Chapter 566 – Situations and Games

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The reason why the party who rushed to Cleon’s neck like pseudo-vampires did such a thing is that as a result of being shot by the weapon Emma was holding, her body Her ‘s magical power her was rapidly drained.

And, at the same time, Layla explained to Cleon that it was caused by the injection of vampiric impulses as a means of restoring mana in the empty seat.

During the explanation, I had to pat Cleon on the shoulder to bring him to his senses, because he repeatedly drool while staring at Cleon’s neck because of the vampiric urge.

In the end, after she explained that if they restored their mana, the symptoms would go away, so Cleon brought a magic recovery potion from the warehouse and gave them a cup at a time.

Then, as the intense urge that dominated their bodies gradually subsided, and the emptiness of lack of magic that had been like hunger disappeared, they all let out a sigh of relief.

“Has everyone calmed down?”

When Cleon releases the restraining magic she used on them, Sasha nods her head and touches the part of her fans her.

“Ki, didn’t it get longer?”

Saying that, Sasha opened her mouth and looked inside to Cleon.

Cleon gave her a wry smile as he nodded her head at her question her.

“Ah. It’s fine. Cute teeth as usual.”

“Ah, hehe… I’m glad.”

Sasha smiled bashfully as her cheeks her blushed.

And Layla and Innis looking at Sasha.

“Because it’s natural… Sasha, you’re scary.”

“I see… If the Master did it, it would be considered clever…”

“Under?”

The two still boast a good master-servant relationship and create a unilaterally threatening atmosphere.

The other side seemed to have recovered without any problems.

“Gonzalez…”

And, when Amelia watches Gonzalez as if worried, there is Gonzalez lying on his back his, dizzy as if his eyes are spinning.

As if she wasn’t used to the strong taste of the magic potion, she immediately exploded! While making a funky sound, she returns to her griffon form on the spot.

Naturally, since she has grown considerably, a chair near her is pushed over and she falls.

“Wow…!”

After Amelia barely catches a chair falling towards Gonzalez, she watches the stunned Gonzalez with a puzzled look on what to do.

Finally, Schrödinger –

“Oohhhhh!”

Since dolls cannot eat magic potions, they had no choice but to wait for magic to recover naturally.

He was still running wild inside the cage, calling Cleon’s name her.

Cleon looked at Schrödinger with cold eyes, then looked at the magic tool that was covered with a large bowl so that no one could touch it, as if he had locked up cockroaches.

“…”

Layla’s opinion was that it would be better to leave it like that until Illenu, who would be familiar with magic tools, returned, since there was a possibility that something similar to Emma’s might happen if someone else caught it.

“It’s a mountain beyond a mountain…”

Just when you think you’ve solved some of the scattered problems, another problem strikes.

Cleon let out a sigh and walked on his arm to tidy up the living room first.

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I returned the chairs that had been knocked down because of everyone’s rampage.

Gonzalez, who had passed out, was lifted up by a group of people and returned to the cage.

Sasha is worried that she might have damaged her bottom of her.

Then, like the other victims, Galatea, who was hit by a magic tool, nodded and lay down on her sofa with her hand on her forehead to rest.

Fortunately, she didn’t lose all of her mana and didn’t seem to feel any vampiric urges.

Why? When asked, she-

“I don’t know… Maybe the attack didn’t go through properly.”

Galatea says that although her strength her has temporarily weakened, there is no problem.

Instead, she forced Cleon to sit on her couch, as if accepting a pillow for her lap her.

Well, in this expedition, Galatea also gave strength in many ways in her human form, and since that level of service was nothing for her Cleon her, she obediently put her head on her thigh her.

Sasha looked at such Galatea as if she was a little envious.

“Papa! Me too!”

And Innis, who, without noticing her, jumps into the empty opposite side and tries to lie down.

“Ice!”

While looking at such Innis, Layla pointed at her and raised her voice her, and then Innis hardened into her form as she ran.

Looking at her as if her time her had been suspended without making a sound, perhaps even her mouth her was stiff, Layla let out a sigh.

