Chapter 581 – Lone Elves and Rejection

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I was sitting with Cleon, looking at the low dining table, which was slowly running out of space.

The elf, whose movements were staggering to the point of uneasiness and bumping into and out of places, was trudging around the room while smiling a little suspiciously, saying “Hehe,hehe…”.

At first, they put out the tea they rode in, but when the two of them gave a slightly suspicious expression to the car of a color they had never seen before, then they said, ‘Oh, sweets too.’ ‘Ah, the cake too.’ ‘Ah, french fries too.’ While saying that, he started to bring out various things to eat.

“Well, it’s lunchtime… If both of you are hungry, tell me…”

“No…Because I’m really fine.”

When Cleon spoke to Kanon, who seemed to be in a rush to treat her, she seemed to think that Cleon was humbly saying, “Say, don’t decline…”.

“Hey, elves eat this kind of food too. I thought elves only ate dew.”

Unlike Cleon, Lila, who is inspired by every action she makes, the food she brings out and the machines she uses to cook them, actively engages in everyday conversation as if trying to communicate with her.

“There are elves like that… There are elves who follow the rules and can’t eat grain or animal meat… Uh, I don’t know if that’s why, but they’re all nervous… When you look at a machine, you see some kind of cockroach or corpse. Guys frowning as if they had seen Rado… Aah. Thinking about it makes my stomach swell… How good they are…”

As if recalling a painful memory from the past, if you squeeze the bottle of red sauce you were holding in your hand while muttering, it will burst like blood and splatter all over the plate.

“Gyaaaaagh! It’s on my clothes! The only thing left that I haven’t washed is this!”

Then figure it out! He screamed in surprise at the sauce splashing all over his clothes, and then tried to wipe his top with a dishcloth or rag that he couldn’t tell the difference between.

“Hey hey…”

Of course, it is unreasonable to wipe all the sauce on clothes with such a thing.

Seeing that she only spreads more, Cleon, unable to watch Kanon’s face dyed in despair, gets up from her seat her and approaches her.

“It’s okay. Put your hands away for a second.”

“Hehe…”

She did n’t even notice that Cleon was approaching him, but when she heard her voice her right next to her and screamed in surprise, Cleon put her hand her close to her clothes and cleaned it. Use magic

‘How can I stand… Among all of Layla’s magic, this magic seems to get used to it faster than fire magic…’

It’s a bit complicated, but the sauce disappears neatly, and the loose clothes she was wearing instantly become dry as if they had been freshly washed and dried in the warm sun.

“Uh, uhhh! It’s amazing…! With such a convenient magic, you don’t need washing machine No. 1 ‘Roll around’…!”

“Ha…?”

Is there a machine that does laundry, in this space?

While thinking the same thing, Cleon, who confirmed that her clothes her were clean, removed her hand her and stepped back, while Kanon nodded while scratching his messy hair her.

“Go, thank you. Huh… Ah, this… Take it and eat it…”

While doing so, Kanon handed over a plate full of tempura.

Cleon sighs and grabs her plate her with one hand and her wrist her with the other.

“Ahhh!?”

Although she is having seizures while letting out a strange scream, Cleon ignores such screams and talks, perhaps getting used to her handling her.

“Okay. Let’s go sit down and talk. Relax.”

“Hee, hee. Yes, yes…”

Although she was frightened by Cleon’s grabbing of her own arm her, she tried her best not to provoke her as much as possible, thanks to Cleon’s appearance her in her, she was able to shake her body her of while trembling. It was a nod of the head of her.

Like that, when he brought her to her table, she sat down in front of her pile of dishes, and she glanced at the two of them while talking.

“Um, what do you want to ask me…? I, I’m just writing while quietly living here…”

“I wonder if it has something to do with the story I told you about that you can see Asteris here… “

As Cleon said that, when she raised her head, she could see the town of Asteris, which had been visible from the glass on the wall.

Earlier, when she grabbed something like a stick and swung it around, the illusion that she started to play was still going on.

“This, this… Was made to look outside… Kah, it’s using something called a camera to transmit images towards this place…”

“Camera?”

Some of Kanon’s words were unintelligible, so when Layla tilted her head, Kanon said, ‘Oh, there. That’s… That…’ She said, seeming at a loss as to how to explain it.

