Chapter 29 (1/2)

You knohat Since I’m impatient to start on the next mini arc, I’ll post this today

This is the longest chapter to date with more than 4200 words, so pace yourself There are many hints in this chapter, so I think you will be able to connect them with the previous chapters’ hints

TL: clover

ED: clover

It was the second day after we arrived at the Island of Messenger

To tournament would be held

The Advent Festival seemed to be in the peak of excite

I also got pero out today from Otou-sama

So I decided to go out to the toith Tirnanog

”I's yesterday”

『Uue is satisfied』

”I may have eaten a bit too much yesterday”

『So that's why today you did not attend the garden party』

Today's garden party was not hosted by the royal family, instead it was the Marquis as the Queen Consort's deceased parents' house who hosted it

Rather it seemed to be an elderly noble-centered event

Otou-sama had an invitation, but as for ht not to attend, so I took advantage of that offer to escape from that party

”Well, that too”

『Is it not because you do not want to ht?』

”That is also true……but see, on the subject of the oracle, I've been thinking on how to change it a little”

『Ah, I see』

To tournament which could decide my fate

There was only one

However, the current death flag itself had already been almost avoided

Auguste would participate in the tournament

Auguste would fall froon

Erica would ridicule Auguste for his failure, or said so

Through these three conditions, Erica would be selected as a victiism Case' six years in the future

So, there were several ways to prevent the death flag

In other words, do not let Auguste participate in the tournament

Auguste successfully rode on a dragon

Even if Auguste fell froon, do not ridicule him

If it still happened, then beat the contract beast 'before Augusteback to Aurelia territory for soht be acceptable

Yes, the conditions were easy if I only wanted to avoid my destruction

However, if I considered avoiding Auguste's destruction, this was not enough

If Auguste fused with the contract beast, whichever route the heroine chose six years in the future, the beast would run rampant

Even if the uste, he definitely would lose his ability to ride on a dragon

This was the scenario of Harold as the third capture object, which could be inferred froon

The future of Auguste as a dragon knight would be closed when he made a contract with the contract beast

『You are also exposed to the destiny of destruction, but you can still think of helping others……but, if I think about it, you were the one who released this inally sealed』

”Sonore without particular reason Because I had becouste, it is all the more so”

『I cannot understand this kind of thing at all……but, I do not dislike it』

Tirnanog shrugged his shoulders and shook his head with a gesture as if saying 'it couldn't be helped'

『Yosh, I understand Let me help you when you want to defeat the contract beast』

”Uwah, that's most sweet of you……ah, but that's certainly for the best The chance to fall down froon and feel desperate is not limited to this year's tournament”

For exaain

Even then, it would be safer if the contract beast had already been knocked down

The investigation strategy had been decided

The aim was to discover where the contract beast was hidden in the Island of Messenger

I couldn't search all of the island in a day, but I knew soht knohere the contract beast was

It was Auguste

If I asked him, he should know the approximate place where the contract beast was

”So, I think I will go to the cathedral If it is not in the cathedral, then the next place is the castle, I think?”

『Umu I will keep quiet today』

”Sorry, Tir”

『Don't worry Just by going out with my friend like this, I am happy』

Tir said sos

While returning an e

Along with my reliable partner, I headed for the cathedral

”Is Angel-sama in here~?”

I alking while calling for Auguste in an unpopular section of the cathedral

Even if I was heard by other people, since it was the Advent Festival and inside the cathedral, if they saw the situation where a child was calling for an angel, people would think of it as a surreal and char scene

I would keep it to e as the one I was searching for was s at me

”Ah, Erica, you're here I've been waiting for you”

Auguste looked up at the stained glass

If I looked closely, this was the same place where we met yesterday

I wondered if that stained glass was his favorite design

”How did you know that I will come?”

”Because there is a friend with keen hearing”

”Ah, did you ask Palug-san?”

That person was mostly a mysterious person, wasn't she?

Who was she?

An escort? An attendant? Somehow she felt different

”Oh, today you are a daughter of a merchant's house, huh The ribbon suits you as well”

”Thank you very much”

Today, I tried dressing as a wealthy

Blue skirt hite shi+rt, and blue ribbon

I was ai for a coordination that looked like Alice in Wonderland

It was considerably more functional than the noble lady's costume, especially the footwear

”What do you want to do today? Would you like to see not only the cathedral but other church buildings? Or, should I show you around the city?”

