Lekina let out a small sigh.

Just looking at the expansive scenery in front of you, your mood sinks to the bottom.

There are no private houses, and there are no streets. Even the trees were sparse, but the wilderness lasted everywhere. The field spread out to intimidate Lekina.

The dust that dyed the earth was ugly in appearance, and the vigilance that drifted from it stroked her sacrificial nerves in reverse.

"I don't want it anymore..."

One of the continent's seven major rivers, north of the Waakold River, is a land of fog.

Many fields of various sizes were dotted around, and the beasts that emerged from them shook their heads vertically and indefinitely. It was the biggest hideout on the Elio continent that could not be easily accessed.

There are very few visitors to this unexplored land. The blessed child who fled for his life after being targeted by the nobility, the remnants of the Knights who lost not only the master but even the place where he died, the persecuted tribes, and the criminals who were driven from the land, all had difficult circumstances.

"... I miss the field"

Lechina mourned and looked up to the sky. There was a vibrant blue that was spotless.

Compared to the occasional pattern, it is a sight of healing. However, at the same time, you become aware that you are standing on the ground of the fog even if you refuse.

Her emotions were gradually disturbed, and when she noticed her, she was crying in large tears.

"Senpai, are you crying again? Are you tired of that already?"

Lekina looked back at the man who appeared behind her, prying with her moist eyes.

"I'm a good ancestor! You're a pain in the ass!! I really hate it!!! It's not like you, junior!!!"

As soon as she said those words, it seemed that her indignation at the sadness that never ceased to persist was outweighed by the grief surrounding her. Ahhhhhhh, scratching her hair, Lekina expressed her frustration all over her body.

"Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand! No matter where you go, there's no dirt! Why do we have to camp here? I want to return to the field without earth! I really hate it!!"

The unpleasant signs emanating from the clay, the ancestors catch them most sensitively.

This place, which Lechina and the others camped at, is relatively unpolluted. However, a trace of aura that continued to drift halfway made Reckina even more irritated.

"Um, it's the same for me that makes you feel uncomfortable. I'm your ancestor."

A man called you a junior makes a remark, but it doesn't reach her very often when she gets angry.

"Junior, you're a hentai who doesn't care about dirt!?" I'm just a normal girl!! "

”Hah, senpai is an idiot? If you're a normal girl, you're in love with your hometown. Perhaps you're saying that the field of reeds is good, and you're in the category of freaks?"

Junior smiled bitterly as he looked down at Senpai, who revealed his anger.

Junior, your height is about twice as high as that of a typical adult male. Lekina is not the shorter person as an adult woman, but when two people lined up, a height difference of about the height of a parent and a child was born.

"Besides, I'm not all right with the clay either." I'm putting up with it. So don't tell me you don't like it all the time. Even though your senses are blurry, you'll be aware of my impatience, right?

Then, Lekina spread her arms wide as if they were burning.

"Ah, right? Are you being patient?"... look at you, junior! Lots of dirt! Lots of contamination! I'm full of irritation! I'm full of discomfort... "

Before he could react, she shut her mouth damaged by what she said. Junior, you're getting a little anxious about your dumb asshole.

I've been joking about it for a while now, but are you really at your limit?

"... there's been a lot since I joined the investigation team, but it might be hard enough to want to go back to the Holy City now"

Rekina said so in a serious tone, calming herself down a little by blowing up her anger.

Lekina and her junior are part of a private organization that is chaired by one of the supreme priests. The activities of the organization varied, but the two were involved in a project aimed at exploring and investigating the land of fog.

To continue to operate efficiently in harsh environments, tough flesh is first and foremost required. Therefore, all the members of the survey team formed for the field survey were selected as well-educated junior priests and ancestors. And because he is a servant, he suffers from compassion.

"Um, senpai? If it looks like it won't work, I'll check with the group leader to see if I can rest..."

The proposal was particularly attractive to Lekina. However, she gnashes her teeth and shows a refusal attitude.

"Even now, the magic sensation is starting to blur... and it's hard to get used to it from one place to another... so... I'll put up with it..."

