Chapter 117 – Records

000

The basement workshop of the mansion. After Sophia left, the group’s noisy meal was over.

Behind them, Cleon and Layla came down to the basement to interpret the images of the Memoria Cube.

I thought there would be no problem even if others saw it, but perhaps out of consideration for Cleon, the others decided to wait upstairs.

Others knew what they could see inside.

“Connect this line here… Okay. This is the end of the preparation. All that remains is to use a stone gun to open the Memoria Cube, and it will record all the images.”

After Layla finished her last check, she spoke with the Trismegistos Stone Gun handed to her from Cleon.

Then she looked for a moment at Cleon, lost in her thoughts, as Layla was sitting in her assigned chair to her, and then she moved closer to him and she took Cleon’s hand to her.

“Why don’t you put on a brighter face? The hard work to decipher this has finally paid off.”

Even if she said so, the bitter smile on her face showed that she was worried about Cleon.

“Ah… That’s right. Sorry.”

Then, Cleon also slightly closes his eyes at Lila’s words to her, then raises her head and looks at the top of the desk where the memory cube is placed.

If you open that cube, you will be able to find some traces of Lesia that you have been chasing for a long time.

She must have been sucked into a dimensional rift and wandered in her twisted space-time.

And, it is decided that the end will become a huge disaster called ‘Golden Comet’ and destroy the original world.

But even so.

If she had the slightest hope of finding and saving her, her Cleon had no choice but to hang on to it.

“…Then. Lila, please. Open the cube.”

“Okay. After the projection magic tool processes the video, it will immediately extract the scene with Lesia. It won’t take that long…”

As Cleon nods at Layla’s explanation, Layla moves to the front of her desk, holding her stone towel in her hand and chanting her start-up words.

“Access [Access]. And all from one thought. All things lead to one.”

Tris Megistos’s stone key, which was considered a simple limestone key, slowly started to glow with an emerald light after Lyla’s opening words.

Not stopping there, the emerald light casts emerald light towards everything around it. It was as if he was trying to figure out what was around him.

[You get all the glory. And the ambiguity will disappear.]

The bright light disappears, and three-dimensional letters made of magical power appear on top of the stone gun that has finished maneuvering and then disappear.

When he pointed the stone gun at the memory cube, a virtual keyhole floated above the cube.

Perhaps that is the protective spell that keeps the cube sealed.

Keying it, and while making a high magic response sound that was annoying to the ears, I put the stone gun toward the keyhole and turned it.

Cube’s protective spell breaks on the spot as if it never existed from the beginning.

Smoke rises from the stone gun with the sound of chiiik.

Clearly, both Cleon and Layla were able to notice that they had become slightly smaller than before they had just been used.

“Connect the consul recording magic tool to the Memoria Cube. Extract the contents… Start recording.”

Immediately, a string of magical power stretched from the magic tool, extracted all the contents recorded in the cube where the protective spell disappeared, and began to record them on the disc for record.

“How long will it take to record?”

“Even if I do all 100 years’ worth, it won’t take that long. I’ll use about 2 disks, but… Even so, it’s only about 3 minutes.”

Thinking fortunately that her record her will end sooner than she thought, Lyla walks next to Cleon, pulls her own chair, and sits down.

It’s only natural that one of them should stay here, since it’s only Lyla and Beatrix who can use the consul magic tools.

It was true that Layla herself was interested in her hero her, Lesia.

What kind of woman could she be to obsess over Cleon this much?

She has memories of her while she was also under her mind control her.

Before she entered the rift of her dimension in the final battle, she also told her that Cleon loved her.

Ryla knows that human emotions are big and small.

Perhaps she could not beat Cleon’s feelings for her for Lesia no matter who she was compared to, including herself, Quon, and Sasha.

“Hey, Cleon.”

“Yes…?”

“Assuming you find Lesia and save her. What will Cleon do? Is that the end of Cleon’s adventure her?”

At Lyla’s sudden question, Cleon was silent for a moment.

‘The thing after saving Lesia.’

The purpose of Cleon’s decision to become an adventurer was not fame, money, or status.

To the end, she thought that she needed power and information to find Lecia, and she thought it was the fastest way she could do as a magic swordsman.

Therefore, finding Lecia would put an end to her adventurer’s life in her. It was she, she thought.

No, to be precise, Cleon himself was also thinking, `Can he find Lecia before he dies?`, So he vaguely thought that it was his destiny to search for her until she died.

