Chapter 109 – #5. Delen and Black and White (12)
Time passed.
Warlock Leia joined the already strong hero party last, and as the perfected party started to show results in earnest, the war, which had always been boring to the point of being boring, began to change little by little.
As if the last piece of the puzzle had been put together, after Leia joined, the hero party created explosive synergies and greatly increased their power, and their relationship became like a family. Meetings with women were invaluable, but the atmosphere at the time was so good that even the hero who said that the days spent in the fantasy world were really dog-like felt positively around that time.
The biggest reason was love. One by one, they confessed their feelings and became the hero’s lover, and the women poured out all their love for one man, swearing not to be jealous of each other. The knot of fate was firmly tied, and it was becoming an inseparable relationship with each other. Riding the tailwind of love, the warrior’s journey also continued smoothly without major setbacks.
But Delenn’s inclination remained. She showed a cruel hand in her eyes, especially when she looked at the Order alone. She didn’t gouge out her eyes like she did to Brooke the Inquisitor last time, but she was still more violent than necessary. However, she said that people are animals of adaptation, and even Aris, who was most repulsed by that appearance, became calm by then and showed only a reaction of ‘yes again’. Judging by the atmosphere, she was more of giving up than adapting…
Fortunately, things didn’t get any worse. The reason why Delenn’s behavior did not emerge as a big problem was that her cruelty had definitely decreased after killing the heretic inquisitor, and that she had always been a faithful paladin and a good eldest sister.
And, starting from Leia’s reaction, the hero party no longer has a problem with Delren.
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“Um…”
The debut of Leia, a new member of the hero’s party, the warlock. Her first battle had been successful, and she was now sleeping in bed, resting in peace.
As expected, Leia also had a great talent for combat. When she killed her life for the first time, she too was shocked, but she didn’t have any stress or aftereffects, and she rather adapted faster than the other members despite her young age.
Tap, tap…
Leia now had a problem on the other side. Just like Aris, she shut her mouth when she saw Delen’s double personality. Because of her silence, there was not a word of conversation in the camp where we would normally have a conversation, and the only sound was the burning firewood.
The hero, as always, didn’t say much, and her other members didn’t dare to say anything to her as she closed her eyes and thought hard about something about her.
Hehe~.”
In her silence, Delenn hummed her. Delenn, the person in charge of her, pretended not to know whenever this happened. Even if she didn’t listen to her because everyone talked carefully behind her back, she could understand the atmosphere, but she pretended to be naive in a shameless way that Delen was surprised by, and she only laughed.
And Gina, who was friendly with her Dellen, didn’t seem very impressed. There seemed to be a plausible deep intention in the hero’s unresponsiveness, but Jina’s expressionless expression and unresponsiveness seemed to ask what the problem was. Dellen and Gina had a subtle resemblance. She was angelic when dealing with people she was close to or liked, but she was quite indifferent to those outside her confines. He was kind by nature, but had a way of thinking that was decidedly out of touch with the world. Only they would know what they were really thinking, but at least it looked like that in the eyes of others.
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Uncomfortable silence.
While Leia was quietly thinking, the atmosphere at the party was strangely divided into three groups. Delen and Gina with a calm expression, the hero and Leia who have not yet responded, and Mira and Aris who notice.
In fact, Mira and Aris were not particularly dissatisfied with Delen. If it was really unacceptable, they would have been arguing and listening to it long ago during countless battles. I just wanted to be sure. If the majority have a sense of problem with Delenn’s appearance, they will empower them to solve it, and if they accept that aspect, they will accept it as well.
The two of them just hated this vague silence, Delen’s ignorance, and the party’s silent disregard. This silence seemed like hypocrisy. Mira and Aris didn’t like that.
Just because you have the cause of defeating the demon lord, you don’t necessarily have to claim to be good. In fact, most of the countries opposing the Demon King’s Army moved calculatedly to the point of being naive from the beginning of the war. It certainly wasn’t right to act selfishly in a great war for the survival of mankind, but unfortunately, only those cunning countries survived. Countries that acted righteously have already gone downhill and met the bitter end of destruction or annexation. In the first place, it was a world where you couldn’t survive without a drug dad.