As the sense of smell adapts to the bad smell, the magic sensation gradually becomes paralyzed and it becomes difficult to feel unpleasant when it is struck by the harshness for a long time. However, it was only a temporary dullness, and it would recover quickly if I stayed away from my aura.

To paralyze the magic sensation once it's healed, you need to overcome the same pain again. If it was enough to do that, Lekina thought it would be better to maintain this dull sense of magic power and continue to suffer twitchingly.

"If that's impossible, please tell me as soon as possible." It's impossible to be so irritated for so many days. "

Junior thinks that Lekina's disturbance may be affected by the accumulation.

Even though you get used to being nervous, your body keeps rejecting it. Anyway, in a short amount of time, mental fatigue will be great if you are irritated all the time at 46 o'clock.

Perhaps he should take some days off to rest, and Lekina suddenly smiled as he thought so.

"A long time ago, there was a time when an emissary was sent from the Holy City to the Great King's Palace in Mamshredd..."

What, all of a sudden?

"You know, right now, I'm very sympathetic. Even though it's your job, you must go to the Forbidden Land and become a framed junior priest. I'm sure you've had the same pain.... even though I wanted to... fufu, fufu......"

I imagined the opponent I had never met before, and I felt pity for Lechina. It could only be described as emotionally unstable.

Both the Misty Land and the Mamshred region are known for their high levels of pollution.

Aristocrats and priests don't want to enter these lands because of the earth and the courage. From the ancestors of the Lord, the earth was abominable, and from the ancestors to the ancestors, the actual harm was done by the anger of the ancestors. It was a land that was very scarcely attractive to the ancestors.

"It's really amazing that the Levios are trying to exploit such a land..." I might have a bit of respect. Are the knights of Levios struggling too? It was the Northern Expedition, and when I first came here, I thought it was going to be a hassle... the Guardian of the Earth? I can honestly admire that pride now. "

Senpai, if the other regiment members ask you, you'll be beaten up

Basically, those who participate in the Survey Mission hate the Aristocrats. And among the nobles, the Bosnian Levios family was completely disliked.

"I'm not interested in talking about politics like that." The most important thing for me is the search for truth that has been buried in my long history. "

What is important to her is not the present but the past.

It was also clear from Reckina's work that the enthusiasm was genuine. She was more knowledgeable and more willing to investigate than any other group. I don't feel a genius flash. However, there was a great deal of greed for being interested, a great sense of sharpness of smell, and concentration.

Junior has been showing off his ability to graduate from an academic institution in the Holy City for the past year or so.

"Whether you're a priest or an aristocrat, it's a good person to provide valuable literature."

Once again, senpai often joined the survey team.

The private organization that the investigation team operates from is a group based on certain political ideas. Low-ranking priests who think like Lekina tend to be avoided.

"... junior, are you going to say that?"

Lechina also knows that you're not a very political type of person. Otherwise, the two of them would not be able to talk so anxiously.

"I was raised to investigate the foggy earth in the first place." Whatever the contents, isn't it natural to be chosen? Well, I would have liked to be on the second side, but the people at the facility took their seats. I'm the only one assigned to the First Survey Group. "

"Hmm, your junior colleagues are also working in the investigation team." In my case, the work is fragmented. They're assigned everywhere. "

Reckina calls you junior because he's from an orphanage in the Holy City. She is a different institution, but she grew up in an orphanage. Among the investigation team, which had no acquaintances, Lekina had only one common ground.

"If you took a seat, you guys would have remembered better from the top." I think you're good at flirting with superiors, but... "

"Don't you hate that?" Basically, the selection criteria for the Second Survey Group is simply resistance to soil and qi. Idiots with a dull sense of magic will be chosen. Unfortunately, I was delicate and clever. "

Regina wondered if there was much to do with being smart, but she was more surprised by the selection criteria.

As far as she can see, you are very resistant to impatience. It was not immediately possible to imagine that there were many other people who would cross him.

"When I enter the facility, my future job will be decided." If you are selected as an investigator, you will be given a sack of sacks of clay to make you resistant to impotence. Sometimes the contents are changed, so you won't get used to it forever. Sometimes I was suddenly brought with me during meals. To be clear, it sucks. But I can't keep up with the other people in the facility because they can continue to eat in that situation. ”

"Ugh..."

