Chapter 600 – Chapter 600 Magic School Shutra (4)
First of all, I didn’t feel hostility or murderous intent towards the souls.
(Oh My God….)
(How long is it?)
(I thought no one would come again.)
I didn’t even feel any sense of wariness, let alone hostility or intent to kill.
However, I remained vigilant while watching those souls, and spoke to Armonia via telecommunication.
‘Show me the temperament window.’
[All right.]
With the words of Armonia, disposition windows began to appear on the heads of the surrounding souls.
And after looking at the temperament window, I was able to know the identity of these souls at once.
Nello Stadtfeld, Roy Stadtfeld, Heinz Stadtfeld….
‘These are Luna’s ancestors.’
Being in a graveyard would make it seem natural, but in reality it was not.
In the first place, when a person dies, the soul within him naturally goes to the afterlife.
However, only these people cannot go to the afterlife and stay here.
Let me question and look around….
(Does that friend see us?)
(Ah, no way….)
(I think you’re really seeing it?)
At first, he was just curious about the way a man and a woman were together, but now he started whispering, paying attention to my gaze.
‘Let’s start by talking.’
The spirits did not feel any hostility, let alone murderous intent, and above all, they were Luna’s ancestors.
I already knew it by looking at the temperament window, but even from the outside, it didn’t look like an evil person.
I slowly tried to get out of the blanket.
However….
“Huh….”
Luna grabbed my wrist and started dragging it in her sleep.
But I carefully grabbed Luna’s hand, released it from her wrist, and covered her with the blanket.
‘Because if I get caught talking to the spirit without blocking magic, I could be treated like a psychopath….’
I don’t know anything else, but I didn’t want to be treated like that by Luna.
I left her Luna and moved to an empty space in her room.
It was a large space, so there was no need to go out of the room.
Right at the right place, he performed the Sound Isolation Magic.
That was the moment.
As soon as the spirits saw my magic, they erased their smirking expressions, changed their expressions to frightened expressions, and started making a fuss.
(Uh!? What is it? The magic circle just pops out?)
(Did that friend do it?)
(Has such a technology been developed lately?)
Perhaps because they are from a family of wizards, they started to actively talk about magic.
‘Suddenly it became very noisy….’
I immediately cut off their conversation and opened my mouth.
“Hello.”
(Oh my? Was it real that you saw us?)
“Yes. You can see it, you can hear it.”
At first, everyone was amazed that I could see spirits and hear them.
However, the fact that I could see and hear it was surprising for a short time.
(How did you do that?)
(Hey, who was the last one of us here?)
(That’s me.)
(Ah, was it the last time you came? Did you have skills like that when you lived in this world?)
(I’m seeing this for the first time too. I can’t believe such a thing is possible…)
They didn’t seem interested in me or Luna anymore.
I was only focused on using the magic circle I had cast.
‘Luna has properly inherited her family blood….’
Their appearance and behavior were different from Luna’s, but the atmosphere was very similar to Luna’s.
The image of Luna who clung to me for the first time to teach me how to use the magic circle….
I adequately explained them.
“This is a skill that only I can use. Other wizards cannot use it.”
(Does that make sense…?)
(If I had that kind of ability, I would have made a fuss to get him in another country…)
(Is it only Nara? He must have started directly from Stra?)
(Looking at this guy wearing a uniform, he looks like a Strauss student.)
It seemed that conquest had finally arrived.
At least one old woman did not take part in the fuss and asked me a question.
(By the way, what happened to these two sleeping here?)
(At a glance, you don’t seem to have a relationship… Are your wife and children from our family?)
The eyes of the spirits here began to turn to Luna.
More than half of these souls had silver hair.
In other words, it meant Luna’s lineage.
The souls also intuited that they were their blood relatives just by looking at the hair.
“Yes. This is Luna Stadtfeld.”
(What? That girl is Luna?)
(That kid grew up like that? Already?)
