Chapter 580 – Shelters and Masters

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The passage of the structure through which Cleon and Laila entered was a mechanical passage painted in blue, unlike the white camouflage of the bedrock on the outside.

Here and there, Layla’s eyes twinkle as she sees a mysterious valve or switch coming into her eyes.

“It’s really like an ancient ruin…!”

“I’m excited…”

Seeing Layla’s reaction to her, Cleon, on the contrary, becomes a little anxious.

It was because it felt like entering a dungeon.

But at that time, just when I thought I heard a beeping sound effect that hurt my ears, I heard Kanon’s voice from the ceiling saying [Uh, hey…].

[Sat, the aisles are straight. You can come as it is… Oh, and please don’t touch anything in the middle…]

Kanon warns Layla in advance to prevent her from touching the items in the aisle.

Then, Lila chuckled and clicked her tongue and moved forward of her, one step ahead of Cleon, keeping a distance in front of her.

As I walked forward, listening to the sound of metal clanging under my feet as I walked, I saw a metal door that was closed without any gaps at the end of the aisle.

Even the metal door had a valve or switch attached to it, so I couldn’t even figure out how to open it.

“Is the door closed?”

[J, I’ll open it now~… Please wait a little longer…]

Then, there is a thumping sound from inside, something rustling, and a glass bottle clinking continuously.

Hearing that, Layla tilts her head as if she had a question mark floating above her head her, but Cleon shakes her head as if he understands, saying ‘Ah…’.

“It’s late… How much longer do I have to wait?”

She’d only waited a minute since she had been told to wait, but when Lila asked impatiently, something inside her rumbled! It was the sound of collapsing.

[Ah, forward… 3, 3 minutes… No, 5 minutes…!]

“Haa… If you make me wait any longer, I’ll investigate the hallway on my own!”

When Layla threatened her like that, the intervals between her voices her could be heard growing faster and faster.

“Lyla. Since we came here suddenly, can’t we wait a bit?”

Then, Cleon calmly talks to Lila while recalling the cleaning of the first aid that will be happening inside her head her.

“Um… Is that so?”

After hearing Cleon’s words, Lila also shuts her mouth for a moment to see if she feels something, then nods her head.

“But the other person said 5 minutes.”

Then, a merciless sound came out of her mouth.

[Ugh… What is this person who suddenly came to me… Is he really a fan…?]

Despite the complaints coming from inside, Cleon smiled bitterly as he closed his eyes.

Lila was really counting five minutes with her arms crossed.

And- exactly one second before five minutes, as promised, a voice returns from inside.

[Okay, that’s fine… Well, then I’ll open the door now…]

At her words her, Cleon and Layla looked at each other and nodded away from the door a little.

It must have been because there was an idea that something might come out of the open door.

Seeing Layla’s look her in her eyes her, ‘Shall we put up a barrier?’, Cleon shakes her head.

If nothing attacks or dangers come out, it could be an excuse.

And- when you hear a click, the lever on the door in front of the two of them starts to turn counterclockwise.

Soon, things that appear to be locks are mechanically removed, and the closed door slowly opens.

‘Gulp,’ said Cleon and Layla’s throats, saliva dripping with tension.

And what appeared-

“…De, come in…”

It was a human wearing an unusual outfit consisting of matching dark green top and bottom.

I can’t even guess what kind of material it was, and it was tightly wrapped around the body, and except for the slightly swollen chest, it did not reveal the body line at all.

His dark blue hair his, which had grown long enough to reach the ground, was standing out here and there as if it had n’t been washed after sleeping, and the bangs, if not to the extent of the back of his hair, came down long enough to cover the top of his nose.

I couldn’t see the color of her eyes, but even in her impression of her, what stood out was the long pointed ears of her.

With a low voice, and a dark impression that made one wonder if he could see, Cleon and Lyla were flustered and unable to say anything.

“…Ah, that. Hey… I’m sorry. As expected, going inside later.”

The woman who looked at herself and noticed that the two of them had hardened, she shut the door as it was and tried to reject the two of them.

“Oh no! Wait!”

Then, Cleon quickly puts her hands and feet through the cracks in the door and plugs it in, and the woman backs away in amazement as the woman exclaims, ‘Hey!’

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry! As expected, it was impossible even for a fan to talk face-to-face with a person for the first time in hundreds of years!!”