“Eh, among magic tools, there’s something like a crystal ball that saves images or images… Well, you can think of it as a mechanical version… But now… With a transmission function…”

“…Do you understand what that means? Lila?”

“Roughly. So, it’s like a clairvoyant that can be used without borrowing the power of magic. It’s convenient.”

“Oh, oh oh… Yeh, as expected, the head of the magic department at the academy… Uh, great understanding…”

“…Did I introduce myself?”

Lyla questions that her canon knows about her identity her, she asks in a low voice, but-

“S-I’m sorry! It’s not that I did a background investigation or anything like that! It’s just that I got to know you by accident. It was presumptuous! Now that it’s come to this, I’ll cut off my pinky finger and apologize to Miss Layla!”

“Ugh…! What is this guy saying all of a sudden…!”

Kanon, who seems to have taken Lyla’s words as a threat to himself, has a paroxysm of paranoia and pours out apologetic words at an incredibly fast pace.

Cleon then casts her mind-stabilizing spell on her to calm her down and talk.

“Calm down, I know. You must have been observing us with that ‘camera’ right? … If what I said earlier is true.”

I was going to make myself the main character of the next novel… I guess.

It was a story that made me feel a little uncomfortable, but it is a development that would have happened if she had made Lesia the main character of her novel Her.

“Ahhhhh, that’s actually that, not only the video, but also the voice, but if you try to listen to the sound on the street, it’s too noisy, so you can only hear the sound sometimes!”

“So calm down…”

There are very few humans who continue to remain so unstable even after receiving her mental stabilization magic of her, but Cleon could n’t help but sigh as she talked while shaking.

“At this rate, I don’t know how many days it will take until we hear about Gaios and Rakshasa…”

“Eh.”

At Cleon’s words that sounded almost like a complaint, Kanon, who was struggling, stopped twisting his body like a twist and turned his head towards Cleon.

“…Now, did you say Gaios?”

“Ah, ah…But…?”

When Kanon, whose voice had suddenly calmed down, asked such a question, Cleon nodded his head in bewilderment.

Then, with a rattle, she leaned her upper body towards Cleon, grabbed the table and asked a question.

“Did you just say rachal!”

At that momentum, Cleon unconsciously nodded his head her, and Kanon fixed his body her as if he was looking straight at Cleon, then sighed and sat down again.

Then, he lifts the teacup that was placed in front of him, takes a sip of the tea, and exhales.

“…”

If Cleon or Ryla is still looking at her, waiting for her to say something, bewildered by her reaction her a moment ago-

“Oh, please don’t mind.”

“Are you kidding!”

Leila raised her voice, unable to bear it at her attitude of talking quietly as if the previous incident was nothing.

“What, what?”

“Your reaction to what I just said was as if you knew about the two no matter where you looked at it! We’re here to hear that!”

Kanon’s frustrating attitude she eventually makes her angry and raises her voice.

And Kanon, looking at Layla like that, is terrified again saying ‘Hi-Ik’.

Thinking that this would stop the story, Cleon grabs Layla’s wrist her.

“Lyla. Wait a minute, I’ll talk to myself.”

“What!?”

As soon as she heard Cleon say that, Layla looked down at Cleon, asking what she was talking about.

“…Every time you talk, this guy gets scared. Don’t worry. Just step away and be quiet.”

“Keugh…”

At Cleon’s words, Layla looks at Kanon with a twinkle, but Kanon’s long bangs protect her eyes from the glare.

“Okay! But if you don’t get a proper answer, I’ll force you to speak!”

“What, what are you planning to do!? Torture with flame magic!? Heehee! Get smoked! Force yourself to become a Dark Elf!”

Cleon, who was able to turn her sigh as he watched Leila walk away from her dining table as she sighed, sighed and exhaled.

Then, frightened by her Lyla her, she lowers her head and taps her index finger on the table in front of her trembling, ‘knock-knock’ her to bring her back from her delusional world.

“Excuse me. It’s okay now. Lila said she’ll wait over there. She needs to calm down a bit and tell her story about her.”

