The Branded Female Fencer

In Arnelia, where winter was withheld nearby, Petefloat, the top spirit of darkness, was alone looking up into the night sky. It had been a long time since the communication from Notice, the Lord, had been interrupted and Petefloat had had a useless day without orders. I should have had casual days before I served Notice, and even after I served Notice, I should have been desperate to make leisure time sewing between jobs, but now that I'm completely free from the assignment, I didn't know what to do the other way around my free time. I can hardly recall what I enjoyed in the leisure time I made so desperately right now. I wondered every day if I could enjoy my spare time because I was busy.

If there's nothing to do, I hope this Arnelia leaves too, but somehow Petefloat stayed in this city. There were many spirits in the city, such as Utility and Wintier, and it was also a city but a cozy structure for spirits. The same is true of safety and remoteness from the death of living beings, but it was also full of greenery and water, and the darkness of the night was deep with less unnecessary light for what was called the Holy City. Petefloat thinks that perhaps someone with knowledge of the Spirit was involved in the design of the city.

Occasionally Uty comes to herself and talks. Her story was about unilaterally telling all that crap about which fixer's meal was good, how she could sneak in and sneak up on it, or where the horse in the horse shop was full of idiots. I've been foolish lately that Elsia won't deal with me because she's just going to practice for business, so I'm sure she's being made to act in its place, but Uti's hazy will now be essential to distract me from boredom.

Before this I was interested because some of Arnelia used dark smelting magic, but the signs disappeared in an instant. I was surprised that some people use dark smelting magic, but I couldn't listen to them. But I can imagine not being a decent person anyway. Sinking deep enough into darkness to use smelting magic is intolerable in ordinary humans. There was only enough to count the witches who used the darkness once. Larna, who is now in this city, seems talented, but even for her, it will take considerable skill to get to that realm. I had to do so much, as it was dangerous to teach Larna at times, but not yet immature, to give her a full teaching.

As we spent the night thinking about it, the lana came up to the roof with the peat float. Petefloat, who was thinking about Larna now, was stunned and unexpectedly looked at Larna with a surprising look on her face.

"What's up, Petefloat? Am I interrupting?"

"Oh, no. Never mind."

Petefloat turned to Larna, who looked strange when he took care of it.

"What's wrong with this late at night? You can beg for teachings, or noon."

"Sometimes it's easier to hear at night. Besides, we're family at night. There will be no inconvenience."

"I hope I don't need any sleep in particular, because you're human. Rest in the night."

"I'm fine because I slept tight once. I'd like to ask you something more than that, a superior spirit. Did you know that the vain,

To Larna's question, Petefloat looked sinister. That means I already know the answer, but I was somewhat disturbed by the fact that I was asked a question that would be explored. But as far as Larna's serious expression was concerned, I knew it wasn't being tried.

"Oh, of course I know. But knowing that word should be limited even to active witches. Who'd you ask?

"To Alphilis at first, to be precise, to part of Alphilis' consciousness. Then to Master Stelvese, the approximate thing."

"Alphilis or..."

"You're not surprised."

"Oh, I knew there was something else in her."

"Hmm, that's the superior spirit. So, what do you say?

Larna asked the question again, but Petefloat closed his eyes and indicated his will to deny.

"I won't have anything to tell you. Neither do I know so much more than Master Stelvese. But what do you want to hear?"

"There are about two. First of all, your view of the vain. I don't think that's the Dark Family, but what do you think?"

"You're not. I have also seen the vain firsthand, but since then I have not felt any connection to nature... that is to say the flow of the great currents (mana) or the small currents (odd). It's suspicious if it even exists, something you can't call life."

"So what's the countermeasure?"

"Not at the moment. Both darkness and light will have the same results if they are to exercise the abilities of the Spirit. What are you trying to say?

"Suppose, then, that we have the means to extinguish the vain?

To Larna's words, Petefloat's expression moved. It must have intrigued me.

"Larna, what do you know?

"Actually, this is the second question. A lemegate sword wiped out his vain. Then I asked Alphilis, who owned the sword, where the sword might go. I thought you knew something."

"The missing sword... unfortunately, I don't know."

Larna nodded disappointingly again, too, as Petefloat shook her head unfortunately.

"Really, I'm sorry. Emerald said he didn't know anything, and now he has no clue"

"I don't have a clue, but it was in Alphilis' private room, right? It should be quite difficult to steal it. She seems to be missing between and sharp... no, she may still be missing, but she is also so unethical that she loses the precious sword she deposited from Emerald. I didn't see the sword in person again, but it's not strange if there is a sword like the Devil's Sword. Aren't you close enough to be an outsider?

"Really?"

"Assuming that's the case, why don't you ask Dance Slave and Impulse too if you're talking about the Devil's Sword? They'd be sensitive to the signs of their own kind."

"It certainly might be better than I look for. Do that next time...?

As Larna suddenly made up her mind, Petefloat followed ahead of her gaze. There was a bird made of ice. Petefloat flew over and touched his body as soon as he realized how strange that ice-user demon was. Then the user demon collapsed in an instant and returned to the ice particles, as he waited to be touched by the peat float.

There's one small letter left after that. Reading the letter immediately, Petefloat's expression became more rugged in an instant.

"Larna, it's an emergency. You know what this is?

"Is this... a letter for the witch's emergency contact? Besides, he said," I got a rescue call right away. "But whose demon is it?"

"There are several witches who use ice demons, but when it comes to using four birds, there is one user. I'm pretty sure she's an ice field witch."

"Are you kidding me, Closess? I'll let Alphilis know soon!

"Oh, you'd better do that"

Watching Larna run, Petefloat looked up into the sky again.

"Oh, will something happen again? They and the witches are far from resting. Master Notice, what are you doing here? I know you're not in danger because I'm not modulated, but we might be in danger if we don't move, too, right?

Petefloat resented her unresponsive husband and sighed a great deal.

Continued