- In the end I just tried the formulation method that came to mind, but I didn't get anything that seemed to be fruitful. I never got that discouraged because I didn't really expect to be able to make holy water in a day or two, but I feel heavy inside considering the future.
In the meantime, dissolving some earlier than usual closing hours, I thought I'd clean up my conditioning equipment by myself.
"Help"
"Ah... thank you"
Alnort's hand, which appeared all the way from the side, began to clean up the poisonous grass that had been placed on the table. They're going to help.
For a little while there was no conversation between us and we kept quietly cleaning up. I'm used to silence with Arnold.
- And it was Arnold's reluctant voice that accidentally broke the comforting silence.
"... is today's conditioning for the Demon King?
"For once, that's the assumption. If you also tell Iris about the holy water we talked about before, mix everything you don't like about demons! Talk about it."
Arnold flashed a few degrees as surprised by my words.
"That's a very bold idea."
"Yep. It was an idea that didn't occur to me."
Heh heh, smiling and answering, Arnold's expression seemed slightly soothing. Interest in Iris may have increased in him.
I haven't seen any results yet, but later, with Iris' bold ideas and Mr. Basilio's solid knowledge, I'm wondering if I can find some way to break through.
"Let me know if you have any ingredients that might help you make holy water"
Request Arnold in a slightly joking tone. That way he nodded small.
That interrupts the conversation. It was Elvira's presence that twitched behind my brain as I silently cleaned up. Instead of showing my face to training lately, I don't think I see it even within the royal castle. I wonder what she's doing now.
"... Um, where is Elvira now?
"I'm asking my master and Mr. Darryl to let me go home.... because I had to explain this time."
Mr. Darryl. To that name Arnold spoke of, I gave Ba and him my gaze.
I haven't told your master what caused the autopsy yet.
"Did your master follow you, too?
"Master...... that's what Merzedes wanted. He wants to talk about autopsy once and for all."
I'm stuck with Arnold's words. From the mouthfeel, perhaps Mr Merzedes knows the true cause of autopsy - the existence of the Demon King. Otherwise, Arnold's family won't be able to explain.
Mr. Merzedes also seemed to be close to his master's grandson Annette, who died of autopsy, and I wonder if he had any idea what caused the autopsy. That's how she took her master, hoping. It is probably only a matter of time before the presence of the Demon King is communicated to your master.
I hadn't been able to tell my master everything yet. The fact that I tell you is like poking your master's desperate treatment all in vain. I didn't have the courage yet.
I had a sense that I was stretching ahead. Should I have told you from my mouth, from Mr. Merzedes, who shared the same suffering?
"Ampere?"
You wonder about me for being silent with a serious look, Arnold calls me by name. I smiled in haste to fix it. And I'm going to change the subject of something, and I'm going to ask you a lot about the home of the Rocco brothers and sisters.
"Uh, uh, what's your village like?
"It's a little settlement in the woods."
"Heh... just hearing that explanation might be similar to the village of Emme in my hometown. All the inhabitants of the village know each other... like"
A view of my hometown floating behind my brain. To put it badly, a small village that is closed and, to put it better, has a lot of interaction between residents.
Speaking of which, I recall. Among the "Last Brave" sub-events was an event to meet Elvira's parents. They didn't get tangled up in the main line, but maybe even in this world you have an opportunity to see them.
"Well, because there's a bunch of reasons why they just bounced me off the elf settlement. I think solidarity compares to other settlements"
There is a distracting word in Arnold's words that I said in a sarcastic and starchy tone, and I lean my neck unexpectedly. And half-reflexively, I was saying those words that bothered me.
"Translated?
"Those who have abandoned the past, those who have been abandoned from their homes, those who have fled from something, those who have something, the outrageous strangers... It's a village where elves can reach that couldn't be accepted into any of those settlements."
Reflect that Arnold showed no particular concern for bareback or hesitant bareback for answers, but it was not a topic to step into. I succeeded in trying to cut the topic off early and gaveling "Really?" in the usual tone.
"I'm a mix of humans and elves. He's a stickler."
- I couldn't hide my upset at the fact that it was added in a tone like nothing.
That's certainly what Arnold said when he said he was a mixed race of humans and elves. Does that mean that so is my brother and sister Elvira? No, there shouldn't have been that setting in "Last Brave". Elvira's parents, who appeared at the sub-event, remember that both their mother and father were elves.
Maybe Elvira and Arnold aren't connected to blood. Either Arnold's parents were human, and for some reason they may have been taken over by Elvira's parents. But even though the whole family is in a village with translated elves, it seems somewhat unnatural to adopt only one Arnold.
Think of it as a grunt, but naturally you don't know the answer. There was only one question that came up behind my brain.
"Is that what I can ask?
"You don't have to be nagging."
Staring at me with my black eyes, I accidentally get stuck in words. Unexpectedly, he was distracted by trust from Arnold, who was turned straight.
Pull your jaw all the way down and drop your gaze on hand to escape the gaze directed at you.
"Well, I hope so."
After a glimpse of Arnold, he nodded contentedly and small. And when I think I dropped my gaze on hand like I did earlier, I squeal with a small voice.
"My parents say they want to thank me. To Ampel and Lord Lukersch."
- Oh, I see. So now Arnold gradually begins to swallow the suddenly informed fact that he may have spoken of his birth. He might have thought about seeing me or Lukersch not having Arnold's mother's or father's ears pointed when we actually met, and saying it before he felt unnatural, etc.
Somehow I could understand Arnold's thoughts, but it's too sudden to say I did. I know unexpected facts at unexpected times, and I'm just upset.
I don't care about me like that, Arnold continued with a softer voice than usual.
"Of course, so am I. Let me invite you when you're settled."
"... yeah, definitely"
- When you calm down. I don't know when that will be. And not necessarily greet the day with serenity. But that's why my promise to Arnold was a small pleasure for the future - to exaggerate, it made me hope.
Visit the Rocco family with Lukersch. There's Elvira laughing cheerfully, Arnold staring gently at her like that, and their parents. Maybe Mr. Merzedes or his master.
I made a strong vow to my heart to do everything I could to make such a day happen.