53 From Cat Day, one turn

Since then, there has been one more victim while the killer has not been found.

Even on this day, Shuiming was searching for a cat, beside walking alone in town to learn to make an imperial capital.

Gendarmerie, brave men, and ourselves. Is it because more people are involved in the search, the killer seems to be decreasing the frequency of the offense, and the results of the night search are not fragrant. For this reason, he now had his face in the alley, around the street, in the open space, etc. in order to recruit collaborators again.

And with the second cat I found earlier, Shuiming leaves the alley.

"Here, don't be gazy. You can't chew on my fingers."

I'm having a little trouble with a cat that snugly sweetbites my right index finger after I stroke it once and then what's so good about it. The habit of cat biting is basically on the extension line of behavior when tailoring an attacking target or prey, but the cat you're holding right now is relaxed, so maybe you still want him to stroke it.

When I stroke him thinking about it, a face I saw from the front appears.

"Swimey Yakagi......"

The familiar characteristic appearance was yes, Liliana Zandaik.

"- Oh, twint eyelid toddler. Long time no see."

"Follow me... what? I don't know why, it's called."

"No, sort of. And that's an odd encounter. Here. What, you want some sweets after all?

And Shuiming asks aside, is Liliana not in such a mood, always well swordswallowed, to return the words.

"No, sir."

"Isn't that sweet?"

"I don't care about that."

"So what's going on?

Then I ask Liliana, who has a harsh atmosphere. I don't let normal air drift like normal, but something is wrong because it brews differently. However, the eyes that look at this one are poured into the chest, lacking some calmness.

On the chest, there are two cats,

"Hey, give me your cat... to me, to me"

"... Huh?

Liliana just opened her hands to give me the cat and stopped by.

Liliana asked me to hold one of the cats she was holding, and I am now settling in the chair by the fountain.

"Nha, ha, ha, ha"

Liliana, on the other hand, exchanges cat ringing imitations without even looking at this one, playing innocently with the cat. Looks happy from the side to see you two doing that famous frivolous song move while holding both the cat's forelegs, as if you're in a paradise at noon. The look had a flying smile that I had never seen before.

"Nyan, Nyan, Gyu ~"

And, Liliana hugs the cat at the end of the rhythm. I guess I love cats. The cats are adorable. Shuiming calls out to her, who seems to have completely forgotten about such a thing.

"Sounds like fun"

"- ⁉ Yes, how long, are you there ⁉ SWIMEY YAKAGI!

"No, until you give me my cat back?

With that said, Liliana asks with a frivolous look.

Return this child to you?

"Oh."

"This kid will be wild. Not your cat, not you. Why were you trying to expose the cat? Depending on that, you're going to be sentenced to death in a military court, right?

I don't know what to rush. Stick a cold jito eye, and the death penalty without a shriek is another noisy saying. Even though I say that this one brings all the "nya" and acknowledgements.

Well,

"Why did you want to touch the cat?"

"Mm... is that right? Well, then, fine."

Is that okay? Roger that, Liliana becomes obsessed with playing with cats again. I can't grasp the line well enough to convince you. Nevertheless,

"Cat, you like it"

"It's not just Mr. Cat. Dogs, too, I like. Because animals are all good kids."

Liliana, who said, is slightly, throwing a faceless question as she looks at the cat.

"I heard you were fighting a brave man to catch the culprit in the case, right?

"Oh, you know me well"

"Information comes naturally to your ears."

I guess that's because I belong to an army intelligence agency. Especially Liliana, who said it without bragging about the wind, asks if it is a continuation of the story.

"Why did you want to compete with the brave, etc.?

"Well, I'm betting on the two of us."

Well, when we look at the situation as something we know, and we talk about it,

"If the goddess says so, just leave it to the brave, okay? It should be easier for you without getting into trouble. Besides, if the goddess tells you, it shouldn't be too rare."

"That's a pretty cold word."