The warrior party also acted calculatedly without being bound by good deeds. Each of the six party members grew up experiencing all kinds of discrimination and absurdities, let alone support from mankind, and to them who survived like tenacity, the distinction between good and evil was nothing more than a gluttonous luxury and disgusting pretense.
There was no such thing as an apostle of justice that can be found in comics or novels. Everyone was smart, snobbish, and meticulous. It doesn’t just commit evil, but it fights malice with malice. There was a time when he pointed a knife at a vicious merchant who was rip-off and had a fair ‘negotiation’, and there was a time when he robbed the warehouse of a vicious aristocrat who had accumulated wealth through all sorts of absurd evil deeds, leaving only party members to monopolize. Recently, he saved slash-burn farmers from being in danger of being slaughtered by demons, but those who survived fought in the fields and ruined their crops. The hero party, which had become absurd, even mobilized an armed demonstration, and on the contrary, they received a very good price for saving their lives.
The warrior party showed a risky move as if walking a tightrope at the boundary of good and evil. But nobody objected. In such a dirty and despicable world, there were no naive, no, stupid members who held strict moral standards.
Everyone had a dark past that they didn’t even want to remember, as if they were competing to see who was more unfortunate, and they were doing good deeds overflowing just by not holding grudge against mankind and not taking revenge.
A gray existence that is neither good white nor evil black. In a dark fantasy world, gray was no different from the symbol of Hero’s party.
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“It’s a fun color.”
After being quiet for a while, Leia finally spoke up. Her eyes were calm and calm, as always. She was young enough to not even be able to take off her school uniform in the hometown of the hero, but Leia had matured on the inside due to her innate nature and background, and despite her childish and cute face, she looked quite mature.
Everyone’s attention was focused on the calm voice that broke the silence, and the quiet warrior opened her mouth and asked her Leia.
“A fun color?”
“Yeah. They’re all grey, but Delen’s is a bit odd.”
“Hmm.”
“Ah…”
Leia left out quite a few things, but everyone got it right.
She had been talking about good and evil lately. At that time, she likened good to white and evil to black. And we also concluded that it seems gray. Since all of them were outcasts (?) From the world and became outsiders, everyone was even worried that we were living too kindly. Even though the world first sprayed them with very black stale water, if their current color is gray, isn’t it the same as acting almost pure white… And so on.
Anyway, Leia’s cool tone drew everyone’s attention. Delen, who had always been distracted, glanced sideways at Leia, perhaps because she was interested in her. Moreover, as if responding to Leia’s remarks, the always silent hero finally opened his mouth. Everyone’s gaze was drawn to them like a magnet.
“Really? What color is Delen?”
The red eyes of the hero move back and forth quickly once. She glances at Dellen, then returns to look at Leia, who speaks. After receiving the warrior’s gaze for a moment, Delen flinched and hardened her expression. She always smiled and ignored it, but that was possible because the leader of the party, the hero, condoned and moved on. But this time he was the first to engage in conversation. It’s a completely different situation than usual.
Depending on his appearance, Delen’s treatment will change in this conversation. There was a subtle tension in Delen’s eyes. Not only Delren, but the other members also watched the situation with interest or a little nervous attitude.
“Gray-scale.”
“Gray-scale?”
“As I said before, we are gray. We do not distinguish between good and evil, black and white, and act differently depending on the situation… Sometimes we use black means for white purposes, and on the other hand, we use white means for black ends. We I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been pure white or pure black.”
Hero, Mira, Gina, Aris. Leia looked at the party members once and looked at Delen for the last time.
“But Delen is black and white. There is no middle ground. The two colors don’t mix like we do. When it’s white, it’s really pure white, and when it’s black, it’s so black that it’s really neat. The realm of black and white is so clearly divided. With us I’ve never seen anyone in my life who treats me so well when I’m with them, and treats them kindly and kindly to others. Especially to ‘believers’, they’re like angels.”
