Chapter 436 – Apology and Seal

000

“Fuhaa…!”

Tokoyo, who had been submerged in a large bathroom filled with warm water, sprang up as he let out the breath he had been holding back.

After wiping him clean from head to toe, the bath water that soaks into her body feels more comfortable than the inside of a futon.

Did someone describe this bath as ‘the act of returning to the amniotic fluid of the mother’?

I can’t accept all such exaggerated expressions, but I can sympathize with them to some extent.

A shrine is a place where children and adults live together. Therefore, the size of the bathroom was made to a certain extent so that a large number of people could use it at once.

In the steam that filled the surroundings, Tokoyo and another human being were moving.

It was only Quon, leaning against the bathtub wall, raising his head and looking up at the sky.

She, too, felt as if she would fall asleep if she was a little vigilant in the bath after her strenuous workout, with a sense of security that permeated her bones her.

Tokoyo stares at her her breasts her floating in the water due to the buoyancy of her volume her, and then shakes her head.

Now she had learned that to be curious about her body and to touch it was a dangerous thing.

Tokoyo’s physical condition was her, which had reached the point where she passed out, was completely restored to its original state, as it shared the sensations of Quon, who had been mixing with Cleon.

It was because of the quick recovery power unique to her shrine maiden family line her, and her her Quon her, while dispelling magic with her, calming her mind and using healing magic to remove her body’s fatigue.

For Tokoyo, it was the first experience to receive the priest’s healing magic rather than the shrine maiden’s sorcery, but it might be a relief to see her body condition and heal her quickly.

Besides, the fact that her recovery is so fast is probably the same for Quon, and even after having such a violent affair, she is already bubbly.

No, at first glance, her face even looked shiny and shiny.

“You have more stamina than I thought. Quon.”

“Is that so…? Hmm… He’s the one with the most lack of stamina in our party. Probably, he was raised while working as an adventurer.”

When she debuted as an adventurer, she did her best to heal the wounds of her comrades while running around the busiest in her party.

She initially had to place her hand over her wound her and use her magic her, but as her cleric skill her increased, she could heal over any distance, giving her less opportunity to move her body her. So, I felt a sense of crisis due to her lack of exercise in her.

In particular, since she has a fixed residence, she has little to do homeless, and her opportunities for field work are greatly reduced.

Suddenly, Quon places her hand on her own breast-belly her.

Although she is silent for a while at the fact that something is being caught.

“…Uh, what kind of shaman training do you have? Are there any that move your body?”

In response to Quon’s question, Tokoyo languidly answered, leaning against the wall of her bathtub just like Kuon.

“Ehh~? Ehmm… There’s a type of sorcery that is used by dancing in honor of a god, called ‘divine dance’. Should I say that is also a type of moving the body?”

“Chu, is it a dance! I like it! I’m going to use different parts of my body, so I can move evenly…”

“You’re interested in that kind of thing, huh? Well, if it’s Quon, she’ll be fine with anything~”

Is Tokoyo’s trust her in her because, after all, her Quon her is a blood relative of the great Miko herself?

If that’s not the case, is she judging that way by looking at her individual quon her?

As Quon himself, he was a bit nervous, but he didn’t want to miss the opportunity to grow that came his way.

“Yes! Please!”

“…Aha~. Being motivated is good~ Is that because of Cleon?”

“Yes!”

When Quon nodded her head without hesitation, Tokoyo blinked his eyes and burst out laughing with ‘Ahaha!’

“That man is also quite loved!”

“Is it strange? He wants to be strong for the sake of the person he loves.”

“No, it’s not strange at all. If it’s a pure purpose like that, you’ll surely learn more quickly.”

She smiled and, like Quon before, looked up at her ceiling and let out a sigh.

‘…Like I did before. Quon. Perhaps, you are more of this temple than me…’

Tokoyo is quiet, she shakes her head as she thinks in her head of those she can’t meet now.

“Should we go back soon. If we stay too long, we’ll get dizzy. Cleon might be waiting for us to come out first.”

“I see…”

001

“…I’m so sorry!”

In front of Cleon, Tokoyo jumped up and brought her to her knees with her head and hands touching the ground.

