Divine Protection: The Pride System

Episode 23: The First Step Towards the Royal Capital

If this world was created by the Creator. Perhaps, he was too big in creating this world.

The world is too big and vast, making it difficult for humans to notice their distance.

Although there are still many people who live together, there are still people who live in solitude.

They cry, laugh, suffer, it all seems like nothing to this great world.

The world is too vast to make a man himself look like an insect.

Therefore, even if man dies or lives. The world will continue to walk by ignoring them.

However, if only, if only there was someone who—

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—Steps his feet step by step, Rogant walks with pride.

His white hair, which shone like the moon, still seemed to shine brightly in the morning.

His black eyes continued to look towards the desolate and towering stone road.

Today, with a gentle smile, Rogant continued on his way.

“Hmm~ By the way, what are we going to do with the villagers who ran away? Do we just kill?”

>Night Meily<, one of Rogant's colleagues asked with a seductive smile beside him.

With hands joined together, Rogant sighed and answered the question of his colleague.

“No. We won't do anything to them.”.

It was a short and clear answer, but it made Meily's eyebrows rise in astonishment.

You see, it is very strange to see Rogant who is gentle by letting his prey escape.

He is a madman who always upholds his selfish happiness.

... Death is a form of happiness.

That is what Rogant always said, he will kill others to give them equal happiness.

During this time, for three years Rogant continued to kill the entire village indiscriminately.

So it was very strange to hear the words from Rogant's mouth to let them just run away.

Meily thought Rogant would tell her to exterminate the villagers who had fled everything without a remnant.

But now he was told not to do anything. That's too suspicious...

Meily stared into Rogant's black eyes trying to figure out what he was thinking.

Rogant who noticed that, paused for a while and looked towards Meily with a gentle smile.

“... You know, Meily. The villagers with their own desires ran away from us, right?”

Getting the question, Meily nodded a few times. Rogant then went on.

“That means we have to respect the decisions they make. They run because they don't want happiness, so we don't have to bother taking care of them all, you understand?”

“Aaah~ I understand.”

Putting her finger near her cheek teasingly, Meily stated that she understood.

Rogant sniffed happily and gently stroked Meily's head.

As Rogant had said before, he did not have to bother taking care of the person toIoI who stayed away from happiness.

If the villagers do want to escape, then the Rogant must respect their decision.

He understood that every living being must always make decisions during his lifetime.

Therefore, he had to respect every decision they made.

If they want to die, then die...

If they want to escape, then run away...

If they want to live, then live...

It was a simple and flexible thought, but Rogant was very fond of such thinking.

Where he does not need to think of something complicated and can live freely.

Life is freedom, death is happiness. That's meaning...

So the villagers who decided to flee from happiness, it should also be appreciated Rogant.

He even protected them during their travels.

Rogant had told Meily to clean up the bandits and demonic beasts that were all around them.

... All for the sake of letting them survive on the way to the capital.

“Aaah~ So yes, Rogant is really a very kind-hearted person.”

Rogant ignored Meily who started acting strangely and walked back again.

They continued to walk on the deserted rocks while holding hands.

There was no particular intent in the hand, Meily simply said that she liked to walk while holding hands.

So Rogant took it for granted, after all if it made Meily happy, then Rogant would continue to hold that little hand anytime and anywhere.

“Oh yes, Rogant. Where are we going?”

“We're going to the Royal Capital Lavendel.”

“Hmm~ Why do we go there? Do you need anything in that capital?”

Meily kept asking as they walked side by side, Rogant also answered her with humility.

“Yeah, that too, I want to find some information in the Capital. But, the main goal we will do is—”

Before Rogant could tell Meily, the ground around them suddenly shook.

Alert they stopped and turned their eyes back.

As Rogant narrowed his eyes, he saw something was walking towards them.

It was clear that it was a horse carriage that was often encountered in this fantasy world.

Seeing that, Rogant and Meily move aside at the corner of the road to let the horse carriage pass by.

The sound of the horse's feet running irregularly was getting louder and closer to the Rogant group.

When he thought about ignoring the noise that was bothering his ears, his voice stopped.

The carriage stopped right in front of Rogant, so he tilted his head in confusion.

