The armor summoner will not be involved in the event

He pretended to take a few people away.

After the initial confusion, Ilitia realized that these people were most likely sent by this neutral country. Although the purpose of the assassination still required some thought about the other party's logic, it would definitely be profitable for her if all the assassins failed and were caught.

"Treat their injuries. You can ask the hotel manager for help in getting medicine. Make sure nothing happens to them before I finish the negotiations tomorrow."

"Okay, Miss Tia, good night."

"Good night, Alcaide."

【339】Drama

Ilitia must be very politically talented, Alcaide thought.

Originally, she said that this negotiation might take a week to half a month, but in the afternoon of the next day, he learned that they could go to the next "attraction" at the latest the day after tomorrow.

"So, do you want to go see the sights with me?"

Alcade didn't care about the other party's political achievements, but seeing that the other party was happy, he didn't want to pour cold water on Illytia, so he simply invited the other party directly.

"Haha, let's go together."

Ilitia didn't hate seeing the scenery, so she naturally agreed.

But she was also quite confused about one thing.

"But why are you so obsessed with looking at the scenery?"

"Hmm? Maybe it's because sightseeing doesn't require you to negotiate interests with anyone. I'm not good at this kind of thing, and I don't have much interest in it. Although others think I'm cold and unsociable, my family would rather I don't make friends than find someone who doesn't know how to make friends. In general, I may be like a spoiled and encouraged brat, with neither talent nor interest in twists and turns. In the absence of any entertainment activities, sightseeing, which doesn't require basic skills, is one of the few things I can do."

In fact, in addition to watching the scenery, there is also meditation, but [Big Dad] said that one should not indulge in the growth of strength, no matter whether he is strong or weak, so he only has four to eight hours of meditation time every day. Moreover, if he meditates and encounters the situation where his master is killed by the opponent, it is not as good as the pleasure brought by watching the scenery.

Speaking of which, Alcaide actually has a hobby that is not very suitable to be mentioned to pass the time, which is to sweep the battlefield.

The positive feedback from defeating the entire TMD world with his own strength is actually very strong, but since he has no intention of starting a war, he will basically only take action if he is lucky enough to encounter a battlefield.

But Ilitia didn't know that he just chose the most harmless one from a bunch of hobbies that didn't seem friendly at all. She just thought that the other party's hobby was too monotonous, so she wanted to recommend her own hobby to the other party.

"The temperature during the day is terrible. Can we go to see the night view at night?"

"sure."

"That's great. How about accompanying me to the biggest theater here to watch a play? I saw the poster promoting it. There's a play going on today that I'm very interested in."

Alkaide wanted to refuse, because he didn't have much appreciation for art, and he couldn't appreciate the drama that required exaggerated movements and high-pitched voices because of the venue and props. But Ilitia said she was very interested, and he wasn't the type who only cared about himself, so it might be interesting to watch a drama occasionally.

If I could develop some of the hobbies of the upper class, it wouldn't be a bad thing at least.

……

"..."

As expected, I cannot appreciate overly exaggerated movements. This kind of art is not easy to accept for a three-year-old child who has watched TV dramas.

Ilitia beside her had already burst into tears.

This play, which she is said to particularly like, is about a princess who accidentally becomes a witch and is rejected by her family. So, under the manipulation of her family and her own half-hearted consent, the witch lives in a tower far away from the world.

As the days passed, pain and loneliness overwhelmed the witch's heart.

One day, a ranger accidentally broke into the tower.

[Ranger, why did you come here? ]

【Because I wanted to be here, beautiful lady.】

The witch had forgotten how long it had been since she was looked at with pure kindness, so she warmly entertained the ranger.

They talked about the present and the past like old friends.

There are good parts that are told, and there are also bad things that are mentioned, but it is still pleasant to understand.

Finally, the ranger decided to say goodbye because he was not going to stop thinking about traveling around the world.

The witch hesitated, but finally made a request to the ranger.

[Ranger——I am a witch that everyone hates. You are the only human who has been able to befriend me in all these years. If I beg you to become my knight, will you agree?]

The ranger knew the witch's past and heard the kindness in her heart.

He sighed at the witch's pity and was also fascinated by her beauty.

So he gave up his identity as a ranger and became the other side's knight.

Originally, Arcaid thought that up to this point, it was just a love story of a witch and a knight staying together forever.

But then the curtain pulled back and the perspective turned to the witch's sister, the princess of the kingdom.

The princess is a bit of a rebellious person, and she has been looking for a good opponent since she was a child.

Once, Her Royal Highness the Princess was helped by the other party in an accident, and they expressed their inner feelings with swords, so out of pride as young men, they promised to be each other's good rivals forever.

One day, she received a letter from her good rival, saying that he decided to put down his sword and accompany someone wholeheartedly until eternity.

The princess could not accept such an ending. The person she thought was her forever best friend would have to accompany someone else forever, at least ten years after her death (crossed out)... That kind of thing should at least be dealt with after one last fight with her!

So she embarked on a journey to find a good opponent.

On the way, she met an adventure team determined to defeat the legendary witch, overcame many difficulties and dangers, and finally arrived at her destination.

There, she realized her wish of meeting a good opponent, and was surprised to find that her sister, who was told that she died of a calamity when she was a child, was actually a hated witch.

The battle could no longer be stopped. The adventure team had come here to defeat the witch. The prophet said that the witch would eventually destroy the world. Whether they were doing it for self-protection or for fame and fortune, killing the witch would be beneficial to them in every way.

So the righteous adventure team started fighting with the evil witch and her group, and the princess who tried to stop it was also drawn into the battle.

In the end, the seriously injured princess fell into the arms of the witch who was also seriously injured.

After expressing her love for her sister, the witch broke down and cried.

Why? Why do I always encounter such misfortunes?

