Episode 83

Merha was a face that had become a disabled person in a few days. He was staring out of her window with a blank face.

[Why, why don't you open it? I've been wandering around Yurif for a long, long time. I'm tired of wandering for too long Please give me warm apple ginger tea like before. Please give me my favorite navy blue dressing gown. Please call Miha, my priest in charge…….]

“Go away, go away!”

Now, Listralpo appeared out of nowhere. Liszt Ralpo banged on his windowpane, muttered, and disappeared.

“Why can't I see everyone! That guy is over there. You're standing there looking at me with both eyes wide open!”

Merha said while shaking his hands and feet. The ghost spit out facts that only Listralfo knew. So, Merha couldn't believe that the ghost was fake.

'The day I died is back again. Come find me in Yuripro. Where I disappeared……. Find me there…….

Don't you remember? It's today, it's today…….'

Listralfo repeated the same words. At that moment, Merha realized.

Today was the day that Listralfo died. Could I have forgotten even in my dreams? Clearly. That was the day.

“This guy! Do you think I'm afraid of ghosts or something?”

Merha, who suddenly came to her senses, hurriedly put on her coat. He limped out of the mansion, untrimmed and undressed. He was in such a hurry that neither the attendants nor the priests found him.

Two boys dressed as boy priests stared blankly at Merha. Then they slowly took off their hoods. The same face was revealed. It was Lazuli and Lapis. They looked at each other and nodded.

“Our fantasy magic, hasn't it rusted yet?”

“Then. It gets sharper by the day.”

The boys giggled.

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“Huck, huck.”

Merha didn't even know how to get on the gate. He frantically headed for the place where Listralpo had disappeared.

*​ *​ *​

“My wife. This is Elisha. I'm Count Rohr, and I'm going in as Daryl's son-in-law.”

Lucerne went around the banquet hall and greeted the distinguished guests. All the people greeted Elisha with respect.

“Nice to meet you. Lady Elisha.”

“There are rumors in the capital that the great general loves his new bride very much.”

There was a banquet hall in the forest of Yurif.

There were several tents with beautiful decorations standing in the empty, empty forest. Precious statues and flowers were decorated everywhere.

The top of the tent was decorated with magic lamps that glowed in five colors. Inside the tent where noble ladies rested, there was a lot of expensive furniture.

Even though it was still in the middle of the cold season, Lucerne installed many stoves using magic stones in the garden. In addition, he generously installed expensive magic stones, so it was as bright as daylight and warm as spring at night.

The seasonal banquets were opulent and splendid. People smiled at the skillful hospitality of the young and beautiful couple.

“I heard that the general is an outsider to this kind of thing, but a banquet sounds like it?”

“The banquet food is also very sophisticated.”

This was the common opinion of the noble ladies present today. Naturally, it was Elisha who took the lead in preparing this banquet.

'It's as easy as preparing for a banquet.'

In her previous life, it was Elisha who had prepared countless banquets and tea parties under Carola's orders. It was not difficult for her to do this.

Besides, she had a lot of money this time, so she just had to select a first-class company and entrust it.

The banquet was ripe. Lucerne took Elisha's hand and stepped out to the center of the banquet hall.

“Attention!”

The butler made a noise by hitting the glass with a spoon. People looked at Lucerne and Elisha, who stood behind the butler.

“Thank you for visiting today. My husband and I have prepared a special event for the entertainment of today's party.”

Elisha spoke calmly amidst everyone's attention.

“The game prepared for today is a treasure hunt. Your husband has prepared a little special treasure hunt.”

Soon Lucerne beckoned. In the air, Lucerne's magical beast, the shadow, appeared. Those who recognized the shadow were frightened. The shadow was a feared object that could claim hundreds of lives in an instant.

“Do not worry. The shadows are allies.”

Elisha spoke again and again.

Before long, the shadows moved as if they were swimming in the air. A part of the shadow is separated from the shadow's tail.

And a few separate shadows soon began to glow golden in the air.

“That golden light is the living 'treasure' of today's treasure hunt game. The shadows will hide all over the mansion and gardens, so whoever finds them will be presented with gold and silver coins.”

At those words, people cheered up. It was because the gold coin pocket prepared for the injury on Elisha's back was heavy even if you look at it. Such luxurious banquets were very rare even in the capital.

“You are really generous.”

“That must be fun!”

It was time for everyone to get drunk, so the reaction was very good. As Lucerne chinned, golden light spread in all directions.

