20 Twenty Stories: The Must Avenge

The day after there was a duel.

Since then, Zeke hasn't been able to reach us like he promised.

Winning or losing a duel would have been cleaned up by the fact that it was "cancelled due to an accident" and Sieg's honor would not have been damaged. The students of the general discipline saw this duel and fought, "The nobles will bring out military magic equipment if they want to," and the students of the hero discipline were satisfied with the way it was going.

The lump turned out to stay, but now maybe this is a good idea.

Poor denigration of the status of the family of heroes creates a great deal of backlash.

The grooves between the two disciplines should be filled gradually.

At least since then, Sieg has not been involved in discrimination against the general practitioner. I'm grown up as if I were someone else.

The other students may not have noticed, but what we in general got in this duel was certainly there.

First, the school regained its routine.

Lunch break that day. I was just about to head to the dining room with Gran, and I noticed that there was Elisia in the courtyard.

See how she is, and I'll speak to Gran.

"Gran, I just remembered a few errands, so go ahead."

"Yes.... Wait. You're not gonna let me take your seat again and dairy you with your beautiful sister."

"So that's a misunderstanding"

Denying Gran's bastard reckoning, I'm headed for the courtyard alone.

Elysia was sitting alone on the bench in the courtyard. There are no people beside me.

She says she's on lunch break, but she doesn't look like she's eating anything, and she's drooling.

"Elysia, what's wrong"

"...... Too Eight"

Elysia turns around slowly.

In those eyes, I didn't have the usual strength.

"Did Zeke do something to you?"

"... not like that."

Elysia drops her gaze and says:

I sat down next to it.

"I think there's something easier to talk about."

"... you're sweet"

"I can't fool around with the effect of counseling. I used to have periods of mental instability, but every time I held it back with counseling by someone close to me."

"Hmm...... who was close to it, who was coming in front of the school yesterday?

"Well, roughly so"

"Phew."

Apparently, with our current exchange, we're back on track just a little bit.

It was a stabbing voice "Phew," but it's much better than a voice that's going to disappear.

"Zeke called that duel vengeance."

In a small voice, Elisia told.

"... with that said, you said that"

"What does Tweet think about revenge?

On that question, I turned my eyes round.

"Is that what you're asking about revenge?

"Yeah.... do you think Too Eight is stupid for revenge?

Perhaps that was the problem that Elysia is having right now.

Why do you have such a problem? I don't know how.

But what she's looking for here, I'm sure, is not a world-famous word, but my own frank answer.

"... no, it's not"

Is revenge an absurd act?

In response to that question, I returned a denial.

"The goal of vengeance is, at times, a reason to live. It is a common story that those who have been deprived of their precious existence and endured unbearable suffering will survive their vengeance on food. The world may see its living as distorted... but there are also people in the world who cannot live without distortion"

During the Great War, there were also several soldiers in the institution who turned into vengeful ghosts.

Their suffering was spectacular. There is no way that a lover, a wife, a child, a friend - or whoever has been deprived of all of them - can live like before.

Vengeance may be close to survival instincts.

A man who gains unbearable suffering defends himself with vengeance before becoming an abolitionist.

"Besides, revenge can also be a deterrent to strife. If the two fear retaliation, there will be no dispute in the first place"

Wars in various countries are often contained by it.

We boast of each other's use of force in order to clearly communicate the risk of retaliation.

"... in short, you do not deny revenge?

"Broadly."

To my vague reply, Elisia said, "What do you mean?," he tilted his neck.

"Often, people who plot revenge tend to be captured by ruinous ideas. I don't think about anything after revenge. I even think you can die now."

"... you need to think about later? Because revenge is the goal of life for that person."

"Vengeance is the task of reclaiming what we have lost. Even if it materializes, the downside just returns to zero, which is not positive. When it comes to positive days ahead, don't you think it's too lonely an end to brace your life along the way?

"It's..."

Colleagues in the institution also survived revenge in food and died in battle.

The person died at the same time as achieving revenge. The will was just a word, "vain". - Naturally. Vengeance is the task of retrieving, not of getting something new.

"In that regard, I can say that Zeke's revenge was productive. If I were defeated in that duel, in the future, hero students would have been more forgiving than ever. Using aristocratic power, we can also fabricate the reasons for the duel. There was no justification for that revenge, but for those in power, justification is as much to follow."

Elysia looked mildly surprised that I admired Sieg.

It's only a matter of vengeance. I'm not saying that everything Zeke does is complimentary.

"I mean, if you're gonna do it, it's productive revenge"

state your own thoughts, then glance at Elisia's expression.

I asked her how she was thinking deeply.

"... Elysia. Who are you after (...)?"

In response to that question, Elisia answered with a crop grin.

"Nothing, that's not what I want to do. But, well, yeah.... I'll remember what you said, for once (...)"

That being said, Elisia rose off the bench and turned her heels back.

- Do you remember the liver?

That's, obviously, a dialogue that wouldn't come out if you weren't thinking about revenge.

"That's hard... the crowd routine."

The battlefield has a battlefield obstacle, and everyday obstacle.

After a deep sigh, I headed to the dining room where Gran was waiting.

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Even though I was aware of Elysia's anomaly at this time, I didn't try to get in deep.

Because somewhere in my mind I bracketed high that it would be resolved over time.

But it wasn't.

I should have stopped Elicia from walking away and discussed it a little more seriously.

Growing up in abnormality, I'm not familiar with everyday brittleness.

I was immediately reminded that the routine turns into an anomaly at a normal moment.