“I, I….”
My body wouldn’t obey.
Even if I picked up the sword now, what meaning would it have?
Nevertheless, why.
I gritted my teeth and reached out, grasping the sword rolling on the ground.
The Saint was merely looking down at me with a smiling face.
However, those eyes alone were not smiling.
Grinding my teeth with a creak, my golden eyes fiercely glared at the Saint.
“……I won’t run away.”
At my venomous reply, the Saint swallowed a hollow laugh, huh.
Even that was momentary.
The laughter, which had been nothing more than a faint smile, gradually grew louder and louder. By the end, it had become a massive resonance echoing thunderously across the entire mountains and fields.
“Puhu, aha. Hahahahahahahaha!”
For a long while, the Saint burst into laughter while looking up at the sky.
Once more, the sky-blue eyes were slowly descending.
A gaze that enveloped me as if binding me, who had somehow managed to raise my body in the meantime.
Eyes gleaming…