_Interlude 2 (2/2)
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After the battle, Linus rejoined the group and confire Fortunately, nobody had wounds that Maria couldn’t treat with her ic Unfortunately, the loss of supplies was severe It would h for them to continue
“You can’t use metastatic stones here as a treasure… daical ability “return” allowed the group to travel freely back and forth between the hudom and demonic territory However, in order to return to the proper spot in the demonic territory, they hadto set up a “transition stone” The group only had a limited nuroup has covered as much territory as they had planned or more If they covered less distance then they would have to return to the kingdoo, everything was going well Now that things should be even better, why are we delayed?” Jean said “How can cutting off dead weight slow us down?!”
“Jean, please cal Gadio, noticed that Jean was losing his te the battle She tried to calm him down, but he wouldn’t listen
“How can I calm down? Cyrille, why did this happen? Why?”
“… sorry”
“Apologizing doesn’t change anything!”
“Hey Jean!” Linus said, putting his hand on Jean’s shoulder Instead of cal down, Jean shook off his hand
“damn, shi+t, fuck! Everyone, why can’t you understand that I’ at the rest of theroup into the barren lands
“Ah, he’s in trouble too,” Linus said
Linus knew that Jean had cos towards Cyrille In a word, he was jealous of Flaone, Jean expected Cyrille to pay more attention to him Contrary to his expectations, that hadn’t happened Moreover, Flaer, was not there Linus could understand that Jean was upset, and would bear with his temper Still, even as a friend, he couldn’t defend his behavior
“Yes, this should be fine,” Gadio said As Maria finished her treatment, he rose to a seated position and turned his shoulder to confirm his condition
“I am sorry,” Maria said “I can’t heal it co hit”
While it still hurt, Gadio felthit by Zion’s fist As he stood, Eterna, who had been watching the treatment, turned and walked away froone Eterna frequently wandered off on her own, but this ti after her He wasn’t quite sure why
An aard silence arose between the re three: Cyrille, Linus, and Maria They were the two that Cyrille knew best
“Well, don’t worry about it Everybody has bad days,” Linus said, “hero or not”
Linus wanted to encourage Cyrille and dispel the ato to the Deet it back little by little”
“Yeah,” Cyrille s of guilt Linus and Maria looked at each other If nothing they could say could turn things around, they could at least be kind to Cyrille
“It was strange that they just left like that,” Linus said “They see about ‘instructions,’ and ‘do not kill hu ay frohly understand what had been said by reading lips As soon as heher thuether in irritation
“It’s very strange,” Maria said “They’ve killed a lot of people before”
“Yes Should anything change now?” Linus said “I guess it doesn’t make a difference”
“It can’t make a difference,” Maria said “It is better for all of the demons to disappear
Her tone was unusually vehe to realize that she had a deep-seated hatred of demons Actually, when they were in the capital before, he had investigated Maria He was good at that sort of thing He felt bad about it, but his curiosity exceeded his sense of guilt
Maria Afengen, 18 years old She was a user of light ical talent She is currently in a position where she can be worshi+ped as the saintess of Origin
Originally, though, she was not a believer in Origin She lived in a village where a local religion dominated, and she believed in the local God As a remnant of that time, she has a tattoo on her back that even now has not been coht years old her village was destroyed by the assault of the de because of the demons She was protected by the church and entered it at that tiht attribute and becain’s prophecy to be a h reason to hate de in her? Linus wasn’t sure
“Linus, did you have so her neck
She was very pretty To the extent that Linus didn’t want to iine that there is darkness in her heart Well, even if there was darkness it was fine He wanted to support her, including that, if only she would reveal everything to hi at all”
Still, Linus didn’t feel he was prepared to tell her
Linus resuhtly amazed that she didn’t melt down But her smile didn’t return, either All in all, the party wouldn’t be saved unless Flaize
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Eterna stopped after walking for about fivebehind her, stopped on the spot
“Why did you follow me?”
As she spoke, she idly poked at the sphere floating beside her It appeared to be an equipuess you called”
“Oh, maybe, maybe,” Eterna said “So what do you think of the party now?”
“What about it?”
“Are you enjoying it?” Eterna asked “Are not you bored?”
Eterna had initially not been interested at all in deh she had the sath as S rank adventurers, she lived a sie was unknown, her motivation unknown, she was a woht I was excited about the heroic party that set out to kill the Demon Lord,” Eterna said
“Oh”
“But I noticed that since Flamm left it’s not fun for me now,” Eterna said “It’s not fun at all The food is bad, everyone is bad”
“I can’t disagree”
While Gadio acted cal air around the party Mostly caused by Jean, but even besides that the number of bombs buried – such as the scars on Cyrille’s heart and Maria’s background – were quite large With Flaone, the party seemed doomed to collapse Gadio respected her efforts, but he couldn’t fill her role
“Therefore, I will leave,” Eterna said
“What?”
“Now that Flaone, it shouldn’t be a problem if I leave,” Eterna said “Well, even if you told me not to, I would just disappear without permission”
It was Jean’s blunder People ere chosen by prophecy to be medom would assume that it was a duty and wouldn’t leave But now Flaiven the rest of them an excuse
“I don’t think it would be useful to tell Jean,” Eterna said “I’uy Talking down to er!” Eterna said “What ical power?”
“Well then, I won’t stop you”
“I’ht you would stand for discipline and stop me”
“There is no such discipline here”
“No?”
“If Flamm can leave, why can’t you?”
“Oh, you should cohed
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The group gathered again and returned to the capital with Cyrille’s invoked return After that, Eterna announced her withdrawal from the party Of course, Jean was furious and Cyrille was dised
Eterna shook hands with the rest of the the transition rooain
TN: Apparently if things don’t work out as a shonen protagonist then deood backup career choice