“Hehe, Uncle is the best! Everything Uncle said is right!”
Lilith turned around and hugged Axion’s neck, comforting him.
“Why was Uncle worried about Cheshire~! Everyone who fights well is a commander! They knew what would happen on the battlefield!”
“Y, yeah, that’s right. That’s what I’m saying, right?”
Seeing Lilith take his side, Axion feels unfair for no reason.
“On the battlefield. Inexperienced children cannot make rational decisions when they are flustered. When an unexpected situation arises, your mind goes blank and you can’t think of anything.”
“That’s right, that’s right. I think so.”
“The commander has to give orders, but you don’t know what is right. Hundreds of lives depend on my commands; what if I make the wrong choice? But you can’t waste time. I have to use my best judgment and give orders within 5 minutes?”
“But Uncle, is this an experience?”
Lilith asked sharply after hearing the long talk.
Axion was startled.
“…Actually, that’s right. It’s an experience.”
“That’s why~”
“That’s why I’m a little worried about the young commander. There are times when he leaves the line.”
Axion laughed bitterly as he looked at the portraits of his comrades on the table.
Then, suddenly.
“Wait a minute! Enoch, this punk. You’re so funny, really.”
“Yes? What’s wrong with Dad?”
“At this time!”
Axion pointed to the portrait.
“Do you know that your father left the front lines when he was in charge of being the commander?”
“Heuk?!”
It was like that.
Axion laughed out loud at the memory that came to mind again.
* * *
Axion Schneider, sixteen years old.
He is the third son of Marquis Schneider and a Paladin of the DOS class.
He also boasted unprecedented abilities from his time as a child soldier.
Perhaps if there had not been a monster like Enoch Rubinstein who was outside the standard, the position of leader would have been his.
However, he had no complaints about his friend, who took over as commander as soon as he was appointed.
Enoch is a man with a talent that cannot be ignored without everyone acknowledging him.
“C, commander… the order…”
It was his first expedition as an elite soldier.
It was a large-scale subjugation, and the commander was the head of the Holy Swordsman at the time.
From the beginning, Axion’s mind was blank as he took on the important responsibility of commander.
“Yeah… t, the order…”
Considering that it was his first time, he took command of the area that was easiest to subdue.
He would have completed the subjugation without difficulty.
If it weren’t for this unexpected situation.
“Y, you have to catch everything…”
“Commander! Hurry”
Hundreds of eggs were cracking apart before his eyes.
No one knew.
He never thought there would be a spawning ground for demonic beasts in this area.
Flying-type monsters become adults as soon as they hatch.
Even though it was a young demon beast, it was not weak, and Axion was now facing hundreds of demon monsters with a force of less than a hundred people.
The faces of the comrades were pale. An expression that already predicted death.
“…Retreat.”
“Yes?”
“Before they all hatch! Retreat quickly! Immediately! Run with all your might, and inform the commander!”
“C, commander…!”
“I’ll take care of this. Hurry!”
Commanders must not run away.
Either they all die together, or he dies alone.
If they didn’t win, there must be a commander’s corpse on the battlefield.
Because that is the fate of those who hold the lives of many people in their hands and lead them.
“P, please survive!”
The comrades retreated.
Everyone knew Axion couldn’t last long, but…
Because it was an order.
“Haa.”
Axion, left alone, opened his eyes wide to catch his blurring vision.
Of course he cannot survive.
Some have already cracked the eggs and started flying.
Being able to deal with so many magical beasts…
“Axion. Let’s survive together forever.”
Maybe it’s just Enoch.
This is his comrade-in-arms who, at the age of fourteen, developed the sword technique Elevado and earned the title of sword master.
“I’m sorry. I can’t keep my promise…”
They were supposed to survive together.
‘I die as soon as I think I’ve finally become an elite soldier. My fate once, really.’
Axion lifted his sword with difficulty.
“Aaaah!”
That time when he was wiping away the tears that had come out and running towards the group of demonic beasts.
Slash—!
With a gust of wind, a blue sword split his vision.
The newborn demon beasts screamed.
The eggs that hadn’t hatched yet all blew up, and the demon animals that had just flown away fell very quickly.
Elevado.
As far as Axion knows, it is a sword technique that only one person can use.
“Ah…”
Axion stopped in a daze, looking at the demonic beasts dying in an instant.
“Axion!”
Soon, Enoch ran down the steep wall of the canyon.