”That's right……”

What should I do?

How should I ask for information on the contract beast?

While thinking that way, I noticed a strange thing for the first tilass next to Auguste

”This……is there alh there are plenty of beautiful red and yellow colors”

”Aah, it seeantia's specialty There are old blue glasses, but they are gradually beco impossible to repair”

”I see……”

Gigantia was the enedom

It was a country of the Karkinos continent, which had been continuing the Giant War with our continent for a long time

Even though currently ere in a cease-fire, our relationshi+p with Gigantia was not good

Because of that, the products of Gigantia would naturally become more valuable

”Every church is having trouble with it The colorant seems to be traded at twenty tiht”

”Uwah~, it's an unscrupulous business law”

”Well, with regard to this stained glass, since the subject is the sun, it does e to have some blue”

In the stained glass, the figures of an angel, the Founder King of Ignitia, and a beautiful sun were depicted

Was this the scene of the founding myth?

I inadvertently became fascinated by it, but this was not the time for that

I had to get the whereabouts of the contract beast

”About today, is there any sightseeing about the contract beast?”

”Erica, you know about such minor monster as well The contract beast is a nitia, you know?”

”Sonitia's royal family also married to the Aurelia I think it was because of that I have heard about such a story”

For the contract beast, the source of inforh in my previous life

However, I couldn't say that, so I tried to bring out the past e relationshi+ps between our two families

If he becaation

”They said any wishes will come true, that kind of miracle beast is only in the fairy tale~”

”It is a fairy tale, huh”

”Yeah, so it's a coical beast nor a phantom beast”

No, no, Angel-sama

That seemed to exist, that contract beast

It see to 『Liber Monstrorum』

If you didn't know, there wouldn't be a bloody incident

”Are you interested in the contract beast?”

”Yes, it's my dream to see it”

”Well, it’s decided Let'stour of the contract beast today~ Now……if we don't narrow it down a little bit, ouldn't be able to visit all the places today”

”Eh……, is there a lot of places where the contract beast originated from?”

”Ah, although it is reported to the public as many different monsters, but to the royal family they are one monster of the same name”

”Heeh, you seem familiar with it”

”Well I anitia”

Auguste see with confidence

”Yosh, let's start from the monster inside the cathedral”

That said, Auguste started the sightseeing tour

Tirnanog and I chased such Auguste and arrived in front of a mural which I hadn't seen so far

It was aof a yellowish cat-like creature and a boy-like person

Perhaps it was drawn a long tio, but I felt that it was a technique that was

”This is the contract beast that always telling a riddle”

”Telling a riddle……?”

”If you win in a riddle match with the contract beast, it wouldinto this beast for a while”

”Why?”

”Perhaps I will be able to ride a dragon if I wish for it to this contract beast”

The fingers of Auguste traced the yellowish cat of the

Fro atmosphere, but I became worried

You can't do that, Prince

Because that was also the way to your destruction

”But Auguste-saerous?”

”Yeah, they said that it will eat you if you lose in the riddle uess it's a hint that not only the part of the wishes that would come true”

”Is that so?”

”However, it is a fictitious ani as you make a contract, whatever your wish is, it will come true”

”Well, what does the old tale said?”

The old story of this kind of thing always contained a single truth

Past experience's rule of thuendary Zaratan, so I thought to pull out the exact truth

”There are sos that I know in a fore number of people died in a pandemic disease, they asked for the contract beast to eat the disease”

”I see……”

”Because the beast ate the disease, many people's lives were saved However, the contracted person had been sed by the beast in compensation That person is enshrined as a saint……the shrine is located in the other city There should be an opportunity to visit that shrine”

”S-sed……”

Somehow, it seemed to imply my destiny

I hoped that beast was not the kind to eat one person each time a wish came true

”Another thing is that a boy suffering froained the power to aht to control the serpent's clan”

”Controlling snakes, huh……somewhat niche……”

”In addition to fulfilling wishes, there are patterns that show it demands blood for compensation The boy was about to be killed by the beast, but hethe riddle match……that's what this mural is all about”

”The riddle match comes from here, huh”

”Aah, this beast was cursed by the God, and it seems that it had no choice but to accept it if a riddle match was set up”

”It's a strange story, huh”

”No, it's a co like that, people cannot overcome such beast It is surely the way God created it”