But in fact, he began to think that little by little he was getting closer to her.

The same goes for the Memoria Cube that came into Cleon’s hands her, and her conclusion her from the Black Battle.

Perhaps, he thought, one day not too far away he might be able to meet her.

However, he did not think about what happened after that.

Layla was looking into his eyes of her as if she were to some extent she expected Cleon’s thoughts of her.

“That’s what we talked about during the day.”

“…The day?”

At Layla’s words, Cleon rummaged for a while. Speaking of daytime, it was when he came to the underground workshop with Sasha earlier and handed over the stone gun.

“It’s about Helis.”

“Ah. Why is that?”

Layla shut her mouth for a moment at Cleon’s words her, then blushed and she replied.

“I-I said that it’s good to spend the rest of your life leisurely in such a town when you’re old. By any chance, when the adventure is over…Would you like to go to Helis with me?”

At Lila’s hesitant words, Cleon blinked two or three times for a moment before opening his mouth.

“…So. Does that mean… Let’s go and live in your hometown…?”

“Kuu…! That’s right… That’s what it means. Mo, rather than going to a place you don’t know and settling down, isn’t it better to live in a town where there are people you know? So…”

He suppressed his shyness and squeezed his voice, but looking at Leila, who was talking too much, Cleon thought for a moment and then nodded at her.

“It’s not bad.”

“Huh!? Really!?”

In response to Cleon’s favorable reply, Layla involuntarily opened her eyes and looked back at him.

It was because she said it with the feeling that even as herself, she had to make ends meet.

“Yes. Like you said, I think it would be better in many ways to live in a place where there are people you know…”

“Well, then! How about living in the same place or living together? My family’s house is as large as this mansion. It’s too big for me to live alone, so I’ll save money for settlement.”

The future plans with Cleon are being organized in my head, and Layla talks excitedly.

“I see… With Galatea and Caliburn, they’ll definitely need a bigger house.”

“Ah.”

But at Cleon’s words her, Lila covered her head as if she had forgotten what she was supposed to be.

Okay. This guy is a magician. And, he is a guy who has both a magic sword and a holy sword that can transform into a human.

In other words, wherever this guy goes, he always carries two women with him.

It was a natural fact that it was difficult to expect a marriage of just the two of them.

“And Sasha…”

“Yes, Sasha too!?”

Maybe this guy doesn’t feel romantic feelings for the fact that he lives with me?

“Ke, Cleon? The story of living together as I said… That’s it. That’s what a relationship between a man and a woman can bear fruit… To put it simply, a conclusion-“

The next moment, a push-ik from the projector stopped the maneuvering by magical power, and a loud sound was heard indicating that the recording was completed.

Thanks to that, Lila, whose words she was about to say was drowned out by the sound, turned around and approached the projector with a puzzled look on her face.

“How is it? Can you find it?”

When Cleon said so, Layla turned around and this time moved her disk to her magic tool for analysis.

“It depends on whether you remember Lecia well. Now, come over here and put her hand her here.”

As she approached her lila, who called herself, a crystal ball was placed in her magic tool for analysis her to raise her hand her.

“Put her hand her on this, and think of Lesia’s figure well, okay? Then the analyzer will capture the image in Cleon’s mind and find out if there is a person in the record who looks the same.”

When Cleon starts manipulating her crystal ball according to Layla’s instructions, her magic tool for analysis glows and goes through Cleon’s head her, organizing the records to find in her disk her.

“Kuh…”

She feels a bit dizzy from the sensation of her brain being directly manipulated with magical power, but soon that also subsides and the magic tool stops working.

Then, even Cleon and Lyla’s eyes could see that only a small part of the disc was emitting light.

As a whole, it was a very small area that was less than 10% of the disk that was divided into two.

Perhaps this part contains the records of Lesia, who fell out of the dimensional rift and moved to another time zone.

“…With this, did it work?”

“Yes. Then, I’ll play it right away… I’ll tell you in advance, Cleon. It’s impossible to figure out what era this video is from unless there are hints left in the record. So…”

Cleon knew what Layla was talking about.

Even if it doesn’t turn out to be a big clue, it probably means don’t be disappointed.

But when Cleon nods her head in approval, Layla stops her and plays her disc her.

Finally, it was time to face the hero in the record.

001

It was inside a cave that was blocked on all sides with stones and only the dim moonlight was shining down from the ceiling.

