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“Well, we didn’t know! It’s true!”

Yuna shouted while being restrained.

It was a voice full of resentment, but I was more concerned about something else than that voice.

Why was he detained like that?

The rope was tied in a way that highlighted certain body parts.

It’s shaped like a turtle’s shell, and is called a tortoise shell tying.

Anyway, I thought it wasn’t a gay game, so it kept showing off sensationalism in strange places.

With my common sense, I cannot understand the people who were tied up in that way, or the people who were tied up like that but behaved as if nothing had happened.

···Is that type of capture the norm in this world? what?

“There’s no way you didn’t know. Didn’t Lisbeth tell you?”

“Oh, I didn’t hear anything! It’s true!”

“That’s a lie. Lisbeth also experienced that incident herself. There’s no way she wouldn’t have recognized the World Tree.”

I glanced at Lisbeth.

He looks like he’s breaking out in a cold sweat.

…I guess I know but I didn’t tell you.

Come to think of it, I hesitated for a moment when I laid down Jupiter.

You knew it.

“I didn’t tell you, mister.”

“···What? If you’re an elf, don’t you know what humans did to the World Tree? And yet!”

“No, not everyone comes here often anymore, so I thought it would be okay…”

“W-What! You’ve been doing this for a long time!”

In an instant, nagging towards Lisbeth began.

When I was young, I always respected the World Tree.

You lack respect for the World Tree.

It is thanks to the grace of the World Tree that we can live like this.

Kids your age are always like that.

I take the grace bestowed by the World Tree as if it were a given.

Anyway, things these days…

Such stories pour out in an instant.

Oldies are everywhere.

Just like water, everything progresses in an instant, from when I was young to what it is these days.

Even Lisbeth, who is hundreds of years old, seems to be nagging at an older elf.

It looks like he’s quietly nagging, but if you look closely, you can see his fists are clenched.

I feel like I know that feeling painfully.

“Anyway! I am disappointed in you. I will report this to the queen, so you know.”

“Huh?! Oh, uncle! That’s not it!”

“No, that’s okay. Since I said I’m your colleague, I’ll just look at you this time. Even if I’m a hero, I won’t receive any refutation.”

The elf, who seemed to be familiar with Lisbeth, glanced at me and spoke.

“Quickly leave. Before the Queen catches you.”

“That’s impossible. Something has to be done.”

“Then don’t get caught. I warned you? Do you know that the queen is waiting to spank you?”

“Hee, hee hee…”

Grumbling.

The elf untied the ropes of the two people who were tied up.

It was a bit sensational… Think good thoughts, good thoughts.

If you think such bad thoughts towards your colleagues…

The sight of a middle-aged elf holding a rope in front of a small, beautiful girl felt like something you would see in a porn video.

Ooh, ooh hehe… How good would it feel if you did it for real?

Wouldn’t it be great if sexual crimes were rampant even though everyone knew it was a crime?

I don’t know because I haven’t tried it. So I want to try it.

“Hey, don’t worry. I’m not going to hurt your teammate or anything. Don’t glare at me like that.”

“···Ah, I’m sorry.”

Was I looking too intently?

Fortunately, the fact that he was having strange thoughts didn’t seem to be discovered.

“Okay, Lisbeth. I don’t know what you came back here for, but don’t let the queen find out. Unless you want to get spanked in front of other people.”

“···Are you much better?”

“It’s all gone. That’s a lot. If you don’t want to see it, wait 500 years and then come back. I’m sure your anger will go away by then.”

“Ugh…”

“Then, we will go. Be careful not to be caught by other elves.”

With those words, the elves disappear into the forest.

My colleagues, who had been tense, sighed as their tension eased.

“Ha. I’m glad, sisters. It went well.”

“What, Jupiter?! Are you awake?!”

“No, that. It looks a little serious. It’s a little hard to get up…”

Lisbeth trembled with a sense of betrayal.

You were awake.

…Honestly, it wouldn’t have helped even if she knew she was awake, but Lisbeth doesn’t seem to think so.

He was looking at Jupiter with his eyes filled with betrayal.

“Now, now. Jupiter couldn’t help it either. I want you to stop staring at me and talk to me.”

“···story?”

“Yes, the story. The one I said in front of the Pope.”

“Oh, that.”

I started to get nervous and wanted to know the details.

Clearly humans must have made some mistake.

Judging from his actions, the Pope actually acknowledged it and even said on the spot that it was the result of the foolish actions of his ancestors.

It seems like most elves know this, but humans don’t know much about it?

I think it’s the evaporation of information due to generational changes.

Elves live for hundreds or thousands of years, so this is something they have experienced themselves.

