Northeast Halshwart.

In the corner of the quiet city surrounded by white snow, there was the mansion. A three-story, albeit aristocratic, large mansion.

What catches my eye is a steep and gradual roof. The slope is likely to be as high as sixty degrees if poorly done, with snow mountains stuck below it that are higher than the back length of Digos. The snow on the roof falls quickly.

The moon of the white week, the twentieth. The weather is cloudy.

Four stray guards, Bergrette, Sabel and Julie, who served in Halshwart in the morning, arrived at this place by refraining from approaching noon.

"This is... Lenore's Mansion, huh?"

"Sounds like..."

Belgrette's response to the whining of the drift guard was somewhere lonely.

(... yes' like ', or)

I don't even know my best friend Belgrette.

In contrast to the drifting guardians looking up at the building in a complex mood,

"I can't help coming this far and poking around, you two. Let's try to interrupt."

Sabel, who had nothing to do with Lenore, smiled and said softly. but his remarks are also good. I can't help but butt in.

"All right... go, Belle boy"

"Yes."

Every long vacation, where Lenore should be returning.

Both Lifeguard and Belgrette have only been informed that they "live with their families". The family structure is unknown. But Lenore herself tells me that she has a sick mother.

And then, about the presence of a servant named Wephosh who sent me an expulsion delivery?

Enter the premises and proceed to the heavy door, ringing the equipped knockers.

When I thought I'd ring it again, the door opened with a heavy twitch.

It was a soldier and a young man who came out.

Age is higher than the street guards, lower than the Sabels, etc.? He's a gentle-faced young man, and if he returns his back, he also feels a little unreliable.

He's wearing silver light armor, but the shape and design still seem slightly different from Raindeer's. It is characterized by a pattern of pieces carved into pieces, creating a spilled atmosphere.

"... uh, you guys?

A courtesy girl knight receives an answer to that soldier who asks with an astonishing face.

"I'll see you first. My name is Bellette Fiz Gertirude. This time it came from the Kingdom of Raindeer."

Listing the certificate issued by the Dean of Nastadio,

"Oh, yes... may I see it?

"Yes, please confirm"

The slightly alarming signs disappear from the expression of the young soldier who received and ran his eyes into the text.

"I see, Raindeer...... Midir College, is it? Surely this college... I mean, what can I do for you..."

"Yes, it's about Lenore Schne-Grosevitz"

Following Belgrette's immediate response, the soldier let his gaze swim like he was lost.

"... right. Yeah, yes. What are you doing here? Go inside."

Upon being prompted into the mansion, the interior was spacious with a luxurious appearance.

Chandeliers suspended from the ceiling of the lobby, patterned carpets likely to be stretched with a laid down value. Looks like it's well cleaned.

Walking after a soldier, but uncomfortable behind a drifting brain.

(I don't know when I'm idle... I don't have a sense of life...?

I don't feel like a place where my family lives.

There was nothing wrong with someone along the way, and the four of them were put through to a large room. Recommended, the line calms your hips on the central couch.

A soldier sitting face-to-face has lowered his head lightly with a mysterious face.

"Oh, I missed my name. My name is Hefnell Aguston, and I'm a regular Badalnoise soldier stationed in this city."

"Oh, uh... I'm Lugo Aliumi, the Raindeer guerrilla"

"My name is Sabel Alhano, and the spirits of Lugumiraluma over here and the beauty in the face is Julie Micheus. Well, we're just escorts... can we be present?"

"Oh, yeah, yes. Go ahead..."

Based on the reliability of the writ shown by Belgrette, did you decide that there was no problem with the character of the accompanying person? Hefnell agreed comfortably. I thought...

"... hmm? To Sabel Alhano...... Julie Micheus?

He frowned in surprise,

"Huh!? also, could it be...... Julie from" Aerial Butterfly "Morpho" on the "Purple Phosphorus" Wisteride "sabel!?

Open your eyes and go against surprise.

"Whoa, what is it? You know, about us."

"And I know! I know! Aren't you famous for the story of Baelion Ruins' great heavenly sword, Ain't Hokun! Wow, I can't believe I'm seeing you here!

"Ha ha, that would be an honor again"

"Heh heh. I knew you were a celebrity - us!

Both names of treasure hunters are pleasant.

