Vermillion

The wind roars in my ear.

City of Darkness.

The night scene flows away backwards.

The girl in black, she runs.

The roofs of the houses.

Just leave the light footsteps behind.

A black shadow extending from your feet.

Fish…… birds…… cats…… or people's arms.

Have fun, jump, swim.

As he changes his appearance visibly, he points the way.

Dusk Maiden 'Kerstin'.

The incarnation of night darkness and residual light, presided over by thin light.

Eileen followed the Spirit's guidance to Lily.

Kerstin goes around in the shadows and is a shadow manipulating spirit.

After the sun sets, then it is not a complete darkness, an obscure being that can only manifest itself in a limited environment.

Compared to Kay's middle-spirited/windy maiden "Sieve," Kay's ability to physically interfere is far inferior, and the characteristic of manipulating shadows equals no direct attack.

but because it does, it consumes less magic and does not choose a catalyst, it costs little to exercise the technique. Because of its habit of handling and limited use, it is assumed that it is not suitable for pure magicians (pure mages) - but for magic warriors (ninjas), who assume that magic is only auxiliary, it was a contractual spirit for the most part.

"…… here."

corner of the Old Town.

Standing back on the roof, Eileen looks out for a lonely street. The shadow at his feet took the shape of his hand and pointed straight at the building in front of him.

Two stone floors facing a thin dirty alley. No decorations, no warehouse structure. From the windows on the ground and second floors, the lights are leaking, respectively. No need to explore, signs of people from the whole building. Especially from the ground floor, I could hear the noise of the men.

Let your body jump and jump to the roof across the street. He made a slight leap over three metres without any help, crawling on all fours and landing on the tile without sound. With all four legs, it's time to erase the signs and carefully sneak into the window, like a cat carnivore.

Hanging upside down like a bat with his leg hooked to the edge of the roof, Eileen softly peeks inside through the gap in the rain door.

(... surprisingly cleaned up)

First impression.

It was a cramped, lifeless space. Little furniture is found, just flooring the killing landscape. In one corner of the room there is a small table and chair, one of the best men to read in the light of the lamp on the table. In the back there is a staircase to the bottom where you can see the lively voices and the shaking shadows of the men.

…………

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's nothing like noticing a ninja outside the rain door, and apparently he's the only one upstairs. Then, observing for a while, Yoshio remained enthusiastic about reading, and Irene softly stepped away from the window, deciding that she was unlikely to get any more information in particular.

Remove the hook rope from the hip porch, hook it to the edge of the roof and descend to the ground. Now get down in front of the manoeuvres, opposite the street.

Alcohol odor with a slight smell. The ground floor is quite noisy if you come close. There seems to be a lot of more noise going on in there. Irene carefully peeks into the first floor window, taking great care not to be distracted nonetheless.

(! That is………)

Surprise and bewilderment colors floating in Eileen's face. The room was surrounded by a table with liquor in one hand, and there were about seven exciting men. Everyone was just a filthy loose end - one of the faces I found out about.

(- Boris! Why are you here?)

A man of a gothic physique who is shouldered by a candlestick and is laughing heavily with a drunk red face. A glitzy eye for a bossy black habit hair.

Definitely, Boris, who I saw in front of the workshop a few days ago. It was that person.

Irene, away from the window, leads to a small roar on the wall.

(... that son of a bitch is gonna bite one)

Lily is a smart girl. Eileen wondered after she spoke to the montans that she could not be caught up in a crime for rare reasons.

Offences committed by the body.

Now put aside whether it's a good idea to think of Boris as "in your body" - if he was involved in the kidnapping, it's not strange that Lily should be alarmed.

(He borrows money and takes care of you, but what do you think of kidnapping my benefactor's daughter......!?

Perplexity turns to fright and eventually begins to burn with the flames of anger.

This was Eileen, who I think would be sorry if she punched him once, but I didn't do anything to imitate him from the front, leaving him to anger.

[... Kerstin]

Lower your voice and call to the shaky shadow at your feet.

[Kie estas lily?]

To Eileen's inquiry, a shadow took the shape of a person's hand and instead of a screen the wall pointed all the way up.

"……… upstairs (unua etago)?"

"Neniu"

Shit, the shadow I waved answers with a streamlined writing.

"Then teretago?"

"Neniu"

"……… like tegmento?

"Neniu"

"Yep."

Then where are you!! Think softly and calmly of the scratch that

"Interetago... is that a hidden room?

"Jes"

After his writing body, he took the shape of a black hand with a big thumb up, and Kerstin swayed back to his normal shadow.

(Hidden room………)

Irene secretly relieves herself of being quite an elaborate imitator. Intentionally imprisoning her in a hidden room means that Lily is still alive. Assuming Lily's whereabouts were shown to be beneath the ground, etc., Eileen might not have been calm on the boulder either.