“Now. Let’s wrap up the story before it gets more complicated. In order.”

And, as if nothing had happened, Cleon nodded her head while breaking out in a cold sweat as he looked at Lila, who spoke with her usual intelligent eyes in her.

And then, Cleon’s briefing session begins.

With Amelia helping her by her side of her, she tells the story step by step.

On the way to the dungeon, I was attacked by a group of assassins.

And what happened in the dungeon, and the conversation I had with Nemea.

After returning to the capital of the Eastern country, the story of the beautiful flame and the encounter with Tenchi.

Lastly, the story about the magic tool that controlled Emma and attacked the party.

“It’s complicated~”

Caliburn, who had returned to human form at some point and interrupted her story her, spoke her with her hand raised to her face her, and Sasha nodded as if her head her was spinning.

“First of all, the task that needs to be solved right in front of you has been decided. Based on the information handed over from Tenchi, we will pursue the traces of the Earth Dragon – Gaios.”

“If you use the dragon ring that Cleon has, you will be able to get help in chasing the signs of the dragon… Well. I will help you step by step with that part.”

As Lila nods her head and pats her own chest, Cleon nods her head.

“So… What information did that Tenchi give you?”

“Ah… That’s about it. I think he wants you to investigate the ruins of the mansion of a fallen aristocratic family in the East.”

As Cleon said, he started talking about the information he had received from Tenchi.

“The family being investigated is the ‘Oberti’ family. In terms of the kingdom, it is a family that was in the position of a count, but it collapsed about 100 years ago and lost all position and authority. It seems that the descendants are living without even being able to name that surname.”

“What caused the downfall?”

“That’s – it seems that there is only a record of ‘destroyed by making a certain gigantic being angry’.”

After hearing Cleon’s answer, what is it? Says Layla.

Cleon also heard such a story from Tench and thought it was an explanation that was not informative at all, but he says that all further records have faded.

“What does it mean that the record has faded? I think I’ll understand if I say it’s not recorded or erased…”

“Ah. That’s… I also asked. Even if it’s possible to vaguely know ‘what happened’ because the links to important parts of the record are missing, or because a few keywords are missing, exactly who and why happened. They say they are talking about records that have lost their ‘resolution as history’.”

“Who said that he had a hand in the record…?”

When Sasha carefully expresses her opinion of her, Cleon shakes her head.

“From Tenchi’s point of view, it seems that if you change something like that, there will be traces of something. But if it’s not, it’s magical- and more conceptual.”

“…Could it be that magic concealed its existence, and all records related to it were obscured…? What happened between the earth dragon Gaios and the Eastern kingdom?”

At Leila’s guess, Cleon nods.

“Tenchi seems to think so too. And… That kind of magic is possible-“

“…Even the greatest wizards in history can’t use such magic easily. …Unless they are ‘dragons’ whose existence itself is close to magic.”

At Lila’s words her, Sasha widens her eyes in surprise.

“Well, then… Gaios-sama made his own record obscure? Why…”

“Well. If it’s a dragon, there must be a lot of circumstances. Even if it disappears from people’s memories… Maybe they thought it was something they had to do.”

“In people’s memories…”

When Caliburn muttered such words, as if Galatea was thinking, she stretched out her foot and tapped Caliburn.

“Ah~ no. It’s nothing~”

“… No, maybe we can get a hint from what Caliburn is thinking. Talk about it.”

When Layla also talks about Caliburn’s opinion of her, Caliburn looks back at the group for a while at the glances flying around her, then sighs and nods his head.

“That’s right… To make oneself forget like that. They say there are two possibilities. The first is to protect oneself from some kind of threat, to disappear…But…”

“Isn’t the opponent one of the Five Yuan Soryongs? What is it that you’re afraid of doing that?”

Galatea raised her voice as if such an assumption was strange, and Carly Byrne nodded her head with a wry smile.

“I think so too~. However, I can only think that erasing everything like that was to hide it.

“Because it bothers me… ?”

Cleon turned her head toward her as if her Caliburn words her were haunting her.

