Chapter 578 – Fiction and Reality
000
“I’m going with you today.”
Layla, who opened her mouth like that and put on her street clothes for the first time in a while, was walking next to Cleon.
The two are heading to the archives of the Asteris Palace.
It was to receive new information from Tenchi based on what happened yesterday and what I had investigated.
However, considering what happened yesterday, the morning investigation had a strong impact, but the attack on the way back must have been a bigger problem for Cleon and the others.
Even that Cleon, although he did not know the other person’s characteristics, his head almost exploded thanks to his misjudgment his in the first match.
For the girls who have been waiting at her house her, it’s an agenda that can sweep her heart her but also scare her her.
So, it would be ideal to go with Layla, who can respond most versatilely in case something happens.
“How do you like Cleon? Do you like your new glasses?”
“I like it… But did it have to be tinted glasses?”
Today’s Cleon wears a new version of the broken magic eye glasses.
However, unlike the previous version, which was originally a transparent lens, she was made using a slightly larger black lens shading lens.
“It can’t be helped. It takes time to make a transparent magic eye sealing sphere, so I made it with the remaining materials in a hurry.”
“Umm…”
It would have been if Leila, the producer, said so, but as expected, wearing such an unusual accessory on her face she gave the impression that everyone passing by was secretly staring at Cleon.
“You’re popular, Cleon.”
She knew that Lila, who was giggling and talking next to her, was enjoying the situation, but she couldn’t complain, since she didn’t have the tools to seal the magic eye, something bigger would have happened to her.
Feeling her slight humiliation of her, Cleon promises to catch Dharma, the culprit who broke her own glasses, and make him pay for the crime.
When Cleon did n’t answer, and her affection for her dharma was burning, Layla looked at Cleon sneakily and then opened her mouth.
“Quon. He came to me this morning and asked for it.”
“…?”
When her Cleon her looks back at her as if she’s talking about her her, Layla talks with her arms crossed with her slightly embarrassed face on her face her.
“Should I say that I protect Cleon more than myself? Should I say that we can fight together?”
“…Quon, such a story.”
Hearing the story of last night, Quon must have thought in his own way.
“Ah, of course. Quon looked very angry. …Quon, you’ve grown in many ways since coming to the East, right? I also used a sleep spell that was so high-level that I didn’t even notice .I must have been shocked.”
“…”
Even if Quon doesn’t have ‘himself’, he has ‘awareness’ that he has to do something for everyone.
Based on that awareness, he felt that he had to move without acting, but he felt that his own skills were still insufficient to save Cleon.
That is, both as a shrine maiden and as a clergyman.
“I went to the temple early today as well. Until the Five Elements arrive, I think I want to improve my skills even a little bit. That’s why, Cleon. I’ll leave Quon’s mental care to you. .”
“Ah.”
Continuing to walk while talking about such things, before I knew it, I was able to come near the entrance of the palace.
It’s Cleon who can pass if he shows his face at the direction of Beauty Painter, but when he tries to take a deep breath while remembering that he gets a little nervous every time he makes eye contact with the guards-
“Uh-i. Cleon~.”
Then, when she turned her head to the familiar voice calling them, she could see that a woman wearing a fox mask in her shrine maiden’s uniform was approaching her, waving her hand.
“Oh, that…”
Layla looks up at her Cleon her, seeing her like that, assuming her true identity her by looking at her outfit her, which is her first time seeing her in person.
Then, Cleon opened his mouth to call out her name, and her voice echoed her.
“Nayu-“
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For an instant, the feeling that Cleon’s voice her was blocked by something.
In an instant to call her name her, another name jumped out and seemed to hit the brakes on her body her.
“Huh? Didn’t you just try to call me by a different name? What, if you use a woman’s name, you’re really the enemy of women.”
“Oh, no… It’s nothing, Tokoyo.”
Why did she try to call her by her first name her?
She knows very well that she and Tokoyo are different people.