(Well, I don't know what to do)

Put your arms together and think.

Will we ambush here and take control of the building?

Or avoid a fight and try to rescue Lily.

(... punch them all in the ass and let them throw up where they're hiding Lily before they help out......)

That's quite a refreshing idea, considering it clears up your own depression as well. But after considering the various risks, Eileen eventually came to the conclusion, "If you can only rescue Lily smartly, you've never gone beyond that".

[Kerstin, mi dedicas al vi tiun katalizilo.]

From the nostalgia, take out a large grain of blue-green gemstone (Labradorite) and sink it into the shadow at your feet.

[Vi priskribas la plankon plano de ci tiu domo, kaj vi diros al mi la pozicio de Lily.]

hands on the stone walls of the building,

[Ekzercu.]

Moment after moment, a shadow ran through the outline of the building.

Perhaps no one inside has noticed 'it'.

In the corner of the room, behind the table, or at your feet, the black shadow faintly shrugged, etc. -.

A shadow rises before Eileen's eyes. The internal structure of the building will be drawn like 3DCG due to the pitch-black lines. In the sunset, the black 3D model was very hard to see, but I could still grasp the intervals and the human position.

It's a warehouse-like, spacious construction, and there's nothing particularly odd about the intervals. Seems like there are seven loose ends on the ground floor and only one good guy upstairs. But Lily at the heart - I didn't see where she was hiding.

[Kie estas lily?]

To Eileen's inquiry, a pitch-black hand rising from the ground points to a black-box-shaped space, slightly as in the 3D model.

……

It was a small space hidden under the floor, right next to Yu Man upstairs. To call it a hidden room - it's too small. The fact that the inside is black without being drawn indicates that there is no light source there.

In other words, Lily is locked up in a small, dark room so small that she can't even move.

Eileen's face becomes a dangerous one. I was wondering if this is how you treat your favorite children. Lily, trapped in a small, dark space, seemed to tighten her chest just to imagine how terrified she was. Besides, after you exchange it, it's a banquet for drinking and singing.

Exactly, the extremes of the bastard.

One fist won't do it.

Burning anger in the depths of your chest is exactly what you would call outrage. Eileen glanced at the lights on the ground floor that leaked through the window. I felt like smashing through the rain door right now, but I told myself that I was behind me to breathe and bump them out.

For starters, Lily's rescue comes first.

Knock yourself back and kick the ground gently. A very slight irregularity in the vertical stone wall was scaffolded and quickly climbed between the walls and those of the adjacent building with a tantrum.

Stand down, on the roof.

While recovering the hook rope, I think of the spacing of the building that Kerstin had just broiled out.

(second-floor hidden room, or... Is the entrance upstairs?)

Like earlier, I snap onto the upstairs window and stare at Yoshio through the gap in the rain door. Reading alone, he's probably also the turn of the stash room. - Nevertheless, what the hell is wrong with keeping a young girl locked up and reading into a book with such a clear face?

Again, angry emotions smoke out. In the blue eyes dwelt a fierce light.

(... well, fine. Not surprising, in due course,)

Under the black muffler, erase the expression so as to restore calm.

(- Honest, shall we sneak in?)

I put my hand on the clasp of the rain door.

......... Kii.

"Yeah?"

The young man who was reading the book raised his face to the sound of metal or thin.

When I saw it, the rain door right next to the table was open.

A clasp on every shaking door, as if it had been blown by the wind. A slight stream of air gently strokes my cheek.

"…… That's strange."

Why is it open all by itself?

It shouldn't even be that windy today, but -.

Take a seat with the book in one hand, face out the window to check the surroundings, but the air at night was rather quiet, calm, windy but not even good.

…… Sometimes it's weird. "

Somewhere, in terror.

The little squeaky young man shakes his head and gently closes the rain door, however, shaking off an unpleasant feeling that is difficult to name.

At that moment, my vision turned black.

"Nguh!?

The cry of perplexity creeps and does not sound far away. Eileen stepped behind her from the ceiling and wrapped a muffler around her face. Wherever the confused young man shook it, Irene quickly turned to the front to set both fists, whilst she shrugged her face.

Use a spring all over your body to release it.

A double-strike that doddles and chooses a dovetail, a twist in the young man's torso. For a moment, puffy refluxed stomach fluids pollute the muffler in such a shock that the body rises. The young man, a diarrhea stuck in his throat, a severe pain that would not allow him to breathe, or even make a groan, just pressed his stomach against his knees. The figure is as if the culprit waiting for the time of the plea - there, the spinning kick of the stop bursts into the side head, and the young man is snapped down like a pin of boring as it is.

