The plain and unnoticed me is no more

"Please wait, traveler"

Deeply hooded and with my hands on the door, I was summoned by the priest just before I left the church. I was going to leave in a gap where Irina-sama was distracted by her recovery, but it seemed impossible for her to do so.

I looked back and lifted the hood a little and saw the priest's face. Then the priest looked a little embarrassed.

"It's hard to say, isn't traveling healers healing everywhere and earning money from it? But we don't have enough money to reward you, so it's hard to leave without thanking you... so instead, stay in this church for any day while you're in King's Landing."

Oh, the reward... I didn't think about it that much. I don't think the healers of the journey were kind enough to heal me. I don't need a reward here, what makes you think it's weird? If you're really traveling, I'm happy with this offer, but I don't need it because I have a place to go right away.

I can stay just for tonight, just so the priest can feel better. But I'd like to go home and report it to everyone right now.

"Thank you very much. But tonight's accommodation has already been decided. I take it for granted to help the witch who serves God, so please don't worry. Yes, there is no reward, so promise me you won't tell anyone that I healed the witch instead. Even if you listen to my reputation here and come to seek healing with me and myself, there is only one body. Let's say the witch recovered from her illness."

"But then...."

Don't be too kind. In this way, it makes the other party pay attention.

Even if the priest called me here, I should have ignored it and left.

I shook my head sideways and expressed my intention that no thanks were needed.

"I'm... surprised. What a greedy man to say that he saved a man's life. I see. If that's what you're saying, let's do it. I will tell Irina-sama that there is no need to say anything else. Certainly, with the boy's strength, he won't be able to take it back many times...."

The boy? Does the priest recognize me as a boy? Chiyo knew that the contents were me, so even if I saw this, I would think that it was a girl, but there was no girl with such short hair, and since I imitated the way this character originally talked, it made me think that it was even more of a boy.

Then keep that mistake.

"Oh... yes, take this."

The priest remembered what he remembered, pulled something hidden under his clothes out of his collar, and held it in my hand.

"This is a very powerful stone. I've had enough of this stone to help me, so I hope you have this from today."

It was an amateur obsidian pendant when I looked in my hand. This is called a Powerstone. There were many things called that in the previous life, but in this world, it is a practical item that really affects magic and is used to strengthen spiritual power.

If it were such a big stone, how effective would it be?

The protective stone Fred gave me is also a kind of power stone.

"No, I can't...! Is this the priest's amulet?

"Apparently, you've been found worthy of having that stone. It is a protective pendant made of stone from a small country called Artemis, once at the western end of the continent."

Artemis!? That's my great-grandmother's country. Maybe he's from Artemis, too? At the age of the priest, the country would still exist.

Artemi, my great-grandmother's homeland, has heard that there were many people with strong magic and spiritual powers.

And decades ago, there was a witch with strong magic and spiritual power, and the battle against other countries to take away that witch began. However, as a result of the unprecedented natural disasters that occurred in the process, the small country Altemi was able to sink most of its land to the bottom of the water.

Before the natural disaster, the people had evacuated according to the prophecy of the priest, and the victims did not leave, but the people were forced to move to the country of refuge without a place to return.

My great-grandmother moved to Alford, an acquaintance who had taken refuge at the time, and met my great-grandfather, who was still a prince at the time, and married after a great love affair.

It is said that the myth is that the princess of the royal family raised deep in the temple is who was actually the witch who was targeted by other countries, but only some of the people involved in the temple knew about it, and because the people involved fled from natural disaster and died late, nobody knew the identity.

Whether Artemis' witch fled the country with the rest of the people or sank in the water with the temple remains a mystery.

All I know is that the witch is not my great-grandmother. My great-grandmother, like me, had no magic.

"It's not too much, I'll give it back."

Even though I was scared of obsidian stones of this size, if I found out it was an artemisian stone, I couldn't accept it.

This kind of thing is for my children and grandchildren... Oh, I see. The priest is not married, so you don't have any children.

"That's not true, please take it. I don't have a successor, and I was just wondering who the next owner of this stone would be. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, none of them did. You are the best qualified person. I'm sure it'll help."

The elderly priest must want to see who gets it next. I don't think I'll accept this unless I'm honest with you.

"Okay, I'll take this as a reward. Heal the priest... Now, if you'll excuse me."

I touched the priest's hand and told him to disappear.

Then the priest opened his eyes and shivered with a feeling.

Just as I was watching the witch recover earlier, the priest looked at me with a stunned expression, and then began to check his body.

"Ha... ha, great, you're a real healer. My illness and pain healed in an instant. Thank you very much. I will never say anything else about this."

Having left the church, I decided not to go directly to the inn from here, but to go a little further around the town and then naturally enter the inn on a stream of people.

Along the way, I saw someone familiar behind me, and I was walking thinking about who it was.

(Lana, what's wrong?

"Weiss... I recognize the blonde guy who just turned the corner over there, but I can't remember who he was..."

(Do you want to follow me?

"Wait a minute, I think I'll remember soon."

Speaking in a whisper with Weiss, he tried to pass the alley where the man entered, looking sideways, but there was no one in the alley, and the previous man's appearance was no longer there.

He's gone. I wonder who it was. You walk a lot faster. Or was someone chasing you? I think I've seen that back many times.

And when I got close to the inn, there were people standing there who could never have been here.

"You're lying... why? Did Evan give you any extra information? No way, the rice balls Evan bought at that time...."

(Lana, who do you know this time?

"Yes, I know him well. My ex-fiancé."