The moments I walked into the woods to mourn a fellow girl I stumbled upon in the middle of a caravan escort. And after about 20 minutes, I went out to a slightly open place. But the place didn't open naturally, it was a place where the trees blew up.

"Here."

"This is terrible..."

When I got to the place, Prox glanced at me with a grand glance. That too should have happened, with several 'Minotaurs' carcasses surrounding them, and a massive scattering of bearded axes. Moreover, there were traces in the surrounding trees that seemed to have been made of combat, telling the story of the fierce fighting.

"You blew yourself up..."

"King, I guess. The size of this horn... Fight the head of the herd, I guess. It's circular, so it's probably..."

"One of my buddies used his last strength to tie the line, or... he seemed pretty adorable... we heard him, too, so he couldn't hear me... he was well helped... rest assured, he passed away..."

Looking at the adventurous corpse that was at the center, Prox and Kate join hands. There was a big big hole in the belly of that body, and nearby there was a broken horn of 'human cow (Minotaur)' the same size as that big hole.

Probably pierced by this. And once his hands together and the moment of silent prayer to the corpse similarly faces him, he asks Prox.

"Suicide bombing...?

"Oh, I don't know if you know instantly... maybe this guy is a Demon like me, or a Demon Half or something. Some demons can storm their cores and blow themselves up. Well, the suicide bomber naturally dies. Instead, there's no way you can do something this big."

Prox, who was instantly questioned, pointed out how it blew up by a radius of about 100 meters. In other words, it was his suicide bombing that created this open place.

"This is..."

The moment involves a half-war, looking around. When I saw the tragedy around me, I didn't have to think as much about its power. Almost everything was blowing up.

And when the moment saw the face of an empty body with a big hole in its belly again, there was a fierce grin on the face of the body, as if it had known that the tragedy would happen.

"There's a little corpse over there. Probably tried to blow himself up in the last resort trying to get that girl away."

Kite points a little further away and tells him. The moment I tried to walk over there and the adventure department, but Kate withheld it.

"Better not look. I'm sorry, Mr. Prox. I'll mourn you and me over there. For a moment, you will gather the bodies of this side. [M] I've recovered the registration card from the body, but I just need to know if there's anything else."

"Well... ok, let's obey"

"Okay. You did bring five of them, didn't you?

"Oh, there's one over there, there's a boy's body a little further away, so if there's more than three bodies over here, check it out."

From Kate's words, Prox observes the situation and the two start walking together. The moments thus left began to collect the bodies in one place with a sinking face. In the middle of that. One of the students questioning the behavior of Kate and Prox speaks out his doubts about the moment.

"Why shouldn't we go over there?

"I don't know..."

"Perhaps the body hasn't retained the prototype."

Tina gives an answer in the form of speculation to two people who did not understand their intentions.

"Huh?"

"This one's still half dead with a big axe, but what happens if you get hit with that giant bowl of 'Minotaur'?

"Ah..."

Tina's pointing out makes a boy student realize. As a result of the earlier battle, we were able to grasp the high arm strength of the Minotaur. It was as powerful as it would have been if it had taken a direct hit.

"You want to see a body like that?"

"... No, I don't think"

In response to Tina's inquiry, the boy student shakes his head and holds back a stretcher carrying the body. I didn't want to see a body that didn't hold such a prototype, if I didn't have to.

"Done."

Then for a while, Prox and Kite come back. Almost simultaneously with that, I had finished collecting the bodies in one place.

"Please."

"Ooh."

Depending on what Kate says, a red fire lights up on Prox's right hand. Later, when I heard the story, it seemed to be one of the powers conferred on the demon clan, and it wasn't magic or anything. This flame seems to be a flame for cremating dead people in their clan, and it was used in situations where the body could not be transported during the journey.

"The first flame held me back... < >"

When Prox squeezes his hand, a flame flames from his right hand. I don't know how hot it is, but it doesn't even give off the unpleasant smell of burning meat, and the body burns all at once. That's how for a few seconds he just kept his hands crossed, and later he left no bones, and even the ashes burned out.

"Words when mourning the dead in our clan. It's a little rough, but it's important."

Prox thinks he won't understand the meaning of the words he said before cremating himself, and when he finishes cremating, he looks back and tells them instantly. There was a bitter smile on that face, but the moments shook their heads at it and denied it.

"No, I think we need words to send"

"... I'm glad you said that."

"Oh, yeah...... Mr. Prox. Two registration cards were recovered from the body. On the side of the sphere I cremated earlier, this... later even from the body of a woman a little further away. I looked around to see if there was anything else, but I don't think there's any other body."

"Oh well... well, you guys have more. So, Mr. Kym. Are you going to run out? I'm heading north, and I'll give you a ride..."

When asked to have a registration card submitted from an instant, Prox asks Kite. It should also be noted that Kate named her pseudonym to hide her identity.

"I'm going south like this. It was originally planned."

"Really? Well, I can't help it."

"Well, I'll go with you to the streets. It's a different course of action from there."

"Okay. Let's go home, then."

In the words of Prox, we shall follow the occasion together. That's how we got under the caravan again, where we kept walking for about 20 minutes. That's how I make sure I'm ready to withdraw, and I speak to Kite, whom Prox was on guard with until the end.

"Bye, Mr. Kym. Good luck."

"Oh, I hope you make some good money."

"Well, thank you. Well, if you're on edge, say hello to the North Grace Chamber of Commerce."

"Let's Remember"

"Okay, let's get out of here!

As he drops off the disappearing kite to the south, Prox raises his voice and sends instructions to your people. So again, the caravan began to increase its speed.

Then a few hours later. A little while after today's march, the girl who had lost her mind woke up.

"This place..."

"Wake up? In the carriage."