“…”

Watching her whimper as she shrunk and clutched her hair, Cleon ponders a little what to do, but Lila, who was standing right behind her, comes closer and slams the door open for her, which Cleon is holding onto. .

“Excuse me!”

Then, with her stride, she walks inside and she turns to Cleon and talks.

“What are you doing? Close the door and come in, Cleon.”

“Is this your house…”

Cleon made an expression of amazement at Layla’s confidence in her, and she came inside through the open door and closed it naturally.

And the scenery of the inside that caught my eye was a very large room.

The wall made of large glass looked similar to the one I had seen in the ruins of the research institute I had visited before, but aside from that, the furniture was scattered around.

In a storage cabinet made of things invisible to wood, a bed where you can’t tell when the sheets were washed.

And, between the clothes that seemed to have been thrown off at random, her underwear her, which appeared to be hers, was sticking out.

Lastly, a large amount of trash piled up in the corner of the room.

It was literally an environment that people could barely live in, but besides, Cleon and Lyla were full of objects whose purpose was unknown.

“Why, why are you coming…?”

Then, barely coming to her senses at the sound of her door closing, she raised her head and looked back at Cleon and Laila, Laila, with her hands on either side of her waist, sighing as she spoke. Do.

“I told you. I came here because I’m a fan.”

“Oh, right… Are you, really, a fan?”

Are you still thinking of pushing forward as a fan? Cleon looks at Lila while thinking the same thing.

Layla then shrugs her shoulders and speaks.

“Yeah. It’s real, it’s real.”

In response to Laila’s emotionless reply, the long-haired woman looked at Laila for a moment and then-

“Eh, hehe. Ehehehe, then I can’t help it~. Well, if it’s really a fan coming for the first time in hundreds of years, I’ll treat you well~”

‘Really…’

Cleon is dumbfounded by a woman who believes in it as it is.

Bring her hand her to her mouth her, control her expression her as she clears her throat, and ask her questions her.

“I’ll ask… Can I just assume that you’re a ‘famous writer Kanon Dai-sensei’?”

“Ah. Yes.”

She turned her head towards Cleon, then flinched and shrank her body, shifting her gaze misplaced and motionless.

“There are many things I want to ask… Aren’t these ancient ruins? Then, are you an ancient?”

“Ancient, human…? Ah, no… I’m an elf…”

Kanon flinched once more at Lyla’s question and answered in a voice that crawled through her body as she trembled.

Something in her her, her restlessness her, looking at her her, Layla and her her Cleondo ‘Mmmh …’Let out her drool.

Then Kanon came to his senses with a ‘hot’ sound, and quickly ran to the corner of the room, opened the part that seemed to act as a closet, and brought two cushions.

“So, the guests have arrived, and I’m sorry for making you stand… Hey, please sit here…”

While saying that, she spreads a cushion in the cleanest part of her room.

Cleon and Layla looked at each other for a moment, then nodded and went to sit on the cushion.

“I thought ‘maybe’ when I saw those ears, but I didn’t think it was really an elf. But, are you living alone in a place like this?”

“Oh, yes.”

To the question of Cleon, who tries to have a little daily conversation to relieve her tension, she once again ends her response with a short answer.

“…”

Then, the conversation between the two sides was cut off for a moment, and only awkward silence continued.

“Ah, hey… Then, why are you living alone in a place like this? Do elves… Live in a sanctuary where only they are gathered… Live in a village in the forest?”

“Ah. Yes. Now, you know that well… Well, most of the elven villages like that are gone now…”

As Cleon pointed out and asked questions, Kanon lowered her head and responded with a very subtle nod.

“Besides, elves hate mechanical civilization, so it’s surprising to live in a place full of machines like this.”

“Ah, that, I don’t have such likes or dislikes, so should I say I’ll use a machine as long as it’s convenient. Should I say it’s too difficult to live alone without a machine…”

When Layla responded with a quick response to her words that poured out in one breath, Kanon continued, and she began to tell the story of how she had been alone in a place like this.

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Hundreds of years ago, the elf village that Kanon originally lived in was an ordinary village with no difference compared to other elf villages.

The rules set by the elderly have been passed down for hundreds of years, and they turn their backs on the technological advancements of the times and live a life consisting only of nature and magic.

