Even while Soleil took me around the restaurants, bakeries and clothing stores where she was going, Rabbi looked difficult the whole time.

Think of it, I feel like his sigh has increased more frequently from around Alwes, a town I stopped in one year ago.

I don't know much about it.

I mean, Ellea was always stuck with me after I left Ingratus, so I didn't get a chance to talk to Rabbi inside, did I?

"Lily, can I have you hold Ellea just a little bit?

"Fine."

Lily took me on quickly.

Ellea, the three people who added her to Soleil were thriving in Girls Talk as they walked through town.

Although I have been put in the wheel somehow, I honestly haven't been able to keep up with the topic at all, nor have I been able to participate in the conversation.

When I decided I had no problem leaving, I decided to put Ellea in a lily and talk to Rabbi.

"Rabbi, do you have a minute?"

"What's wrong with you?

Approach the rabbi who was walking a little distance from the three of us.

Though he handled it with a smile, he has just witnessed a difficult look before he spoke.

"I thought you might have some problems."

"What!? Hey, no, no worries."

If you don't have a problem with that reaction, I'll impress you the other way around.

I wonder if it's fatal that you're a bad liar because of your merchant aspirations.

As I narrowed my eyes silently and watched the rabbi, he broke his mouth as he seemed to have noticed.

"Mr. Misaki is really a man in it, isn't he?

"I never meant to be a woman."

"I'll believe that word and talk to you, but don't pull it off."

I can't believe a common sense guy like Rabbi ”don't pull it off”.

Instead, I've been doing more of a pull, and I wish I didn't have to worry.

"Since you stayed in Alwes, your room split has changed."

"Yeah, Ellea started sleeping in the same room as us."

I mean, me, Lily and Ellea are in the same room, more to the point, ”sleep" in the same bed, and Rabbi is staying in another room by herself.

I wonder what that has to do with his troubles.

You know, you got lonely by yourself?

No way, would a man like you jump out of the house at the age of 19 be imprisoned by such a feminine sentiment?

"I don't know, I can imagine."

"Imagine?"

"You don't know what it's actually like, do you? But isn't that how Mr. Misaki and Mr. Yuri relate?"

That kind of relationship would mean a physical relationship.

It's not like denying it either.

It is true that Lily and I held Ellea in Alweus the other day.

"Well, yeah."

"I mean, Mr. Ellea said he mixed it up there, too."

That's what I'm gonna do.

"... don't know?

"Yeah, okay"

It's the same guy that makes me understand so much that I don't want to.

While I was at it, it could have been shallow.

Speaking of 19, even if it's not as good as puberty, it's a lot of exciting times.

Three suspiciously related women are staying in the next room where such a man stays.

Is there a man in this situation who wouldn't have imagined that or this?

No, he's not here.

You should have noticed earlier, I mean, he...

"Rabbi, it's hoarding."

"Isn't the way you say it too direct!?

To the high volume penetration, the women moving forward turned simultaneously towards the rabbi.

"Oh, no, it's nothing"

His face is turning bright red.

You realised you couldn't get any information from Rabbi, and then the women's gaze turned to me.

"It's about this one, never mind"

Saying so with a bitter laugh, they resumed Girls Talk again.

"I'm only curious because we're talking over here..."

Only Ellea didn't seem very convinced though.

"I'm sorry, I shouted out loud"

"Fine, because I lacked Delicacy, too. So yes this"

When I took the note out of my wallet, I let it shake in Rabbi's hand.

"What's this?

"I mean, isn't that what this is about? Because this is a mining town, there seems to be quite a few shops for miners."

"Yes, I know more or less because I just saw it. I don't think Soleil dared touch it."

So, with the money.

"... tell him to go"

"I don't mind if you say no."

"No, no, I don't hate it!

That's annoying.

If you want to go, you can honestly take it.

"Um, Mr. Misaki"

"Hmm?

Rabbi is gripping the offered note hard as he roughs his nose.

"Can I go now?"

... I couldn't afford that much.

Well, I guess girls will still go around shops of interest after this anyway, and I'm just bored if Rabbi's with them, huh?

Honestly, I'm bored too, but if Lily and Ellea were here, we'd have a lot of fun.

"Fine. Do you know where the inn is?

"It's okay."

"Don't go into weird stores"

"I've asked my master before how to identify me."

What a master.

"So ha."

"Yeah, there you go"

Waving off the tense rabbi, I rejoined the macabre threesome.

"That, Rabbi, where have you been?

He said he had a shop on the way.

We stop our legs and see the back of the rabbi running away in the opposite direction.

"Damn, guys are always like this one"

Soleil looked at his back and was so blurred.

The gaze at it is also slightly cold.

Apparently, she's the only one with an idea of what a "concerned store” is.

I'll follow you up for once.

"There's only one man, and it's a lot of trouble, and so is Rabbi."

"I know, but I don't think it's worth it to run desperately into a store like that."

I can't defend it there.

At least he looked a little more calm, and I was hoping he'd walk towards me.

How excited the store is, the back of the rabbi leaving in no time.

Just in front of the bend, I'm about to fall with my foot caught in a stone on the ground.

