I need to talk, Jeremiah and I were finally able to get some time after that evening.

A pretty girl with a silver shortcut on brown skin has designated the rooftop of the mansion as the place to talk.

Me or Jeremiah's physical abilities make it easy to climb.

Jeremiah stood alone on a roof dyed in the sunset, brilliant with silver hair in dusk.

"... Whistle, did you bring it to me?

"Oh."

Jeremiah was told to bring the whistle she had received as a birthday present.

Before we start talking, Jeremiah tells us how to blow a whistle.

In terms of previous life instruments, it's close to harmonica blowing, but the sound feels like I cracked it with the addition of flute and recoder.

Learn how to blow while Jeremiah coaches you, and teach you simple songs too.

Jeremiah was praised for her muscles.

The whistle class by Dr. Jeremiah was over before sundown.

When it was over, silence descended on the roof.

"... uh, talk to you, huh?

Control Jeremiah who says so, I say.

"Before I do, I have something to tell you too..."

Wait for Jeremiah to snort and mouth the rest.

"- Alfred, I asked my father to take Jeremiah.

I'm an important companion, so I was wondering if I could make it my family. "

"What..."

Jeremiah trembled and covered her mouth with her hands.

Jeremiah roars, crushing no matter what, no matter what.

And I took a big, deep breath before I said it.

"Ugh... Oro, not Edgar, because you're always so forceful"

"... hey, bad...?

My head was suddenly cold when I was up thinking I could make Jeremiah my family.

"You know... I figured I'd have to tell you first, but I can't live up to your invitation, Edgar... not yet"

Cancer, and I was struck like I had been hit in the head.

... Me, Jeremiah hates me a little...?

Jeremiah notices my complexion and says it in advance.

"Ugh!? Edgar, I don't hate you or anything!?

It's not... it's my own problem. "

"... kejime?

"I was brainwashed by Yata-glass and killed a man."

"It's..."

"You say it's worse to be cheating.

Edgar, you keep telling everyone that, don't you? If it wasn't, I'd think there'd be a lot more people out there who'd be terrible. "

"I'm not saying it's convenient.

Really, it's worse to be cheating. "

"Yeah, that's right, but I also think that's odd that you're allowed to because you were fooled.

Instead of "reflection" convenient for "Yata-glass", I think we need to have a real reflection.

Otherwise, I will always be the victim of "Yata-glass."

Yeah, that's true how much I want to deny it... but as it is, I don't think I can get out of this relationship between you, Edgar, who helped me and me, who helped me.

Edgar, I'm so glad you're welcoming me in, but I can't forgive myself for what I'm doing. "

Jeremiah narrowed her eyes to stare at something that was not here.

"So I'm going back to the coma forest.

Go home, deep in the coma forest - one human son, in a realm of darkness that doesn't even lean on demons, through twigging, training, becoming a witch in front of one.

I have to... I don't think I can stand next to you with confidence, Edgar. "

"... right"

Jeremiah's eyes were filled with determination.

"But didn't Jeremiah say she had no parents?

You know, a coma forest and a bunch of dark elves living in it?

"I don't know... I was caught being a witch, so I don't know if I'm staying.

Looking for the next witch candidate, I guess he's moving around the continent.

I can't go into the details, 'cause witches are essential to dark elves. "

"Do you do your studies in that situation?

"Deep down, either way, you can only get in alone.

Face the darkness, talk, eat the darkness when you're hungry, and that's how you sharpen your spirit.

... I was scared and the Gazeins grabbed me for running away from my tribe. I think everyone thinks I escaped because I couldn't stand my training. Run away from training and your sins. Then I won't be able to forgive myself.

So now it's time for me to face the darkness. Face it, I have to prove it. I'm not as weak as I used to be. "

Seems more harsh training than I imagined.

I can feel the temptation to turn to Jeremiah now, who seems somewhat mentally unstable... but Jeremiah's determination itself is understandable.

Jeremiah wants to start over from the wrong place.

I want to get back out of the wrong place and walk out to the right place.