(That, hey. I didn't respond to anything in my name, but...)

The complacent drifting shelter, which is becoming quite well known lately, was only a little hectic. Well, if you're Raindeer, you're a celebrity, and Belgrette opens her mouth, whilst she nods her heart that she doesn't have to be known otherwise.

"Mr. Hefnell, right? Of Lenore's relatives... you're not."

"Oh, yeah, yes. I've been told from the top to deal with visitors in this mansion for a while now... and she has nothing to do with it."

"Corrective measures for magazines"

Sabel tells me, Hefnell nods vaguely, "Yeah, well".

(magazine dealer...... oh I see, that's what you mean)

There was also speculation about drift protection.

In any case, the amount of Lenore, which was the prize neck, is the amount. If you change your mind, it's not strange to be the most talked about person in Badalnois today.

If you make it a PR magazine chamber of commerce - like a newspaper in a place called Modern Japan - it's no more outfit stuff.

I can't wait for Lenore's family to be pushed by those people every day. I guess this is how this Hefnell packs it to scrutinize visitors.

"Can I speak to your family?

Belgrette asks to deviate,

"... that... don't you know much about her family?

Conversely, Hefnell returned such a question.

"... eh"

Girl knights, too, push and shut up like they've been shredded.

Just that question I threw at you.

If I'm not familiar with Lenore's family structure, I've been enlightened.

On a long vacation, he returns to the Halshwart mansion where his family lives. Around autumn, my mother suffered a sudden illness. I have a servant named Wefosh.

It is to this extent that the drift protection knows, but I have heard that Bergrette and Mia are not very different.

Whoever they are the most, I can't think of a picture of Lenore talking about herself with Bella Bella.

"Currently, the only inhabitants of this mansion are Mr. Wefosh, the servant, except for me stationed there."

He said he originally lived with his mother, Lenore, and Wefosh.

The Grosswitz family was more of a genealogy named for the Badalnoise upstream aristocracy than it used to be, but the predominant father was the other world when Lenore was young.

In Badalnois today, polygamy is only permitted in some superior nobles. Grosswitz also qualified for it, so there are several half-brothers present in Lenore. However, she doesn't even seem to know the exact number herself.

"Polygamous, hey. One guy had a wife, and... Hmm..."

It is Julie who listens and frowns. As a one-way girlfriend to a particular man, Sabel, she has something to think about.

"Well, don't say that, Julie. That's all Badalnoise sucked, too, I mean. I've only heard rumors about it... but I think it was like," Death Embrace. "

"... Yep, yes. I was just a kid at the time... and I lived in a different neighborhood, so I didn't have any direct experience."

Winter more than a decade ago.

An unprecedented cold wave hit northwest Badalnoise.

He said areas that hit a quarter of the national territory continued to be exposed to unstoppable blizzards for roughly nearly a month. Because of its awesomeness, it seems that the divine chant of communication, Oracle, was so blocked.

Traffic networks are blocked by inclement weather with no foresight of the dimensional destination, and the consequent isolation of the inhabitants. There are also many catastrophes such as food bottoming up, boiling business and jumping outside, missing, or staying and starving to death.

What is more, those who have become the underlings of the collapsed houses, those who have been frozen to death by the harsh cold… the number of those victims, indeed 30% of the entire population of Badalnois.

The density of large cities and factories in the area was also a factor leading to significant damage.

This is an unprecedented catastrophe called The Embrace of Death (Grussambles).

People were greatly afraid that it was the wrath of Cure Renaissance, the ice goddess.

Some intellectuals argue that this catastrophe - or 'judgment' - has set Badalnoise's culture and civilization back for about fifty years?

One of the policies launched by the then exchangers to restore national power from such a devastating blow -

(Polygamy, hey...)

Anyway, you must have wanted to do something about the drastically reduced population, even on straw. Regardless of the success or failure of that response,

(As a result, Grosswitz was born from one of the aristocratic wives, Lenore... is that why)

Being born and raised in modern Japan, I honestly didn't feel like I could pin it. Hefnell continues, even while he can't swallow.

"You will also hear this... Lenore... he said that his talent for the Divine Chant" Oracle "was quite extravagant. I have heard that at the age of eleven, the youngest in the history of Badalnois, he was recruited as a court chanter (Mage) and did a remarkable job."

