Yomigaeri no Maou

I walked around and noticed that the sky was stained with cedar.

In the orange world, the residents of the Final's market begin to clean up and return with a happy look at each family's waiting home.

Lulu and Illis, too, thought it was time to go home, but along the way, one church caught my eye.

"... don't worry"

In front of a church with the darkness of a carrot that no one seems to say, yes, Lulu shrugged.

I've never had a chance to see a church facility before, and I've never been in a so-called decent church.

In the Demon King era, we have destroyed and explored the interior, but modern churches differ in style and exterior from those days.

It's a natural story because religion is different in the first place, but that's why I wanted to come in and see it once.

"If you don't stay that long, you'll make it to dinner. Do as your uncle would like. I'll make a statement, too."

Iris responded that way to Lulu's words.

Lulu sweetens to the word and slowly enters the church.

I guess it doesn't restrict people's access, the open doors were fixed.

Stepping inside, the noise that was noisy and audible outside also keeps me away, and I even feel like I'm going to feel somewhat devout, especially Lulu, who doesn't have faith or anything in the church.

The interior, very qualitative, seems to exist only with the minimum required.

There are a number of long chairs lined up that look sturdy, and a stepped taller lecture deck at the back of the church.

Basically, that's all.

However, after making a preliminary observation, Hulu realizes that something amazing has entered his eyes and opens his mouth suddenly.

"Uncle......!?

Iris seemed to agree with Lulu, and looked at one point in the same way and raised his surprise.

The place is further behind the lecture deck.

Where the light was plugged in from the colorful stained glass, it was normally something that had no weirdness whatsoever.

There was a statue.

In contrast to the gray-dominated elegant interior, there was a polar color, or firmly colored statue.

It was a man's statue.

That hair, which is supposed to be silver, is dyed by the protection of the Spirit of Fire and has exceptionally burning red hair. And a tough look, like a symbol of its character. I can see that the arms visible from a slightly more exposed top are skinny but well forged.

He looked like a boy all the time, but his eyes glowing red were filled with calm emotions like he had realized somewhere, and he gazed at the faithful coming to the church and asking him something.

That face, that look. And the color of that hair.

Lulu clearly looked familiar.

Why are you here?

Why are you standing like that here?

I couldn't wait to hear it.

But I knew you wouldn't answer me if I asked.

I'm not actually there.

Because it's just a statue.

So Lulu called the name of the statue with a squeezing voice.

"... Bacchus..."

Yes, the statue that existed in the church.

It was once Lulu's friend, and the man who was also the trusted side of the Demon King, and the father of the fruit of Illis.

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"Have you calmed down?

In a quiet church, Ilis spoke so tenderly to Lulu, who was sitting on a bench with a gaunting look on his face.

Originally, she looks at least calm on the outside, though it wouldn't be stranger if Illis was more disturbed.

She was a daughter, Lulu thought.

"Oh...... how's Iris?

When I heard that, Illis laughed as he leaned his neck, but by the way,

"It would be a lie if I told you I wasn't surprised... about that father. Whatever happens, it's not surprising, because I think. Surprise may be thinner than your uncle..."

Bacchus was certainly a ruinous man.

He was a loyal man in law and at the same time a bad friend who invited Lulu to play less well, so maybe that's natural when it comes to it.

It doesn't make sense and hard to understand that he is, for some reason, not sure but festive in the church... but still, he was a man who was not strange to do anything to the point that he could naturally be considered to have done something.

I guess it means that Illis has only a daughter of fruit on the boulder and understands that point more deeply than Lulu.

He's pulling Bacchus' blood, so maybe he's sitting there with his guts.

"... mmm. It's like they're having some less than good thoughts right now...?

That's what Iris said and tilted his neck.

… seems sharp.

Lulu thought to stop thinking about bad things.

"Still, why is Bacchus such a statue?

So Lulu changes the story.

There seemed to be nothing particularly unnatural about it as a stream, and Illis naturally comes to the story.

But I doubt it.

"... I can't think of a reason at all. I'm sure he was a delightful person in a way... but he didn't have the personality to be festived."

"Right..."

Nodding, the exact critique makes me cry.

As a friend, I guess I can respect him a little more because he's a father, but I'm pretty sure he's right.

I mean, the guy who lives on his own like that, he had the opposite personality to the type who went to tie himself up to all sorts of things like Lulu and was no longer free.

I don't know if that's why there might have been a horse.

"You don't know what happened to him after the war."

"Yep... right. I think he was probably redirecting somewhere or putting together a demon tribe that survived... more than that"

They still don't have any information.

I know that's more than sleeping in the ruins.

"I have no clue..."

After talking to Iris about that for a while, uh, I saw someone coming into the church.

Looking back, there was a woman there in a brown travelling outfit.

My face doesn't look good hiding in my robe.

He's got a sword on his hips, and it looks like he's obviously had that sword.

Is it a traveling swordsman or something?

