Hidden Characters:

Harold Bluegarden (Similar to Taira Kiyoshi from Btooom!)

Zoey's father and merchant who became rich thanks to Rei.

He is very supportive of his daughter and is very tearful when it comes to her.

 

Walter (Similar to Sora Smiths from My Next Life as a Villainess)

Butler of the Redblade family as well as Rei's right-hand man.

He is not a character in the game, but thanks to the Redblade family he escaped the future that awaited him.

 

Markus Bennett (Similar to Kojiro Nanjo from SK8 the Infinity)

Captain of the 8th squad of the Royal Knights and Oliver's father.

He always smiles in any situation to keep calm, he is a very reliable man as he served in Sieghart's squadron when he was young.

 

Rogue Eisenberg (Similar to Bob Makihara from Tenjou Tenge)

Captain of the 2nd Squad of royal knights as the second strongest in the kingdom.

Nicknamed as the Demonic Spear by his allies as enemies.

Raises his son to be superior to him as he desires his blood to once again be the commander of the knights.

 

Nigel Ashton (Similar to Hitouji Makoto from Magical Warfare)

Isaac's father and also head of the court mages in charge of protecting the royal family.

 

Clementine Davernoch (Similar to Nazami Enec from Overlord)

One of the four sword saints of the holy empire.

Nicknamed as the iron shield, the impenetrable defense of the empire.

Superb and egocentric as his name suggests.

 

Berrick von Norden (Similar to Geralt Antgadull from The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt).

The crown prince of the Norden Kingdom, a young man who puts on airs about himself and glorifies every single thing he does.

He hates it when people don't do him and look down on him, especially because of his weight.

 

Ramberti von Norden (Similar to Clavis from Death Parade)

The second prince of Norden and sycophant to his older brother.

He knows that a fight between brothers for the throne is natural, but doesn't want to do it since it's more beneficial to use his older brother as king.

 

Ishgal Leto Gabino (Similar to Ogun Montgomery from Fire Force)

Second prince of Gabino.

He left the position to be heir to study medicine since he considers that health is more important than a king.

 

Bazett Leto Gabino (Similar to Geronimo from Fate Grand Order)

The third prince of Gabino.

Unlike his older brothers, his path of choice is trade because if he becomes king, he would not be able to make money.

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The night before Rei returned home.

Rogue had drunk too much and was brought to his room.

He was dreaming, a nightmare he was having.

In that nightmare, he remembered an incident from twenty years ago.

It was a war that was fought between a country and the kingdom.

The kingdom was winning, until an unimaginable threat arrived.

A tall man, about eight feet tall.

In red armor with two shields on his shoulders and a huge sword which he swung as if it were nothing.

The emblem of the empire was engraved on that shield.

A Brune knight shouted.

"I-It can't be..."

"It's him..."

"One of the four sword saints of the empire."

"Clementine Davernoch! The mobile defense!"

The empire agreed to a hefty payment from the enemy country to lend them the available sword saint for one day.

Clementine was one of the four sword saints from Agastia Empire.

He was known as the strongest of all in defense.

He used two shields that turned him into a tank, added to his monstrous strength he could crush even rocks with his bare hands without using magic power.

This man was so dangerous that anyone who saw him would run away in fear.

He has a death count of over 4,000 at his 39 years old.

Rogue, who was only 18 at the time, was scared.

His father was in another platoon so no one could help him.

He was about to die.

But then...

"We haven't seen each other in a while, Davernoch."

"Oh, oh, oh. It's you, Hogan!"

An elderly man, long gray hair tied in a ponytail, short beard, sharp gaze like his blue eyes.

The commander of the royal knights, Sieghart Hogan was present.

Clementine had three times engaged in combat with him.

All three times they had been interrupted.

This fourth time would not be ruined by anyone, was what he thought.

He smiled arrogantly, showing his yellow teeth.

"Devavavava!"

"Hooooogaaaaaaaaan."

"I will kill you this time. I will use all my strength to kill you right now."

"What a coincidence Davernoch."

"My wife has recently fallen ill and I'm in no mood to waste my time with you. I will end it all with this attack."

Clementine got into position to fight.

Sieghart prepared to attack in a strange stance.

It looked like an oriental stance.

"If I remember correctly, that guy said this."

"Iai."

"Flashing Flash!"

In a single swift movement, equivalent to the speed of light.

Sieghart took 27 slashes at Clementine's armor.

"Huh? What did you do?"

As if a mosquito had flown by his side, Clementine didn't feel anything.

But... he quickly began to get dizzy, his armor cracking to the point of breaking.

Then, his body was cut into pieces.

His head falling to the ground at the end, all he thought for the last time was...

(It's... a monster─)

Sieghart turned to look at Rogue.

"Are you all right?"

"Y-Yes. Thank you very much, Commander Hogan."

"There's nothing to thank, it's my job as commander."

Rogue awoke from his dream.

He was annoyed at remembering that.

"I really hate that memory."

Rogue doesn't hate Sieg. He hates himself since thanks to his father, he envies the position of commander.