“…”
In an instant, feeling as if something had confused her with her own memories of her, Cleon put her hand on her forehead of her and shook her head.
“…What’s wrong, Cleon?”
But when Lila called her own name, she looked back at her as she suddenly came to her senses her.
As if she was genuinely worried about Cleon, her expression darkened a bit, but Cleon took a deep breath and spoke.
“It’s okay. Don’t worry.”
After hearing Cleon’s words of her, Layla tries to answer him, but Tokoyo, who is next to her, examines Cleon’s expression of her and she talks.
“What is it? Are the aftereffects from yesterday’s attack still remaining? And, what are these sunglasses?”
“No… It’s okay. The sunglasses are sealed with a demon’s eye. It’s a little broken… Did you hear from Quon about the raid?”
Nodding her head lightly, Tokoyo places the amulet on Cleon’s forehead and chin.
Although Cleon was taken aback by the sudden action, he felt his head slowly lighten and straightened his bent back.
“Well. That’s right. After hearing that story, I thought I’d come today to help Cleon. I heard you met ‘Darma’? You got along with a annoying guy.”
Seeing her attitude as she scratched her head and spoke in a sympathetic voice, Cleon turned to Tokoyo and asked.
“Do you know him?”
“It’s so famous that there’s no one who doesn’t know about it. Excluding you guys who are strangers. Well, I’ll explain it properly, including that part. First, let’s go see Tenchi-san.”
If Cleon and Leila were making a little puzzled expression while watching her join her party as if it were natural for her.
As if she had forgotten, Tokoyo swung and turned her body towards Lila, then lifted her mask slightly to greet her.
“Ah. Please take good care of Laila~. I heard the story from Quon. He said he was a genius wizard of the century?”
“Quon said that… Well, it’s true. I’ll take care of this side. I’m also interested in witchcraft.”
Lila accepts her greeting with a shrug.
For some reason, she seemed to be feeling a bit of a rivalry, but Tokoyo brushed her words off with a laugh.
Then, the three of them all went towards the back of the palace.
001
“Sure. Let’s try to find it.”
Tench, who heard all about yesterday’s events from Cleon, nodded as if he understood, then looked back at the bookshelves standing behind him and spoke.
What is there is a place where the history of this Eastern country over thousands of years is piled up like a mountain.
Among them, there were books that were stuck high enough to be reached by using flight magic, like Lyla.
“…You mean we have to find all these scrolls?”
When Layla talks to Tench with a tired expression, as if telling her not to lie, Tench smiles.
“It’s okay. I’ll find it for you.”
“…How long will it take?”
Tenchi is confident, but even with him, it seemed impossible to search through all the records inside and find the guy with what he wanted written on it in one day.
“It doesn’t take that long. Just bring it.”
“Call me?”
When Cleon asks such a question, Tench spreads his arms, takes a deep breath, and turns to Cleon to talk.
“First of all. Based on what we saw at the Oberti family’s mansion yesterday. Let’s try to pick out keywords. When Prince Cleon looked at it, which one caught his eye the most?”
Cleon is a bit troubled after receiving such a question from Tenchi, but he must be the one who cares the most among the things he has seen in the family.
“…It was a mask. The Oberti family made and kept a large number of masks of forbidden worship objects.”
“Okay. Then, first of all, let’s narrow it down to ‘mask’.”
When Tench snaps his fingers after hearing Cleon’s answer, he hears a low vibration.
It doesn’t stop there, and when you feel the whole storage room shake, Layla turns to a surprised face and she clings to Cleon without realizing it.
“Eh, an earthquake?!”
“Don’t worry. It’s just loading the books.”
Tenchi answered without losing his relaxed attitude.
Then—in the direction he was looking at, the piles of scrolls and books that had been piled up appeared on their own, and they gathered in front of Tenchi, arranging them in a line.
“This…”
“All the books here, I checked once. At that time, I put a small spell on the book. If it’s a book that contains the ‘keyword’ I want, I can call it like this at any time.”
