A week from Mr. Sulkto's funeral. I was stuck in my room, even thinking about it.
How to free the forest elves to fulfill their promises to Mr. Sulkto. How to free everyone, including the other elves, to live up to their promise to Lynne.
And how to open up the future of the elves so that the liberated elves can live freely...
I keep thinking about it, but it just suddenly didn't come up with anything.
My sister carries the meal, but I don't have much appetite and I only get about soup through my throat.
My sister told me in tears, 'I need to sleep. It's bad for my health...' I went into bed and tried to lose my mind after six appraisal activations, but I woke up in a few hours having nightmares.
It can be Mr. Sulkto's dream when he dies, or the Elves' dream of being enslaved again.
Lynne dreams that her sister Renne, the pharmacist, will be forced to work in the mine looking skinny (or faint) with Serres and Lena wearing that abominable collar again.
Or I also dreamed that the Elves would fight against humans, that Lynne would shoot people with bows and arrows and blow people up with gunpowder formulated by the pharmacists......
Both dreams implying the future of Mr. Elves were intolerable nightmares, but the latter would be the case if asked which was better.
To the point that I was so serious about that, I was being hunted down and depressed.
... My sister asked for it, and the pharmacist came to see how it went.
The pharmacist said, 'I'm sorry about that forest elf, but it's not your fault. It's my responsibility as a physician to fail to save my life, and it's not how the world works that happened in the first place,' said Comfort, after Lynne came with me.
"Yoichi is doing really well for us Elves. Please don't get sick... 'But on the other hand, I never felt any easier.
Indeed, what is worse may be prejudice against slavery and elves in this world.
But the responsibility for Mr. Sulkto's death will lie with me, not with the pharmacist, and for the promises he made during his death, it is undoubtedly my responsibility.
..................... thoughts, thoughts. But with no answers, only time passes.
I also tried to consult Eina and Listella in a letter somewhat, but I did not get a solution such as this.
In those days, it was on November 27th, 10 days after Mr. Sulkt's funeral, that some thought-provoking sister called out.
"Brother, I can't even think of a good idea if you're just stuck in your room. Let's take a walk to the grave."
A small bouquet of flowers was held in my sister's hand to say so.
... I don't think I would have moved if this was just saying, 'Let's go for a walk to change our mood'.
But you shouldn't be called to visit the grave. The destination is the grave where Mr. Sulkto is asleep, risking his life to ask me for help...
Alongside my sister, I head to Oki, a little wooded from the mine.
In the opinion of the Elves, the dead companions return naturally, so there are no tomb marks.
In a way, I guess this great tree is the tomb marker, a being that returns dead companions to nature.
We stand in front of the place where we buried Mr. Sulkto, and my sister gives us flowers and hands together.
Mr. Elves' sense is that the dead returned to nature and became part of the forest.
So there doesn't seem to be a feeling that this place is special, and no one comes to visit it.
If they are in the woods, the dead will always be next door.
I don't know much about religion, but I'm not willing to deny that idea.
But for me, a former Japanese, the place where the body was buried is special, the closest place to the dead.
Standing there, Sulukto's figure at the time of his death comes to Su.
There was a feeling in my hand. And a thin voice rang over and over in the back of his ear, whether he said he wanted help with his people still captured in the eastern country.
I'm so sorry for the pain and sadness that it's so hard to be here...
... How long would it have been before my sister, who crouched and kept praying, uttered words with her face forward?
"- Poor Mr. Sulkto."
"Oh yeah......"
For a moment I felt somewhere uncomfortable with my sister's words, but while I didn't know what it was, my stood up sister turned this way.
"... brother. Actually, I have a secret for you."
A hard voice that's not always the same. And with a contemplative look, my sister goes on to say
"The truth is... I've been trying to keep my mouth shut. I'm still wondering if I'm going to talk to you, and when I think your brother might get angry and dislike me, my heart is going to rip and my legs are shaking. But I can't watch your brother suffer and do it any more..."
... Am I done? Come to think of it, I've only eaten about soup lately, and I haven't had a satisfying sleep.