If you use a machine in such a place, of course you will receive cold eyes from the villagers.

And Kanon was just such a ‘elf who uses machines’.

Speaking of elves, they are the guardians of the forest who love nature and protect it.

In addition to that, she had a beautiful appearance, a slender figure and a blessed appearance that could sublimate and digest any high-exposure outfit into art.

Unlike the other elves, Kanon preferred to read books in a house illuminated by magical lights rather than basking in sunlight.

Rather than concentrating on communicating with animals and growing plants, he focused on thinking about how to decorate his room more safely and avoid contact with other people as much as possible.

Naturally, in the process, he was also interested in the automatic dolls and mechanical devices that the dwarves were developing, and somehow secretly brought those items into the village and piled them up in his room.

But- no matter how long elves live and have little family ties, they are not so heartless as to kick out unmarried daughters from their homes.

Their parents expelled their daughter from the village for bringing in machinery that had been banned in the village, while eating food from the house for hundreds of years.

She herself, she thought this would happen someday, so she had prearranged where she was going.

The abandoned shelter of the ancients contained in the book.

Thinking that if it were there, she wouldn’t care at all about what she did alone, and as soon as she was kicked out, she headed east of the continent as if she had waited.

Based on the literature, she found the shelter of the ancients hidden at the bottom of the hill, somehow restored the facility and lived there alone until now.

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“In other words, she was an outsider who couldn’t adapt to the elven society.”

Pooh! Said Lila, and the blades of her words her seemed to lodge in her.

“La, Lila. More choice of words…”

“Ah, yes! I’m sorry. So, she started writing when she started living here? Did she start writing based on reading a history book?”

Lila’s heartless apology.

Kanon answered in a voice that crawled once more with his head down.

“Oh, no. Should I say that I saw it myself? Should I say that I can observe the scenery of Asteris from here?”

Saying that, she took something like a stick out of her pocket and swung it at the glass on her wall.

Then, a light came on on the wall, and a part of Asteris’ street was visible.

“Huh!? Is that an ancient technology? It’s an ancient technology!?”

“Eh, wait…! Please don’t cling to me too much! Smells nice…”

When Layla suddenly closes her distance, Kanon panicked and struggles to keep her stick from being snatched away, but the thought seems to come to a halt when her hair brushes the tip of her nose her.

“Lyla.”

When Cleon, who could no longer just watch the scene, called her name of her, she said ‘Ugh…’And turned her head as if looking at Cleon.

“Okay…”

Then, removing her hand from the bewildered Kanon, she let out a sigh and shook her head.

However, Kanon, who was watching Lyla and Cleon, was about to say something, but then stopped and repeated, then finally mustered up the courage to put the words in his mouth.

“Uh, uh… You two, actually, aren’t fans…?”

“…Ah, that’s right. I’m sorry I lied to you, somehow-“

Did you notice it in the end? And Cleon took a moment to put her apple in her mouth her.

“Uh, over there. By any chance, that… The man over there… Is that, Mr. Cleon… ?”

Kanon called Cleon by name as if he knew him.

“…Do you know me?”

“Ah, yes. Actually, I was thinking of making Cleon the main character of my next work as a motif… I should say it’s an honor to be able to meet him in person like this. It’s much more masculine than seeing him on the other side of the screen. Should I say I’m born… Oh, can I ask you a lot of things? I thought it would be necessary for Mr. Cleon to write about the things he did after coming to this country…”

Watching her spit out her words at the same speed as before, Cleon raised her hand to stop her words even though the words did n’t quite reach her ears.

“Calm down, Kanon. …First of all… It looks like we have information we want from each other. Then, how about exchanging it?”

Upon hearing Cleon’s dignified words, Kanon quickly came to his senses his and nodded his head.

“Hu, huhe, that, that’s right… That, then… I’ll bring tea, tea, so please wait here…”

She leaves the two of them and walks to the corner of the room again.

Looking at her from the back, Cleon and Layla muted their voices and spoke to each other.

“…Does he really have information about Gaios and Rakshasa?”

In response to Lyla’s question, Cleon kept her mouth shut for a while.

Courage! With a sound, several glasses that Kanon had placed on the tray fell and were shattered.

“…Maybe… Maybe not…”

Cleon just shook his head at the current situation where he had no choice but to think that way.