Chapter 135 – [Porter] Princess Ertina
After a while, we all sat in a circle in the room.
Everyone was sitting comfortably except for Arin, who was about to burn because her face was so red.
“Wizards, then priests…”
Ruella looked at her Arin as if having fun.
When I left Aseila, I think the atmosphere was pretty bad, but now it doesn’t seem that bad again.
It’s still an unknown year.
“Oh, your hands are quite dry. I’m surprised.”
Louella said as she stroked her darling cheek.
We didn’t know what that meant, but Arin asked with a puzzled expression.
“… I hope that little girl…”
“This is what black magic is.”
… No, that pickpocket was Luella?
“Then is that old woman a fake too?”
“No, he is a real elf. Luella was just pretending to be his grandson.”
“Why did you do that?”
At that, Sarah smiled slightly.
“Yeah… Because I wanted you to notice it naturally.”
So they knew that the old elf knew the legend of her sleeping princess, and they asked us to find her even though they knew she was somewhere in her forest.
What, why did you ask?
“Yes, it makes me wonder. Then, let’s move on to the main topic.”
“Did you have a point?”
Seria asked awkwardly, and Louella looked at her with her sneering smile.
“Then we must have come because we were bored?”
“Luella, don’t keep arguing. Anyway, we came here… Because we couldn’t find her. Instead of us, you all found the sleeping princess.”
At those words, Seria frowned and asked.
“… You don’t even know where it is yet?”
“Ah, to be precise, it should be called the hero and elementalist of your party.”
“… Huh?”
Dragon and Yuni?
Hearing her words, we all had a moment of anxious imagination.
“Wait, you two found a sleeping princess? How?”
“Exactly, I found almost everything. I don’t know the details, but it seems that the elemental lord knows the location. Ertina must have left something behind.”
Ertina was the former elementalist.
Was there any relationship between the two?
“… Necklace?”
“Did Ertina leave it? Then you must have seen her hand so that you could locate her necklace.”
Come to think of it, Uni said she got the necklace from the cave of trials.
After all, that was the item used by the Elementalist of the last Hero party, so it was Ertina’s necklace.
While we brainstormed for a moment to make sense of the situation, Sarah provided a little more detailed follow-up.
“We are looking for Ertina, but we couldn’t find her because she hid herself. However, she left clues to Yuni, a fellow Elementalist, to find her. So now the two of us went to look for it.”
“… Why aren’t you coming with us?”
At those words, Ruella and Sera smiled at the same time.
“Why?”
“…”
There was only one reason.
Upon hearing this, Arin’s expression darkened. She still hasn’t completely abandoned the warrior.
“Well, it’s your business, so let’s move on… We’re going to go after the Elementalist right now, are you guys coming too?”
“… Why are you making such an offer to us?”
To those words, Ruella answered instead.
“Because you deserve it too.”
Calm expression.
Luella looked at us with her adamant attitude that she wouldn’t reveal any more.
“… May I ask you one question?”
Arin, who managed to win her heart, asked.
Sera smirked as if she was having fun, but she nodded her head as if to try something.
“A person named Ertina and everyone… What is your relationship?”
“Maybe… If you go, you will find out naturally.”
Sera’s smile as she said that seemed to show her uneasy future.
***
Eventually we decided to follow them.
Taking risks wasn’t my thing, but the fact that the hero and Yuni were doing something important in a place we didn’t know was more important.
“By the way, how are you going after Uni?”
Seria asked curiously as she removed the trees in the forest to the girls who were just trying to find the direction of Yuni, who was already invisible.
Sera reached out her hand instead of babbling her words.
Then one of her squirrels scrambled up and climbed onto her hand.
“… Maybe as a blessing?”
When Arin asked in surprise, Sera looked at her.
“Didn’t I tell you? The essence of blessing is to manipulate the opponent’s body. You can even control your vision and hearing.”
“…”
Arin lost her words and was dumbfounded.
She had barely grown enough to stop her opponent’s movements, but her strength was still not up to Sera’s.
“Would you like to try it? You should be able to do it too.”
Why the heck is the Four Heavenly Kings teaching the enemy such things?
It’s absurd, but it’s good that she’s getting stronger anyway.
“Huh, it’s a strange teacher-teacher relationship. Seria, would you like to learn black magic too?”
“It’s crazy? Why do I tell you…”
Seria was embarrassed and frowned at her.
It seems that the situation feels strange to her as well.
“What are you? Are you an enemy or an ally?”
In the end, I annoyedly asked them.
I didn’t feel any hostility from them before.
If we deal with them clearly and sincerely, we will never be able to win on our own, so maybe that’s why they just play with us.
“I hope to hear the answer soon. Because you arrived.”