“… Uh, uh… Yes, yes… I’m sorry… It’s my first time talking to a person in hundreds of years since I came here… Ah, no… Come to think of it. It’s my first time talking to humans other than elves…”

Originally, she did n’t have the personality to mix well with people and words, but as she became isolated in her hiding place her, she hid herself even more and became a person who struggled with human relationships.

“I think I know. To tell you the truth, I like my time alone, too.”

“…”

When Cleon said that, Kanon slightly raised his head and looked at Cleon.

“Uh, with so many women around, it only sounds deceptive to say that you like being alone…”

“Oh, that. No… That.”

Cleon scratched his head in bewilderment at Kanon’s verbal abuse that pierced the core, and Kanon closed his mouth for a moment before muttering “Heh,” As if laughing at himself.

“It’s okay. I know very well that there is a difference between a voluntary outsider and a person who inevitably becomes an outsider. Come to think of it, that kid who was my childhood friend didn’t get along with people, so I thought he was the same as me, but it turns out that he just likes to be alone… He was a kid who was good at greeting and talking to people if he could… Seeing how he pretended not to know when he made eye contact with me in front of the villagers, I realized that he was different from me…”

She went into her own negative spiral again.

“Uh-i. Got it. I’m sorry, but can you come back?”

To get her out of her stream of consciousness, Cleon tapped her finger on her table once again, making her sound.

“…So, as a continuation of the previous question… We are looking for the ‘Earth Dragon Gaios’. It is a dragon closely related to Asteris, but because of the Dragons role play, all records about himself have been erased. I mean, I’m following it little by little based on scattered hints.”

“Go, Gaios-sama…”

At Cleon’s words, Kanon nodded as if he understood.

“When we investigated the ‘Oberti’ family, which assumed Gaios’ involvement, we found the mask of ‘Rachal’ in the basement. And- as we followed the records of the Rakshasa, the name of a shaman named ‘Nayuta’ came up “The only thing recorded was your book. That’s why we came to you.”

“I, Nayuta…”

As before, Kanon nodded while repeating what Cleon had said.

“Then, I’ll tell you directly. Do you know anything about Gaios? Where is he now?”

“I-I-I’m sorry. That… I don’t know…”

To Cleon’s question, Kanon immediately lowered his head and answered in a voice full of regret.

Then, Cleon almost sighed, but for now, he put up with it and nodded, saying, ‘I see.’

“But, did you know about ‘Nayuta’? Probably, he was a real person…”

“Ah yes.”

When she nodded at Cleon’s words, he questioned her to take her one step further.

“Dragons, including Gaios, do not intervene unless humans disturb the balance of the stars. The fact that such a dragon destroyed the Oberti family that made the mask of Rakshasa means that there must be a link between Rakshasa and Gaios. That you do.”

“Uh, that’s right…”

Kanon nodded once again as if he understood Cleon’s words of hers.

“Among the remaining documents related to Rakshasa, the only thing that mentions ‘Nayuta’ is the one you wrote. So, I came here because I thought that the knowledge you have about that era is the closest to reality…”

Kanon, who had been quietly listening to Cleon’s words of her, answered Cleon hesitantly, facing his fingertips of her.

“Ah, hey, that… The story I wrote is about 90% true. 10% of the adaptations are dialogues, or the parts that have minor problems…”

“…Then, is it true that Raksha and Nayuta were actually in love with each other…?”

“Ah, yes… But… That… There seems to have been one more… Looking at the current manuscript, should I say something is weird…”

Cleon was silent for a moment at her words, then raised her head and spoke.

“One more…?”

“Yes. I know it well because it was written by me, but it seems that the natural story of ‘there must be one more person’ was being conducted by forcibly reducing the number of people… Uh, maybe, that’s what Cleon-san said , before Gaios-sama got into the game. I thought it might have been the influence of tampering with his records…”

Cleon heard her words and immediately grabbed Kanon’s hand hers.

“That’s it!”

“Hehe!?”

“It was the same with other history books! Important parts were missing, and the incident was happening with obscure technology! It’s the same as your book!”

To Cleon’s words, Kanon answered confidently, “Ah, that’s right”.

Then Cleon looked at the distance of Asteris being played on the wall for a while, then turned back to Kanon.

“You’re getting all the knowledge you need to write a book through that camera, right?”

