Chapter 876 – I Forgot!

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After Arnia 2’s explanation was finished, Anatis, who had been quietly observing the situation from behind, finally opened his mouth.

“I don’t remember the name Tenchi… But I do remember Hyeonmu. Once, when Gaius showed me his creation, he saw it for himself.”

That was hundreds of years ago, but Anatis looked as if she was imagining the distant past as she said this, and then raised a chunk of ice the size of her head in front of the two people.

As the surface of the ice melted, it slowly changed into a different shape in front of them.

It was definitely a turtle.

Except that it has a tail made of a snake’s head.

“This is the appearance of Hyeonmu that I saw.”

“It’s a familiar created by Gaius, the dragon of the earth… If that’s the case, then it’s also possible to use it as spare power to raise the fortress…”

Lila watches the figure carefully, then claps her hands together as if she understands.

“What. Anyway, it’s a simple story. If the fortress continues to fly in the sky thanks to the magic power being squeezed out from inside the fortress, whether it’s Tenchi or Hyeonmu, then all we have to do is go back into the fortress and take it out, right?”

When Laila says that, Bea thinks deeply and tells Laila.

“However, since the fortress has lost control, it will eventually fall to the ground if it loses its power source. Unless we come up with a way to make it fall slowly.”

“Of course I know. The problem is, how do you reduce the falling speed of an object with that much mass?”

As Lila nodded her head at Bea’s words and was thinking deeply, Anatis was giving her advice.

“You know, but it’s better to stop thinking that you can defeat it with a barrier like when you broke the balance of the fortress. Asteris’s barrier won’t be able to withstand such a large impact.”

“Well, I know that much. In the first place, it was a method that had to rely too much on Kuon and the Great Priestess, so it wasn’t even included as a candidate.”

As Lila says this, she searches through the knowledge in her head, trying to think of a way to take on the fort.

However, even though she was the head of the academy’s magic department and was called a genius, it was not easy for her to think of a way to bring down a huge air fortress to the ground without damage.

“Ugh, if that was a method that was widely available everywhere, we wouldn’t have had such a hard time when that fortress appeared in the first place…”

Even if it fell to the ground from the original altitude, it was calculated that the outer wall of Asteris would at least collapse a little, so why did things get so messed up?

It was a time when Laila placed the index fingers of both her hands on her head and groaned, trying to squeeze out her wits, thinking that the problem was that the Exiled Church was increasing its workload.

Knock.

When a knock is heard, Lila turns to the door and says, ‘Come in.’

Then, the door is carefully opened and squeaks. And Sasha thrust her head in and made eye contact with Lila.

＂Hey, over there. Laila… A guest… Has arrived.”

Lila noticed that Sasha’s face turned red for some reason as she spoke awkwardly.

＂… Are you my guest? Okay, I’ll go out. But what’s wrong with your face?”

＂… If you come and see it, you will understand…＂

While saying that and looking at Sasha waiting in front of her door, Lila shrugged her shoulders as if she didn’t know what she was talking about and went out into the hallway where she was waiting.

And she follows Sasha, who leads her to her living room, and when she gets there-

A woman was seen sitting with her own face on the face of Cleon, whom Amelia was caring for.

＂W-what are you doing!?＂

＂Ah, Lila…!＂

When Lila appeared, Amelia suddenly came to her senses and had no choice but to look back.

No matter where or how you look, she is kissing you.

Thinking that nothing else was visible to her and that only that scene filled Lila’s field of vision, suddenly Lila, perhaps startled by her scream, raised her head as she was kissing Cleon’s lips.

＂After-breathing?＂

And the girl looking this way with her cheeks puffed out was the youngest of her half-elder sisters,

＂No matter how much Cleon is sleeping… Wait a minute, what are those cheeks?＂

“Ah, sorry~! That’s why I stopped you!”

And, as if to stop Lila, her older sister, Zwei, runs in from the kitchen with a cup.

As Lila looked at the two people back and forth, as if she didn’t know what was going on, Zwei walked up to Draene and brought the cup to her lips.

“Ruler. It’s dry. Spit it here!”

＂Bueh…＂

It wasn’t a very hygienic sight, but Lila felt goosebumps running down her spine as she saw something green liquid pouring out of Dryne’s mouth.

＂What are you really doing…?＂

When Lila asks, as if kissing Cleon’s mouth is no longer a problem, Dryne speaks while wiping the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand.

“In order to treat Cleon’s injuries, I brought some of the elixir that the old man had.”

As Dry Ne spoke casually, Lila questioned her again in disbelief.

“… Could it be that medicine that was poured into that cup?”

＂Ah, ehehe…＂

Scratching your head sheepishly instead of denying it was no different from affirming that what was said was correct.

＂… I told him that he could pour it into a cup and pour it out little by little to his mouth, but he couldn’t hold back and said he would move it from mouth-to-mouth quickly… Sorry, it’s my lack of education…!”

It was Zwei, the older sister, who bowed her head and apologized for her younger sister’s actions.

As she repeatedly bowed her head and apologized, Laila felt sorry for the person who was questioning her, so she spoke while placing her hand on her forehead.

