"There must be some mistake."
- If Lentomia hadn't lied, though.
Even with that slight suspicion, I stretched the magic thread (Magiwire) into my lab at the edge of the hall to explore the room.
No sign of a person, no sign of a demon... None.
I took Lentomia with me stuck behind my back, put my hand on the door knob and tried to get inside.
Po, and I heard a drop of water from nowhere, but that's all.
I looked around the room and naturally there were no signs of an intrusion.
It's not as big as ten mertes deep and six mertes wide. All the walls are shelved and lined with magic medicine ingredients, catalysts, etc.
The lights remain slightly lit inside. The whole room was lit up like indirect lighting with a constant light attached to the walls on all sides.
Constant lights are like a kind of lamp that let the crystal glow with magic, and once lit, it keeps emitting light for about a month. It's a luxury item that only royalty and nobility use. Actually, it can be the lab and library that threw the most wealth in the mansion.
There are no windows in the room, and in the center there are four or so "wine barrels" modified culture tanks, distilled barrels, and barrels for sedimentation. I was using these separately for different purposes.
The plum of artificial life form (homunculus) was also "born" here.
The pot containing the most important Dragon Man's Blood is safe. Of course it is impossible to steal it because it is strictly magically shielded, extreme stories, even if the hall is blown up, it should be intact.
"It's okay, nothing.... Did you really hear that?
"It's true!
"Well, let's call it a spiritual prank."
In this world, everything you don't know very well is blamed on the "Spirit". Even in this world, where demons and subhumans are not uncommon, ghosts and spirits are the name of fear given to "unseen unknown beings".
I grabbed Lentomia's soft hair from the top and peeled it off her hips.
"But I did... I heard a noise. But that was... maybe it was a magic wave, not a real 'sound'"
"Magic...... waves?
"Yeah."
Lentomia twists her ankle at her lack of confidence.
I narrowed my eyes unexpectedly, but it didn't look very like Lentomia was lying or acting.
The half-elf Lentomia is sensitive to sound and is top notch as a wizard. So maybe I felt some kind of "sign," no doubt about it.
Because, what?
Previously, a large-scale Magic Grid sensor (Magic Grid Sensor) captured the "Dark Wave" that occurred around this building, but was it related to it?
You think there's something you can't handle lurking inside the mansion?
I ran scared on my back.
It's not a good omen that something inexperienceable happens around you.
You don't have to worry too much, but be vigilant.
"Lentomia, can you check the records (logs) of the massive Magic Grid sensor?
"Oh yeah, I have to reconnect the magic line, it could take awhile..."
The corridor of the mansion without fire is limp and bottom-cold. Lentomia said in a weak voice, allowing both arms to hold themselves.
"No... it's still fine tomorrow. Actually, there was nothing. I'll put a magic thread (Magiwire) in every room just in case, so let's get some rest tonight."
"... yeah"
I told my partner, who looked uncommon and anxious, with a bright voice, and let him yawn.
Actually, I haven't slept much in the last two days or so in a study of Plum's medications.
I also tried mixing catalysts in the lab last night, went to the study and read a book, but I never felt anything in particular.
"Well, a treat...... how dare you come into my room?
"I'm gonna sleep here today because I'm scared"
"You're scared..."
Which mouth says "scared" to use magic that wipes out demons in an instant?
"... Greg, you just doubted me, didn't you?
"No, that's not true"
With a twisted and obstinate face, he stares at me in a slightly stronger tone, and says it out loud.
Lentomia's cooperation with me from the bottom of my heart should have been proven on an adventure into the Dragon Man. You still don't believe it at the bottom of your mind? Really... I don't like myself.
"Trust me..."
I lay my eyes down in a quiet tone and my elf ears rubbed down.
"Sorry! I really believe you! Hey... I was just surprised by the unexpected, too"
"... that? Then I forgive you."
When I switched to a bright look, I gently took off my jacket, and when I looked like a dewy tank top with a slender limb, I slipped me into a cot on my ass.
He only peeks over half of his face from the edge of the blanket, narrows his eyes and asks this way.
"Oh, come on!
"Can't you?
I also thought I'd kick him in and kick him out...... but I somehow decide to forgive him today.
I usually sleep with Plum but I miss him tonight...... not that I suspected Lentomia and thought I was sorry or actually a little scared or anything like that.
"... okay, but it's narrow"
"Yay! Eh heh."
"But don't hug me..."
"Uh? We're friends, okay?
At the usual rate, he grins like a prank.
"I think your definition of friend (Tomodachi) is probably wrong..."
I laugh at my cute-faced friend, who occupies half my bunk, even as I shudder. A good battle with me in the degree of 'I don't have many friends' (?) of, the lonely half-elf Lentomia probably has a uneven sense of distance to others. But I don't hate that weird sense of distance.
"Oh, yeah, Greg, hiccup... don't you?
"Mmm?... right, that would be nice"
Lentomia woke herself up from her cot with a luscious grin. I lifted my glasses at my fingertips, laughing invincibly and loosening my collar, too.
Well, let's think about the celebration, the "omens," and Hempero tomorrow.
Now for now......
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"Ah... no! Such a toko......"
"How's it going here? Hmm?"
"Ah, uh!?
Pachin, and I put the "pawn" on top of the version.
Now the hand of Lentomia's attack is sealed. It's like a board game in this world that I cracked by adding chess and chess, but it's been a while since we've played it together.
