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"Hey, did I ask you to do it?"

One of the knights, stationed outside Dayton Village, approaches the village, notices us, and walks up, raising his hand.

Knight Zelato. A veteran knight who has served the Alistair family for a long time, and he must have been over fifty years old.I used to be the head of the Knights' Corps, but now I have given it to my junior and lived a relaxed life in the Knights' Corps.

I've known him a little.My brother Carlisle was a knight, and I once met an adventurer with whom the Aleister family was gathered.

A person to be aware of who might cause trouble.And the opponent to rely on when troubles arise.

This time, due to the emergency situation, I decided to rely on it.

It's been a long time since you've been in charge here, Gelato.

Elliot has asked me to greet the knight in charge of the scene.

I actually have permission to move around freely, but the first greeting shows that the intentions of the Alistair family are working hard.

In fact, the children were looking at us from the inside of the village in a state of curiosity.

Even if you're a conductor, it doesn't solve this problem.

He was an excellent knight and a strict man when he was young, but since his grandson was born, he has become a good man.

"If a monster you've never seen comes out of the woods, it's our job to evacuate the inhabitants of the village." just..... "

Gelato turned his gaze to the village.

Just as one of my parents was picking up my children, he turned to me coldly.

You haven't gotten any help from the village, have you?

That's right.

“I'm sorry, but the village is already finished by ourselves, so I don't feel like welcoming anyone else.”

Sounds like it.

We ask for help when we are in trouble, but we do not proactively try to help when we are asked for help.Furthermore, the fact that the village had not been damaged this time was also a cause of passivity.

Oh, it looks like you're here.

A knight came out of the village.

"Brother"

He was my brother who negotiated with the village.

I was from this village, so it was easier to talk than other knights, so I took on the role of negotiator.

“I'm sorry, I didn't even get permission to enter the village because I wasn't strong enough.”

“Don't worry about it.You don't want to harm yourself by bringing in people like us. "

Mr. Gelato admired his brother for failing to negotiate.

In the first place, it was strange that a group of people, including knights, were camping outside the village.

Was it like this before?

The only time I stopped by the village was when the situation was the same as when I left.After that, I didn't even gather information, and I was only interested in the results of my request.

That's why I was surprised to hear you were camping outside the village.

No, if only a few adventurers had visited, they'd have welcomed me in.

People from outside are a valuable opponent for dropping foreign currency.

The village could only serve dishes using harvested vegetables, but it was still established as a business because there were adventurers hunting in the forest.

But I was just doing a little business like that.

"If development is to proceed in earnest, Dayton Village will have to grow in size.People in this village don't understand that. "

The elderly are willing to continue their lives so far.

However, if it is not possible to follow the changes of the times, a village will be created as a relay site in another place.If that happens, no one will stop by Dayton Village and they'll be forgotten.

Since it is better to use a village that already exists as an Allister house, I hope that it will be changed to a village where everyone can stop by.

However, it seems that it is difficult to expect in the current state.

“Let's get down to business.”

Oh, I see.

My brother guided me into one of the tents.

A tent that can accommodate a large amount of space is meant to accommodate the wounded.However, there were no injuries in the current village of Dayton, and only the statue of one person was placed.

You're really petrifying, aren't you?

A stone statue in the form of a knight.

It was a knight who was petrified in the woods.

I tried a lot of things, but it didn't work.

Because there are monsters that can use the Petrify skill, there is a medicine to restore the petrified.It was not a monster that was rarely there, but it was always in the city because it sometimes appeared near Aleister.

Of course, various medications were tried, but the existing medicines could not be reversed.

Can you do it, Ellis?

No problem, my Regression doesn't matter what state it is.

Iris puts her hand on the shoulder of the Petrified Knight.

It does not need to be touched, but it is possible to clarify the object by touching it in this way.I once met a Petrified Knight.Return to the state before being petrified by using skills while imagining the original state.

"Phew...!"

In an instant, the stony knight regains his human form and exhales as he jumps out of the water.

It proved that Iris's [regression] could be undone.

"Forty men left."

There are more than forty petrified knights and adventurers in the forest.

First of all, you have to put a lot of people back together.

"I'm sorry. We just don't have the strength..."

"It's not about your brother apologizing."

The first adventurer to scout was petrified.

Even the knights and adventurers who went to the rescue were petrified.

The opponent is a monster of wisdom.

It feeds on petrified humans to petrify those who come to the rescue.

I was unable to go to the rescue bypassing it because I knew it was a trap.

“We might be able to bring the monster back before he sees us.”

If you're going to show up from the other side, it'll save us the trouble of looking for you.

“Iris is on the answering machine, and I'll leave Aira as an escort in case anything happens.”

"Ah, um..."

The knight who recovered from the petrification crawled on all fours, raised his face and looked at me.

“Thank you for helping me from that condition.”

……

As a knight, I just wanted to thank you.

But that was enough to make me think.

Do you have a consciousness that you were petrifying?

Ask, crouching and looking at each other.

"Yes... it was only a tragedy that I could not do anything and was merely made to see what was happening in front of me.But I'm sorry. I don't know the cause of the petrification either. ”

When I noticed it, it was stoned.

There are more important issues than that.

"... change of plans."

The original plan was to return the petrified humans over several days.

In parallel, I intended to eliminate the problems that were happening in the forest.

If [Regression] were to help everyone, we wouldn't be able to make it.

The disadvantage was the amount of magic power consumed.It's normal to think of the effects, but since it consumes a lot of magic power, only a few people can be cured in a day.

We can probably get half of them back.However, I can't even predict what the other half will be in the way I was thinking.

"I'm not going to let anyone die in this case."

Leaving the tent, he stepped in the direction of the forest.

"Hey, hey... what's up?"

“If you're going to help everyone, Iris's skill won't do it in time.”

You've been a real success, haven't you?

My brother saw the return of the petrified humans.

However, there was a fatal problem on the way back.And I didn't notice the few words about the problems that were happening during the petrochemical process.

"It's not just petrifying."