Chapter 21 (2/2)

“…I’ll look into it one day. Fortunately, it seems that in the capital there’s a library with books from all around the world, huh.”

Besides that, they had no other leads.

It would be good if they could find out what happened to the Ancient Demons by searching the library as well, but his hopes were slim.

However, hearing Luru’s words,

“The past… It would be nice if we could find out what happened, wouldn’t it?”

smiled Iris.

Wondering is there were any tourist attractions besides the marketplace, the two of them walked about.

He had wanted to see how developed a normal Lezaadian city was, so just walking about was plenty meaningful, but he also had the spirit of a tourist, wanting to see something interesting.

When he said this to Iris,

“I heard from Yuumis that there was an lake-floor city someplace. In a place like that there might be a lot of places to see, but if I had to say it, I think that Finale is more a place you would come for shopping.”

she replied.

Luru had also heard of a ‘lake-floor city’.

Having said that though, it wasn’t located in the Kingdom of Lezaad, and moreover it wasn’t a place that humans actually lived in, and was treated more like a den of monsters.

You could perhaps call it a historical relic.

Having said that though, it was apparently not Ancient Demon in origin.

At any rate, Luru had no memory of such a city, and Iris was the same.

“Since there’s a city at the bottom of a lake, it seems like there should be a city in the sky as well, huh.”

When Luru said this, Iris replied,

“It would be interesting if there was one, but… I don’t think there would be one on this continent. If there was a city on the Sky Continent that existed in the past, then perhaps you could call that a Sky City, but… in the end n.o.body could set foot there, so…”

What Iris spoke of was a continent that was discovered floating in the sky, in the past.

“The Sky Continent, huh… How nostalgic. I had wanted to try going there, but…”

That continent was once called the Sky Continent, and the continent beneath it that served as a base was called the Dark Continent, and n.o.body knew by what principle it floated above it. It was a mysterious land.

There existed magus machines for flying which people had tried to use to get there, but once you got close the operation of the machine would worsen, and you’d crash.

They challenged themselves to improve the magus machine a number of times, but in the end their wish to reach it went ungranted, and it was left in history as a mysterious continent.

Incidentally, in those days the humans, and in particular, the Church, had claimed that it was where angels lived, but however you looked at it, that was all talk.

Because at any rate, they hadn’t been able to go there themselves either.

There was also the problem of flying up there, but more importantly, between the Sky Continent and the Crescent Moon Continent that held the human headquarters was the home of the demon race, the True Demon Continent, blocking them off like a wall. Even when they tried to avoid the True Demon Continent by travelling by sea, they would be swept away by currents, and as for travelling through the air, the demons naturally had flying machines, so that was impossible. All this meant was that it was only something they knew about from afar, unable to do a thing besides sucking on their thumbs.

Had they just stopped the war and asked to be allowed pa.s.s to the Sky Continent that would have bene fine, but they wouldn’t stop so the Church in those days were probably all hardcore in their beliefs.

If possible, Luru wished for that kind of group to never be born again, but…

“I wonder if the Sky Continent is floating even now… I had tried to find out what kind of place it was, but… If it still exists, I’ll try researching it again.”

When Luru said this, Iris placed her index finger to her mouth and said,

“Ojisama, you tried going there once in a flying machine, but failed, didn’t you? …Speaking of which, is that when it first started? Your acrophobia, I mean.”

She casually mentioned Luru’s weakness.

He frowned.

“Acrophobia… I’m, bad with high places.”

What came to mind was the blue sky he had seen from the window of the flying machine, that time he had flown it through the sky.

And then flying from the True Demon Continent for half a day, and then the sudden appearance of the continent that treated the skies as its ocean.

The spectacle that was the highlight of the trip.

And, the moment it had come into sight, the sound of the alarms in the flying machine.

The alt.i.tude he was losing, and the mana that served as fuel disappearing for some reason…

“…That was, scary.”

“If I remember correctly, father had gone as a crew member as well, hadn’t he? Just hearing the circ.u.mstances is enough to make my blood run cold. No matter how much stronger than humans we demons are, dropping from such high alt.i.tudes is not something you’d escape from unharmed… Although, even if I can’t say you and father would escape unscathed, you would certainly survive.”

Although that was true, the chance of being grievously injured was not little.

In particular, the flying machine they had been riding on was a large model with stupidly powerful output, and if you made a mistake in controlling it, it was possible that it would cause harm equivalent to a number of large scale spells.

Even if they were the demon king and his close aide, it wasn’t thinkable that they wanted to sit in the middle of a large scale magic.

“I would think that battling with the Heroes would have been much scarier but…”

Iris tilted her head in wonder, and Luru replied.

“That kind of thing has its own terror…”

However, in the end Iris couldn’t understand.

When Luru asked her about it, it turned out that Iris liked flying machines, and was apparently fine even at high alt.i.tudes.

Luru felt somehow scared from the beginning, so he probably had the fear of heights in him to begin with.

There was certainly fears like ‘I’ll die so it’s scary’ and ‘I’ll get injured so it’s scary’ but… How should one say this? Perhaps you could call it a physiological fear.

Finding it difficult to find the best way to explain it, in the end Luru gave up on explaining it.

/Chapter 21 END

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