Undead Seeks Warmth

On a certain clear day, early afternoon.

There were 3 shadowy of people that walked the road towards the Shardia city.

[Ah, a branched-out road... Merlan-san, where should we go now?]

[Go right.] 

The one who was leading the way, a slender man wearing a weird clothing with a sword hanging around his waist.

He was the [hero] who was called by the Mashanoizas kingdom that said to be the descendant of the hero, Kokonoe shinya

The one who answered curtly toward his question was a girl with pale brown hair that was tied to her back.

She was an adventurer that recently given the highest-ranking adventurer from the adventurer guild, an S-rank adventurer that reached the peak of an adventurer.

[Bow prince] Merlan-mashur

[Fufu... you will meet the cliffs if you go left you know, Kokonoe-san]

The one that gave him a faint smile was a beautiful girl who wore a tattered black jacket on top of her nun uniform.

Ursula – pendragom.

By some weird chance, she ended up travelling together with the other two, she was a self-proclaimed pilgrim nun.

[Ah, is that so? As expected of ursula-san, you"ve known a lot about the roads because you have already visited many places in your pilgrimage on the continent, am I right?]

[No, it"s just that I knew it by chance you know.] 

A kind smile without any motives can be felt behind it.

Besides Shiya who have a lewd look on his face, Merlan stared deeply at the jacket that ursula wore over her nun"s robe.

Though it was tattered, the way to create such black clothes can be seen to be thorough.

She didn"t forget it, there"s no way she will forget it.

It was the clothes that the man she searched all this time wore. 

That day, the day where she can"t catch him.

Merlan woke up Ursula, and asked her about him.

She was at the same place where he was, furthermore wearing his clothes.

There"s no way they didn"t have any relationship, or so she thought.

However, Ursula answered [I don"t know anything]. 

she fainted due to the fatigue of the journey, and the moment she woke up, she was there.

Looking at Ursula"s eyes, by her instincts, Merlan thought.

 ---- Ursula was lying.

Surely, she knew something that is related to [him], 

Merlan doesn’t even know his name.

And so, she created some excuses, and invite Ursula to travel together with her.

Since the opponent was a beauty, Shinya easily gave her consent, Ursula also accepted her proposal.

Ever since then, even when they moved from places to places, Merlan searched for it.

Information about him, that Ursula knew.

[By the way, Merlan-san. The place where we are going next, what city is it called again?]

[... It was written on the map, right?]

[Well, I can"t read]

Why in the world do I have to journey together with this kind of guy, or so Merlan sometimes thought.

He persistently followed her around, recently she even thought of chasing him away as it was bothersome.

"Haaah" she blatantly sighed, and then answered with displeasure.

[...... It"s [Elbart].]

A little more before the gears started to overlap.

What shape it"ll make, no one will know. 

She wondered on how many cities that has been destroyed.

She wondered on how many people that has been killed.

No, from the start, she, the vermouth - erzalord never count the numbers.

It"s not important. Whoever she killed, how many things she destroyed.

It wouldn"t even become a distraction for her.

Lonely, lonely, lonely.

She can"t be helped to be sad, her tears can"t stop flowing.

The man she loved was not beside her

Her important couple was not there by her side.

That fact made her sadness and loneliness spilled out.

Piled up corpses, piled up debris.

Only leaving the trace of the destruction, she only continued to walk forward.

Slowly and slowly.

So that he, her beloved Takahina.

Will realize her, and come to find her.

The vermouth only gazed at the city that was set ablaze in daze.

He was also, not here.

Takahina was not here, not in this city.

Cities, forest, mountains, caves.

She even searched on a high gra.s.s.

However, she can"t find him.

Where, where are you?

It"s so lonely, it"s so lonely, you know.

Please don"t leave me alone.

Please don"t throw me away.

If there"s thing that you don"t like, I will fix it, anything.

I will listen to anything that you say, I will become a good person the way you want.

That"s why, please come back.

Come back, Takahina .

- Hina ..... Hinaa ~ ... -

While drop of tears flow down from her eyes, she once again started to walk again.

Aimlessly, just to look for him

The monster that has already destroyed in total of 12 towns, villages and cities.

Again, she found another city and, so she walked towards it.

Its name --- [Elbart]

-... ... Your majesty.

I can foresee what will happen in the future. -

- Is that so, Miko? 

Then, what kind of future did you foresee? 

The destruction of the world?

Or perhaps, its salvation? -

- I can"t say it was the both of them.

What these eyes can see, is a small city.

It will appear at that city, a two great magic.

... They are the demon lords. -

- What .... 

2 of the demon lords, in a place where humans lived?

I"ve received information from Shardia, isn"t it just the one that destroy the city? 

... If someone said that this is the premonition of the end of the world, I can"t even smile or jest about it -

- It is so.

The expansion of the perpetual night area, the appearance of the demon lord recently, everything was a harbinger of the end of this world.

If we don’t erase all of the demon lords as fast as we can, there will be no future for us- 

- Oh, Miko, our highest Miko in Mashanoisaz.

Where is this city located? We have to send our [hero] as soon as possible. - 

- .... .... please wait, my king.

I could see another thing, hmmm.

Crossbow, broken cross, and then gla.s.s ... No, it is wings made of ice.

Hmm ... hmmm hmm.

Oh, my king. It seems at that place, hero happen to be already present. -

- ... ... Is it, Shinya - Kokonoe? -

- It is true. - 

- No good, he can"t win.

we have already given him a holy sword, but he doesn’t have any talents for a hero.

Not to mention against 2 of the demon lords at the same time, it wouldn"t even be a battle. - 

- Agree, agree.

However, no matter how bad he is, he is still a hero.

Even if he was just a [spare], there is still a possibility of him being able to wound to the demon lords.

And then from what I"ve seen, these two demon lords, maybe they are going to oppose each other.

Perhaps, this is good luck for us. - 

- ... ... Is that so? 

If you say that, it must be true then.

Then, as I thought, we still have to send out our [star perfomer]? -

- That is as expected.

With [her] power, we could eliminate the demon lords.

She is indeed the one, the vessel of the hero. -

- Hmm ....  using a mocked youngling from another world for bait, and make a young girl as a hero.

How foolish of a king am I? - 

- Be that as it may, only the king is capable of doing that - 

- I truly understand that.

If it will bring peace to this world, I don"t care of any mud that will smear over this body.

And then, I wish ... for this peace to stay forever. - 

- ... ... My king. -

-Then, now it"s time for you, my lady to show your power to the world.

The demon lords who wreaked havoc on Shardia, and the new demon lord that appeared.

I will rely on you to bring down these demon lords, and bring the peace to this world.

---- ---- MAYU - HIMURO Dono.