Episode 116. A person who has never taken a break…

“So, how on earth can the dorm become like this and the child’s body become like this, I mean.”

I lifted Maki’s head and said, glaring at Dale who was squatting ahead.

I mean the child who is squatting down with the momentum to drive the doggeja at any moment.

“That, that… ….”

Did you feel responsible for the situation around you?

Certainly, both Ratel and Maki are children who are far from normal, so there is a risk of runaway.

For that reason, Dale’s role with nullification ability was considered important, and he emphasized that point before leaving.

But the result is this shape……. Yes, it must also be my fault for leaving the judgment to a child who is only 14 years old.

I should have told the paladins around me to pay more attention to their surroundings.

“Ooh, ooh… ….”

As Dale ponders that point, he gradually weeps.

It seems that he misunderstood that I was blaming him. Since I don’t intend to take a beating anyway, let’s talk about it for a while.

“My fault.”

A savage boy who outruns Dale and reveals his presence.

As I looked up, I saw that he was giving me the same calm gaze as usual.

Still, if you had a big accident, you might have panicked at least once, but why is this guy from a barbarian tribe so calm?

“…… Please explain.”

Still, I’m curious about what to say, so let’s listen. I allowed her to speak, and Ratel immediately began to explain to me.

“After the teacher left, I watched the two of them play.”

“Yes, yes. Were you just watching?”

“Yes, but then mosquitoes appeared in the room… ….”

“I was chasing that mosquito and I got excited and smashed everything around, is that it?”

“…… That’s right.”

I’m sure I’ve been annoyed by mosquitoes too. There’s nothing I can’t understand.

But this child was from a barbarian tribe. Even if anger control disorder is excluded, if the physical ability is released without control, the surroundings will become a mess.

It’s a shame that this kid has a calm personality, but even if he was a little aggressive, he wouldn’t have given him enough freedom to deal with his anger control disorder.

“…… Ratel. Head.”

“Yes?”

“Head, I told the teacher to look down.”

“… ….”

Ratel bows his head to me in silence.

I blew a chestnut on the forehead of such a kid.

To make a loud sound.

“…… Hmm.”

Nevertheless, the little boy groaned and stayed silent.

It’s to the point where I doubt if this guy is really the tough kid I met when I first met him.

“Are you sick?”

“Yes.”

“Than being bitten by a mosquito?”

“…… Yes.”

“But you are calm now. Is it because I am a teacher?”

“… ….”

“It’s okay to worry about your friends, but don’t lie to them. Being friends means helping each other, not a relationship that needs to be maintained even at the expense of each other.”

In the first place, he had no intention of scolding Dale.

If there was a guy to be scolded for, it was the guy in my arms.

“Maki. Do you have anything to say to the teacher?”

“To say…… ?”

“There are quite a few scorched marks around it. As far as I know, you are the only one staying at the dorm that can do this.”

Of course, Beans can also use magic, but Beans is emotional, but he is the most mature and sensible child.

No matter how angry he is, he won’t ruin the surroundings.

“By the way, lying is not a very good option. You should do it when you have to, but it’s human beings who know how to repent if they make a mistake.”

“Breaking, is it wrong?”

“If necessary, I will destroy it, but that must be done without causing trouble to the people around me.”

As I looked down at her and said, Maki’s hair rolled her eyes here and there, and then she vomited frankly.

“Speak honestly. She gave Dale a self-destruct attack to win.”

“…… This guy.”

“But I keep losing to Dale. Defeated in one way or another despite obviously hard strategizing. To win, you have to hit it with force. However, when touched, the function stops……. The same goes for gathering energy and ejecting it. So, she chose to blow it all around.”

“It’s good to have a competitive spirit.”

Awakening the desire to compete is a good thing for me to see this child grow into a human being.

The fact that he did this could be interpreted as meaning that he was one step closer to human beings.

“Still, this guy. What’s the use of killing yourself just because you lost a game?”

“It is enough to restore the fragments on your own. However, the moment Dale’s hand touches it to retrieve the fragment, it stops functioning. It cannot function until the core is filled with energy… Now it is holding out only with the residual energy left in its head.”

… Since the body is a machine, things like this are possible.

“It is fortunate that they are alive, but from next time, please give some notice and separate them. It’s scary when people you don’t know see it.”

Didn’t you see Dale was trembling over there?

Well, it’s good to be able to restore the body on its own once the core is functional again.

“Hey, sir.”

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Just as I was about to stroke Maki’s head, Dale approached me and asked in a cautious voice.

“Aren’t you angry?”

“… Why would you be angry?”

Certainly, the surroundings have been turned upside down, and repayment is inevitable for renting the church’s accommodation, but that’s a problem that can only be ripped off by the chairman who manages the school’s operating funds.

The chairman feels the need to take care of these children, so how can he get support?

“Dale, what did I say when I first met you?”

And most of all, I don’t want to experience lifting a hawk any more.

“Yes? When we first met…….”

“I said that if you made a mistake, you could write a letter of reflection.”

Anyway, there are savage tribes that can even destroy castle walls with war weapons, but if you blow up a lodging, you won’t be able to get into an accident.