People come together, or separately. They started wandering between the tents and in the woods, fluttering their fancy tailcoats and dresses.

It looked like butterflies flitting in the middle of the night. Elisha and Lucerne looked at each other and smiled.

“I can't get caught!”

“I got one over here!”

The golden shadow did not come into people's hands. At last one man had the shadow in his grasp.

“You caught the little shadow. I'll give you a bag of silver here.”

Sid of the Black Dragon Knights, Corinne, was guarding the table where the goods were collected, and smiled and held out a silver coin pouch. The middle-aged aristocrat who was injured by the heavy pockets cheered.

“Congratulations! Congratulations!”

People clapped. There were people who caught treasure everywhere.

“Here, I'll give you a bag of gold coins this time!”

“This time, I give you this wonderful sapphire!”

Corinne was very loud in her voice.

At first, people who wandered around like a joke gradually changed their eyes. The steps of the people running around in search of treasure became hasty, and desire flashed in their eyes.

“Come on, let's decorate the party!”

Corinne shouted.

At that moment, a large piece of golden shadow appeared in front of the largest tent. People flocked to the garden, one by one.

'If I caught something as big as that, how big of a treasure would I give?'

The people who thought of it shouted and attacked.

“I-I will catch it!”

“No! I'll catch you!”

Soon, the treasure was almost in the hands of those in the forefront. That was the moment.

Grrrrr. Gigi Profit.

A sound, like a rumbling in the belly of an animal, slowly reverberated from the floor.

And the floor, which was obviously grassy, ​​'opened' with a groaning sound.

And it showed up.

A young aristocratic young man, who was in front of him with his arms outstretched, almost fell into a hole in the floor. The people behind him reflexively grabbed his legs and stretched out.

He was hanged upside down with only his upper body in his pit. The young man's eyes met something in the pit.

“Aaaaagh!”

The young man's scream cut through the dark Yurif Forest.

“Me, over there. Inside me…….”

“What happen?”

Even when the young man came out of the pit with the help of people, he was out of breath as if he had lost his mind. People couldn't overcome their curiosity and pushed their faces into the pit.

“What? This. Is it a surprise event?”

Next moment. When I raised my head curiously, the lady let out a tearing scream.

“Quaaaaa

Golden shadow fragments glistened above the pit. As if to take a good look at what is revealed in it.

So perfectly, the whole truth was exposed to the eyes of the people.

“Poem, it's a corpse!”

“People, people are dead!”

“Everyone calm down!”

Corinne hurriedly ran away.

“I am Sid of the Black Lion.”

Corinne observed her corpse, and she cried out.

“Unbelievable. This is a real corpse.”

The lady, who looked closely at the corpse, fainted at the words. But Corinne didn't care. He exclaimed in amazement.

“Guys, gather around here. This man's face is strange.”

“Of course it's strange because it's a corpse, what kind of thing is that?”

“Look at this. Doesn't this man's face look familiar?”

At those words, people again poked their heads into the hole in the basement where the corpse was. Someone muttered.

“Ristralpo…… ?”

The corpse's face had the appearance of a very famous person.

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Merha first met Ristralpo when he was fourteen.

'Mr. I hope to go along well. I am ready to learn anything.'

When he first came to the temple, Listralpo knew that Merha was the one who would take responsibility for him until death, and he was very obedient.

However, Ralpo, who was admired by people over time and realized that he was a great person, did not.

“How dare you, the lowly citizen. Do you treat me as an attendant? I am not your babysitter.”

Merha muttered. A bright golden light appeared in front of his eyes.

'But why am I here now?'

She retraced the journey she had come to. Obviously, yes. She went to the gate. When the staff in charge said it was time to close the gate, he shouted and opened the gate exclusively for the imperial family.

'Although I am on duty, it is an absolute secret that I opened this. Help me.'

What did the employee's face look like? How did you get here then?

'Please lend me that horse!'

Then I somehow got on the horse. As he hurriedly moved, the owner of the horse gave him the reins and put his foot in the footrest. Right. It was.

Then, as if he had been rubbed by something, the bottom of his fingernail suddenly stung. Merha regained her senses from that point on.

And the place where her horse ran and arrived was in a dark forest.

'Right, he died here. Haha, who would believe such an idiot to be waiting for me? There's no way he's still alive!'

At that time, the sound of people talking loudly reached Merha's ears.

“Listralfoda! Here is Ristralpo!”

Merha rolled off her horse and fell. He stumbled and walked slowly, slowly, crawling.

'There's a ristralpho? Really?'