Chapter 107 (1/2)

Summary of the last chapter in three lines

Library's librarian appears.

Work efficiency!

Cornering the king in the discussion.

Souta and Dina, after completing their original task to get Grevin's books, return to the inn to check the content of those books.

「The elder has gives us good books.」

「Right.」

From the books they got, only the books written by the Elder are stacked on the table, even so, there are almost ten books there.

One of them is about the battle a thousand years ago which unlike the story that is currently well known in the other countries, the content is closer to the truth. The content is almost the same as what they read in Toura, but there is more detailed depiction in this book. Despite being censored or being an obscured subject, some of it seemed to have flowed to other countries, the book in Toura's library is one of them.

「He had written our battle a thousand years ago in detail, there is a lot of detail that only us know. As I thought, the one who survived must be the elder after all.」

Souta takes the book to his hand, a look of nostalgia shows up on his face as he flips through the book.

「In that case, then maybe the elder might have tried to meet me…… Though I was already sealed.」

Dina feels down, her shoulders sagged.

「It would have been difficult to meet even if he entered the country. At that time, discrimination against other races was already going strong. Although not at the top of the hierarchy, Dina is still a princess after all.」

「That's… right.」

Dina raises her head a little listening to the Souta's words, but the feeling she feels still doesn't disappear.

Souta strokes her head a bit stronger without saying anything.

「Wa」

「Don't make that look, we're able to meet thanks to that seal.」

「……Yes!」

Dina is still facing down, but the sadness from her expression is gone.

「Now then, let's get back to checking the books, though…… these, all of this are just mostly story or something like that. I had read them a bit in the archive, but solving the mystery or getting the info we want to know is……」

Souta grabs another book, but his expression looks clearly troubled.

「Ah, but…… here, this book might be different. Can Soutsan read this a bit?」

Dina takes out a very old looking book from her own magic bag. It has a black cover, it's more like a thick notebook than a book.

「N? So something like this also exists, huh… this is…… it's written in narrative style, it looks to be a diary?」

「Right, right, I found it when we almost finis.h.i.+ng up, but I think that book is slightly different from the other books. Soutsan, please read it too.」

Going straight to the latter page as Dina asked, there is Elder's future plan written there.

「I see, if we have this…… Dina, good job finding this. This is a big finding.」

Smile floats on Souta's face as he strokes Dina's head again.

Returning his focus on the book, Souta reads in sequential order from the back page.

「This is……」

After reading several pages, Souta's hand stopped.

「? Soutsan, what's wrong?」

「Dina, let's go to the castle again!」

「Ehh? Y-Yes!」

As it has not been a long time since the last time they go to the castle, Dina looks surprised. However, despite her confusion, she still follows the already standing Souta in hurry.

When they arrive at the castle, as if their re-visit already expected, they are guided to the audience room without any check. There are already the king and his va.s.sals there.

「Should I say, good job coming here, or you come as expected, huh?」