At the Northern Fort

"But I was in trouble. Neither Wolf nor Hilg knew the Spirit of Darkness, so they could not fly to him, nor hear his purpose."

"I don't even know where the Dark Spirit lives."

Hilg daddy also gently frowns at his roots after his mother. I thought that meant we were stuck, but that's where Hilgdad suggested.

"Daffine might know the Spirit of Darkness. She's got a big face."

"Hmm, I'm sure you are"

"Then I'll follow you!

At the same time as I say, I get out of my mother's arms and jump to the floor.

I failed to land and hit my chin, but I'm embarrassed, so I wake up with a face that doesn't eat anything and I just use mobility.

"I'm coming too! Because it's summer! Because Milphy has to fall in the tofu!

You don't just want to see your mother, Mr. Daffine, do you?

When Kugarg, who had stuck around, also got involved and turned into a snowstorm, we headed to Mr. Daffine, the Spirit of the earth.

But...

"Dark Spirit? No, I've never met him either."

Says Mr. Daffine, in black sheep, in a place where the reddish earth is extended. Mr. Daffine has curly hair, but he has more hair than I do.

It's Mafu Mafu. Mafu mafu.

I don't think this is the Aridora country, and I don't know if it's the season or summer, but it was hotter than in the area where there is a northern fort. Is the time around noon, too, when the sun shines with you overhead?

Then Kugarg bit my root and dragged it to Mr. Daffine's feet.

"What is Kugarg doing?

"He wants to put me in Mr. Daffine's shoes."

"Milphyria doesn't like hot. You're sweet, Kugarg."

……

Kugarg shut up, praised by Mr. Daffine. I try to hide the illumination, and it makes my eyes look worse than usual.

While hiding in Mr. Daffine's shadow, I turn back.

"Don't you even know where the Spirit of Yami is?

"Yeah. I guess the Dark Spirit is the type who doesn't really want to interact with other spirits. I've never heard of a rumor about where you live."

Mr. Daffine looked down at this one and said, shaking his long lashes each time he blinked.

"I don't even know Mr. Daffine..."

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you."

"Never mind."

Saying, I turn into another snowstorm.

"Not again!

"Oh, you're leaving already?

"Because it's not right," he says, shaking his forefoot to Mr. Daffine and saying goodbye. Kugarg was just a little bye-bye, too. Bye... short enough though.

Because of me. So I try to ask all the spirits I know, and next I fly to Grandma Hyderin.

Grandma Hyderin's residence on a high cliff by the sea is as windy as ever, and me and Kugarg roll by as soon as we get there.

"Aww."

"Milphy!"

Rolling me and Kugarg worrying me as I roll like that.

But again this time, just like the last time I came here, I hit Grandma Hyderin's big body wrapped in feathers before I reached the back wall.

Are you guys here again?

I thought you were staring at me with big eyes, but Grandma Hyderin actually seemed to welcome me, and here's what she said next.

"It's been a long time. I don't mind coming here more often."

"Yeah, thanks"

I just asked about the Spirit of Darkness as I would also come back to visit my child-favorite grandmother Hyderin's residence.

But Grandma Hyderin also says she doesn't know about the Dark Spirit.

"I have a wide face too, but I've never met a spirit of darkness before."

"That's right... I didn't even know Mr. Daffine, and I can't believe Grandma Hyderin didn't."

I don't know about these two broad faced spirits, so I feel like I can't reach the Dark Spirit anymore if they don't know.

"But," he said, "you've never met the spirits of your present temper?

"I met the Spirit of Darkness a long time ago. When I was young, I was a fairly older spirit of darkness. Looks like I happened to pass near the residence of the Dark Spirit when I was flying around the world, and I felt that" chill "and stopped by. But over there, he seemed to like being alone in a safe place, especially breaking up and being neat without getting along."

"Where was the Spirit of the Yagami!?"

I asked the question, wondering if it would be an important clue. But Grandma Hyderin says calmly.

"I was in a country called Niraika, but that country is gone. I lost to another country in the war. The Spirit of Darkness would have lived there for a while, regardless of the human war, but probably not now."

"Did you move the mistletoe somewhere?

"No, I'm sure you're already dead. Because he was a much older spirit than me."