"One down..."

Slowly lowered her swinging leg, Eileen shrugged. On the floor, in front of a young man who doesn't flinch, the words are too unscrupulous. There was no forgiveness that could even be taken as abominable, but Irene was still a moderate person. Though muscle strength is diminishing from the game age, the martial arts that bring the specs of the flesh to its limits are alive and well. If I had unleashed the kick with all my might, I would have easily broken and smashed Yu Man's thin neck and so on.

"Well, I wonder where Lily is..."

No longer had shards of interest, such as in the man, Eileen narrows her eyes and makes her gaze run to the floor. According to Kerstin's [exploration], there must be some hidden space under the floor a few meters from the table.

"…… right here."

It was found right away. If you look carefully at the floorboards, you will see that only a portion contains unnatural cuts. Screwing the blade of the dagger into it, the board peeled off at ease because of the principle.

This is an easy win, and Irene was happy to remove the floorboard, but the expression immediately fell out of her face.

Heavy metal lids appeared under the floorboards.

It was built to look sturdy. Disappointingly assembled clasps remind me of the safe. There was only one place on the soggy surface with a geared slit about two centimeters in diameter open, so I stuck my finger in there and pulled it off.

"…… well, no."

Doesn't open. Doesn't even freak out as expected. Ten or eighty-nine, this slit would be a keyhole. As a preference for NINJA, even Irene could have unlocked it if it was a simple structural lock, but it seemed impossible to do something about this metal lid with a hand held tool.

Irene, who stood silently up, gently kicked Yu Man down on the floor to make sure he was still unconscious before he began to explore his belongings. Though pioneered by the smell of sour diarrhea, he flipped depending on his jacket and trouser pockets.

…………

But I can't find a substitute to accommodate this keyhole. The metal key came out of my pocket, but it's too small for this keyhole. I had no choice, so I also tried fishing roughly on the shelves in the room, but I didn't find anything dizzy in the end. Even though I was about to hear the location of the key from the honorable man at the time, when I removed the muffler, I was completely peeling white eyes and blowing bubbles, and there was no sign that I would ever wake up with my cheeks pierced or my nose pinched.

(... What's wrong?)

I sit on the floor, poking my cheek wand over my lap. Often the stagnation of thought. Some hands used [tracking] against this' lid 'to find the location of the key, but when I do that, I almost run out of catalysts in my hand. It also seemed like a waste of time to keep looking for allowances or depending on.

What to do.

"Gah hah hah.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"Ah, ha, ha, ha!

While I was doing that, the laughter of the loose crowd echoes from downstairs.

……

Irene, with her eyes slightly narrowed, got up.

From the sheath of his back, he pulled out Shirahara and Sabel.

- If you use the same magic.

It's still better this way.

(Will this happen in the end………)

Irene shrugs one shoulder with a sinister face as she removes the crystal shards of the catalyst from her chest. Downstairs, I saw the shadows of the men swinging in the flames of the lamp.

Turn the servel to make sure the blade is in good shape.

- No problem. Bit, and a knife ripped down the sky, without a bump.

Leaves a faint killing aftertaste and stops perfectly.

"... wait for me, Lily. 'Cause I'll help you in a minute."

Small, squeaky.

Eileen has no hesitation whatsoever,

Keep going downstairs, I let myself leap.

†††

How long has it been since the sun went down?

The guy who cares about that, he's not here. The indulgence of sobriety on the ground floor was all the more exciting to say that the evening was still coming.

"- That's wacky that I stripped Soytes naked and hung him upside down against the surface!

"Heehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe,

"Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

A drunk who laughs a lot, even though it's not very funny, to talk about a drunk who isn't even very funny. It's funny if a cat walks as long as it has booze in it. Drink, laugh, laugh, drink. At first, Boris, who was nervous when he was called on this occasion, is now in a perfect mood to drink ale.

To the enthusiasm of the swirling men, the smell of annoying alcohol.

There was a mix of too high a tension characteristic of drinking, and the room exhibited just the appearance of chaos.

But to such a distraction, suddenly appears, a blackening intruder.

"…… Am I?

The first person to notice it was one sitting directly across the stairs. "Enough booze, but not enough women," he said of the arrowhead he had in mind. At precisely that moment, when she tried to pour a newly attached ale into the jock into her throat, she was blinded by a beautiful girl in black who appeared from the stairs.

Often, a man stops moving like a jerk. From the tilted jock, Yale spills.

"- Hehe."

Oh, he said he was too drunk to see anything strange. The man, who decided so, smiled unhesitatingly at him and once again gave him a booze.

On the contrary, Irene was the one who ate it. It was unexpected that the first discoverer would start swallowing again without making a scene and laughing naggingly. But soon he regains his mind and slaps the shard of crystal he was holding in his left hand into the shadow at his feet.

