Chapter 91 - Planning from the Situation (2/2)

Although Lapis said something horrible like it was nothing, she didn’t forget to add, ‘It doesn’t usually happen, though’.

“But this explains the elves being eaten out from the inside and the fairies coming out of the dead elves’ bodies. The chief had been continually using his powers, and eventually became able to spread it so far that it influenced the whole forest.”

“That’s exactly what happened.”

Corne confirmed what Lapis had said.

It meant that the chief was the cause behind the abnormalities in the Black Forest, and it wouldn’t stop unless the cause was taken out.

“We can’t let the chief alone any longer. It would cause us fairies who live in this forest to be persecuted, and the elves would be hunted down to extinction.”

“So that’s why you want us to kill him.”

“Of course, it’s not like we want him to die.”

But it was also true that there seemed to be no other way.

In any case, it was very unlikely that the chief, who didn’t listen to his fellow fairies, would listen to a human like Loren.

And since he had also killed all the elves that came to him, it was hard to think he would go easy on them, and it would most likely become a battle the moment they met.

“But what made him crazy? He wasn’t always like that, right?”

“Yes…but we don’t know either.”

“Do you have any idea? Like he ate something different or he put something on weird.”

Corne’s brows furrowed as she started thinking.

In the meantime, Loren lightly hit away Lapis’ hands, which silently reached out to him, as if trying to take his clothes, took off his coat, and handed it to Lapis to hang to dry.

“Umm. I’m not sure if it’s what caused it.”

“Anything is fine. We need all the information we could get.”

Corne nodded at Lapis’ words and started talking about what she had recalled.

“Actually, we fairies like things that are shiny and pretty.”

The first thing that came to Loren’s mind was a crow.

The bird, which had a tendency to collect shiny things, took anything it could find to its nest, but sometimes it was things like coins or gems, but apparently fairies had similar tendencies.

“Most of the things that are collected are taken to the chief, and then he gives them out or decorates the village with them. But a little while ago, some fairies brought in something weird.”

“Something weird?”

Loren wondered why they would even think of collecting something they knew was weird, but apparently that logic didn’t apply to fairies.

Corne then stood up, spread out her arms to the fullest, and told Loren.

“It was a shiny metal box about this big, and had a design on it that we’ve never seen before.”

“Alright, wait a second.”

She had spread her arms out to the fullest, which meant it was about as large as her.

And Corne was the size of Loren’s palm.

Which meant that the metal box was possibly around the size of his palm.

So it made Loren think that her description of the box seemed similar to another box that Loren had seen before in a different place.

“Hey Lapis. I think I’ve seen a box like that recently…”

“What a coincidence Loren. I was thinking the same thing.”

The previous job they were on.

At the end of the dungeon during the exam that students took at the adventurer training school, they had seen one of Volf’s fortune, which sealed the evil god of sloth inside it.

It was exactly like what Corne had descried, a metal box with complicated designs on the surface.

“Am I the only one who wants to think it’s a coincidence?”

“I’d like to think that too…but I can’t think of anything else.”

If it was indeed what Loren and Lapis were guessing it was.

Loren could feel his mood sinking.

The last time, their opponent retreated on his own.

It could be that it was because it just revived, but the evil god was also quite lazy, living up to his namesake of sloth, and although there were some casualties, Loren believed that it was very little considering that they were against someone who called himself an evil god.

But on top of not knowing what kind of evil god they would be against this time, judging from how much the fair chief had changed, it seemed that it had quite a bit of influence already, and the chances of it backing off easily was very slim.

“But still, we can’t just walk away after hearing all this.”

“…I have a feeling your kindness will be what takes your life Loren.”

The best thing they could do was find a way to the surface and leave the Black Forest as if nothing had happened.

But Loren wasn’t someone who could just leave after hearing the details and circumstances.

“We owe her one since she saved us. We could at least think of some way to deal with the chief, right?”

“It doesn’t seem like not doing anything is an option, so I guess we could. Umm, Corne, was it? Please answer the questions that I’m going to ask you. Then we’ll try thinking of something.”

“O-okay.”

After a sigh, Lapis started asking Corne questions in quick succession.

Watching her do so, he waited for his coat to dry, thinking that it would be a good sight only if she wasn’t half naked.