The Elf Is a Freeloader

─ ─ ─ Both of us were very sad at the end of our lives.

But that's something I knew in advance.

Together, he told me that if I die, I and my people can be free.

Following those words, the companions were saddened that they were gone for a while, but eventually traveled one by one.

Where have my people gone? I don't even know that.

But I... I wasn't the only one going anywhere. Because I didn't want to forget about the whole thing.

Together with this ring that we gave me, I stayed there the whole time.

How long has it been? In the first place, we hardly have the concept of time. After we met together, I learned something called time.

When I realized that.

I realized I had no idea.

And that was a very scary place for me and my people.

Because there was hardly anything like me out there.

I suddenly realized that.

That's definitely a sign of the Spirit. It's very familiar to me, being a spiritual user.

But the signs are very weak.

It was close enough to finally feel it.

Yeah, no.

That's weak, but it's going to disappear now.

So I ran off unexpectedly.

I acted without saying anything to that guy, even though I thought in the corner of my head not to worry.

Still, as much as we have to do so, the power of that Spirit is weak and smaller.

Because the Spirit was desperately calling on me with only a few remaining powers.

So, I am.

Even if we were to worry about him, we rushed to the Spirit.

"I'm sorry I acted so casually all of a sudden"

Elle first said so and bowed her head to you.

Elle, an adventurer, is well aware that one can put an entire companion in crisis by acting on his own initiative.

But at that time, Elle ran out of his mind, even though he knew it.

"Right. How could that Spirit have tried to protect Elle, including around... explain that to me?

"No! Wait, Yasushi! I need to check with Elle before that!

Elle and Yasushi's conversation was suddenly interrupted by a clogged look.

"Hey, hey, Elle? also, could this be... the... world where el was born and raised... or what? Now we're in El's world?

Apparently Ryu has been worried about that.

As for Yasushi, I thought this was not El's world because of vegetation, etc., but Ryu probably couldn't believe it was.

If you look at it, the look on your face is also stiff. I'm sure she must feel the same way about Ryu.

It is certainly not natural to be anxious that you may have suddenly been distracted into a different world.

To such a rhubarb question, Elle shook her neck to the side.

"No. This isn't my world. Definitely the world of Mr. Yastaka and Mr. Takashi."

"Well... no, I'm finally relieved to hear that"

Ryu exhales loudly to appease him. The aye next to it was also reassuring and the expression was somewhat soft.

After Elle tells you why she ran out on her own, she explains the Spirit Remplers to you.

"The phantom spirits, Remplers, were afraid of Yasushi."

"Us? Why is the Spirit afraid of us?

You guys suddenly told me you were scared. They turned their faces toward Elle, all aligned and proper.

"Compared to us elves and Yasushi, the spirits' hearts and senses are a little different."

Spirit is a conscious mana, says the intellectuals of the Elle world.

Now the Spirit has no flesh, and there are many different parts of the way people think and perceive things.

For example, I don't know why I want to eat something delicious because I don't have the concept of time or appetite.

They say that spirits who have made covenants with spiritual users learn them for the first time through their spiritual use.

"If you look from the Spirit, this world must be a very scary place. The people of this world cannot feel the presence of the Spirit. Of course, there are so many people in this world that some of them may feel spirits, but at least, I've never met anyone in this world with the same spiritual qualities as me."

I mean, the Spirit can't learn about this world.

There are no spiritual users in this world who are "teachers" who teach the Spirit about this world.

And this world, which I don't know, was felt in a heterogeneous and horrible place for the Spirit.

"No matter how much I talk to you, I can't hear you. For the Spirit, I think it's... it's very lonely and scary."

Naturally, this human being living in such a world would also be heterogeneous and horrible to the Spirit.

That's why the Spirit was afraid of Yasushi, the people of this world, Elle said.

But in the meantime, a presence called El appeared that seemed to tell me from myself.

The Spirit also mistakenly assumed that Elle was frightened by the incomprehensible.

So he tried to protect Elle, a discerning being, from the incomprehensible health.

"That was the skeleton Yastaka and the Lantis Tribute we saw earlier."

"Right. You tried to scare us away by showing us skeletons and other visions, didn't you?

To Aye's words, Elle nodded that he was right.

