168 Episode XVI: The New Brave and the Jeweled Princess ①

SIDE: kite

'Your mission is to defeat the prosperity of mankind and the messenger of the Evil God. I asked for a few more deadlines.

Humanity's prosperity? Evil god messenger?

"... What is this place?

When I realized, I was sleeping in a strange room.

I woke up my torso, confused by the hard stone floor.

"Where am I?

While exploring my memories until I lost my mind, I tried to look around every corner of the room... and immediately rubbed my eyes.

Isn't that a dream mistake? As much as I thought, it was overflowing with a different sight.

It's going to appear in picture books and history textbooks...... surrounded by a group of outfits that looked like they were worn in Europe hundreds of years ago, and there was a surprising portrayal of things around the floor I slept on that I didn't know were meaningless letters or symbols at all.

And most of all, I was surprised... when I saw a girl kneeling in front of me, meditating on my eyes and praying with both hands together.

In a bright red dress, a beautiful blonde girl.

No, is this more right for love at first sight than surprise?

The way you prayed was so beautiful and so beautiful.

"Ooh."

"We made it."

"Now the future of the kingdom is bright."

"King, you did it."

When I was seen by the beautiful girl in front of me, it turned and suddenly became noisy that I had been quiet until just now.

And then a fat old man with plenty of money and thin, thin hair with a black collar walked this way.

"Elaine, thank you. You can go back now."

"Ok......"

A fat man talked to me plenty, a beautiful girl opened her eyes, raised her face...... and...... my eyes met mine.

We stared at each other quietly, saying nothing, changing nothing's expression.

The girl's eyes were crisp besides, and she added a little coolness to my image of beauty, beauty.

"What's wrong?

"Yes, no, then I'm with this"

When the thin-headed man, worried that the girl would not move, spoke, the girl slipped back haphazardly.

And the two old men came right in front of me to take it with the girl and change.

"Nice to meet you. May I ask your name?

"Hey, is that a name? I'm Kite."

"Is it Master Kite? My name is Ramlos Beckman and I am the Prime Minister of this country. This is the king of this country, His Majesty the Krehlhunts."

"Hi, nice to meet you?

What the fuck? I don't know what that means. Saishaw? King? Words make sense for some reason, but I have no idea what you're talking about.

Sure, this guy over here, he looks great, but if you look at him without it, he'll just look like an old man around there, right?

"I don't care about introducing myself or anything. Ramross, put a collar on that man."

The king and the introduced old man gave orders to Saishaw's old man in a great way.

"Yes. Now if you'll excuse me."

"Huh?"

When I suddenly thought Saishaw's old man had taken his hand to my neck, he wore a hard collar.

When I hacked and tried to touch the collar to remove it, they caught my hand.

"This is what you need to live in this world. Never take it. Be sure to wear it all the time, right?

"Huh? Oh really... yes"

I couldn't make the right decision on my head anymore, which flattened me to a glaring amount of information, and I was convinced that was the case.

"Well, then, you work hard for the development of this country."

Work well? What are you talking about? What about this guy?

With that in mind, the king began to walk satisfactorily towards the door.

"Hey? Huh? No further explanation?

Where do you think this is? I wonder why I'm here. I need to ask you a question!!

"Is that a detailed explanation? Right...... Princess, can you tell me about this world to Master Kate?

An old man stopped at my word, thought about it a little and then laughed niggly and said that with his eyes on the girl earlier.

Princess? Huh? Are you a princess? It's beautiful in the street.

"Right. Elaine, I asked for it."

"Yes......"

The princess responding to the king's words is faceless, but she felt somewhere unsatisfied.

"I asked for it."

That's all I said, the kings have left the room.

If it's true, I wanted you guys to explain it to me the greatest.

I turned my attention to the princess, whining in my heart about such dissatisfaction.

……

……

Huh? Tell me something. I don't understand this situation at all, do I?

The princess opened her mouth to see if that made sense.

