The Leytis who killed Commander Saran and tried to use us.
If I hadn't escaped then, I would have ended up in the same position as Commander Saran.
Or they would have used me in some way.
Honestly, if it weren't for the classmates I left behind, I wouldn't even want to hear their names anymore.


'I've heard most of the talk. I'm sure your guesses were right, too. You've been thinking about it, haven't you? A country that wanted that document to be a reason for war. ...... I'm telling you that's the Leytis Nation.


Crowe walks into my room and sits down idly on the only couch in the room.
I wonder if I'm still too old to be standing, even though both me and Lattisnail are standing there.


''For now, I'm not going to ask you why the demon race is here,''


Then Crow stared at Lattisnail.
Latisnail shrank back uncomfortably, but there was no reaction to his words.
Since Crowe doesn't have the 'World Eye', there's no way he could know that Lattisnail, who feels the same amount of magic as the human race with his 'magic power concealment', is a demon race, but I wonder if they knew each other.

Whether or not he knows about my thoughts, Crow continues to speak as usual.


''For now, do you want to hear about the current situation in the Lattis Nation? I suppose that's where you know these people, too?

I'm not sure if we know each other, or if we're from the same town: ......


I wonder if those guys and I are more than acquaintances or less than friends.
As long as there is no word "classmate", it's difficult to explain with words.
In fact, is there even a school in this world?


'Honestly, I don't give a d*mn about those guys, but I wouldn't sleep well if they were dead.

'Right. ...... I'm sorry, but I have no information on the summoner inside the castle. But they don't seem to be dead. The food being brought into the castle hasn't changed.


I breathed an unwitting breath of relief at those words.
Apparently I was more worried about my classmates than I thought I was.

I didn't regret leaving the castle alone that day after being framed, but I knew that I should have done something about all the curses my classmates had placed on me before I left.
I was desperate for myself at the time, and I guess I was too shocked by Commander Saran's death to make a normal decision.
He knew that it wouldn't be the worst situation since Jir-san was in the castle, but right now, neither Jir-san nor the brave man was in the castle.
How are they doing?
I don't know how the brave men got out of the castle, but I'm sure they're at least holding a grudge against me.


'I don't care if you're not dead. What else? What information do you have that would make it worthwhile to speculate that the Leytis Nation wants to start a war?


I asked, and Crowe nodded gravely with a grim face.


'Ah. Didn't you, when you were in the castle, it was rumored that the king was interested in raising the dead?


I thought for a moment and nodded ah.
Come to think of it, I think I heard about it from Commander Saran in the castle's storeroom.
He said that his wife, whom he loved in any way, had died, and he wanted to bring his daughter back to life without regard to her living daughter.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to do that if either my mother or just me dies.
But I thought that such a thing was impossible even if it was this world where magic was available, so I didn't listen to it: ......
I'm not sure I'm going to be the only one who can do this.


'But that would be impossible. What does that have to do with wanting to start a war?


If dead people were to be brought back to life, the people of this world would not be afraid of death.
But Crow's face remained grim.


''What if that is, in your calculations, possible?''


With Crowe's words, I felt the temperature in the room drop rapidly.


'Hey, you're kidding me, right? There's no such thing as a dead man coming back to life.


The night mutters in a daze.
But I know Crowe wouldn't tell a joke, even if a natural disaster happened.
But if it were true, would Crow bring his sister back to life?


'Unfortunately, it's true. ...... However, I hear it will take tens of thousands, even millions of lives as a price to pay. I would ask, though, who would be willing to sacrifice that many lives to bring them back to life?


I was immensely disappointed by those words, but also a little relieved.
Apparently Crowe didn't want to go that far to bring his sister back to life.


''What's the method? One human being and tens of thousands or millions of lives would be out of balance, wouldn't they?


How could one person dying at such a cost?


'I don't know about that, but it seems that all it takes to bring one person back to life through skill 'exchange' is a lot of lives. That's why King Reitis wants to start a war. At first, he wanted to start a war with Yamato, which is in the same human territory, but Jirubou and the rest of the knights seem to have stopped him and that seems to be the end of the matter.


I see.
So that's the reason why Ziel-san was forced to quit the Order.
I don't know which country is stronger, but there will be a large number of deaths either way.
Why don't the people of the Leitis nation oppose it?
Or maybe some people are against it but the king won't listen to them.

I mean, it's a skill 'in exchange'.
That's a tricky skill.
It means you can do anything you want for a reasonable price, right?
It's a versatile skill for both combat and everyday use.


'So where do you get all this information from?


It's something that's been bothering me for a long time.
Wherever I am, wherever I go, Crowe gets information from somewhere.
Crowe stroked my head as I listened to him and left the room.


'Don't tell anyone,'


You're handsome in every single action.
You're an old man who's nearing the end of his life span.