Sometimes, it comes to me.
A question I want to ask.
To someone other than myself. I just want to know the answer, and it doesn’t matter who it comes from.
It could be the dead-tired suit ahead of me, the security guard standing at attention by the roadside, or even the young lady doing her makeup as she walks. Anyone would do.
Do you have a goal for ten years from now?
Do you have a dream you would risk your life to achieve?
When you were a kid, did you ever write an essay on what kind of adult you wanted to grow up to be?
With an assortment of colored pencils that made up the rainbow, did your eyes sparkle as you drew yourself as an adult?
When you talked about your dreams and future with your parents, were you excited?
I did. I was.
But I’ve forgotten it all since.
The Sovereignty calls itself the witch’s paradise.
That was what I was raised to believe, but an astral mage with no powers like me eventually has to realize that there’s no place in this country for someone who’s powerless.
That was when all the childhood dreams I’d drawn of my future came crumbling down.
All the dreams of what I would do once I was an adult…
I lost them all.
And that all happened in this lousy place that calls itself a “paradise.”
I didn’t know…
How was I supposed to live? How was I supposed to die?
I had no idea what to do with my life.
And then, I learned…
…Elletear Lou Nebulis IX, the princess, was my exact opposite.
She was everything I wasn’t.
She knew how she would live and how she would die. She knew those things better than anyone.
I was certain that I had no dreams I’d risk my life for. I’d lost all the things I’d imagined that I would become once I grew up, but she’d latched on to those things and never let go.
However, she didn’t have the astral power to make those dreams a reality.
She had no one to share her ideals with, either.
She needed a knight who could support her.
And I, Joheim Leo Armadel, wanted to live and die for her.
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