Chapter 149 – Episode 148. I’ll Go Now, Just Tell Me (1)
“But it doesn’t really matter. A crystal ball is just a fortune-telling tool.”
Vera Shien, who had been talking as if she had left behind something important in the world, corrected her expression as soon as Asti let go of her hand and straightened her posture.
Asti realized that he had been deceived only when he saw Veracien, whose face had returned from a devastated expression to a smile as usual, but it was already too late for that.
Running back and tearing off Veracien’s collar, it doesn’t look very good in terms of the atmosphere.
“I’m afraid someone isn’t a real demon… Very sinister. Was it fun to follow people around and watch like that?”
“It was so much fun?”
It was a knife answer.
She didn’t hesitate at all and said it was fun, and she said in her fortune telling that the expression of the two people’s bewilderment was really worth watching. How on earth should she kill Vera Shien?
“But, one thing is clear. Apparently, there were two wives by Leopold’s side in the past. Yes, I can still see the wives of both of them. However… Um, by the way.”
Vera Shien stayed still for a long time, staring at Leopold and Asti’s faces.
For a while,
For a while
Silently, without saying anything.
“It’s strange.”
“… I don’t think it’s something to say after looking into people for a while. What’s strange?”
Although he didn’t really show it, Leopold was paying as much attention to the fortune as Astrid and Asti.
Isn’t that the only way to do it?
At that time, Leopold had never dreamed that Astrid would be with the two of them in one body like this, and besides, it was a time when he and Astrid had mixed feelings.
I did, but if her wife said two, everyone would be bothered.
Whoever the target is, of course, will be concerned.
Two silver-haired wives.
“At that time, there were definitely two of them, and they had silver hair… To what extent, to the extent that only the outline is visible? It looked a bit blurry, but that’s all. I think I can see it quite clearly now.”
Strangely, Berathien was the same.
Astrid and Asti were clearly visible when fortune telling through the crystal ball.
I mean, physical characteristics—those voluptuous breasts and silver hair, for example.
If only I could have known that much.
It’s looking pretty clear now.
However, that appearance bothered Berashien.
What I couldn’t understand when it was blurry, now I’m concerned.
… Can you?
Even so, if the two souls are mixed,
If there is one body and two souls,
Then at least—
No, it can’t be.
“… It must be because of the mood. Because if you don’t have a crystal ball, you can’t do the dots properly. It’s a rough point, so it’s a rough result.”
But neither Asti nor Astrid could laugh it off.
For that reason, Berathien’s words were too, too… I was worried.
There was something I thought was a bit strange lately.
Originally, the only time Astrid, the real Astrid, could occupy her body was for an hour a day.
After an hour, Astrid was forcibly replaced by Asti under any circumstances.
However, as Leopold changed her titles according to her titles, from about that time Astrid stopped being particularly courted even after an hour.
In other words, she was able to stay with me for more than an hour.
It wasn’t until Astrid was able to be out all day, but still, compared to before, the time she was out there was clearly longer, and besides, even if she was out for as long as possible, Astrid could come out anytime whenever Leopold called.
Could it be that these changes were revealed in the form of dots—
Do, imagine that.
“Um, it’s near here… “
Vera Shien got off the wagon and looked around, then frowned.
The people who got off the wagon were not particularly different.
A stench that stings her nose as soon as she breathes in.
A stench that makes your lungs dirty just by breathing in.
“No, why did you come here? You said you ran away and came to the garbage dump?”
“I came to the same place.”
“It’s true,” Astrid nodded at Eranya’s words.
After running away like a rat, I thought I came to a place where only rats could thrive.
“So where did you go from here?”
As if she couldn’t stand it, she thrust her fingers into her nostrils, and an arrogant frowning Eranya pressed Veracien.
If possible, she wanted to kill Astain as soon as possible and leave here, that was all she thought.
It is a place where dead things are gathered.
It is a place full of dead things, rotting and rotting, and exhaling the stench.
Even if it was Erania who insulted her world tree and left, she was an elf, so there was no way that a place full of objects like this would fit her constitutionally.
“… There is no sign just cut off here Where did you go?”
“He said he would be here!”
It was about to ring because of the smell.
Just like Asti and Eranya, he was full of thoughts of wanting to kill Astein right away and leave this place.
“I just said that this is where you can feel the last trace? But when I came back, it wasn’t here. The trail is also cut off here.”
“No, then how… “
“Hey, wait a minute. Why are you staring at me like this?”
Berashien was also a little annoyed.
She also made it clear.
There is no guarantee that it is here, the remaining traces are here.
She did, but she couldn’t understand why she insisted on sleeping like this.
“Whew… Well, there must be another way.”
Vera Sien raised her index finger.
At the tips of her fingers, her fingernails grew long, and a purple aura began to bloom from the tip of her fingernails.
And her fingernails intact —
Head to my temple.
“… Hut.”
Leopold gasped for breath.
Asti also stared blankly at Veracien.
“It’s a demon.”
It seems to be a demon, just like Erania said.
Vera Sien’s fingernails dug into my temples, digging for a long time until finally her fingers dug into her head.
It sounded like she was whipping thick soup with a ladle.
What are all her fingers? Vera Shien, who had thrust all five of her fingers into her head, stirred them for a long time.
With a gurgling sound, Veracien uh, isn’t this— is this? Ah, this is— while talking to herself, Leopold, Asti, and Erania just stared blankly at her without saying anything.
“Found. There is a way, fortunately.”
After wandering through her head for a long time, Vera Shien finally smiled.
Vera Shien pulled her hand out of her head with such force that it sounded like an auditory hallucination.
There was nothing on her hand like a lie.
“Her contract with Astein has not yet been completely broken. I know roughly where it is.”
Berashien, who has such a refreshing smile, looks rather strange.
“Because the contract is still in place, the contractors can know the location, albeit roughly. Therefore… Oh, it’s over there there.”
Berashien pointed in the direction.
However, even if you look in the direction Verathien is pointing in this rather large dump, you will not be able to recognize anything.
“Looks like you’re heading north.”
“I don’t know why North again. Besides, there is no wagon, so how are you moving?”
“If you have money, you can rent a carriage as much as you like. I’ve never seen Astain get upset because of lack of money, so isn’t it natural?”
There are plenty of means of transportation.
If you have money, no problem.
“I wish we had come sooner. Maybe we could have caught it right here.”
“No, I don’t think so.”
Eranya was still pinching her nose.
Leopold and Astrid had gotten used to her scent before they knew it, so she was a little better, but she and Erania were not.
“You said that contractors can know each other’s location. Even roughly.”
“I can tell.”
Yes? Veracien nodded her head to Erania, who seemed to confirm.
“Then, you mean Astain can roughly know where you are. In the end, whether it’s your contract or something, it means that I can’t catch Astain if I go out with you until it’s completely broken.”
“Oh, that’s how it works.”
“That’s why Astain might have figured out that you were coming here and ran away.”
“That goes too.”
“… That, um So, why did this come to this conclusion?”
“I don’t know… “
Leopold and Astrid are sitting facing each other in the carriage.
I figured out where Astain went and which direction he went, but since Astain was able to know the movement on this side, we decided to move separately.
Veracien agreed to stay with Eranya, and she agreed to wait a few days and come back when her contract was completely over.
On the other hand, Leopold and Astrid decided to move after Astein for now.
She decided to move like that.
There are only two left.
It was embarrassing.