It is natural for humans to not know what happened hundreds of years ago.

It is highly likely that your grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather has not experienced it himself.

In the end, only a few high-ranking people knew such information.

People like the Pope.

Did they fall out because of information that evaporated like that?

This is a little dangerous…

The elves think it’s natural for them to continue to express their anger because this is what happened to them.

People also get angry when they express anger for no reason, even though they are not aware of it.

If each other’s feelings are hurt like that, a fight will break out in an instant.

I am sure about this because I have experienced it.

Source: myself. You could say that.

Fortunately, for now, the elves are confined to the forest, and humans do not approach the forest.

Since we don’t meet each other, we don’t fight.

But what if there is interaction?

It is obvious that the embers will burn brightly in an instant.

Anyway, in the world I will live in, if there is a war between elves and humans, it will be a headache…

I thought this had to be resolved quickly!

“Actually, in the past, the relationship between humans and elves was very good.”

“Hmm. What incident did you say caused our relationship to suddenly fall out?”

“Yes. Well, it was a minor human mistake.”

Poetry, mistake?

What mistake did we have to make to end up falling out like this?

“A long time ago, when humans and elves continued to interact. A lot of humans flocked to the elf village. It was for tourism.”

It’s tourism.

Well, even if you’re like me, you probably want to go on a trip.

It is an elf village full of pretty and wonderful people.

According to a story that Lisbeth hinted at the other day, elf villages do not build things from scratch like humans, but instead live there by making the most of large trees.

Building a house inside a tree, building a house on top of a tree, etc.

People must have flocked in droves, thinking it was amazing.

I would also like to go to the country.

“They also came after receiving a lot of warnings from the king and nobles, so they didn’t do too many rude things. It was an ordinary day.”

“If you just listen to that story, there’s no room for an incident to occur, right?”

What on earth happened?

No matter how much you think about it, there is no reason for something to happen.

“As those ordinary days passed by, a group of wizards came here.”

“Wizard?”

“Yes. They asked us to inspect the trees here.”

“Eh, a tree?”

“Because the trees here are unique. What did you say? Oh, you said you wanted to investigate the ecology of the trees. Did you ask if I could cut down just one tree?”

“So? How did you do it?”

“Of course I gladly accepted. It was about a tree, so there was no problem.”

It looks like the main point will come out soon.

What kind of crazy thing have I done?

“The problem is that the world capital was a destination for tourism.”

“···World Tree?”

“We didn’t know much about it because we were living with the World Tree, but it seemed to be quite amazing to humans. So, to show off, we showed off the World Tree.”

“Well, did that matter, sister?”

“Yes. You said the wizards wanted to investigate the tree, right? … They were always stuck in their closets, so they didn’t seem to know what the World Tree looked like.”

Ugh, crazy.

Lisbeth’s words gave me a chill for a moment.

If that’s true, it’s a really stupid mistake, right? Probably not?

I tried to deny the thoughts that arose in my head, but Lisbeth’s words stuck in my ears.

“Hey, I cut down a large tree because it was incredibly rich in mana. I guess I got permission, so I had no hesitation.”

“No way…”

“Yes. That cut down tree is the World Tree. The base where we were sitting.”

At that moment, everyone’s eyes turned to the base of the tree.

The appearance of that large stump looked somewhat lonely.

“Ahaha! Humans accidentally cut down the world tree, which is estimated to have been alive for nearly 10,000 years! Isn’t it funny?”

“···It’s not funny at all, sister.”

“Yes, really…”

I’m going to turn away.

I understand why the Pope admitted his mistake without saying anything.

This really can’t be ignored, it’s human fault.

Aren’t they crazy? Are you cutting down trees to investigate the World Tree?

But from the elves’ point of view, they have just cut down the world tree and completely forgotten about themselves.

It’s amazing that Lisbeth became a companion without having a seizure at the sight of a human, but this.

“It was a vain end for the world tree that had been alive for 10,000 years. After that, after somehow resolving the almost-breakout of war, the elves completely cut off all communication with humans.”

“It’s not a trivial mistake at all.”

Yuna and Jupiter strongly agreed to my empty voice.

It’s so trivial.

It would not be surprising if an all-out war broke out right away, and the elves who tolerated it seem like bodhisattvas.

It seems that the elf from before also felt uncomfortable seeing humans.

It’s great that it didn’t go to the point of hatred.

Lisbeth smiled awkwardly at us who were speechless.

“In that situation, I ran away from home, saying that I wanted to experience the outside world. And if I told the Queen that humans need a branch from the World Tree, so please lend it to me… would she listen?”

There is no way you will listen to me, I will turn away!