97-97. Misunderstanding

While resting in caves and other places during the course, continued up the mountain.

But will they really be in a place like this?

As we continued to climb, we wondered many times, but we didn't want to go back without confirming that we had come all the way up here, so we kept climbing.

I'm not sure if we're near the top or not, as the snow and fog around us makes it hard to see, but we climbed up for quite a while, but we couldn't find it.

'Ummm, I don't see him...'

The rumor's not true...

Both of them are starting to feel a little resigned and murmur in disappointment.

'It's too early to give up. If we can't find them here, we'll have completely lost all the clues to breaking Mek's curse.''

Yes, you do.

Yeah. I'll do my best to find her.

We pulled ourselves together and conducted a search.

After walking for a while.

Oh!

Someone shouted.

It wasn't my voice, or Mek's voice, or Lenya's voice.

It was the voice of a little girl who was completely unrecognizable.

When I hurriedly checked the direction of the voice, I saw a figure, though I couldn't see it clearly due to the fog.

''Master!　You're back!

The girl(?) ran over to us and picked up Meku.

'Noooo, what are you doing!'

'Master, we've had enough of waiting!　I've been waiting a year for you!

She said that very happily.

As her voice said, she was a girl.

Her age was about mid-teens, I think.

Green hair with twin tails.

A girl with big eyes.

She was wearing a pointy hat, like a witch would wear, and she was dressed so roughly that I wanted to say if she wasn't cold in this cold weather.

'Wait, wait a minute!　My master was my master!　What are you doing?　Let go of my master!

Lenya grabs Meku to take him away from her.

'Hey, what are you!　Please take your hands off my master!

Raina and the girl pull Mek together.

'Ya, tear!　Let go... anyway!　It won't kill you if it rips, but it won't make you feel better!

Both of them are pulling each other as hard as they can, and Meku is about to be torn apart. It looks like he won't die even if he gets cut off both ways with this body, but I don't want to see him like that either.

Both Lenya and the girl seem to have noticed Meku's cries, and at the same time let go of his hand.

'Feng, thank God. What the hell is this?

Master, you've been speaking somewhat strangely.

I don't remember taking you under my wing. Who are you?

When Meku said that, the girl looked terribly shocked.

''What, what...?　You don't remember this Luli...?　 ...

Finally, the girl started to cry.

Her name is Luli, she said.

Oh, calm down. I don't know what you're talking about, but are you sure your master was dressed like me?

Of course.

My name is Mek Samaforth. What was the name of your master?

'What?　Mek?　Samma Force?　I thought you said your master's name was Clarica.

It's someone else. My name is not Clarica.

'What?　It's a lie. Because except for my master, he's dressed so weirdly....

I'm sorry for being weird!

'Huh?　But come to think of it, the color is different... I don't think my master was white... oh, yes, he was!　As I recall, Master was black!

'It's the opposite of the color!　How did I get it wrong!

'I was inattentive. We haven't seen each other for so long that I had forgotten. You are not my master, are you?

The misunderstanding seems to have been cleared up.

But you've been calling me Master Master from earlier.....

Probably dressed in a different color than Meku.

According to what I heard in the village, the witch has transformed into a plush figure similar to Meku's.

Considering all that........

Your Master Clarica, as you call it, was not called the Witch of Life?

Mek said my thoughts instead.

'Yes, it is. 'Huh?　Could it be that you all know Master?

Luli replied simply.