[Kerstin!]

And when the Spirit was summoned, all those who marveled at him saw Irene at once.

Nestled under the stairs, a girl in black.

Behind it, beyond the dim darkness.

The relaxers hallucinated the appearance of your lady with a gentle smile.

Irene quickly cuts the mark with her left hand, approaching the distracted men.

[Kage, Matoi, Otsu.]

Sight, I looked at the men with my fingers.

[VI KOVRAS (Cover Hide)!]

Eileen's foot.

Vun, and the shadows tremble.

Like resonating with it.

The shadows of the men.

Mockingbird, mockingbird.

Play, fly.

Turbid currents of pitch black.

That's silent.

But enough to illuminate the roar.

Explosively.

The whole body of the men, enveloped.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!?

"What the hell, Kolya? Aah!!

"Hiiiiiiiiiii!?

In an instant, the scene falls into havoc. From the loose ends, he was suddenly drunk by a black shadow (a bucket) gushing from his feet.

The reactions of the surprised less chair-by-chair fallers, those who ramble to shake off the shadows, those who can't even get around due to confusion and fear - the men varied, but in fact, there is no direct harm to Kerstin's 'shadow'. In turn from those who are less confused, you will notice that they have no particular effect, except that their vision has been deprived.

But not Irene, who forgives it.

In the room.

Take a breath, step in.

First person. A man falling off a chair and crawling on the floor. Kick your head off like a soccer ball that was right at your feet. Gong, and the dull sound, fainted with a blow.

Second person. Every chair collapses, and you hit him in the back of the head, the man with the head and groans. Stick a blade through his thigh and seal his foot with crispness.

Third person. A man who jumps and storms to shake off the shadows. I just waved my score, slit my right arm, and stopped moving to a scratch pain, a harsh beating to the head of it. Turn it into an octopus punch with a sabel knuckle guard and pattern head.

Fourth person. Do you feel dull and unable to move, a man sitting in a chair? Slap a flowing spinning kick into your head and blow it up to the wall.

Fifth. Is it time for the surgery to expire, a man with a fading shadow around him? He had reached the entrance and exit to crawl, so he stroked his calf so that he could not move.

The sixth person - and Eileen, who has controlled the loose ends surrounding the table in an anti-clockwise fashion - notices here. into the floor and trying to shake the shadow off his face is nothing else,

"Temee, Boris!!

With his vision crushed, Boris is suddenly called by someone and shook his body with horror. Eileen grabbed the chest barn and forced it to stand to drag her up.

"Hih, so, who... what!?

Even though he was frightened, Boris resisted to peel off the hand that grabbed the chest barn, Irene, who stuck the sabel on the floor, strained its face without a break.

Pa! and Boris, whose sharp sound shook his brain, fluttered and laid his hands on the wall. Happy or unhappy, that blow shakes off the facial shadow, and Boris, who stripped his white eyes for a moment, restores vision, however, immediately.

but at that moment, "hiss," he stuck his breath.

"…… that's Lily's share."

Literally, what Boris saw making his eyes black and white was - a frozen, cold look on his spine. But blue eyes seemed to burn with a flame of dizziness and anger,

Buh,

The roaring left upper cut burst into the bearded jaw.

"Huh!?

Glance. Stars scatter behind your eyelids. In the cut mouth, the smell of spreading blood.

"This is Montan's share."

Irene screamed, wiggling her right fist without getting her hair in between,

"Ohhhhhhhhh!?

Decisive body blow. Apple and belly liquor reflux,

"This is Kiska's share!

Pull the right leg by holding the belly down and fluttering back in front of the boris.

Set up.

"And this is it,"

Guru, rotate your body and hit it off.

"- It's for me!!!

Full force.

Special spin kick.

On Boris' dovetail, he stabbed him.

"- Huh!!

No longer, I don't even scream. Blown up as if it were a joke, Boris goes straight to the stone wall and clashes with Vitaaaan.

"Ah, shh..."

sloppy. Boris, brought to the wall and butted, turned his eyes and spit out the liquor, still wandering his hands for something,

"... wobo"

He tried his best not to grasp anything as it was and fell over his own diarrhea.

"……… fn."

Aileen narrows her eyes and just squeals her nose.

"- Aww, shit, chickww, what the fuck!!

At that time, one of the last remaining succeeds in shaking off the shadow that was finally stuck around his face.

"…… Ah?

But at the same time as my vision recovered, I stopped moving. If you look around, you're the only one safe. Around us, fellows fall and lie just like dead bodies.

"Well, that's a nice time."

In front of me, a beautiful girl in an unidentified black outfit pulls a sabel out of the floor and slaps her shoulder with a pong and blade back.

