Chapter 545 – A Good Night’s Sleep and Departure

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The next day, after feeling the morning sun streaming through the window and tickling her closed eyelids, Layla opened her eyes.

Apparently, she seemed to have fallen asleep in front of her desk yesterday, but being moved to the bed meant that Quon and Cleon were checking to see if she was sleeping properly.

After curling up under the futon, she slowly put strength into her arms her to raise her upper body her, and her body her felt much lighter from a sound sleep she had n’t known in a while.

Sometimes like this, she gets her feet off the bed, thinking it wouldn’t hurt to sleep until she wakes up on its own without thinking about anything.

When you hear a clattering sound, reagent bottles and paper bags packed with magic materials are scattered and stepped on.

Ugh… And she feels uncomfortable with the touch, but she’s self-sufficient. It’s her own fault for not organizing her everything properly.

She somehow fumbled on her toes, and once she got out of bed, the path from there to the outside of her room was the path she had paved herself.

She leaves her own room, walking carefully along the single path among the clutter and books, like the path that beasts take among the bushes in the forest.

“Whoah…”

As I closed the sliding door gently and yawned loudly, the smell of fragrant coffee and bread wafted from the kitchen.

The clattering of tea cups and cutlery is definitely Quon’s.

Because in this house, she is the only one who handles her utensils so that even the listener is excited.

Wearing pajamas barely touching the ground, she slowly approached the kitchen and poked her face out, where she saw Quon busily preparing breakfast.

Lila, who doesn’t even notice her, sneaks up behind her and puts her hands behind her waist on her.

“Ra, Lila?!”

Lila smiled mischievously as Quon flinched and trembled at the sudden touch of her hand.

Spread on the frying pan is a fried egg that is given one by one to each member of her family.

And, next to it, there were sliced ​​bread and bacon that had already been buttered and baked neatly without burnt parts.

“Is it toast for breakfast this morning?”

“Yeah, that’s right. More than that, did you sleep well last night?”

When Quon asks something worried, Layla tilts her head and then nods her head.

“Yeah, thanks.”

Lila’s smile her, which seemed to have improved her complexion her somewhere, made Quon feel a little guilty, and she smiled bitterly.

“Yeah… I’m sorry, Lila.”

“Huh? Why? Didn’t he move you to the bed?”

There, the quon, realizing that something was not quite right between her, shut her mouth for a moment, and there she barely noticed that Lyla had fallen asleep because of her quon her and her own sleep magic her. Chago smiled shyly.

“Huh…? …Ah! That’s right! Why did I fall asleep!? Lilim?! Did you safely use the degeneration pills?!”

“Gwa, it’s okay. It’s okay~ Don’t shake my shoulders while cooking~!”

As her brain her slowly begins to awaken, her brain her, which begins to roar, evokes her memories her and recalls her own her last night.

She is urged back to her room by Quon and Cleon, but she doesn’t know what will happen.

So, she was trying to watch Lilim’s room from her own room from her…

When she came to her senses her, she was on the bed.

“Quon? Did you do something last night?”

Lyla smiles kindly and pushes her face her, including her eye smile her, at Quon.

On that face, Quon shrugged her shoulders as a cold sweat broke out.

“Ugh… Actually, to put Layla to sleep,,, the magic that brings drowsiness…”

“What!?”

Lyla heard Quon’s answer her and raised her voice loudly and incredulously, but her excitement her seemed to subside as she chewed the words.

“…I mean. No matter how much I haven’t slept for two days, Quon has cast a sleep spell so advanced that I can’t even notice…?

“Uh… Uh, does that happen?”

Is it because of Lila’s words and listening to Quon…? She tilts her head as the expression becomes the same, but Layla soon thinks about something, and she looks at Quon.

“Huh-yeah. Yes. Quon…”

Since she had an expression that seemed to be ‘interesting’, Quon carefully asked her while examining her complexion of her.

“Hey… Lila? Are you mad?”

“Huh? ──Whoa… How does it look?”

Seeing her reply with a smile on her face her, her kuon also thinks she’s upset, so he smiles and raises her voice.

Usually, it was her kuon who scolded her, but this time it was in a form that he seemed to have deceived her, so she probably thought that it was her own fault her.

Seeing Quon’s reaction, Lila burst into laughter, and she shook her head.

“Rah, Lila?”

“Huh. It’s okay. I almost said, ‘It’s too much if I put some medicine to sleep!’ But you cast magic fair and square, right? If it’s magic, it’s worse for me not to notice.”

She said so, but Quon couldn’t help but question her once more as she answered with a voice that sounded like she was somehow happy.

“It’s a little embarrassing, but… You mean that Kuon’s magic skills have increased that much? Of course. I’m a bit tired.”

“Is it?”

“Yes! I must have forgotten, but I am the academy’s magic department, where only the most gifted wizards on this continent can enter. You’re the head? There are really few people who can use magic without being caught by my magic detection .In the temple I’ve seen that training is effective, Quon.”

A good wizard is good at not only his own magic his, but also the magic of other magicians.

Just as swordsmen can read their opponent’s swordsmanship when they train their swordsmanship, just as chess players can predict their opponent’s moves.