From the man of the fathers, it is like putting the feces of the feces that were put out on a plate. Can I eat in such a place? Regina shook her head to shake off the worst image on the surface.

I didn't feel as bad as those guys.

"Isn't that good...?"

The strong resistance to vengeance was an envy from Lechina, but I wanted you to forgive me for forcing me to live like that.

"Junior, isn't that the orphanage at your place?" The person I met before was a bit like that... "

Although Lekina's orphanage was strict, it had the philosophy of providing a correct education and cultivating human resources who would not be embarrassed as a low-ranking priest. However, Lekina feels that it is close to the training of animals in your institution.

Due to irritation, she took it upon herself to tell her where she had been without asking. Although it's not a straightforward expression, Reckina's words are correctly conveyed to you, junior.

“I understand what you're trying to say. I was also admitted to the institution when I was nine years old, so I couldn't match the sleds of the people from the beginning... So, who do you think senpai met before? Are you the one I know?"

"I'm sure you were a priestess of Diana..."

"Oh, that person is from our facility." I don't know what you're doing right now.

He nods several times whether the name sounded familiar to him. But I didn't want to go into the first place.

Regina immediately suspected that she was not very close. She decided not to touch on the subject any further.

"... we don't know what we're doing either."

Lekina looked at the distance with her dumb eyes. The field spreads beyond the line of sight.

"I wonder why you decided to move. I've been doing research for over a year and I've deliberately terminated it....."

It was only a few days ago that the chief of the regiment suddenly informed me of the change and movement of the survey site. Always since then, Lekina had endured astringency without knowing her next purpose, and had traveled through the foggy lands.

"Why, it's the order of Priest Ephial." Didn't you hear? "

In Lekina's brain, I can think of a full-blown Ephial figure.

Effial was apparently chased by the Levios army, and by the time Lekina and the others were taken to their former base, they were no longer able to move.

"It's about May or June of this year, isn't it, when the Ephial priest came?" It's September now. You don't remember the old instructions, do you? "

At that time, Lekina was completely no-touch with regard to Effial because she was burning in the investigation. In the first place, it was difficult to get close to the Efial, where she was badly injured by a different faction, and above all, she was not interested.

The Ephial, who didn't lend me a single document, is nothing but a cheeky high-ranking priest for Reckina. There was nothing familiar about it.

"Senpai, Priest Efial is one of the supporters of this investigation group..."

"...... Yes, I know. From that day until today, I have not prayed for his safety. Oh! The Great Spirit of the Sun, War Tent Therma! Please, we bless Comrade Effial!"

"Is that an imitation of other regimental members?" You're a fucking actor, aren't you? "

In response to your reaction, Reckina immediately threw away the Muslim mask.

"So, what's wrong with Priest Ephial?" Maybe you moved to chase down the Levios army or something like that? don't do this..... "

If so, I don't know how to get around the base. Until then, the Survey Team was operating relatively close to the territory of Levios.

However, I can understand it, but I am not convinced. I want you to run away on your own to sabotage the investigation, she thought. As expected, it would cross the line of speech that should not be said as a junior priest, so I only gave my weight to speaking up.

"Instead, the Ephial priest and his party have made a major discovery in the capital."

"Discovery? What?"

Reckina reacted to this with a twitch.

Now it bears the name of the king's capital, Levios, but originally it was a very ancient city from ancient times.

Reckina studies not only ancient languages, but also some of the languages used in various parts of the continent in the past. As a result, I unexpectedly hoped that valuable historical materials from before Zesu would come out.

"Senpai, do you know the heritage of the temple?" It's a fairy tale. "

That's why I was so discouraged when the word "sacred temple" came out of your mouth.

There are various anecdotes about Zeus in the Holy City, but the temple is one of the least credible legends. She sighed heavily before answering the question.

