Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

Then the feast ended a while after we got back.

Lorraine's phantom magic and questioning attacks on me by the villagers who saw it were amazing.

I think Marto was recognized as an out-of-the-way demon.

… now.

I saw it again, I was definitely a force player against Tarask in Lorraine's work, but I knew it wasn't this far... Needless to say it was done to make me want to say.

He said that Lili would try to be as strong as that, or something, but at that point when she gets that strong, I'm over it.

I sincerely wanted you to stop.

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"... we don't have a lot of people's hands on this one, do we?

The day after the feast, Lorraine said so as she walked with me along the western edge of the village.

Walking is just an untreated “ex” road, a path or a growing haystack.

Because of its proximity to the woods and its danger, the houses here have been abandoned quite a while ago.

So technically, you would say a little outside of the village rather than the village, but it's in a subtle positional relationship that can't necessarily be said to be the case because sometimes a child comes to give it a try.

Well, even though I say it's close to the woods, it's quite open, so if you treat the weed, it's where you can normally live.

"It's been like this around here since I was a kid. I heard a demon came out of the woods once and attacked several villagers. That's when it was abandoned."

It was a long time ago before I was born, and I've heard that's about when Garb was young.

The only people who know that era are the ancients of the village, beginning with the village garb.

"Just a little out of the center, demons, huh? That's a lot of land."

"Country is like this everywhere."

Lorraine's dialogue belongs to an urban human being with almost no demons.

Even if Hathaler is too rural for boulders, villages on other lands are more or less under constant threat of demons.

Large exterior walls surround the entire town, and the environment is different from the kind of cities where guards and knights guard the gates.

Then you can live in the city, I'd say, but it's impossible to consult under all circumstances.

First of all, we have to set up a residence, but referring to the dwelling of the city that said so is quite expensive to rent.

Therefore, given that you seriously live there, you need a job that earns you enough money for it, but there is not much work place in the city that will hire you at the level of education of the villagers.

If a villager tries to live in the city, that's roughly where he packs it.

Still, if you think about it, you will eventually reach the adventurer, but this is the toughest choice, and if you don't have some kind of combat capability, you will die soon.

It doesn't mean we all have magic or care, and then the villagers have little or no means to move to the city.

Other than that, the villagers live in villages for various reasons such as not wanting to leave their father's land, making products that can only be made there because of materials and other relationships, or because they go to a nearby laboratory, which has to be here.

All this means is that it's dangerous or irrelevant.

"... certainly, behind this house"

That's what I say, stopping in front of an abandoned house.

Lorraine looked up at its abandoned house,

"... like an abandoned house with no weirdness whatsoever..."

That's what I said.

And I...

"That's right. What did you think there was?

Ask.

Lorraine is

"Because there's a temple behind it dedicated to something, I thought it might be a house with a special role to say so. I think it was my fault."

"I see, I know what you're trying to say... but if I did, I'd notice the boulder too. Whoa, over here..."

Though I used to go by for a while, years have passed since then.

I didn't come back to see much when I got home.

Therefore, there is no passage, and we proceed by tearing the sesame grass apart.

And

"There was. That's surprisingly beautiful."

When I discovered it, Lorraine said,

"... I don't know what the hell's going on with your head, Lent..."

and look at me with suspicious eyes.

I do know what it feels like to say that.

The temple in front of us, although it is the shape that keeps it, was wrapped around depressed and lush, and was also eroded by rainstorms, and further tainted by birds and other manure.

You can't even say it's beautiful in flattery.

But.

"... you're so much prettier than I used to be when I found you. I'm just keeping my shape."

"Was it that bad?

"Oh. The roof part was completely corroded, and even the main body part seemed to be corroded where the support was located and connected with about one piece of thread thickness. I touched it for a second, and when I lost my balance, it could have collapsed."

You fixed it.

How dare you, well, it's what did such a pain in the ass, Lorraine with the look on her face.

Now that I think about it, I think I did a great job, too.

"In the meantime, even if I fix it, there's nothing I can do if I don't know the prototype, so I started by breaking it down carefully. So, replace the part from there that doesn't seem to work... but it's close to newly-built because it almost didn't work. Still, it wasn't a good part to use yet, and the pillar part survived a bit. Oh, my God, it felt so good."

"Still, if I don't take care of it for ten years, will this happen... If you've been away for ten years, you might be beautiful."

And, at the end of the day, Lorraine is also convinced.

"That's the thing. All right, then, Lorraine. We'll clean it."

"... hmm?

To Lorraine, who leaned her neck against my statement, take out and give her the cleaning equipment she kept in her magic bag.

"Lorraine needs you to accumulate water like this by magic. I'll cut it off. I hope it's over by evening."

Pretty forceful, but Lorraine also looked at the temple again and apparently understood.

"... well, you're the one who gave me the power to make a considerable contribution to survive. In the meantime, from showing gratitude..."

So she sighed and Lorraine grabbed the cleaning gear.