I clearly didn't do anything wrong, and I clearly just wanted a little bit of happiness.

In the end, his beloved sister died and he himself was about to die.

——Arcade still remembered how tightly Ilitia held his hand at that time.

【340】Unspoken reasons

At the end of the drama, the knight who still had strength left killed the last enemy and came to the side of the witch.

[I'm sorry, I failed to protect you.]

The witch said: [Perhaps this is the ending I should have. How can a witch who is destined to bring destruction be happy? ]

【You will be happy. 】

The knight called out the witch's name and hugged her.

[I swear, I will give you a chance to be happy no matter what. You are so unwilling to succumb to fate, and you have such a noble character, how could you not be happy? ]

The witch became a witch because she was cursed by an ancient and original curse.

That is a curse cast by no one, or rather, by the world.

The content of the curse is not clear, we only know that the witch is destined to destroy the world.

She had also tried to remove the curse from herself, but had failed every time.

So the witch no longer prayed for the possibility of returning to normal life.

But the Knights are different.

As a ranger, he was unbridled and free, hunting powerful enemies and singing to his heart's content, which was in line with everyone's imagination of the word ranger.

He performed his duties as a knight diligently and never left the witch's side for several years.

Now he intends to protect his witch, no matter what the cost.

Brilliant flames ignited on the knight's body, and the final protection took the form of a curse.

The curse of immortality can only be activated when one person devotes his life lovingly to another person. The effect is that no matter how severe the pain suffered by the cursed person is, it will be healed as if time has gone back. The only way to lift the curse is for the cursed person to forget the person who sacrificed for him.

[No...don't!]

No matter how the witch pleaded, the ritual was already irreversible.

In the end, the knight turned into an immortal flame and continued the witch's life.

The flames burned everything around, whether it was the corpses of the enemies, the princess, the knights, or the tower that had always imprisoned the witch.

Eventually, the people who thought the witch was dead cheered happily, and the witch seemed to have reconciled with herself and lived a happy life.

Arcaid felt that there were many things worth complaining about, such as the curse research plot which basically did not exist in the previous part of the play, and the former ranger brother who was now a knight brother who sacrificed himself for the witch.

Maybe he is not old enough to understand love. He has no idea how the knight fell in love with the witch. He even gave up his identity as a ranger and the chance to get the princess, although the witch was also a princess before.

The most awkward part is the ending.

According to the bedtime stories that my family members had told me before, except for the one about my father and [Little Dad], the other two were all modified plots.

For example, the magical fairy tale in which the wolf girl Little Red Riding Hood seduces the alchemist hunter to save her and try to kill the wolf grandmother, but is killed in return by the grandmother and granddaughter.

For example, the process of the drama is roughly similar to the one in front of us, but the ending is that the witch ignites an eternal flame while singing and burns the entire kingdom to destruction.

What stands out is the weirdness and anti-routine. If there is a prototype, it has to be modified a bit.

By the way, the story of the doomed ending told by the mother mentioned earlier, the witch became a witch because no one in the kingdom loved her, so she went to find the power to destroy the kingdom and became a witch. The irony is that after getting the power, she didn't want to destroy the kingdom, but just wanted to live with the knight. In the end, because the knight died, the witch destroyed everything and committed suicide.

There is absolutely no element of sympathy in it. Ah, is the drama in front of me similar? That's fine.

However, although Arcaid was not moved at all, Illitia beside him seemed very touched, which means that the drama was not bad.

A play that fails to touch anyone is not useless; a play that fails to touch anyone is useless.

Since it's not completely useless, there's no need for Alcaide, who is neither professional nor knowledgeable, to say anything more.

He simply handed his handkerchief to Ilitia so that she could have a relatively dry handkerchief to better tidy up her appearance.

Looking at the other person's devilish beauty that still looked gorgeous without makeup, Alcaide, who was not affected at all, asked his question directly.

"Did you like the part where the Knight brother sacrificed himself?"

Because Ilitia's grip on Arcaid's hand was the strongest in the entire play, he thought this scene was probably Ilitia's favorite scene.

Unexpectedly, Ilitia denied this speculation.

"No, this is the part I hate the most in the whole drama. It makes me feel sicker than the ending where it seems like no one was sacrificed."

"He was the witch's last pillar of support, but he met his death as if he had obeyed fate. The witch who had been fighting against fate destroyed the world as predicted."

"Isn't the end of the play a happy ending where the witch lives happily and the kingdom celebrates?"

Although the knights were reunited in the underworld.

"Did you notice the flowers on the stage before the last act?"

Flowers?

After some recollection, Alcaide confirmed that such a thing did exist.

“Is there any special meaning?”

"The story of this troupe is based on a script by a famous playwright. One of the characteristics of his works is that they have real endings and false endings. The troupe that performs the script by that playwright usually performs the script with different endings once on two days, and one of them is a false ending. They will place flowers on the stage that symbolize ideal dreams and bring a happy ending that does not require much consideration of logic."

Having calmed down, Ilitia folded the handkerchief and handed it to Arcaid, then continued.

"And this is not the first time I've seen this play, so I know its true ending."

"The heartbroken witch sang the cursed words loudly, destroyed the kingdom, and lost her memory of the knight in the flames that burned the world, and met her death."

Isn’t this a happy ending?

Arcaid wanted to say this, but looking at Illitia's red eyes, he didn't dare to say it.

"But no matter which ending it is, it's terrible. And no matter which ending it is, the witch is destined to lose the last spiritual support, which makes me hate it even more."

Why did you come to see this play? Or bring me along.

Alcaide wanted to ask this, but suddenly he felt a sense of indifference.

"…I thought you were going to ask me why I brought you to see this play."

"If you want to talk, you can talk. If you don't want to talk, you can talk. I'm not the type to know everything."