When I got home, I checked the letters on the inside of the collar.

They do look a lot alike.

He came back after me without saying anything, and Lyla came all the way to the living room.

"What's wrong?

"You're sure the technique inside this collar is a magic inverse proportional technique?

"I'm pretty sure of that."

……

"Anything wrong?

I told Lyla about the giant unfamiliar demon I saw in the woods earlier.

"Hmm. The mysterious demon that recently appeared...... He carved into his body a pattern similar to this collar."

"It wasn't written on some, it was on the whole"

"With a fourth tortoise, a rocky body...... My concubine doesn't have a demon in mind."

Even demons unfamiliar to the amateur, there are few demons that I or Lyla can't tell from hearing about that trait.

"For your convenience, let's call it an armored tortoise. The armored tortoise was about as giant as a house. But only one of them witnessed it on a daily basis in the woods."

"… it seems that armored tortoises and tortoises do not live in the woods."

"Oh."

"If you mean you knocked him down, you might know something if you look at the wreckage. Will you take me to the crime scene?"

I got it. I went back to the woods with Lyla.

"I'm sure it's here."

For a moment, Lyla looks around. I looked around the same way.

The body of the armored tortoise that just happened is gone.

"Where have you been...?

"The smell of blood drifting thereafter is the same as the smell of blood drifting here and there. I'm pretty sure it's here."

I didn't know we were going to look for that giant.

"If you're not there, it's a figure that you can clearly see without. That means"

"Someone took it away?

"Mmm. Probably."

Not the size you can easily take away.

Magic, or did you carry it using something else?

Lila couldn't even decipher it. There was a procedure similar to that one on the armored tortoise.

If it's the same surgical language, there may be some connection to a vampire named Wawark who supposedly produced the collar.

Besides that armored tortoise, you were talking about the emergence of several unfamiliar demons.

If you want to make this a quest, just let the rightful adventurer crusade you.

But suppose it was an individual with an engraved surgical ceremony just like an armored tortoise, the demon would be a clue.

Even if I end up crusading, I want to let it swim to some extent.

I want to make sure you know where it came from, if it's just a mutation, or someone's pet.

"Let the concubine serve 'Shadow'"

Speaking of which, you could use it.

"Hmm. What did you do? My concubine taught you that, didn't she?

"You did."

When Lyla activated 'Shadow', the magic spread around Lyla.

"Ki!"

A 'shadow' the size of a small dog appears.

My 'shadow' is male, but Lila's was slightly different and had a feminine roundness.

That 'shadow' clumps around my leg and rubs my body.

"Wow, wow!? No, don't! Hey, what are you doing?"

A hasty Lyla grabs the root of 'Shadow' and pulls it away from me.

Seems, and thrown far away, he quickly lost sight of himself in the darkness of the woods.

"Let him keep an eye on us. If you need anything, I'll let you know."

"Okay. You're not like my 'shadow'. It was rounded."

"Well, that... reflects the spirituality of the surgeon in no small measure"

The spirituality of the surgeon is reflected - which means that the behavior that rubs that body...

"Today, I heard during the day that neither Dee nor Roger would return..."

That seems to be the case.

"I'm ready for dinner, too, but yes, how about it?

When I whispered and blurred, I looked away.

"It is a tribute to the concubine for her selfishness and hassle. Somewhat... you have to work hard, don't you?

I was shy enough to say that to the Demon King, but I stroke my head with a bitter smile.

"Shall I show you the hard work and the work?"

"Hmm. Sounds great"

Lyla dyed her cheeks. She looked at me and turned away.

"Don't you regret what you said?

The next day.

After the morning ceremony, I was reporting to Iris Branch Manager about last night.

"A demon that even Loran doesn't know?

"Yes. Maybe it's a mutated demon. So maybe we shouldn't let anyone near that forest until we know what caused it."

"So is that."

Hmm, and Iris Branch Manager reassembles his proud legs and knocks the desk with his index finger.

It's a lot of tricks when you're thinking about something.

"Ask your lord to report it and make it a restricted area."

"Yes, it would be better to prevent damage."

It may be a little tight for someone getting food for life in that forest, but it would have been a lot more than injuries or loss of life.

"Oh, and I gave it to you yesterday. It's a letter from Wang Du."

"Thank you"

I thought it might be from King Randolph, so I checked the envelope and it said "Mr. Loran ♡" in the address.

I don't know if you're joking or serious. I got a naughty smile on my mind.

... that's him.

Break the envelope into billies and remove the contents.

"Long time no see, Mr. Loran."

The letter had begun with that wording.

I was writing to Seraphin about the collar the other day. This seemed like the reply.

You hated me, starting with a complaint about how I wouldn't show my face to myself when I was reunited with three people: Almeria, Elvi and Leena!? The wording, which was probably a joke, continued.

That creep was long enough, so I skipped reading it.

In conclusion, Seraphin had no more information about that collar than I did.

He picked up the collar on the battlefield, asked the appraiser to look at it at a later date, and told me that he knew as much about the effect and deposited it with me.

When I nostalgic for the letter, I heard something banging on the windowsill.

When I wonder, the sound of kon, again.

When I opened the window and looked outside, Lila's 'Shadow' was about to throw a stone three times.

The stone was quite large and the glass would have definitely broken if it had hit the window.

"Your Highness, I'm out."

Lyla's voice comes from 'Shadow'. Back there, Iris Branch Manager said, "Lila's voice?" and raised a strange voice.

"Can you talk?"

"Who do I get my concubine with?"

Haha, and 'Shadow' had a good laugh.

Lyla, who breathed last night that she would make him regret it in the woods, became a bug in the middle of the night and would regret the words. Seems a lot better now.

"From what I saw in the sight of the" shadow "placed in the woods, it was a lizard-like wind demon. but it's the first demon I see '

"Okay. Let's go to the scene."

'I'm quite alert. Maybe it's because of yesterday. Hard to get close.'

I hope the owners are the same.

"More than you can swim, the tail won't find out, will you?

"Who are you talking to?"

Out the window, Iris Branch Manager, who grasped the situation in conversation, waved through the window, "Be careful," he said.