Um, as far as I'm concerned I met in the "wrong place," I miss Jeremiah seeming to have cut me off, but thinking about Jeremiah, I should laugh and send him out here...... what is it?

Still, I'm not convinced yet.

Why?

Think so, I realize.

It's Jeremiah's face. The look on your face.

I think you're saying something nice with your mouth. But you look like you came up with it, you're about to cry out of it now. You look like you're trying so hard to make it hard.

That's right. This kid's just a kid.

I'm old enough to have to sweeten my parents and enrich their hearts with love.

A kid of that age goes into the woods alone and trains?

There's no way I can. No, you shouldn't let him do it, even if he could.

If I leave Jeremiah alone now, I'm sure I'll hunt myself down everywhere.

She's so pure. Its purity chops its own heart like a sharpened blade.

And Jeremiah still doesn't know how to protect her heart because she has come so far without the adults protecting her. I can't reopen it for good, and I can't fool myself and my surroundings into thinking about my rationale for defending myself. As a witch, as a servant, she grew up telling me to abandon myself and kill myself.

- You mustn't let me go like this.

I strongly thought so.

"I think what Jeremiah is saying is right.

But that's only one side of the right thing.

If the adults are strong at their own convenience about the hard training that makes little children want to escape, I think Jeremiah can run away to protect herself. Nothing, I never stand alone. I never listen to a dirty adult trying to hunt Jeremiah down with reason that sounds like a seemingly true theory. I don't know about the dark elves in the unconscious forest, but the executives of "Yata-glass" tried to use them in their own way by putting them into the conscience of their children.

If it's hard, you should have run away. Because we don't do something amazing, and humans have the right to be happy at birth. "

"But... I can't forgive myself as I am... and I can't stand next to you, Edgar"

"You don't need to be qualified to stand by me or anything.

I got over my training, I confronted my sins, well, that's amazing, but Jeremiah said she couldn't take her sins because she didn't train.

I like that kind of Jeremiah thing that is serious, comes to mind right away and corners me with extreme thoughts.

Training or sin is completely irrelevant. "

"Oh, that's..."

"On the contrary, I wonder about Jeremiah, who trained and came home confident.

Maybe you can stand confident next to me, but does that 'confidence' make any difference?

If you want to stand next to me, you can still stand now. Maybe you feel a draw, but you could have felt a draw. If we spend a lot of time together, then Jeremiah will find out what she can only do. That's something you'll never be able to do if you stay away. "

"That may be..."

"Why don't you stay away from me, train hard, and come back next to me for a purpose and a means?

If you want to be with me, you can stay with me.

No, you should stay with me. There are a lot of things you can only gain from being together.

There will be things you can learn in the depths of the coma forest, but compared to what you get from living together versus what you get from training, isn't what you get from living together much more precious?

"By living with you... what you get...?

"I'm not a person who can say something great either, but now Jeremiah looks like she's trying to punish herself. You can't stand next to me, that's an excuse."

"Become... excuse me, I can't believe that!?"

Jeremiah absurds her voice.

Have you put it a little tight?

But I think so.

Jeremiah has the anxiety to explore a new way of life, the anxiety that such a thing would be forgiven to herself. Life in the original coma forest, even if it was true that it was hard, has no anxiety because it's what I've been through in the past.

Jeremiah is trying to pick those who are pushed by anxiety and do not feel anxious even if they suffer.

But is that really the way Jeremiah can be happy...?

"I've been telling you. Jeremiah is not guilty. Guilty are the executives below Gazein."

"But..."

"Being fooled is tight. I believe in them, and I expose a deep part of my heart, and they use it.

Jeremiah must think she can't forgive herself for that.

But that's how they used it. I'm sorry about the evil gods, I was trying to get rid of the guilt of killing people by making them feel guilty like that.

So all you need to do to get free from them is not to forgive yourself.

Rather the other way around, I wonder if Jeremiah should forgive herself.

Jeremiah, you can stay with me. I wanted to be with Jeremiah, and my father and mother allowed it. "

"I... you can stay by my side..."