She was in her frog-like pose, but her Cleon’s eyes were wrapped in white cloth so she couldn’t see them properly.

When they returned to their room after taking a bath, Tokoyo playfully asked Cleon, ‘What kind of fashion is that?’

After that, as Cleon tells the story of his experience her, Tokoyo’s face her gradually turns pale.

And, as soon as he said it. She apologizes to Cleon with a great big bow.

“No… It’s not okay… But it’s okay.”

Cleon said to her that it would be nice to say hello for now, but she was not okay with it in her heart.

This demonic eye is more difficult than I thought, and I can’t control it with my own power.

Maybe it was because Cleon himself couldn’t learn how to use the power, but considering what Towa talked about at the time, it would be better to think that it is always activated.

Thanks to this, even when entering the men’s bathroom, I had to avoid eye contact with other people, and I had to watch young priests who made eye contact even by mistake run away with blushing faces.

“So… Is this mystic eye that you can’t dispel?”

The power of the magic eye that is activated indiscriminately.

If I go out into the streets like this, I don’t know what kind of disaster will happen.

Besides, the thought of living a life where you can’t even see eye to eye with your co-workers is terrifying.

“That… I’m sorry. Perhaps, the spell mother used is one I can’t use right now. I’ll have to look in the study, but… I don’t think it’s impossible right now. “

Tokoyo murmured disdainfully with her forehead pressed to the ground, and Cleon sighed in a short reply, ‘Somehow it seemed so.’

“Cleon.”

At that time, Quon approached Cleon.

Cleon also reflexively turned his head in the direction of Quon’s voice his, but he could only see white through his cloth-covered eyes his.

However, by the sound of her footsteps and her presence of her, she could tell that she was approaching him.

Then, Quon’s hand went to the white cloth covering Cleon’s eyes in her.

“Wait, Quon.”

When her fingers brush her own ears or hair, Cleon feels a little itchy and suffers anxiety at the same time, but her cuon’s hand her does not stop despite Cleon’s restraint her.

Rather, she takes Cleon’s hand to dry her her, and after answering ‘It’s okay’, she completely untangles the cloth.

Then, the cloth covering Cleon’s eyes flows down, revealing Cleon’s eyes her hidden inside her.

Black eyes as usual – but, on top of those pupils, there was a complex engraving that looked like a heart emitting ‘light pink’.

That was the most basic form of the imprint of the ‘Magic Eye of Charm’ and the expression of the imprint.

This imprint – and if you make eye contact with Cleon’s pupil, you become prey to the demon’s eye, and the effect is activated.

Although Cleon quickly tried to turn her head away to avoid meeting her gaze with Quon.

Quon grabbed both of Cleon’s hair and fixed it white, looking straight into Cleon’s eyes in her.

Quon’s face her seen close to her is somewhat serious, but the eyes her looking at mysterious things make it a little cute.

Even in this serious situation, she feels guilty for lacking a sense of crisis, thinking that the bean pod has been written instead of the imprint of the magic eye.

But – more important than that.

“Quon! Then the power of the magic eye-“

Cleon said so, but Quon blinked his big, round eyes on her two or three times, and then let go of Cleon’s head on her.

“It’s okay! It’s okay.”

Saying that, Quon turns around in front of Cleon.

His face his does n’t blush, and his heart his does n’t beat loudly.

There was no sign of excitement or panic.

“…Really?”

“Yeah. It doesn’t matter if you make eye contact with Cleon. But did it work for priests and other priestesses? Why?”

When Quon tilts his head like that, Tokoyo, who was lowering his head to the ground, raises his head and talks to Quon.

“Maybe. Maybe it’s because Quon is a blood relative of the great priestess? I wouldn’t mind seeing Cleon’s eyes in her either.”

“Really?”

As Cleon looks down at her, Tokoyo unknowingly meets her eyes with her with Cleon’s with her.

“…”

Just as she said, the magic eye of fascination didn’t seem to work on Tokoyo either.

“Thank you, Cleon!”

“It’s good… Is it? It’s certainly true that you can make eye contact with Quon. I think it’s better to cover your eyes when you go outside.”

But, after all, leaving this demonic eye alone is dangerous.