It is also essential for wizards to resist magic by detecting the nature of the magic spread around them and the magician.

That’s why it’s impossible to secretly use magic if your skills are close to each other.

If he didn’t notice that the magic used by a high-level magician was targeting him, he would become a perfect prey.

That’s why Layla was genuinely happy as an ally and as a wizard that Quon had used high-level magic without even noticing.

Of course, Quon was a priest… And a priestess, so he couldn’t be called a pure mage.

Quon, too, laughed and scratched the back of his head as if he was a little embarrassed when he heard Lyla’s praise of her.

Lila wordlessly placed her hands on both of her breasts on top of Quon’s apron and kneaded them softly.

“Isn’t it only here that I’m growing?”

“Hey, wait a minute, Lila~!”

Quon bursts out laughing as if Lila’s fingers tickled.

After laughing and talking like that for a while, near the entrance to the kitchen, Sasha peeked out her face her.

“There…”

“Ah, Sasha. Listen, Quon-“

“It smells like burnt… I can smell it.”

The moment Sasha said that with a somewhat stiff face, Quon and Lyla’s faces hardened in an instant, and Kuon’s face hurriedly turned toward the frying pan on the fire.

Then, at some point, there was a variation of a fried egg that was charred and smoke was rising.

After a long time, the screams of two people came from the kitchen at once.

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After paying a moment of silence for the charred fried eggs, and laying out the freshly baked ones on the table.

People living in the same mansion gather together and start breakfast.

Sitting at the table were Lila, Cuon, Sasha, and Innis, Emma, ​​and Gonzalez. Even though there were only a few people present, they were quite a large family.

Illenu had also come in at dawn and was still asleep.

“So, did Cleon go out in the morning? Before I even woke up. Then, Caliburn and Galatea will be together.”

“Yeah. They said it would be better to leave early in order to be able to return home by the end of the day. I wonder if it’s okay… I pushed myself too much last night…”

Saying so, Quon brought his face his to his cheek his.

It was also said that about half of the group was caused by Quon.

Cleon had told me that there were no monsters in that dungeon, so he was less worried about that part.

“Hey Lilim, it takes time to get used to the magical organs that have started moving again… You had your first experience yesterday, so you can’t wake up because your crotch hurts?”

To Lila, who giggles and giggles, Quon makes an expression like ‘what are you talking about in front of the table with the kids…’.

“I hope~ I want to spend a hot night with Papa too~ Master too, right?”

While saying that, Innis was stirring the coffee cup with a teaspoon with his characteristic expressionless expression of hers.

By the way, Innis was banned from staying in the same room as Lila.

It was because of Laila’s complaint that she was stuffy and hot that she could n’t stand because she tried to sleep with Lila in her arms when she was asleep.

Lila listened to Innis’ words in her with one ear and let it flow through her in her other ear. She let out a voice as if thinking of something.

Suddenly, I realize that one seat is empty and look around.

“Wait… Then what about Amelia? She can’t believe she’s still sleeping?”

“Come to think of it… I usually wake up early.”

When Quo also tilts his head at Laila’s words, Sasha quietly rises from her seat her.

“I’ll call you over. We talked about Mr. Cleon until late last night.”

Saying that, Sasha hurriedly walked away from the dining table and headed for the hallway connecting the rooms.

The two of them, who quietly watched Sasha’s back her, have a feeling of uneasiness.

After a while…

“Huh!? Amelia-sama is gone!”

“Also…”

“I thought so. Somehow…”

Quon and Layla sigh as she puts her hand to her forehead at the same time.

By now, it was easy to know where she might be, even if she didn’t think about it.

“Sasha! It’s okay! Come back and sit down. Amelia will be fine.”

When Lila said that, Sasha trudged and tilted her head.

“She’s a princess who can’t stop. Really.”

Lila, with her wry smile, turned her gaze toward the view from her dining table.

As if agreeing with her words, Quon nodded her head.

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The destination, the dungeon, came out of Asteris through the southern gate, and it was said that it took two hours by horseback.

If so, if you are going on foot, it will take you at least four hours.

Of course, if you use flight magic, you can get there faster than riding a horse.

About an hour and a half after leaving, Cleon was silent, slowly, slowly.

I was walking as if I was looking at the scenery around me.

What he has is two swords on either side of his waist.

And, in the adventurer’s bag on his back, there was a magic lamp and emergency food that were made to see in the dark. And simple medicines.

The reason why it was quite light for heading to the dungeon was probably because I received prior information that there were no monsters there.

Halfway through, if you make eye contact with people walking from the other side, you lightly greet them, or kindly answer old people who ask for directions as you go.

It was to the point where I doubted when I would be able to arrive at the dungeon.

Cleon’s footsteps stopped near the entrance of the grove leading to the gorge where the dungeon was located.

Even in the woods, the roads were properly maintained, so there were hardly any beasts passing through the back.

It’s just that there are a lot of thick trees on both sides of the road.

However, even so, sometimes there are wild animals that have flowed in from outside and attack passers-by.

