After showing the pieces of the crown to the King and the Queen, their reaction was beyond what I had originally expected, like, completely!
"T-The lost crown of Atlantis, that's...!" muttered the King, looking at the pieces in disbelief. "I can't believe it! Are they real?! T-These are truly real! Oh... By the Sea Mother!"
"I-I can't believe it, just where have you found this, Maria?!" the Queen asked me. "T-These fragments... Y-You see, this artifact... well..."
"What's wrong? So you know about it!" I said. "Can you tell me what exactly is?"
The two looked at one another, still surprised.
"The thing is... the crown is supposed to have been destroyed long ago, not a single piece left," the king stated.
Huh? How is that possible? I mean, completely destroyed to the point absolutely nothing was left behind...
"How did this happen?" wondered Emeraldine. "S-Sorry for butting in, but I am quite interested now..."
"Me too, I'm wondering what the crown did to deserve such a fate..." Lucifer nodded.
"Well, we shall explain it," sighed the King.
"This is some old tale, of long ago, when our tribe had just arrived in the world of Yggdrasil," said the Queen.
"It was said that Priestess Naiad possessed the power of the Crown of Atlantis, an artifact gifted to her by a King from Atlantis, her father, long ago," the King said.
"The crown had the power to open a gate directly to the world of Atlantis, it was a way for her to come back home," said the Queen.
So that's how it is...
Well, whatever the case, I want to visit that nautical world and see how it is.
If its truly just an endless ocean with islands, it sounds really fun, we could be pirates for a bit and everything...
"Well thanks for telling us about that, I guess I've learned more than I imagined..." I nodded. "No problem, now, let us enjoy the meal we have here," the King smiled.
"Our chefs worked very hard for it! Please enjoy it, everyone!" the Queen said.
And we did, the food was really delicious and varied, the amount of seafood we were ingesting was tremendous. And so many preparations and plates we've never seen before too.
However, after this little trip, we might get really tired of it eventually, and we might not want more seafood for a while, I believe...
Once we finished our meals, we decided to have a trip around the city, while helping the people in anything they needed.
Well, it wasn't my idea! I am not that goody two shoes to do so much good for random people, but Emeraldine and my daughter insisted on wanting to help.
And then Nia agreed, and then Celes, and then the rest of the kids, and Jonathan... Partner and Lucifer were more like me though, just on their own and without the intention to help every in
every single thing.
However, everyone else is very heroic, and I believe Nyx and even Arachne are like this! Well, I guess... it's fine, right? As long as we have the power, and it doesn't really bother us or affect us negatively, it's never wrong or bad to be a nice person and help others.
Most of the time heroes are criticized because of their self-sacrificing nature, helping others by sacrificing their own time effort, powers, and even money and life.
I suppose that's where the hatred came from, talking through the perspective of an avid light novel and web novel reader. Though, I also don't really like edgy, selfish characters either.
I just like a good middle ground that doesn't go overboard, but I suppose that's also too
perfect, huh?
Nonetheless, I ended helping the people rebuild their houses...