In an isolated environment that seemed uninhabitable, a poor bed, a desk, and several pieces of furniture that appeared to be of ancient times could be seen.

Among all the pieces of furniture, the Memoria Cube was clearly in the middle of something like a large, old-style candlestick.

The interior of the cave was recorded without omission.

What stood out in that cave was, of course, a platinum-haired woman sitting in front of the desk.

Despite her shabby appearance her, wearing her armor, which had been torn apart in many places, and a tattered cloak draped over her body her to keep out the cold.

With her back straight, the woman eagerly jots down something on her back her, then comes closer to the memory cube.

“As expected… This is the Memoria Cube. Sophia talked about it before.”

When viewed from the front, it was the face of an innocent and curious girl.

Platinum blonde hair and sparkling eyes. And white skin.

It was the figure of the hero Lesia, who seemed a little younger than what she had in Cleon’s memory of her.

Then, with a slight sense of wonder, she stretched out her finger and tapped her memory cube.

“Then, everything that happens here is recorded? Ugh… I’ll have to go outside and change my clothes.”

She let out a sigh as if she was feeling a bit awkward somewhere, and stretched her back with her back straight.

“Ah! No, this… If you do it this way.”

As if she realized something soon, she put the tattered cloak she was wearing on the Memoria Cube.

Then, the entire screen turned brown, and Lesia could only be seen vaguely through the thin fabric.

“Okay. You won’t be able to see it if you do this, right? Whoops. It’s for privacy. Please bear with me. Future people.”

002

The video strays a bit from it.

Because she was looking for only the part where Lesia appeared, she couldn’t recognize Lesia, who was covered by a cloth.

When her cloth came off with a whoosh, she wondered where Lecia’s plate armor, which was on the verge of being completely destroyed, had gone.

I could see her comfortable greaves her and her sword her at her waist her.

“Thinking about it, I realized that I can write a record using this without having to write a journal. So, if there is something I really want to convey, I will leave it through this.”

Lesia speaks as if she is ashamed, feeling as if she is talking to someone invisible.

She glances up at the sky.

The time of this video was also at night, and the moonlight was all the light shining inside.

“This time period is older than any history I’ve ever known. Could it be the ‘primitive world’ that Sophia talked about… Fortunately, the war between the ancients hasn’t started yet…”

Lesia continued her words as if pondering something.

Studying was n’t her specialty her, but what Sophia told her about was related to her own power her, her holy sword her, so she tried to remember it somehow.

“Wandering through the dimensional rift, I came out through a hole I somehow found, and I can’t believe it’s a world thousands of years ago… No matter how much it is, it’s too much…”

She then sighs as if lamenting her own situation her.

“…That day. I don’t know who the people who banished me to the dimensional rift were. I’m sorry if you ever read this record. I’m still alive. Could.”

Lesia speaks with an expression as if she is reminiscing about a long time ago.

“In the world of the ancients, it seems that blonde hair like me is a symbol of slavery for some reason… So I’m hiding in a place like this… Ahaha…”

Then he let out a dry laugh as if to help himself, then sighed.

“I have to go back to the original time somehow…”

Then she stars at the Memoria Cube for a moment, then continues her story.

“But it’s okay. The only ancient researcher who listens to me… There is a person named Triss, and he said that he will investigate how to reopen the dimensional rift.”

Soon, she sighed once more and Lesia looked back. It was as if there was someone on the other side.

“…For now, that’s all for today.”

As she said that, she covered her cloak once more.

003

After that, Lesia continued at intervals of several days.

Most of them are stories about encountering and being chased by ancient people, and stories about fighting ancient monsters. And it was a story that the research of an ancient researcher who became a friend was progressing.

The sudden change in the atmosphere of her recording her, which she spent about a year in her life like that.

It was when the record was nearing the end.

She’s her with her cloak rolled up as usual, but there’s dark mud all over her face her, and sweat can be seen all over her body her.

“Haha…”

Her wounds were not worn, but no matter how I looked at it, it felt like after a battle.

There was a commotion coming from outside her, and it seemed to be following her.

“…I’m being chased by the ancients because my holy sword was caught… I’m in a situation. The researcher who helped me was also caught… Fortunately, I got a magic tool that can open a dimensional rift… Guess…”

Lecia had no choice but to shake her head with a sad expression on her face her.

A warrior with great power capable of defeating the Demon Sword Emperor. However, because she is a warrior, she cannot lose her feelings of mercy and compassion for people.

It was also for this reason that she could not properly swing her sword at her normal people.

