Chapter 62 – 60. Essil
Fortunately, the road to Padun was not difficult.
Because Esil, who was helping Arthur, was more capable than I thought.
Also, while walking and talking, I heard from Eshil that Arthur was looking forward to being promoted to a gold medal.
“It will take a few S-class subjugations in the future to receive a gold plate.”
“And! “I will congratulate you in advance!”
Arthur continued the conversation without a soul, but Essil continued her conversation without taking the slightest notice.
“Thank you. When my dream comes so close, it doesn’t feel real. When I was young, I only had a vague goal of wanting to make a name for myself as a wizard.”
“Ah. A wizard?”
During her conversation, Arthur realized that Eshil was lying.
It wasn’t an intuitive reason, like the way he spoke was strange, but because Eshil didn’t seem to be a wizard in Arthur’s eyes.
“May I ask what circle it is?”
Originally, it was very rude to ask a wizard about his circle, but perhaps Arthur’s words stung something, and Eshil did not recognize this and answered obediently.
“Should we call it the 5th circle looking at the 6th circle.?”
“… “
Arthur did not think that what Eshil said was a complete lie.
Maybe her power is really close to circle 6.
An answer that is half true and half false.
Arthur was worried.
It turns out that Eshil’s words were false, so she could hear the truth, but she didn’t want to get caught up in trouble.
If she thinks rationally, she should pretend not to know.
For some reason, I want to ask something?
“Esil. Why are you lying? “Not a wizard.”
Shocked-
“What are you talking about? “You saw me keep using magic, right?”
“I find that fascinating too. A person who uses magic even though he doesn’t have a mana circle in his heart. Is that possible?”
“!!”
She looked confused at Arthur’s words, but actually looked around and used magic.
The tree roots that suddenly appeared on the ground bound Arthur’s ankles.
“Ah. I thought it would be like this.”
“What are you doing, you idiot?”
Misunderstanding. Can we solve it.?
…
Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to resolve Esil’s misunderstanding.
She may have been lucky, but from Arthur’s point of view, she didn’t lie and only told the truth, and unexpectedly, she was easily believed by Eshil.
“So, you felt like I didn’t have a circle?”
“Yes. “It’s been a while since I gained this ability, so I can’t explain it in more detail.”
“Ha. If it had been a lie, I would have tortured you with water or burned you.”
“Hey.!”
Am I crazy?
If you lied, you would have done such a terrible thing to me.
You almost died a terrible death!
As if she didn’t know what Arthur was thinking, she just gently raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.
“Hmm. Okay, I think I can trust you.”
Tak-
At the same time, the sound of Essil snapping her fingers was heard, and strange things the size of her palm began to appear in Arthur’s eyes.
“Human. See. “Us?”
“He’s a fun-looking person!!”
“I want to sleep more.”
A short boy wearing a green hat.
A little boy with white moth wings flying around Arthur.
A blue little boy sleeping on Esil’s right shoulder.
Arthur had never seen a creature like this before in his life, but his heart was pounding strangely, and it felt familiar.
“What, do you see the kids? Normally it would only be seen as a symbol.”
“Symbolism?”
“Okay. It may vary from person to person, but usually it looks like a twig or a rock… I guess you have a high affinity for spirits?”
A spirit?
Of course, it wasn’t the first time she heard it.
A major forest in the southern part of the continent.
Because I knew that the elves living there were with spirits.
“Then Eshil is an elf?”
It was a reasonable inference.
I’ve never heard of a person dealing with spirits.
“Well.?”
Instead of answering Arthur with a grin, she took off her pointed hat.
What Arthur could see were round human ears, not the pointed ears that are the symbol of elves.
“Why? Are you surprised she’s not an elf?”
She would be lying if she said she wasn’t surprised.
Since humans cannot handle spirits, spirit magic was like an unknown territory compared to other fields.
Arthur also thought that perhaps the person in front of her was the first human to successfully make a contract with a spirit.
“Honestly, it’s amazing. It’s my first time seeing a spirit, but it’s a spirit that made a contract with a human.”
Arthur thought Esyl would look proud at what he said, but in reality she only made a sad face.
“Esil is not human!”
At that time, the moth(?) Spirit that came out from the side got angry at Arthur, and Eshil stopped it.
“Sylph, calm down. It’s not really a lie, is it? Because I am also half human.”
Could it be that he was a mixed race of human and elf?
In that case, it made sense for Esil to use elemental magic that humans cannot use.
“It was a half-elf. Come to think of it, I heard that elves don’t come out of the forest, but seeing it like this, it’s amazing. If you look at it this way, it’s no different from an ordinary human being.”
Arthur, who had just let out the thought that came to his mind, quickly closed his mouth, but she could not contain the words that had already come out of her mouth.
“There’s no need to make that face. Because I know it wasn’t intentional.”
