Chapter 577 – Nayuta and the Eye of the Oath

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The young man opened his eyes, clutching his messy head.

It tickles the tip of the nose, incense made using herbs known to have a calming effect.

Feeling the wound throbbing, grabbing your head, what you see around you is a cloth with which the blood has been wiped off, and a mortar that looks like it has been changed many times.

And, it is a girl with green hair who is asleep as if she has passed out.

It was not difficult for the young man to know that what she was wearing was the costume of an oriental shaman.

“…Am I alive…?”

Apparently, he had punched her in the head and then pierced her chest.

Although it is a story if her own memory her is clear.

She was so distracted, and it was a sudden thing.

“Ugh…”

When you place your hand on her chest her, a bandage sticks to her hand her with a sticky blood smeared in the middle of her body her.

“Ah… It wasn’t like a dream after all… It was really piercing…”

Why did she herself have to be pierced by that sword?

No matter how much she wrapped her hair and worried about her, she couldn’t answer. The girl, who was awakened by her own voice her, flinched and trembled and raised her body her.

Then, when she came face to face with her, she blinked her blue eyes in a sleepy expression—

“I-waking up! Thank goodness…!”

Then, as if it were fortunate, she relaxed as if she were lying face down on the bed.

“I-over there…”

And, she is a young man who speaks cautiously to such a girl.

Hearing that young man’s voice, the girl raised her face again and met her eyes in her. As she peered into the young man’s suspicious eyes of her, the girl smiled slightly.

“Huh? Ah. You don’t know what kind of situation you’re in right now.”

“…”

The young man nods at the girl’s answer her.

“I can see that you are a shrine maiden. You are wearing the clothes worn by shrine maidens from the East.”

“That’s right. I’m the priestess of Asteris. That’s also the best priestess in the temple, the great priestess! Isn’t it amazing? You can bow down and praise me!”

She puts both her hands on her waist and giggles as she proudly spreads her own breasts.

“…Daemumai?”

However, the young man examines her girl’s face her a little, and she smiles as if it’s funny.

“Ugh!?”

As if the young man’s reaction was unexpected, when the girl is surprised, the young man talks.

“I’ve met at least the high priestess while living in Asteris. She always wears a fox mask, preaches solemnly in front of people, or dances beautifully, isn’t she?”

“Yeah! So, is that me?”

In response to the young man’s praise his, he speaks while pointing at himself with his index finger, but the young man talks to such a girl.

“But the person in front of me, no matter how you look at it, is a tomboy. She looks younger than me… And she’s definitely not the best lady I’ve ever seen… Ah. And her her breasts are small.”

Quick.

At the young man’s last words, the girl claiming to be the High Priestess revealed her sinews on her forehead of her, and she raised her hand just as it was, and slammed her young man’s back of her! And she struck down.

“Keah!”

A young man bent over, writhing in pain. However, the girl was shouting at such a young man.

“Who said that the chest is like the plains of the wilderness!? It doesn’t matter if your chest is small, you bastard!”

“I’m sorry…! But the image is so different after all…!”

When the young man manages to raise his head, the girl puts on her fox mask in her arms her and runs wild on her way her.

“Are you saying that even after seeing this mask, I can’t see myself as a godmother! Aang!?”

“Oh, no! I can see it! I can see it, so please stop hitting me on the wounded back!!”

When the young man raises her voice as if pleading, the door opens and another figure appears.

“…What are you doing? Nayuta.”

What I heard was a woman’s voice that seemed to be somewhat polite.

When the young man raises her head in that direction, there is—

From the tip of her head to the tip of her toes, stood a doll wrapped in her thick, black mist.

“You are…?”

Thanks to the girl stopping the attack on her appearance her, she somehow opens her mouth, and the new character answers by opening her mouth her.

“Me? I, ████. Do you know my name? Well, I’m guessing you don’t.”

The moment she said her own name, everything around her seemed to mute for a split second.

However, the young man did n’t pay any attention to that or to her appearance her and just nodded her head.

“…”

To her young man who responded as if he understood her own words her, her misty woman shrugged her shoulders and spoke to the maiden-miko whom she called ‘Nayuta’.

“When her treatment is over, return to the main hall. We have to talk about the Five Elements system.”

“Ah, yes. Okay. Please wait a moment. ■■■■.”

Then, the young man who had been following the foggy woman with her eyes as she opened the door again and left her room, sighed and turned her head toward Nayuta, who was said to have carefully cured him.

“…I’m sorry. You really are a great priestess…”

“Whew… I wish I knew by now. Come on. I’ll treat you a little more. I don’t have time either.”

When she sighs once more that the young man has only now acknowledged himself as her High Priestess her, she takes the wad of her amulet from her bosom her and carries it over her young man’s body her.

Then, the young man sighed and spit out her from her mouth her, but he could see that the pain that had built up in her body her was gradually waning.

“…I was surprised. When I woke up in the morning, I found you collapsed at the entrance of the temple. I don’t know if the culprit who made you did that or if it was your colleague, but leaving the body in front of the temple entrance is like that. I brought you in and treated you. You can’t check your background, so you’re not a criminal or a smuggler, are you?”

“…”

The young man could n’t answer Nayuta’s question for a moment, and with a troubled expression, he shut her mouth her.

“Eh. No, what is that reaction? I said it as a joke… No way, for real?”

“…I’m sorry. I can’t tell you who I am, but… I’m neither a criminal nor a smuggler. I’m just working a bit… Out of sunlight.”

At the young man’s hesitant reply, the girl also remained silent for a while, then removed her hand from the talisman she had attached to her.

“…Okay. Then, well, you’ll find out someday.”

She smiled as she said that, and then, to change the young man’s bandages, she crept into his arms her.