When the girl wakes up, the girl student she was with speaks up. She was the student who brought the girl to the carriage, where she had been attending to the side for a long time.

"Um... everyone?

……

A female student shakes her head with a sinking face to the girl's anxious questioning. Take that, the girl starts leaking whimpers.

"Sooo... no, just a little alone..."

"... ok... but tell me if anything happens"

In response to the girl's words, the female student nods and follows the scene. I guessed it, and the other students I was seeing with left the room behind. And at the same time that they all left, the girl's crying sounded.

"... you're awake."

"Tina...... yeah.

A female student nods at Tina, who comes to hear a sinister cry that echoes from inside the room. There were a number of students on the side who heard about it as well. There were words in the cry that seemed to be the names of many people, and it could be inferred that that was probably the name of a fellow girl.

"With all this, I can't help it..."

Considering the girl's mood, just Tina also leaned over with a slightly sinking face. I don't know her history or who she is, but she still lost her people. Tina herself has had the same experience in many fights, so it was easy to perceive as much of that sadness.

"Leave him alone for a little while. Let's either cry tired and sleep at some point or come out sober. For once, see how it fits and burn this incense. You'll feel better."

Tina said so, handing the female student incense and turning her heel back. He's disguised as a wind he's not too worried about at first, but secretly releases demons of use inside the room. I was prepared in case.

Still, the incense Tina gave to the female students, but it was a psychostable incense, similar to what was once prescribed to the face of the Adventure Department when the school was raided. It was prepared by Kite just in case for this trip, but it was useful in an unexpected way.

"How'd it go?

So he turns his heel back and Tina moves to the side of the burning fire near the center of the caravan. There was a gathering of facades equivalent to the conductors of this caravan.

"Well, we'll have to wait for the time to settle all this."

"Right..."

Ayazaki nods at Tina's response. If we remember when we lost our people, we would have thought it would take us a while to get back on our feet.

"So, how late are we supposed to be marching?

With Tina back, the meeting resumes. The condolences of the girl's companion had delayed her for about an hour, confirming the situation. Sometimes Ayazaki, who had just woken up and was in a meeting, went to check with Prox and was interrupting.

"They hardly have it as a delay. Fortunately, there was no battle after that."

Tell Ayazaki, who got the information from Prox, what he heard. Naturally, once you stop for battle, you need to run again for that matter. There's a stamina problem, there's a dragon's mood problem, and it's always better to not stop as long as possible to run at a constant speed. If you can always run at a constant speed, the distance increases.

And it was a battle, but it was rare this day that we had only once with the "Minotaur", so we managed to travel to the planned point.

"So, no change in the escort details, either?"

"It will be so"

Ayazaki agrees with the words of the moment. There will be no way, and no one is going to complain, but the girl's crying voice is still drifting heavy clouds into everyone's hearts, so the meeting had become somewhere as dark as an overnight.

"What is the current state of the march?

"Now... there would have been a map, wouldn't there? Where is it?

"Oh, wait a minute...... yes"

Asked a question by Ayazaki, one of the boys takes the map out of his luggage and unfolds it on his desk. The map was a sketch of the entire Duke of Maxwell territory, with important streets and lodging towns.

By the way, it's not a detailed map the Duke's house has, so it doesn't say streets close to the back roads or anything like that. In Enefia, where geography is still a military secret, even Kite has not given such military confidentiality.

"It's my second day out now, and my current location is here. They're planning to arrive at Witches Garden at noon the day after tomorrow."

Ayazaki will explain the current situation while showing the map. Apparently, it was just half past schedule now.

"Hey, what's that place called Witches Garden?

One of the male students questioned where the approximate agenda had thus been digested and later only narrowly discussed. On second thought, I understood where and what route the destination would take, but I didn't know what the destination was.

"Mm..."

Hearing that question, many executives, both momentarily and Ayazaki, haunt their heads. No one knows. That should be it, too, and for some reason the information in Witches Garden, Witches Garden, is rarely on the table. It did not answer, but therefore the information was not circulating, and no one knew.

In that way, Tina is poured an instant and Ayazaki's gaze. Because we both know Tina is part of the Witch Clan that governs the Witches' Garden, Witches' Garden.

"Mmm... I don't care what kind of place they say it is... it's not a place where men are forbidden. It doesn't make any sense from where I found out, does it?

"To?"

"Oh, we're going in."

Listening to Tina's explanation, she bisects the student's condition into how she ate the male student's shoulder watermark and how the female student exhaled in relief.

"Well, it's not like I can't let a man in... well, there's a line laid over there. Otsumoto keeps the climate inside the space and keeps the anomalies inside from leaking out. Looks like the junction is rejecting the man. If you do, you can disarm it, but nobody feels the need, so it seems to stay put. Whatever it was that made it was the previous war... Baba who was active in the rebel war... Justiel, and I don't know the rest of your intentions. Legend has it that only the first king and lord Kite can get in."

"... What is it, Harlem?

"Well, it will. Sometimes a fool tries to get into the witchcraft scene, but don't listen to success stories."

When Tina acknowledged the words of the male student, the male student regretted them so much that they could shed blood tears. A female student asks, ignoring completely without sending a contemptuous eye to such a male student.

"So, what's inside?

"I don't know. It's famous for having ties, but it's rare to tell what's going on inside. There's no way I'm going to know what's coming through."

Tina smiles back at the girl student's question. Just in case a girl pupil asks, Tina knows what's inside. I know, but when I say it, I tell him I don't know why I know it.

"Well, if you want to let me in, you should let me in."

"Well, yeah."

Even for girls students, it seemed no surprise that the answer came home that they didn't know Tina because they didn't know who she was. Female students nodded at it, and the meeting was open.