“Haa, haa.”
“….”
He bent down, wiped the sweat from his chin, took a moment to catch his breath, then raised his head and asked.
“Are you okay?”
“Y, you… what are you doing? Are you abandoning your army now?”
Commander’s departure from the front line.
This is ridiculous.
Although his comrade-in-arms has done it.
“I got everything sorted out on my side. There was a monster spawning ground. I wonder if it’s the same on your side.”
“No, does that mean you have to run from there to here? If you go back now, you won’t be able to take it out, and you’ll be punished!”
“What’s so scary about that?”
Enoch smiled and put his arm around Axion’s shoulder and said,
“I’m more scared of my friend dying.”
* * *
“If it wasn’t for your father back then, I wouldn’t be here.”
“Wow, that’s really cool. Why doesn’t Dad tell me interesting stories like this?”
“Is this fun? He wouldn’t have talked about a bloody battlefield because it would be scary and not fun.”
“It’s not? It’s so much fun!”
Lilith’s eyes were shining brightly as Axion laughed and messed up her hair.
At that time, knock knock.
There was a hesitant knock.
“Come in.”
Someone did it this time.
“Oh, Cheshire!”
It’s his son.
Cheshire was surprised to see Lilith sitting on Axion’s lap, and soon approached.
“…I have something to tell you.”
“Y, yeah.”
He’s a bit embarrassed to see his face right now.
Did he come to say something to his adoptive father, who is so upset that he doesn’t even believe in his son’s abilities?
Axion was nervous for no reason.
“Should I go out?”
“…No. It’s okay.”
Cheshire shook his head at Lilith’s words and spoke.
“I’m sorry, father.”
“What?”
Axion frowned at the unexpected words.
“What are you?”
“I didn’t take my father’s side earlier, but agreed to the commander’s plan.”
Axion opened his mouth wide.
“What do you mean by that? Obeying the commander’s orders is the iron law of the knights. I was the one who pretended to be friends with Enoch, you shouldn’t do that.”
“Still, I know why father did it.”
“….”
“Thank you for worrying about me. I know it’s not because you don’t trust me. Still… Compared to the commander or father, I still lack a lot of experience.”
Cheshire, who was talking, raised his head and looked at him.
“But, father. I can do really well. Don’t worry, I will do it, so just trust me this once.”
His red eyes flashed powerfully.
Axion looked at those confident eyes for a while, then slowly turned his head and muttered.
“…Yeah, okay. I trust you. you’ve grown up already.”
Lilith, who was listening, laughed.
“Uncle, you sounded like a middle-aged man who just raised his son!”
“Haa, it’s true that I’m an old man, well.”
As Axion ruffled Lilith’s hair and lamented, Cheshire also burst into laughter.
* * *
Badump, badump.
My heart is racing.
“Why did you come?”
“I have something to tell you.”
The day after a fierce fight.
Two men facing each other, Dad and Axion.
Dad opened his mouth bluntly.
“Say it.”
“You say it first.”
Then Axion frowned and responded.
“What am I saying? I heard you came because you had something to say.”
“You came to my house, too. Why did you come?”
“….”
Dad’s mouth was tightly shut.
It was like that.
As if he was going to make peace, he started early in the morning with puffy eyes under his eyes—
“Princess, will you come with me?”
—And I went to Axion’s house with my Dad who woke me up.
“Eh. The Lord left about 10 minutes ago with the Young Master. He said he was going to see the Duke, but I guess your paths diverged?”
Axion’s butler, Charon, tilted his head and spoke.
In the end, it was a position that was created only after everyone returned home and worked hard.
‘T, tell him quickly!’
It’s clear that they went to each other’s houses in the morning to make up.
However, now the two just glared at each other and remained silent.
“That, Lilith.”
At that time, Cheshire next to me whispered in my ear.
“…Shouldn’t we be out? It’s hard to talk if someone is listening.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Did you not notice?
I woke up in a hurry.
“Dad, should I go out with Cheshire?”
Then,
“No, princess. Stay here. It’s okay.”
“Y, yeah, you can go!”
Dad and Axion spoke at the same time and looked at each other.
“Well, I’m not going to talk long. I’ll tell you quickly.”
“…Then do it.”
As I quietly sat down, Dad finally spoke first, breaking the long silence.
“We hired twenty more mercenaries. I’ll send it to Cheshire. And you take the ten elite soldiers under me and take charge of the north. After I push east, I’ll join him as soon as possible.”
