Volume 2 - CH 237

A day had passed since that battle.

We went back to the guild after the battle, but everyone seemed to have lost their tension and were very tired.

All the adventurers, of course, were sitting on the ground in a daze.

We managed to win the defense battle.

However, I don’t know why.

We were not happy.

It might be a happy thing just to know that the country was safe, but somehow the words of that devil kept haunting my mind.

The same was true for Reizen and Houen, who were also looking unhappy.

Houen seems to have a habit of thinking deeply about anything and everything.

Even now, a day later, he was looking out the window as if thinking about something.

On the other hand, Reizen was in high spirits.

After a day’s rest, he was working on reconstruction with the exhausted adventurers.

He’s the type of person who doesn’t like to think.

He probably prefers to move his body and let the things he doesn’t understand slide by.

The centipede carcasses can be processed into armor and weapons, so the adventurers were hard at work dismantling and cleaning them.

The adventurer who didn’t cheer even though they had won was finally starting to look happier after dismantling it.

Well, I didn’t realize when this battle was winning.

I dealt with the outside, but the centipedes were still rampaging inside.

Most of the adventurers went back inside to get rid of it, so only a few people really saw me heroically.

With no idea where the centipede was in this huge kingdom, there would have been no time to confirm whether or not I was the victor.

Everyone was on the edge of their wits.

I suppose it was inevitable that this would end up like this.

The adventurers are working hard to reconstruct the town and the country.

The citizens are doing their best to help them.

Reward money is apparently being paid out by the government.

It seems that Houen and Maria have worked things out in that area.

Houen was happy that he took away the knight’s salary. ……

How did he do that? ……

I don’t know what the knights are doing.

I think they are helping with the reconstruction because I see people in knight’s attire in some places. ……

There is a quarrel going on between them and the adventurers.

It seems like a lot of effort is being wasted to stop them. ……

Well, they finally showed up when it came to reconstruction.

No wonder the adventurers are angry. ……

Still, I’m tired.

Seriously tired.

A day’s rest isn’t enough to recover my strength. ……

I mean mentally!

Right now I’m resting at the Adventurers’ Guild.

The inn we were staying at broke down. ……

How sad. ……

“Ouren-“

“……”

“O-uren!”

“…… Oh. Ah, Alena. What’s wrong?”

“Are you okay?”

Well, I’m not sure if I’m okay, I mean physically I’m okay, but mentally I’m a little down.

I’ve been thinking about what that devil said to me.

Th reincarnation.

For my and our sake.

Resurrect too soon.

I should be asleep. ……

I don’t know what the hell that means. ……

Reincarnation of what?

How is destroying the country is for my sake?

I don’t know anything about reincarnation. ……

Is there some kind of evil god in this world?

No, there are devils in this world, so there must be some.

What do they mean I should be asleep?

Is it about me?

“Nuuoooooo! I don’t understand!”

“That ….. startled …… me. ……”

“…… sorry ……”

I don’t know what’s going on anymore.

I’m sure Houen is thinking the same thing.

When I said I didn’t understand, he nodded his head.

Sigh….. I can’t get over it.

What was the purpose of those guys trying to destroy this country?

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t to pass their time.

What was that devil called …… Dacia?

That devil.

I’m actually glad I didn’t fight that guy back there.

I can’t see any way to win.

If he’s faster than Uchikage, he wouldn’t even affected by Houen’s fire

If it were Reizen, he might be able to hold his own, but there is no way he could stop an opponent moving at invisible speeds.

No matter how high his defense is, it doesn’t matter if he can’t hit the target.

Alena’s skills don’t seem to work well either. 

Heavy weight is a skill that not even the person who activates it can completely control.

The effect lasts until the target is a certain distance away or is unconscious.

However, the skill was forcibly canceled.

It is unlikely that an attack based on the skill will work. ……

I don’t know what Maria is capable of, so I can’t foresee it.

And I don’t think she could have beaten it either.

Even if I had full MP, I don’t think I could have attacked that guy who moves faster than Uchikage.

We were checkmated.

If he had wanted to, he could have killed me. ……

“Hey, Houen. Did you find any answers?”

“Of course not. …… I’m still in child form, so I’m a little too quick-witted for that.”

Houen had gone from being as tall as an elementary school student to as tall as a junior high school student.

He said it takes three days to return to his original form.

Right after he died, he was an elementary school student.

After one day, he was a junior high school student, and after two days, he was about the height of a high school student.

On the third day, he seems to return to his adult form.

So fast.

When he reaches the size of a high school student, his magical attack power decreases and he is able to fly normally.

I mean, Houen, he’s totally become a spoiled brat.

I guess this is his real personality …….

It suits him better in that form.

Alena seemed to like Houen in his child form very much, but she was shocked to see him overtake her back.

In the morning, she punched Houen in the stomach for no reason.

How pitiful.

Houen stopped to think and walked toward me.

” The reconstruction itself will be over soon. Maria guildmaster is running around giving orders, and the knights who were brainwashed and the nobles in the castle are rushing to take care of political affairs. They want to do something before the king returns.”

” You betcha. ……. If the king sees this mess, he will be very angry.”

“The king will definitely be furious if he sees the devastation. I feel like we were helped them by the misleading information of the enemy.”

“You mean that black blob of a devil?”

“It’s that guy’s ability, isn’t it?”

A memory-erasing skill that infects like a virus.

He called it brainwashing magic himself. ……

Since they had erased the memory of the knights, the knights did not go to the defense, but remained there.

So when the centipedes began to spring up, they were able to start fighting immediately, helping them save many of the people.

If the Knights’ memories had not been erased and they had been sent to the defense, there would have been more damage for sure.

But we have no information about the devil at all.

I wonder if there is a national library or something where I could do some research.

It would be better to know a little bit about it so that we can make use of it in the fight. ……

I don’t want to fight if possible, though.

“Oh, there he is.”

We are in a guild that is only sparsely populated, so anybody looking for me can easily find us.

Maria came in through the door.

She seems to be holding a letter in her hand.

“Gentlemen of the Spirit Emperor.”

“Hey, what’s the matter? You’ve suddenly changed your character.”

” There is something going on at a time like this. She’s thinking of something bad.”

“She’s a bad girl.”

“Alena-chan?”

Where did you learn those words?

I was so surprised just now.

Maria cleared her throat and got back into the act.

She handed me a letter addressed to me and said.

“An invitation to visit the Castle of Salettana.”

“Hah?”

“The prince wants to see you.”

“”Say what?””

My voice and Houen’s voice harmonized.