I Parry Everything: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 5] by Nabeshiki

Author:Nabeshiki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Around the time of his people’s relegation to starvation and slavery, Starpiercer Rigel appeared in one of the few beastfolk settlements to have remained self-sufficient. To the elders, who despaired at the cruelty of their people being driven to the farthest reaches of the desert, it was as though their savior had come. Here, at long last, was the boy who could stand against the merchants’ intolerable actions.

For who could, if not the boy whose strength surpassed even the heroes’ epics—whose power was rivaled only by the figures of ancient myth?

Some spoke openly of taking retribution on the crooked merchants. Perhaps it could actually be done, for what was a golem’s stone hide to someone whose arrows created stars in the night sky? Rigel, however, had no such thoughts of revenge; he practiced archery purely for his love of the art. Even his decision to take up the Divine Bow had come entirely from his appreciation of its beauty. He considered it far too powerful to be used in combat—pointing it at another was unthinkable and would surely bring about great misfortune.

So, no matter how much the adults pleaded with him to head their cause, he staunchly refused.

When the beastfolk realized that Rigel would not be swayed, they turned instead to his father. But the chieftain was a prudent man. Though he acknowledged that victory over the merchants—even at the cost of many lives—could restore to the beastfolk their pride and ancestral lands, he also knew that defeat would cost them even more than they had already lost.

Rigel and his father’s position was obvious, if one gave it any thought: against the merchants, who had spent years conserving their resources, the beastfolk were at a severe disadvantage. Many found it hard enough to put food on the table, and it was all they could do to care for themselves and their own. In a drawn-out conflict, it was clear who would come out victorious.

Once the first arrow was loosed, there would be no going back. So while Rigel’s father expressed his understanding of their people’s plight, he stated that he could not agree to anything rash and refused to send his son into battle.

Before long, those who had placed their hopes in Rigel started to resent him.

“Why did you take up that bow if not for this? You have been given such astounding strength, and you would let it waste away?”

Eventually, their resentment spread even to the younger generation, and those who saw Rigel spewed insults behind his back.

“He’s no hero of ours. He’s just a coward.”

Rigel knew why the others disparaged him. How could he not? Every time he traveled outside his home, he saw more and more of his people as slaves. Certainly, a few had donned the yoke by choice, but the majority had been forced into thralldom without a single say in the matter.

Slaves went everywhere with iron collars and chains, and when their masters beat them, they could only respond with smiles or grovel feebly in the dirt.

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