"But then how did... uh, Lantis manage to show us what an adventurer looks like? If you want to scare us, you just have to show us the phantom of a monster that's even bigger than an old man like that."

"That's right, because the strongest thing in the world for Remplers is not a dragon, not a giant, but an adventurer, the Lantis Tribute."

"So the recent suspicious noise is also the work of that Spirit, after all?

"Yes, a signal against me, a spiritual user, while keeping the people of this scary world away... I guess that turned out to be a rumor"

When the humans of this world approached, Remplers was displaying visions of the skeleton and driving it away.

And creating that phantom had also become a signal to Elle, a spiritual user.

"But Remplers' power was so weak... it didn't even reach me, who was in the next town, even though it was close. That's what I finally felt when I got here."

"Right. Then you were right to take this liver test."

"Yes."

When Elle replied to Yasushi that way, the phantom of the mansion of the adventurer Lantis Tribute, which Remplersus was creating, suddenly appeared crooked and distorted.

"You shouldn't! The power of Remplers is like the limit!!"

"I don't know where the spirits are!?"

"Well, that's... the spiritual power is spreading around because Remplers is creating a phantom, and I'm not sure where exactly!!"

It was Elle who entered the mansion ahead of you, but for that reason he was not able to face Remplers directly.

Later, as I was searching around the mansion, I ran into you.

"Speaking of which... Speaking of spirits, where did the spirits of El's water go? I totally forgot..."

"Pi-kun would be here, wouldn't he? We just met inside this mansion."

When Elle calls the name of Water Elemental, the Spirit of Water, he (?) bounced Po Yan and rode over El's shoulder.

Seeing that pi, Elle comes to a certain point.

"Right! If it's the same Spirit, you might know where Remplers is better than I do! What do you think, Pi?!?"

Pi jumps off her shoulder and jumps down the corridor of the distorted mansion as she bounces a few times to respond to Elle's words.

Elle, Yasushi, and Aye and Ryu all nodded at each other, then hurriedly began to chase after Pi.

Ahead of Yasushi, Bullet Muppy stopped in front of a certain room.

At the same time, the ghoulish and distorted phantoms that were driving your sense of equilibrium out of your minds disappear as if to undo it.

I was surprised at that. If I lit the perimeter with the flashlight that Yasushi had, I could see that it was a little off the example trail in the woods.

"Ho, you were a phantom, not really El's world..."

Check the familiar landscape around you and Ryu exhales once again in relief.

Elle closes her eyes and focuses her consciousness on whether she hears such rhubarb's words or not.

Desperately exploring the power of the spirits around me for a while, I could feel very slight spiritual power from a certain point.

Apparently the Spirit of Water felt it too, and Elle and the Spirit of Water hurried to move towards that point.

"Right here, Pi?

To Elle's inquiry, the Spirit of water, sifting, trembling and showing affirmation.

As Elle sat down on the ground in the dark woods, he hurried to scratch the fallen leaves and dig the soil out of the place with his bare hands.

Apparently, the power of the example spirits comes from within the earth. Yasushi, who so decided, helps Elle with twigs and pebbles that had fallen.

"Look, Elle. Use this."

That's what Ryu offered you, little Scoop. Apparently, he even put this stuff in his backpack.

"Pretty good, huh?

"This is also advice for the job. They say when you have tools to dig dirt, something can help."

This also seems to be the result of asking Elle for advice beforehand.

"Thank you, Mr. Takashi!

Elle smiled and thanked Ryu, and later he kept digging back into the dirt.

"... this is... is it...?

Yasushi muttered so watching what was on Elle's palm.

"Yes, this is it"

Something on Elle's palm. It was one ring dirty with dirt.

Is the material brass or something? Originally gold rings have been buried in the soil for a long time and have faded completely.

"I hope the Lantis Tribute had sealed each of the spirits who made the covenant in the ring."

The spiritual user seals the contracted spirits in some item, calling them if necessary or drawing their power.

The same reason Elle puts the Spirit of Water in a water bag, which is a pet bottle now.

And now, the ring on Elle's palm must be the ring that the Lantis Tribute sealed the phantom Spirit, Elle says.

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Elle focuses her consciousness on the ring and desperately calls on Remplers in her heart.

