episode_0062

Fortunately, the road to Padun was not difficult.

Because Essil, who was helping Arthur, was more capable than expected.

Also, as we walked and talked, Arthur heard from Essil that he was looking forward to being promoted to the gold medal soon.

“How many S-class subjugations will it take for me to get the gold medal?”

“Wow! Let me congratulate you in advance!”

Arthur continued the conversation without a soul, but Eshil didn’t notice at all and continued talking.

“Thank you. Now that my dream is right in front of me, it doesn’t feel real. When I was young, I only had a vague goal of becoming famous as a wizard…”

“Ah.. a wizard?”

During the conversation, Arthur realized that Essil was lying.

It wasn’t for some intuitive reason like her speech being strange, but because Arthur didn’t think Essil was a wizard.

“May I ask which circle you are in?”

Originally, asking a wizard about his circle was extremely rude, but Arthur’s words must have stung something, and Eshil did not notice this and answered obediently.

“Should I say it’s the 5th circle looking at the 6th circle..?”

“… ”

Arthur didn’t think Essil’s words were entirely a lie.

Maybe the power I have is really close to the 6th circle.

An answer that is half truth and half lies.

Arthur was troubled.

I could have proven that Essil’s words were lies and heard the truth, but I didn’t want to get involved in something annoying for no reason.

If you think about it rationally, it would be right to pretend not to know…

I feel like asking for some reason?

“Why are you lying? You’re not a wizard.”

Shudder-

“What are you talking about? You saw me keep using magic, right?”

“I find that strange too. Someone who uses magic without a mana circle in their heart. How is that possible?”

“!!”

Eshil, who had a puzzled expression on her face at Arthur’s words, looked around and then used magic.

In an instant, tree roots appeared on the ground and bound Arthur’s ankles.

“Ah.. I thought it would be like this..”

“What the hell are you doing.”

Misunderstanding… Can you resolve it..?

… … …

Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to clear up Essil’s misunderstanding.

Arthur was lucky, because he only told the truth and did not lie, and unexpectedly, Essil believed him easily.

“So you felt like I didn’t have a circle?”

“Yes. I only recently gained this ability, so I can’t explain in detail any further.”

“Haa.. If it was a lie, I would have tortured him with water or burned him.”

“Eek..!”

Are you crazy?

If you lied, you would have done such a terrible thing to me…

I almost died a horrible death!

As if unaware of Arthur’s thoughts, Eshil simply smiled faintly, raising the corners of her lips.

“Hmm.. Yeah, I guess I can trust you.”

widely-

At the same time, the sound of Essil snapping her fingers could be heard, and Arthur began to see strange objects the size of his palm.

“Human. See. Us?”

“What a funny looking person!!”

“I want to cut more..”

A small boy wearing a green hat.

A little boy with white moth wings flies around Arthur.

A blue little boy sleeping on Essil’s right shoulder.

Arthur had never seen a creature like this in his life, but strangely, his heart started pounding and it felt familiar.

“What, do you see the kids? Usually they only show symbols.”

“Symbol?”

“Yeah. It may be different for everyone, but it usually looks like a tree branch or a rock… I guess you have a high affinity for spirits?”

A spirit?

Of course, it wasn’t the first time I’d heard that.

The great forests of the southern part of the continent.

Because I knew that the elves living there were in harmony with the spirits.

“Then Essil is an elf?”

It was a reasonable inference.

Because I had never heard of a person dealing with spirits.

“Well..?”

Eshil, who had been grinning, took off his cone-shaped hat instead of answering Arthur.

What Arthur could see were round human ears, not the pointed ears that were characteristic of elves.

“Why? Are you surprised that I’m not an elf?”

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised.

Since humans cannot control spirits, spiritism was an unknown field compared to other fields.

Arthur even thought that perhaps the Essil in front of him might be the first human to successfully make a contract with a spirit.

“Honestly, it’s amazing.. It’s my first time seeing a spirit, but a spirit that made a contract with a human..”

Arthur thought Essil would look proud at his words, but Essil only had a bitter expression on her face.

“Esil is not human!”

At that moment, a moth(?) spirit that jumped out from the side got angry at Arthur, and Eshil stopped it.

“Sylph, calm down. It’s not like you’re lying, is it? I’m half human, too.”

No way… you were a half-human and half-elf?

In that case, it would make sense for Essil to use spirit magic that humans cannot use.

“You were a half-elf. Now that I think about it, I heard that elves don’t come out of the forest, but looking at it like this, it’s amazing. Looking at it like this, they’re no different from normal humans…”

Arthur, who had been blurting out his thoughts, quickly closed his mouth in a fit of rage, but he couldn’t take back the words that had already left his mouth.

“You don’t have to make that face. I know you didn’t do it on purpose.”