Tears overflow from Jeremiah's eyes.

"Well... I should have forgiven myself.

Yeah, I could have forgiven me... "

Jeremiah laughs crying.

"Pfft. That's crazy.

Indeed, Edgar, you're right, I trained in the coma forest, and that doesn't qualify me as being by your side.

I tried to atone for my sins by being tough on myself. "

"As many times as I say, Jeremiah is not guilty.

The bad news is that he brainwashed his favorite children and used them as assassins. "

"That's... still a bit, I guess, catching on.

I don't think I can apologize if I don't reflect on it so it won't happen again because the people who killed me won't come back. "

"If you don't hunt yourself down too much, I think that's a good thing.

But from now on, we're here. We don't need to carry him in alone. "

"... yeah"

You've got a lot of preaching going on without a pattern.

I change the subject so as to mislead the lighting.

"Good. Good.

I've always wanted to do something with Jeremiah. "

"What have you always wanted to do?

"Yeah. Skills up!

"S, Skills up......?

"Jeremiah's [fatigue metastasis], but it wouldn't work for me, would it?

"Ugh, yeah. I don't know why, but it looks like it."

I revealed to Jeremiah that I was not easy to work with.

"I'm not tired, and I don't get sleepy...? Well, that's a lot more skill than my [fatigue transfer]!

"I guess that depends on how you use it, huh?

In the case of Jeremiah's [fatigue transfer], it can tire the enemy, but it doesn't work that way for [difficulty failing] "

"So, but [fatigue metastases] don't activate without someone you can metastasize, so you're properly tired when you're alone? Besides, it's just hard to get sleepy because you're not tired, and you can't stay awake all the time...

Then, of course, the subject of [fatigue metastasis] is indiscriminate and active all the time, so fatigue shifts to the allies when we are together... "

That's why Jeremiah tends to keep people away.

"Anyway, if you're with me, Jeremiah's not tired, and I'm not tired, am I?

So Jeremiah should be able to work with me to improve her skills in a short time. "

"Uh, simple work..."

Jeremiah twinkles with a slightly pulled face.

By the way, I have already completed the verification of how my [difficulty inactivity] and Jeremiah's [fatigue metastasis] will interfere when I was in the crow's [twist].

Ability to "never tire" and "transfer tiredness".

It's like a shield and a contradiction, but what happens when these two abilities collide?

There will be three possible possibilities:

(1) [Fatigue transfer] is not advantageous for the owner of [difficulty inactivity] (= fatigue does not transfer in the first place)

(2) [Fatigue transfer] is also advantageous for the owner of [difficulty inactivity] (= [difficulty inactivity] causes irreversible fatigue)

(3) The owner of [difficulty failure] is also subject to [fatigue transfer], but the fatigue transferred is cancelled by [difficulty failure] (= fatigue transfers, but fatigue extinguishes at the destination of the transfer)

In the case of (1), Jeremiah will be tired, in the case of (2), I will be tired, and in the case of (3), neither of us will be tired.

And in the mock battle at the crow, it is concluded that (3) is apparently correct.

That would be the best result for us.

In other words - as long as Jeremiah is moving in combination with me, she will not get tired.

Speaking enthusiastically about..., Jeremiah's face is gradually getting steeper.

And Jeremiah turns to me and says,

"... Hey, Mr. Edgar.

You said earlier, 'You don't need to be qualified to stand next to me'... but I figured you were looking for my skills...?

"Oh, that's not true!

This is, uh... "

Jeremiah chuckled at me looking for an excuse.

"I know. Edgar, as much as you mean my skill 'just' isn't what it's all about."

Subtly, I sweat cold.

"About half as a ratio?

I hope I'm bigger than half. "

"Half of it is outrageous!

Jeremiah is Jeremiah because there was no [fatigue metastasis]... "

"So we don't have to improve our skills together?

"Ugh... no, that means you want Jeremiah to work with you to improve your overall battle power and gain insight into your skills...!

Jeremiah laughs and tells me to panic.

