to the fullest extent."

……

"... keep talking"

♪ I rely too much on healing magic ♪

That's what Rose said to me when I trained her to dodge.

Now that I've heard the story, the words at that time sound different.

"We took troops and headed for reconnaissance to the 'Darkness of the Ringle' where the Demons were said to have been witnessed, where we were to compete with a dozen demons."

"What did the Demons do in the darkness of Ringle...?"

"From what I've seen, you seem to have captured a powerful demon.... maybe it has something to do with the snake demons that came out during the war, but I don't know the exact thing either"

Is that a giant snake?

He was a demon powerful enough to bury the Grand Grizzly... but you're saying that the fundamentals of that strength may have been brought about by the Demons?

"So, there was one of those demons... a troublesome guy. That's Nero Argens."

Meet Nero Argens here?

Rose closed her eyes as she remembered that time.

"At a glance, I get it.“ This guy's not like the others. "They would have thought the same thing. It's something I've never done before."

I hear you manipulate the wind, but how the hell do you fight it?

I know it's not normal at the time this person gets hurt.

"Having spotted his strength, I warned the Demon King to retreat to avoid a futile battle, but they immediately dismissed him and tried to destroy us, the witnesses"

"You feel like you don't need to ask questions. Is that why the Demons had it?"

"Oh, they expected the Demon King to resurrect from the seal. So you came across a place where you were gathering strength just in case."

Because the Demon King will be resurrected, so the Demon Clan has moved?

From the circumstances of the time, the kingdom of Ringle must have fallen into a state of considerable confusion knowing it.

"Shortly after the battle began, the other demons left it to their men, and I turned to the role of suppressing Nero Argens. He was too strong to leave it to his men..."

"How does a man named Nero Argens fight? I know you use the magic of the wind system."

"He was using magic tricks. The wind acts as an armor while aiding from evasion to attack… it was all irregular combat power. Thanks to you, my attack has been blocked by wind armor."

Saying casually, it's anomalous that you can defend Rose's fist.

I've eaten it many times, so I can tell you, even in a state that would be underhanded, you get busted on a ten-meter basis.

"Yeah, how can I fight someone like that..."

"My way of fighting is so much different from yours. I'll hit you close, that's all. But only a sword with a blade painted red will ever hit him."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because at the time I was wearing a demon sword and around that imparted some curse to the slaughter. Well, you see, that sounded like a dangerous sword."

Grant a curse.

I can't believe someone powerful enough to say that a sword like that is strong enough for Rose to use it... Somehow, it's not on a bad level.

"Remember when I advised you that healing magic doesn't work on curses that act on wounds?"

"Yeah, you can't possibly forget"

Instead, you can't forget if you want to.

Because it was a shocking training that Rose beat me up as much as an asshole to get around.

"The reason I advised you that was because that's exactly what Nero's sword was."

……!

"The Devil's Sword in his possession grants a curse that temporarily cuts off the magical flow of the slashed part."

A curse that temporarily cuts off the flow of magic means that magic will no longer flow...?

Because healing magic pours magic into the wound to heal...

"Huh!? Isn't that a natural enemy for us!"

"Oh. The fact that magic stops flowing means that the healing and healing magic effects on the wounded areas are inhibited. Probably a valid sword against every wizard, not just healing magic. Fortunately, the effect of the curse is only temporary."

I can't believe the curse lasts, even temporarily, but more importantly, it's such a force...!?

If it were an interpersonal battle, it would be an awkward sword that could carry almost every battle in its favor.

Anyway, it disables even the first aid for healing magic that 10,000 people would be able to use.

"You fought well against someone using such a sword..."

"It's not that hard. Slashing by the wind is healing magic and healing and ignoring. So play or avoid sword attacks while dealing with them. Well, it was troublesome that the other guy wasn't just a swordsman either. It was quite a hassle to create a tornado that chopped up whoever was inside."