“Ah, yes. Most of the outside cameras are installed in various places in Asteris, and there are camouflage screens so that people can’t see them… I mean, would you like to go back in time with them? “

A look that seems unsure of something.

Then Cleon had no choice but to ask why. OK-

“I also looked at the video because I thought there might be another character in it… No matter how many times I watched it from start to finish, it didn’t come out… Perhaps, those videos were also influenced by Dragons role play. I’ll get it and fix it…”

Lastly, Kanon added the words ‘I’m sorry…’.

Then, Cleon heard that and looked at the video on the wall with a slight frown on his face.

Then, suddenly, Cleon felt something wriggling in his pocket her.

“No sleep!”

“Yes…?”

Hearing the voice coming from his pocket, Cleon grabbed what was in her pocket and pulled it out-

There, the Schrödinger was packed inside.

“… Was there?”

“It was there from the beginning! It was asleep. Well, I heard the story roughly.”

After Schrödinger said that, he straightened his face and looked at Kanon. Then, Kanon opened and closed his mouth in bewilderment when he saw Schrödinger like that.

“That, is that what the doll is talking about… ?”

“Don’t worry about it, homunculus! More than that, young lady! The things she’s wearing are all relics made with ‘techniques from the primordial world’!?”

Kanon hurriedly nodded at Schrödinger’s words, and Schrödinger looked up at Cleon and spoke.

“Then, dragon magic can’t work perfectly. Because dragons are a race created to protect the world of the ‘succession world’, I heard that magic doesn’t work properly on the ‘relics of the primordial world’!”

“Listen…? From whom?”

After Cleon asked Schrödinger, she said “Ah” And nodded as if she knew who it was.

If you think about it, Schrödinger was a homunculus created by ‘Maxwell’, a human who handles such artifacts.

“So… You mean you can revert the video to its original state?”
“Well… Well? At least I can’t… But if there’s someone ‘knowledgeable about artifacts’ it might be possible.”

Cleon hears the story and looks at Kanon, but Kanon is unreasonable! As he said that, he shook his head.

“Well, I’ve certainly been using a camera for hundreds of years, but I’ve never done editing or restoring… Well, should I say I don’t know about that part?”

At Kanon’s pitiful story, Cleon looked back at Layla, who had been slightly away from her, and called her name her.

“…Lyla.”

“It’s impossible for me too. I’m not an expert on this part. But- experts know. Cleon, you’re the one who knows.”

When Layla says that, Cleon shuts her mouth for a moment, and then she goes ‘hot’and comes to her senses her.

Come to think of it, they’ve already met.

An expert in ruins, and an existence with formidable desire for knowledge and curiosity.

“Are you talking about Artis?”

“That’s right! I said I’m coming to Asteris according to the Five Elements Festival, so it’s time to arrive at Asteris soon. If I told you about this place before the Five Elements Festival started, I’d run to you? It will be possible to come.”

At Layla’s words her, Cleon nodded her head as if to say what he said.

“…Then Kanon. I’m sorry for bothering you again and again… I’m going to bring an expert on artifacts with me, is that okay?”

When Cleon spoke to her politely, Kanon replied with her dazed expression, “Yes…?”

“Yes!? You’re coming again!? This time with someone else!?”

Once again, he understood the meaning of the words and let out a screaming voice.

“Ah. When she comes, we may be able to investigate her ruins her and restore her camera image of her. Then, the discomfort you were feeling can be resolved.”

“…”

Upon hearing Cleon’s words of her, the inside of her was truly the height of chaos.

Accepting two people as a hiding place required great determination, but on top of that, one more person?

And the videos he’s collected like a voyeur – not only for work, but also embarrassing videos taken for personal interest and ‘use’.

The thought of having to show it all to a complete stranger made me faint.

“…Canon?”

As her head her overheated as if it were about to explode, Cleon grabbed her hand her, which was convulsing as if she had a seizure.

Rattle! And when her heart her, startedled by that sensation, jumped out as if it were going to jump out, she looked at Cleon from a very close distance and made a face as if she were about to die…

“Ah, I see…”

“Ah, thank you!”

When a handsome person with his face pressed against him, he can’t help but shed regret about himself that he can’t refuse.