The smile was so fierce that it was not commensurate with the girl's beauty.

Unexpectedly, the lagging back with his buttocks on, unconsciously, had a festive loving laugh.

A sabel blade sticks to his throat.

"- I have a question for Temehe."

The only thing a man could do was just snort like an idiot.

†††

Dark, narrow spaces.

His hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was covered with monkeys.

I can't hang around dressed as a gymnast.

(Why... this happened?)

With vain eyes, blurry.

Lily makes her gaze wander in the dark.

- If I noticed, I was here.

About the way home. Today, the school ended as usual, but came home late in itself. A boy named "Yuri," who studied alongside his desk at Cornwell Chamber of Commerce, stopped Lily.

As for Lily, I wanted to go home early, but I can't help but unblock the favor of her father, the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce, for his succession. While I received a delicious cup of tea, I listened to poetry and literature that I was not very interested in, but by the time I left the mansion, I was completely late.

Worried about Lily, Yuri suggested sending her home with an escort, but she wanted to go home early and thought it was okay for her to be alone, and she refused because she had to send your sergeant to pick her up.

That was a mistake.

If only I had followed those words honestly then. Now, I think so.

It was when Lily, as usual, was walking down the boulevard. A strange boy called out.

He was a little older than Lily, with the impression that he wasn't a bad person, but kind of a bad eye. Says, "Boris' uncle is trying to take the dishes home to celebrate his work, but he wants Lily to help him because he's too much to hold them".

To be honest, I thought it was a weird story. I also knew that Boris' house was in the old town and dangerous for walking at night.

But there was also the morning thing, and Lily, who read in depth, "It's hard for my uncle to give me back my money alone, and I wonder if you want me to go with you for a reason," and so on, got on well with that invitation.

A boy who said he'd give me a lift to Boris' house said from his pocket, "Want some?" and took the honey candy out, too, could have been big. With that on her cheeks, the boy took her and Lily stepped into the old town in a whim.

And - the memories from it are vague. I remember walking down the raucous alley until honey candy smashed in my mouth and a weird flavor of powder appeared. After that, Gunya and his vision turned and it was like he was in a dream, locked in here if he noticed.

(Me... what happens...)

With a dead, faceless look, I ask myself over and over again. He thinly suspected that he had been kidnapped and imprisoned. Cry, scream, stand back - you're already out of strength and energy.

(My fearful uncles take me... I wonder if I will be forced to work...)

The first words that came to mind were "slave" and "personal sales". The image of 'scary uncle' with a whip, in a mine-like place, forcing heavy labor.

Comparable to that - or, to imagine something scarier than that, Lily was still too young.

But even so, it doesn't make a difference to being scared and anxious. Bite the monkey gutter and squirt it small. I no longer cried too much, did the tears wither away, nothing spilled out of my bright red eyes?

(Daddy... Mommy... Help!)

I won't be selfish anymore, I'll try to study harder, and I'll listen to what I have to say.

(I want to see you, Dad, Mom...)

Screw your face in the dark.

Just prayer. Without a voice, cry.

- and.

Overhead, kid! A loud noise rang.

I'm amazed at all the jumping up, and I look up. Then the critical...... and the sound of metal rubbing against each other. To a sudden change of circumstances, Lily opened her eyes and began to rattle and tremble like a death row inmate whose time of execution approached.

Gacon creates a gap of light over his head, which gradually widens. In the light of the unreliable warmth, I just thought, "Outside."

Can we get out of here, huh?

Or is it out?

"...... Mm-hmm!! Mm-hmm!!

Suddenly, Lily, whose feelings of fear reignited, let herself twist to squeeze her last strength and resist something, even though she could barely move.

"Lilly! Lily!!

but to some familiar gentle voice, stop that movement.

"Lily! Are you okay!?

Seeing it, there was Eileen's face peeking into this one from overhead cut into squares.

"Are you all right!? Wait, I'll get you out of here in a minute!

Irene, leaning in, reaches out her right hand and grabs Lily's back rope. And he pulled Lily up once and for all with a force that he couldn't have imagined from his slender arm.

"How dare you imitate such a little girl!"

Irene's eyes get hard on the monkey groove and the tight rope that binds her hands and feet. Lily, on the other hand, still can't keep up with her understanding and is making her eyes squeeze.

Irene, who cut the rope with a dagger, quickly removed Lily's monkey grub.

"I'm here to help, Lily. It's okay now."

To reassure her, Irene strokes Lily's head with a gentle smile. seconds and realized, "Apparently I was saved," Lily

"…… Huh."

The bright red eyes accumulate with tears that I thought were dead.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

"Okay, okay. That was scary."