In order to reduce the number of victims even a little, I had to come up with a way to cover my eyes and do something about the magic eyes.

“If it’s something like this, Layla will do something about it.”

“Certainly. As for him… Okay. Let’s go back. On the way… I’m sorry, but I’ll ask you.”

When Cleon holds out her hand, Quon smiles broadly and nods at her.

“Is going back home with Cleon holding her hand her ~ Huhu, it’s like a date or something.”

“…”

Quon, who was spitting out her pure feelings of her, felt that she had become a little brighter than before.

Like she said, maybe it’s because she released a little of the things that were piled up inside.

If so, the visit to the shrine, which she thought was just a disaster, might have some meaning.

“…Hey, Cleon. It’s a bit shameless, but…”

Then, when she hears Tokoyo’s voice of her, who was still holding her head down, Cleon lets out a sigh while looking at her.

“It’s okay to get up now. It’s hard to talk about this side if you cling to the floor like that.”

“That’s right? Then, without hesitation.”

With Cleon’s permission her, Tokoyo shakes her lap and gets up from her seat.

Where did the bright and dignified attitude she showed before go? With a slightly cautious expression, she asks Cleon a question.

“… The predecessor of the shaman… She said she met her mother’s ghost her? How did she… Look?”

“How did you look…”

Cleon asked Tokoyo once more with the expression that she was asking something strange.

Then she lowered her head a little and answered in the most serious tone she had seen today.

“…We Miko’s blood relatives unconsciously spread that power around… So ghosts can’t come close. So, I’ve never seen my mother’s spirit directly inside the temple.”

“… Is that so?”

So, was Towa able to appear in front of him only after she left?

And, the fact that Towa talked about, ‘Tokoyo lost her life when she was too young’.

Thinking about it, Tokoyo probably couldn’t even remember Towa’s face her properly.

“…Looked healthy. Just like you.”

“…That’s right?”
Cleon agonized over whether it was right to use the expression “Healthy” To a ghost, but soon nodded her head.

“I was thrilled that you brought a friend.”

“Ha, ha!? Uh, mom too! Besides the two of them, I have at least a few friends!”

She blushes in her shame, to which she replies in bewilderment.

“…Well, after all, Quon and Cleon are invited guests. Quon is also a relative, but…”

“It’s not like that! Relatives can be friends, and even first-time acquaintances can be friends!”

When Quon said that to Tokoyo, Tokoyo looked at Cleon with a slightly confused expression.

‘A friend… A friend…’

She may not be bad, she thinks, but as she naturally recalls the love affair she had just a moment ago, her face her blushes once more.

“Yeah, after all, friends a little later! Until what happened today can be buried in other memories, friends are on hold!”

“…I don’t think it’s a memory that will be buried so easily.”

“For whom!?”

“It’s because of you.”

“That’s right! It’s because of me! But I never asked for sensory sharing!”

“Whether you’re angry or positive, just do one side.”

Watching Tokoyo and Cleon exchanging words with her, Quon unknowingly bursts out laughing at her.

“As expected. I think we’ve become friends already?”

“…Eww.”

Feeling ashamed, Tokoyo took out the mask worn by the other mikos from her arms her and put it on her face her.

Wearing a fox-like mask, Tokoyo looked quite different, but when he thought of the reddened face beneath it, he couldn’t get serious either.

“…Anyway, that’s all for greetings! My training as a miko for Kuon starts tomorrow! Got it!?”

Saying that, when Tokoyo snaps his fingers—

Once again, the surrounding scenery was transformed as if it were being stretched.

For the first time, they could see themselves standing in the room they had been guided into.

Whether it was distorting space or teleportation, the identity of the magic was unknown, but the fact that chanting up could do this with just one preparatory movement.

‘Maybe Tokoyo is actually a really great sorcerer?’

It makes you think the same way.

“Go back! Stop being rude!”

However, as if trying to erase those thoughts, Tokoyo pushes Cleon and Quon on the backs, sending them all the way to the outside of the temple.

In the end, the two of them end up standing in front of the red door, just like when they came in.

“… Let’s go back. Everyone will be waiting.”

When Cleon said that, he tied the cloth that Quon had untied to his eyes her again.