Saying so, Ruella showed the scene in front of her.
“What, what…”
The space of the forest was distorted.
As if someone had repainted the landscape at will, only certain spaces were mixed with bright colors.
“Now, would you like to go in first? The party is inside me.”
No, into something I don’t know what?
When we didn’t move our feet quickly, Sarah added a sneaky comment.
“If we go too late, the hero might die.”
“What are you doing, Arin? Let’s go in.”
Upon hearing those words, Seria moved her feet first without hesitation.
“Three, Seria…”
“Why, let them die? Do not forget. You’re now your master’s slave, but you’re also a member of Eric’s party. I can’t let a party member die.”
“All right. Let’s go.”
Hearing those words, Arin also strengthened her resolve and approached.
“Would your master be here? It might be dangerous.”
“Oh my, that’s a nice loyalty.”
“… Now that I think about it, it would be better for us to protect you than to stay with you guys.”
Seria glared at her Luella and came to defend me.
“You don’t have to worry. We’ll go in too.”
“How many reunions…”
No, then you want me to wait here alone?
“… I go too.”
“All right.”
Damn, when I went, wasn’t it already dead?
I set foot in that strange space with them, imagining anxiously.
Fire!
As soon as we entered, a strong wind greeted us.
The dark forest went somewhere, and a space filled with bright light appeared.
In this space, more like a meadow than a forest, a strange group of lights floated around, and a blonde elf stood in the middle.
And next to it, there was a figure of a hero who unknowingly rolled on the floor and got up and grabbed a sword.
“Eric!”
Seria shouted, and the warrior looked at her with bewildered eyes.
“Uh, how did you get here… ?”
From the side, Uni looked at us with an expression of disbelief.
However, their eyes soon fell on Luella and Sarah, who had followed us.
“Ha… I said that I couldn’t find it for some reason, but I did this…”
“That sounds like Ertina.”
The hero’s bewildered face was quite worth seeing.
“Luella and… Sera… ?”
They looked at the hero with a stupid face and the face of Yuni, who couldn’t keep up with the situation, and threw out one word at a time.
“Good job, Elemental Sergeant. I found her thanks to her.”
“Thank you, warrior. You really did grant my wish.”
… Could this be us being used?
I don’t like it a little bit, but I can’t forgive the hero and uni who tried to do such an important thing without our knowledge.
“That woman must be Ertina.”
The blonde elf was glaring at us with deathly vigor.
Sensing the battle, Seria squeezed her staff.
“… I feel like I’m out of my mind right now.”
The warrior hesitated for a moment before speaking.
Yes, hearing the circumstances is later, and the more important thing is to get over this situation safely.
Yuni openly frowned at her, but she was in a hurry, so she had no choice but to shut her mouth.
I wanted to, but still…
We rejoined and regrouped.
“It seems to be dealing with less wind. They knocked us over with a mighty wind.”
“Can’t Yuni hit back with her elemental?”
“… It doesn’t work because you have stronger control than me.”
I think that’s an important factor between spirits.
Yuni answered with her trembling face and shut her mouth.
“Flaw… That’s… Louella… Sera… Traitor bitches…”
While we were seriously thinking, Ruella and Sera were approaching Ertina.
Ertina grabbed her hair and glared at them.
“It’s the same for you, Ertina.”
“If we count sins, we are all equally guilty.”
They raised their hands while alternating incomprehensible sounds.
“Therefore… Calm down for a bit.”
Her movements, which seemed like she was about to run away, stopped.
“Ugh… Aww… ! Sera… Sarah… !”
Sera sealed her movements,
“Huh… ! Ugh, ugh…”
Luella forcibly calmed her heightened emotions with an unknown magic.
“… I don’t think we need to fight.”
Arin, who saw this, muttered, but Seria still did not let go of the tension.
“What are you talking about. If I’m wrong, I might be able to deal with all three of them at once.”
Gradually, the relationship between the three is vaguely guessed.
Ruella and Sera, who calmed down Ertina, turned to us.
“Should I say goodbye now? As you can see, she is not in the right condition and I think we should introduce her instead.”
Saying that, Sarah glanced at Luella.
“You do it.”
“Whew, yes yes yes.”
The two chatted for a while, then regained their composure.
“Hmm. As you may have guessed, this woman is Ertina. Your senior elementalist… She is the fourth of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King.”
“… Also you…”
Seria gritted her teeth and glared at them.
“Did you notice? I am Sera, the Four Heavenly Kings who command all the Inma… He is a human who was the priest of the Hero party 400 years ago.”
“Of course I… They were human 400 years ago. In the name of Rudniel, the first Mage Tower owner of Rudniel who subdued the last demon king like the hero.”
As expected, they were all members of the last Hero party.
