〈第1章あらすじ〉
第1章「古代剣」あらすじ
[第1話 スタボロスの死]
旅の途中で寿命を終えた老馬スタボロス。その死体を狙って耳長狼の集団が襲いかかる。剣も折れ絶体絶命のバルドを救ったのは、なんとはぐれ者のゲルカスト(緑色の凶暴な亜人)であるエングダルだった。エングダルは、スタボロスの皮から剣鞘を作ってくれる。エングダルの知り合いの商人とともに、バルドは旅立つのだった。
[第2話 鉈剣]
名も知らぬ村の雑貨屋で見捨てられたように吊り下げられていた、まるで鉈のような形をしたくすんだ色の剣を、バルドは買った。その村に川熊の魔獣が現れる。みずからを犠牲にしても村人を逃がそうとするバルド。そのとき鉈剣は青緑の燐光を発し、強靱な川熊の魔獣を切り裂いた。この鉈剣こそは、古代の英雄が巨人や妖魔を倒すのに使ったといわれる真の魔剣ではないのか。
[第3話 騎士志願の少年]
山に住む親子は、獣を寄せ付けない野菜エガルソシアで生計を立てていた。騎士になりたいという少年の願いを聞き、バルドは自分の過去を思い出す。バルドが九歳から十歳にかけて家に滞在した流れの騎士が、バルドの最初の師匠だった。それから思わぬ成り行きでバルドはテルシア家に雇われ、当主エルゼラの指導のもと、騎士にまで成り上がったのだった。
[第4話 壁剣の騎士]
メイジア領を訪れたバルドは、領主のゴドン・ザルコスに、山賊と間違えられて成敗されそうになる。誤解が解けてザルコス家に滞在することになったバルドは、ゴドンに武芸の指導をする。旅にあこがれるゴドンは、領地を弟夫婦に任せ、バルドの押しかけ同行者となる。
[第5話 仇討ち]
トゥオリム領の領主は圧政と重税で領民を苦しめるばかりか、逆らう者は二人の護衛に喉を切り裂かせて死にざまを見て楽しんだ。早々にトゥオリム領を通過したバルドとゴドンは、山で行商人を救った三人の老人にごちそうをする。実はその老人たちは、十八歳を筆頭にする若者の兄妹であり、六年前領主に両親を惨殺されていた。三兄妹の身を捨てての凄絶な仇討ちに、バルドとゴドンは涙するのだった。
[第6話 月魚の沢]
月魚といううまい魚が食えると聞いて、山の沢の女将を訪ねるバルドたち。その沢に向かう兵士たちの一団があった。沢に死灰病が発生したというのだ。バルドとゴドンは、誤解を解いて沢の集落の危機を救う。
[第7話 ジャミーンの勇者]
うまいノゥレ料理を食わせる村を訪ねたバルドたち。村の少年が蛇の毒に侵され、その薬を取るため、ジャミーン(猿のような亜人)の縄張りを突っ切るバルド。果たしてジャミーンに捕まり、青豹の魔獣と戦うことになる。あわやというところで古代剣が再び青緑の燐光を発し、バルドは危地を脱するのだった。
[第8話 革防具職人ポルポ]
クラースクの街に着いたバルドは、川熊の魔獣の皮を素材に、自分の革鎧を仕立てることにする。ところが皮を預けた職人ポルポが殺人の罪で捕まってしまう。ゴドンとジュルチャガの協力で真犯人を暴いたバルドは、前々クラースク領主ハドル・ゾルアルスの人柄に感銘を受ける。
[第9話 エンザイア卿の城]
マジュエスツ領主エンザイア卿の城に招かれたバルド。城をめぐる陰謀のただなかに置かれたバルドは、ゴドンとジュルチャガの協力を得て、真のエンザイア卿を救出する。この事件はバルドに、ルジュラ=ティアント(木のような姿の亜人)のモウラおよび精霊のスィとの出会いをもたらす。また、バルドは、野生馬ユエイタンを得る。
[第10話 約束の剣]
シェサ領主の長男オーサは、後継をめぐる確執を避けるため、死んだふりをして領地を出奔する。その手伝いをしたバルドは、古代剣こそ、かつてアイドラがバルドに与えると約束した剣であり、愛馬スタボロスの宿る剣だと悟る。死への旅をやめ、今日を生きる旅を続ける、と思いを新たにするのだった。
38 Chapter 1: Ooh.
Chapter 1: The Ancient Sword
[Episode 1: Death of Stabolos]
Old horse Stabolos finished his life on the journey. A group of ear longwolves strikes at the body. The sword also broke. What a detached gelkast (a ferocious subhuman of green) it was Engdall who saved Baldo the absolute destiny. Engdall makes me a sheath of swords from the skin of Stabolos. Along with a merchant he knew in Engdall, Bardo traveled.