He felt Quon’s warm hand wrapped around him softly.

“Yes.”

Quon, too, responds lightly to Cleon’s words and carefully leads Cleon.

Something, considering that Cleon usually stands in front of Quon.

It was a bit of a fresh feeling.

002

“Silly.”

As soon as I got home and sat down on the chair in the living room, it was Laila’s selling that flew over me.

“Do you know Cleon? The temple is a place where people usually go to get rid of curses. To be cursed in such a place…”

“I know… It must be bad to be careless.”

“That’s it! It’s too soft! In the first place, the specter is the undead! There is a strong tenacity in this world, so it remains!”

At Lila’s nagging, Sasha carefully looked at Cleon’s eyes as she chewed on the snack she was holding in her hand.

When the hunter’s imprint glowed, Cleon’s eyes clearly felt the reverberation of unfamiliar magic.

Cleon now has his stuffy eyepatch removed, and he closes his eyes himself to prevent the power of the demonic eye from being activated on them.

“You said that Quon is not affected by the magic eye, right?”

And, when Amelia, who was sitting across from Sasha, asked that question, Quon nodded her head.

“Yes. It was the mother of the former Great Miko-sama, the current Great Miko, Tokoyo-sama, who created the Mystic Eye. It doesn’t seem to work with Tokoyo-sama and I, who are related to the same Great Miko.”

“Then… Are you saying we won’t even see Cleon-san until the demonic eye disappears from his eyes his…?”

Sasha, perhaps realizing the seriousness of her situation, raised her voice as she dropped the candy she was holding.

“Yes…”

Leila saw Sasha’s desperate expression on her and she crossed her arms for a moment and thought about something in her.

Soon, talk to Cleon.

“Cleon. Look this way.”

“…No.”

As Cleon tries to turn his head away as he replies, Quon and Layla’s eyes meet.

“Cleon. I’m fine. If I keep closing my eyes, won’t my senses get weird?”

And then, Cleon was silent for a while at Quon’s words her, but when she believed her her and her Quon’s voice her opened her eyes towards her birth her-

There, there was ‘Lyla’, who was looking into Quon’s eyes with her own face glued to Quon’s face her.

“Somehow, it seems so…!”

And Cleon quickly closes her eyes, but Lila sighs ‘Whoa’ and gets up from her seat her.

Then, while squeezing her hand her two or three times, putting his hand her on his forehead her, and even trying to put Sasha’s forehead her on his own her, he investigated a little in various ways-

“Yeah. It doesn’t work on me either.”

“What?”

Cleon is surprised by those words and opens his eyes without realizing it.

And he makes eye contact with Sasha as it is, but Sasha also tilts her head.

“Me too… I’m fine.”

“…Has the magic eye expired?”

Cleon expresses her wishes her, but Layla shows Cleon the mirror she is holding in her hand her.

There is still an imprint on it, and it emits magical power.

“…Then why doesn’t it work for the two of you?”

All those gathered there, including Cleon, were silent for a moment.

But after a while, Amelia carefully raised her hand her.

“This is just my guess… Maybe, it doesn’t work for ‘people who have already been fascinated by Cleon’… So, ‘people who are in love with Cleon’?”

“…”

At her words her, Quon, Lila, and Sasha all fell silent at the same time.

Then Quon clears her throat as her face her blushes, and Sasha scratches her own head while laughing ehehe.

Layla said, “Ah, is that really the case?”, As if she understood, she wrote something down on her palm as if writing something down on her own.

Actually, after saying that, Amelia turned her head away to avoid making eye contact with Cleon.

“Amelia? Are you okay?”

“Yes, yes! I’m fine, Cleon…”

Perhaps a bit ashamed, Amelia refused to make eye contact with Cleon.

‘…What. Is it like that too? Amelia wouldn’t want to receive the power of the demon’s eye even by mistake…’

Cleon thought so and looked away from Amelia, but Amelia was thinking of something else.

‘Sir, I accidentally made eye contact with Cleon, but if I don’t mind… That’s… That is…’

It was the result of the conflict of a girl who, now, was not yet sure of her own feelings.

At that time, Layla finishes the calculation of her spell her, which was written on her palm her, and speaks while snapping her fingers.