"Pfft. Lies. Lies. I wanted more power, too."

"Ha... that's good"

He looks at me with a big sigh, and Jeremiah is still laughing.

I get consent from her like that and let her check her status in [Appraisal].

Jeremiah Lotteroot ("The Witch of the Coma Forest")

Age seven.

Dark Elves

Level 21

HP 30/30

MP67/67

Skills

· Epic

[Fatigue metastasis] -

- Masterclass

[Concealment] 4

[Signal perception] 4

[Assassination] 3 ( 1)

[Cut out] 3 ( 2)

- Generic

[Assassination Attack] 9 (MAX)

[Hand-backed sword moves] 6 ( 1)

[Dagger moves] 6 ( 2)

[Night] 5 ( 1)

[Dark Magic] 5 ( 1)

[Martial Arts] 4 ( 1)

[Knife Throwing] Three.

[Light Magic] 3

[Magic sensing] 3

[Thunder Magic] 3 (NEW!

[Jump] 2

[Farsighted] 2

[Blowing] Two.

Blessings of the Coma Forest (Medium correction for the acquisition of skills in the detection and concealment of signs.

The overall skill level has been raised by training in "Yata-glass" and fighting the Fire Dragon, but even during the Wyburn Fire Dragon noise, the demon has not been defeated in the end, so the level has not increased.

Even in the same ex-boys squad, Miguel, Beck and Donna had a hardened fighting style, but when it comes to Jeremiah, they get the impression that their status is somewhere else.

One of the causes of this would seem to be that while having excellent aptitude for sign detection, the original Jeremiah is better at intertwining magic than simple melee fights.

Above all, the first thing I care about is:

"Will" The Witch of the Coma Forest "be the two names of the magic system?

"The two names of the magic system?

I explained the maximum MP dilation that Jeremiah could use if she had two magical names.

The question is whether The Witch of the Coma Forest falls under two magical names, but I decided to actually have this tried.

I would sleep 10 minutes if I used up the MP and fainted, so I would normally sleep for 3 hours.

I can't be sleeping here right now, so I'm gonna ask Jeremiah to run out of MP before she goes to sleep this evening.

"You know what aptitude is?

"Yeah, I stopped by the Temple of the Circle at the end of my sacrament."

According to this, Jeremiah's aptitude is as follows:

S: reconnaissance, darkness, spirit, soul, magic sensation

A: Melee combat (especially daggers and knives), throwing, perception, light

B: Fire, bow, sword, magic technology

C: Ground, water, wind, gun

Z: Spirit

By the way, he hasn't heard anything from the priest about thunder, which is a rare attribute.

The same goes for other people's [aptitude diagnosis], but the aptitude for areas that are too minor for the priest seems to have been broken.

I just want to catch Priest Solo when I get the chance and have him do a thorough [fitness diagnosis] to minor areas. In particular, I want to get a good grasp of the useful [thunder magic] and fitness for guns.

"What are spiritual skills?

"I don't know about necromancy, or demon summons. There were some dark elves in the coma forest that could be used."

"You're supposed to be good at magic, but you mean the four great suitability of groundwater firewind"

"Because as a witch I have been made to assimilate into darkness and train to blend in.

Yeah, I was chosen by a witch for that kind of aptitude to be exact. "

"I'd like to take advantage of my magical aptitude, but I wonder if it's a more passive use.

Why don't you use [Thunder Magic]?

"It's the same as [light magic] or I think it's a little hard to use"

"Between A and B, what is B +?

Then let's stretch out [Thunder Magic] for a second and remember [Thunder Strike Magic]?

I think the paralytic thunder fits Jeremiah's style of combat. [Steel yarn moves] can also be used to shed lightning on steel yarn.

And I guess it feels like I'm going to explore [dark magic], the spirit, and the magic of the spiritual system.

... Looking forward to it. "

Other than me, I can't stand to nibble when I think about the future of Jeremiah, where I could potentially be able to forcefully level my skills.

"... heh. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it."

Jeremiah was smiling softly against the backdrop of the sky changing from cedar to blue.