The Villager Who Grew Up Drinking Elixir Fountain

The Spirit's Research Building on the Royal Castle property.

That distance is a little further away, so rarely do any fellows visit it. Walking from the royal castle takes a little more than ten minutes.

A simple place on the red roof would be far and quiet from a training facility for soldiers, just the right environment to study.

The person Sheila and the others will meet from now on has been conducting a long spiritual magic study, and she also stands on her magical arm. I just have personality difficulties - that is, Maria talks.

They say it's difficult, they do research all the time and they don't really do anything called dating.

"Wapu"

"Is this Pal's house? It's expensive."

Sheila holds the pal and looks up at the research building. It's thinner up there, but it's five stories tall.

"I hope I can get some kind of spiritual clue."

Standing in front of the research building, Maria knocks on the door.

But there's no response.

"Is he not there?

"I don't think so..."

To Sheila tilting her neck, Lupica shakes her head. It's a research building, so it would be weird if there weren't at least a few fellows.

Maria sighs loudly and knocks on the door again.

"Letia, are you there?

But still unresponsive, the frightened Maria casually opened the door as it was.

"Wow..."

Once inside, the dim room is littered with paperwork and I don't know where to walk. When Sheila thought she was a very sloppy person, the pal she was hugging suddenly slipped out of her arms.

Keep landing on the floor and start walking.

"Wop!

Sheila and the others look at Pal, who are just telling him to come over as he looks back.

Maria was the one who took the most action. Afterwards, Alf continues as well.

"Oh, I wonder if you could show me to Letia's."

"Looks good to follow."

There are three rooms on the ground floor of the research building.

The main room, just after entering the entrance, has two doors, one that leads up to the upper floor and the other. Pal goes to one door and rings' Wop '.

"You have Letia there, don't you?

When Maria opened the door without knocking, it was a room about ten tatami in size. I can tell right from the luggage I keep that it is used as a personal room.

At the far back of it, the desk in front of the window - there was a girl who slept easily with her paperwork on her knees in a leather chair.

His name is Letia Orwill.

On red hair tied in two, the sleeping face remains somewhere young. I'm definitely a researcher because I'm wearing a white coat from above my knee-length one-piece dress.

I'm only in my mid-teens and I'm not much different from Sheila. Sheila was surprised because she thought she was an older person.

Pal goes under Letia and jumps on that knee.

"Mm-hmm...? What? No?"

"Wop"

Forced Letia stretches out big and stretches out her supple body.

I rub my eyes and look at the pal and say "Welcome back" and mumble its body. And then I raised my gaze when I realized that signs other than myself were indoors.

"... alas, Your Highness"

"Are you awake? I came to you because I wanted to talk to you about the Spirit."

"Talk to me?

You thought it was unusual, Letia blinks.

Because few people say they want to find out about spirits that are extinct long ago. Letia gets up with a smile as she gently strokes the pal.

Then the pal on his knees jumped on Sheila a little.

"Oh, you miss Pal? You're an unusual person, aren't you?

"Wapu"

It's Sheila.

"Lovely name. I'm Letia.... Oh?

Letia walks up to Sheila and gets a serious look on her face. Next, he was gazed at by a cane with shards of Silf's Summoning Stone held by Sheila. "Hmm?" and whine meaningfully, laughing.

"I see?"

Letia's face, which was an affectionate laugh, turns into something fun and docile. "I'll make you some tea," he said, guiding Sheila and the others to the reception room, another room.

"Please do not sit properly"

Let's get ready for tea, and Letia takes her seat off once.

The only room that was put through was the reception room, which was nicely organized. Deep green sofa in an off-white, tidy room. The walls are decorated with paintings, making them a space to calm down.

Sit on a three-seater couch alongside Sheila, Maria and Lupica. Alf sat on a solo couch on the side.

Maria, who sat down somewhere, put her legs together and alternately looked at Sheila and Pal.

"Though I thought it might be because Pal misses Sheila... I didn't think it would be easy for Robust Lettier to invite us in."

Maria's words like throwing up and Lupica agreeing to it.

"Right. It's hard to think it would be in Letia's interest to do this, so I think she was still interested in Sheila."

"I?"

"Sheila, if Letia's about to do something to you, do everything in your power to escape."

"Yeah, yeah."

Sheila gives a shit what the hell she's going to do. I saw that. Alf is smiling bitterly, but I know that a person named Letia is not considered very preferable.

Sheila raises her hand and asks Maria what kind of person she is.

"Who is Mr. Letia?

I have the first impression that you are young and free to go.

But I could also see a grin like I was thinking of something deep in my belly, and I could make a prediction of a high-ranking person who wasn't a glimmer.

That's a good question.

Maria puts up her index finger all the time and answers Sheila's question.

Letia is a courtier of the Earl's family, and the title is not so high. But for some reason, he has been given a research building on the Royal Castle property and is also allowed to make some remarks.

Even though no one is using it and is studying spiritual magic that is thought to have been extinct.

"Even that spiritual magic hasn't yielded any results. And yet, Letia has a certain amount of activity funded by the state."

That's a funny story, Maria says.

Plus Lupica nods, and keeps on saying.

"I, too, thought it was strange. But Sheila. I met you, and I knew that there was really spiritual magic, and I changed my mind."

"Yes.... there is a possibility that some parts of this country might know the fact that the Spirit exists"

Maria with serious eyes touches her mouth like she thinks about something. What the hell am I supposed to do, look like I'm thinking about it.

As Maria tried to open her mouth again, Meliá, who brewed the tea, returned.

"Thank you for waiting. And I brought you some cookies, too. Yes, yes! The other researchers seem to be having an argument above… I didn't see His Highness coming."

"No, the researcher's not hurt at all."

Maria scolds me for something that sounds fun, but Letia doesn't look like she cared at all. Laughing at me, I put the cookies in front of Sheila.

"Wow, looks delicious"

"Wop!

"Heh heh heh, please eat it"

Sheila shines her eyes on the treat and says thank you.

"This cookie looks like it was made by a popular pastry chef in Wang Du? It's a very good thing."

"Oh, you can eat something like that!?"

"It's okay. Letia, Sheila hasn't become the king's capital, so don't tease her too much."

"Really?"

I'm not making fun of you, am I? And, Letia smiles. Let's talk about it while we have tea for now, and Sheila reaches for the cookies quickly.

"Ha yum... sweet... happy"

"Did you like it? Good, then. Thanks for bringing Pal."

"No."

Retia puts Pal on her lap and includes tea in her mouth.

The Lupicas also spoke and slowly began to talk about the purpose of coming here. Of course, lay low that Sheila can call the Spirit, etc.

"Is it possible that the Spirit is not extinct?

"Yes. If I could use the spiritual magic exercised with the help of the spirits of others, not the magic that uses my magic... I think there's a new development."

"I see?"

Listening to Maria's words, Letia said in a calm voice, "Are you there?," he said briefly. I can't hide the surprise of hearing that and getting such a quick clue.

――

To avoid showing upset, Maria reassembles her legs and then slowly asks Retia.

"So why haven't you published it?

"Because even if you publish it, you won't be able to use spiritual magic, will you?

For this reason, Letia tells us that there is no particular need for publication. You can't prove it by telling them that you have a spirit.

Maria asks Letia if she's lying.

"May I ask why you can't use it?

"Oh, that's under study. But if you insist... well, maybe the Spirit doesn't have enough power?

"The power of the Spirit...?

Maria thinks into Letia's words, which she speaks profoundly. At the same time, I think of the words I heard from the Spirit with Sheila.

Does Letia know that she can't use her powers because of human work?