Episode 218

I wait for Prince Lünier in front of the flower bed of the knight lily.

I don't know much about horticulture, so I don't know when lily blooms. Maybe spring or summer.

And now it is midwinter.

Of course lilies are not blooming.

Returning Prince Lunier looks at the flowerbed and looks up at me with a slightly disappointed expression.

"Speaking of which, the knight lily bloomed in the early summer ..., why should I look for a different flower?"

I smile just as I was waiting.

"I don't need that. If I could offer it in front of my mother's grave, would a knight lily still be good?"

"Huh? Yes."

I kneel in front of the flowerbed and use my strong magic.

"Even if it's midwinter, if you have a longing for Lünier's mother ... look like this."

The buds are born, and they grow and bloom slowly.

And one red lily flower bloomed quietly.

"Wow !?"

Prince Lunier rounds his eyes.

"Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow, what did you do now ?? ... Did you do that, Lord Vaid?"

No, you don't have to be calm and use honorifics.

I am bitterly laughing at Prince Lünier, who seems red and awkward.

That's why I use purposely acting gestures and voices to act to reveal important secrets.

"In fact, I was a bad wizard. I came from a distant country to take you away."

About half is true, and the other half is likely to be true, but I pick the blooming knight lily and devote it to Prince Ruinier.

"Please, Lunier"

"Thank you Lord Sir Weid!"

Prince Lünier's smile was a very obedient smile.

After visiting the grave, I am reluctant to talk to Prince Lünier.

`` Wight, is it really magical ?! ''

"Oh, yes. To a lesser degree, I've learned magic. I can apply a lot of magic to human bodies and make them a little stronger. I can do it. ''

As a practice of spelling out others, spelling out plants was often done during the training period.

It's easy to put it on yourself because you can see small changes, but it's surprisingly difficult to put it on others. I don't know how.

At first, they exploded potatoes and pumpkins and were scolded by their home mother and Fern.

In the latter half, the reputation was mixed, such as "Large size doesn't taste !?"

"It's impossible to make all the flowers bloom at once, and it often fails. Since I'm not a gardener, can I put up with this single wheel?"

"Yes, one wheel is enough .... Thanks for saying goodbye to my mother."

Prince Lunier looks a little lonely.

It would be hard for him to be separated from his mother's tomb.

I'm a disciple of a necromancer, and I'm a reincarnated person, so I don't really care much about the graves of close people.

In that sense, I am so different from ordinary people that I have to be careful.

I'll talk about myself to comfort him.

"I have a mother, but my father has died before he knows. I don't even know his face, so it might be a bit like Lünier."

"Really?"

"Oh, and my father, who died recently, has managed to avenge her, but she will not return."

He was the boss who made me stand out, and the teacher of my life.

He was also a friend who shared the reincarnation's secret.

I wanted to live a little longer, but I'm really in trouble.

Indeed, where do you complain?

"Oh, that, Mr. Weid?-Your face ..."

Prince Lünier made a terrible cry, and I smiled in a hurry.

"Okay, sorry, I just remembered the old days."

"Yes, yes."

Prince Lünier looks up at me worried.

What kind of expression did I have earlier?

I pointed out the earrings that Prince Lünier cherished to change the topic in a hurry.

"By the way, why is that earring, a blue jewel? The knight lily was indeed a red flower."

Prince Lünier suddenly changed the topic and rushed to watch the earrings.

I'm sorry, I changed the topic in a hurry.

Prince Lünier responded in a tone seeking memory.

"Uh ... there's a legend about the name of the knight lily. It seems that the knight lily was originally a blue flower ..."

A young knight was killed on the battlefield by a mean betrayal.

He was buried in the field of a knight lily, but a bloody red knight lily bloomed only around his dozuka.

People feared the knight's curse, and the rumors of the red knight lily had spread to his hometown.

Since then, the Red Knight Yuri has been feared as a flower that means "forget" and "revenge."

"But the knight's lover heard the rumor and looked for a place where the knight was buried."

The lover brought back a red knight lily as a keepsake and raised it carefully in his garden.

It is said that the knight lilies have once again begun to bloom blue flowers.

As a result, the blue knight lily has come to be treated with great care as a flower that means "bonds of mind" and "forgiveness."

Prince Lünier concludes the story with these words, a little shy.

"So my father always said that the blue knight lily is a sacred flower that protects her lover."

Prince Ivan is a romanticist who's surprised by his serious shit.

A sad man has died.

It is said that it was hard when about 30 years ago when this area was all about red knight lilies. Overall, the superstitious people of North Rolmund seemed to be very afraid, thinking that the red knight lily was a curse.

Probably not.

But there's something weird about this story.

A flower that changes color only around the grave?

I have a memory that I heard a similar story from before. ……What was that.

I remember the hydrangea.

Hydrangea turns blue when the soil becomes acidic.

Since Japan is an acidic soil, the hydrangeas in the area are usually blue or purple.

If you want to make red flowers bloom, you can improve it to alkaline soil.

I remember reading a mystery about the development of burying a corpse at the base of a hydrangea and then changing the acidity of the soil and the color of the flowers.

And the time when the knight lily turned red.

Thirty years ago, Dniesk completed the river flood control project, and there was a major change in the river flowing into Lormund.

Perhaps something has changed in the northern Lorumund soil at that time.

Some crops are strongly acidic and others are not.

For example, rice is fine in acidic soil. Japan is an acid soil, so it's really reliable.

On the other hand, none of the wheat should have been very acidic. I remember that barley was particularly weak in acidity.

This may be relevant, as the main grain in Rolmund is wheat.

I'm not sure yet, but it may be possible to solve Prince Ivan's worries from a surprise.

"Um, Mr. Weid? What happened?"

I squatted down and looked at Prince Lünier, who looked strange.

"I noticed something very important now, thanks to the story of Leunier."

"What is it?"

"Perhaps my father might be worried about rebuilding North Lorumund's agriculture."

"I'm not sure, but is it true?"

"Oh, it's your credit. I'll meet Eleanor soon and talk."

But I don't know anything about chemistry or agriculture.

The rest seems to have to talk to Eleora and leave it to an appropriate specialist.

So I ordered the Werewolf Corps to carry out some knight lilies from the flowerbed. Let's take potted plants with the soil.

Alright, you have a good souvenir for Eleora.