Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

Suburb of Pindos.

I watched Ortier and I watching the red leaves in the wind.

"Beautiful..."

Ortier looked unusual and impressed by the red leaves.

"Thank you Hermes, it's good to see this"

"A lifetime favor, have you?

"Yeah! Thanks so much!

Ortier's smile was her usual unyielding bright smile.

When I went to the whorehouse, they said "A lifetime favor" again, and all I wanted to do was figure it out but see the red leaves, so I brought them here.

It wasn't a lot of effort, and it was good to see that little Ortier smile.

That's how, watching the red leaves with Ortier - the senseless sound has broken into the world of the two of us.

It's the sound of a horse's hoof, and not on a level like one or two.

Turning to the sound, a dozen heads are at a level that is light, causing smoke from across the horizon to come this way.

"Hey, what is that?"

"Hide behind me."

"Yeah."

Hide Ortier on his back and leave long ago.

I thought something was wrong, but the guys on the horse are passing us by.

Sounds like we're not looking for each other.

"Oh. But I was changing my blood phase. Is something wrong?

"I wonder"

As Ortier and I twisted their heads, one of the groups of horses that was at the rear suddenly stopped.

With that, a few of the previous ones, the guy on board pulled the reins and stopped with the horse.

The rear-end, bearded big man stared at us.

"Is that your lover? Or a whore and a guest?

"That's the place"

"Right... dude, do your horses to these guys"

The bearded man told another man.

The man I was told looked in trouble.

"But. If you do the horse..."

"You idiot!

The bearded man yelled out loud.

Pretty powerful, and the Ortier behind me freaked out.

"Have you forgotten your brother's teachings!

"Heh, heh!

The yelled man hacked, jumped off the horse and pulled the horse's reins toward us.

"You can use this. You can ride."

"... what do you mean?

"Get on with it and run, okay?"

That's what the bearded man told me, pulled the reins and ran the horse.

Another man who gave us a horse jumped on his buddy's horse and left in the same way for two.

We got horses, we dropped them off.

"What's wrong with you?"

"... evil will come"

Behind - I saw where the men came running. That's what I said.

Beyond the horizon, something quite evil comes to mind.

"What's evil, monster?

"Oh, and then it looks like he's running away"

"But why are you giving us horses?

"Why don't you go after him and ask him?"

"Yeah!"

Though a whore with no combat skills, Ortier was more winning in curiosity than the fear he would normally have had.

Ride a horse with such an Ortier and chase the men.

It's a pretty good horse you gave me, running like a wind cut for both of us.

Immediately, I caught up with the men.

"Hey."

"Don't come over here, you'll get caught up in this"

Getting caught up in this? What do you mean?

No, more than that.

"Why did you give us horses?"

"You guys, you look like bandits or something."

Ortier, who turned his arm around my waist, asked.

They say, "Why do bandits help people?"

"Our brother, the teacher of the man who was the boss of this regiment. I steal and take, but I don't kill people. If anyone's about to get killed, I'll help. That's our policy."

"Ho."

It was me who was strangely impressed.

No, can I say I'm impressed? This.

I'm pretty sure they're not like the average bandits.

"The brother was also hit. You guys get out of here."

"Why run away? You don't think I'm gonna get revenge?

"I'd love to, but..."

The bearded man bit his lower lip with regret.

My teeth are on my lips and I'm eating in so much momentum that I'm about to bleed.

My brother ordered me to stay alive and run away.

While I seem to regret it, the bearded man won't stop running away.

If you look closely, the men on the other horses look equally regrettable.

I regret it, but I am running away because it is my brother's last order.

I see.

"You better run, too."

"Hmm?"

"I helped you with some of my brother's teachings... because I thought you looked like my brother. So just run."

"... ok"

I pulled the reins and slowed down the horse.

I get the point.

Drop off the men as they are. After they were almost invisible, they turned the horse in the opposite direction - towards the path they came.

"Hermes, you're going to do it."

"... what"

"I won't hide it. I won't hide it."

Ortier laughed and pampered me on the back.

"That's what it feels like to be bursting out, to let those people get away with it. Outlaw, but they're good people."

I grinned.

Was it that easy to understand?

"I know, Hermes, if I knew you."

"Right. Well, that's the thing. We tried to keep our dead brothers' words to ourselves and let our first mates get away with it. I don't want them to die."

"That's right."

"So now you're gonna have to decide what I didn't do."

"I wish I'd stop hiding, Hermes."

"A lifetime favor."

"Already, Hermes!

Ortier protesting with her lips pointy.

It's a light-hearted reward, but this way I'm sure Ortier won't talk.

That's the kind of woman she is.

I stopped talking, and I waited a while - here I am.

From beyond the horizon, the red copper-coloured giant approaches with a squeak of ground.

"Auga, huh?"

"Duh, what are you gonna do, Hermes? I don't have a weapon."

Where was the light mouth earlier, Ortier asked me in a frightened manner.

That, too, should have been as big as the melee felt a bit strange, the size of the auga.

It's about a mile larger than a two-story house.

"No weapons, huh? On the contrary, it might be convenient."

"Huh?"

"Because..."

Auga, we were completely overshadowed by shadows made of giants.

I shook up this stick that Auga has - right after.

My body tore in two pieces from my waist.

"Huh?"

Surprising Ortier, my right arm to be shaken out.

And an attack mark, like a nail mark, on the cutting surface of Auga's body.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!?

"It's the first time I've done it, but it's working. This would look like a battle between monsters."

Falling Auga, the body of the desperate one, after whoever sees it is torn with "nails".

If you're a weapon, the sword you usually use starts searching for the killer with "human work," but if it's a trail of battle between monsters, you can get it through.

Yeah, let's go with this from now on.

If anything, let's rip it with our nails and make it look like monsters to each other.

He said he was convinced of this way and was a little happy.

"Bye, silly."

"Huh?"

I turn to the voice I hear all of a sudden.

There was an earlier man - no, there was a bunch of bandits.

They were pulling back at some point and comparing me and Auga's body with a stunned face.

Seen...... Spread it!?

No, more than that.

"Hey, why are you back?"

"Because you looked like my brother... because you looked like you would do something. I thought I couldn't overlook that..."

"... ah"

I saw Ortier.

Same argument as Ortier just now.

Because I know it well, I know when I do something on my own instead.

"Still when I come back...... wow"

Looks like they were watching me.

"Ooh......"

Apparently, they looked a lot like me and their brother.