“I understand roughly. Looking at the engraving, what kind of spell is it and how to prepare for it.”

“…Then, can you dismantle the Mystic Eye!?”

“No, that’s impossible. I’d have to gouge out your eyes.”

Cleon shut her mouth for a moment at Laila’s eerie words her.

“Lyla?”

Let’s talk as if Quon is quietly admonishing, Layla laughs and talks with a ‘Huh-heung’.

“It’s a joke. It’s a joke. If it’s like this, you can make a magic eye sealing sphere.”

At Layla’s words of her, Cleon turned to her as if he’d heard of her.

“…Is it a seal orb? Certainly, there are people in the world who cannot control their own magic eyes with their own will. I heard that there are people who need the help of such a seal orb.”

“That’s right. I’ve never made one myself… Whoops. You can make a sealing sphere for Cleon. This is an interesting research topic!”

Lila, she says, clutching her hand as if her sorceress blood was seething with her ebb and flow her.

“Give me a few hours! I’ll make a sealing sphere that’s perfect for Cleon!”

“…Lyla, how about dinner?”

“It’s okay! I’ll finish it by then!”

Lila, moving her fingers, headed for her own freshly finished workshop, as if she was excited enough to make her hum.

While Cleon and Quon went to the temple, Sasha desperately suppressed the chaos and created a space.

“…It must be fine.”

Cleon murmurs with a little worry about Layla’s sometimes runaway temperament.

“Okay, it’ll be fine!”

Only Amelia spoke as if to calm Cleon’s anxiety over her.

Neither Quon nor Sasha, as people who knew Layla well, were unconvinced.

003

Time flies like that, and let’s get right before dinner time.

A few hours after locking himself in the room, Quon bangs! She opened the door to her own studio and walked out into her living room.

“It’s done!”

“Fast…”

Startled by the bang, Sasha lost the string of her bow she was trimming.

Cleon, at the sound of Lyla’s alarm, walked out of his room to her.

“It’s really fast.”

“Well, that’s about it~! You’re the head of the academy? Leave it to me, the great mage!”

Did she put the finished product in the case in her hand?

Leila smiles as she holds up the case, and Cleon nods her head as they head into the living room together.

As expected, the other people leave the room one by one and head to the living room, as if they were concerned about what Layla had made.

When the gallery was all assembled, Lila clicked open her case.

“Now, I’ll show them in turn. I’ve prepared three types…”

“Three kinds in that short time?”

“Well. Originally, when making something like this, it’s normal to show several proposals and have the client choose one from there.”

“…Professional.”

Amelia speaks as if she admires Laila a little for her professionalism.

Then Lila took her first thing out of her case her, humming her as if she felt better.

“First. This.”

“…Black cloth? Is it an eyepatch?”

A black cloth, different from the white cloth Cleon had been wearing until now.

Various patterns were made on the rim and inside in gold, but basically it was a soft cloth that could cover the eyes from above.

“That’s right. An eyepatch-type magic eye seal. After all, the magic eye is activated when you look into the eyes. If you don’t want the effect to activate, it’s best not to see yourself from the outside.”

At Layla’s words, Cleon nods her head, but she responds quickly.

“But if I use this, won’t I also be unable to see the other person?”

“Don’t worry about that part. The fabric is specially processed so that you can see the surroundings even if you are wearing an eyepatch.”

At Lila’s words her, Cleon lifted her eyepatch and brought it to her her eye her as if to cover his own her.

“Five…!”

It was a bit of a strange experience.

Apparently it was covering my eyes, so I should only be able to see black in front of me, but I could see ahead, although my field of vision was narrowed.

“Puha…!”

However, when Layla meets her eyes her and sees her spout, Cleon unloads her cloth her.

Sasha and Kuondo, too, could be seen lifting her shoulders as if holding back her laughter a little.

“…Ah. Yes. If I wear an eyepatch like this, I’ll look like a villain.”

“No, it’s like a magic swordsman… I think it suits you… Keke…Hehe…”

“I think it’s cool, like a villain from a novel!”

Sasha tries to cover Cleon somehow, but Cleon replies with a nod of her head.

“Thanks Sasha. But that’s not comforting. That.”

