"Lady Lulussi, I'm sorry to hear about Lady Naria, but we have to protect you until the end of the day to get back to the mansion. So..."

Lulussi nodded quietly at Sewasr's words.

"... well, then, Master Naria is generously buried in this land -"

"!? No! What are you talking about! I'll take Naria's body with me! I also need to make sure it's delivered to your parents - this is a natural atonement for her for doing all she can for me as a childhood friend and as my best friend to the very end!

Lulussi immediately rejected Sewassur's proposal, pointing his voice.

The city where Lulussi and Naria live goes hand in hand. If you think about it, I know exactly how much you want to carry the body with you and deliver it to your parents...

"Dear Luluci, I know how you feel. But that's not possible. It will take a month from here to the Mansion no matter how fast it takes. We need to go down the street, though. The mountains also need to cross a few places. Carrying it like this won't hold the body very much."

"... certainly in a month"

"Corruption will begin along the way -"

Sewassur's remarks will be a particular story. It's probably a bitter decision, but it doesn't make sense to let it rot along the way. It may also lead to the development of the disease.

"You... you can use holy magic! I can't handle it!

"... but I'm sorry, but the magic of doing something about the body..."

"... I can't even bring my dear best friend to your parents..."

Disappointingly iterative luluci. Sewassur putting her hands gently on her shoulders like that.

"Ma'am, how are you doing here?"

"You might be able to handle it."

Nagale covered her voice when Sewasr tried to persuade her again.

Huh? and the gaze of Sewassur and Lulussi is directed at Nagare.

"May I look in the carriage?

More inquiries from Nagare.

And, uh, oh, I don't mind, and Luluci responds.

Then Nagare dives into the carriage where the Lulussies and the others came in.

And after temporarily searching, he went outside and turned to her.

"After all, if you're willing to use it, it's possible to safely transport her body to the city even in a month."

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Lulussi and Sewasr followed a month's journey and returned to the city where the mansion was safe.

Immediately afterwards, he headed to the Adventurer Alliance, which turned out unfortunately, but submitted Naria's death report and broke up with the adventurers.

Afterwards, you were interested in explaining Luluci, and the guild leader took him with you (because Naria was sometimes one of the guild's premier adventurers) to the mansion where Naria lived.

Naria has also had many opportunities to travel since becoming an adventurer, a daughter who seems to have had considerably fewer chances to show her face in the mansion but still loves her.

Her father, the head of the Associate Baron family, would also normally be happy to let go of Naria's return - things are slightly different this time around.

"... well, my daughter has a heart attack."

Naria's stern father, Rutania, narrowed his eyes and said: There are no tears to show, but there is an appearance of distress seeping through my face.

Still no tears, is it intentional as a parent? Maybe he cares about his wife, who keeps screaming big tears next door.

I guess you don't think you can mess it up to yourself in this situation.

"... I'm so sorry. If only I'd known about the disease sooner."

"... no, don't worry about it. I would have been prepared to die on my journey since I decided to be an adventurer with my daughter. At first, I disagreed with such a dangerous job, but eventually I accepted my daughter's readiness."

"You..."

A wife standing next to him looked up at him with wet eyes in tears. That look of tears is also beautiful and full of charity.

Naria was like her mother. That's why Lulussi felt her throat clogged in that look of snuggling and tears leaning against her husband Lutania.

"Master Naria was splendid to the end. Until the end of that life, I tried to protect my people and Master Naria from the poisonous teeth of that vicious demon Desqueen Killer Hornet. I wish I didn't even have a heart attack... I'm so sorry for your loss"

Lutania also returned the favor when Sewassur bowed his head. And open your mouth.

"... but the fact that my daughter's life ran out there still means that the body... no, it's not a luxury. I just found out that my daughter was able to save your lives and that of Master Luluci."

"About that, sir."

Rutania mouthed it with the look she gave up half the time, but Sewassur overlaps words on it.

"The body of Master Naria Lutania has been well transported to this point. If you'll excuse me..."

Huh? and Lutania frowns.

"... no, but that may have been carried with care by us... since my daughter lost her life there should have been a month's ride by carriage to this land... then..."

After saying that, he thought about it.

"... I'm sorry. Again, we want to keep a beautiful memory of what our daughter looks like. I really appreciate you bringing me this far, but I still see what a corrupt daughter looks like..."

"Please!

But as soon as I cut the stray off, Luluci bowed his head.

"Please take a glance at Naria's dead face. Besides, I will never regret it..."