I haven't even looked in the mirror, but you look terrible enough to make my sister so miserable?
While I'm confused, my sister keeps her words in tears in her eyes.
"I don't know if my secret will help your brother, stupid me, but I'm sure your brother will help. So it would be nice to hear it to the end without anger..."
Helpful...... any info?
Information........................ Ah!
That's when I realized the identity of the discomfort I felt earlier. That's what my sister knew about Mr. Sulkto.
I know because I saw it on the appraisal, but Mr. Sulkto, who was dying, couldn't even name himself.
That's why I called it 'The Brave Forest Elf...' at the funeral, and the pharmacist called it 'That Forest Elf'.
I don't care who else didn't call me by my own name, there's no way I accidentally slipped my mouth.
Yet how does my sister know Mr. Sulkt's name...?
My sister also seems to have noticed that I have changed my expression, and she continues to talk with a slight shake in her shoulder, nagging.
"Brother, trust me on this one first. I have never lied to your brother, and I do not intend to continue to do so.... but I have done deceitful imitations. On the day I came to this world, only twice..."
The day I came to this world... I have a feeling something serious is happening.
"Kaori, wait a minute. If you tell me that information, something bad won't happen to you, okay?
"Bad things... I'm so scared if your brother hates me. But nothing else. It could be a burden to your brother..."
There's no way I'm gonna hate Kaori, so it's okay there.
And if anything happens to Kaori, and there's information that might override the situation, I don't care what my burden is.
I snort loudly and urge my sister to stay ahead of the conversation.
"... the day I was flown into this world. You said your brother when you were wandering around the city, didn't you?" Did you see a goddess or something when you came here? '"
Uh-huh... oh, I think I said something. And saying this...
"Kaori, maybe we met?
"Yeah. He was my grandfather, not a goddess, and it wasn't until I came to this world that I met him. But I was deluded because I didn't want to say it. I didn't like lying to your brother, so pretend you're confused. It's true that I was confused and scared at that time, so I think I was dancing very naturally."
... True, I didn't feel anything uncomfortable with what my sister said or did then.
"... Kaori, goddess... not Grandpa's God. What did you say?
"Before that, brother, you can still use the appraisal today, right? Try to test me. And then your brother himself."
Apparently my sister knows about the ability to appraise. Does that mean that my sister also independently identified Mr. Sulkto, so she knew his name?
But my sister's only special skill should have been hazard detection...
I have a heap of things to ask and my head is confused, but for now, I'll try to appraise my sister as she tells me.
Kaori Takakura Brave Lv17 Skills: Cooking Lv4 Sewing (Saiko) Lv3 Light Attribute Magic Lv2 Horseback Riding Lv1 Swordsmanship Lv1 Fire Attribute Magic Lv1 Water Attribute Magic Lv1 Special Skills: Hazard Detection Appraisal Tracking Status Coverage of Disguised Brave (Status Growth Accelerated/Physical Age Does Not Decay) Condition: Threat (Ooh) Yeah
.................. what??
27 November 425 Continental Calendar
36.2% Continental Unity Progress at the moment (Owned by Parklen Mine - Owns the Great Forest Zone of the former Kingdom of Markham and the former Idra Empire - Owns the Great Wetlands Zone of the former Kingdom of Siddhar - Strong influence over the Kingdom of Parklen, which dominates the western half of the continent - Secures land for orphans (Koji) in the eastern part of the former Kingdom of Siddhar)
775,140 total elves liberated
Breakdown 139,562 in mines 531,897 in 4592 villages in the Great Forest Elves 103,681 marsh elves under protection at the Listella Chamber of Commerce (some in turn migrating to the Great Wetlands) 21,053 orphans protected
Asset holdings 21.162.09 million
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Lynne (Elf Archer)
Linea (Class B Adventurer)
Lena (Elf's Textile Artisan)
Ceres (Elf's Woodworker)
Listella (hired chairman of the Chamber of Commerce)
Lucrea (Elf's Pharmacist)
Nina (Parklen Mine Operator)
Eina (King of the Kingdom of Parklen)