"... I knew it..."

It was Belgrette who murmured powerlessly at Hefnell's words. I guess there was a part of me that came to mind because of my usual Lenore looks and abilities. Even as a shield, I'm convinced it will be.

"Finally, to the point of serving as a squire for Martina Snow, our nation's secret warrior......" Penta, "it was promising that the future would also be assured of the entry of" Snow Storm White Knights "Grachella Duera"? I was wondering if the blood of the Grosswitz family, even though they were half-brothers and sisters, could belong to both brothers and sisters at the same time. "

"Hmm? My brother...... what?

It is the drift shield that is distracted. I hadn't spoken to my voice, but Belgrette had her eyes round too.

"Oh, didn't you know? The captain of the Snow Storm White Knights, Grachella Duera, Svorne, will be Mr. Lenore's belly brother."

"Svo......!?

Lifeguard and Belgrette looked up to heaven at the exact same time.

"Svorn is that Svorn......!?

"Yeah, yes. That's Svorn."

As for Hefnell, it would be a perception of an elite knight in his own country. But of course not drift protection.

I can't even forget it. That high pressure extreme attitude and behavior.

(That bastard... you called your sister a sinner and messed her up to her room so bad...)

Nothing, not necessarily that my brother and sister have to get along well. The mother says it's different, too. Nevertheless......

"Whoa, you're out of line. All in all, I have heard that Mr. Lenore was very good as a court chanter (Mage). But..."

"But?

Julie urges me, and the young soldier continues to seem uncomfortable.

"Again... at the time, jealousy from a colleague wasn't half the time," he said.

That's what I heard, and I hit a heavy gavel with what even had a sabel.

"At the age of eleven, the court chanter (Mage)... means that all my colleagues were just a bunch of older people. If you try them, it's not funny how old ladies shoulder to shoulder."

"Yeah, yes...... Then Mr. Lenore said he had the personality to take the job and do it without one disgusting face, and he also seemed very highly regarded from above."

If so, I no longer have to think about what the wind was like from my colleagues.

"Mr. Lenore then resigned as a court chanter (Mage) at the age of fourteen. He moved his residence away from the Imperial Capital and with his mother, Mr. Lenin, to this Halshwart... to this mansion."

Retirement in just three years, despite a high reputation. Additionally, when I moved out of my way, I can assume that there were quite a few circumstances.

"I guess there was a lot going on in royal palace relationships, poor thing. Uh, this is why I don't want to serve the palace. Instead of cultivating my talents, I try to crush them because I want to. Uh, no!

As a classification, the adventurer - Julie, who became a free man - flaunted her shoulders with a bitter face.

"Steady, that's all a deadbeat little lady... Is it because her father, Sir Grosswitz, was a pretty awesome chanter, Maggie? Perfect for marrying a lot of daughters."

In response to Sabel's words, Hefnell says "no" in an unfortunate way.

"Sir Grosswitz was the one who demonstrated his talents, mainly in terms of home affairs…. My mother, Mr. Lenin, was more active as a renowned court chanter (Mage)."

Oh, really?

"Yeah, yes. Lenin Shrier Grosswitz. Probably a royal palace official in Badalnois, and no one knows its name. Without a threshold, you were the best court magician in the country."

"... 'Was'? And that means…"

Belgrette points out that part. Hefnell snorted heavily as he guessed.

"Yeah, yes. Unfortunately, he left active duty some years ago. I've lived in this mansion since I moved to Halshwart with Mr. Lenore... and I got sick last fall, and now I'm back in the royal palace for treatment and follow-up. Come on."

"That's right. Um... what is Lenore's mother's illness? Never heard of it."

There, there may be a few clues.

I asked casually for that reason, but shortly afterwards, I would taste the shock of being hit in the head.

"The... Actually, it's a hard place to say it's a disease...... amnesia, that's it"

――――――――

Last fall.

A quiet girl who abruptly left the college when her mother suffered a sudden illness.

I hear she often stayed in her hometown while Lifeguard and Belgrette went through their first expedition to Bobo and reverse trips to modern Japan.

And - "White Rabbit's Silence (Rabbit's Carm)" withheld, one winter day.

I stumbled across it in the College's library, interacting with Lenore. Horse running lights whilst that conversation circles the back of the boy's brain......

