419 356. The ineligible was told.

"Harrison, it's been six years since you joined the army as a recruit.... you know why you can't join the main unit, right?

At the time of his departure, he was also called out to the same person as usual.

Looking back, the person was there as expected. If you stop your legs and look back at each body, you still look back at me with the same look as usual. I have no choice but to answer the question of a person who is also far superior to me.

"... whatever. Deputy Clark Darwin.

... I know.

No matter who didn't tell me, I understood that a long time ago.

"As usual this year, he was disqualified in the first battle due to violations.... you don't want to join the main unit?

"... if you don't want that, you don't qualify as a recruit either.

Disqualification due to excessive assault.

Serious stupidity in knights.

Becoming a recruit at fourteen came true. But... I couldn't move on.

Winning battles between recruits that are exams. I couldn't bear for a recruit who should be a future knight to be easily played, surrendered and defeated my sword by me.

Why not more?

Why do you admit to losing to that extent?

Why did they think to go for a knight with that degree of arm?

My heart boiled back every time I saw a recruit who fell, frightened and gave up like no other before me.

Where are your "tips"? Do you think it would be satisfying to be a knight? Are you saying that if you get a medal or authority as a knight, that's where it ends?

I am, no.

"Then why do you do that every year? He said he knew it would disqualify him.

"... because I can't forgive you.

The only thing I can do is count the recruits at the time when I exchanged swords to allow them to exist, etc. Furthermore, only for the enlistment exams in the Corps could its existence be tolerated by about Alan Bernards.

To my answer the same as every year, Clark Darwin scratched his head like a little trouble. "Well..." he muttered, but he didn't seem convinced.

... This person will always speak to me after the exam from five years ago. I was wondering if there was a reason, if they said anything, if it was also a grudge.... but my answer remains the same.

Clark Darwin still pulls me off trying to get back to my quarters for recruits, if that's going to be enough.

"Harrison.... why did you want to be a knight?

"To be a protector.... I have nothing but violence.

When I realized it, I was in the lower echelons.

It was the overwhelming power that killed even the will to face my teeth that was everything.

That's all I could learn when I was subjected to violence by men I didn't know, exploited from my father, and always taken away.

Get special abilities, on the giving side from the receiving side of the violence. I turned myself into the one who takes it from the one who takes it from me.

It was at seven times that I saw the queues of knights coming out of battle and learned of the existence of "knights." sweep of the looters who attacked the countryside outside the city.... I was struck in the chest by their appearance.

It is the same exercise of "violence" as I am, but its appearance is dazzling and beautiful, … and the act of protecting and saving even weak people who have no money like me.

How beautiful it is to be able to wield it for the good of the country and for the good of the people.

"Violence" is not the same as "violence", which I only wield for myself.

Meaningful life and death are all there.

If a small being like me can be the basis for protecting a great being: a nation or a people. There is no happier life than this.

Seven years from then, I have brushed my sword arms only in self-study without a mentor. But...

"" Violent... "

To my words, Clark Darwin whines and exhales as he thinks. I don't need to be understood, but I don't exist anymore... except this way of life.

"Actually, you were on the agenda at the last captain's meeting.... whether to remove you from the recruit or not.

... If you notice, your thoughts disappeared white with your face up.

Suddenly I can't find anger or even objection.

It is not uncommon for recruits to be long-term. Few have been recruits for ten or more years. My recruiting period is not the problem, the problem is...

"The question arose as to whether to affiliate the Knights with those who are seriously wounded every year by acts of violence.

Words released without any say or starch pierced my heart as if it were a death sentence.

"As a result, if you are unable to enter the main unit again this year… on top of that, we have decided to remove the severely injured again.

I don't like it, I refuse.

I have lived only to be a knight since that day. There can be no other way of life.

Clark Darwin turned his face and laughed at me for being shocked and speechless.

"... you can even look like that.

... don't know what I looked like. However, despair and the feeling of being able to tighten my chest hurt me worse than I've ever felt before.

"... don't you like it? To be removed is.

"Naturally.......... that's all.