……

Wait, from what I just said, I don't know the effect of the curse on this guy, but it means he was trying to avoid hitting the sword just because he felt "if he hit it, he would."

... What do you mean?

Did you recognize how bad it was?

Were you normally challenging an opponent with a dangerous sword?

What do you call yourself, too much brain muscle? Or would stuck to your physical abilities give you the optimal solution to your brain muscle tactics?

"Hold on, the problem is you couldn't compete no matter how much you fought. Speed is mutual, physical ability is my top, but skill and variety of moves are his top. The attack over here was inhibited by wind armor, and the attack over there could be handled by healing magic and physical surgery. I didn't even think I'd be able to compete forever."

I can outsmart you with my arm strength......

No, it's superior beyond my imagination at the point of antagonism.

"On the other hand, my men, who were fighting apart from me, were fighting to their advantage, even against a dozen demonic tribes"

"There were only seven of us, but you were strong. Mr. Aur and the others."

"Oh. But I was wrong to look. They... Nero Argens and the Demons are ready and obsessed."

Rose turned her gaze to the window and covered the area that touched her right eye with her palm.

I feel Rose's unparalleled emotions, and I have a bad feeling about it, and I ask terrible questions.

"What did you do?"

"They gave up on going home alive."

... what?

"Sooner or later, it could be an obstacle to the Demon King's army."

"Oh, no, that's..."

For a moment, I didn't understand what Rose was talking about.

Everyone wants to live.

It was my belief that neither man nor demon would change.

I don't know what purpose and aspiration the Demons had to act like that. But their actions seemed unreasonable to the enemy and to their allies.

"The demons, who heard Nero's orders, killed their men without regard for their wounds. I guess I never imagined every opponent I was fighting would come in ready to self-destruct. … One person managed to intercept but one person pierced by a sword held down his arm, the other fell and lay on the ground clinging to his feet, the next demon clan attacked him where he could not move, and all of them fell and lay down on the ground"

Not decent.

Even my own life strikes me outwardly. I can't believe everyone would do that either... can't be able to handle that right away.

"I was upset when I was shown the sight in different ways. And Nero wasn't the kind of person to miss that gap.... I got a flash of agitation, and I got my right eye amputated, and I lost half my sight."

"Because the sword of Nero Argens has a curse..."

"Oh."

The curse cuts off the flow of magic and the healing magic is disabled.

Lose half of your sight.

It's not an easy story to say that you can fight with just one eye.

It is nearly impossible to fight as usual amid half the sight, distance and everything visible being different.

Rose groans to mock herself.

"I guess that's when the overconfidence in healing magic came around. A wounded companion can also be quickly healed by healing magic. I can fight myself in a state of perfection as long as I have healing magic. That pride caused the worst."

The pride was not less in me.

That's why I'm not talking about other people right now.

But after this, it's really the worst.

"... true, worst..."

Is there any worse development than this?

I don't want there to be anything I can do, but it doesn't seem like it.

"The moment Nero tried to stab me in the stomach, the only time I could only see my men dying one after the other -- Aur, who was safe, became my shield, took Nero's slaughter directly from the front and was slashed and torn apart"

———

"If it was just a sword, it was a wound that could have been saved by healing magic, but the curse of the Devil's Sword won't allow it. Surrounded by demons and the bodies of their men, only Nero and I, the mortally wounded and dying Aur, lived."

I lose my word.

I don't know what to say to a miserable situation that's even warm in hell.

"I was going to be able to handle my head with anger. To myself, who couldn't do anything to my falling men, to myself, who couldn't save Aur, who was on his way to death. But more than that... I couldn't wait to hate Nero Argens, who created the situation then"

Hate.

When the words came out of Rose's mouth, I shook my shoulders unexpectedly.

This man only rambles, but he never said a word that hates or curses people, so he thought it was pure, scary.

"Well, finally, I forgot me in anger. Forced to move my flesh with anger and hatred, I waved my fist to kill Nero as I broke my body in time for even healing magic"

"... did you kill him?"