Fluffy, Lily leads to Irene's chest and starts crying like she's on fire. For a moment, Irene, caught by it and looking like she was about to cry, gently closes her eyes and hugs that little body.

"It's okay.... because it's okay now"

With tears and runny nose, Lily's face was supposed to be terrible. Shake your body slowly so that you will soften the baby. From time to time, Eileen gently rubbed Lily's back, which made her cry too much.

"………. Stop crying. You're ruining my pretty face, Lily."

"Egg, hey, hey, hey, hey."

"Because Mom and Dad are waiting. …… let's go home."

"Ugh... ooh, I'm going home..."

Lily nods cocklessly as she gets her hands pulled and stands up, rubbing her eyes. Seeing that, Eileen smiled small. Lily seemed pathetic, but I'm glad she's safe anyway.

Because of his prolonged incarceration, he carries Lily, who has no sense of footsteps, down the stairs. Along the way, the men moaning and falling down - especially when they saw Boris, who passed out and left him upside down, and Lily on her back breathed much more, but she ran through the living room without worrying and went out the front door to the surface.

"Well, I guess your house is one or the other."

In the meantime, our current location is around the middle of the old town. Irene walks toward the center of the city, relying on her memory when the sun sets to hit the direction and decides that if she goes out on the boulevard for now, she can't go wrong.

But less than a minute after I started walking,

"……… What are you talking about?"

Forward, swaying tons of lights. A large number of footsteps running cobblestones and the sound of chatter and metal gear rubbing against each other.

Running from the other side of the road was a group of guards with lanterns.

"Ah! Eileen!!

And out of it, I glimpsed my face:

"- Kay!?

Unexpectedly, Eileen raises a barbaric voice as she nearly slips Lily off her back.

Flew out of the guard was Kay, who held as many arrows as he could hold in full gear and became like a hare. Did you run around quite a bit, under your leather helmet, your face is exhilarating, and your hair is sticking on your sweaty floating forehead.

"Are you all right!!?

With all the momentum of eating, Irene nodded as Kay slowly stuffed her.

"Ooh..."

"... looks like we're done here, right? Too late……………."

Looking at Lily on Eileen's back, Kay lays her hands on her knees like she lost her mind, even as she exhales a sigh of relief. Behind that, he said, "Lilly! Lily!" sounds familiar.

…… Papa! "

Lily, with her eyes open, jumps off Irene's back and rushes to the voice.

From behind a group of guards, while flirting, Montane ran out.

"Lilly!! Are you all right?

"Daddy! Daddy!!

In Montan's arms, try to jump in, Lily. As they both sloppy in the middle of the road, they sit back and start to raise their voices and cry.

"Good! Really, I'm glad you're safe! Oh, Lily.........!

"Daddy! I got it. Whoa!

Irene and Kay watched over the two parents and children hugging each other with a gentle expression.

"Ah. Um, what is it?"

But that's where I get a voice from the side. Face it, there's one of the guards. An elderly, well-stocked man with a fine black beard.

"Ah, you were then...!

Point to Blackbeard, Eileen. He was one of the 'looked after' guards, mainly in the matter of potions, as he passed the City of Satina's examination.

Blackbeard, with his helmet off and my head on, looked troubled,

"I'm sorry, but I'd like an explanation of the situation."

"Yeah… well, as you can see…"

Indicating Lily and Montan, Kay shrugged her shoulders small.

Eileen succeeded in rescuing the child.

"No, well, you can see that…………………"

Blackbeard, wheeled and troubled, turns his frigid gaze to Eileen.

"... I heard that an armed magic warrior was on his way to rescue him. This young lady?

"Oh, yeah. She's the magic warrior.... Eileen, after all, where was Lily incarcerated?

"Straight down this street, not a minute's walk, he's like a warehouse. There were eight loose ends inside, so I left it hurting to a point where I wouldn't die for now.... and Boris was also a guru"

"…… What?

Finally, to the information he added in a whisper, Kay whispers his eyebrows and makes his expression rude. More and more unexplained, Blackbeard in such a way seems to have given up pursuing, half-heartedly, "Hey, you guys! I hear the kidnapper's place is close!," he called out to his surrounding men.

"I don't know, Kay is Kay, too. Why are you here?

In Eileen's inquiry, Kay smiles dry as she mocks herself.

"... well, after you leave, contact the guards and convince Montane... to cover and hopefully do something. Especially since it seems to have come too late..."

"No, that too. How did you know this place was here?

To Eileen leaning her neck, with an awkward look, Kay turns away.

Behind that.

In the night sky illuminated by lantern lights.

Eileen gave a glossy smile, hallucinating the appearance of a girl in a feather coat.

"Eh, eh?

Irene's jaw drops.

"…… you used a catalyst (emerald)? Too wasted............!

