"Wait a minute. Thirty years ago? Did you say thirty years ago?"
Hearing an unexpected length of thirty years, Aldis floats.
"Yes, but I said so."
Your angel "Thirty years ago, what do you want to meet is the predecessor or that kind of thing?"
"No. You are the angel you met."
"Huh?"
Aldis doesn't understand what Elmer is saying, and a stupid voice comes out of his mouth.
"It's no wonder you're surprised. Your angel hasn't changed anything since thirty years ago."
"... Isn't that different?"
"Yes, thirty years have passed since I was saved by an angel and led to this land. But the beauty of him is as if there is no passage of time It's not in any way damaged. ''
Involuntarily, Aldis glances with Rona. His eyes also showed feelings of difficulty in understanding.
Aldis then turns around. A self-proclaimed servant, who looks exactly the same as when he first met, sits with his eyes closed.
I thought it was strange. Seven years have passed since I was working in Tria. However, Nere is still visible only to seventeen and eighty girls. Aldis originally had a hard-to-understand body due to certain circumstances, but he was still growing steadily. People who have entered the old age are not afraid, and they have doubts that the young girl has kept the same appearance for seven years.
His gaze turned to the twins sitting next to him.
"What's wrong?"
Liana tilts her head and asks Liana.
Philia and Liana are 14 years old. At the time he met, he was only as close as Aldis's waist, but now it is as high as his shoulders. This is normal growth.
Aside from the special circumstances of Aldis himself, it was good to say that the change of Nere's appearance was unusual. But here comes an extraordinary being. Although it is a Nere and a melon, there is a Sarah whose appearance has not changed for 30 years. Normally it's a very incredible story, but on the other hand, the presence of Nere in the immediate vicinity of Aldis makes Sara's heterogeneity a reality.
"Such a thing ..."
"It can't be an ordinary person."
Elmer can speak naturally to the confused Aldis. Anxiety Aldis's feelings do not indicate his voice.
"Don't you think you're scared?"
"I'll tell you, no matter what, I'm a great benefactor for myself and for this village. His presence is a miracle for us, and his hand always wraps us in deep charity. Do you know why this village has survived in a land full of demons? Around this village there is a barrier of angels around.Dangerous demons and beasts It is not coming, but the herbivorous beast that feeds us is not hindered by its barriers, and it would not be something that humans can do, so it is God who can do it Devil?
Humans can no longer maintain normal thinking if they witness unknown things. Some will stop thinking and accept it altogether, others will deny things they cannot understand and attack. It causes God and the devil to be created in the human heart.
"But at least no one in this village thinks he's a demon."
"A barrier?"
He hears Elmer's words that are more worrisome than the words God and Devil, and Aldis asks.
"Yes. I can't use magic, I don't know what it is, but if you walk from this village for about an hour, you will never see dangerous creatures. That's why we can live in peace in this land full of monsters, but as the distance increases, the effect seems to gradually weaken, and when we walk for two hours, we get out of the barrier. But
A huge barrier that rejects the malicious. As such, it can be built on Aldis. But, albeit temporarily, it's hard for Aldis to keep wrapping a village on a permanent basis. Even more, if you walk all the way for an hour, the Aldis will be heavy.
な ら ば The genius sorcerer who was once lined up seems to be able to do it calmly, but I couldn't seem to be in this world. If there is such a person, it would be strange if the name is not roaring throughout the continent. Then who is the person who can do that?
Aldis hates reasoning.
"Is she ... a goddess?"
Elmer smiled at that.
"I wouldn't be surprised even if that was the case, but since he himself denied it, I wouldn't be able to do anything ... but only with respect to the one the goddess used- ''
Aldis is a little relieved to hear Elmer's answer. She seems to be quite enthusiastic about Sarah, but she is at least not as fanatic.
For Aldis, it doesn't matter if Sarah is a real goddess or another. However, even though she is different from the enemy female general, the experience of the last seven years has been a good reason for instilling a dislike of blind people in Aldis consciousness.
"So is the statue there herself?"
"When making the statue of the goddess, the angel gave me the words," I like it, "so I borrowed that figure. I couldn't imagine anything other than the angel's appearance, so in that sense, should we say that we shaped our desire to be like this? "
After that, the story moves to the formation of the village.
According to Elmer, this is a village where the people who came under the guidance of Sarah started.
A human like Elmer who was chased as a heretic. A lost family with twins. An original person who has lived only with despair. A clan who was forced to abandon his hometown after being persecuted.