(Hey… I look exactly like how I looked when I was younger.)
(Ayy, I don’t know where I resemble you other than my hair… Ghast!)
Suddenly, a battle of souls began.
Well, no matter how loud it is, the sound of the soul.
I proceeded to talk about the souls of a couple who are engaged in such a melee.
“Can I ask you something?”
(What request?)
“Are Luna’s parents here by any chance?”
The purpose of my conversation with them.
There was only one.
Luna’s parents.
Since there is no soul that recognizes Luna right now, it is judged that there is no one among them.
However, it was believed that the spirits who continued to live here could definitely call the spirits of Luna’s parents.
However, as soon as the spirits heard my words, they started noticing each other differently than I expected.
‘What? It’s suddenly quiet.’
The spirits noticed each other and began to look around.
And in the midst of that silence, two spirits began to approach me.
It was a silver-haired old man with a solemn expression and a white-haired old woman full of charisma.
Even though she looked quite old, the elegance that radiated from her sturdy appearance was art.
But apart from admiration, what they said was enough to disappoint me.
(Unfortunately Jurgen Stadtfeld… My son is not here.)
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..
Luna asked me while watering the silver flowers planted in front of the tombstone.
“Have you had a bad night’s sleep?”
“Yes?”
“I think you are tired. You can sleep more if you are tired.”
“Oh, no. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help….”
At my embarrassing words, Luna smiled lightly and said.
“It’s okay because it’s all about giving them water.”
“Then let me remind you of the water.”
“… Thanks.”
I noticed that while Luna was watering the flowers, she carried a bucket and came out of her graveyard building to fetch water.
And even when I came out, I couldn’t relax my expression.
The reason my expression hardened was simple.
(Hey, he’s also very talented at such a young age.)
(My child never stopped by except when I died. How nice it would have been if that child were my child…)
(Oh, Dad! I told you I was really busy back then!)
(Does it make sense that I can’t even stop by the back mountain because I’m busy!)
The loud voice of the spirits pierced my ears without realizing it.
‘Ah… Shut up….’
I couldn’t tell if they were originally noisy people or if they became noisy people after they died.
Maybe it’s because I’m excited about a visitor after a long absence….
I listened to the chatter of the spirits and remembered the stories I heard yesterday.
‘Where am I if I’m not here?’
Hearing Luna’s grandfather’s words, he knew that Luna’s parents were not in this graveyard.
Even with [Soul Summoning], Luna’s parents couldn’t be found.
The story is that, like the souls here, they are wandering somewhere in this world.
As I thought so, let’s get to the shore of the lake….
(Oh, I can’t go any further than this.)
The noisy spirits began to look at me with sad faces.
I asked the spirits watching me from afar as I drew water from the lakeside.
“I can’t seem to get far, can I?”
(Yeah. We can’t get far from the graveyard.)
I could be sure of this.
‘It’s saying that Luna’s parents are also tied up somewhere right now.’
And there was one expected place.
[Sound from Atler… It is most likely two people.]
‘Great. Let’s check it out right after we get back.’
Thinking so, I fetched water from a barrel and started heading towards the cemetery building.
And on the way back….
(By the way, where are you from?)
(Before I was alive… No, even after I was dead, I’d never seen a black-haired human….)
“….”
The chatter of the spirits haunting my ears continued endlessly.
However, apart from bothering my ears, I was able to find out some information.
It was that the remaining souls were not from an older generation than expected.
The oldest person was Luna’s great-grandfather.
In addition, it seemed that any blood relative of the Stadtfeld family would be given the right to be buried here, even if they were not in direct lineage.
So that’s a lot, but….
Seeing those ghosts reminded me of one regret.
“I wanted to see you once, but it’s a pity.”
(Who do you mean?)
“The first head of household.”
Claudia Stadtfeld.
I heard that I have a close relationship with the dean, so I wanted to meet him in person and ask what kind of person the dean was in the past….