As if aware of Axion’s concerns, Dad seemed to have reorganized his plan.
“And I say this because I think you misunderstood. Isn’t it because Cheshire is someone else’s son that I pushed him into battle without much thought and appointed him as commander?”
“….”
“After teaching for four years, Cheshire became like my son. I’m worried about the child just as much as you are, and I care about him.”
Dad added, clearing his throat in embarrassment.
“If I wasn’t worried, I wouldn’t have asked you in the first place. Because you are the person I trust the most…That’s why I left Cheshire in charge of it.”
“….”
“Honestly, I am always grateful to you for giving me ridiculous requests and sincerely caring for my child. Neither you nor I express these things in detail, so I didn’t say anything…”
Dad finished his sentence and added,
“Thank you. Thank you and I, I’m s…”
It seemed like it was embarrassing to say sorry.
I was amazed at how clumsy my Dad looked, so I covered my mouth and laughed.
“…I’m sorry.”
Looking at Axion’s expression, it seemed like all the resentment had already been resolved.
“Yeah, me too…”
He was a little more embarrassed than my Dad.
After hesitating for a while, he started talking with his head down.
“I know you did your best as a commander, but I ruined the atmosphere by leaning on my feelings for no reason.”
“….”
“It’s not that I don’t know the child’s abilities, I’m just being rude for no reason… I feel like I did something I couldn’t do to my child by making him feel like I couldn’t trust him.”
“….”
“Also. Still, even though you are my superior, I regret being so perverse that it makes me look undisciplined.”
After speaking, Axion raised his eyes.
“Anyway, thank you for telling me first, and I also…”
His gaze landed on me, leaving behind the last words of apology.
Next to Cheshire.
Is it because he suddenly realized that we were listening?
Axion’s face turned red.
‘Uncle is cute…’
I raise my hands with bright eyes and try to cheer him up.
After saying one last word, the two of them even give each other a warm hug, perfect!
“I, I’m s…”
I nodded towards Axion, who was looking at me.
Yeah, Uncle.
“I, I’m s…”
I’m sorry!
“Y, you crazy punk! You were wrong first!!!”
“What?!”
Argh! no!
I can’t survive, really!
“Hehe, Uncle is the best! Everything Uncle said is right!”
Lilith turned around and hugged Axion’s neck, comforting him.
“Why was Uncle worried about Cheshire~! Everyone who fights well is a commander! They knew what would happen on the battlefield!”
“Y, yeah, that’s right. That’s what I’m saying, right?”
Seeing Lilith take his side, Axion feels unfair for no reason.
“On the battlefield. Inexperienced children cannot make rational decisions when they are flustered. When an unexpected situation arises, your mind goes blank and you can’t think of anything.”
“That’s right, that’s right. I think so.”
“The commander has to give orders, but you don’t know what is right. Hundreds of lives depend on my commands; what if I make the wrong choice? But you can’t waste time. I have to use my best judgment and give orders within 5 minutes?”
“But Uncle, is this an experience?”
Lilith asked sharply after hearing the long talk.
Axion was startled.
“…Actually, that’s right. It’s an experience.”
“That’s why~”
“That’s why I’m a little worried about the young commander. There are times when he leaves the line.”
Axion laughed bitterly as he looked at the portraits of his comrades on the table.
Then, suddenly.
“Wait a minute! Enoch, this punk. You’re so funny, really.”
“Yes? What’s wrong with Dad?”
“At this time!”
Axion pointed to the portrait.
“Do you know that your father left the front lines when he was in charge of being the commander?”
“Heuk?!”
It was like that.
Axion laughed out loud at the memory that came to mind again.
* * *
Axion Schneider, sixteen years old.
He is the third son of Marquis Schneider and a Paladin of the DOS class.
He also boasted unprecedented abilities from his time as a child soldier.
Perhaps if there had not been a monster like Enoch Rubinstein who was outside the standard, the position of leader would have been his.
However, he had no complaints about his friend, who took over as commander as soon as he was appointed.
Enoch is a man with a talent that cannot be ignored without everyone acknowledging him.
“C, commander… the order…”
It was his first expedition as an elite soldier.
It was a large-scale subjugation, and the commander was the head of the Holy Swordsman at the time.
From the beginning, Axion’s mind was blank as he took on the important responsibility of commander.
“Yeah… t, the order…”
Considering that it was his first time, he took command of the area that was easiest to subdue.
