Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

"... Morning, Grace"

"Yes, good morning"

"... eh. Good morning."

"Yeah, good morning, Ashley too"

When I woke up, Grace was smiling and peeking into my face.

I guess he woke up with our voice. Apparently Ashley noticed what position she was sleeping in, so she rounded her eyes and woke up her upper body.

"Excuse me......"

I laugh bitterly at Ashley, who is keeping her shoulders down.

"Fine. Did you sleep well?

"... Yes"

Cadkeus, who was on guard outside, returns.

Even though the matter of the Count Cardiff family has been cleared up, it does not necessarily mean that there are still no remnants left. Night security at Cadkeus is going to continue for a while.

"If you're Cadkeus, I'll leave you to Theo. I'll make breakfast."

"Dear Grace, I will help you too"

After Grace, Ashley ran towards the kitchen.

I can hear what you're going to do for breakfast today or something that sounds like percentage fun.

Grace too...... I think I've spent more time looking softer than I did when I was at Gartner's mansion.

"Morning, Theodore"

"Yeah. Good morning."

I took a carriage to the square near Adventurer's Guild, where I joined Sheila.

Morning greetings also take four people there to the guild. If Illumhilt is doing better, he'll be able to listen.

When she left the carriage at the stables and entered the guild, Heather, as usual, was at the counter organizing the paperwork, etc.

I also said a morning greeting to Heather who noticed this one, and then I asked her about the demons and she nodded small.

"I understand. This way, please. What about you, by the way?

"Uh. What do you say? You're in the middle of considering whether to join a party member."

Well, I haven't talked to Sheila at all about joining the party.

I decided to give an ambiguous response that I don't have to accompany you or show my face with you in the future.

"I say Sheila. In that case, I'll register as an adventurer. Thank you."

"Really? I say Heather. Best wishes. Sheila."

Heather nodded without looking particularly concerned and led us into the back room of the guild. According to her story, the equipment that houses the injured, so be it.

It's a room I don't really want to take care of if I can. When I approached the room, I heard singing from inside.

... There's magic on the song. It would easily be a curse depending on the lyrics and pitch... but for some reason it is a rascal song widely sung by children around it. A mixed chorus of harpy and seylane... that's impossible.

When I knock, the singing stops.

Their gaze gathered here as they entered the room. There are three people there - should I say. The female-shaped demons were put to sleep on the bunk to make an adult of themselves. Those are the people I saw in Cadkeus' information.

It seems that all three of them use the art of change, which takes them very close to the human figure, but Harpy has feathers peeking out of her sleeve, and Seylane has ears shaped like fish fins.

When that happens, does it mean that the Illumhilt of Lamia is completely indistinguishable from humans?

"Erm. Nice to meet you, huh? I'm Theodor-Gartner."

It must have been because they wanted to thank me for coming here.

"Whoa. It's a kid. It's a human child."

"This is the person who helped us?

"Oh, thank you very much for this. I'm Irmhilt."

Harpy and Seylan look at each other and then seriously stare at this one, and Ilmhilt, to say the least, smiles and tilts his little neck. Well...... it is obvious and easy to understand from the reaction that we are used to human society.

Illumhilt has been narrowing his eyes and nicotine all the time, and the atmosphere is somewhat relaxed. Clearly, it's not like Lamia, or it's not like demons in the first place. It was Illumhilt who taught the two of us the strawberry song earlier, maybe.

"Hehe. On behalf of you, I thank you. Mr. Theodore."

"No, because it was also for me. Uh, this is Grace and Ashley."

Introduce ourselves to each other. They say Harpy is Dominic and Seylane is Justia. Each freckled childish is harpier, and a beautiful woman with cries in her long cut eyes is Seylane.

... Sheila seems a little restless. I'm wandering around somewhere.

"Wasn't Mr. Heather still on his way to work? This one's fine."

"Really? Well, Mr. Theodore won't have much to do, so I'll take care of it."

When I told Heather, she tilted her neck small, but she left the room.

