Looking into the distance, I saw that the morning sun was beginning to rise.


    I didn''t know what time Nina had attacked me, but it must have been pretty close to morning.


    I think it had been about an hour since we got out of the house and started talking.


    ''I''m sorry,''


    No, I''m fine.


    Nina stopped crying and apologized.


    I guess Felix was family to Nina. I know how sad I am to lose my family.


    In fact, I''m the one who apologizes. I am the one who killed them.


    But I''m not going to apologize for anything.


    I''m going to come off as a heartless bastard. But that fight was fought fair and square in a world of the weak and the strong, and I won.


    It would be humiliating for Felix to apologize for that, and I don''t think Nina would want that either.


    So there''s nothing I can say to this girl.


    I can''t say anything to Nina, who must be in the same pain as me....


    "Why are you crying too?


    What...?


    It''s only with those words that I realize I''m crying.


    I hurriedly wipe the raw warmth running down my cheeks.


    ''''Well, I''m sorry, I shouldn''t have been the one crying...!


    Really, why am I crying?


    I don''t deserve to cry.


    Just because I know the pain of losing a family member doesn''t mean I deserve to cry.


    I turn my body so that my back is to Nina so she can''t see my face.


    ''You''re so sweet,''


    I heard him say it in a gentler tone than the stinging tone he''d used yesterday to address the people of the village.


    ''Yeah, it''s not like that.''


    ''No. You cry for your sister, the enemy who tried to destroy your home, right?　There aren''t many people like that.


    No, this is just pity.


    Moreover, to Nina, the person who killed her brother is just crying out of pity on his own. You can''t help but think I''m making fun of him.


    ''Pity or not, I don''t care. If you were killed by someone who can shed tears like that, your brother will be rewarded.''''


    Nina said as if she had read my mind.


    I finally finish wiping away my tears and turn around.


    "Thank you, Eric. For killing my brother.


    He said this with a very refreshing smile, as if he really, truly believed it from the bottom of his heart.


    ''''I liked your brother, but I couldn''t help but agree with the idea of him becoming king.


    Is that so?


    Nina looks down a bit again and starts talking.


    Even though they''ve been traveling together for a long time, didn''t Nina agree with Felix''s way of thinking?


    It is true that if my brother became king and fought many countries, the conflict within the country would disappear, and the darkness between the front and back would disappear. But we knew that if he fought many countries, he would cause more damage than that.


    So why didn''t you stop him?


    If that''s all you knew, you could have found a different way than defeating the King of Seldonia and becoming a king.


    ''My brother was strong, but if that''s all he was, he was a commoner no matter how far he went. He couldn''t do his own will except to become a king. Brother thought he might be wrong, but he couldn''t stop now.


    The land of the demon race is weak and strong. If you want to push your own ideas, you have to be strong.


    Is that why Felix became the king?


    I couldn''t stop him either. You knew it was a mistake, but you didn''t stop him because of me. No one else would have to live in the shadows and suffer in the shadows like me.


    Nina, who still looked like she regretted talking to me, turned to me again and smiled a little.


    ''So maybe that''s why your brother wanted someone to stop him from being wrong. I think the king was so weak and so pissed off that he couldn''t allow the king, who was supposed to be right, to lose to him in a daze.


    So Felix wanted to lose?


    I don''t know, but I know I saw it. So thank you for killing my brother.


    This time he bowed his head and thanked me.


    But I can''t accept that thank you.


    "I was just paying off the sparks that fell on me. I don''t remember doing anything to warrant a thank you.


    Yeah, I don''t have to take it because it''s all on me. It''s just something I have to say.


    Isn''t that kind of unfair?


    Even though they told me I didn''t have to take it, I heard it and I can''t forget it.


    ''''Hmph, since you killed my brother, I should get back at you like this.


    Nina laughed cheerfully as she said that.


    ''No, you came to kill me earlier, so that''s how you got back at me.


    ''I couldn''t kill him as a result, so I can''t call it payback. Besides, I didn''t think I could really kill him.


    Is that so?


    I remember doing the same thing to my brother a long time ago and he just ducked.


    What? Why would you do that?


    He ate my snacks.


    ''I can''t believe you almost killed me for that...''


    "Demons are the law of the land. If they are weak, they will die.


    It''s not right to use that word here.


    Then me and Nina talked outside until the sunrise and everyone woke up.