“…”

It was the first time for the young man to see a woman in her arms of her, so he blushed a little and looked down at her, but Nayuta seemed unconcerned.

And, after her body fell from the young man’s arms her, he confirmed that she had been covered with clean bandages at some point, and the young man could not help but admire her skill her.

“Well. That’s about it. Oh, that’s right. I haven’t heard your name yet. Since you said you don’t want to reveal your identity, are you going to have to use an alias for a while?”

“Ah, is it a pseudonym? I’ve never used anything like that before…”

When the young man tries to come up with a plausible anonymity, as if embarrassed, Nayuta smiles and talks.

“Your name is—”

000

With the intense pain running through his back his, when Cleon stood up, the place so familiar that he could tell even beyond his blank vision his was Cleon’s own room hers.

It was completely different from the place he was in in his dream he had just had, but he was able to gain peace of mind in the familiar space.

“Ha…”

Perhaps it was because of the cold sweat that was so cold that it stuck to her back and the clothes she was wearing, but the night air made her back her feel as cold as if it had been touched by ice.

“…Did I faint. I…”

Little by little, a film of memories begins to play in my head.

Apparently, on her way back with Quon, she was ambushed by an encounter with a muscular man.

‘Dharma’… She said.

He was funny in both his appearance and his behavior his, but his skills his were unmistakable.

Considerable skill. Moreover, a strong man who does not rely on magic, etc., And engages in battle using purely trained physical abilities and military force.

I managed to cut his arm deeply, but I don’t remember almost anything after that.

What is certain is that even in a situation where his body his barely moved, he somehow managed to counterattack.

When he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead his, something like paper touched his hand his.

“Is this… A talisman?”

Carefully removing what was attached to his head and examining it, he could see that the writing on the amulet belonged to Quon.

“Yes…”

And when I thought I heard a voice different from Cleon’s, there was a figure with green hair tied in a ponytail with his back lifted.

“…Quon?”

When her name was called, Quon jumped up, raised his upper body her, and met Cleon’s eyes her.

“Ah, keu, Cleon. You’re awake, thank goodness…”

Cleon looked at her carefully at her somewhat awkward attitude of hers, but he could n’t find the reason for her attitude of hers.

“Ah… Thanks to you, I was able to stay safe. …I’m glad you and I were able to return home safely while I passed out.”

“Yeah… Lila came to pick me up. That, ‘Darma’ didn’t come back either.”

“Is it…”

In any case, if Quon is all right, she’s done with it.

When she let out a sigh of relief while thinking so, Cleon felt that something in her eyes was missing.

Where are you? And when he raised her hand and touched her face, there was nothing hard to hold onto.

“…The glasses for sealing the magic eyes that Lyla made…”

“Ah, yes… I think it exploded with shock when it was attacked. I looked around, but all I could find was some… Shattered parts. Sorry.”

As if sincerely apologizing, what Quon held up and showed was the remains of what she thought were the eggs of her glasses.

It already seemed difficult to function with glasses, but Cleon picked up the egg fragment from the glasses and sighed.

“Thanks, I’ll leave this to Lila and have her repaired.”

“I’ve already told Lila. Lila, she’s sullen, but she says she’ll work hard to fix it, so she’ll put it back until tomorrow when she has to go out.”

“… Isn’t that what you mean by staying up all night?”

Quon shut his mouth for a while at Cleon’s words her, but Cleon could n’t go out without the help of his glasses her.

“…Let’s say thank you properly…”

In the end, this time, Lila has no choice but to let her head down while allowing her to stay up all night.

Then, after a moment of silence between the two, Quon mustered up some courage and took a step forward.

“Cleon. The opponent you fought earlier…Darma…Was it?”

“Ah. That muscular bald man, why?”

“He was strong. He unleashed my sleep spell on his own. … He was as dangerous as he looked. And besides … He did n’t do anything to Cleon when he attacked him, I’m so sorry .”

When Cleon confirmed that Quon’s seat on the bed was getting stronger, he let out a small sigh.

“…Don’t worry, Quon. He was a tough guy for me too.”

At Cleon’s honest story, Quon looked up at Cleon as if he was a little surprised.

“First attack- This happened right before the first attack came in. The time I used magic to paralyze him. … According to the pattern so far, I should have taken him down at once when he stopped…”

Even though the magic that was so strong that smoke rose hit the body, somehow the magical organ was able to move without firing a single shot.

That sudden move. If I had known a little more about him, there would have been no slapping in the face of him.

Thinking so, Cleon closes his eyes for a while to cool his head, then opens his eyes and talks to Quon, who is looking at him.

“So. Next time, let’s win together. I, too, have no intention of quietly taking my life from him.”

“…Yes!”

Quon, who seemed to have regained some energy from Cleon’s encouragement and oath his, rose from his seat his.

“…It’s late, so I’ll go back to my room. Good night, Cleon.”

“…Okay.

And, in an instant to turn around and leave Cleon’s room.

It overlaps with Cleon’s eyes his.

That is, the figure of Nayuta that I saw in the dream I had earlier.

She involuntarily moved her hand and reached for the object that was about to get away from her.

And-

Snap! Cleon’s hand and Quon’s hand touched.

Naturally, when Cleon’s hand caught hers, Quon turned around and looked down at Cleon in surprise.

“Hey, Cleon?”

“…Ah, no…”

Cleon himself is just wondering why he did this.

Wait, a very brief moment.

As her own body her broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that it was not her own her, Quon looked at Cleon quietly.

She comes back to her bed, and she sits next to Cleon.

“..Yes. If Cleon doesn’t want to be separated that much.”

Quon seems to be a little happy with her somewhere.

She took Cleon’s hand her and lay down on the bed, looking into each other’s eyes.

Quon’s eyes glow blue in silence and darkness.

The only thing those eyes were staring straight at was Cleon.