“Well, it’s a common story. A story about a child born from the forbidden love of a human and an elf who is rejected. At least I was lucky. Maybe I resembled my father more, but I don’t have my mother’s pointy ears, so I can act human.”

“Ah.. I’m sorry.”

I was sincere.

Arthur had been in pain too, so he knew how painful it was.

On the other hand, when Essil saw Arthur’s expression darkening, she brought up a different topic to lighten the mood.

“Anyway, our kids seem to like you too. What do you think? Want to talk to each other?”

“Okay! Okay!”

Essil asked Arthur, but the sylph answered, then flew over Arthur’s head and landed on his crown.

“Good person, let’s be friends!”

“Friend..?”

Arthur secretly liked Sylph, but he didn’t want to be friends with her.

I’m going to die soon anyway, so I’d feel uneasy if we became friends.

“You like it that much? You always say humans are dirty.”

“This human is clean! Isn’t he not human?”

The sylph, who suddenly began to suspect Arthur’s race, came down to his shoulder, put his face on Arthur’s neck, and began sniffing.

“Hmm… It’s definitely a human scent… but it doesn’t seem human…”

“What is that.. Or are you an elf too, Arthur?”

Essil had said it half-jokingly to the Sylph, but Arthur, not knowing his own parents, thought it might be true.

“I might be an elf.”

“Huh? What does that mean?”

Essil looked inwardly embarrassed when Arthur took her joke seriously.

“Actually, I don’t have parents. ”

“Huh?”

“I thought I was abandoned because of my eyes and hands when I was born, but maybe my parents had some kind of circumstances like Essil?”

“That, that..”

Just when Essil was at a loss for what to say, Sylph interrupted without notice.

“Sniff sniff!! I think I smelled something wrong! You are definitely a pure-blooded human!”

“… ”

“… ”

The atmosphere instantly changed to that of a funeral home.

The Sylph’s words seemed to have driven a wedge into the story that Arthur’s parents had abandoned him, so Essil, who had remained silent, ended up becoming an innocent victim because he was a Sylph’s contract holder.

“It’s okay. Actually, I didn’t expect much.”

It was true.

I can’t say I never had any thoughts of what might happen, but that’s really all.

Since I was going to die soon, I didn’t think it mattered what happened.

I just thought that if one of my parents was an elf, I would have been able to understand the reason for being abandoned and die.

“I’m glad to know that I’m a pure-blooded human. If either of my parents were elves, there might have been some circumstances, but if they’re both human, I’m just trash who abandoned me. You can curse me without any worries, right?”

“Yeah! That’s right, humans are trash after all!”

“Sylph!!”

When the Sylph responded obliviously to Arthur’s self-deprecating remark, Essil immediately covered the Sylph’s mouth.

“Haha.. The spirits are originally a bit oblivious.. Sorry. I’ll apologize on your behalf, Arthur.”

“No. On the contrary, I like how innocent you seem. It doesn’t seem like you would lie.”

“That, that’s right! Our Sylphs have the advantage of only telling the truth..! And they have other abilities! They can also detect lies, so I could tell from the beginning that what you were saying wasn’t a lie!”

Essil tried to cheer Arthur up, but time passed quickly and they soon arrived at Padun.

“Then I’ll go first. Thank you for taking me. Essil.”

“Ugh, yeah. Bye. Arthur.”

“See you later, human!”

Eshil, who said goodbye to Arthur and left, confirmed that Arthur had passed the checkpoint safely and then turned around and walked towards the gathering place.

“I want to see you again next time!”

The sylph continued to talk about Arthur, as if she liked him.

“Was it that good?”

“Yeah! He was a strange human! Right, a gnome?”

The gnome that had jumped out of the ground nodded in response to the sylph’s words.

“That’s right. It was amazing. That person.”

Although he had occasionally heard that there were humans with a high affinity for spirits, this was the first time that Essil had seen spirits react in this way.

“Yeah! Yeah! I’ve never seen a human being loved so much by Mana!!”

“Friendliness. Excellent. Much. Than the Elf King.”

“What, what did you say..?”

Eshil was startled by the spirits’ words.

There are only a handful of humans in history who are more friendly than regular elves, but they are said to be better than the Elf King.

“Are you kidding?”

“No. Just kidding.”

“Are you jealous? Essil, you’re cute!!”

“Ah! Stop kidding, kids..!”

As Essil was about to laugh off the spirits’ playful reactions, Undine, the water spirit sleeping on his shoulder, opened her mouth.

“Hwaaam.. This isn’t a lie, Eshil. That human affinity was abnormally high. It was to the extent that manas without egos would linger around. They were probably not normal humans. If they were at that level, they could burn down the area around here just by asking manas.”

Essil, shocked by Undine’s shocking words, looked towards the city, but Arthur had already disappeared a long time ago and could no longer be found.