There seems to be a surprisingly large number of races in the Bandit Guild who are equipped with skill and standing as adventurers, so there's nothing dark behind this one, but Sheila seemed to care about people's eyes.

Deputy Oswald knows that the person around me is the informant in the kidnapping. There was also a verse in which he had a faint understanding that the person belonged to the Bandit Alliance.

So it would be better not to show Sheila's close proximity to those involved in the kidnapping in front of the guild officials. Even if the Adventurer Alliance is more considerate, the Bandit Alliance side may be strict around here, and we need pre construction.

"Illumhilt, were you okay?

"Yeah. The guild guy brought me a raven to plug in. Sheila, you're the one who came in from the front properly today."

"Theodore helped me"

Seems like Sheila and Irmhilt are delighted with each other's safety, so I'll just talk to her later and talk to Dominic and Justia to see.

"Where were you two before you got here?

"I don't care where they say. I don't know what humans call my birthplace, and before I know why, I was magically pulled in and put in jail."

"Me too. Suddenly the demon caught you."

"From where you were born, you said you were suddenly brought inside the border city?

"Yes, you will."

... research results of the Demon Lynette, huh? I know it will be a forced summons from outside the city, but there must be a lot of restrictions on the magic of summoning inside the city because there are boundaries.

Regardless of the summons of the demons under contract, the demons of the wild shouldn't go inside the city, and if we're going to talk about it in the first place, it's strange that the demons are inside the city itself. Such junctions are first and foremost stretched with the elimination of demons in mind.

I mean, Lynette came in scratching the line somehow. A great man will have his head in the temple and in the royal castle by now.

Then, their position may be outside Antai. It would be good news for Sheila.

He is also a valuable witness with some contact with the Demon Man, but there is no reason to treat the Adventurer Guild and the Adventurers who belong there unnecessarily until they have damaged their hearts and minds beyond being friendly and cooperative demons for the sake of the price.

I thought it might be distrustful because the humans caught me, but as far as their perception is concerned, the demons caught me.

"What about Mr. Illumhilt?

"I am a demon born in the labyrinth. I originally lived in a border city."

Well... that's exactly what Sheila told me.

"May I ask you a story about when you lived in the labyrinth?

"Mmm. It's nice to talk to you, but are you interested in talking about that?

Illumhilt tilts his neck with his finger against his own lips.

"Yeah. Labyrinth demons are different from normal, and you care"

The reason I'm here, for example, could be in the border labyrinth.

Labyrinth said to lead to a different world. Then - it's not strange to have a boundary between Earth and another world.

But if you don't know the secrets of birth and birth, don't worry about it.

More than living like this, I have to live to death to say what I did. How many people know why they're from, not just guys like me?

Jing Jiu set up Theodore's origins in BFO... but she didn't even set up information like that about her mother fighting demons. My life is mine. My mother's life belongs to her.

"... me too, that's what I want to know"

Illumhilt remained smiling, but some troublesome color mixes in there. I told you I couldn't go back to the back of the labyrinth, or I was seeing Snakebyte at his request to make a map.

The reason for this - to go back to your place of birth or to know why you were born?

"I was with everyone in the labyrinth - I remember you. I built something like a settlement in the labyrinth and lived there."

"Is it a settlement?"

Whatever you think... that's a compartment you don't know. Friendly demon stadium, or something?

"But I don't know what to say. Back then, it was like I was dreaming... that I and everyone were going to live the way I was decided."

Just like they decided, huh?

I have the impression that other hostile demons also play an antibody-like role in eliminating foreign objects entering the labyrinth, so I also have the NPC village-like image in their settlements.

"I was much more comfortable when I was in the labyrinth, and I wasn't hungry. There was nothing to be anxious about."

"That's it, how come you're outside?

"The process... I don't remember very well. But if you notice, stay outside. At that moment, I feel like the world has been colored for the first time. Instead, I was rejected from the labyrinth."

... I guess we should see the labyrinth side as having served and ruled.

Because Illumhilt, who monologues like that, doesn't look very much like a crop.