Chapter 489 – The Young Witch and the Young Magic Sword

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Returning to the lodging where they are staying, Cleon opens the now familiar sliding door and goes inside.

The time zone was still a little past 8 o’clock. Looking at the shoes lying on the porch, I could see that Quon had already returned.

From the back kitchen, the aroma of Cuon’s specialty cuisine wafts in.

“It’s later than expected.”

“Well. It doesn’t seem to be late for dinner, so let’s consider it fortunate, bro.”

Giggling at Cleon, Schrödinger took one step out of his pocket and flew forward.

“…”

After chasing Schrödinger with his eyes from behind, Cleon shut his mouth for a while feeling a strange sense of incongruity…

The fact that no one came out to meet her, and the fact that the inside of the mansion was surrounded by silence, was what bothered her.

Normally, when Sasha noticed her own return to her, she would have run straight out to the front door…

Something, thinking herself a little offended that she had expected such a thing, Cleon shook her head as she walked through the passage from the foyer to the living room.

Then- no one is in the living room, and I see the door from the living room to the garden is open.

Inside the garden unique to the Eastern country, there was a cage for the demon beast that Cleon had previously obtained from Eratus-

Inside the cage, a huge egg the same color as the agate was sitting quietly in the moonlight.

And, beside him, Sasha was asleep with her back in her cage.

“In a place like that… I guess they’re really waiting for griffons to hatch.”

“Ah, Cleon.”

And, as if hearing Cleon’s voice her, Lila trudged out of the room and stretched herself.

“You’re back. How was it?”

“This and that happened. There’s something I need to talk to everyone about. But, since Sasha is in that state… For now, I think it’d be best to put her on the bed in her room .”

When Lyla nodded at Cleon’s words, he cautiously approached Sasha and lifted her girl into her arms her.

Then at that moment-

‘Crazy.’

Cleon’s footsteps stopped when he heard the sound of something hard breaking.

“Cleon, just-!”

Layla also heard that sound, so she hurriedly jumped up and looked inside her bars her-

The surface of the griffon’s egg was cracked.

And beyond that, something wriggled a little, trying to break out of the egg.

“I’m about to come out!?”

When Lila screams at her in embarrassment, Cleon shakes her body her as well, holding Sasha in his arms her.

“Sasha, wake up!”

“Uh…Yes…”

At the sound of Cleon’s voice her, Sasha twisted her body while raising her voice low.

Her ears her, which normally stick up, were also folded, as if waking up was troublesome.

“I usually get up just fine, but today…”

When Ryla saw Sasha like that, she seemed a little worried…

As if there was a better way, she shove her hand into Sasha’s chest her.

“Lyla!?”

“Wait a minute… I’m sure you were here, right?”

Do. A little above her chest her-

If you press her finger hard on that part of her-

“Ah!?”

And Sasha immediately opened her eyes as the hairs on her body her bristled.

“What, what!? Mr. Layla?! Ms. Cleon too…!”

As soon as she wakes up, Sasha looks around her with her confused face, wondering if she can’t grasp the situation around her.

“How to wake Lila…”

“It’s okay because I’m awake. More than that, Sasha! Griffin is trying to wake up…!”

Roughly skipping Cleon’s tackle, Layla pointed at the cage of the magic beast with the tip of her finger her while talking to Sasha.

While the three of them were doing this, the top of the egg was almost cracking, and a sharp eagle’s claw protruded through the membrane.

“Wow!? Tae, you’re being born! Gonzalez!”

“…Gonzalez?”

When Laila asked, hesitating for a second, puzzled by the name that sprang out of Sasha’s mouth, she nodded her head.

“Yes! That’s the name of the griffon!”

“I thought it would be like that under the circumstances…!”

And it was to wrap her head around Sasha’s desperate naming sense of her.

“It’s not Gonzalez…! It’s the Griffon, said to be one of the pinnacles of the lords of the sky and the earth…! It’s not Gonzalez!”

“Eh…?”

Leila, who seemed to be very particular about her name somewhere, looked back at her as if Cleon and Sasha were a little surprised by her behavior her.

“So, what name do you think Lila likes?”

“…”

And she thought for a moment…

“Isn’t that a griffon…? So… Umm… Master of Sky… Or something…”

“Was it that hard to name Lila…?”

Cleon already knew that she had created her own homunculus with the nice name ‘Innis’, so her rather surprised face turned to look back at her.

“You’re so clumsy!? It’s natural since he’s a monster that controls the skies?! …Is there something like that Cleon?”

Cleon shut her mouth for a moment at Layla’s words as she suddenly handed over the bomb to him.

She seemed to be thinking a little, but then she started talking.

“…Lion Eagle…”

“──Could it be that a lion and an eagle are combined-“

When Lila asked her question with a serious expression, Cleon covered her mouth with her pod and covered her own mouth, covering her mouth her as well.

“…No, yes. I think Gonzalez is the best.”

“Huh heh…(That’s right)”

Cleon and Lyla nodded, noticing that each other had no naming sense.