It's just...

"Well, here it is, then"

That was just one word.

"Yes..."

Then the princess showed me to the lavish room.

Even if I look at the amateur, it looks expensive, and the ornaments are decorated on one side of the wall.

That's a very uncomfortable room...

With that in mind, I pinched my desk and sat in the seat across from the princess.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Elemenane Alber. Please call me Elaine."

"Uh... me, no, I'm Kaito Emi... no, I'm Kate Emi. Please call me Kite."

In response to the princess's polite words, I've been a cool response.

So, because if you suddenly try to use a tribute you don't normally use, this is what happens, right?

"You don't have to force me to use respectful language, do you?

The princess offered me too much respect.

"Uh... then. Usually, you don't have to use respectful language... Elaine, no respect, please."

"Usually, don't you use salutations? What do you mean...? Could it be that you, no, Master Kite, were a well-known nobleman in the original world?

Hmm? Oh, there's a king in this country, so there's nobility or something?

"No, I'm not. Common people of common people. Well, there wasn't nobility or anything in the original world. So let's talk casually without saluting or something. No, princess, you're dealing with me, so I have to use more respect."

Well, even in the previous world, there were people who really had to use respectful language for teachers and stuff.

For a long time, you've been forgiven for talking casually.

"You don't have to worry about me being a princess. You are a brave man from today on. Brave men are officially the greatest in this country, aren't they?

Formally? Well, no. More than that.

"Master Brave? Brave men come out of that story?

Kindergarten kids or something like that coming out of a picture book you're going to read?

"Huh? Is there a tale of the brave in your world, too?

"Well, I guess there is... Something about going to help a princess captured by a dragon?

I made up the story of the right brave man, relying on his memories.

Probably a lot of stories like this if you look around the world, right?

Me, you don't know because I don't usually read books or anything other than textbooks.

"Well... you have dragons and stuff in your world too"

"Huh? Wait a minute. What do you mean there's a dragon in your world, too? Is there a dragon in this world?

I mean, like a time slip, but you got caught up in it? Like, I expected it on my own, but I seriously came to a different world?

"Huh? You're not here? It's rare in this world, but it is. There's a big mountain range all the way east, and a lot of dragons live there."

"Wow... that mountain looks so dangerous"

And hearing this story confirmed that this is not Earth.

Me, how did I end up in a world like this... I'm more convinced that someone is forcing me to have this hell of a dream or something.

"It's not dangerous. Humans have never been able to defeat dragons, have they? Even the brave men of our predecessors who defeated the Demon King finally managed to chase back the lost dragon."

"Heh... you had a previous generation of brave men or something. More than that, what do you mean, a dragon stronger than a demon king? Are you some kind of back boss who comes out after the game? I don't like it... if I can't defeat the dragon, I can't go home."

I wonder how the brave men of earlier generations got back to their original world?

"What are you talking about? You can't go home now, can you?

"Huh?"

What did you just say?

"So you have to stay in this world until you die."

Until you die... in this world... you have to be there?

"Ho, are you serious?

"I mean it. Now, the brave men of my predecessors made it all the way to their grandchildren and died after they became grandfathers."

"That's right..."

That seemed like a happy life......

I just don't think such a future exists for me.

"Hey, is your world such a disappointment if they bring you here?

"Well, I guess. Maybe three or four hundred years in a world where civilization has progressed."

I feel like I saw it, I feel like the lights don't seem to go through, I feel like I saw the outfit of people in this world, and it's lightly 300 years or so, right?

You can't be happy to be told to live your whole life in a world like that today.

"Four hundred years...... so the gem here is the world over there isn't?

"That's not true. Gems are rare and expensive in that world. Probably never would have been surrounded by these amazing jewels if we'd gone on living our normal lives over there."

You're gonna have to go to some museum or something, aren't you? Well, I'm not interested in museums or anything, and it wouldn't have been an exaggeration to say it all my life.

"Oh, yes..."