Seeing that a sign warning of wild animals has been erected, Cleon looks at it with a ‘hmm’.

“It’s a wild animal… Are you going to come out with a bear or a wolf?”

[If something dangerous like that came out, I think soldiers would be deployed… Isn’t it about a deer at best? Squirrel or…]

Galatea faithfully answers Cleon’s question.

No matter what animal comes out, if it’s Cleon, I won’t worry… At the part where he added the same words, Cleon laughed.

“But. If a dangerous animal comes out, it will be dangerous to walk alone.”

Saying that, Cleon turns around and looks back.

There seemed to be nothing there, but Cleon laughed and talked.

“Right? Amelia.”

When Cleon said that, Amelia peeked out her face from a place where there was nothing.

“I’m sorry…”

Seeing her appear as though she is wearing an invisibility cloak, Cleon’s eyes look at the cat’s head doll that is placed on top of her head.

“You helped me. Schrödinger.”

“Heh, somehow the princess said she wanted to follow me. I made a small area with a barrier, and she made a mirror image on the outside using the properties of divine magic.”

“I’m not proud of it. Why did you let me follow you…”

Cleon approaches Amelia as she lets out a sigh.

Amelia’s outfit is not the white one-piece she usually wears, but a leather jacket with a design similar to Sasha’s that girls’ adventurers like to wear.

“Yesterday… I heard Cleon talking with two people…”

“Then, you heard that it’s okay because there are no monsters, right?”

Amelia nods her head as Cleon puts her hand on her side her as he says that.

“Right! Then it’s rather safe, right?”

“…Ha. That’s right.”

Cleon laughed at Amelia’s confident words and nodded her head.

“And… I also wanted to see it. The records related to the seat of throne seen by the hero Lesia.”

As she speaks, she recalls the dream she had of seeing Lesia, the hero, that she first had when she came to this eastern country.

At that time, she said that the space she was in was the innermost part of the gap in another dimension.

But—she is the representative of the throne, and the device for maintaining the balance of the world, isn’t the place where she is the seat of the throne?

In order to help Cleon chasing the hero Lesia, she wanted to investigate as much as possible about the throne lord herself.

“…It’s good to be curious.”

“It’s not just curiosity. I think I want to help Cleon, right?”

Amelia puffed out her cheeks slightly at Cleon’s words and placed her hands on either side of her chest as did Cleon.

The two of them looked at each other for a moment and met their eyes.

Soon, when Cleon couldn’t hold back her laughter, he bent her knees slightly to meet Amelia at eye level.

“Okay. Then let’s go together.”

At Cleon’s words her, Amelia’s face her lit up and she smiled brightly.

“Yes!”

“It’s good, princess.”

When Schrödinger speaks above her head her, Amelia replies with a nod of her head to Schrödinger.

“Thank you Schrödinger. For helping me get here.”

Schrödinger flies up and sits on Cleon’s shoulder as if he feels good about being thanked by Amelia.

“Did you hear that, bro? The lady said thank you!”

“Yeah. Well. It’s certain that you’ll be scolded by Layla when you go back.”

“…”

Schrödinger’s face seemed to instantly turn pale at Cleon’s words in her.

“It’s okay. At that time, I’ll be scolded as well…”

When Amelia talked to Schrödinger as if it was better to give up, Schrödinger would speak in a trembling voice.

“Ah, Mr… Can’t we go back now!?”

“No way! Come on, Cleon.”

Amelia speaks in a determined voice and holds Cleon’s hand.

Then, Cleon also grabs her poor Schrödinger, puts it in his pocket her, and steps out to enter her forest.

“I didn’t borrow her horse because I knew Amelia was following me. So … You’ll have to walk quite a while.”

“It’s okay. I wore sturdy shoes. …Somehow, it looks like I’m out on an adventure.”

Walking outside the castle alone with Cleon, maybe- wouldn’t it be the first time?

He was with Gray when he fell into the rift in another dimension, and the time he was with Cleon wasn’t that long.

The thought of it made Amelia aware of it once more, and she swallowed her saliva.

[Whoops… The chance finally came. Me.]

Inside her head her, Amelia, the self-proclaimed romance guru, reappeared.

[You are still alive. Another me.]

As she spoke up for the first time since her last failed date, Amelia gave her scathing salutation.

[Do not treat people as ghosts who have attained Buddhahood. Today is an opportunity to close the distance at once.]

[…Isn’t it failing like last time?]

[If there were no external disturbances… According to my calculations, today’s progress would be D… No, hopefully beyond E and F… Even G.]

“G!?”

Suddenly, when Amelia gives off her strange voice her, her Cleon her turns to her surprised expression her and turns to her.

“G?”

When Cleon asks Amelia what it is, Amelia replies with her face blushing.

“Oh, no! Nothing, nothing.”

[Is this kid okay…]

Galatea let out a worried voice towards such Amelia.

[Because I’m at such an age~ I must be sensitive~ I had a period like that too~]

Facing Caliburn, who was leisurely making strange noises, Galatea was silent for a moment, then—

[No, what kind of time is that? You are the holy sword.]

She made a sharp snarl as if asking what she was talking about.