No one was hurt, so if there is room for reflection, it would be the generosity of an adult to forgive generously.

After giving Ratel the head of Maki in my hand, I quietly turned my back on the scene.

“I’ll talk to the paladins about what to do, so you guys should calmly follow them and write a letter of apology. The teacher will come find some beans.”

“Yes? Beans didn’t do anything wrong…….”

“It’s getting late, and I can’t let them wander the streets.”

If you listen to the general story, it seems that a sensitive part was stabbed during the conversation.

In my experience, there is a risk that such parts may lead to deviations in line with the sensitive emotions of puberty, so it must be strange that I am not worried.

“Excuse me, didn’t a girl with red pigtails pass by by any chance?”

Fortunately, it wasn’t that difficult to find Beans.

The place where I am currently is a place that can be called a busy street, and due to the nature of religious people, even non-denominational members tend to look over it once in a while for reasons of evangelism or teaching.

“Oh, finding such a beautiful place from the first step… It’s really good.”

At the end of Susomun, we arrived at the top of the bell tower with a clear view of the whole area.

Religious sanctity emanated from the city spread out under the sky at sunset.

I stood there and looked down at the girl standing next to me. Even though she was aware of my existence, the little girl who was still leaning against the railing as if buried her head.

“It’s a great place to get some fresh air, but you didn’t come out because you were disturbing the kids studying, right?”

Even so, only the eyes are still directed outside the tower.

Uncharacteristically for a 14-year-old girl, a lot of remorseful eyes. What the hell is making this girl so painful?

“…… Teacher.”

I heard the answer shortly after a while.

As soon as a cool breeze blew over the bell tower, Beans opened her mouth and spoke to me.

“A person who has never had peace… ….”

A voice steeped in so much remorse that I would never have thought a 14-year-old girl would utter.

“Is it wrong for a person who has never enjoyed peace to say he wants to keep it?”

“… ….”

***

A person who has never opened a book starts a war of words against a professor with shallow knowledge.

A person who has never held a sword before holding a sword and threatening.

A person who has never kicked a ball ridicules the effort of a player who made a mistake…….

There is nothing more unsightly than non-experts discussing the field, but ironically, it was a very common occurrence in the world I lived in.

Society is a community made up of people who have their own roles, and there is no need to understand things that are not in my field.

So, for those who gain fame and money by presenting themselves in front of others, they may need to endure even unfounded criticism aimed at them.

Because of the nature of the social structure where there is no need to understand other people’s circumstances, it would be inevitable to boldly say even thorny words.

“I always thought my father was right.”

Beanz’s father, Marquis Jugret, was a man in such a position.

A person with a high rank as a marquis, but a lower rank than the real power of the empire, the duke or the imperial family.

Although he rises to a high position in the military, his body is only a middle management position compared to those who reach the top such as the commander.

I have a lot of responsibility and authority, but that’s why I’m receiving the attention of many people.

It can be a part, but it cannot be the main axis, so it can be replaced with someone else as needed.

“I am in a position that is hated by many people, but the result is the right thing… …. I achieved more than I sacrificed, so I thought at the time that I had to do it, that it was inevitable.”

If you look at each individual and objective point of view, it’s definitely a person who deserves to be eliminated.

Looking at it as a whole, he is a suitable person to become a ‘sacrificial victim’ who will be hated by everyone and disappear.

“Still, the people who guide my father will understand my efforts… ….”

The sense of betrayal this child felt stemmed from the fact that the people who guided such a father had coldly abandoned him for enduring such a situation.

The future of following such a father might be like that too…….

Because I thought that such anxiety might lead to resentment towards my father whom I have always admired.

“… But look at those children.”

Yeah, that would have been the case until now.

“Seeing that I violated what I took for granted so lightly and passed it off casually… …. I realized why no one, no one, was defending my father.”

Ironically, I arranged for it.

The time spent with those children seemed to have left another scar on this child in an unexpected way.

The truth is the things I believed in until now.

In fact, I was worried that the premise might be wrong.

“Well, as far as I know, my father never rested even at home. Even when he returned home, he always took care of the manor, and even when he faced me, he invested mostly in education. The only time we had time was when we sat face-to-face and played chess.”

The sunlight that burns most passionately at the moment when it is slowly going down.

As if hiding one’s face from such light, the face is buried more deeply in the arm leaning against the railing.

“Even a father like that, I respect him. Because such sincerity must be a virtue that a leader needs. But… ….”

Even so, only the voice leaks out.

A voice that sat down heavily, as if it would burst into tears at any moment.

“What you are trying to achieve with such efforts will not be welcomed if it does not match what everyone wants. It might have been necessary at one time, but not now. At that time, the atmosphere, rules, and perceptions all changed… ….”

“Beans.”

“And yet, my father would still stick with the old ways. There may be a better way, but my father only knows that way. Because that’s the only way I would consider it the right answer.”

Because they have protected an unpeaceful era, they are deprived of even the right to keep peace.

Acknowledging that would really require a lot of determination.

“…… How can a person who has never taken a break lead the peaceful world that everyone dreams of?”

I don’t know about anyone else, but to this child.

It would mean that the father she had admired all along accepted her future at her gallows.

***

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