He respects Sieg more than anyone else, so just as his father did with him, he treats his son the same way he was treated.

"It's very upsetting to remember that."

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"Umm?"

"Something's up commander."

In another place near the border.

A group of men were eating in their forest camp.

One of them was Sieg who felt a wind on the back of his neck.

"I thought someone was calling me, it must have been my imagination."

"Let's keep eating."

He replied to the captain in front of him.

A man in his 40's, combed hair facing forward yellow, black lock beard and brown eyes.

He was Bret Elliott, captain of the ninth squad of royal knights.

Since a few months, thanks to Rei.

Bret's life had been walking a distorted path of greatness being an NPC in this world.

Bret didn't understand what was going on, but he didn't want to ask.

(I want to go home.)

He thought as he sipped his cold tomato soup.

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We just found something strange in the park.

A little girl was sleeping on a bench.

Without sounding like a lolicon, I could tell she was beautiful.

Her small body and white skin made her look like a doll.

Her hands and feet were small unlike her body.

Her blonde hair was long and tied in two side ponytails.

She opened her eyes and I could notice her bright brown eyes.

She looked at Rei, rubbed her eyes to get rid of the lashes.

"Umm, onii-chan, who are you?"

"A kidnapper?"

"You kidnapped me?"

"Don't say stupid things!"

Rei shouted because of how terrifying the girl said.

If this were Japan, the police would have surrounded the guy, but it would be a man in his 30s or 40s wearing a T-shirt that indicated he was a lolicon.

Good thing we killed the real lolicons years ago.

I said to Rei.

"Hey, we need to clear up the misunderstanding."

"People start looking at us."

Rei also noticed that they were looking at him.

"With my position as a duke, it would be humiliating to be treated as a girl kidnapper..."

"Besides Rose would kill me if she knew people said I liked little girls."

Rei turned blue as he imagined Rose angry.

He went to a nearby salesman who sold ice cream.

Thanks to ice magic, they can make ice cream.

Rei bought two and went to hand it to the girl.

"H-Here. Sorry for the delay of your ice cream my little sister, hehehe."

He tried to dissemble strangely.

But the mysterious girl took the ice cream.

The people stopped watching Rei and went back to their own thing.

Rei wiped the sweat off and sat on the same bench.

"That was close."

"I was able to go from being a cheat lord to being a lolicon lord."

"Cheat Lord?"

Said the little loli who almost turned Rei into a lolicon in the eyes of passersby.

"That's right."

Apparently now Rei wants to brag to a little girl.

How low this guy has sunk?

He stood up and proclaimed to himself...

"You stand before the only man capable of using magic coming from a god."

"The new and only duke of Brune's kingdom."

"Reidel Redblade."

Even his teeth flashed to make his presentation more pretentious.

It seemed to work.

The little loli's eyes turned to stars.

"That's amazing!"

"It really is!"

I shouted upon hearing that insanity.

She stood up and jumped up and down with joy.

"I did it! I did it! I found him!"

Rei stood and knelt down near her to ask her in detail.

"Were you looking for me midget?"

"Yes. I ran away from home to find you."

"You ran away from home?"

"You shouldn't do that being a brat, your parents will be worried."

"Even if you just wanted to see me."

Said the man who ran away as a child to fly for flying with Rose at night.

The little loli shook her head sideways, getting her pigtails to shake.

"No. You're wrong."

"I didn't run away from home to see you."

"I ran away to warn you."

Suddenly, the playful atmosphere darkened.

Rei became serious.

"What did you want to warn me about child?"

The girl looked confused whether to say it or not.

At all this, how old would she be?

Because of her height, she should be about 7 or 8 years old.

The little girl said something frightening.

"My daddy wants you dead."

"I heard him say that he's already preparing to wipe out you and the royal family."

"I don't want anything bad to happen to Daddy, that's why I came to get help to stop him."

"I heard from Heinrich onii-chan that you called yourself the strongest man and mage in the country."

Hearing that from others, Rei was embarrassed.

"When someone else says it, if looks embarrassing."

She seemed to forget something, she wiped her dirty hands from the melted ice cream.

"My manners how granny maid said."

"Thank you for the ice cream."

"And my name is Ange."

(Ange-chan, huh?)

It's a pretty name I thought.

"Angelique Bartolt."

(Huh?)

Rei and I were confused.

She continued with her introduction.

"My father is Klyde Bartolt, the head of the Bartolt family."

"Please, Cheat Lord onii-chan."

"Help me stop my daddy from becoming an enemy of the royal family."

"This event is totally impossible to process!"

Rei and I shouted as we heard little Ange-chan say that her daddy wanted to kill Rei and the royal family.

What a bad joke this is!

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Arc of the Beginning of the Great War, Finished.

 

Iai: A samurai technique, the art of unsheathing and re-sheathing the sword in a movement faster than the opening and closing of the eye.

Fleeting Flash: The attack Sieg uses was learned from a samurai he once knew, in his native language it is "Tsukanoma no senkō" which means the written.