Sasha looked at the two of them and then nodded her head.

“Isn’t that right?”

Cleon and Layla sigh and talk to Cleon as soon as Cleon removes her hand her from her mouth her.

“… Let’s stay a little apart. So that Griffon can recognize Sasha right after she it’s born.”

Cleon nodded at her words her.

Even if it’s a mistake, she’s not Sasha and she’s worried that she might imprint them, so after falling off a little-

The next moment, as if he had waited, he broke most of the egg’s shell – and the griffon’s head popped out of it.

[Kiee!]

It was already a great griffon with feathers and hair all over its body, and evenly equipped with the features of an eagle and a lion.

However, the size was just as small as the pup of a large dog.

“Wow, ah…!”

While trying to break the remaining shell, the griffon turned to where the voice came from.

Then, he met eyes with Sasha, tilted his head, flapped his wings, and soon—

[Kia♪]

She was crying cutely in a slightly higher voice, as if she recognized Sasha as her master her-or something equivalent to him.

“K-Mr. Cleon! Is Gonzalez… Recognizing me!?”

“Ah. I think so. Griffins say that they live for several more months with almost all of their organs fully grown inside the egg. Maybe, they heard your voice inside the egg.”

“Wow…!”

As if it was just amazing, Sasha put on a slightly moved expression.

“…May I take it out of the cage?”

No matter how young or clever a person may be, a demon is a demon.

If he took it out without proper training, the griffon, unable to control its own power, could break something or injure Sasha.

That’s why Cleon and Lyla were a little worried at the moment.

“Yeah. Wouldn’t it be okay?”

Then, Quon’s voice is heard.

“Mr Quon!”

Perhaps feeling the commotion coming from the Quondo garden, she finished preparing a meal and walked out with Innis.

“Master! Was the griffon born?”

“Okay. I’ll see you later, so give it to Sasha for now.”

“I-I know that even if I don’t say that much…”

She blushes and nods her head as if she’s noticing herself, but she’s a little fidgety somewhere. Was

More than that – when everyone’s eyes turned to Quon, Quon put her index finger to her chin and gave her a worried expression, but she smiled and talked to Sasha.

“If anything happens, I’ll stop it. I can cure it, and I can use the magic to calm the griffon.”

“If that’s the case… I’ll be fine.”

Lyla, too, nodded her head, as if she had decided that if it was Quon’s suggestion of her, she would be okay with taking the griffon out of her cage.

Even if something dangerous happened to her, she also judged that if she and Cleon watched by her side of her, there would be no problem.

“Then…”

Sasha carefully unlocked the lock on her cage and carefully opened the door.

Like a clever beast, the griffon probably thought that it was permission to come out, crawling out of the remaining eggshell and slowly, slowly.

Then, it carefully escapes through the open iron window door and spreads its wings wide as it receives the moonlight.

“What…!”

Sasha, who was right in front of him, stomped her ass behind her as if she was a little startled, but the next moment.

Her calf griffon lunged at her like a wild beast on her prey her.

Sasha was pushed back by the griffon and fell flat behind her.

“Sasha!”

Cleon, Lyla, and Quon simultaneously try to move her body to take action against her, but-

“Gwa, it’s okay!”

But as if everyone’s worries were over, Sasha raised her voice to calm everyone down.

Looking closely, the gryphon was enjoying being petted by her touch her, rubbing her face against Sasha’s arms her with her claws retracted.

“Ah, it’s tickling…!”

And, seeing her flapping her wings and rubbing Sasha’s face, others could tell that it was Gryphon’s charm to her.

“Whew…”

Then, the adults at the same time let out a sigh of relief.

“Hey hey. I thought it was noisy and the griffon woke up! Damn I could see it!”

At that time, Schrödinger flew from the living room side and headed for Cleon.

Round and round, trying to change direction in the air for a moment-

“Wow!?”

Suddenly, the griffon jumped up, flew like lightning and bit Schrödinger as if snatching it from the air.

“Gyaaak!?”

Schrödinger, who screams pathetically at what happened so quickly, has no teeth in his beak, so even if he chewed on, it won’t be cut off or exploded.

Even so, the situation of being trapped in the mouth of a beast, if you change your situation and think about it, it was terrifying.

“Sah, help me, hyungs… Sisters…”

“KiKiru♪”

However, he took the Schrödinger out of his mouth as if he was having fun, and this time he used his forepaw to roll it.

A stuffed toy that made noise while flying in the sky would be an ideal toy for Griffin.

“Ahahaha!”

Lila laughs so much that she arches her back as if the sight hurts her stomach her.

Quon seemed to be thinking a little about what to do while smiling bitterly.

“Oh, it’s okay Schrödinger! It’s not like he’s really trying to eat the griffon…! And, I like Schrödinger so I won’t destroy it!”

“That’s not comforting at all!”

“I hope~ I wanted to play as Schrödinger too~”

“Are you the devil!”

In the end, Schrödinger’s gaze turned to Cleon, who always lent him his pocket her.