"I don't know if it's the same story you know, junior, but I do." Legend has it that in his later years, his ancestor, Zess, put all his collected wisdom together and stored it in a temple somewhere. It contains the weapons, tools, and gold and silver gems that my father, Zeth, used a lot. It is said that the man who finds it can acquire the wisdom of his ancestors along with the treasure. One way or another, boys who yearn for adventure prefer it. "

Junior affirms what Lekina said and adds to the story.

"According to what I heard when I was a child, there was some terrible knowledge in the wisdom of the founding father Zeth that was forbidden. When the ignorant inadvertently opened the temple, there was a sermon saying that the great wisdom and great calamity would be relieved.”

"It's the first time I've heard of this penis, but it looks like a Pandora's box." I wonder if the legend of the temple is the original story?... ah, junior, don't you know? "

Lekina remembers the books she read when she was in the Sacred City. I was wondering if there was a new volume of the series now, but I would like to hear the continuation of your story now.

"So? The temple is just a fiction." There is no such description anywhere in the sacred scriptures, and I don't remember seeing such a description in the literature of the Holy City. It's still more credible that there's a treasure in the old house that the original Zeth left behind. There was something in the old literature that made it smell like that... "

Because Lekina is from an orphanage, she doesn't have much of a hand to the high priest. Nevertheless, I have made full use of the title of President graduation and my previous achievements, and I have searched for as many historical materials and literature as possible. I was confident that I was much more familiar with the legend of the past.

"... but, junior, you didn't mean to talk like that, so there's something there, right?"

But she doesn't take her ideas seriously and deny them. If you have interesting literature, if you have new discoveries about the legacy of the past, you also have the flexibility to listen honestly.

"That's right. I'm not sure, but Priest Ephial saw something like the Staff of Wisdom in the capital of the king Levios."

Huh?

The staff of wisdom is one of the items that is said to have been housed in the sacred temple.

However, there is no definite information on what kind of tool it is. Because of the items that appear in the fairy tale in the first place, the content is completely different depending on the storyteller. Arrangements are all-you-can-go.

It may appear as a weapon rather than a tool, or it may not be stored in the first place because it is used as a key to open the temple.

In short, no one knows the details. Naturally, the shape was also not known at all.

"How did Priest Ephial know it was the Staff of Wisdom?"

"I don't know, that's not true. If it was her parents' home, one or two of the treasured literature would be rolled up, and it would be written in it, right?"

"Ugh...! What an enviable environment!"

Junior continued the conversation, dumbfounded by Lechina's stubbornness.

"So, I was supposed to gather information about the Staff of Wisdom." Looks like you've been hiring adventurers and gathering rumors for the last couple of months or so. About its origins

The results of the survey were gathered the other day.

"For once, the Staff of Wisdom is a tool that could have been stored in the temple." That's why I thought I'd be able to discover something that would lead to the temple if I traced it back to the place where it was excavated..... "

"Tell me that quickly!"

The excitement that blew away even the unpleasantness sprang up inside Lekina.

It showed the possibility of being able to reach out as a first discoverer to sources that would otherwise be inaccessible. She enters you as soon as she starts running. [M]

"What a simple thing... um, senpai. There is also a legend that if the temple is opened bypassing it, a terrible calamity will spread around the world."

"It's okay! That's not the kind of fairy tale I heard!" And Priest Ephial gave you instructions, didn't he? Well, that's enough, isn't it? The lower priests only obey the lower priests. There's nothing wrong with me. "

There was nothing in Lekina's expression that could make her feel any worse. I want to investigate quickly, and it was obvious to my junior that I was only thinking about it.

Oh, yeah... that's what the High Priest said.

With pure curiosity, when I saw Lekina trying to go straight, a question arose in your chest.

That's a question I've been trying not to think about.

He feared the Ephial priest from the bottom of his heart.

If he was an ordinary person, he would run madness without hesitation in the scene of stopping his feet, and he would not be reluctant to sacrifice to realize his own ideas. That was something he could not understand. No, my instincts were refusing to understand.

Is it good to remain guided by the words of Ephial?

Is it okay to remain obedient to that priest with eyes that hate everything in this world?

Is the word really right?

When are we going to call ourselves Fallen Demons?

"The temple awaits me! Let's go, junior!"

Junior was just staring at Regina's back, which started running with great joy.