222 ③ Interrogation (top)

"First, let us preach a word better than Marquis Marquis Marstein of Genos. … In welcoming this meeting, the Marquis was stated to clear up two doubts"

Cycleus puts up his index finger "one first" dressed to show us the back of his hand.

"How much punishment is needed for the Sung family humans who have committed the great sin of vandalizing the grace of the Morga Forest, to bore it in the light of the laws of Genos..."

The Zulo-Sung seven had listened to Cycleus without proper attention.

Zulo-Sung is nagging, Diga and Dodd have a bewildered look at the first aristocratic hall they've stepped into, Yamir-Ray and Oura are faceless, Zwei are on the top of Buddha - and Mida is, as ever, a pompous face.

"And two," said Cycleus, raising his middle finger.

"It is the words of the Marquis to bore the identity and purpose of Asta of the house of Fa, an emigrant people named after his family by the woods… we cannot overlook these two points alone,"

"Well, does our suspicion that Count Turan is truly innocent talk to the Marquis of Genos?"

Unpleasantly, Dari-Sauti said.

Cycleus laughs at it.

"There is no guide, chief by the woods. I'm thinking that all those stories are connected to one another. When we leave this seat today, there will be true understanding and empathy between us."

"At that time, we'll be offering our unstinting thanks to the forest and to the Western gods."

Dari-Sutty shrugs her thick shoulders.

Cycleus slowly moved his gaze.

Bare the Zuro-Sung and their eyes will be fixed under me.

"Now let us begin the interrogation with the Asta of the house of Pha..."

I turned my back and took Cycleus' gaze from the front.

"Asta at Fa's house, my daughter was going to make a terrible mistake the other day... but ironically, that's how her qualities became known to us. They are not the sons of Ameshorn, the children of these four great gods, and they are the people of the migratory kingdom... so there is no difference, is there?

"Yes, I don't remember calling myself an emigrant people, but it's true that I wasn't born on this continent"

"Hmmm... Indeed, it would be difficult for a migrant people to name themselves a migrant people.... Then should we also call this place the people of the Dragon God, according to their fashion?

"The people of Dragon God - are you?

"The migrating people worship the dragon god the ruler of the sea... so the migrating people call themselves the son of the dragon god, the dragon god people?

Such a name is the first ear.

This place will have to tell the truth.

I pull myself together and sit back in an uncomfortable chair.

"I was born in an island country that is not this continent, but I don't remember worshipping something called Dragon God, nor am I aware that I am the Son of that God. In that sense, maybe I'm not even a migrant."

"Not an emigrant people... no?

Cycleus' little eyes burned like a shade of fire.

Instead, Silhouel said, "What a fool!" and whisper.

"All that comes from outside the sea is an emigrant people, the people of the Dragon God! Don't think you can take us for such a treat, kid!

"No, I'm not trying to do anything"

"Hmm! I hear that the emigrants will make their roots similar to the people of Mahydra's! The legacy remains that the people of Mahdra, who abandoned the continent, became the sons of the Dragon God in his ancient days! Therefore, the emigrants only tried to enter into trade with Mahdra or Sim! If you are a Mahdra bloodline, so are the enemies of uncertainty to us, such as the emigrants!

Really? I was supposed to hold my mouth.

Even more so, I have to show my innocence.

but sooner than I could come up with any objection, Cycleus suddenly took control of my brother.

"But... as its legacy suggests, I hear that the emigrants look like many of them are the people of Mahdra. A barbarian with golden hair, purple eyes, red burnt skin… that is the figure of an emigrant people who tells the story"

That's how Cycleus' adhesive gaze turns me around.

"But when they are the people of Sim, they have black eyes and hair, and the colour of their skin is the people of the west... does that mean... that they are not the people of the Dragon God, the truth...?

"Yes, I was born in an island country called Japan, and I don't think its people were ever called the Son of the Dragon God"

"Ho ho... where the hell does that island country and I exist...?

