Chapter 92 - Accepting after Questioning (1/2)

Ch. 92: Accepting after Questioning

Lapis’ interrogation lasted until Loren’s coat was completely dry.

By then Lapis’ and Feuille’s clothes had dried as well, and while Feuille had put them on as soon as they dried, Lapis put her clothes on with a difficult face after she had finished questioning Corne.

“How was it?”

When Loren, who had been waiting for her to finish, asked her, she shook her head, as if giving up, and finally opened her mouth.

“First, this place seems to be the hidden village of fairies.”

Loren had guessed this place was so since Corne had mentioned the fairy chief, but it seemed like he wasn’t wrong.

They had been looking for clues to find it, but it seemed like they had managed to directly find their way there.

That was good news, but it was bad news at the same time.

It was about the residents of Feuille’s village.

They were looking for the way to the hidden village because they thought maybe the residents fled there.

But they couldn’t see any elves in the area, and there was no way they could be inside the small buildings the fairies lived in.

Which meant that the elves hadn’t fled to this place.

“I asked her just in case, but she said there weren’t any elves that came here.”

“Is there someplace similar to this?”

“Not any that Corne knows of.”

It wasn’t like all hope was lost.

The elves fleeing to the hidden village was just Feuille’s guess, and they had no idea what they actually did.

There could be some that fled to other villages.

But there was no way to know for sure, and the only thing they did know was that Feuille was the only elf currently there.

“Everyone…”

Feuille was shocked at the fact that he could be the only one who survived, but neither Loren nor Lapis could find any words to say to him.

“Being kidnapped by bandits, but surviving because of that is quite the luck, right?”

“Loren, that’s not something you should say out loud, even if you think it.”

Loren and Lapis said to each other in hushed voices.

Half of them was a mercenary that experienced a companion that was doing fine the previous day become a cold body the next day, and the other half was a demon that didn’t really care about anything other than her interests.

But it wasn’t like they couldn’t sense the mood, but although they didn’t say anything careless that could make Feuille feel worse, they didn’t really understand how shocked he was, so they couldn’t think of anything to say to him.

“Umm, on a different note, the chief seems to have locked himself in the deeper part of the village behind a blockade, and if we want to kill him, we have to start by breaking past it.”

“Can’t Corne and the fairies break it?”

Loren thought that the fairies, with their magic skills, could unlock a blockade or two by themselves.

“It seems they could do something about it if they try very hard.”

“Then…”

“It means that even if they could get past the blockade, they won’t have enough power to defeat the chief.”

Even if the fairies broke through the blockade to fight the chief, if they didn’t have any mana left, they couldn’t face him.

That was why although Corne wanted to defeat the chief, she was having trouble doing so.

Even with the current total current strength they possessed, they couldn’t defeat him, which was why they decided to resort to asking outsiders like Loren for help.

“Is Corne in somewhat of a high position here?”

“High enough to be in charge of everyone, it seems.”

Corne’s suggestion was to have all the fairies in the village break the blockade that was closing the path, then have Loren and Lapis go to where the chief was and kill him.

“Hey, it’s fine if I’m misunderstanding. But you said you could break past the blockade if all the fairies helped. That means that the chief is stronger than all of you combined, right?”

“I guess so.”

Needing the powers of all the fairies combined to get past the blockade the chief set up meant that the strength of the whole fairy village barely balanced out the strength of the chief.

It was perceivable how strong the chief was, and wasn’t hard to guess how much of a pain he would be to deal with.

“Can the two of us defeat him?”

“It’ll work out if we don’t mind others.”