The Strategist Knows Everything

The fire among the kings went out, and I joined the Kaguyas who had succeeded in getting out of the kings, finishing all the aftermath, and I was in Dio's room. I apply medicine to my body for treatment and my left arm is hung. It's a pitiful outfit.

There's another one in the room, Lelfa. After I put out the fire, it was out somewhere, but at some point I was in Dear Dio's room.

"Well, I think we've cleared up a lot of problems, and it's time to talk?

"You don't have to allow me to talk to you on my own, do you? Besides, this Gentile, who has become quite visible, will notice the discomfort between you and yourself."

"Do you hear me talking?

"Anyway, if you want to talk, I'm telling you to talk in front of me. Be brief. I can't stay much."

Lady Dio nods at Lelfa and asks me to sit in a chair.

I refused once, but was recommended again, so I couldn't refuse, so I sat in the chair.

"Shall we start at the beginning? He's a relfa. Ancient species, in a nutshell."

"Ancient species…………?

Skill is activated on the first word I hear.

Ancient species. The generic name of the five races that were once on the continent. All in all, he was overwhelmingly superior in that he said he was more physically capable and magical than a human being, but he ended up as a race in inter-race warfare and low reproduction.

"You don't have to explain it to me, do you? I can see everything."

"!? Did you know............?

"I know everything."

Saying so, Master Dio laughs, joking though. I add.

It didn't sound like a joke at all. That discerning eye has something that leads to Master Kaguya.

"Talk fast. I don't have time."

"With that said, you did. Yukito, I asked Lelfa to help me defeat my father, and I entered into a partnership on the condition that I would do something."

"Something?

I was going to ask Master Dio, but Lelfa answers.

"It's about ending ancient species trying to actively interfere with the world today. We, the ancient species, are constrained from attacking each other with sorcery. So I can't stop myself."

"Please, wait! The ancient species are extinct………?

"Almost. I still have enough left to count. Neither were they willing to interfere in this world, but only one troublemaker moved. That's why I asked Diorood Arklite to finish him off."

That's what Relfa says and closes her mouth. I'm wondering what kind of a troublemaker he is, but he doesn't seem willing to teach me that. Well, it must be a long time to talk about it there. However, looking at the relfa does not open any status screen. Can't you see the ancient species?

"And I was in a hurry, knowing that my father's hand had begun to reach around my sister. So on account of the illness that should have healed, he left the royal castle and headed towards the woods where Lelfa lived. Let the rumors of a famous doctor spread properly and rely on it."

"Well, you believed around......?

"People don't realize that. It was my father's mood that mattered in the capital. Well, I made a deal with Lelfa."

Lady Dio slowly rolled up her left arm clothes and showed her something like a mole around the bottom of her elbow. That's probably like a sign of a contract. But it's hard to see.

"Dragon claw marks. Testimony of the contract with the ancient species Lelfa, known as the Dragon Man. Instead of getting Lelfa's help, I had to finish who Lelfa was talking about. That's where the problem came in. Lelfa has given herself the bondage of not interfering more with the world than is necessary."

"Why are you contracting such a person………"

"I didn't know that. So I needed someone to work with me instead of Lelfa. That's you. Yukito."

Master Dio says so, giving him an unusual, invincible grin.

"Then I... was summoned to fight with Master Dio instead of Lelfa... Lelfa's pawn?

"That's a humble way of putting it. Well, but it's not wrong. Most accurately, if you say pawn, you say pawn of Diorud Arklite."

"What do you mean?

Lelfa looked at my face and sighed heavily. It's like no. This guy. A slightly irritating sigh comes to my mind. Of course, I swallowed it.

"Don't you ever say you see yourself? Why did you live in a world without war with as much wisdom as you could handle your knowledge? Why did you fight the demon's ancestral return and break his arm?

That's what they say, and I review my status.

Combat power is 17. From that point of sickness, you're fighting better because you're healthier, but you're still low. That's not so strange to die of a king's kick.