"It may be cold, but it makes sense,"

"Reason."

When Shuiming parroted back into the careless wind, Liliana gave a slightly irritating look,

"It would be. I ask you, what happened to your hand?

"Did you hear this too? Yeah, I got hit by an example killer."

When Shuiming says, Liliana drops her eyes on the bandage on his left hand.

"... terrible condition, isn't it?

"Well, not really. It'll heal soon."

"Cure...? Will it heal? ⁉"

"Hmm? What, are you surprised?

Shuiming remembers the surprise of Liliana and asks back. When he leans his neck, Liliana turns her back.

"Yes, no, the colonel told me it looked harsh, what I asked, so..."

"Right. Well, I wouldn't change my mind."

"You don't change... do you know that? The killer has been a dangerous man with many in his hands. Better get your hands off me."

"What. Don't bite me off a long time ago. Maybe you're worried about me?

- That's not what I said.

She returned her hair without even putting it in.

"I've been told something similar lately, well, if you're going to get off on the way, I'm not going to take the fight.

I couldn't. "

"Why. Why are you so obsessed? And if that's what it takes to save the world..."

Do you say it's normal to give up? sacrifice a few for many. It is true that the crisis is imminent, so the question may not even arise as to whether we can split it it.

"Before that"

"What?

"Let him go. That's enough."

and Shuiming points to the cat that remains held by Liliana. At some point, the cat was waving his tail to the left and right.

"Cats don't, that's how you shake your tail sideways when you're mostly not happy with the situation. It's a little hot to be held."

"... do you not like it"

Liliana will feel sorry for herself. And unfortunately releasing the cat, the cat leaned his neck to the side and entered the posture of observing Liliana. Apparently the cat is interested in her and doesn't mean she doesn't like it yet. When I tell her that, she regains the brilliance of her eyes again and stares at the cat.

"That's an earlier question."

"Right. Why do you stand up to goddesses and braves, was it?

Liliana nods. Mizumi exhales and answers slightly.

"Don't you have a monkey you want to protect?

"I want to protect, something, is it?

"That's right. I have it now."

"To me, I don't know, that much, I just don't have to..."

"Don't you see? Right...... how about family or something?

――

Somewhere, I thought I heard voices without voices.

"What's up?

"I have no family."

The temperature of the voice drops and words are uttered that reject it. What if I even stepped on my tail? It's unclear what aroused her anger, but she certainly must have a father. If only I could see his face, I'd have seen him three times, an all-back soldier.

"That guy, he must be your father, right?

"Before the Colonel was my father, he was my boss"

I don't know what that means. Even if that's what normal families have to do with it, isn't it something my father would come forward with during normal times? Yes. When Shuiming tried to say it, she leaned down.

"The Colonel is not my real father. I was dumped by my parents."

"... Was I? Excuse me. Are you talking about something you don't want to be touched?

"Not really."

And Shuiming says "I'm sorry" again. And return the answers to the questions asked on top of each other.

"Well, we're still shallow, because it's important to me."

"Is that why you can't do it? You're going to die prematurely. Stupid."

"Oh, my gossip, really."

"But to me too..."

"Hmm?"

"Nothing, sir."

I still shook my head and said, "Well," to Liliana, and Shuiming stops talking. When I glanced at her, there was no brilliance in my eyes until earlier, but rather a ravenous sky. He hangs out with that hand play, staring at the cat rolling out his forefoot.

After a while of blurring, Shuiming finds a stall selling ice sweets nearby. And I got up, bought about two there and went back.

"Here. Thank you for the other day."

Liliana notices that she has been offered ice sweets and looks up with sleepy eyes.

"I told you I didn't want it,"

"Well, it's good, you get it. It's not a diminishing mon, you get it."

"I don't want to."

No, I already bought it.

After a moment of leaning over and shutting up, eventually she throws a depressing voice.

"How can you be nice to me?

"Why..."