─ ─ Remplers su in response. Let's make a deal with me. I'm not even at the feet of the Lantis Tribute, but I'll still try my best to sign with you... because I'll let you sign... please, come in!

In the power of Elle's spiritual use to date, he can only enter into covenants with the Spirit of One.

But now that the power of Remplers is weakening to the extreme, maybe we can contract as long as we can. That's what Elle had in mind.

Plus, if we don't get a contract here, Remplers will lose power and vanish.

For Lemplasses, who was originally weak, exercising his power to inform Elle of his existence was a mere act that could annihilate him.

In the world where Elle was, Mana, the source of magic, existed everywhere. And that mana is also the source of the power of the Spirit.

But there is very little mana in this world. For this reason, in order for spirits like Remplers to exist, they must be supplied with magic directly from spiritual users.

So unless we trade contracts here to supply Lemplarths with Elle's magic, Lemplarths will disappear as it is.

Elle desperately stretches her senses as a spiritual user. Eventually there was a reaction to the feeling that something gently touched it.

─ ─ Remplersus! You've responded!

Elle touched it ahead of her senses, desperately handing it over. And I managed to feel it clearly. Plus, I slowly poured my magic into it.

The change took place before you watched. [M]

The ring above Elle's palm sparkled.

A small figure appeared on the ring as the astonishing Yasushi watched.

About 15 cm tall. A silhouette that deforms a human to about three heads. Two wings like dragonflies on the back.

Adorable figure dressed in green and wearing triangular hat of the same colour. And most importantly, the dumpling nose that sits in the middle of your face, big as it is, may even look a little cute depending on what you look at it.

"Is this... the phantom Spirit Remplers..."

Yasushi shrugs when she sees him.

Unlike water spirits who use water to create temporary early bodies, phantom spirits do not have a clear body. Perhaps what Yasushi and the others are seeing is also a mirage in the phantom.

To that evidence, Remplers' body was translucent.

As Yasushi stared into Remplers, Remplers grinned and lowered his head to Yasushi, disappearing as it was. At the same time, the blurry glow that resided in the ring can disappear.

Suddenly the spirits disappeared to surprise Yasushi, who told him that it would be okay after Elle exhaled heavily.

"Hey, I managed to get a contract. Now, Tsir is okay."

"Tsir, huh? Is that the name of the spirits from earlier?

"Yes. They say that Zeel is the name given to him by the Lantis Tribute. When you re-signed with me, you continued to sign under that name."

Making a covenant with the Spirit also means giving him a name, Elle explained to you.

"Tseel-kun is a medium presence among spirits, and originally he can't contract on my strength as a spiritual user, but he managed to contract because he was weak and he himself wanted to contract with me"

Phew, and exhale again, El.

Apparently, she's pretty tired, and you guys know it well when you're watching her. Making a covenant with the Spirit is probably quite a heavy labor.

"Well...... then it's time to go home? It's been a long time, hasn't it?

Yasushi confirmed the time with his watch. I started my liver test around 8pm but it was now past 10pm.

Apparently, it was a series of unexpected things, and the sense of time was going crazy.

When Yasushi told him what time it was, Aye and Ryu rushed to pull out his phone and start calling.

Being late than I thought, I guess I'm letting you in touch with the house.

With that said, your phone is now connected. and Yasushi was thinking about that while watching the two of them.

Eventually the two of them finished the call, sighing in a fuzzy sigh.

"Are you all right?

"Oh, come back soon. In the meantime, it doesn't look like they're gonna get mad because I've contacted them."

"Me, too. But you can't relax."

If it was true, we all had dinner somewhere on the way home, and then I wanted to go home, and Aye went on to regret it.

"Well, then nothing has to be today."

The summer break has just begun. From now on, there will be as many opportunities for the four of us to go out and play again.

And even after the summer break, there will be a local Nissan City festival in September.

It's not a festival of that magnitude, but there are plenty of stores lined up, and fireworks are launched at night.

Even after the festival, there must still be some fun.

So Aye and Ryu also agreed with Yasushi's phrase, "It doesn't have to be today".

Elle too, again.

Along with the people who came to this world and got it.

And most importantly, I look forward to spending some time with that guy.

To the man, Elle smiled.