Chapter 75

(Harold POV)

Brave Heartswas an authentic, Oudou* RPG. The protagonist, Liner, grew up as a close witness to the strength of his parents who were quite skilled thanks to their past as adventurers. From his childhood, Liner kept training himself, yearning to become stronger than his mother and father, and before he knew it, he reached a point where he was dreaming of becoming the leader of the saint knight order.

Anyone would acknowledge the leader of the knight order as a mighty hero and it was no exaggeration to say that most children aspired to become like him.

On his 17th birthday, Liner was supposed to take over a certain sword that his parents had obtained in their adventurer days and head to the royal capital so as to enter the knight order.

However, a certain evening soon before his 17th birthday, some thieves broke into Liners house and stole the sword. Thus, after shaking himself off his parents restraint, Liner went out of the village to get the sword back from the thieves, with his childhood friend, Colette, accompanying him.

That was the introduction of the game, and this was the trigger that got Liner involved with an atrocious plan that was going to shake the whole world, therefore making him do all he could to get in said plans way.

Incidentally, sending the thieves away and fighting them was a part of the games combat tutorial. At that point, the player could experience a real battle with magic mixed in. It was an event that could not be avoided when playing the game.

Well, in this world, there was an extremely high chance to eventually experience such a battle at later times, but that didnt change the fact that this event was the first major turning point for the storys development. A turning point that would have been impossible if not for those thieves coming to steal the sword,

and Harold was convinced that the whole operation had been carried out by the people under Harrison, the Minister for Defense. Those people had no name in the game, and even their lines of dialog were poorly prepared. They had no particular background to investigate or anything of the sort either. They were plot devices that merely played the parts they were given.

However, that was just in the games story.

From Harolds analogical reasoning based on his dialog with Justus, the young man and woman were almost surely the ones who were supposed to trespass into Liners residence and steal his sword. The problem was that Harold was ordered to join them and manage them, and that, in the game, the thieves were actually... a trio.

Having finished listening to Justus lecture, Harold questioned him so as to clear his own doubts.

I get what they are. However, why do I have to go with them? It would be fine if you just prepared some other doll, right?

Ive considered doing that but, to reach this point in the research, I had to expend more of the stellar tribes members bodies from my stock than I expected, so Id rather keep some spares.

Those people of the stellar tribe had been captured by Justus in the middle of the confusion of the battle that he had caused between the knight order