“Yeah~ I also hate being bothered, and I know because I like to be relaxed… If you’re being chased by too many things, sometimes you want to throw everything away and hide, right?”

“…”

Lila listened to Caliburn’s story, and she shut her mouth for a moment, then-

“That’s it…”

As if you understand, you cover her forehead her and open her mouth her.

“It…?”

When Amelia, who was sitting across from her, asked her with a tilt of her head, Layla responded by clicking her tongue as if she had become annoyed.

“Yeah. …It’s a game. Dragons role play. Have you heard of it? Cleon. You’ve been with Luti for a long time.”

Cleon thinks about Lila’s words for a while, then lets out an exclamation from her mouth her.

Come to think of it, it seems that Luti had said something like that.

When asked why, as a dragon, she mingles with her people her, she replies that there are times when dragons want to do so.

Most of them have memories and sneak into other races to watch their movements, but-

Sometimes, dragons who want to have a little fresh experience forget that they are the ‘dragons’, the strongest race on earth, and try to experience life as mortals.

Dragons role-play is when a dragon borrows the form of another creature, erases even its memories of her, and experiences its life of her as that creature.

In that memory, it also includes the memory of how to handle power, so even if the dragon in Dragons Roleplay lives without memory, a safety device is set so that it can regain its memory only when it is about to die.

However, the dragon that was interacting with humans suddenly disappears, and a new human appears out of nowhere, naturally raising suspicion.

That’s why-even the record of the dragon himself interacting with someone is blurred by magic, diluting his own existence his, and then intervening in the position of a suitable human being. Dragon’s role play is a play that is not even funny allowed only to dragons.

“…There was something like that…”

To Amelia’s first-of-a-kind response, Layla shrugged her shoulders.

“Well. It can’t be helped. There are five dragons left on the continent right now, and everyone is busy with their own activities, so it’s only natural that they don’t have time to enjoy games…”

Of course, there is no detail left about the record either.

The only thing Layla knew about this word and its meaning was when, by chance, she was rummaging through her materials on dragons for her previous research on pure elemental fire magic.

“…The war 30 years ago was a war that gave Lutios and other dragons something to think about.”

While Cleon thinks so, he recalls the story of Lutios, who said that each of the five dragons saw and felt in the war was different.

Maybe- Gaios in that war…

“However, if it is Gaios, the earth dragon, who has offended the Oberti family, then the various stories fall into place. As the vampire named Pamela said, if Gaios was in charge of purifying the land, at least he had a deep relationship with the East. Something and…”

“If Gaios used magic to conceal information related to himself for the sake of entertainment, then it would be right that he couldn’t recall anything related to Gaios in the East.”

At Layla and Amelia’s words, Cleon nods as well.

“If the Oberti family fell because they offended Gaios, there must be a hint in that mansion. If you follow the trail like that, you’ll find out where Gaios has changed and who he’s hiding from.”

“This work reminds me of Gray…”

Certainly, the image of a girl wearing a bread hat, jumping around and shouting ‘I think there’s a clue here!’ Comes to her mind her naturally.

Something about his comrades he had n’t seen in a long time passed through his head his, but soon he smiled bitterly and changed the topic naturally.

“Let’s set up another schedule for the mansion’s investigation. The next most important thing is-“

“It’s the magic tool that controlled Emma. What the hell is that? That’s it.”

When Galatea is lying down, she raises her hand and points to her magic tool her, which is covered with a lid. When Cleon reunites with Illenu, she recalls the story she heard from her.

Apparently, Emma had her new weapon her in her hands her, so it was possible to fight alongside her.

“A magic tool powerful enough for an ordinary person without magical powers to fight a vampire… Why did you just leave it alone…”

“Probably, Illenu and Emma didn’t know much about how it works…”

Besides, I have never heard of a magic tool talking, so it must be that Emma started talking to him after she was young.

“…According to what the magic tool said, you said you would receive our magic in order to lift the curse on the master, right?”

“Yeah… But, for that matter, Emma’s body hasn’t returned to normal.”