"No. I stranded him on a tree with a stubborn demon sword, but I couldn't. My body couldn't stand it, but the sight of a red-haired demon girl who wasn't on the spot coming in to help him... overlapped with Aur"

Mr. Aur, who sheltered himself and was fatally wounded, and the demonic girl who saved the injured Nero Argens.

... would have been an ironic sight for Rose at the time.

"This is what happened to me and Nero Argens."

This man had an unimaginably hard past.

When I spoke of Mr. Aur and the others, I understood painfully well how much I trusted and cared for my men from a calm tone and expression.

That's why I wanted to ask you something.

"... does the captain still resent Nero Argens?"

"Don't lie if you say you don't resent me. Even his own men are bastards who have thrown them to pieces. It's more wrong to forgive..."

With that much mouth, Rose finally grinned.

"He told me... Aur told me to die. I've always wanted them to stay who I am."

"Mr. Aur..."

"How good would it have been if he'd thrown up even one of his grudges... he just said it with a laugh? I was desperate to help."

Mr. Aur told me about this man until the end of the day...

Rose, who spoke of her, rests on the sauce of the chair so that she weakens, and goes on to utter words.

"Then we'll have to do it, won't we? I wanted to live a way that I could face those guys who admired me like this."

Maybe the word Aur left behind means he's creating a person we know as Rose the Lifeguard.

It seemed to me that there was only so much influence on this person.

"And I made a lifeguard. To prepare for the battle against the demon king army to come. And like no one else will ever taste the pain that rips you apart like I do"

"That's why the lifeguard was founded…"

The fundamentals of the lifeguard's founding reason.

That's a force to keep people from dying.

That's why this man ran the battlefield faster than anyone else, trying to save many.

Don't let anyone else taste the same pain that you felt when you lost your trusted companion.

"And then there's you."

"... is that me?"

"Raising the same healing wizard as me was one of my aims. My undead men... when something happens to me, I can do everything in my place, there's such a thing."

……

I'm still immature.

There's so much to learn, and so much to work out that fingers on both hands aren't enough.

Even if it's recognized as serving, it's still like standing at the starting point.

It's too far from my goal, and now that I've heard about it, it's even further away.

"About Mr. Aur and the others, about Nero Argens, about that and the lifeguard. I am so glad to hear these stories from your mouth today,"

Still, I felt proud.

Because I learned once again that Rose, the lifeguard I taught and revered as a master, was an amazing man beyond doubt.

"So, um... keep it up!"

I couldn't think of a word well, I stood up with momentum and bowed my head as deeply as I did.

At times like this, I don't like my lack of vocabulary.

Rose, looking at me as I was reddening her face, circled her eyes, laughing as if she was frightened.

"That's the dialogue over here. As deputy commander, keep it up. Usato"

"Oh, yes!"

It was nice to know about this before the big fight.

Somehow, when I heard about Rose's past, which I had never known before, and the people who once admired this man, I had a lot to think about, but for now, I felt that the next battle against the Demon King's Army would definitely come home alive.

No, I meant it better than I did, but I came to think of it stronger.

"Apparently, you've spoken for a long time. It will be early tomorrow. You can go back to your room."

... You didn't feel like it was a long story.

I was listening, so I feel it in no time.

Following Rose's words, he tries to leave the captain's office after he stands up and bows his head, but before that he remembers something, he can be stopped.

"No, wait, there was one thing I wanted to leave to you."

"Yes? What is it?"

What do you want me to do? As deputy commander?

When in doubt, Rose with her arms opens her mouth.

"It's about the ferm."

Ferm.

A demonic girl who was once a black knight who stood up as our enemy.

Such a girlfriend is now part of the life-saving corps, but that girl's position remains unstable.

That's why when Ferm's name came out of Rose's mouth, he somehow understood what he would be entrusted with, even though he was angry.