Leia also talked about Delen’s white side.
Delenn was basically a fairly tolerant personality. Like a very exemplary paladin, he has no mercy for his enemies, but is basically motherly and kind to the good. She does not treat people with prejudice and smiles at everyone equally. In particular, Delenn, who criticizes the corrupt church in the shadows and helps devout ‘believers’ of the Hirak Church who follow the original doctrine as their conviction, was an angel to them.
Even though Leia had just joined, he remembered all the good things about Delen and talked about them in detail. Everyone nodded her head at her words. At least when it came to her dealings with good people, she had far more Delenn’s goodwill than all the other five put together, and it was an undeniably brilliant pure white.
Depending on whether you are inside or outside the fence, your attitude changes greatly. That was the similarity between Delen and Gina, but in fact, there was a big difference in their personalities. The difference was the size of the fence. The fence they pass through is very small, so only the hero, his fellow women, and a very few people he likes are inside the fence. On the other hand, Delen’s fence was so huge that only the enemies, the church, and the openly malicious villains were outside the fence, and most of the rest were inside the fence. Instead, unlike Gina, there were quite a few people who stayed inside the fence and then got kicked out. She is friendly and nice to people she doesn’t know well, but changes her attitude mercilessly when she thinks she can’t use this person.
“And.”
Like a Delen fan, Leia took a short comma after talking about her for a long time. Now it’s time to talk about the other side.
“It’s really scary when it’s black. To be honest, when I saw Delenn fighting earlier, I doubted if he was the Delen I knew. It was only what I had heard about, but it was the first time I’d actually seen it. I was really surprised.”
Said Leia, revealing her feelings infrequently. Delenn couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly. Delenn, who thought it was time for her to be punished and waited for the ensuing list of shortcomings, tilted her head as Leia shrugged her shoulders.
“…But it doesn’t matter. I was surprised that my older sister, whom I thought was the most normal, turned out to be the strangest person, but there is no one who is not strange here. When white, she is whiter than anyone else, and when black is black, she is more black than anyone else. Black and white. Umm, it’s interesting because there’s no middle ground. How the colors don’t mix is a subject of research.”
Swoop.
Leia held out her hand. Dellen was momentarily dazed and she just stared at her hand held out in front of him.
“We ask well.”
“Ah…”
Leia’s favorable response. Accordingly, not only Leia but everyone smiled favorably. Gina, who was nervous inside that things might turn out badly, Mira and Aris, who were dissatisfied with ignoring Delen’s ‘black and white’, and even the silent warrior. Delenn looked at the people around her and felt a sense of joy that made her wonder if this was a dream.
Even the chic warrior smiled and nodded her head when her eyes met Delren’s. Delen’s eyes moistened in an instant. In fact, Dellen cared more about her ‘black and white’ than anyone else. He’s afraid he won’t let you in, so he’s been trying to pretend he doesn’t know, but now he doesn’t have to.
“Huh, you’re a warrior…”
Although it was Leia who played her biggest role here, Delenn was most moved and embraced by her beloved lover, the warrior. Because her love is everything, Leia understood and moved on with a cool smile. It was a very funny scene in the middle of being moved, and everyone burst into laughter.
It was a commemorative day when everyone embraced Delen’s ‘black and white’.
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Tsar. Dreuk.
Sitting at a cafe near his house, the warrior who recalled Delen’s black and white came back to reality. When you shake the plastic cup you drank from, you can hear the sound of ice cubes.
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In fact, at that time, Delen’s black and white was not a problem.
The real problem was what happened after that.
Jingle jingle.
The warrior, who was trying to recall the past, moved his gaze to the sound of the bell ringing as the door opened.
“You’re here at last.”
The hero looked this way and spoke to the man who was striding forward.
“It’s been a long wait, pimp.”
The face of the man, Seo-jun, was distorted.