…… That's okay, nothing!

often Kay with a sinister face, but looking to Eileen as she reopened,

"You can always buy one or two gems! However,"

However…….

Shaking his black eyes, Kay opened his mouth - without being able to say anything as it were, he turned away again.

"Well, that, what.... Sorry I'm late."

Softly, bow your head. Eileen blinked her eyes at Kay's unexpected behavior, but eventually she turned into a "I can't help it" face, poking Tin and Kay in the head.

"…… it's nothing. I'm just glad you came. And……………"

Before I left, I remember my words hurting Kay.

…………

But I don't know. If I apologize for that here and now, will it steam back the problem?

Now...

Irene, with her lips tied, put her hand on Kay's shoulder and made a smile.

"Ma, really, 'you just came', but! I'm glad to hear that, but just to be clear, this time it's not even helping shit!

"Kuh, I can't just say back to the facts............!!

Haha, Kay looks sorry before Irene laughs.

"Mostly what are you dressed like! Are you going to boob me in the war? Even with all those arrows, you can't run out of them!

"That's not true, it might help something! Leave me alone!"

"You can't use a bow in a city fight."

"If I had to, I would have pulled out a bee on every wall!

Oh, no, no, noisy. By its side, whoa and two crying parents and children. More circles of guards surrounding it.

Blackbeard watched the moon in the night sky as he rewore his helmet,

"…… ha. Hurry up and go."

I just took a small sigh.

†††

Then, by the hands of the guards, Boris and the other kidnappers were all at your service.

Upon examination, drugs and other illegal goods were found one after the other from inside the building, turning out to have been in fact Azitos of a large drug organization. Boris seems to have been the lower end of the organization.

A rigorous investigation led to the captivity of constituents in the taro ceremony, most of which included Boris. The rest, who were spared the beheading, were dropped into slavery, and they said they would be forced to labor in mines and in the dirt disposal villages of northwest Satina until they died.

However, I only found out the name 'Tristan' about the 'skinny man' that all the constituents were talking about, the summariser, and I couldn't get any other information. They're likely to have already escaped Satina because they can't find it no matter how much they search the city.

The Montans, in this case, were all physically and mentally exhausted.

Lily, in particular, seems to be in great shock, and she doesn't even go to school for a while and spends some time at home relaxing. Montan says he's going to be closed for a while.

"For the time being, I'm going to spend it without family water."

While returning the silver coin borrowed from Kay, Montan was forced to smile and say so smudgingly. "Thank you so much," he said, impressing that he held Irene's hand and bowed his head over and over again.

The Kays stayed in Satina for three days, even after the incident.

To wait for the finish of Mikazuki's skin, which I left to Connor the tannery artisan, and to find a job as an escort.

Throughout this one, happiness or unhappiness, the Kays - mainly Irene - succeeded in gaining credibility in the form of 'reputation'.

A righteous magical warrior who punched the bad guys in the ass and brilliantly rescued the kidnapped child. And if that's a flattering young maiden, there's no way she won't have a reputation. Eileen's martial arts tradition quickly spread to the city of Satina, which changed from when she looked for a job the day before and, conversely, was popular enough for merchants to ask her to escort her.

The biggest of these was the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce, which also specializes in montans. Anything, a boy named Yuri, the chief of the Chamber of Commerce, apparently pulled Lily into the mansion late on the day of the kidnapping, and he's frustrated by self-blame for wondering if that might have been one of the causes of the kidnapping. At the same time, he seemed deeply grateful to Eileen for helping Lily out safely, and the day after the rescue he arrived in person to deliver a large amount of gratitude immediately, up to the inn.

The gratuity was that it was out of Yuri boy's pocket money, but what a lot of money that was comparable to a few gold coins. The surprise is that Kay and Eileen are the same, and although I tried to thank you, to be honest, when they hand me so much money, that makes it difficult to carry.

Speaking of consuming catalysts such as emeralds and crystals in the exercise of witchcraft, the savvy boy immediately perceived the intent and left about a piece of gold in cash, after which the jewels equivalent to the remaining amount were delivered the next day. Fine crystals and labradorite enough that Eileen doesn't have to worry about depletion in an emerald where Kay can only use [manifest] twice. Kay's words, "One or two jewels, etc.," are the form of a quick realization.

By the way, Yuri seems to be plotting to put an escort on Lily when she reopens her schoolyard, and has suggested that Eileen be hired as an exclusive escort to the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce. Lily may be scared of being a man's escort, but if Eileen is, Lily and I are acquaintances, so we have no problem with both volume and strength. Apart from the gratuity, this was presented with a reward that would make my eyes pop out again, but neither Kay nor Eileen intended to stay in Satina, so I refused to talk about it with the thought of a severance.