Soon someone got off the train and walked over to Rogant.

“Hey, what are you doing on this road alone? If there is any bandit how, it is danger!”

An old man with a thick beard and a hat made of animal skin said that in a high tone.

Rogant nodded his head in understanding and put on his gentle smile as usual.

“Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But, take it easy I'm not alone.”

Hearing Rogant's strange words, the old man glanced at the little girl hiding behind his body.

But, the old man immediately looked back at Rogant with a gentle look.

“So, so you two. Ii'm sorry. First, introduce my name Queran Hohol, I am a traveling merchant.”

Introducing himself politely, Rogant only nodded in response.

He also gazed at the old man named >Queran Hohol< and introduced himself.

“So, I understand, Queran-san. Well then, introduce my name Night Rogant, and this girl is Night Meily. Well, we are ordinary sisters as in general.”

Hearing that, the first to react was Meily who was behind Rogant's body.

He tugged at Rogant's robe like he wanted to say something. But Rogant ignored him.

Queran who saw the two of them only nodded in understanding, then he smiled slightly and said.

“By the way you guys want to go where? If it's no problem I can deliver you both.”

“No need to bother, we're okay. We recommend that Queran-san just continue, it seems like you are in a hurry.”

“But, it is very dangerous if you two are only here, I heard that sometimes there are bandits or demonic beasts that appear in this area. So, better come with me.”

“Ah, so yes. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's my fault, I'm bad, I'm bad.”

Seeing Rogant's slightly strange behavior, Queran narrowed his eyes to look at Rogant.

Although he is a little suspicious of Rogant, but that suspicion soon disappears when Rogant returns to talk.

“Meily, he's a good guy. Don't kill him.”

After which, something black and dark emerged from under Meily's shadow and slashed at the neck of the old man.

Everything ended in an instant, Queran's head immediately split apart and floated away leaving his body.

His eyes widened in disbelief, there was no pain he felt, he was shocked to see his body being separated from his head.

After circling several times in the air, his head fell onto the street with traces of blood splattering.

Then, his body that had parted with his head also fell down like a puppet whose rope was cut off.

Seeing his master die, the two horses in the carriage screamed and ran in fear.

However, soon darkness came upon them and killed the two horses viciously.

Their bodies were mutilated into pieces and died just like that.

Rogant who saw the incident sighed heavily and stared at Meily who was the culprit.

“Meily, didn't I tell you not to kill.”

Getting a reprimand from Rogant, Meily bowed her head with a guilty expression.

“I'm sorry, when I heard the word 'kill' from Rogant, Meily thought you told me to kill him.”

Hearing Meily's slightly strange reasoning, Rogant inevitably sighed again.

Not that Rogant blamed Meily for killing the old man, it's just...

“At least you don't have to kill the horse either. If like this continues, we are still a long time to get to the capital.”

“Umm~ Because Meily has long lived in the forest. Meily became a little sensitive to the existence of animals, so I accidentally joined in killing her.”

Well, however, here Meily had already said her reason clearly and convincingly.

He did that because normally if it was in the forest, Rogant always told him to kill the demon beasts, so what is it okay to do.

Here Rogant must use his humility and forgive Meily's deeds.

“Alright, it's okay. Meily was just trying to protect me, so I'll forgive you. But, now please help me to clean their corpses.”

Rubbing the grieving little girl's head, Rogant says that everything is fine. So stop being sad...

Hearing that, Meily raised her head and enjoyed Rogant's hand stroking her head.

“Hmm~ I understand!”

Already back excited again, Meily helps Rogant to clean up the bodies that are there.

It was dangerous to just put it by the side of the road, so they buried it in the forest.

After that, they again walked towards the Royal Capital of Lavendel.

In fact, events like this have been repeated three times during their journey.

Thanks to Meily who always thoughtlessly killed anyone who passed by, they were forced to travel on foot.

However, Rogant only lets Meily do whatever she likes, so she is forced to accept it.

If Meily had not committed the murder all of a sudden, it was possible that they had already gotten a ride and made it even faster to the Royal Capital of Lavendel.

“Well, old travel is also not bad.”

—Again, Rogant again walked hand in hand with Meily on the quiet cobblestone road.