Grandma Hyderin naturally put out the word 'death', but I was ha-ha surprised. The Spirit almost imagined immortality, but I knew one day he'd die.

Father, I know you've been alive for over a thousand years, but will you be all right?

I suddenly think of that and ask as I get scared.

"Shh, spirits, how long will they be alive?

"I don't have a clear lifespan. If you get tired of living, you die. Some spirits make a inheritance and disappear saying that the child has already done all his or her role as soon as he or she has grown up, while others live for more than a thousand years even when the child has grown up. But, guys, all you have to do is build a heir and then you die."

"That's right... When you die, you hang out on your own. Then my mother and father will be together for a while."

I was horrified. My mother is going to live long worried that I will leave me alone even as an adult, and my father still has no heir.

"Snowlea and Wartrust. Surely neither of us will choose death yet. But WarTrust didn't care about anything, so I figured until recently I'd die tired of living without making a legacy. But Milfiria is here, so you're okay now. I'll keep living to be with you."

"Yeah, now you're looking for a lot of strawberries for me."

When I said that, Grandma Hyderin said, "Did the Wartrust give you a"? "and looked surprised.

"Spirits change, too. There's that war trust that just sleeps quietly at the residence, that wouldn't have helped anyone if it hadn't been anyone's enemy."

Because it's the same generation, Grandma Hyderin always tells her father something a little spicy.

Father, I guess I was just really sleeping.

"But then, Grandma Hyderin's known Yamato Spirit is dead, and you're not the same Yamato Spirit who might be having a fudge in Aridora country right now."

When I said that, Grandma Hyderin closed her eyes and suddenly shut up.

And after about five seconds, I lift my eyelids.

"Oh, it still looks like he's dead. I tried to fly to the spirits of darkness I had met with with the technique of travel, but I could not grasp the signs. There's nowhere else in the world."

"Oh well..."

I don't know about that dark spirit, but it kind of makes me sad and squishy.

Then Grandma Hyderin laughed and said.

"How can you be sad? The spirits of darkness lived long enough and chose death because they were happy with the world. Nothing to be sad about."

"Yes, but"

Whether you're a freshman or a spirit you don't know at all, you'll feel sad if someone dies.

"You're a delicate girl."

Grandma Hyderin squeaks when she looks at me squished to the volume of her hair. Kugarg licked my cheeks to encourage me.

I'm sad, but I'm done with my errands, so I say goodbye to Grandma Hyderin, and I'll use mobility again.

"See you later."

"Oh, Heililith's coming back to play with me, too."

"Yeah!"

So the next thing I knew, I was at that Heililith's.

But Heililith also said she had never met the Spirit of Darkness.

"Dark Spirit? I'm flying around the world, but I've never seen you before."

"It is. See you later."

"Hey! You're leaving already!?"

Haililith flies this way through the window and rides my head.

Because if you don't know the Spirit of Darkness, you'll never hear it again.

"Why don't you just go a little slower?

It wasn't Captain Sarrell who said that to me... but now it's Deputy Sarrell.

Yes, this was the office of the fort in Cold. Me and Kugarg moved in when Heililith was out in the window of this room.

It's been a while since I've seen you, but Deputy Serrell looks very well. Dressed in pissy knight clothes, he looks happy to see Heililith from behind his glasses.

I was about to lose my position within the Knights once, Deputy Serrell, but thanks to Heililith being here, they've recovered that position as well.

He seems to be able to give back his brother, who has bullied himself, and he's kind of alive.

That said, I don't even seem to welcome Haililith just for my ambitions.

'Cause sometimes you get a letter from Deputy Chief Sarrell to Mr. Branch Manager.' I think it's purely adorable looking at Heililith looking at the bird, but what can I do? It seems to say something like, 'I know what you're talking about.

I mean, did Mr. Branch Leader ever tell Deputy Chief Sarrell what a mundane charm it was?

"I'm worried about the room being scattered... see, I've bought a lot of toys too"

Deputy Director Sarrell welcomed me and the mundane me and Kgarg, and took the toys and stuffed animals out of the drawer on the shelf.

Whether it's because Heililith doesn't play with toys or because she's properly cared for by her beautifully loved Deputy Sarrell, toys and stuffed animals are shiny and have one stain on them.