When Cleon and Tokoyo sigh and exclaim at the strange sight, Layla talks.
“I’m envious. To be able to manage like this.”
“Hmm. Miss Lila Flamewatch, I heard that she is from the academy. Is there a library in the academy as well? Isn’t there an incomparable amount of books there?”
At Tench’s question, Layla shook her head while snorting her ‘ha’.
“Professors at the Academy consider even the act of finding a book in the library to be ‘learning’ and ‘teaching’. Besides, if you can’t find a book, it’s a warning from the book that you’re not ready to acquire the knowledge of that book.”
“Haha. I see. That’s a strict education.”
“There’s no such thing. It’s just troublesome to carve marks on books one by one. But…”
The number of books gathered in front of Tenchi, even if they were taken from the pile and arranged, was a considerable number.
As an estimate, it seemed that it would be difficult to find the information I wanted in this amount, even though it exceeded 100.
“It’s been reduced a lot. Should I find it here?”
“No. If you’re confident about a keyword, you can suggest more.”
When Tenchi answered that, Tokoyo thought for a moment with his arms crossed, then looked at Cleon and spoke.
“So. It must be ‘Raksa’, right?”
“Ah. Please, Tenchi.”
The next moment, the line of books moved once again.
A considerable amount had been reduced, but even then there were still dozens of thick volumes left.
“Ugh… But that’s a lot… Uhm… But it’s going to be hard to reduce it any further…?”
Even though Tokoyo puts on a tired expression, Tenchi nods when he makes a boiling sound as if there are no more keywords to add.
“There are cases where there are no books left at all even if you put keywords in too much. If you have reduced it to a certain extent, it is sometimes better to stop and search for it yourself.”
“I can’t help it…Then these books-“
“For a moment.”
As Lila rolls her arms and steps forward to look through the selected books, Cleon stops Lila and cries.
“Yes why.”
“Yet… One more, let’s add a keyword.”
When Tokoyo turns to Cleon and says, “Is there another one?” At Cleon’s words, Cleon himself doesn’t know why.
Thinking that this keyword was a shortcut to getting closer to the answer they were looking for, they put it into their mouths.
“The keyword is… Nayuta.”
“Nayuta? Why did Cleon name that…”
When Cleon spoke the name of the shrine maiden he had seen in her dream her, Tokoyo looked a bit surprised.
Then, Tench nodded his head without saying anything and snapped his hand once more.
Then, the remaining books began to decrease rapidly, and all but one book returned to the mountain of books.
“…Oh oh…”
When Ryla also voiced admiration at the sight of her, Tench swung her hand her and pulled her last book toward him.
“This is the book. The title is…’The Demon’s Child and the Eternal Shaman’. Is it?”
While examining the title of an old-looking book, Tenchi brushed off the dust on the cover.
Upon hearing the title, Cleon shuts her mouth for a moment, then tilts her head.
“Which book is it? Is it a history book?”
When Layla tried to put her hand on her book her in a bit of interest, Tench replied with a laugh.
“No. It’s a novel. It’s a romance novel.”
Hearing her words her, when Lila’s outstretched hand her twitched and stopped, Tokoyo also spoke with a slightly subtle expression.
“…If it’s a novel, isn’t it worthless as a material…?”
Seogo fell silent for a moment at Tokoyo’s words her.
“…No. Let’s check it out. Even if it’s a novel, if it’s based on history, it might contain facts that are different from what is actually known.”
At Cleon’s words, Tench nodded her head in affirmation.
“That’s right. It may be that he tried to record the truth that no one accepts, under the name of ‘novel’. Would you like to take a look?”
While saying that, I handed the book over to Cleon, who carefully accepted it and looked at the cover of the book.
Looking at the title, somewhere my heart was a little bit agitated.
‘Ghost child…’
Could that be the title of a Rakshasa?
Thinking so, he put the book on the desk and unfolded the cover for all to see.
002
The last page of the book turns over, and the story ends as it is and closes.