His torso, which was front-loaded, was severed and fell to the ground.

The disjointed upper body remains a delightful expression, no different from when you broke up with me, gripping the note and rolling down the ground with blood scattered.

The rest of the lower body tried to run away without slowing down at all.

……

To a sight so unrealistic, I intuitively convinced myself that it was a hallucination.

Rub your eyes immediately.

Then all the upper body cut out of sight and all the dirty blood had disappeared.

At the end of his gaze, he does have the appearance of a rabbi running in a state of five-body satisfaction.

"What's wrong, Misaki?"

Ellea looks worried, peeking this way through Lily's arms.

"No, it's nothing"

You must have seen hallucinations because you were so used to seeing bodies.

That's how I decided to lift Ellea's body in Lily's arms.

"Did I make you tired?

"The cape doesn't snap around like that, 'cause it was even more amazing in the dorm."

"What are you talking about, Lily and Ellea?

Lily and Ellea continue a meaningful conversation, roughly with Soreille tilting her neck.

Before those two, I could only laugh bitterly.

Even then, we walked through the town of Mons, guided by Soleil.

While being left in conversation with the three of us at times, on the contrary, I continued to suffer from sporadic hallucinations as I fell in love with Lily and Ellea to show them and try to leave Soleil behind and play while being dressed as a doll in a clotheshop.

A passing woman, a mineral-like man immersed in a liquor store from day to day, the owner of a stopped sweet shop, and Lily, Errea and Soleil.

The hallucinations I see were all those that, by definition, separated my upper and lower body.

Sure, I've seen a lot of bodies, but the causes of death vary.

I'm not even going to stick to turning my body into two pieces.

Then - what the hell does this hallucination I'm seeing mean?

Feeling the unpretentious creeps, we went around the neighborhood and went back to the worker's guild.

As he knocks on the door and steps into the hall where it was originally used as a chapel, Fordkin and Laxa are listening to him from a man who looks like his men with a difficult face.

"We're home!

You don't read the air, or did you dare behave bright, Soleil raises his hand and approaches them.

Once we interrupted the conversation, Fordkin and Laxa saw this one.

Seeing Soleil's brightness doesn't change that look, how serious itself happened.

"What is it, Mr. Fordkin?"

When I asked, he opened his mouth a little worried.

"... Mr. Taverna was murdered"

I am told in a low voice.

I could only be confused by the fact that I wasn't expecting it.

"Oh no!?

Imperial agents can't die that easily.

It's some kind of joke, I want to think so.

I can't even cross over to the Empire without him, so I have trouble getting him to die on his own.

"I wanted to ask him something, so I turned my men... so they found the body"

"Were you definitely dead? Didn't your face get burned?

I'm an imperial operative, and I might be able to fake my own death.

But my pale hopes will soon be crushed.

"It's definitely him, and he said he had a good face."

"Cause of death..."

"Forcefully with a dull blade of cleavage, my upper and lower body were severed, I hear,"

Fordkin told me so, putting his hand on his mouth disgustingly.

I feel like I've been answered.

So you're saying that the hallucinations I was seeing today weren't just illusions?

It's not decent for your torso to be separated from your lower body, it can't just be human.

In other words, it is likely the work of animators.

"Is it the merchant guild's work?

"All the animators over there have cracked their qualities, at least five of them didn't have animators with that ability."

"What are the chances that new animators have joined their fighting power?

"None, I can tell you."

Laxa's response crushes the possibilities one by one.

This confidence, it's probably information coming from inside the Merchant Alliance.

The worker's guild subleader said it all, and if you doubt this place, you can't go on.

If you're assuming her words are true, that means that it wasn't a worker's guild, it wasn't a merchant's guild, it was a third party that killed Taverna.

Who the hell told you that?

I don't have time to think, bam in the hall! and the sound of opening the door echoed.

It was a worker's guild constituent-like woman who perspired on her forehead from the back room and popped out with a blue face.

Her hands, rushing over to Fordkin, were wet with snug red blood.

"What's the matter, Sophia, and your hand?

"And then, dead... inside HQ, Leanne is dead... and her body is divided into two parts...!

The woman, called Sophia, spoke with her body and voice trembling.

My body was divided into two parts... undoubtedly the same human work that killed Taverna.

"You mean the killer's breaking into this?

"How did you get in..."

"I can't think! The entrance is limited, and you shouldn't be able to get in on your own!

I know what Soleil's trying to say, but if they're using anima, they're not the ones that common sense works for.

Or maybe there's already a killer inside the workers' guild.

Guided by Sophia, we all headed to the location of the body, where there were signs that the door had been torn open with some kind of tool and a dull blade, just as cleavable as Taverna, forcefully cut.

A little bit, maybe the same thing that stuck the door and the murder weapon that killed Leanne.

Whatever the prey is, there's an invisible killer in this town who's unidentified.

The view is distorted.

Another hallucination.

Fordkin dies, Laxa dies, Soleil dies, Lily dies.

Ellea on the back is probably not safe either.

Kill them all.

He is severed from his upper and lower body, exposed to guts, and killed without remnants.

And at the same time...

"Brother, you're an interesting man."

I felt like I heard such a young girl's voice.