That's all.

The truth is... I'm also unhappy to be a recruit. If it was just strength, I was confident I was better than anyone else in the recruit.... That's why I can't forgive you. Far inferior to me, an elephant is half-willed to go for a knight, etc.

"Right.... Then come for a minute.

Roderick has clearance. That being said, Clark Darwin took me out was at the corner of the knights' stadium rendezvous.

"If you can beat me, I'll let you retain this year's removal disposition. If you lose, you'll do everything I say.

Using his special abilities, Clark Darwin put up his sword without even asking if I stood up.

I also beat the main squad knight in the entrance exam at the time. I don't know what Clark Darwin, the deputy head of the regiment, is capable of, but... I also thought this would be my last opportunity.

Perhaps it is to prevent me from rumbling around in the Knights and inflicting any more damage by refusing to remove them. But if we beat him here, I can be a recruit for at least another year.

"... winning or losing will one drop the sword or kneel, will it?

"I don't care if you admit to losing or not being able to fight.... think it's the last time and come with all your might.

If you notice, many knights were already gathered around to watch the game. Have you come to laugh at my end, or have you come to see Clark Darwin's skill? But it's convenient for me. This will not remove my statement no matter what I do with Clark Darwin. Because if we win, we will undo the removal and there will be so many of those living witnesses. And I...

... By the time I had no skin, I was defeated.

"... Now you're my winner.... you all right?

Clark Darwin hung up and put his hand on his back as he cared for me, falling to the ground and unable to move with his sword down.

But I can't even afford to return the word.

Complete defeat, I wonder if this is the strength of the Knights, … the Knights Deputy Commander. that I could only let him bathe a single knife, and yet I

For the first time since I woke up to this special ability, I was genuinely prepared to die.

"I'm sorry. I knew you were strong, so I really had to do it.

Clark Darwin calmly tells me that I would have died if I had lost my hand… The deputy commander asked me to carry him to the ambulance building on my own feet when he lent me his arm.

I was treated for special abilities and relieved in bed, the deputy chief told me.

"Remember the promise?... Can you protect it properly?

"............ Yes.

Really, I thought it was over.

But at the end of the day, he said he was just happy to have received the strength of this one.... it was when I tried to think so.

Then good, the deputy commander, who snorted and laughed calmly, went on to say this to me.

"Harrison Dirk, you will be enlisted in Squad Eight. And follow my instructions.

…⁉ ︎

I doubted my ears. If you force your body to move but turn to the deputy commander where the pain runs without a word, that dazzling grin was not like making a joke.

"I'll take care of you. Troop number eight is a combat unit allowed to make personal decisions. I'm sure it suits you, too.... and let me educate you so that you can at least behave as a fine knight.

You'll never forget the joy of being so trembling back then.

That guy's gratitude to the vice president won't disappear for life.

He said he could be a knight.

I was told to get rid of it, so I could change everything.

All the wound pain also disappeared. The sense of defeat and despair were all filled with hope.

I couldn't believe it, I couldn't ask, thank, or say anything, and the deputy chief laughed again.

"... you want to be? To the knight. You have talent and strength. And... as a knight, I also have a proper aspiration.

I put my hand on my head for every short hair I cut up messily with a knife and was stroked only once. I, already twenty years old, was treated as if I were a child.

"I will teach you how to turn" violence "into" power ". So follow me....... good?

There is only one answer.

The way I want to live, the way I am, the way I die.

"The only thing violent is giving me strength."

Because this one who beat me without my skin will give it to me.

I can be a knight.

When I swallowed up that fact again, my vision suddenly seeped. The deputy captain, who looks at me and laughs, says, "Just cry today. Tomorrow is the recital ceremony." and covered my sight with a cloth that was beside me.

"Get some rest. After the festivities, you'll be beaten harder than you are today."

Kuck, and the sign of the deputy captain retreated away with a throat-soaking laugh. I couldn't return any words, and in my covered vision, I kept overflowing without even knowing that joy and gratitude would linger.

Deputy Clark Darwin.

My savior.