“It’s a curse left by a strong thought right before death. They said it couldn’t be healed with normal methods.”

As Cleon says, he recalls how he talked to Quartz earlier and how Ilenu reacted to it.

…If there is a possibility of removing Emma’s curse with the power of magic tools, Illenu will not have to risk her own life.

“Lyla. Can you analyze the magic tool?”

“Huh? Ah, yes. Yes… It’s possible.”

Lila speaks in a rare timid voice.

“I’m well aware of the danger. But the only thing I can ask for right now is Lyla-“

“Ah, no. Rather than being dangerous… It’s more like a feeling that the magic tool side is rejecting us. It’s a cliché to choose a master with a will. It’s non-cooperative.”

“It’s annoying~”

When the Demonic Sword, which is non-cooperative with others and can be said to be the representative of the tool for selecting the owner, tackles it in that way, Layla looks at it as if it is dumbfounded.

“Anyway, I think it will be difficult without Emma’s help.”

“Emma’s help… That’s a dangerous story.”

If Emma gets weird like before, and she happens to attack Lila… And as a result, Lila is badly injured, or accidentally puts her on the verge of death.

Cleon, he will never be able to forgive himself.

“…Then another way-“

“Ugh…”

It was then.

When Cleon and the others turned their heads to the voice that seemed to stop opening their mouths even if they tried to say something somewhere.

“Eup! Ugh!”

I could see Innis trying to speak somehow with his trembling body her.

Her party her, who thought of her her as her background scenery her, looked back at her with an ‘ah’.

“…Seems to have something to say.”

“Maybe I have an idea?”

In response to Amelia’s supporting fire, Innis raised his voice with an “Eup! Eup!”

Then Lila opened her mouth as if she couldn’t help it.

“Ding.”

“Fuha!”

Only then did Innis, who was able to move his body free from the strong and powerful restraints that bound him, stretched out his body while taking a sharp breath despite his expressionless expression of his.

“Master, you’re too good! Do you hate me clinging to Papa so much? This petty-“

“Spirit…”

“I thought of a way to safely investigate Emma’s magical tools with Emma’s help!”

Thinking she’s talking nonsense, Lila tries to stop her again, but Innis turns right in front of her and speaks in a loud voice.

“… What.”

Leila didn’t expect much, but she talked as if she wanted to talk, and Innis laughed and talked.

“It’s playing house!”

“…”

Neither Sasha, nor Amelia, nor even Cleon and Galatea said anything, and their expressions stiffened at her words.

“Freeze-“

And as for Lyla, she tried to punish her by listening to her and doing-

“No really!”

Innis begged her to trust her, leaping at Layla and grabbing her hand her.

“Oh yeah? Then tell me why playing house is the answer.”

Lyla spoke with a grim expression on her idea of ​​Innis, but she responded.

“I used to play with Emma before, and even then, she let me touch that magic tool! Maybe, when Emma allowed me to touch it, I think I could touch it! Besides, should I say that my words become softer.. Oh, I can hear Emma translating it. It’s given, so it might be.”

“In other words… It’s a magic tool that’s greatly affected by the owner’s state of mind… It’s really annoying.”

When Galatea tackles you like that again, are you in a position to speak? Cleon desperately suppresses the urge to say.

“…Playing house…”

And, at the same time, the word bothered her and she shut her mouth while holding her hand to her chin.

“…What’s wrong, Cleon?”

“Even if it’s bittersweet memories of playing house…”

If Layla talks to him at the same time as Amelia-

“No… I don’t think I’ve ever done it even when I was young.”

“What, what… That’s because he’s a man.”

Aside from the fact that it is a game that even men can participate in as husband, father, or brother.

“Well… I had very few kids my age to play house with.”

It was a daily routine for children in the Valley of the Dragon to be arrested for even playing around.

“──…”

Sasha then looked at Cleon for a while, then she jumped up from her seat.

“Wow, what a surprise… What’s wrong? Sasha?”

Lila, who was sitting across from her, asked as she watched her in amazement.

“Let’s play house together! Wait for Emma to wake up and Mr. Quon to come back!”