Chapter 19 (1/2)

――Two days later

Julia-kaasan and I reached the neighboring village Riverette

The distance to Riverette village froe, where the e

The day before yesterday we received a notice fro for the journey, then today we arrived in Riverette village like so

Regarding what Alfred-tousan’s carrier pigeon was about, in short,

――The work in Ranzrack Fortress still won’t be over for a while So please head in the direction of the capital with Edgar I will follow you with fast horses later

The contents were roughly this

Very e had the ie

They are so sie and ask people to search for differences, then perhaps even its residents would mistake one for the other

This area is a reclaies in the territory of Viscount Cherbl were settled at the same time, so they closely resees

Corbett , Riverette , Trenadette , Kuuret

These are a bit jumbled versions of words that mean「first」, 「second」, 「third」, 「fourth」in Coe

In other words, First village, Second village, Third village, Fourth village, an exceedingly si convention

Julia-kaasan and I (and Steph) are staying at the house of the village chief of the Second village (Riverette village)

One reason was that the sun almost set already, but even so, it wouldn’t have been ie)

The reason e decided to stay at this village was that the village chief wanted to welcome mom, who is the wife of the Viscount

We are just waiting for dad to catch up during this journey anyway, so e chief’s invitation and decided to ask about the general situation of the village as we spend a night here in Riverette village

This was also in the notice brought by the carrier pigeon, dad asked us to hear out the people if we have time for it

‘Because if I’m also there, there is a possibility they would hesitate to speak their mind’, he wrote

Dad is not the type to act too much like a noble and he is quite a candid person, but to the people, he is no doubt a person that is above the clouds

On the other hand, mom has that personality and she is also an ex-adventurer, so it’s easier for her to mix with the locals

And even if there are souided fellows that would make a move on her, all it would result in is that they would realize that the nickname of 《Fire Prison Witch》 is not just for show

Even if it’s the village chief’s house it’s a rass-roofed single-storey wooden house

Even so, it’s a comfortable, nice and cozy house

We took off our shoes and went to the living space around the central fireplace, where we listened to the villagers that gathered, but after a while, ot heavier

Although the reason why my eyelids felt heavy was only because I was influenced by the meue], I was as awake as I usually am

So I didn’t miss a news like this

“――Fairies?”

“That’s right, madam Fairies snatched away the son from Volvo’s family”

According to the spokesperson-like man, this is what happened

Apparently, half a year ago a woodcutter suddenly started saying that he saw fairies deep in the forest

However the fairies are not so that anyone can normally see, if one doesn’t have an ability to sense the supernatural, or didn’t drank a bunch of alcohol and got drunk, one wouldn’t be able to see, they say

In other words, that woodcutter, seizing the opportunity that no one was around, had a bit during work

Since it was frouy like that, no one believed what he said

But the woodcutter insisted that he saw them

So that they should make a bet

After that, when led by the woodcutter, the villager that made a bet with the woodcutter went to the place where the woodcutter saw the fairies, and there a strange pattern that looked like so and a picture was drawn all over the ground

Even then, he said it was part of his charade and that didn’t make him the winner of the bet

That being said, there wasn’t any evidence that is was, in fact, his doing, so with the e chief, the bet was invalidated

Some people still teased the woodcutter for a while, but even that died down in tiot about the fairy business

“But then, it happened just a few days ago Volvo’s boy――Boyce is his name, a pleasant boy around 5 years old that doesn’t resemble him at all, has disappeared all of a sudden, I say”

Volvo was a villager that made the bet with the woodcutter in the previous story

His son, Boyce, didn’t return after saying he was going to play near the river

“We searched downstream of the river and even deep in the forest with the adults of the village but didn’t find hi about how this or thatsos”

“Daft things?”

“By daft he means foolish, madam”

No, Julia-kaasan probably knows that already

I ask in her stead

“What did he say?”

“Hee, Young Master can already speak? The Master is smart too, so it’s no wonder if the child is also clever”

Enough of that already!

After I glared at him a bit, the spokesperson that apparently intentionally played silly let out a sh, then continued with the story

“Yeah, sorry about that Ah, I was talking about the woodcutter You probably suspect already The woodcutter started saying that the ones that snatched Boyce aere the fairies”

“The faeries…?”

Julia-kaasan charly tilted her head

I also share mom’s doubt

They say that faeries are fundas

There is a paragraph about faeries in the 『Abbadon Magic Compilation』 and it states that fairies are innocent faendary race called Pioneer Elves

It’s one of my favorite memorized parts, so there is no mistake

“At first, no one in the village given it a thought That woodcutter guy ht in the head any hi the forest is scaary scaary”

“Then?”