He would have completed the subjugation without difficulty.
If it weren’t for this unexpected situation.
“Y, you have to catch everything…”
“Commander! Hurry”
Hundreds of eggs were cracking apart before his eyes.
No one knew.
He never thought there would be a spawning ground for demonic beasts in this area.
Flying-type monsters become adults as soon as they hatch.
Even though it was a young demon beast, it was not weak, and Axion was now facing hundreds of demon monsters with a force of less than a hundred people.
The faces of the comrades were pale. An expression that already predicted death.
“…Retreat.”
“Yes?”
“Before they all hatch! Retreat quickly! Immediately! Run with all your might, and inform the commander!”
“C, commander…!”
“I’ll take care of this. Hurry!”
Commanders must not run away.
Either they all die together, or he dies alone.
If they didn’t win, there must be a commander’s corpse on the battlefield.
Because that is the fate of those who hold the lives of many people in their hands and lead them.
“P, please survive!”
The comrades retreated.
Everyone knew Axion couldn’t last long, but…
Because it was an order.
“Haa.”
Axion, left alone, opened his eyes wide to catch his blurring vision.
Of course he cannot survive.
Some have already cracked the eggs and started flying.
Being able to deal with so many magical beasts…
“Axion. Let’s survive together forever.”
Maybe it’s just Enoch.
This is his comrade-in-arms who, at the age of fourteen, developed the sword technique Elevado and earned the title of sword master.
“I’m sorry. I can’t keep my promise…”
They were supposed to survive together.
‘I die as soon as I think I’ve finally become an elite soldier. My fate once, really.’
Axion lifted his sword with difficulty.
“Aaaah!”
That time when he was wiping away the tears that had come out and running towards the group of demonic beasts.
Slash—!
With a gust of wind, a blue sword split his vision.
The newborn demon beasts screamed.
The eggs that hadn’t hatched yet all blew up, and the demon animals that had just flown away fell very quickly.
Elevado.
As far as Axion knows, it is a sword technique that only one person can use.
“Ah…”
Axion stopped in a daze, looking at the demonic beasts dying in an instant.
“Axion!”
Soon, Enoch ran down the steep wall of the canyon.
“Haa, haa.”
“….”
He bent down, wiped the sweat from his chin, took a moment to catch his breath, then raised his head and asked.
“Are you okay?”
“Y, you… what are you doing? Are you abandoning your army now?”
Commander’s departure from the front line.
This is ridiculous.
Although his comrade-in-arms has done it.
“I got everything sorted out on my side. There was a monster spawning ground. I wonder if it’s the same on your side.”
“No, does that mean you have to run from there to here? If you go back now, you won’t be able to take it out, and you’ll be punished!”
“What’s so scary about that?”
Enoch smiled and put his arm around Axion’s shoulder and said,
“I’m more scared of my friend dying.”
* * *
“If it wasn’t for your father back then, I wouldn’t be here.”
“Wow, that’s really cool. Why doesn’t Dad tell me interesting stories like this?”
“Is this fun? He wouldn’t have talked about a bloody battlefield because it would be scary and not fun.”
“It’s not? It’s so much fun!”
Lilith’s eyes were shining brightly as Axion laughed and messed up her hair.
At that time, knock knock.
There was a hesitant knock.
“Come in.”
Someone did it this time.
“Oh, Cheshire!”
It’s his son.
Cheshire was surprised to see Lilith sitting on Axion’s lap, and soon approached.
“…I have something to tell you.”
“Y, yeah.”
He’s a bit embarrassed to see his face right now.
Did he come to say something to his adoptive father, who is so upset that he doesn’t even believe in his son’s abilities?
Axion was nervous for no reason.
“Should I go out?”
“…No. It’s okay.”
Cheshire shook his head at Lilith’s words and spoke.
“I’m sorry, father.”
“What?”
Axion frowned at the unexpected words.
“What are you?”
“I didn’t take my father’s side earlier, but agreed to the commander’s plan.”
Axion opened his mouth wide.
“What do you mean by that? Obeying the commander’s orders is the iron law of the knights. I was the one who pretended to be friends with Enoch, you shouldn’t do that.”
“Still, I know why father did it.”
“….”
“Thank you for worrying about me. I know it’s not because you don’t trust me. Still… Compared to the commander or father, I still lack a lot of experience.”
Cheshire, who was talking, raised his head and looked at him.