"Still, that's amazing. If you want to collect all this, you need money that seems like you can live a life where you can play and live more than ten times. Is this what the royal family has been collecting for generations?

You're decorating this room for generations with offerings from the people and stuff you've got?

"No, what's in this room is what I've collected over the last few years."

Huh? Elaine did? In a few years?

It's a joke, isn't it? It's a joke to make me laugh, isn't it?

"Huh? Is it okay to spend that much money?

If it's true... is Elaine's country moist enough to be okay with buying this much gem?

"Yes, it's okay. Because I'm the princess of this country."

No, that's not what...

"Yeah... well, I don't know anything about this country yet, and I'm not gonna say anything extra"

If you pry any further and piss Elaine off, you won't gain anything.

"That's right. Do that. More than that, isn't there something you'd like to know?

"It was. Hey, what did I get called up for? Should I defeat even the Demon King?

I have a lot to ask, but I guess this is it first.

Seriously, I want to know what purpose I was brought into this world.

"No, I'm not. The Demon King was defeated about fifty years ago."

"So what do you do? When I came over here, I thought they told me to defeat the messenger of human prosperity and evil gods, should I do that?

Before I woke up over here, I had this feeling like my voice was being released and mixed up in a direct prefix...

"Oh, yeah. You are invited to participate in the war against the Vector Empire of the neighbouring country, where the Evil God's Messenger is located. Defeat the Evil God's Messenger!

Hmm? Why are you so wolfish? Is there something wrong with you?

Shall we explore it for a moment?

"War? Besides, between people?

"Oh, yeah."

"Eh. I don't like killing people."

Because this is serious, right?

"That's not what a man is saying. It's your mission to defeat the followers of the Evil God, isn't it?

Is that it? The evil god's 'messenger' is turning into a 'believer'.

After all, something's wrong.

"Yeah...... but how can war prosper mankind?

"Of course, right? If we win, the things in that country will be ours."

"But that's just Elaine's country, and who's the one who lost?

When you think about a losing country, does humanity as a whole have a dead man in war, or, rather, will it not be negative for humanity as a whole?

"Oh, that's... I don't know! It's worse to lose."

Yeah, pretty much got it.

I guess Elaine's country won the war and was called in to make a profit.

But...

"Sure, there's a saying that it's better to win, but that applies when we lose, right?

"So? We won't lose."

Ugh. What that confidence.

Sure, confidence is more important than anything... but there's nothing more scary than unfounded confidence, is there?

"... well, no. Either way, I'm going to have to go to that war in order for me to live here. So, how do I fight?

I don't seem to have a veto right anymore, and just think about surviving safely.

"Huh? Can a brave man defeat any opponent with a single sword?

"Huh?"

You read too much comics. No, there's no comics in this world?

"You're forced to do that. In the last world, I was a normal student, living an unrelated life of war and killing each other, right? I don't have any martial arts experience, and how am I supposed to survive with one sword?

Something's making me sad when I say it myself.

When the war starts, I'll be the first to die.

"And I don't know. No way... I didn't know brave men were so incompetent..."

Incompetence? Call it in from yourself, what are you talking about?

"I'm sorry you're incompetent. So, what are you gonna do with me for incompetence?

Oh, wait. I left it to the momentum of the word to stir it up, but you can't think about it!

It's the princess in front of you, isn't it? If you piss me off, you're going to have to hit me in the neck or something!

Yabe. I'm dying before I get to war.

"Right... I can't report incompetence to your father... right. Okay. Something might be asleep in you just because you haven't noticed. In the meantime, I'll put a sword teacher on you. I'll wait for you for a year. Be strong in the meantime."

"Even if they say so..."

I'm glad they don't have to kill me right now, but can you be strong in just one year?

"Fine! Just go to sleep today! Somebody, get Kite a room!

"Ha... I still had something to ask you..."

I gave up saying anything more to Elaine, and I was taken by a butler and honestly left the room.