'... you had lost your memory, but I heard you got it back recently'

Why did you think that?

'... what brought back memories with the hang-up?

"Was there any physical or mental change before or after the memory returned?

"Do you remember both before and after you lost your memory?

'How long did you not remember? Did you see the doctor?

It wasn't like a quiet girlfriend, and the early tone of the arrow.

'... yes.... you weren't there to lose your memory'

That reaction, too, when I found out the drift protection wasn't amnesia.

(That sort of thing, was it...)

I must have felt it. Against mild amnesia and false drift protection. Be discouraged. Be angry.

Liquid shielding was also something I learned later, but amnesia seems to be very rare and little confirmed in this world.

"Hmm. Amnesia, when... Even I'm surprised it's real. Are you going to forget everything?

Sabel tilts her neck without even knowing the impact of the inner part of the shield.

"At least, in Mr. Lenin's case... he forgot everything,"

Everyone who was asked was breathing.

"Everything".

In that short word, the tremendous weight is condensed….

"Shh, everything? Is it really all of them? For example, who you are...?

To Julie's words, the young soldier nodded silently.

Nobody said anything, but naturally...

(Also about Lenore......)

Awesome.

And the drift protection is once again stunned.

"Actually, I wasn't amnesiac," he said to her. When I can finally tell you the truth, that already seems delightful.

Even though I didn't know the circumstances, what did I do?

"When I lose my memory, what happens to the treatment of the Divine Chant" Oracle "?

"You can express the power itself, but independently conceived technologies, etc…. Again, I seem to forget the procedures and methods…"

"Even if the Born Soul Heart Power" Prarna "stays, the things built up as the chanter" Mage "will be lost. That's cruel..."

Sabel zeroed in a sinking tone, and the place was engulfed in silence.

The fact that even the skill and knowledge of the Divine Chant "Oracle" will disappear if you try to be someone other than a drift shield must be scary on this one. Probably should be equal to losing everything about yourself.

"… may I ask what crimes Lenore has committed"

Slightly, Bergrette cuts it out as she decides. With a look like I could shove everything into my chest.

But Hefnell on the other hand,

"It's... in my presence, whatever..."

"What happened? Bounty neck - hey, now I dare you to call me that, but you can tell me the details if you ask a soldier, right?

In response to such a sabel question,

"In Mr. Lenore's case, the sweepstakes amount is so... we're only supposed to answer you in the barracks to avoid unnecessary confusion."

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

"Also, I'm sorry. But it's settled..."

The young soldier seems to have no choice but to shrink, even to Julie's words as if they were frightened.

Speaking of Bergrette, he nods without changing one expression.

"No, I understand. Later, I'll ask you at the stuffing station. May I see your servant, Mr. Wefosch, then?"

As per this request, "excuse me," Hefnell removed his seat so much that he brought in one lady.

No weirdness whatsoever - it would be disrespectful to call it - but a woman with a quiet atmosphere, such as a maid of honor who serves the Mansion.

The age was around twenty, or a person with a calm waist, lacking in expression. The exterior looks different, but the covert standings also seem to lead somewhat to Lenore.

"... is that right? Lady Lenore's..."

After a brief explanation of the circumstances from Belgrette, Wefosh muttered without discouragement.

"You're the one who filled out this Lenore exit delivery."

"Yes."

The maid takes the lead as she drops her gaze on the pieces of paper presented by the girl knight.

"How did you do that?

"After Lady Lenore became a questioner, the Dean of the College wrote to me... I asked the barracks how they should respond, and Hyodoro told me to deliver the expulsion..."

A little unconvincing rebellion arises here in the drift protection. Sabel and Julie seemed the same, with a slightly unintelligible look. In other words:

(Told you to notify me of your expulsion, so I honestly gave it away...)

"Master Hyodoro, what do you mean?

Belgrette asks,

"This is the name of the Soldier Commander, who heads the Badalnoise side of the city."

It was Hefnell who answered this.

"I don't think Mr. Wefosch would have wanted me to follow you, either, because... he's a little distracted."

I perceived the inside of the exile guardians or accompanied them to defend the maids.

A little nodded girl knight keeps asking questions.

"About Lenore...... what do you know?

