Chapter 353. The purpose is only sightseeing (5) We’ll be waiting for a while.
There was a light knock on the door.
When the queen lightly replied, “Come in,” someone entered with the sound of small footsteps.
A dark elf in a maid outfit.
“Ella?”
Isn’t it Ella, the maid of honor of Celia, who is serving us this time?
why is she out here?
“No… There’s no way she could be a business partner…
I muttered involuntarily.
In the first place, lately I have been meticulously examining the signs of those approaching us.
So, after concluding that the dark elf didn’t matter?
[no no! Aren’t you this dark elf sister? This is the gray older brother.]
A strange voice came from Ella’s side.
A male voice with a slightly frivolous feel.
A sweet voice came from a little further down.
“???? uh?”
[Yes, yes. I finally noticed hahahahahahaha!]
It was the skeleton in Ella’s arms that burst into laughter.
A pure white human skeleton roughly assumed to be that of an adult male. Now this voice was coming from that skeleton.
“This is kind of bizarre again…
There is no way that even I would not be stunned to see something like this.
Yes, definitely a partner is a partner.
However, his condition was unreasonable.
Just looking at it, doesn’t that look normal? It’s a skeleton in the first place.
“Why are you like that?”
[Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! As expected, even an older brother would be surprised at my appearance!]
What on earth is fun about?
Not only his appearance, but also his mental state only seems to have passed the expiration date.
“Could that be a sage?”
“…I know what you want to say.”
The Queen reacted delicately as if she understood my feelings.
Don’t avert your gaze and look straight ahead, right?
“But it is real. No doubt.
Isn’t that right, sir?”
[Oh yeah. no doubt Hetia. It was I who taught her! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. This guy had a hard time because his head was so bad. Hahahahaha!]
“That’s true… I’ll hang it on a rope from the top of the castle’s top floor later, so be prepared.”
[The teacher’s treatment is so bad.]
….Well, what should I say?
What the hell are these idiots?
I listened blankly to the conversation between the two and came to a conclusion.
I guess I’ve come to the wrong place.
Can I go back’? Can I go back to my wife? The night is still long, huh?
I don’t like being caught between these weird things.
In the meantime, Ella placed the skull on the table and quietly left.
Now, there are only three (?) of us left here.
….By the way, three right?
First of all, you have to hit it with one person, right? Am I right? I sighed at the strange atmosphere.
[Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Don’t be too disappointed, Mr. Gray.]
“This is Arell. No…. It would be meaningless to drop the pretense anyway. Can I comfortably say that this happened? From the looks of it, you seem to be on this side too.”
[of course! I’m comfortable there too! Oh yes. Call me Cressel.
It looks like the older brother in gray has been around quite a bit too! Are you still surprised by my appearance?]
“Of course you are surprised! I’ve been through prenatal, water, air, and space battles, but I’ve hardly seen anyone acting like you.”
From this conversation, I was certain that that skeleton was a reincarnated person.
But what the hell is that?
Why is it in the form of a skeleton in the first place?
undead? rich?
no, neither is it?
What was the meaning of the undead with only their heads before that?
Is there a decoration under the neck?
So did you remove it?
It is unreasonable for me to even guess that far.
“Why are you acting like that?”
[…There is a little bit of circumstances in this appearance.
don’t get me wrong I don’t do this because I like it.]
“If I did it because I like it, I’d be surprised. What the hell do you do to make that happen?”
[I will explain including that. After all, it’s not that the older brother has nothing to do with troublesome things in the future.
Just want to talk about us first? Is it okay?]
“As you like.”
I readily agreed.
[As Mr. Gray sees, I’ve been giving you pretty generous advice to make this idiot a queen. As you can see, I needed someone to take care of me. So I got involved here and there.]
“…Is that why you call me teacher?”
“Even though it’s like this, I often borrowed wisdom… even though it’s like this.”
Hetia muttered something stupid.
The eccentric skeleton who made her a queen.
I’m still curious about the relationship between the two.
It’s a personal matter, so I’m afraid to ask.
“Then did Kelly induce the founding of Cressel to make it a place for you to stay?”
[Half right, half wrong. It was Hetia’s intention to integrate into the kingdom. I was just giving advice there.]
“Hmm…. It’s kind of a troublesome relationship.”
In other words, does this skeleton only give advice and not reign supreme over her head?
In the end, it is said that it is this guy who came up with the idea to build the city and the tourism plan.
My route is also subtly different.
“How much do people around you know about this?”
[Only Hetia knows my identity.
The rest just think of it as an artifact that lends me the wisdom of being a self.]
“Sage was kind of like a code name.”
Fortunately, not many people seem to know about this.
[I’m also like this, so getting involved in troublesome things is not something I can do.
It hurts my pride to be treated as an artifact, but I can’t help it.]
“Since when did you become like that?
From the looks of it, it doesn’t seem like you did it voluntarily, did you?”
[If you look at it roughly… Where? Could it have been a thousand years?]
“. A thousand years?”
Oops! What a shame you lived!
I clapped quietly.
It’s not admiration, it’s outrageous.
