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Because Suimei and Lefille had stayed at the sah those conversations, he’d learned that Lefille had so for some time yet

So ould she be here, looking like she’s ready to set out as well? Suimei was unable to come up with an explanation

His question prompted a nod from Lefille

“Yeah, you’re right It’s just that the reward froo was quite a bit larger than expected That s earlier than expected as well”

“So you’ve saved up enough?”

“Yep I’m definitely fine on that point,” Lefille answered with a calm smile

When they’d spoken earlier, she’d told him that she needed to stay around Mehter for a while, to save up money for travel as well as expenses for study

“…If you don’t , can I ask what kind of request that was?”

“Monster bounty A large monster appeared a fair distance froent, and so the reas quite large”

” ‘A large monster’? ” Suimei inquired, his interest piqued

He’d never guessed that so for an escort mission

“Yep A seiant”

“Seiant…”

“Mm-hmm”

…She didn’t continue

She apparently was under the misconception that Suimei would understand with just that

“…Um, and what exactly is that?”

“…Eh? You don’t know, Suiiants, you know?”

“I’ like that where I’m from, you see”

“O-oh,Um, okay… So there are places like that too…”

His answer had been too unexpected; Lefille was completely taken aback This was to be expected, however As a visitor from another world, there was a veritable norant The naiant”, so he could at least tell that this e and humanoid

“Okay Seiant They’re one-eyed, and though siant, are still quite th is of particular note, and is at a frightening level – they can shatter a city ith a single arm But still, I have to say… That a monster like this, which commonly appears in fairytales, doesn’t exist in the east…”

“Well, you could say that …So Gurakis-san, how did you defeat it?”

Sui that was capable of destroying a city as clearly extre of having defeated the monster, without the least hint of pride or excitement… It looked like she was a rather incredible person

“It wasn’t like I did it on my own, you know? A number of us formed a party to take it down My contributions were quite small, in fact”

Given the indifferent look on her face, he was unable to tell if she was siher words…

Anyway—

“On that note, can I ask if this monster is pretty common?”

Sehtly sendary Cyclops from the stories of his world This tis normally?

Suiloomily as he awaited Lefille’s reply Pleaaaase telllike that isn’t a common occurrence

“Not at all Se iant are quite rare Actually, speaking of that, this area isn’t a suitable environment for them”

I guess they’re not that coht to himself just as Lefille continued

“That said, I can’t say it was entirely coincidence The fact of the matter is that it did appear here, after all”

“Yeah…”

…Lefille’s words proht From what he’d read in the palace library with respect to y, there were two or three e monsters appeared

First, a naturally occurring phenoeneration Second,of the Mazoku which suffered fronitive defects at birth

Suimei personally felt that the last hypothesis seemed the most likely The first two options were simply too coincidental, whereas the last conjecture seeh If it was indeed true, however, then that would mean—

“There’s Mazoku nearby”

Although he didn’t knohere Lefille had fought the seiant, this was nevertheless obvious conclusion to draw

Lefille, however, did not reply Perhaps she had figured he was si to himself

“Gurakis-san?”

“…Oh, yeah, maybe”

She had been so slow to reply that Sui off into the distance

The valiant, elegant spirit that had formerly been reflected in her pupils had been replaced by a murky shadow

He didn’t knohy, but so about their conversation just now had put her in a dreary mood

…After a brief moment, Lefille finally see the dark mood in an instant

“It’s nothing Please don’t worry about it”

“Hah…”

She was definitely thinking about soht to himent Lefille, on the other hand, cut off that thread of conversation, pretending as though nothing had happened

“Um, about that…”

“…?”

That soleside her hesitant words She see, her tone finally e

“Er no, it’s just that… Um, well…”

“…?”

Lefille hesitated Closer consideration revealed that her cheeks had taken on a reddish tinge What the heck is going on?

Turning her head slightly, Lefille peeked at Sui resolved herself, she spoke

“U-u I showed you a bad side of , embarrassed

Shockingly, she brought up the incident fro herself

Even though Lefille had just apologized, Suimei felt that he’d been rather careless himself, and so—

“Oh, no, not at all… I was too careless Sorry about that, really I should have been paying more attention as I took that corner”

“No, the fault was s Please don’t worry yourself over it It was truly my mistake”

Lefille rebuffed his words with a shake of her head and another apology

Suie, and asked her a question

“…Uht I ask what happened?”

“Er… sorry!”

“…Not at all Those should belike that Please just forget I asked”

Recognizing that Lefille was unable to answer, Sui any plans to inquire further

What had happened thatwas likely both coh he was definitely still concerned, but he knew better than to pry

“I-I’o present myself to the caravan leader,” Lefille hurriedly pronounced, see off in Galeo’s direction without waiting for a reply from Suimei