“Well, it’s a common story, right? A story about a child born from the forbidden love between a human and an elf being ostracized. Well, I was lucky. “Maybe because he resembles his father more, but because he doesn’t resemble his mother’s pointy ears, he can act like a human.”
“Ah. I’m sorry.”
It was sincere.
Arthur also suffered from this, and she knew how painful it was.
On the other hand, when I saw Arthur’s expression darken, I brought up another topic to lighten her mood.
“Anyway, my kids seem to like you too, what do you think? Would you like to talk to each other?”
“Good! Good!”
The question was actually to Arthur, but the sylph answered, and she flew over Arthur’s head and landed on the top of his head.
“Let’s be friends with me, a good person!”
“Friend.?”
Although Arthur liked Sylph, he did not want to be her friend.
She’s going to die soon anyway, so it feels awkward to be her friend.
“Do you like it that much? They always say that humans are dirty.”
“This man is clean! “Isn’t he human?”
The sylph, who suddenly began to suspect Arthur’s species, climbed down to her shoulder and put her face against Arthur’s neck and began to sniff her.
“Sniff. It definitely smells like a human. But it doesn’t seem to be human.”
“What is that… Or aren’t you an elf too, Arthur?”
In fact, she said it as a half-joking comment to her sylph, but since Arthur didn’t know her own parents, he thought she might really mean it.
“I might be an elf.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
In fact, when Arthur reacted seriously to her own joke, she seemed embarrassed.
“Actually, I don’t have parents. “
“Huh?”
“I thought I was abandoned at birth because my eyes and hands were like this, but maybe my parents had something to do with it, just like Esil?”
“Well, that is.”
The moment Esil was at a loss as to what to say, Sylph inadvertently intervened.
“Sniff!! I think I’m in charge! “You are definitely a pure-blooded human!”
“… “
“… “
The atmosphere suddenly turned into a funeral home.
Sylph’s words seemed to drive a wedge into the story that Arthur’s parents had abandoned him, and only Essil, who had stayed quiet, ended up becoming an unfortunate victim because he was a contractor of Sylph.
“Are you okay. Actually, I didn’t expect much.”
It was true.
I can’t say I ever thought about what might have happened, but that’s really it.
Since I was planning to die soon, I thought it didn’t matter what happened.
I just did it because I thought that if one of my parents was an elf, I would have been able to die understanding why they were abandoned to some extent.
“I’m actually glad to know that you are a pure-blooded human. If either of my parents were elves, there might have been some circumstances, but if they were both human, they would just be trash that abandoned me. “You can swear freely, right?”
“Huh! That’s right, humans are trash after all!”
“Sylph!!”
When the sylph responded to Arthur’s self-deprecatory words, Essil immediately covered the sylph’s mouth.
“Haha. I’m sorry that the spirits were a bit clueless to begin with. “I’ll apologize on your behalf, Arthur.”
“No. Rather, I like it because it looks pure. “I don’t think I’m going to lie.”
“Well, then! Our Sylph’s advantage is that we only tell the truth…! And there are other abilities too! “I know how to detect lies, so I knew what you were saying wasn’t a lie in the first place!”
Although she tried to lighten Arthur’s mood, time passed helplessly, and she was able to arrive at Padun in no time.
“Then I’ll go first. Thank you for taking me there. Essil.”
“Yes. Bye. “Arthur.”
“See you later! Human!”
After saying hello and parting ways with Arthur, she turned around and walked toward her meeting point after confirming that Arthur had passed her checkpoint safely.
“I want to see you again next time!”
Sylph continued to talk about Arthur, as if he liked her.
“Was it that good?”
“Huh! He was an amazing human being! Right, gnome?”
The gnome that jumped out of the floor responded to Sylph’s words by nodding her head.
“Right. She was amazing. That human.”
Although I have occasionally heard that there are humans with high affinity for spirits, for Esil, this was the first time I had seen spirits react like this.
“Huh! Huh! “I’ve never seen a human being loved so much by Mana!!”
“Friendliness. Excellent. More. “Better than the elf king.”
“W-What.?”
Esil was startled by the spirits’ words.
There are a handful of humans in history who are more friendly than regular elves, and they say they are even better than the elf king.
“Are you kidding?”
“No. A joke.”
“Are you jealous? Essil, it’s cute!!”
“Ah! “Stop playing around, kids.!”
Just as Esil was about to laugh at the spirits’ playful reaction, Undine, the water spirit sleeping on her shoulder, opened her mouth.
“Haaam. It’s not a lie, Esil. His human friendliness was abnormally high. Because there were manas without ego that stayed around. Probably not an ordinary human being at all. At that level, I could have devastated the area around here just by asking Mana.”
Esil, horrified by Undine’s shocking words, looked toward the city, but Arthur had already disappeared a long time ago and could no longer be found.