I ran out of talk about the escort and Yuri was extremely sorry to hear about it, but as soon as he found out that the Kays were planning to head to Wolvern, he got a job mouth shut. The escort of a caravan heading north from Satina onto the street and by road to Wolvern. That's also a fairly rewarding, unthinkable, broken treatment until a few days ago. Kay wasn't expecting a boulder to take care of a boy with no contact at all until now.

(- Is compassion not good for people?)

Morning of departure. At Satina's North Gate, Kay can't help but think about the meaning of the word.

In front of me, the merchants participating as escorts were carrying out the final checks on the shipment. Kay and Eileen are ready, Kay tells Sasquatch, and Eileen crosses the horses of the people of the meadow who have newly named themselves' Suzuka '. The other two, by the way, have been sold via the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce.

"Hey... I'm leaving."

"Yeah, I'm sorry. I really have to go to Wolvern."

Next to Kay, Irene and Lily are saying goodbye.

…………

Lily just leaned over to Irene, who seemed sorry. I don't even say "don't go". I don't even cry because of the dandruff. It's just a faceless, silent... Now there's something to come.

"Right. Let's get this up to Lily."

Hilariously jumping from Suzuka, Eileen crouched down to Lily's gaze.

"…… What is this?

"Amulet"

The red crystal (Rose Quartz) crystal suspended in the chain was what Eileen had Lily gripping.

"I made it last night. I've done my magic, so if it's after the sun sets, you can only call me once. So if you ever see anything dangerous again, if you call me with it, I'll be right there to help you."

Especially when it comes to 'calling', it doesn't mean you can travel instantly. It's just a substitute for having a conversation for a very short time using a local [manifestation]. There are other things you may be able to do to send shadows from a distance, starting with amulets, but they don't leave the children's area.

But the words worked just as magically dramatically. Lily regained her shine in her eyes and grabbed the amulet with care.

"……… Hey, thanks."

At best, Lily smiled with a healthy smile and thanked her, but tears accumulated in her eyes, and her expression soon collapsed.

"Oh hey......"

"……… All right, all right."

Irene gently strokes Lily's head as she nods her face to her chest and softly cries. Kay watched it in silence from the horse.

"……… Kay."

And, to keep Lily and the others out of the way, Montan and Kiska come beside Kay.

"Hi, hi."

It's rude to stay on the horse on the boulder, so I try to get off the horse, but Montan pushed it away.

"Mr. Kay. Thank you so much this time."

"… I didn't do anything. Thank you, Eileen."

Kay smiled troubled at the lowering montans. Bitter laughter, to describe it as a bit too bitter taste.

"I've thanked Mr. Eileen many times already. No, of course, it's not a question of how many times……"

As he denied his words, he offered a basket with about a hug of Kiska, approximating a hurriedly waving montan.

"It's a sandwich. I'm sorry about this, but even at lunch today, go with Mr. Eileen."

"Oh, that's gratifying.... Can I have every basket?

"Yes, of course."

"Thank you."

Answer with a smile as you brace your basket in the saddle of a sasquatch. In the meantime, a re-minded montan took out a medium-sized arrow barrel.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't have any twists... a few extras and I've finished the long arrows. Make sure you use it."

"Ooh, this is...... I already have a lot of arrows... okay?

"Of course."

A montan snorts deeply. As a matter of fact, there are really many arrows. Most of it was bought from Montane, but the problem is its volume. Kay's hips, both sides of Sasquatch's saddle, Sasquatch's back, and a total of four arrows. And three of them are pretty big.

"…… thank you, I'll take it. However, since the arrows are fully empty, may I just have the arrows?"

"Yeah, go ahead."

Pull out only the arrows and punish the lower back arrow barrel. No heart or I felt it was even more carefully finished than anything else.

"Okay. Then it's time to leave -!

From the head of the caravan, a voice rises. The merchants enter the carriage and the warriors of the escort stretch their spines on horseback.

Of departure, the time has come.

"Now it's time"

"Yep.... good luck"

"Really, thank you."

Lowering their heads towards Kay, Montan and Kiska also went to say goodbye to Eileen on all the last occasions.

Eileen talks to the montans, unfortunately. Then he peels off his gaze and Kay looks up at the blurry, clear sky.

While, and making a wheel noise, the caravan's carriage slowly began to advance.

Pong, and kicks Sasquatch's flank, Kay also advances.

"Hey! Not again!!

"Oh, I'm fine! I will definitely come back!!

Next to Kay, Eileen is waving her hands wide towards the lilies behind her.

Roughly ten days since we moved into this world.

Why have we come to this world?

Kay and Irene travel to solve the mystery.

Aim, North. central part of the Lilleil region.

- Fortress city, Wolvern.