“But, father. I can do really well. Don’t worry, I will do it, so just trust me this once.”
His red eyes flashed powerfully.
Axion looked at those confident eyes for a while, then slowly turned his head and muttered.
“…Yeah, okay. I trust you. you’ve grown up already.”
Lilith, who was listening, laughed.
“Uncle, you sounded like a middle-aged man who just raised his son!”
“Haa, it’s true that I’m an old man, well.”
As Axion ruffled Lilith’s hair and lamented, Cheshire also burst into laughter.
* * *
Badump, badump.
My heart is racing.
“Why did you come?”
“I have something to tell you.”
The day after a fierce fight.
Two men facing each other, Dad and Axion.
Dad opened his mouth bluntly.
“Say it.”
“You say it first.”
Then Axion frowned and responded.
“What am I saying? I heard you came because you had something to say.”
“You came to my house, too. Why did you come?”
“….”
Dad’s mouth was tightly shut.
It was like that.
As if he was going to make peace, he started early in the morning with puffy eyes under his eyes—
“Princess, will you come with me?”
—And I went to Axion’s house with my Dad who woke me up.
“Eh. The Lord left about 10 minutes ago with the Young Master. He said he was going to see the Duke, but I guess your paths diverged?”
Axion’s butler, Charon, tilted his head and spoke.
In the end, it was a position that was created only after everyone returned home and worked hard.
‘T, tell him quickly!’
It’s clear that they went to each other’s houses in the morning to make up.
However, now the two just glared at each other and remained silent.
“That, Lilith.”
At that time, Cheshire next to me whispered in my ear.
“…Shouldn’t we be out? It’s hard to talk if someone is listening.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Did you not notice?
I woke up in a hurry.
“Dad, should I go out with Cheshire?”
Then,
“No, princess. Stay here. It’s okay.”
“Y, yeah, you can go!”
Dad and Axion spoke at the same time and looked at each other.
“Well, I’m not going to talk long. I’ll tell you quickly.”
“…Then do it.”
As I quietly sat down, Dad finally spoke first, breaking the long silence.
“We hired twenty more mercenaries. I’ll send it to Cheshire. And you take the ten elite soldiers under me and take charge of the north. After I push east, I’ll join him as soon as possible.”
As if aware of Axion’s concerns, Dad seemed to have reorganized his plan.
“And I say this because I think you misunderstood. Isn’t it because Cheshire is someone else’s son that I pushed him into battle without much thought and appointed him as commander?”
“….”
“After teaching for four years, Cheshire became like my son. I’m worried about the child just as much as you are, and I care about him.”
Dad added, clearing his throat in embarrassment.
“If I wasn’t worried, I wouldn’t have asked you in the first place. Because you are the person I trust the most…That’s why I left Cheshire in charge of it.”
“….”
“Honestly, I am always grateful to you for giving me ridiculous requests and sincerely caring for my child. Neither you nor I express these things in detail, so I didn’t say anything…”
Dad finished his sentence and added,
“Thank you. Thank you and I, I’m s…”
It seemed like it was embarrassing to say sorry.
I was amazed at how clumsy my Dad looked, so I covered my mouth and laughed.
“…I’m sorry.”
Looking at Axion’s expression, it seemed like all the resentment had already been resolved.
“Yeah, me too…”
He was a little more embarrassed than my Dad.
After hesitating for a while, he started talking with his head down.
“I know you did your best as a commander, but I ruined the atmosphere by leaning on my feelings for no reason.”
“….”
“It’s not that I don’t know the child’s abilities, I’m just being rude for no reason… I feel like I did something I couldn’t do to my child by making him feel like I couldn’t trust him.”
“….”
“Also. Still, even though you are my superior, I regret being so perverse that it makes me look undisciplined.”
After speaking, Axion raised his eyes.
“Anyway, thank you for telling me first, and I also…”
His gaze landed on me, leaving behind the last words of apology.
Next to Cheshire.
Is it because he suddenly realized that we were listening?
Axion’s face turned red.
‘Uncle is cute…’
I raise my hands with bright eyes and try to cheer him up.
After saying one last word, the two of them even give each other a warm hug, perfect!
“I, I’m s…”
I nodded towards Axion, who was looking at me.
Yeah, Uncle.
“I, I’m s…”
I’m sorry!
“Y, you crazy punk! You were wrong first!!!”
“What?!”
Argh! no!
I can’t survive, really!