It is said that Sarah helped these people sometimes, directly and sometimes through people. That's why Sarah is like a goddess to the people of this village, and she's a partner she can't help but respect for her, even if she's been in a different form for decades.
"I and the mayor do not know when this village has existed. More than half of the villagers who are now are born here. To know the outside world is guided by angels like me. People who came, or who left the village and traded. "
Apparently, they have not completely refused to interact with the outside world, and the villagers regularly buy what they need as peddlers. Rarely, though, mercenaries stepping into the Canobis, like the Ardis, seemed to come by accident and said they would accept them unless they were very paranoid.
"Even if the village's existence became apparent in the church, it would not be possible to come this way anyway."
That was Elmer's answer to the fear that a mercenary who came by accident would discover the village.
After hearing Elmer's story, the Aldis returned to the building where she was replaced, and saw Sarah standing at the entrance. When she sees Aldis, she says lightly, "Well, let's go on yesterday."
"... Can you talk with them alone?"
"I don't care"
Aldis leaves Rona to protect her twins, and walks with Sarah to the outside of the village. After confirming that the surrounding area has completely disappeared, Aldis calls out Sarah, who was walking in front.
"I don't mind around here. Anyway, if you get closer, you'll know right away."
"Yes"
Sarah turned around. Unlike Aldis who is still cautious, his expression gives a subdued impression.
He was looking at Aldis as if his mother had taken care of her child. Despite his discomfort, Aldis asks to answer the question.
"I understand why you're called an angel, and you're in this village."
"Oh, it was good. It was embarrassing to explain it from my own mouth, and Elmer spoke and helped."
Sarah smiles with one hand on her cheek.
"How do you feel when you are treated as a god?"
"Oh, it's surprisingly mean."
Slightly smiling at a slightly malicious question, Sarah utters her answer without any concern.
"It's embarrassing, but Elmer and the villagers just say it, and that's it ..."
"Is that you?"
"No, not really ... I don't bother anyone and I wonder if I don't care"
Aldis wants Sarah to answer in a casual manner.
"How is it really?"
"What is it really?"
"You aren't really a goddess?"
"Ah……"
Sarah shows that she has scored, and laughs modestly with the next moment.
"I don't think so. Did you think I'm a goddess-friendly itinerary?"
In response, Aldis is rather uncomfortable.
"I don't mean God. If we are there and we can help you, we're not so hard."
Aldis remembers Nere, who once responded in the same way as Sarah asserted.
"It is not limited to the goddess. I'm not there, who is God. At least on this star '
"Hoshi? What is it? 』
"Earth, sea, sky. A world that combines them all. There is no God in any of them. Maybe you are far away. But at least there is no such thing where humans can reach. '
Aldis questioned Sarah seven years ago, as she asked Nere.
"So what is that goddess that the church religes?"
"I don't know if you ask such a person?"
"It's like I'm not interested"
"Because I'm not interested"
As she shrugs, she does not seem to be interested in her heart, and her long, reddish-brown hair slides on the surface of her black robe.
"It's always a time when a powerful person can claim God and worship him around him. It's endless."
With Sarah's disgusted face, she unfolds and argues.
"I don't think it's a bad thing to have God in your mind, of course, as a spiritual basis, but if you believe in something, not just God, you'll have the strength to overcome the hardship itself. I don't mean to deny it, but it shouldn't be pushed by or pushed against anyone, much less a tool to make someone unhappy, so Elmer and the people of the village No matter what we believe in, we don't care unless we force it to someone or misuse it as a tool. ''
"In that logic, does it seem that today's church is throwing misfortune over the doctrine of the goddess?"
"Yes, that's a problem."
After a short sigh, Sarah looks like a mother worried about a bad child.
He doesn't seem hostile to a goddess like Aldis, but he doesn't seem to be at least in church. Fully trusting would be dangerous, but Aldis concluded that it was unlikely to be an enemy, so he stopped with a nail just in case.
"I don't care if God exists or not, but I'm not going to pull it in to fulfill my purpose, even if the other person claims to be God. If it would be an obstacle to fulfilling ... "
The last words are muddy and a sharp glance is directed at Sara.
"Is the purpose to protect twins?"
"... including that."
She was silent for a moment at Sarah's question, but immediately reconsidered and answered.
"Don't worry, my job is to" watch. "It's probably not going to get in your way."
"What should I do?"
Satisfied with Sarah's answer, Aldis dismissed her alert.