Intelligence is just seventy. One hundred and fifty is less than half the price. Not a single other status exceeds seventy.

Yes. Why did I think so much of a plan? I could move as well as I wanted.

How could I have fought with this status?

Doubt brings questions to mind. The more I think about it, the more I fit into the maze of thought.

No, more importantly.

Why didn't I feel uncomfortable? Why didn't you think about it?

That's where I'm most surprised. I didn't even think I was crazy until they pointed me out.

"Why didn't you feel uncomfortable? That's your face. Well, fine. Because there's a reason for that, too. I'll make it look a little easier on you."

That's how Lelfa starts playing the harp. As soon as I heard the sound, a slight swing occurred next to the number on the status screen, and a number closed in parentheses appeared.

"Plus forty............?

Next to my numbers, there are numbers like plus 40 and plus 41. I wonder what this means.

"Don't you feel uncomfortable standing and walking? Same as that. You knew unconsciously that you could. Your power now is the sum of those numbers."

"So... no, I did, what the hell is this number!?

"That is the power of Diorud Arklite. No, a third of the power of Diorud Arklite."

"What...?

"You were dead for sure. Having summoned you based on that residual thought, I shredded a third of Diorud Arklite's soul and gave it to you. That's why a third of Diorud Arklite's power resides in you, too. That's why you're Diorud Arklite's pawn. You could call it a one-way crack."

With that said, Lelfa starts playing the harp again. Now Master Dio's status begins to change.

Plus more than forty stats. All figures exceed one hundred and twenty. I guess this is the original Dio status.

"I'm anticipating the rest of my life. It seems like it's the first time I've cut a third of my soul or a relfa. That's why I don't know how long I can live. Suddenly because of the sharpening, I fell down, I wasn't feeling much better, but, well, I guess I've gotten used to it lately. I think maybe we can live much longer than two months for this. Well, you could die tomorrow."

"Then what I didn't suspect was that Dear Dio was ill around……"

"I guess it's because my body wasn't moving at all. In fact, I feel very uncomfortable too. [M] Honestly, I never thought I'd be able to move this far."

I laugh like there's nothing wrong with saying that, but it's outrageous. I can't believe I'm losing a third of my ability.

I'm doing something about it because it's Average One Hundred Twenty Dios in the first place, but if a normal person does it, it can interfere with everyday life. It would be sixty if even ninety cars were shredded. It's like the top talent in a class suddenly falls below average. Why is Dio laughing when the pile of things collapsed in an instant until then?

"Diorud Arklite has two requests. Being a man, knowledgeable. That's all. It's not like you had any special reason. We can't interfere with the living or the dead, so if you're calling, you're here on your own."

"No, I didn't hear that..."

"In that respect, I'd say you grabbed the raw one yourself. That's right. Those eyes are magical and magical. Unlike magic, which is technology, magic is a gift that is innate. Your strong residual thoughts, your regrets, turned into power, and I summoned you here, so I guess the world gave you the magic to fulfill that regret."

Lelfa starts talking on her own. When she says what she wants to say, she nods as satisfied and stares straight at me.

"You'll have me hanging out for a little while. You think it's a price to live for. I have little magic because I healed the wound for a few days and then transferred it all the way under Diorud Arklite. Instead, you showed me how it works, but not yet. I'll come and tell him when I find out what he's up to."

Don't die until then.

Left behind, Lelfa played the harp and disappeared.

I wonder how much I wanted to go home. Anything too forcefully would sum up the story.

"Lelfa likes the beautiful air in the woods. That's why I don't want to be anywhere near as many people as possible."

"Haa... the... can I ask you one thing?

Master Dio snorts with a smile when I say so.

I'm curious about what you're thinking under that smile, but on the other hand, I don't want to see it because it's scary.

"Why didn't you solve this by yourself?

"Right. I thought that question was coming."

Lady Dio slaps her knee laughing. Well, anyone would care. If I had more than one hundred and twenty statuses, I would probably have led the army and used another country, and I feel like I could have brought it closer to the present situation. I don't think I have to do anything special to attract Kaguya.