"You, too, can treat me, like everyone else, as evil, as negligible"

Dark. Eyes, myself in it, everything. I'm in the dark. Abandoned, neglected. Those words remind me of her predicament.

"I must be creepy, right? You're so small, you have the power to harm others. It's aggressive against everyone. So."

"Is that what we all are? Like that time?

"In the Empire, I am the object of fear. It's a big, dark light created to hide the shadows of the intelligence department."

"So there's no such thing as me," he said?

"That's right. There's no one like you. Except the Colonel......"

A mouth driven by a distorted will gradually regains its calm. As it was, Liliana quietly dropped her shoulder and shut up.

"You don't seem to talk too much, but you're a good guy."

Yes, Shuiming mouths her thoughts on Rogue and gives the cat the soft dried meat that was stuck in her pocket.

"But isn't it hard?

"That's what I do. You can't refuse to feel bad."

"So you're spoiling the situation now"

"I am the Colonel's pawn. If I refuse military service, my place will be gone."

Twelve or three year old girl. Do you even know how to shake yourself?

"It's all about me"

"You want to hear my story, too?

"... how did you end up in the Empire?

"I need something."

"Where did you learn that unusual magic?

"My father taught me"

"How did you find the killer?

"What are you looking for?"

……

"What. Interrogation? Did the colonel tell you to come and find me?

"That's the place."

And Liliana answers lightly with a soothing face. You mean there's no need to hide it?

such a fold,

"- That's an odd encounter, Swimey Yakagi."

Turning from side to side to voice hung, there was Elliot the Brave.

"Oh, brave Sama"

Is it a walk or part of a search? It is a rare encounter.

"Are you taking a break? Sounds like a lot of room. Perhaps the search is lagging behind?

"Is it okay for you to sell oil here? I heard the results weren't good, huh?

"Can you not get on with it as much as you happen to find the killer once? You're just playing with animals right now."

Provocative restitution did not, however, develop into badness. Elliott was going to say hello, because Mizumi and Liliana were talking after that, and her heart was cooling somewhere. It doesn't lead to an outburst like before.

"Aren't you with your magical priest today?"

"Christa's not always with me. She has her time. Well, you're with a different girl again, aren't you?

That's what Elliot said, and he turned his attention to Liliana.

"You don't react to women often."

"It would be healthier than reacting to a man, wouldn't it?

"Sure, it must be."

Shuiming flaunts Elliott's joke, and if she doesn't like it, she snarls her nose. Then Elliot looked at Liliana again,

"What about her?

"I'm not with you. An Imperial soldier. He's being interrogated about the cat."

"That's definitely the current offender. I need you to take me to the barn."

He said, "Tell me."

With a tongue-in-cheek water light on her ass and Elliott smiling at Liliana, she builds a wall with killing and magic, despite the bravery of her opponent.

Elliot seemed to have eaten that too, but he never broke his courtesy in particular.

"I wonder if they hated me"

"I don't know. This guy's always like this, so I don't know."

and return appropriately. Neither does Mizumi know Liliana's thoughts. As she sees herself standing on the cat, Elliot calls in.

"Hey."

"What?"

Is it something you want to ask? When Shuiming asks back, Elliot still

asks in a serious tone.

"Let's hear it again. Why do you disobey the words of the goddess Arshna? Even if that announcement is incomprehensible, it's a gift from the goddess of the world you live in, isn't it?

"On the contrary, I want to know how you, from another world, can blindly believe the Word of God in this world."

"Nothing. I'm not blind. I just thought it was something I should do, so I'm just accepting it."

Elliot says yes, looking up at a good, sunny sky. I don't know what he said, but Mizumi sounded familiar.

(Trinity, I wonder if this is what happened)

Trinity, a friend, was also driven by a similar sense of origin and unknowable responsibility as him, and he said it was for the sake of the people of this world. It seems like something in common somehow, but fulfill it.