If that's what you think and Lulu is sending a rude glance,

"Excuse me."

The woman opened her mouth so, took off her sword and put it down, and untied her traveling costume.

Then it was pure white cleric clothing that came out from under it.

It comes down with golden hair that flows to it.

Her eyes were blue as the sky, her skin smooth, and she was, in short, a beautiful woman.

Unfortunately, Lulu and Iris don't know which sect it belongs to, and when they just stand there indescribably, they talk to me from a woman.

"Can I help you?

If I say I'm in trouble, I'm in trouble, whether or not it's something the woman in front of me understands.

It's just not strange to know some more about religion here than to be wrapped in cleric clothes and coming to this church.

Thinking about it, it wouldn't be a bad idea to ask this woman, Lulu and Iris thought.

Have that conversation with your gaze, then ask the woman the question Lulu represents.

"I mean I'm in trouble... wondering who the hell that statue is..."

Then the woman nodded,

"That one is the Apostle Bacchus. You're one of those who once saved a world in chaos, and in my teachings, you're being festived as a saint."

"Because... are you a saint?

Lulu was surprised by the word, which would be furthest from the man.

Iris seems to agree,

"I think I'm going to boil my tea with my navel now..."

and so on.

For the record, the tea that Illis makes is delicious inside.

However, that would be good now.

Lulu keeps asking questions.

"What the hell does it mean to have saved a world in chaos?

Then the woman nodded, yeah,

"It's going to be a little long, okay?

and went to show the bench.

When Lulu recommended a seat, she laid her sword under her feet to the side of her hand, then spoke slowly.

That was a myth.

Nothing novel, the story of the battle once fought between ancient demons and brave men.

The brave men destroy the demon king and bring peace to the world...

That's what I was talking about.

But Lulu found a number of things he wanted to tilt his neck and wondered.

One of them is that Bacchus is somehow being told as the brave side.

Plus, there's one missing person who should have been there.

The Virgin did not come out.

If you ask a question on that point,

"... is it the Virgin? Unfortunately it has not been communicated that there was such a person...... where did you hear the story?

Instead, they asked me.

But I can't say anything about Lulu if they say he's not there.

"No, I may have confused it with something else..."

That's all I have to say.

The woman seemed convinced by the answer and nodded, "Well, I guess that happens."

That is how when the woman finished telling all the myths, she stood before the statue, prayed and followed the church.

If you ask me, she's a patrol cleric, and she seems to be a special cleric who preaches around the surrounding villages.

It seems that the position is also quite high, it is the third floor, they said.

I was convinced that it was a fairly high-ranking cleric because I was inclined to the neck because I wasn't sure so I was told that the bottom was on the 28th floor and that the apprentice cleric would start there.

After she leaves church, Lulu tells Illis.

"... what did you think?

"Do you say you don't get the guidelines...... that was a strange story. Has history not been properly communicated?"

"After thousands of years, I guess I can't help it either..."

That being said, Lulu was feeling something somewhat unconvincing.

But when I asked the clergyman, all I knew was that much.

I'm more concerned than I can look into anything else, but there's not much more I can do here.

Having so decided, Lulu suggested returning to the Inn to Illis.

When I go outside, the Book of Darkness descends and the stars are blinking quietly.

"You're hungry."

That's what Iris said, and he's laughing, so has Lulu,

"Oh yeah... if Bacchus was here, I would have said booze,"

and returned it.

Is it because I've seen such a statue?

Memories inspired me.

Nevertheless, he is a friend I can no longer meet.

Shall we drink and mourn today...

That's what Lulu thought.

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Outside the walls of the fortified city of Final, a flame of fireworks was making puffy noises.

Sitting beside it is one woman.

I spoke to Lulu, it's that cleric.

"... but you were two funny looking kids"

There was the voice of a wildly fat man who seemed to bend when he said there was no one there but a cleric woman.

"Right...... I just won't see you again though. He said he was headed to Wang Du. That's the opposite of me."

The woman replies with no doubt at all about the voice.

'Heh... I totally like you too. If that bothers you, I'll go out of my way to continue my journey to such a wild place even though I've been in the Wang capital all my life. If I were you, I'd be in the capital forever. Anyway, where would it be the same?

"... that's why. I... need to find something."

"What?"

Hihihi, with a grin, the cleric woman sighed and returned that such a response had been given.

"You know what, will you stop saying that? I'm tired."

But the man's voice went on, rather complaining, not to his dismayed voice.

'... I'm only looking forward to a conversation, so can you hang on a little bit?

But women don't get along. I shook my head and laughed spirally.

"You deserve it. But..."

The woman continued.

"Now that I'm free, you can follow me..."

"Oh, there is."

As such, the conversation continued everywhere, as if there was no end to it.

The next day, no one was in that place where the night dawned.

Only after burning in a fireworks remains.

Perhaps the cleric woman, traveled to the place of destination.

The place she headed was somewhere in the surrounding villages.

Nobody knows anything else.