Episode 128 – Disobedience (1/2)

Previously:

While writing a letter to her fiance, Nelaira thinks about the events that led to her current predicament She re staircase clih the reen valley filled ildlife and ruins of a village Nelaira uses her day off to explore the ruins and finds a diary hidden inside a pillar While picking herbs Luki finds a patch of land where a large quantity of ash is buried under the soil He finds it suspicious but his coree Nelaira stue that contains food that is 16 years old Nelaira gives their archaeologist the diary to translate The writer of the diary is the village chief’s son and he talks about his life It seee wars, which e if not the wars

Nelaira wanted to investigate the possibility of survivors but her superiors ordered her to proceed towards the Valley of Eternal Snow The diary speaks of outsiders that cae one day froist was quick to nod his head approvingly His nod frozelook: “When was this diary written?”

“I’ed man with the monocle admitted “The dates are from the year 1430 AO However, I don’t knohat AO stands for, thus I can’t calculate the year in AW (After Wars)”

“Can’t you use the agoested

Agoical artifact enchanted to use a tie of particles It could accurately sense when that specific particle was created, however, it couldn’t tell what fores

Episode 128 – Disobedience

“It would show the age of the materials the diary was e of the materials or creatures those ist explained “The shown age on the agometer could be decades or even several centuries off froo is, or even when the ink was e of the oldest ingredient used to e of the leather would include the age of the animal from which it was taken from The paper would be as old as the tree that it was made from, which could have been centuries old before it was irls would have inquired about the matter further if Luki didn’t choose this time to interrupt everyone’s excitement with a bucket of cold water: “Don’t you think this whole ‘welcoe to face palhten us…as strange about it?”

“Who would welcome several dozen potentially Tainted individuals inside their sanctuary just like that? Don’t tell ot to check them for the presence of Ink?” Luki rolled his eyes

“I’ the welcome Otherwise, they wouldn’t have welcomed them with open arms” Nelaira frowned “Just because the diary doesn’tit, it doesn’t ht” Luki raised his hands in the air in surrender “Let’s say you’re right What about the sister of the writer of the diary? How did she hear the and hoas she sure they had no ill intentions?”

“She was an elibu Elibu have long ears with very sharp hearing” The archaeologist spoke slowly as if explaining it to a five-year-old child

“She was probably coincidentally near the passage and heard the the stairs” Nelaira showed ist coh her own explanation

“Peculiar” Luki stroked his chin “I was under the iel Which one of the two do you think is adopted?”

His comrades stared at Luki dumbfounded:

“How is that relevant to the previous conversation?!”

“Does it even matter which one was adopted?!”

“The diary never clearly stated the race of the writer and his sister anyway!”

“Right! They could be of the sa artifact”

Father invited their four leaders for a private dinner with our family Apparently, the four of theh status in their land It definitely showed in their elegant eating manners and sords I could totally see them as princes and princesses from the fairy tales, it made me feel rather aard to have them show interest in our plebeian way of lifeApparently, we have e Like how father chose to es of e Apparently, in the place where they are froth of our faers were

There were several additional points they found fascinating, but to be honest, I wasn’t paying much attention to the conversation I wasone of thee looks…and I could feel so off of her If I didn’t know her any better, I’d say she felt… shy?

Ok, alright, I ad at was very handso Goddess-like female more than was appropriate But shy? When hasher blush either I always used to tease her that she acts like a grandht the matter up later, she deflected the question and toldthe Goddess I’ve been staring at Apparently, she already has someone else in her heart…

It’s not like I’ve fallen for the girl just like that! I wasn’t really thinking about courting her… And even if I wanted to court her, I wouldn’t really care whether she has a previous lover or not I’ if not persistent

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Father, Cae They were really surprised by the spells used in our craftsmanshi+p They said we are blessed to have so many mana purification artifacts in our possession

I’h? If they do what their nas? I can see how they ht have some use for children to play with but… other than that, aren’t they…redundant?

Well, whatever the case, the visitors invited us to go with the about how advanced their own crafting is and how there are uilds and s in their land

I have to admit that their descriptions of the place do sound very enticing At one point I even felt like asking father to let o with them to this place of theirs But then I re ever since they arrived and s are usually quite accurate

My sister continued acting disturbingly unlike herselfInstead of a wise older sister, she seeh she is too old to be one

I didn’t even need to see how thateach other sneak glances and gentle s onto me I did my best to shut her off and mind my own business, but it is only a te I’ll be able to continue with it

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I confronted Cammy about her sudden interest in that e the topic this time