"I've been asked many times because of the soldiers... nothing in particular..."

"Has anything changed before or after Lenore disappeared? I don't mind any trivial things."

"Even with that, the soldiers asked me..."

Nothing, huh?

I guess not. No, Wefosh ran a strange thing.

"Uh... just one point. A few days before the lady disappeared, the front door was damaged..."

The four escorts become uniform and decent.

"Ah... Again, that was an unnecessary story..."

"Oh, no... I don't mind. Just in case, let me know."

Belgrette gently urges.

"Dear soldier, I was scolded for not caring... The lady reported that the front door was broken and told me to send it out for repair."

(Ha. I really don't care. Sounds like a sweet story...)

I think so. It was a shield, but Belgrette was surprisingly frowning.

"Did Lenore report to you from himself? The front door is broken."

"Yes. Would you say that the damage to that door was bizarre again... it was two things. Hard sandalwood doors soften vertically."

It was like being cut off, it seems. Craftsmen also said they were inclined to the neck to see if they could cut so nicely even using a superior scarecrow.

(... I see. If the deteriorated hinge "Chi Tsuki" came off or smashed into some kind of applause, it wouldn't normally happen...)

It was a door that seemed sturdy to see. It's odd when it comes to weird......

(Did you argue with someone, or something?

I can't deny that sen either. Assuming that's the case, who the hell are they? There, what is the history......

"Didn't you ask Lenore? What happened to the door?"

"Yes, I try not to ask you anything unnecessary."

After that, Belgrette asked questions, but no results were achieved.

"It was kind of pale, you know, with that lady."

The opening is the best. Julie, who is about to leave the mansion, is a refreshing face to see.

…………

Meanwhile, Lifeguard, who spoke silently of the mansion, was convinced somewhere in his heart.

Wefosh says Lenore and his mother are servants of the dwelling that he has hired since he came to this Halshwart.

As soon as he began to live in the city, Lenore went to Raindeer and went to Midir College, a dormitory-wide institution. I must have spent less time with Wefosh than I expected.

Afterwards, if you think about that quiet Lenore personality, it's obvious that you don't talk casually from yourself. Wefosh was a wefosh, with a distinctly introverted personality to be seen.

Two of those who, in a way, are similar to each other. I can guess without even thinking about how the pattern was during that time.

"Well. The next destination would be the barracks, wouldn't it? Miss Belgrette."

Sabel asks, as she has regained her mind.

"Yes, in the barracks, I'm going to ask you about Lenore's guilt"

"Okay, okay. There was a carriage parlor right over there. I'll call one of us, so you two young ladies can wait here. Let's go, Julie."

Shortly after I replied, the two treasure hunters just left. I'm sure you cared about the worrying Belgrette.

Stream protection is left flat in the snow city with her and the two of them.

"... 'I wanted to go to school', huh?"

Besides, Belgrette shrugged.

"That was... Lenore's motive for entering the college."

As soon as I left the college, I heard it in the carriage.

"Yeah. Enroll, meet everyone... At first, I thought she was an unusual child. About Lenore."

In the corner of the classroom, alone quietly. He said he stayed emotionally faceless and didn't talk to anyone. The diagram can also be easily imagined for flow protection.

"... but now I finally know. I finally get it. 'I wanted to go to school'. How many thoughts were put into this word..."

At an early age, he was enrolled as a court magician (Mage). Everyone around me, not a turn older than myself. With such 'coworkers' turning their jealousy on me.

Something called a normal learning building - I wonder if the students of the same age who go there looked glorious in Lenore's eyes.

"A few things, I went all the way into a distant college of raindeers... maybe"

"... Yep"

To spend time as a student with no strangers in a place where there is no one to know who you are.

As an age-appropriate girl, regardless of past or background, or decided not to.

"Belle, Mia... that's what I didn't tell everyone in my class about me. You didn't want to be seen as a former court chanter (Mage) in Badalnois. Without those colored glasses... I think Lenore wanted to hang out with everyone as an individual."

"... n"

Belgrette nodded weakly.

(I think I know a little bit about Lenore...)

When that happens, it doesn't tie in extra.

Why is that girl in such a position to be chased by naming her country?

(Go to the barracks... listen to me, right)

The drift shelter also cemented its determination and looked up at the grey sky.