[Episode 2: Sword]
Bardo bought a sword of colour that wanted to be shaped like a bamboo, hung like abandoned in a grocery store in an unknown village. A river bear warcraft appears in the village. Bardo tries to escape the villagers even at the expense of Mizu. At that time, the sword emitted a blue-green phosphorescent light and tore apart the mighty river bear warcraft. Isn't this sword the true demon sword that ancient heroes are said to have used to defeat giants and demons?
[Episode 3: The Knight Volunteer Boy]
Parents and children living in the mountains made their living in vegetable Egalsocia, which did not donate beasts. Hearing the boy's desire to be a knight, Bardo remembers his past. The Knight of the Stream, where Bardo stayed at home between the ages of nine and ten, was Bardo's first master. Then, in unexpected succession, Bardo was hired by the Tercians, and under the guidance of our Lord Elzella, he became a knight.
[Episode 4: Knight of the Wall Sword]
Bardo, who visited Maisian territory, is about to be mistaken for a bandit and defeated by his lord Gordon Zarkos. Baldo gives Gordon martial arts instruction when the misunderstanding solves and he decides to stay in the Zarkos family. Gordon, who is to be honored for his journey, leaves the territory to his brother and his wife and becomes Bardo's pushing companion.
[Lesson 5: Vengeance]
Lords of Tuorim only suffer their inhabitants with oppression and heavy taxes, and those who disobey enjoyed watching them die by letting their two guards slit their throats. Having passed through Tuorim territory early, Bardo and Gordon treat the three old men who saved the traffickers in the mountains. In fact, those old men were brothers and sisters of a young man, headed by eighteen, whose parents had been tragically murdered by their lords six years earlier. Bardo and Gordon wept over the tremendous revenge of abandoning their three brothers and sisters.
[Episode 6: Moonfish Nozawa]
The Baldos visit a lot of Sawatari dames when they hear they can eat a good fish called Moon Fish. There was a group of soldiers on their way to the Sawa. There was an outbreak of leprosy in Sawa. Bardo and Gordon solve the misunderstanding and save Sawa's settlement crisis.
[Episode 7: Jameen's Brave]
The Baldos visited the village where they fed good Nole dishes. Baldo breaks through the territory of Jameen (a monkey-like subhuman) in order for a village boy to be invaded by the venom of a snake and take that medicine. Jameen will eventually catch you and fight the Blue Leopard Warcraft. The ancient sword emitted blue and green phosphorescence again at Ayama, and Bardo took off the danger.
[Episode 8: Leather Protector Porpo]
Arriving in the city of Krask, Bardo decides to tailor his leather armor using the skin of the river bear's warcraft as a material. But the craftsman who kept the skin, Porpo, gets caught for murder. Bardo, who uncovered the true culprit with the cooperation of Gordon and Jurchaga, is impressed by the character of Krask lord Huddle Zorals.
[Lesson 9: Sir Ensaia's Castle]
Bardo was invited to the castle of Lord Enzaia, Lord Majuez. Baldo, placed in the midst of a conspiracy over the castle, rescues the true Lord Ensaia with the help of Gordon and Jurchaga. The incident brings to Bardo the encounter of Lujra-Tiant (a subhuman in the figure of a tree) with Maura and the Sui of the Spirit. Also, Bardo gets a wild horse, Euthan.
Episode 10: The Sword of Promise
Ausa, Lord Shesa's eldest son, leaves the territory pretending to be dead in order to avoid the certainty surrounding his succession. With that help, Bardo realizes that the ancient sword is the sword that Idra once promised Bardo and the one where his beloved horse Stabolos lives. It renewed my thoughts that we would stop our journey to death and continue our journey to live today.
The Old Knight of a Frontier District
辺境の老騎士
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