Lulussi complains with tears in her eyes. Though I was Lutania confused by its appearance.

"... ok. I also have a responsibility as a parent. However, my wife will check with me before deciding whether to look at it. Is that okay with you?

When Lutania says so, yes! and luluci answering with a serious eye.

While scratching his jaw at the figure, Rutania goes in front of a carriage packed with the body of her daughter.

And the guild chief and Sewassur took the coffin that contained the body from the inside out.

"Then you can open it."

Lutania pulled her jaw with a tense face to Sewassur's words.

It looks like I'm ready.

"- This is..."

The moment the coffin lid opened, Rutania's complexion changed.

I wonder if, until earlier, the expression I had behaved so resolutely disintegrates, and tears accumulate within my eyes.

"... you?

You noticed how it went, and your wife, Mrs. Lutania, came close too.

Then, look at you too, and Lutania urges Madame to peek into the coffin as well.

And - I still wept the same way.

"This, this is incredible. Is this really dead?

"I can't believe it either. But look, look, it's a very peaceful death face. It's like you're alive."

The Rutanians said so and also tried to touch the face of their daughter who fell asleep in front of them.

Cold, whines a word. It was nothing more than proof that she was dead.

"... this is a real surprise. I've heard the same thing... No, I'm sorry for the loss of your honorable life, but I didn't know there was much body damage so far throughout the entire month."

"... Yes, I agree. It's like a miracle that I gave up being able to worship an honest and decent body - but why..."

So far, Rutania noticed something. No, I know that I've noticed from the beginning, but my daughter's condition was too brilliant to look at.

But it was a very beautiful and strange sight.

daughter, a white glitter was laid around Naria's body.

It is also an accent that highlights beauty even though it is a body.

But it's something not in Rutania's memory, such as laying something like this on a body.

Rutania's hand reaches out unexpectedly to Sole, who sees it for the first time. And grip gently. I sniffed one of those powdered things that stuck in my hand close to the tip of my nose, and - licked it with a pepper and tongue.

"!? Shit! No way, this is! On a beautiful white powder. Is this salt!

It's a boulder, Sir Rutania.

Sewassur speaks with admiration for that insight.

"As I said, it was laid around Master Naria. This is salt."

"And salt...... I've never heard that before"

"I still have salt on my body, etc."

"Yeah, I doubted my ears when I first heard it, too. But if you think about it, this is very reasonable."

"And?

This is a question from the guild leader.

"Yes, for example, when transporting meat or fish to distant places, it will not last long. So people have done a lot of different things to save it. For example, if it's meat, let it be dried meat, let the fish be pickled in vinegar… and what is particularly utilized in it -"

That's all I heard. Rutania gave me the same hazy look I came up with.

"Right, salted - I mean, is this the result of salting the body!

"Yep! Salting the body!

"Hey, how bizarre..."

The lady raised her surprise at Rutania's words, and the guild chief squealed her eyes round.

"Strange indeed. But salt also has a bactericidal effect, and it also prevents rot. Of course, there's a downside to salting a body for that matter."

Rutania nodded, indeed, to Sewassur's words.

"How do you get all this salt..."

"I was lucky."

So Lulussi took over the words.

"My sister's married land is a city famous for being able to pick rock salt. That's where I happened to get tons of salt for a souvenir to the mansion. We used that salt as a salting material to keep Naria's body in shape."

"Oh, no, but that's it for my daughter, for Naria, who was only an escort to the Count's house."

"It's okay. Naria was also a good understander and best friend of mine. So at least this is it -"

To Lulussi, who wipes tears by saying so much, the Rutanians bowed their heads again and again, thank you, thank you.

"But could this method have been proposed by Master Sewassur?

"It's outrageous! He is an escort knight, such as me. I never thought of anything like that."

"Then who the hell?

Strangely the guild leader asks. Then pull one jaw.

"It was one brave adventurer who also saved us from the demonic hands of Desqueen Killer Hornet who taught us this"

"Yes, you were dressed strangely, but you were a stranger... with a definite name."

Lulussi puts a beat down, and turns his face and spins words to the Rutanians.

"Nagare Kaminagi, that's what you said."

"Nagare Kaminagi, you've changed your name too..."

"But it was also because of him that his daughter's body returned without any pain. You have to thank me..."

"I appreciate the story. As an Adventurer's Guild, I will convey my feelings to His Holiness Nagare."

Thus, the salting of this groundbreaking body will then be widely known among people as the Nagare-style method of preserving the body.

Yes, there was another legend of Nagareth born in the land.