“It’s a judge’s decision, but I’m trying to open a gap in the dimension. So, this record is the last record.”

Lecia looks outside her for a moment, then looks at her memory cube her and makes her sad face her.

“…In any case, anyone who has seen this record is my colleague… Sophia, Talchek, Esca, Luti…”

And she hesitantly adds one name.

“…Cleon.”

“If it’s… Then I’m fine. I’m begging you. Me-“

Lesia speaks as if from beyond her her memory cube she is looking directly into the face of her own colleague her staring at her, clutching her rip-roaring chest her.

“Find-“

[Drilled! The holy sword is inside!]

The next moment, a shout was heard from outside. It was a group of ancient people who had gathered to steal Lesia’s holy sword.

Lecia bites her lower lip and pulls her body up.

And, in the field of view of the Memoria Cube, another person who had been hidden by Lesia until now appeared.

A young girl with dark hair, dark eyes and fair skin.

Lecia hurriedly reached out her hand her to her and took out her magic tool her from her arms her and used it.

“Sss…! Let’s go, Lilith!”

“Yes…”

Just like that, the ancients pouring in from outside of her, as if crossing with her who had jumped in and opened the rift in her her dimension her.

The record ends with them looking around and clicking their tongues as they follow Lecia’s trail.

004

“…”

After Lila finished playing the record, she wasn’t sure how to react.

Because this record, itself, could not be considered so valuable.

I didn’t know at what point in the primordial world Lecia had moved, and I couldn’t figure out where she was.

How are you going to pursue her with something like this?

When Layla thought that way and glanced back at Cleon, his reaction to her was a little different from what Layla expected.

Although, of course, she was angry at the Ancient One who thrust her sword towards Lesia.

It was because he looked a little surprised.

“That last girl…”

“Ah, yes. The dark horse clan… Was it?”

Apparently, Cleon seemed to care about that girl.

“I’ve seen it.”

“…What?”

And Layla made an expression of disbelief at the words that continued from Cleon’s mouth her.

“Where?”

“Just a little while ago. The girl succubus that the red-haired devil who disturbed us had.”

“…Ah!”

At Cleon’s words, he clapped his hands as if he thought of Lyla.

Certainly, if you listen to Cleon, her her and her face her matched perfectly.

Of course, it didn’t have demonic features like wings or a tail.

“So what…? What happened in chronological order? The girl in the record and the succubus are the same person… No, at least they’re related?”

“You’d better think so… She has one more reason to go to the capital. She has something to ask her.”

Lila was silent for a moment.

Of course, if the enemy you are now follows the clues, it’s because it was definitely the right decision, but-

“…And. An ancient researcher who helped Lesia. It’s a person named Tris. Have you ever heard of Lyla?”

As if to interrupt Layla’s accident, when Cleon moved her topic to her to her next story, Layla thought for a moment as if she was thinking about it, then she opened her eyes.

“Tris…? That’s right! Tris! Tris Megistos! The person who made the stone sword we wrote about! He is a person who is recorded as the most genius among ancient researchers! Although it is a common name in modern times, it has been forgotten, but the ancients opened a dimensional rift. The only person capable of research that can be opened is the person himself…!”

“… If you look at his records, you might be able to learn more about Lecia.”

At Cleon’s words, Layla nods her head as well.

She seemed more likely that way than finding a girl she did n’t know if it was her or not.

“Haa…It’s good. It’s not like there’s no harvest at all…”

Cleon lets out an exhausted sigh of relief and bends his back forward.

Lila, who had never seen him like that, blinked her eyes two or three times, contemplating for a moment whether to sweep his back her, then she clapped her hands down.

“I’ve barely made it through the entrance. I’ll help you from now on, so just trust me.”

“…Thanks, Lila…”

What to do next has been decided.

Records of Triss, an ancient researcher.

And, a succubus girl from the Dark Demon clan.

It was to extract Lesia’s information from these two people.

For him, too, it was necessary to go to the royal capital.

Tris Megistos was a person who studied in the area where the royal capital is located.

And it was because the girl was also taken by a red-haired demon who was rampaging in the capital.

Cleon clenched his fist as he stared at the scene through the projector for a moment.

I heard her realize that she was slowly, little by little, getting closer to her.

‘Please find me-‘

Part of the video flashes through my mind.

What the next words might have been, Cleon didn’t know.

But even so.

“I’m sure you…”

His will her was unchanging.