So far, my two wins and losses. It's a good fight. Some of the members of Dickamaran can compete decently with me, like Lentomia.
I'm clawing on the bunk, but Lentomia sleeps on her belly in her underwear, patting her legs and worrying.
"Mmmm...?
Half an elf, in a bad shape at once, puts force between his eyebrows to stare on the board. Eventually when my thin fingertips pawn me into confusion, it's my turn next.
"Well, let's go gunning...... Lentomia"
"Ah, ahhh!?
My offense is unforgiving.
After all fifteen or so fights, and being alone with half an elf, we ended up trying our best and falling asleep.
By the way, I think I heard the rough breath of a woman named "Ha, ha" from across the wall, but it must be a normal strange phenomenon.
'Cause you're a psycho horror just to imagine a female monk sticking to the back of a wall and drooling his nose.
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That night... I had an ominous dream.
Somewhere deep in the dark, there are signs that something will snap and that an object of adhesion will boil,
- Gobo......
of the sound, though it was just a dream.
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The next morning.
"Good morning, everybody, it's a good morning"
I'll recover all in a short sleep, I'm good enough.
Everyone was gathered in the living room and kitchen. It's a warm, cozy place with the morning sun down.
"Good morning, Lord Gugle!
Apparently, he finished his sword workout outside, Luluoni returns a petty reply as he wipes his sweat. I heard "ha" or "ho" outside in the dark, but it seems that the Swordsman (Serveria) is mentally and physically indispensable for his workout. Thank you for your hard work.
"Huh, grey early in the morning. Can I go to sleep today or something?
It was Lentomia who woke up with me in her sloppy underwear, rubbing her sleepy eyes. Green silver hair with sleeping habits is reworked with hands.
"Insomnia. Evening... the idea of a new one comes down from heaven and sleeps... good"
One, and a manuferno that feels like a corpse with its head on the table. But that face looks so peaceful and happy. What's the idea of a new one, something that comes down because it's across the wall?
"To the wise! What do you mean you don't have any food?
"Grey! There's no bread."
Plum and Hemperoza complain to me in a hurry. That's important.
"Well... the four of us ate it in the evening"
"Oh my God! We ate it ourselves!?... right! I just need you to go back to the facility and eat!
"You decide where to live with the amount of mesh!?
"Oh, to starve to death when you're here!
I'll grab Hemperoza's neck with her heels turned over and twist both cheeks. "Jeez, to child abuse! I don't know any extra words."
"Mr. Grey, Brother Io is here -!
"Huh?"
Plum smiled happily, pointing to the kitchen's triumph.
It was inadvertent, but someone was knocking through the mansion gate and even coming to the kitchen's mercy.
It was Iola, the boy with chestnut hair and eyes.
In his hand he held a basket knitted with a plant crawl. The contents are... bread.
"Sage!... sama. I brought you some bread!
"Ooh!? Iola, it was nice timing. We almost starved to death."
"I exaggerate, because this is burning. Is that...? Is Hempero here in the morning?
"Hey, this is my house starting today!
"Plum is with Hempeiro -!
"Like really...... plum? Hempero.... good for you"
Riola smiled at Hemperoza and gave me a glance to confirm, so I silently agreed.
"Brother Io, aren't you too surprised?
"I hope so after the trip, because I was talking to the Rio guy."
Give the bread to the two girls, smiling like a boy of his age with a lit smile.
Plum and Hemperoza just ran out and started handing out bread to everyone. It's a tight, solid-grilled rye bread the size of a melon bread. The scent of fragrant bread overflowed the kitchen.
"By the way, what happened to Riola?
Even though twin siblings are always together, it's rare that Iola is alone.
"Yeah, he's asleep. I think maybe I just caught a cold because I was seki...... You know, I had this weird dream this morning."
Iola narrows her eyes worryingly.
- A dream, you say?
It's called evening sounds, it's called dreams... it's definitely some kind of "omen".
I remember the first day Iola and Riola visited this hall. Even then, Riola said she had a dream of "darkness born somewhere in this world".
"Iola, do you have a pendant?
"Huh? Yeah, of course."
Pull the pendant that was hanging around his neck out of his chest. Shizukusha-shaped stones are the "mark of the brave". This is what I gave both of you as a token of overcoming the trials I gave you.
Iola's "Mark of the Brave" and Riola's "Drop of Mercy" are a set, magical item that draws the bearers to each other, even if they are apart, to become signs.
Slight, but talisman, it also has a troublesome effect.
I grabbed Iola's pendant and sent her magic with a magic thread (MagiWire). Surgery is a form of nightmare payment and an easy blessing (fest) to help heal.
The two stones should transcend space and transmit this wave of magic to Riola.
"This will make Riola's cold a little easier too. You don't even have nightmares."
"Sage...... Sama! Oh, thank you."
"Thanks for the bread. It would be harder to help with the wheat fields than that without Riola, wouldn't it?
"Oh, that's nothing. I'll do it for him..."
"Plum, Hempero, do me a favor -"
I called out to the two of them who were hitting on the bread.
After breakfast, Pram and Hemperoza went out with Brother Io as a delight. I'm going to let him do field work instead of Riola, who fell asleep with a cold, but will he do well...?
From what I hear, my siblings were helping an elderly couple in the village.
They get a "waste" even though it's less.
Though the residence of the village chief's house, I cannot complain about being treated like a slave, Mr. Cecily's house seems to be a very secure place.
Hmm. I have to be an apprentice, too.
Continued