Chapter 19 (1/2)

The Capital Arc Part 10

Chapter 19

「Nah! Nhg……! Umm, if you could let me go……!」

「Ah, sorry」

Roa-kun's face up to his ears were like it was about to burst.

After grabbing Roa-kun and the warmth of his hands transferred to me, my mind eventually calmed down. That was just the natural reaction if someone you're not familiar with suddenly grabbed your hand.

Roa-kun's female attribute seems to be higher than me.

「I'm fine. I want to listen to the story's continuation now. If Roa-kun's still have time. 」

「I, I'm still good to go……」

「Umm, for the second reason why the demons have entered our country causing some incidents, that is ……… it had connection with the Sacred Bell Chant 」

「The Sacred Bell Chant? Why? 」

「……That is about the main task of the Spirit Princess, actually, it should be the Head Priest-sama who should talk about it but」

『If it's you, you surely can perform the real『Duty of the Spirit Princess』with ease』

Marina-san's who was smiling with a confident face when she said that to me flashed to my mind.

「In the first place, why do you think does the Spirit Princess needs to have an audience with the Spirit Queen in every three years. It is because in that order the Queen's 『impurities』doesn't pile up. 」

「What do you mean by impurity……？」

「You might want to think of it as  something like 『negative energy』. In exchange for the Queen protecting our Naft Kingdom with her great powers, she would taking on different kinds of negativity, the Queen then will be endangering her life before she goes to the country.」

「In exchange for the Queen's impurities. 」

「Right. It's then necessary to have the ritual of sword dance in order to perform the purification ceremony. That is why the Spirit Princess chosen must be of with considerable amount of spiritual mana, a good att.i.tude and personality especially the spiritual mana which is essential for the purification ceremony」

Roa-kun loosened his cheeks saying 「Suria-sama's spiritual mana has also has the highest amount of purification quality」while smiling.

In the first place, I thought there are considerable number of Spirit Users that has affinity with the water spirits but.

Water spirits seems to possess great purification powers. Most of the Spirit Princess chosen before were able to communicate with water spirits. That being said Marina-san too seems to be interact with that reptile-like water spirit.

I had a feeling that he can clean a plate full of sweets rather than that of impurities, that kid.

「Were you able to understand the duty of the Spirit Princess from the story? 」

「Yeah, I understood it. …… why does the sacred bell chant connected with it, could it be that it causes the demons to rampage. And will the Queen's protection weakens when the impurities acc.u.mulates? With that gap, the demons will then attack right」「That's absolutely right! That's the Sacred Bell Chant, the period when the Spirit Princess have audience with the Spirit Queen. In other words, before acc.u.mulated impurities has been purified, the Queen's powers is at its weakest during that period……… however, even this is only known to a few people of the church. Also it's only known by the Spirit Princess from the past. The incidents during this time are with the period of the Sacred Bell Chant. I was thinking it was just a coincidence at first but………the stories s.h.i.+fted then with the involvement of Demonic Possession」

「So the cause of the incidence during the Sacred Bell Chant's period were deliberately caused by the demon users……?」

So that's it.

So you're saying that, during the Sacred Bell Chant, the Queen's power is weakened―――― and the culprits were the demon users which only few people of the church knows about.

「It's not my intention for you to have any doubts but……. There were some information regarding Demon Users' existence being spread. And with the incidents that occurred during the Sacred Bell Chant, there's no mistaking it. 」

「…… I wonder what did those demon user culprits do they want to those taken spirit users? 」

「Thinking about it……it must be some kind of ritual. A ritual that requires a large amount of power to be used by the demons. Those spirit users that were abducted mostly will be used as sacrifices」

「Sacrifices……」

It became chilly with that awful statement.