CH 133

“Huh… huh…”

I’m running to my house now. The people of the city are in a hurry, preparing to evacuate because of the orcs. But that doesn’t mean that the people of the city are confused. Everyone in the city is prepared to evacuate. I can even see the young people helping the old people who are late with their preparation.

“Here we are…!”

I was running while avoiding the people in the city, so I couldn’t run as fast as I could. That’s why it took me a while to reach home. Then I opened the door with such force that it might break and walked into the house.

“…Hmm?”

Even though there was a sign of someone in the living room, which was rather close to the front door, there was no voice at all. I wanted to know what was going on, so I headed for the living room.

“…Hmm?”

“Zero?”

“Zero… are you back?”

“………”

When I entered the room, I found my father with an eye patch over his right eye and missing his right arm, my mother on the verge of tears and my eldest brother Andrei holding his head and crouching down.

“What’s the situation?”

“That is …….”

The fact that Father was wearing an eye patch and missing an arm bothered me, but right now I needed to know what was going on. The situation my father told me about was more dire than I could have imagined. The adventurers and knights were half destroyed in the first orc attack. My father had lost his right eye and arm protecting Andrei at that time. It seems that Andrei is in shock from that and is depressed. The next time the Orcs attack, they will start evacuating.

“You’re going to start evacuating when they attack?”

“That’s right.”

“What? That would mean…”

If that’s the case, there is a high risk of Orcs attacking the evacuees. But there’s a reason why they can’t start evacuating before they’re attacked. It’s to prevent them from being attacked out of the blue before they have a chance to escape. But that’s meaningless if they attack us from behind, right?

“I understand what you mean. But it’s okay.”

“…?”

“I’ll serve as the Lord.”

“Huh!?”

“Andrei, you’re going to lead the people of the city. It’s up to you.”

I somehow knew that my father was going to die right here in this place. But if you let me do that, there’s no point in me coming here. In my previous life, I died without being able to do any filial duty to my parents. So in this life, I have a sense of mission to do the same for my parents as I did in my previous life. But even if I do that, I can’t give anything back to my parents in my previous life…. So this is completely self-satisfying for me.

“Andrei Nii-sama, do you think you’ll be able to lead the people now?”

“That is …….”

My father must have some idea that he is not going to be able to do that. Andrei was still squatting in a progressive form.

“I’ll be the lord.”

“……”

“…Hey!”

My father must have known that I was going to say that. He was quietly looking at me. However, my mother is looking at me in a state of surprise. When Brother Andrei heard this, he finally looked up.

“Are you sure about this, what about Sophie?”

“I have no intention of dying at all.”

Is it okay to leave Sophie and die first? My father was probably asking that. But I’m not going to die in such a place. Besides if I do, there’s a small chance that Sophie will follow me and die too.

“It’s only because of a magic tool that I was able to get here so quickly. The tool can be used to transfer one more time. So if I can buy an hour or so of time, I’ll use it to escape the city.”

“I see…”

When I said this, Brother Andrei’s and Mother’s faces brightened a little. But my father’s face, on the contrary, darkened. My father may have found out that I was lying. But I had no choice but to keep pushing.

“So leave this to me and run ahead.”

“…… Okay.”

My father managed to give his approval for me to serve as his representative. It can be said that my father has recognized my abilities to some extent. Because if I were weak, I wouldn’t have been given control, I would just endanger the people of the city. I was a little happy to feel that my father approved of me, even though it was in a situation like this.

“Picone!”

“[Title] Obtained a First Class Architect with a Death Flag.”

Wait a minute. Don’t put a damper on this happy feeling. It’s a title that should never be set. I’ll definitely check the effects later.

Boom, boom, boom!

“It seems the orcs are attacking”

“Then I’m going.”

“Oh, let’s go too.”

Just then, the bell rang. The Orcs must have attacked.

“Don’t die, okay?”

“I’ll do my best.”

It seems that my father knows that I don’t have a magic tool to transfer. The town was as empty as it had been when I came here. perhaps my father gave instructions such as to gather people who were ready to evacuate somewhere. If that’s the case, then my father might be more capable than I thought. I headed towards the direction where the Orcs were coming from alone.

“Oh, let’s check it out while we’re at it…”

As I ran, I checked the title I had just earned.

“[First-class architect with the death flag]

Obtained when a death flag is raised.

[Effect.]

Makes it easier to raise the death flag.

Makes it easier to recover the death flag.

Makes it harder to break the death flag.

“It’s awful…”

That’s a really bad title. And “easy to collect” and “hard to break” mean almost the same thing… in other words… is it more effective? This is the first time I’ve gotten a title that I absolutely do not need. For the first time, I was grateful that that god put a limit on the number of titles.

After confirming this title, I removed the skill integration title and set Orc Killer.