For a while, the three of them checked all the contents of the book and looked at each other without saying anything, soaked in lingering memories-
Barely, Lila opens her mouth and lets out her impressions of the book.
“…That was fun…”
“Yeah. It was fun…”
The contents of the book are the story of the massacre caused by Rakshasa, which is not known to people in detail, and the cause of reaching that point.
And what was added to that was the interpretation that the Raksha and the Daemu-nyeo of the time who murdered him actually knew each other – no, beyond acquaintance, they loved each other.
In the story, Raksha became acquainted with Nayuta, the great priestess, through a certain relationship.
Feelings sprout between the two of her as she protects Nayuta from various incidents that aim for her life her.
And finally, the story ends with Nayuta stabbing and killing Raksha, who was unable to resist the urge as a member of the Dark Demon clan and burned the divine tree.
In the end, the same ending as written in history will be met, and the conflict with history will disappear, but-
It was a book that was realistic and realistic to the extent that I was while reading it and thought that it shocked was unavoidable to be treated as a dangerous book.
But that’s it.
In this book, nothing related to ‘Gaios’ or ‘Ovetyr’ family appeared.
From beginning to end, the stories and narratives related to the two main characters continue to emerge.
“I wonder if it was a joke. As expected. If this is true, then it will become a hot topic… But it is only the author’s expectation. No, in this case, is it a creation?”
“Nothing about Gaios was written…Sorry, for taking up time.”
Cleon apologized to the party while bowing his head.
However, Tench talks to Cleon and his companions without erasing the smile on his face.
“Certainly. There may be many other aspects to the history, and the author’s imagination goes into it. But… No matter what, important information is hidden in unexpected places. For example, the author of this book-“
As he said that, the author’s name was written where he raised his finger.
“Canon…?”
“Kanon Shuwara. I’m a writer who has been writing a novel based on history since about 400 years ago.”
“400 years!? Are you a longevity or something!?”
When Lila raised her voice in surprise, Tench shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.
“Well, I don’t know about Kanon’s identity either. I don’t know his age, gender, or where he lives. Perhaps, the name Kanon is a pseudonym or a given name. The important thing is, not a single article written by this writer It means that all of them sell like hot cakes, and that even the royal family reads them. For the past 100 years, when new works are released, they send them to the royal palace. Haha.”
“What is that…”
Lila seems dumbfounded by Tench’s explanation, but she stars at the book’s cover and author, as if she’s interested nonetheless.
“But, being published means that there is a place that publishes it, right?”
“Of course. It’s a place you all know well.”
When Tench nodded in response to Cleon’s question, Layla suddenly came to her senses her and asked him another question.
“Amryong Sanghoe?”
“From the first work until now. It seems that all publications are entrusted to them. Perhaps, the high-ranking people of the Dark Dragon Company may be able to find out about her identity.”
“…Let’s go and ask right now.”
When Cleon stood up and put his hand on the book, Layla looked up at Cleon’s sudden action her as if wondering why, trying to stop him.
“Right now!? Right now!? But even if I ask, there might not be any information related to Gaios!?”
“No. I need to meet the author of this book.”
The reason Cleon felt that way was simple.
The fact that the story that no one would have known was written in a book so vividly.
A vivid dream she saw while she was asleep yesterday.
If that was the past of Rakshasa, it was because it was quite the same as the part I read in the book today.
“Looks like you’ve caught on to something, Lord Cleon.”
“Ah. Thanks… I’ll come back when I learn something more.”
“Okay. Then, I’ll be waiting here hoping for that time to come.”
Cleon nodded at Tenchi’s words, put the novel in his arms his, and went out with Layla and Tokoyo.
And after looking at the three of them for a while, Tenchi starts arranging the books while fixing his glasses.
At that time.
“Tench. Is that right?”
When Tenchi turns his gaze to that direction at the low voice and the imperceptible presence.
There stood a man wearing a robe he had never seen before.
“I’m sorry, but you-“
Wearing an owl mask.