"I don't even know that. I was thrown out in the middle of this continent, not knowing what I wanted."

As I answered, I was just wondering how Cycleus was doing.

He rides himself out looking a little excited, glaring at both eyes in a strange way. It's kind of - innocent as a toddler who discovers an unknown toy, and yet looks creepy.

"You said something I don't understand again! This Genos is situated in the middle of a continent far away from every sea? Blood muscles Without having to get rid of this, people outside the ocean and so on are just wandering around in places like this, which is suspicious! End of the line, I didn't come of my own free will, etc. - It's like you're disclosing that you've got some evil plan and you're hiding it, kid!

Silhouette has always been at the same pace.

Somehow, it is a gesture reminiscent of Digga and Dodd before he lost his leg.

A human being who cannot control his emotions has strong power and an enlarged ego. Atmospherically he is a small villain, but this should not have seemed more dangerous and troublesome opponent than Digga or Dodd once was.

"There is no such thing as an evil plan. When I realized, I was down in the Morga woods - and I was saved there by the head of this fa's house, Ai-Fa. So I couldn't even find a way back to my hometown, so I made the decision to live as a family by the woods."

While I was careful not to excite Silel, I still gave him my best and fortitude to return the words.

"Will that be a sin of some sort? I was born outside the sea, but I hope to live as a forest folk. If the people of Moribe are the sons of Selva, the Western god, I hope to have a new life as Selva's son, too."

"... abandon your God and be the son of Selva," he said...?

"Yes, that's all I'm prepared for. I'm going to come to this place."

Cycleus pulled himself back and turned his gaze back to an old man named Zaylus as he deposited his body on his back.

"I don't know, Lord Zailas... is it possible for the people of the crossing to be the sons of Selva...?

"Right. Since there is no precedent for this, it seems that there is no other way to ask the opinion of the chief priests, divine consecrators, etc."

With an emotionless voice, the old man responded that way.

Unlike Mel Fried, it is like being forced to push and kill emotions.

"Then there is nothing else to wait for the word of the chief priests on the matter… Asta of the house of Pha, for whom there is one serious suspicion"

"Serious suspicion?

"Hmmm... that's more of a suspicion that he's looking to conspire with that Camua-Josh disobedient to break the relationship between Genos and the people of the woods"

"What's stupid," Ey-Fa said low and abandoned.

A blue flame burns up in his eyes.

"Count Turan. I've been living with Asta for the past few months. I am the best at not having such an evil heart in Asta. For me like that, your words are nothing more than insulting words to myself"

"Would it...? No matter how much time you spend with it, it's hard to know the mood of others to the point of blurring...?

"Asta is no one else. My family."

That's what Ai-Fa said low, burning only those eyes violently.

"Asta will never betray me. Unless you believe it is, you will never recognize an exotic Asta as a family member. … I would like you to undo your remarks."

"From me too, let me make a statement"

And, Gazran-Rutim also speaks quietly.

"When Asta asked us to help her try doing business in the lodging town, Luu's parent Donda-Lu also had concerns about that. Therefore, Donda-Lou made a condition. If Asta was conspiring with Camua-Josh to devise some kind of lenient plan, he said he would take his right arm. … so Asta hasn't lost her right arm yet is proof that he won Donda-Lou's trust"

"Hmm..."

"There are also many people opposed to Asta's commerce in forestside settlements. But there will be no such person as one who suspects that Asta is conspiring with the people of the capital. It seems that your words are insulting and profane not only of Asta and Ai-Fa, but of all the people by the woods."

"I see... but unfortunately, there is no material anywhere for us to believe in the word of the man named Asta, young hunter by the woods"

I'm sorry, Cycleus said so.

"It's Asta from Fa's house. I hear it was the 14th of the Green Moon that first appeared in the Inn Town of Genos... any difference?

"Yeah? I don't remember until the date, but I think it was only about two months ago"

"There was a record in the lodging town jar. Would they have made a scene that day with the Sung family's second brother in the whole town, and saved it by a man named Camua-Josh?