"I... am similar. To my father."

"… a little, that's what I thought."

"Maybe it was a fellow hater who hated my father. Well, I don't like the color that much."

"What does that have to do with me?

"There have been many battles in different worlds, and now I've heard that it's peaceful. So if you can call someone who has a record of battle as knowledge, you can incorporate tactics, strategies from different worlds. I thought so. But more than that, I wanted a friend to stand next to me."

Master Dio slowly shakes his head to the side. As if to deny your words.

"I guess not. Maybe he wanted someone to stop him."

"Stop? What?

"You saw my father, right? Live by instinct, no one around. I didn't want to be like that. That's why I wanted someone to stop me if I was wrong."

When I heard that, I remembered the first time I spoke in the carriage.

”I don't care how much cursing noise I get from you. If you're really angry with me, I'll take it.”

said Lady Dio. Suddenly I was confused by the words, but did you mean to say that? From the beginning, Dio wanted me to act as a friend standing next to him.

"Well, it was a delightful miscalculation to have magic, and I never thought I'd let the supreme maiden fall."

"Is there no way to say more about falling…………?

"In the meantime, are you planning to let your sister fall too? Then you'll automatically be brothers, and you won't have to bother to make a brother-in-law deal."

I let out a sigh and took the fan out of my nostrils to Dio, who spoke more and more in a teasing, mixed voice.

Sophia's topic reminded me of Sophia and Dio and the time I was there.

"Master Kaguya doesn't deal with me, and Sophia only sees me as a friend."

"Well, let's do that. Would you like to see Master Sophia?

"Very"

"But the national crossing between Velis and Albion remains rejected. First of all, we need to improve our relationship with our own country and the small surrounding countries, so we can't even go to Albion."

If you want to see me in the dark, I'll smile back to Dear Dio, who tells me to clean them up.

Dio smiles softly at me like that, pointing at my right arm.

"Yukito must have the same dragon claw marks as me. I am the left arm of a dragon, and you are the right arm. Whoever is engraved with this nail mark cannot betray him who bears the same mark. Except Relfa's on the carved side, well, me and Yukito can't betray each other."

I wrap my clothes around my elbow with my mouth in disobedience. I can't help it. I can't use my left hand.

"True. There it is. I didn't realize."

"Well, we can fool each other."

"I know. Because I was fooled. But can't you betray...... If we put this on the rest of the world, will there be no dispute?

"That's an interesting idea, but it's a rejection. A world where everyone can be trusted is as dangerous as a world where no one can be trusted. So, there's another effect on these marks."

Master Dio puts up his index finger on his right hand and says so.

Is it still there, even though it is enough to prevent you from betraying me? It was engraved without knowing much and horrible.

"We can't abandon each other easily. Not absolutely, but a strong force works. So even if you didn't like it, you came to the battlefield to help me."

"I see……. But there's one correction."

"What is it?

"It's not because of these nail marks that I refused to go to help Master Dio. It's my will. At least that's what I think."

With that said, Lady Dio began to blush with a bump on her leg after looking pokant.

"Haha!! Fine! That's what I'm gonna do! Hey, you're really funny! Honestly, I almost laughed when my sister said Yukito."

"What do you mean…..?"

"It's impossible from me for that sister to call a man by his name for intimacy. It's basically a push away feeling."

"At first, it was Clay. Isn't it hard to call?"

"No, I called you by name because I wanted to show you that I absolutely trust you. My sister is also a maiden."

My spine freezes in a tone that makes me look a little foolish.

If Kaguya asks me to have this conversation.

So I remembered. I remember. Ask me.

"I have some terrible news..."

"What is it?

"Sophia seems to be able to manipulate the wind to hear distant conversations…… The conversation between me and Mr. Dio seems to have slipped……"

"… that conversation about how wonderful the golden hair on your ear is?

"It's also about how seductive the white robe is..."

"…… it sucks………."

Saying so, for the first time today, Master Dio gave me an expression other than a smile.