CH 112

Chapter 112

Character Introduction, Part 5 — Rhine, Dance Slave, Kazas

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

Name : Rhine（Not his true name）

Age : 26

Height/Weight/Appearance : 182cm, 78kg, Brown hair and brown eyes

Occupation : Swordsman

What he likes : Good woman, liquor, doing nothing

What he dislikes : Woman who preaches a lot, brat, bother(some) thing

First-Person : I/Ore/俺

Profile :

Originally, he was a professional soldier. For some reason, he was forced to flee his country and became a mercenary. He became a mercenary. He is thought to have grown his hair and beard and to be rather dirty-looking, but in fact he is also a disguise.

In fact, he isn’t very serious about his activities as a mercenary because he thinks it’s enough if he can make a living for a day. There’s also the circumstance that it would be rather embarrassing if he became famous. He seems to be quite good by nature, but few people are aware of it, and Alfiris is no exception. However, he’s trusted by his fellow mercenaries because of his high success rate and the fact that almost no one dies when he’s involved. It’s more of a problem for him, so he has been asked to move from place to place to avoid too much name recognition.

He met Alfiris at the request of a certain bandit conquest, he couldn’t leave Alfiris alone, who was in danger in any way, so he was always watching her carefully. This was not limited to Alfiris, and he tried to watch the newcomers, but Alfiris mistook him for a pervert, and here they are (Rhine is responsible for this, too, most of all).

Then he and Alfiris got to swearing every time they saw each other, Rhine can also have a younger side than he looks, he is regarded by his fellow mercenaries as a similar and friendly young man.

He is sharper than he looks, and he also has a strong sense of justice and compassion, as he wanders around the world, he unwittingly gets close to the heart of things, and because of this, he ends up getting into all sorts of trouble.

Name : Dance Slave（Dancer）

Age : Approximately 800 years old

Height/Weight/Three Sizes/Appearance : 168cm, 55kg, 88/56/86, She has dark hair about midway between her shoulders and waist, and dark eyes. She was dressed quite immodestly, almost like dancers or prostitutes. By the way, she originally「didn’t wear」them, but she have been careful since Rhine told her to.

Occupation : Magic Sword

What she likes : Talking to people, children, liquor, dancing

What she dislikes : Irresponsible people, weak-willed person

First-Person : I/Ware/我

Profile :

She was once feared as a magic sword. A mage, fearing the danger of the sword, forced her to be transferred by transfer magic, and she happened to be in the same space as Ossyria. It’s too much of a probability to describe it as a coincidence, but it is believed that Dance Slave at that time were very malicious and murderous and were attracted to Ossyria because she was on the same wavelength as her.

The sword was originally made by a swordsmith, but it was given a will of its own. He doesn’t know how he came to be able to humanize the sword, but it was thought that because the swordsmith have treated it with so much care for generations, it may have developed a will like the 99 Gods.

When she awoke, people were very surprised, but the swordsmith of that time wasn’t blessed with children, so he raised her as if she were his own daughter. And blessed with a kind family, Dance Slave lived a peaceful life.

But when her swordsmith’s workshop is attacked by fiends, she awakens her power as a magical sword. With her power, the swordsmith repelled the demons, but realizing her usefulness, the swordsmith decided to take up the sword himself and stand up to defeat the demons.

Dance Slave was honestly against it, but she couldn’t speak strongly enough to the swordsmith after he had raised her. The reason why the swordsmith forges weapons is to teach as many people as possible how to survive, and if he had the strength to do so, he would like to go around defeating fiends himself. And while he and his wife became famous as heroes by traveling around the countries, as she imagined, there were limits to what they could do as former ordinary people. Soon after, they died during a battle with fiends, leaving Dance Slave alone and living among the people in the city.

But like Miranda, her appearance never changes, and she gradually loses her place among humans, as she does not even need to eat. Then she began to hide and dwell in the forest so that no one would find her.

As the years passed, she met her second owner, a woman. The woman was a wandering female swordsman and quite skilled. The woman becomes best friends with Dance Slave, but she wields Dance Slave for her own revenge, and although she ultimately achieves her goal, she is crippled by the repercussions of her overuse of Dance Slave, and her life is dispersed at a young age. And Dance Slave was left alone again.

More years passed, and this time her owner was a man. This man was exceptionally skilled, but also very brutal, demanding that Dance Slave be a woman as well as a sword. Since it’s her destiny as a magical sword to obey the orders of her master absolutely, she had no choice but to follow the man’s orders even though she hated them with all her heart.

The man had made a name for himself as a brave man for his achievements, but at the same time, he was accused of being cruel during battles, as if he had changed his personality. But he blamed it on Dance Slave and put all the blame on her by calling her a cursed sword.

However, the man’s attitude gradually became so arrogant that he couldn’t hide it, and eventually people began to resent him, and he was killed by the people who had taken Dance Slave away from him.

What happened from there is not well remembered by Dance Slave. Many people shook her, enemies were defeated, and those who shook her died, and each time her notoriety grew.「Cursed Sword」,「Sword Of The Damned」, and「A Sword That Brings Ruin To Its Wielder.」She wasn’t responsible for any of the names, but people around her did not understand that.

In the midst of all this, she stopped thinking. It could seem unimportant to talk to a human being. And moreover, when Dance Slave cuts something, she is feeling the texture of one’s flesh all over her body. For her, who was raised to be kind-hearted at heart despite her sword, fighting was nothing but pain.

And hundreds of years after being sealed—— Too many years when she stopped thinking. Rambling time with nothing to do gave her the opportunity to think again. It was then that Rhine appeared before her. She almost despairs that a human would wield her as a magical sword again, but she is intrigued by his line,「I don’t need you,」and decides to go with him.

No one knows where the adventure with him will lead.

Name : Kazas Rho Torrentisk

Age : 18

Height/Weight/Appearance : 162cm, 56kg, Short brown hair (rather shaved), eyes and glasses

Occupation : Scholar（Archeology, Geology, Geography, Astrology, Physics, etc.）

What he likes : Traveling, learning, smart people

What he dislikes : Waste, the dim-witted, those who don’t try

First-Person : I/Boku/僕

Profile :

He came from a poor family. His father, a government official, was framed for masterminding a corruption case and committed suicide when he was nine years old. His mother was mentally ill at the time and was in the care of the Arnelia Church orphanage, where she died of an epidemic when he was 14. Since then, he has had no siblings and lives alone, making all of his living on his own.

He wasn’t originally qualified to attend an academy, but instead studied on a scholarship. He wasn’t confident in his arm strength, so he followed his father’s advice to study, but he had already finished his general education course before his father’s death (usually at the age of 13 to 15), and he had skipped a class to study a specialized course.

However, in order to secure the scholarship, he had to be at the top of his class, and in order to be among the first to earn money on his own, he devoted every waking moment to his studies, publishing papers and articles. Such a life deprived him of the luxury of his mind, and he lost his youthful sensibility. However, it has paid off, as he was given a professorship at the age of 14, and combined with royalties from publications based on his research results, he now has a steady income that allows him to live a reasonable life without having to work anymore.

But on the contrary, having lost half of his life’s goals, he began to go on field surveys of the ruins, calling it traveling. It was as if he’s going to make up for what was missing in himself, and perhaps he was trying to fill the gap in his heart with his travels. In the process, Kazas will meet Alfiris and her group, and this encounter will come to mean a great deal to him.

He seems to be more interested in Nia now than in academics. According to an interview with Euthy, he wants to「unravel the mystery of why women fighting on the battlefield can maintain such a lovely personality.」