It was none other than Luna’s grandparents who responded to my answer.
(He wasn’t already there when we got here.)
“… It seems that the soul has a lifespan.”
Said the gravekeeper.
The lifespan of the soul is the memory of those who remain in this world.
So it was questionable.
‘I thought, of course, if the dean was still there….’
But at my questioning expression, Luna’s grandparents shook their heads and answered.
(I’m not sure about that.)
“Yes? What do you mean?”
(This is a story we have heard from our ancestors in the past, but…)
Luna’s grandparents noticed the spirits around her and opened her mouth with a trembling expression.
(It is said that the first head of the household was not present from the beginning.)
If that was true….
‘Wasn’t Claudia Stadtfeld enshrined in this cemetery from the beginning?’
[Or, unlike these people, there is a possibility that he went to the afterlife from the beginning.]
Armonia’s words seemed rather persuasive.
I put the water down for a while and cast [Soul Summoning Art] To find Claudia Stadtfeld.
Result….
‘None….’
There were only similar names, but no exact matching names.
[This side of the afterlife may function differently than Yggdrasil. I don’t think you need to be too sure.]
‘But… You don’t have to worry about it that much. I just wanted to see your face.’
Thinking so, I erased my thoughts about Claudia Stadtfeld and returned to Luna with the water.
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..
Finally, the third day came.
The stay itself was not a big inconvenience.
The spirits did not make noise while sleeping to see if they had thoughts.
In addition, Luna fell asleep next to her, so she was able to sleep well.
After sleeping like that, as soon as I woke up, I headed to the last tombstone with Luna.
Luna and I looked at the two tombstones side by side in front of us.
‘It’s a tombstone with no one there…’ .’
Luna must be looking at it, thinking that her parents would be in it.
But there is no one in it.
This time, as if the spirits were aware, they were whispering to each other so that I couldn’t hear them, looking at Luna from a distance.
I didn’t care about those souls and thought to myself.
‘I’ll look for it right away when I get to Atler. By the way… What if I don’t have one?’
What if the beings roaming Atler Castle weren’t Luna’s parents?
You’re going to get into a messy situation.
You can’t go all over the area looking for Luna’s parents.
I said to Luna, who looked at her tombstone with her sad eyes.
“Reminds me of water.”
“… Yes.”
Luna didn’t seem to have the emotional space to share her words at length.
I started heading towards the lakeside like yesterday.
While drawing water, the spirits did not make noise unlike yesterday, only whispering to each other.
It was the moment when I was about to put water in the barrel and go back.
Luna’s grandparents stood in front of me and talked to me.
(Is it true that I said that the only child left in the Stadtfeld family?)
The spirits already knew that the Stadtfeld family had gone extinct even before I told them.
Since it is a graveyard on the mountain behind Atler, it was said that residents of Atler occasionally came to know about the situation.
However, they do not know the details of the situation.
“Yes. I wish it wasn’t, but… I think it’s almost certain.”
I answered all the questions I knew from what they asked.
From the extinction of Stadtfeld to the story of Luna’s life so far….
It didn’t seem like a big problem because they were dead, and above all, they were Luna’s ancestors.
He answered, thinking that it was for Luna’s sake to be as polite as possible to her.
My grandfather heard me and began to notice the spirits around him.
And the spirits began to nod to their grandfather as if in approval.
(Representing the people here… I have a request for you.)
I thought it was an obvious request that the spirits could do.
Luna and Luna’s parents.
It’s probably asking Luna to be nice to her, or asking her to find Luna’s parents and bring them back.
It was the moment she thought about it and nodded her head.
(There is a hidden place in Atler Castle.)
“… Yes?”
That was completely unexpected.
What a hidden place suddenly?
Luna’s grandparents immediately understood my questioning expression and asked for a real favor.
(There is a Stadtfeld heirloom there. Please… Find it and give it to that child.)