“The reason I met you was because I happened to pick up a teacher abandoned in the mountains.”
[The tribe that kept me was destroyed and I was buried in the mountains for about 200 years.
Ha ha ha! Back then, Hetia was just a messy kid. Ah, I miss that time.]
I am not interested in the memories of the two of them. put it away
“I don’t understand… why did you live like that for a thousand years’? I don’t get it.”
No matter how much I think about it, there is no reason for reincarnated people like us to live like that.
They are not a family that can have regrets in life.
It is far better to die and start a new life than that.
Of course, I know that this way of thinking is not normal.
Still, isn’t it much better than living like that?
[…There are circumstances. Again, not voluntarily. I also like to start a new life if possible.]
He seems to agree.
[If I had to say why I ended up like this, it wouldn’t be a glorious memory…]
“What is it?”
[I can’t help but say that it was the result of being robbed by some damn bastard.]
Cressel erased his frivolous voice for this time and muttered in a low voice.
“Who did you fight with? Who is your opponent?
fellow trader?”
[that’s right. Guys like us.]
Who did you fight and defeat to end up like that?
I understand, but I don’t go.
“Hmm…? Can I take a look at your condition for a second, Cressel? I think that would be easier to understand.”
[However much. Rather, I wanted to ask.]
“Then??????
I put my hand lightly on the skull and started examining its exact condition.
It was to see for myself what kind of magic was going on and whether this really was the body.
“…What is it? Is this real?”
[Oh how is it? How is it?]
“Wow? Terrible?”
Even I got goosebumps, albeit slightly.
This is because it is a seal that allows the ‘malice’ itself to be felt.
Apparently he died some time ago.
Perhaps this human bone is his.
However, not only was his soul sealed in the skull so that it could not leak out, but it was treated in a thousand different ways so that it could not be broken by any impact.
Certainly, it’s not a waste to say that it’s been like this for a thousand years, right?
It is typically a seal intended to annoy a specific person.
“Even for gods, they don’t seal it this way… This is…
[Yes, it’s a way to seal people like us. Looks like the older brother was thinking about this too?]
“I was just thinking about it. I’ve never actually done anything crazy like this.”
The reason is that you are too harsh on your opponent.
Because I don’t feel the need to.
Usually, I just cut the string coolly.
“Which one put this seal on?
Are you the guy who said he cheated a thousand years ago?”
Have you ever heard of this?]
“I only know that someone messed with it in the past. Spirit King… And the dragons seemed to know, but they didn’t teach me.”
[Ah, surely those friends would know. I must have suffered terribly at the time.
Hahahahahahahaha!]
Hmm…
[It wasn’t a big deal. It was just a minor ideological quarrel. Why must you have gone through similar things a few times? Conflicts of opinion are common among guys like us, are
n’t they?] “That’s right. Well, I’ve been there a few times.”
It’s not uncommon for reincarnated people to fight each other.
Basically, there are parts that don’t like to interfere with each other.
Because they are so self-subjective, there are not a few cases where they collide once they encounter each other.
I’ve had quite a bit of experience getting really pissed off at least a few times, grabbing someone by the collar and pushing them down to the bottom of the mantle.
“But… I don’t usually have a reason to do this.”
[There is a situation. At that time, I properly fed him candy. I don’t regret anything, but hahahahaha!]
“Oh, is that so?”
I’m not very interested in the other guys’ business.
Don’t you know if it’s a spectacle that happened in real time?
What interest would you have in the past? I can’t even taste the popcorn.
“So why did you ask to see me?”
[Ummm, please ask me first. Can you break this seal? Would you break it if you could?]
“Impossible.”
I asserted
It’s not heartbreaking.
I thought about it for a while when I looked at the condition of this child. If liberation had been simple, I would have done it a long time ago.
However, we have to conclude that it is impossible.
“There are too many spells involved and they are complicated. Besides, this is the type that can’t be broken as long as the person who put the seal on it is alive.
This type of thing is so annoying… I see!”
Having said that, I realized one thing.
“…is he still alive here?”
[It looks like that. That bastard is also very tenacious… I guess it’s wrong to get out of here for a while.]
“Did you want to be sure of that?”
[Anyway, the atmosphere is a bit unusual these days. I wanted to be sure. why’? Does the older brother know who was playing the prank?]
“Is he the one who made you like that?”
At that time, I knew that there was a guy who brought strange winds to the saintess.
I’m only guessing, but I’ve never met him in person.
[Ah… that’s right. yes it must be him Maybe…..]
“Maybe…?”
I couldn’t help but think it was strange because he suddenly spoke sparsely and vaguely.
[Since I’ve been living like this for a thousand years, my memories are sometimes confused. I can’t remember his face right now. Please understand this.]
“At first, sometimes, but I also confused my name.”
Hetia patted Cressel’s smooth hair as if she was dumbfounded.
“What dementia? Well… I’ve lived like that for a thousand years… I guess the excessive sealing also played a part.”
If left in such a state for a long time, it will also affect the mind.
If it stays that way, won’t the ego disappear someday?
At that point, enough malice is sensed.
