E Ludle leaves the Elven Forest.
　He didn't divulge the specific scale of the invasion, but he did tell me the timing of the invasion.

'It's going to be a massive invasion. You can't hide it, they'll find out.

　He had the audacity to tell me with such bold words that the time to settle the matter was in two months.
　I'm sure it's about that time, too, which doesn't surprise me, since I predicted it beforehand, but at last he said

'If you lose, never let your life be taken for granted. The Demon King is the one who knows how to treat a brave man and a great general.

　He laughed deliberately at my advice and said, "Hahaha," and said, "My advice is painful. If you think you can beat this e-Redre from the start, Lord Ike will be trapped underneath you.

　He said this and left the forest astride his red-haired horse.
　When he and Sati saw him off, she asked him.

'You are a fine warrior, aren't you?'

Yes, there are capable enemy generals everywhere. The problem is dealing with them.

　'There is always a great horse, and there is always no Hakura,' I remembered.

'But now that I know what's going on, I know his character. Still, I didn't realize I would have to fight him.

　I let out a breath.

'It wouldn't be such a bad system if this whole war thing was just a matter of dying in order of disgusting people. In fact, it's the opposite. The good guys die first.

　The bureaucrats who sneak behind the royal palace, glorifying the war and sending soldiers to the front, are the ones who survive and die from the warriors struggling on the front lines.

'We can't begin to whine about it now, but anyway, we need to go home and start getting ready for war, too.

　Sati shook her head yes, but after staring at me for a while, she muttered, ''Yes.

''........Master. With all due respect, may I make one correction?

That's very unusual for Satie.

　'I don't mind,' I continued, and Sati continued to speak.

'Master is wrong about one thing. War doesn't kill the good guys first, in order.'

..........

　I'm silent. Because it was rare for Satie to correct my words.

'If we were to die in order from the best to the worst, I believe our master would have been dead long ago.

Oh, I see. That's your logic.

　It's true that I may be a good person to Satie.

　But it is also possible for someone to be an angel to someone else, but a demon to someone else.

　In the eyes of the enemy army, and to the humans as well, I am the devil himself, including my deformed appearance.

　They may curse me to no end, but I was still alive and well.
　This is what they say about being afraid of the world.
　But there was a girl who was happy just to have me alive.
　If I thought that, I couldn't afford to die.