Then, Cleon made eye contact with him and said this.

“Don’t worry. Even if it’s broken, I’ll fix it.”

“Isn’t it the devil!!”

In the end, even Schrödinger was abandoned by Cleon.

As they were being rolled around as toys by Gryphon for a long time, only Schrödinger’s screams and Laila’s laughter resonated inside the dorm.

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“Hmm… So? You mean you want to take care of that little girl named ‘Emma’?”

After Lila listened to Cleon’s explanation about Emma and Ilenu’s situation, she gave a somewhat indifferent answer.

What should I say, should I say that I am clumsy at hiding it, or do I have no intention of hiding it?

I was listening to the story, thinking that it was absolutely not an ordinary relationship, but after the story was over, Cleon answered Layla’s question.

“Yeah. Emma is originally an adult, but because she was cursed by a vampire, she became a child. … Let’s see, she doesn’t seem to have any memory of when she was an adult. Even empty words aren’ It’s not a good environment. “It’s okay to leave a child alone.”

When Cleon says that, she puts on a slightly forlorn expression. Layla looks at Cleon’s face for a moment, then she lets out a sigh and nods her head.

“Yeah, okay. She seems to be related to Cleon as well, and there’s no way she’ll be able to say no if she says it’s for the sake of the child.”

“Thanks Lila. Anyone else?”

“I’m OK!”

Sasha nodded her head in good health first.

Her hair was all disheveled, but it was probably because of Gryphon that she still had a happy expression.

Indeed, ‘I played well!’ She is in a state

Griffon was back in the cage, and Innis offered to ‘use’ Schrödinger next to him and play with him until he slept.

And Quon also nodded her head at Cleon’s words her.

“I’m fine, too. But, is that Illenu okay? Accommodation will cost quite a bit, but if it’s okay, we can use our inn… There are rooms.”

“I think that’s kind of tough. Talking to Hertie might help, but… Maybe, she just won’t allow it, her ego she won’t allow it.”

Illennu’s pride was something Cleon knew well, so he couldn’t touch it easily.

“I’d like to help with the temple too…But first I’d ask Tokoyo first…Actually, considering the fairness, it seems a bit bad.”

Quon nodded at Cleon’s words her.

What she learned during her one-day training at the temple was that more people than she thought came to the shrine maidens and priests to ask for advice and treatment.

However, it is also the case that it is skipped once at the entrance, and it takes a long time for treatment due to the lack of medicine, so the number of people does not decrease.

“…If I succeed in the ceremony to release the mana of the spirit vein with Tokoyo-sama in the Five Elements Festival, the situation might improve a little. I’ll work hard!”

“Yeah. I’ll ask. Quon. Then—for now, I’m assuming everyone agreed—”

“Wait, Cleon.”

And- the voice that makes the tackle there is-

Galatea, sitting on Caliburn’s lap her, with a dissatisfied expression in front of the table.

“…Galatea?”

“It seemed like I agreed naturally, but I’m against it. Being cursed by a vampire… Is that really okay? If it’s a vampire curse, compared to other curses, it’s annoying in many ways.”

“…It’s going to be okay. Maybe. Since you said you’ve been traveling all over the continent for months already.”

Cleon says that, remembering what Ilenu said, but Galatea crosses his arms her as he puffs out his cheeks her.

“…Cleon. You haven’t forgotten, have you? That Cleon almost died because of a vampire.”

“Eh-“

Quon reacted the most to Galatea’s words and turned to Cleon.

Perhaps what she is talking about is about the joint battle in that village she had with Emma and Illenu.

At that time, Cleon was able to revive what she had been on the brink of death once, thanks to Illenu.

“Speaking of that, she survived thanks to her-Illennu.”

“Ugh… That’s the case…”

There, even Galatea does not refute as if he has nothing to say.

“Anyway, Galatea seems upset that Cleon doesn’t go out with her these days~”

“It’s not like that!”

“…Sorry Galatea. Please bear with me a little longer. Her powers may return to normal soon.”

When Cleon talks to Galatea like that, Galatea raises her arms high into the sky and says, ‘Ugh!’

“It’s fun, Cleon! You’re going to make a different sword anyway!”

“A different sword- …Ah.”

Cleon shut her mouth for a moment at her words her.

Could it be that she noticed what happened at her forge her?

“Do you think I don’t know? Cleon and I are connected by spirit. In particular, when it comes to things related to the ‘sword’, all information comes to me as well.”

“… That’s- sorry. But, I wanted to continue the remaining connection with ‘Talcheck’.”

At Cleon’s words her, Galatea pouted her lips and got up from her seat.

Then, he went into Caliburn’s room and threw it away.

“Really… He became like a child just like he looked. The personality itself.”

Hearing Lyla’s muttering her while holding his chin, Cleon could only slowly nod his head.

“…I think so. I think I’ll have to stick around and soothe him all day tomorrow.”

Apparently, tomorrow’s action seemed to be decided on a date with Galatea after a long time.