When… Where…
…I see.
Riley now… After checking the location and time of this world, he’s just staring straight ahead blankly.
I’ve already… died, huh?
After all the efforts of the warrior, the Demon King fell. To the time where people believed that peace had come to the world lived… Riley was back.
“What is he doing?”
“Is he not a foreigner? It looks like he was standing there blankly.”
“Seeing that he looks at the memorial stone blankly, I think it’s right.”
Passers-by were whispering, glancing at Riley, who was standing like a rock.
Riley’s atmosphere, who was standing and looking up at the ‘memorial stone of a certain warrior,’ was so plausible that Sera and Nara were among the people who whispered about him.
“…young master.”
“Here… is the last place where young master fell in his previous life…”
Sera and Nara, who were standing behind Riley and looking at the memorial stone of a certain warrior, looked sad as if their hearts were struck by an unknown emotion.
“What about young master?” Sera pulled her chin and asked Nara in a small voice.
How does he feel? How does it feel to see his own tombstone?
“Oh, it’s not going to be a good feeling.”
“It is… right?” She’s whispering looking at Riley.
She seemed to have no interest in the memorial stone… Sera’s lips opened blankly as she looked at the people passing by this place like no big deal.
“…”
Suddenly, Sera began to shed tears with her mouth open.
“Don’t cry, Sera.”
Nara was so sensitive and she thought he would cry like her, but instead, he comforted Sera while looking at the memorial stone with a surprisingly calm expression.
“But, even though he saved the world… there’s no reward, and no one remembers…”
Even though she only heard it in words, she struggled so much. She shed bloody tears like that.
“Young master… young master is too…”
No one knew. No one remembered. In honor of the warrior who would have reached the end alone, was only a single, scruffy tombstone that seemed to have not been managed for a long time.
“Huu, ugh…”
It wouldn’t have been that long because of the time difference. It must have been only about a year since the warrior fell to the ground with the Demon King… people seemed to have forgotten it already.
“Huh? Is that person crying?”
“Hey, don’t look there.”
As if there was no warrior from the beginning. Even the name of the tombstone was ‘the memorial stone of a certain warrior’.
“…he has us.”
Nara glanced at the weeping Sera then looked at the memorial stone again and said, We know.
“We’ll know. We’ll remember it.”
If Riley could be satisfied with it, he wouldn’t be there forever even if he died… Nara, who was muttering inside, frowned slightly as he looked at the memorial stone. Hmm?
It was because someone was approaching the memorial stone.
A little girl?
A little girl walked toward the memorial stone and Nara frowned at the bouquet the child was holding in her arms.
I don’t think it’s bad.
The bouquet held diagonally by the child was quite large and colorful and completely covered one side of her thin shoulders, but most of them were flowers that were dusty or in poor condition.
Where… such flowers…
Nara, staring at the bouquet the child was holding blankly, quietly rolled his eyes and began to look around the surrounding scenery.
There was no nature here. All he saw was black or gray, and he didn’t even see green grass or a single brown tree…
It was colorful, but it was right to say that it was dreary because it was not fresh.
“…mister.” The little child nodded. She bowed and muttered the word ‘Mister’ blankly.
“I’m sorry. It was difficult to find flowers.”
As if she boasted that it was a bouquet made by herself, the child quietly put the bouquet in front of the memorial stone and stepped back.
“…” Riley’s mouth opened as he stared at the child blankly.
This child…
It was that child. ‘Save my friends before Helena’, it was this child who asked him to save the children who had become monsters by Helena’s twist.