Dodd shivers his shoulders with a tingle.

"Then less than half a month later, those began to commercialize stalls in the boarding town, bringing grace to the houses of Fa and Luu... plus six months later, the sins of the Sung family were uncovered, disqualifying them as chiefly muscles... Is it all coincidence that this sort of thing continued?

"Coincidence or... I tried, didn't I? Sure, it was Camua-Josh who gave me the idea of doing business in Accommodation Town, but that's all. As you know, he was told later that he had planned to uncover the old evils of the Sung family with Melfried, so that he wouldn't break the edge of the woodland people and the boarding town, so he recommended business to me."

"Hmmm...... but is it they or the Lew family who first uncovered the sins of the Sung family? It must have been after that that Camua-Josh's plan came to fruition"

Cycleus smiles so strangely.

It is a creepy grin that made Gazran-Rutim say "like Mundt".

"Camua-Josh manipulated Lord Melfried, each of the people by the woods, to break the Sung family's legs... from the beginning, is that why he impersonated the family by the woods...?

"What kind of manipulation is that," Ai-Fa said again, burning her eyes, "What an eye-catching woman!," Silhouel turned.

But Cycleus' grin won't go away.

"It is better to think of it that way, how sincerely it falls... to Asta of Fa's house, Kamua-Josh, after these two names appeared in the lodging town, the Sung family lost their legs within a month and a while. If both names were involved in that leg loss, it would be more unnatural to clean it up by chance......?

"So you're talking about how you lost the Sung family to bring discord between Genos and the woodland. But what good would it do us to do that?

"The other is a people of emigration, Kamua-Josh is a mixed race with Mahdra... would it take more than that to bring disaster to the kingdom of the west, etc?

As much as it no longer had a physical mass, the voice of Cycleus was twisted.

"And also... in addition to that, in the territory of my Turan, I serve a large number of the people of Mahydra as slaves. Therefore, there may be the aspect that people who have roots in mahydra buy resentment..."

"But as I told you earlier, I am not a dragon god's people, I have nothing to do with Mahdra. There's no reason to bring disaster to the West Kingdom."

"An emigrant people is, in general, a people of the Dragon God. Sure, they have a style that I don't even think of as the people of the Dragon God, but I can't say no without it being the people of the Dragon God."

It was entirely out of calculation that an emigrant people was a clan close to Mahdra.

But even if I reveal that I was not born on this continent, the people of Genos have not been particularly hostile. So perhaps it is only one myth that the emigrant people are the blood of Mahdra, and the words of Cycleus are only words.

But how the hell am I supposed to argue with this?

Seriously, I never thought it would be very difficult to prove myself because I was in a fighting relationship with Camua-Josh.

"As a cook, I hear you have quite the skill... so you succeeded in your business in the lodging town, first of all by bringing great wealth to the houses of Fa and Lu, a stepping stone to trust... I wonder if not, Asta in the house of Fa...?

"No. I just wanted to bring richer riches to the forestside settlements than ever before. I thought it might be a shame for an exotic person like myself to want that, but I could still hear the words of Ai-Fa and Gazran-Rutim and finally make a decision with it."

Everything is my truth.

But the signs that it was reaching the hearts of Cycleus and others were not felt fine dust either.

Naturally.

I'm sure the truth doesn't matter to these people.

Or I guess we're only going to admit it as true if it's convenient for us.

How vain it is to hit a human being who doesn't even intend to put his heart together from the start - I had to do everything in my power to twist the voidness that fills my chest.

So while I was looking for new words, there were people who spoke.

"... Sir Cycleus, what the hell does that mean to get rid of such a thing?

It is Mel Fried.

"Even if a man named Asta in this house of Fa were a compatriot of Camua-Josh, whose purpose was in Nabe, it would be irrelevant to me. Whatever it is, it doesn't make any difference that the Sung family members were guilty of a great crime, nor does it change the fact that you and Lord Shiruel are under similar suspicion."