＂Okay, okay, so… Well. If it was an act of treatment, it was unavoidable… No, it wasn’t good… “

Thanks to Lila saying that, Zwei also sighs as if she is relieved.

“… I see. If it is an act of treatment, the act of touching mouth-to-mouth…”

Then, when she heard an anxious sound from Amelia, quietly rubbing her porcelain lips next to her, Lila opened her eyes and looked at her.

＂Amelia~?＂

“Oh, of course, I just thought that was it!”

It’s a lie, she was looking at Cleon’s lips with blushing and moist eyes.

“Sasha. Monitor.”

＂Eeh…＂

When Lila talks to Sasha like that, Sasha reacts as if she’s wondering what she’s doing.

In any case, this time Zwei was careful to pour the elixir that her sister had once held in her mouth and spit it out into Cleon’s mouth.

“With this, your recovery will be a little faster. I hope she gets her strength back quickly…”

“Not only are there injuries, but the depletion of physical strength and magical power is also significant. You can wake him up if you force him to drink a magic potion, but…”

Lila speaks while looking at Cleon with her hand on his waist.

“Cleon has already worked hard enough. If you wake me up before the work is done, I will go out and solve the problem voluntarily. “I want to rest comfortably now.”

＂…＂

Hearing Laila’s words like that, both Zwei and Drayne looked a little surprised and impressed at the same time.

As Handong silently watched Zwei pouring her medicine, she made a sound like ‘Ah’, as if the dryer had suddenly remembered something.

“Now that I think about it, Laila. Where did my sister go? “Isn’t the elder also with her?”

He was asking about the whereabouts of Aine, who had clearly headed to the fortress with Laila.

She volunteered to save the elderly person.

If she had rescued the old man safely, she would definitely have told them the news first, but when Aine did not show up, Dryne seemed a little anxious.

However, it was Laila who felt the shock, as if her head had been hit.

＂Ah.＂

And after making the same voice as Draene, she hurried out of the living room and headed toward the garden.

Gonzales, who worked hard today, was lying down in the garden resting in his usual state, and when he passed by at a fast pace, he looked up at Lila.

“Sorry! I forgot!”

“Did you forget…? “What?”

And when Lila made a seal with her hand and shouted a short spell, a dimensional door connecting the previously saved location and the current location would open.

What was visible beyond the portal was the familiar Helix Square and the fountain in the center.

＂I’ll be back for a bit.＂

＂Now, wait a minute, Lila─＂

Before the voice that seemed to be calling her could even finish, Lila passed through her dimension door and disappeared beyond it.

The people in the living room who were watching the scene all looked at the reverberation of her magic that she left behind with blank expressions.

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I got to visit my hometown again after just a few days.

Laila didn’t feel any particular sentiment, and just flew through the sky, heading towards the place where the Flame Watch mansion was located.

She must have told me to go here right before she sent Aine and Quartz away.

If Aine had listened to herself, she would have been here waiting for her with proper treatment.

With a “Blame” Sound, Lila jumped over the front door and stood right in front of the front door. She stretched out her hand and rang the bell on her front door.

Well, it might have been a little strange to ring the bell and try to get in when it was her own house, but there were other people living here now.

That is, the children that Cleon and his group rescued from the former imperial territory, and the Dacapo family that takes care of those children.

When you hear a child’s voice saying ‘yes~’ from inside, a moment later, the front door opens with a clicking sound.

And then, the one who appeared was Shitaka, a girl from the Black Demon Clan who was playing the role of leader among the children.

“Ah! It’s a wizard sister!”

Seeing her calling herself by her occupation as if she couldn’t remember her name, Lila gave her small answer.

＂My name is Lila…＂

“Yes, Lila, I’ll remember that.”

When Laila sighs, looking at her speaking well, Shitaka tilts her head and asks.

“What’s happening all of a sudden? Did you come to check if we broke anything in the house?”

“It’s not like that… No, you didn’t break anything for a moment, did you?”

When Lila suddenly became anxious and asked that question, Shitaka silenced her for a moment and then nodded.

＂Uh, yes.＂

＂That reaction is so unsettling…!＂

No matter how much she thought about it, Lila’s heart sank because it seemed like something was wrong, but there was something she had to deal with first.

＂Ugh… I’m worried, but I’ll do that later. Didn’t anyone else come here earlier? With navy blue hair… And a slightly unusual outfit. There must have been a wounded person with him. Oh, he must have been pretty hurt too…”

She thought she didn’t know how to explain it, and when Lila somehow explained Aine and the quartz that Aine was carrying, Shitaka tilted her head and shook her head.

＂Huh? “No one came home today?”

＂… Ha!?＂

So, where is Aine now?

It didn’t seem like Shitaka was lying.

“Ah. Come to think of it. The kid who ran errands at the market earlier heard that people were gathered and making a fuss. After that, she said that the green-haired sister appeared and took care of her situation…”

＂Green hair…＂

What came to Laila’s mind was the image of Ben Tuna, a handsome girl with a body similar to her own.

“… That guy deserves it. Okay. Then I guess I should go visit him.”

As Lila says so, she rises into the air once again.

“He can only hope that that guy doesn’t do anything strange to Aine.”

Feeling some uneasiness, she was flying towards Ventuna’s mansion.