“Yeah, wouldn’t it be nice to have a slightly milder impression? The eye patch… Looks too dark. It stands out.”

When Amelia said that with her head turned away, Cleon sighed and put her eyepatch down on the desk.

“…Then, next…”

As if Lila was having fun, she next took her mask out of her case.

The plain mask had no decorations and didn’t look like it was modeled after anything.

It’s just that there is something like a film made by cutting a slightly colored jewel in the eye area.

“After the eyepatch, is it a mask? This eye part…”

“When you put on a mask, there is a magic circle that unfolds illusions engraved on it. Try it on.”

After hearing Layla’s explanation of her, Cleon does n’t quite understand, so he puts the mask on his face her.

There was no string, so I had to fix it, but I was a little surprised by the size of the mask that deforms to fit Cleon’s face in her.

Soon, the mask, adjusted to a comfortable size, was sticking to Cleon’s face her.

I could see ahead well, and there was no problem except that the breathing sound was a little loud.

“…”

But this time, on the contrary, there was no response.

“…What do you think?”

“When I heard the word welcome, I was wondering what it meant… Was it like this?”

In response to Cleon’s question, Quon spoke to Lyla.

“Yes…”

Ryla, too, points a mirror at her mask.

Then- there was Cleon’s plain mask- and eyes her-

It is a bizarre eye made by reversing black and white.

“Do you look like a devil?

“Yes… No matter how you look at it, this is a demon who is ruling the evil organization from behind, or that kind of person…”

Amelia just shook her head as if this was a little too much.

“…For me, there’s no problem. Since the entire face is covered, I think I can use it here and there.”

“I wonder if the children will cry if I’m with Cleon wearing that mask…”

When Sasha spoke as if she was worried, Cleon took off his mask her as if he could n’t help it.

It was definitely something I liked more than an eye patch…

If you put down the mask as if you’re a little regretful.

Lila can’t help but pull her third item out of her case.

It was glasses.

Except for a slight bluish tint to the lenses, these are rounded square glasses with thin silver frames.

When it came out of the case, the model that schoolboys at the academy would wear, Quon’s eyes twinkled.

“Glasses!”

“Ah, yes. Glasses. It’s a little plain, but…”

Layla said that she didn’t like it because it was ordinary glasses, but Cleon, who received them, carefully raised her glasses over her ears and nose.

“…”

There was no reaction this time, but the glasses themselves were very light, and there was no distortion of the scenery beyond them or narrowing of the field of vision.

Besides, from the outside, these are ordinary glasses, so if you can block the evil eye with these…

If you have the same thoughts, Quon will talk to Cleon.

“Cleon…The glasses look good on you.”

“…It’s the first time I’m using it.”

To Quon’s quiet praise, Cleon felt a little embarrassed for some reason and cleared his throat in reply.

“It’s like an academy professor!”

“Well, that’s right. Cleon is a bit calm, so I’d say he looks more intelligent when he wears glasses… Hmm. I don’t think it’s bad. He doesn’t have prescriptions, so he can see normally , right?”

Cleon nods at Layla’s question.

“If it’s this, I can wear it everyday.”

“Well, that’s right. Even while preparing three, I expected that these glasses would be the most common use. Then, I’ll make final adjustments with them, so give them back once.”

When Cleon nods and takes off his glasses at Lila’s words, Quon can be heard muttering ‘Ah, glasses…’.

…Ignore it for now.

“Really. It brings trouble. Cleon.”

Lila spit out her complaints of her, but she smiled slightly.

“Well. First of all, I’ll solve the problem with my sealing sphere. Next, I’ll focus on retrieving the artifact.”

“…Ah, yes.”

Cleon nodded his head as if he came to his senses a little at Layla’s words.

The real purpose to be resolved in the East.

Before the regressors, retrieve and study the relics of the Eastern countries, and prepare to fight Adam.

‘In order to put that first button on… I need a solid plan.’

As Cleon thought so, he put his hand on his chin and was lost in thought.

And, Amelia who looked at Cleon like that.

‘…We didn’t make eye contact, did we?’

Just in case, I made eye contact with Cleon, and he himself didn’t react.

He thought about it and didn’t know what to do.