"Much, it makes sense… and I think"

Hand controlled Silhouel trying to stir something up, said Cycleus.

"Sure, the Sung family was guilty of a major crime... but the only thing that proved it was that both Zazz-Sun and Tay-Sung attacked your lords dressed as chambers of commerce and... all you have to do is, they were attacking chambers of commerce about ten years ago, at best?

"Wait. Other times, the Sung family was ravaging Morga's grace. That's why Zulo-Sung waited for his judgment as a sinner."

Dari-Sautti says the words sharply.

Cycleus grinned as he turned to you.

"We didn't actually see the scene… we just didn't believe your words, which you insist on."

"You think we're trying to plunge the Sung family for a sin we haven't?

Dari-Sautti's voice cracks into passion.

He is usually a warm, rustic character, but when he is relative to a person in the capital, he also seems to make a lot of hot blood noise.

But still, as a forest folk, he is an exceptionally intelligent type, so he, along with Gazran-Rutim, is the negotiator.

"It is hard to imagine that all of you are uttering falsehoods... but it is only if you are a people by a noble forest that you will undeniably be in danger of being left hanging by the people of the capital"

"So I was hanging out with the Sung people..."

"Aren't you hanging out with Asta and Camua-Josh and others in Fa's house, the chiefs by the woods?

Whispering Dari-Sauti's words, Cycleus said so.

"Surely the Sung family may have been vandalizing Morga's grace... but who was it who uncovered the sin? On the day of the Parents' Meeting, you said that Asta's words in Fa's house inspired the revelation of his sins."

"Exactly. Asta was playing her turn, so I could realize that fact faster than anyone else. Nothing's funny."

"Then you would have thanked Asta of Fa's house. The Sung family has been breaking the forest code for over a decade..."

"If you thank me, what are you saying?

At last, tranquillity is lost from the voice of Dari-Sauti.

Cycleus smiled, turning it upside down.

"I wonder if that was the ploy of Asta in Fa's house...... Camua-Josh and Asta in Fa's house won the trust of Lord Melfrid and the people by the woods by uncovering the sins of the Sung family. Since then, we have now sought to bring further chaos to Genos by placing the unforeseeable sins on the Sung family and us."

"I see. So you're claiming that all the Sung family was committing was vandalizing Morga's grace and attacking the Chamber of Commerce, and everything else is Camua-Josh's argument,"

Gazran-Rutim responded with an unsettled voice.

"That's what you say when it comes to attacking a mission from a town called Banaam, or killing the head of a protective militia - and impersonating those sins into bandits you become the" Red Beard Party, "it's all just a Camua-Josh argument, isn't it, Cycleus?"

"Exactly, young hunter by the woods. Camua-Josh plotted to convince the other half of the lie by putting half the truth into the words.... what a nasty M.O."

Cycleus put his hands together over his lean belly and went on like that in a really fuzzy tone.

"That man is a mixture of Mahdra and Selva... then he would have deliberately spent an unfair half of his life in Selva and hated Selva for what he could have put himself in a shim, jagal, etc. with no evil connection... sympathy cannot be forbidden to the people and Lord Melfried by the woods who have been caught up in the evil of such a man"

"... you really want to discredit us as wicked people, Cycleus."

At last, Graf-Zaza said in his voice at the bottom.

"From the beginning, we didn't think of a foreigner like Camua-Josh as an ally. But because I felt enough for him to believe in his words, I'm relative to you to determine their authenticity, Cycleus."

"So...? I wonder how much legitimacy exists in that mood, believing only in the words of Camua-Josh as true and doubting my words as false......?

Saying, Cycleus turned his gaze toward Zulo-Sung.

"Zuro-Sung... the former forest chief..."

Zulo-Sung looks up to Cycleus with a vain eye.

