Chapter 60 - Looking for elves (1/2)

Chapter 60 – Looking for elves

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Even though I’ve only been away for a few months, the bustle of the Imperial Capital felt like a distant memory.

However, I have nothing to feel nostalgic for even if I actually return to the Imperial Capital.

After all, my hometown is beside that forest and the Spirit Tree.

I felt that keenly while slipping inside the Imperial Capital.

When a soldier is approaching from the front, I move while hiding behind the carriage, and I walk on the alley as much as possible and makes sure that I don’t stand out.

My attire is only dress up with an ordinary robe and putting on a hood, but I have almost never been exposed with only that in the Empire that has lots of traffic.

Taiki-dono was worried, but most of my family members are living in the Imperial Capital. After all, I want to confirm their safety personally and help them out.

Besides, I can grasp some of the places of my family members. If I could get in touch with my family, there’s a possibility that I will know where the other family members are.

I thought that and arrived at the opposite side of the eastern barrack.

The number of peddlers has decreased, but the number of soldiers dressed in armor has increased instead. However, since it is also a place where I usually never approach, it is very likely that I won’t be exposed if I’m wearing this plain-colored robe. It would be alright if I don’t have company and alone.

However, there is one absolutely noticeable element.

“…… This is troubling.”

I muttered that while turning around and I looked at the huge figure that’s standing still calmly in the dark alley.

It is a golem that accompanied me from Taiki-dono. Certainly, there are some magicians who brought their golems.

However, the majority are empire’s magicians, either a self-assertive magician who wants to show off their golem or an eccentric magician who pours too much of their love on the golems.

And the magician who’s wearing a cloak or robe without a crest of the Empire and bringing a golem, are mostly mercenaries or stray magicians and they stand out in the Imperial Capital.

I look up at the golem that has been remodeled to look more square and I sigh. In case of emergency, it will be more reliable than it looks, but when we move secretly, it’s standing out too much.

“…… It would be great if it can be left here.”

I muttered that and sighed again, but I gave up and appeared to the front of the barracks while thinking ‘it’s no use even if I said that’.

Let’s just say something if I am suspected by the soldier. I also have a practitioner emblem of the Imperial Country which I borrowed from Yuri-dono and I can give explanation that I am a magician from the Imperial Country.

While I’m thinking such things, I appeared on the main street and checked the situation on the barracks.

There are five soldiers standing side by side at the entrance of the two-storied stone building and the other lightly equipped soldiers are roaming inside and out.

Some of them saw me, but they had no particular reaction and they were turned their gazes away from me.

Why is it? Did they not think that I am suspicious while seeing the golem?

I thought that and turned around, but there was no figure of Taiki-dono’s golem there.

When I look around, it is standing quietly behind the alley. It looks like, it is waiting without leaving from the back alley where I was earlier.

“…… No, that can’t be……”

It is strange at a level that it is still moving at this ultra long distance. Even so, to give such a sophisticated command to the extent that it can understand some of my words is a work of God.

However, the other party is the King of that flying island. Maybe it is also possible.

At the point where I thought that, I noticed one absolute fact and I got goosebumps.

The magician who controls his golems, is far above the sky and only the soldiers are on the ground. If an army, with the strongest golems, that I fought seriously but didn’t even become its opponent, attacked, any country will be trampled down in the blink of an eye.

In any case, if the option to kill the golem’s magician, which is the only way to win, is sealed. It is impossible to win.

While I’m watching the golem that hides in the back alley from the main street, I break out in a cold sweat and wrinkle my brow.

And at that time, more than ten soldiers appeared from the opposite side of the street. The moment I saw them, I notice that I have a family there.

They are surrounded by soldiers and difficult to see, but I certainly feel the presence of my family there. Perhaps, they are children in their thirties.

I quickly turned back and returned to the back alley.

“Can you take a step back?”

When I told that to Taiki-dono’s golem and hide myself in the back alley, the golem took a big step backwards and stick on the wall inconspicuously.

Clearly, the golem, that heard my few words, judged and move by itself except when I instructed.

While I’m sensitively feeling the presence of my family, I looked up at the face of the golem and knitted my brow.

【Mea]

I run on the hard cobblestone and run from shade to shade of the buildings. When I checked behind, I saw the figure of a golem that’s following me with long strides quietly despite its towering huge build.

“As one would expect of Taiki-sama’s golem.”

When I muttered that, my mother comes out from behind the golem.

“Mea, we are told to act a bit more slowly……”