"Um, I want to play, but hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey."

I said, staring at the toy. That clown toy, that's good. The face and torso seem to be made of wood, but the hands and feet are thick strings, which look interesting if they bite and pull. And the colors are colorful.

When Tina makes a colorful stuffed animal, her eyes tickle, but this clown is a colorful but clustered use of color.

But I can't play because everyone's waiting at your lord's grandfather's mansion.

Yes, I can't play with it.... I'm listening, me the child fox?

No, I'm not playing! I'm not shaking my tail!

A human me scolds in my heart the gizzard of a child who tries to run towards a toy as he waves his tail.

"Well, if you're in a hurry, I can't help it, but come back and see me for Haililith,"

"Hey, Sarrell! Don't be weird! You sound like I'm lonely."

To the mean-spirited Haililith: "I'll be back to see you! I said," Then I used the mobility technique with Kugarg.

Oh, the clown toy was either because I was staring too cravingly, or Deputy Serrell gave it to me.

I don't know, I'm sorry it didn't work out! Thanks a lot!

And the next thing I flew away was at Woodbaum, the Spirit of the Wood.

That said, I don't expect much from Woodbaum. I don't think you know many people because you're young in the Spirit and you don't seem to like flying around the world like Grandma Hyderin or Heililith.

And as expected, Woodbaum, who was in the woods somewhere, answered my question with regret.

"I'm sorry. You're here because of me, but I've never met the Dark Spirit."

By the way, Woodbaum was now a deer figure, with dark green leaves waxing and flourishing in the corners made of wood.

That said, I wonder if the area is now summer as well. In the spring, the mistletoe leaves grow, in the autumn, the leaves turn red, and in the winter, the leaves must have fallen.

"I don't know many people."

"I thought you should (I guess). Well, I can (go home)."

Saying with a clown's toy in his arms, and trying to get home soon, Woodbaum panicked to become a human figure. Woodbaum has a gentle, warm atmosphere, even when you look like a woody person.

And he hugs me and Kugarg together, and giggles.

"Don't go home yet. The only spirits who come to visit me are Kugarg, who sticks to Milphilia and Milphilia."

"But now you're still with your father, aren't you?

I ask holding a clown toy well on my forefoot. Woodbaum was ill and healed in a northern fort, but then he lived under his own father.

"That's right. My father is also in this forest. But I'm an adult now, too, so I'm not with you all the time, like I did when I was a kid. I see him regularly and talk to him, but he usually acts separately and sleeps separately. I'm back in shape, and I'm thinking of going to find a new place to live."

"It is. I hope you find a good place."

"Yeah. I was wondering if I could make it near where Milfilia lives"

Fine, but if you come to Aridora country up to Woodbaum, the spiritual density of Aridora country will increase even further.

As I worried about that, Woodbaum nodded at me and Kugarg's back and shook his face left and right.

"Uh, the Milphilias are as cute as ever"

"Stop it."

Kugarg ran away reluctantly, so while I was caught alone, Woodbaum would indulge in the mundane on my back.

And the satisfied Woodbaum looked up and said, looking at the clown toy I was holding.

"What's that? Milphilia toys? So shall we play together? There's also a" nice looking tree stick "that Milfiria seems to like. Come here. They also have delicious nuts. Come on, this way. Kugarg, come too."

Woodbaum walks to the back of the woods holding me. The way you asked me out sounds like something grabbed me, but the killer in the strange case isn't actually Woodbaum, is he? Woodbaum likes kids, too, and he misses being alone in the woods, so he grabs the human child?

I thought about it that way for a moment, but, well, it wouldn't be there only for the kind Woodbaum. For once, he said, "You haven't taken a carrot child, have you? I asked," I didn't do that! "and denied it properly. Good.

"I want to yawn with Woodbalm, too, but it's not good right now. I'll be back in the morning. Come back to the fort."

"I get it. I'll see you tomorrow."

Tomorrow. Well, fine.

Having Woodbaum put me down to the ground worried me where I was going next.

(Let's ask Father too. But Father will now take the hunt seriously...)

It's time I thought about going back to your lord's grandfather's mansion so I don't disturb you.

"Is that it? Looks like the water spirits are here."

Woodbaum said when he saw the white mist behind me.