"Twenty years and more have already passed since I was entrusted with a mediator with my Moribe chief. The first ten years are Zazz-Sung and the next ten years are me who have been connected to you... because I am such a person, there exists something called the visible truth"

…………

"Zazz-Sung was a man like a chunk of ambition. I was also in danger that the fangs of ambition would soon be directed at Genos... but I never felt the same ambition or evil from you as my father."

…………

"You may indeed have led Sung's blood family in the wrong direction... but weren't you just following the path suggested to Zazz-Sun again? If so, it must not seem pitiful to me that only you will be treated as a sinner..."

"If it's pity, what is it?"

Graf-Zaza speaks irritably.

"Such questions are also exchanged in forestside settlements. Still, the sin of overthrowing the giva hunting job for more than a decade and roughing up Morga's grace is heavy. … In addition to that, many died in Sung's settlements while rotting their souls in despair"

"Well... it is the judgment of the people by the woods to hold Zuro-Sung alone to account for that sin...?

"Zulo-Sung was also the head of Sung's main family at the same time as he was a chief. Zazz-Sung had already left the seat of his parents, so the sins of the last ten years are borne by Zulo-Sung."

Graf-Zaza's eyes are burning badly.

It should be this graph-zaza that was once a family member that had the thickest edge with its Zuro-Sung.

It is the Sung family and the Zaza family that have long overlaid the edge of blood. I can't measure what Graf-Zaza's mood is like when he has to impeach the head of the pro-sung family.

But Cycleus only mocked such a mood unknowingly.

"Hmm... How pitiful, as you put it, there can be no impunity for Zuro-Sung.... but if you were hanging out with outside people, I wonder if things would be different again...?

"... are you still going to insist that Asta or Camua-Josh in Fa's house are hanging out with us?

"Um... if you're not comfortable, I'd like you to share your opinion with Lord Zaylus, the Magistrate of Genos, from a fair standpoint..."

And Cycleus' eyes look at the old man again.

Instead of Melfried, Zaylus looks annoyed.

"Lord Zairas... I guess Zulo-Sung, who tried to lead the people down the wrong path, will still need a proper trial?

"Ha... If a person in the position that he was a chief and parent was strong on others to break the law or the code, it would be a great sin"

"So will those families also need to be judged...? It seems that the families of Zulo-Sung were punished for taking away Mr. Sung and becoming family members of other families..."

"I don't suppose that would be an act consistent with the laws of Genos."

In a voice that killed emotions, Zailas said so.

"By the woods, we hear that it is the parents who unite their families. Then even the family would not have appreciated the words of their parents. If there's no sin on the people in the branch, then there's no sin on the six of them."

"I am not saying that the people in the branch are not guilty. For them, we believe it is the path of redemption to live righteously as a people by the woods"

Gazran-Rutim speaks quietly.

"And so are these six who were Sung main house. They were, more or less, badly affected by Zazz-Sung. We thought they needed to abandon Mr. Sung, even if it meant lifting him from the curse."

"Hmm... and you also took away your qualifications as a chieftaincy from the Sung family, right?

Cycleus laughs as he finally shines both eyes on his flashes.

"One of the things I can't be good at… even more so if outside human thoughts are hidden there"

"Asta's presence is not involved in the measure. Sure, Asta's presence was important in uncovering the sins of the Sung family, but it was the will of all the parents who were gathered at the Parents' Conference that set the course after that"

"But if losing the Sung family was part of the conspiracy, would the story change? Now you are going to slander me in the mouth of Kamua-Josh and the others after that. … how far can we trust you, who were elected as chieftaincy muscles after such a plot… to me, it has become questionable."

In the hall, silence often fell.

With what argument Cycleus is trying to escape sin, the handbill seems a lot more visible.

Some things were within the assumptions, others were unexpected.

Where should we start by chopping off - that voice lifted while the chiefs quietly burned their eyes and thought.

"So... what the hell are you going to do if the current Trinity Chiefs don't trust you? You think you're gonna give the Sung family another seat in the clan?

A voice containing a cold laugh - the voice of Yamil-Ray - smashed the silence on the spot first.