"Isn't Arshna the god who created this world? I hear that it is omnipotent and protects people from evil beings. Think about it with that in mind, that the words of such a noble being are meaningless?

"You're noble."

Having said that, Shuiming laughs at his remarks with her nose, as if when she hears a bad joke. seriously answered Elliot, with definite anger at it,

"What's wrong?

"It's weird, it's weird. Almighty or noble? Oh, my God. You're telling me God is goodness. You are. They're such noble monsters. They're the ones who cut it off relentlessly, aren't they? Don't have such fantasies often."

"Fantasy. Doesn't seem to have any basis in your argument, either?

"... which means it might be. You don't even know the truth, do you?

To that word, Elliot couldn't go on.

"That's the thing. I don't know who I am. I don't know if I can bend my way."

"Sure, it might make sense what you say."

Shuiming turns a weird face to Elliot's words that it can be enough to think like that.

"What?"

"... no, it was unexpected. Earlier in the day, I thought everyone who scorned God was an enemy, just like you."

"Even I speak about the confidence of others. There wasn't one god in my world."

To Elliot's words, Shuiming waves her hands flickering somewhere careless.

"Right. Then it would be helpful if you could take this into account in the flow."

"That's not what I'm talking about. I don't know what it means to have her with us, but if you need her to save the people of this world, you should take her."

"Again."

"Everything in this world meets with a gear called destiny. There's nothing meaningless about it."

"Maybe, but I think it's strange that it's a battle."

"If that's what you think, you're gonna pull yourself out."

"Don't be silly."

and thrown up Mizumi. So, Elliot gave up persuasion, or he slapped his hand once like he said the story was over.

"You got in the way. I'm glad you're the one who can talk. But..."

Elliot made a hoard out of it, and then...

I don't like you.

"That's an odd encounter. I don't like you either."

When Shuiming spoke, Elliot went through before Shuiming so that he could escape from the path he had come in in the opposite direction. Did they even think you could not talk to him, or did you come to confirm it, or did you simply declare that you would not take heaven to the club? As Shuiming freaked out about Elliott's insistence, Liliana's Gathergrove caught a cat's nail when she was about to. Liliana pulls her hand and the gloves give it to me.

From there, I saw her arms and hands.

――⁉

Liliana immediately fixes her eyelids and hides her arms. Apparently, the contents of the glove didn't look like Elliot.

"What's going on? Are you okay?"

Elliott peeks in late, but no reply from Liliana to that. He turned to Shuiming in a hurry somewhere and immediately turned his heel back.

"Excuse me!

On her back as she left to escape, Shuiming could not speak.

Yes, because the hand in the glove was as black and foamy as the skin of a demonized human being.

"- Is it true that the killer has a star, Lord Swimey!

"Suimei, is that true!

The surprising voices of Fermenia and Refile echo.

When Shuiming, back home, briefly told Fermenia and Lefir, who had been taught magic by her, the two interrupted the work and rushed over to say they were exhausted.

Mizumi nods in a complex mood at Fermenia, hung with glasses, and Lefir, stuck by several cats, hung and littered with cats.

"... oh"

"What's wrong with you, Mizumin-kun? If the killer was found, I think it's good for this country and for us?

"Yes, but I don't think so..."

Fermenia turns her suspicious face to the water that sighs with a difficult face.

"What do you mean?

"I told you I saw Liliana before. So while I was looking for a cat, I met with him today..."

I reveal to the two people who align their geese necks so that they can eat in, the obvious and the speculation that I have reached. Taunt, taunt.

I move my mouth slowly that way. In the middle of it, what I need to do gradually contours in my head. What you have to believe and become. What can I do if I have them, beyond the fence of rivalry between this other world now and the events that take place in the other world and the summoned brave men? No, isn't that something we need to think about now? As we've done so far, we're just going to keep talking about it because it's just the way it should be.

And when all of that hardened, it echoed from the back of my ear:

- Save the unsaved woman.

It was that word my father uttered.