Another team arrived in the early afternoon, and the arrival of thirty or so brought the number of people building the temple to nearly sixty - and less than a dozen goblins.

"There are many more people who will come. "The leader of the group was Risek, a hunter from the same village as Haryart, who looked so good that Ed suspected that he was a brother to Haryart.

"The Anktans all look the same, especially near the north. But in their eyes, we probably look like brothers. Fili replied to Ed's confusion by pointing to his curly black hair, which was as messy as Ed's, and his eyes, which were different shades but also blue.

"We're not like each other at all!" Ed pushed his hair through a little neater, "look...... Do you have a brain like mine?"

Filly laughed unceremoniously. Ed blackened his face and ignored him.

He noticed that there was a young man who had just arrived in the group, with soft, somewhat dull blond hair, a thin, pretty, thin, slightly pale face and innocent blue eyes that reminded him of Is—of course, Iss would have looked more confused, as if he had never slept enough, rather than the timid, easily frightened little animal-like look.

The newcomers were quick to get to work. Ed tried to show that he wasn't lazy as he approached the boy.

The boy was struggling to lift a stone brick from the ground, which seemed a little too heavy for him—Ed suspected that he might not be as strong as a goblin.

Ed reached out to help, and the boy hung his head and whispered thanks, and Ed could only see the small whirls of hair on the top of his head.

"I'm not trying to question your piety or anything...... But building a temple isn't a good job for a kid like you. He spoke.

"No, I can do it!" the boy looked up and pulled the stone brick in his direction in a panic.

“...... Hey!" Ed didn't want the stone to fall and hit his foot, so he grabbed it with all his might, and rushed to the side of the road in two or three steps, piling up with the other stone bricks.

Looking back, the young man's frightened expression filled Ed's heart with a sense of guilt.

He's just trying to make a friend, but perhaps, as Naria says, his self-conceived pick-up skills have always been so lame that people can't help it.

"Did I scare you? I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention, I mean...... Uh, are you looking for someone?" Ed simply gave up the explanation and changed the question. He had noticed that the boy was looking around frequently, as if he was looking for someone.

The boy gave him a nervous look, then silently lowered his head and rubbed the dust from his fingers.

"I'm looking for someone too. Looking for ...... My brothers, where are you from? Maybe you've seen them. Ed approached him cautiously, feeling like he was trying to soothe a frightened kitten.

"They...... Is it missing?" the boy winced and tried to communicate with him, but at least he no longer looked ready to flee.

"Yes!" said Ed, elated by the response, and the boy gave him a strange look before he realized that the tone was a little too happy for a man with a loved one missing.

"My name is Ed, what about you?" he decided to divert the conversation by introducing himself.

"Joan Shaw. The boy replied in a low voice, turning to go back to work.

Ed didn't dare to help anymore, just pretended to work beside the boy and continued to persevere.

"I have ...... A lot of brothers, look, that dark-haired guy over there, we look alike, don't we?" Ed pointed at Fili, "Who are you looking for?" he knew everyone here before, maybe he could help you. ”

"My father. Huo An said without raising his head.

"Your father...... Is he also a follower of Nesses?"

“......”

"Did he have amnesia too?"

"I don't know...... In fact, it was me who lost my memory. Huo An stopped what he was doing, "I don't know who I'm looking for...... I just wish someone would recognize me. He sniffed hard and quickly lowered his head.

"Uh...... Don't worry. Eric, my other brother is like that, you'll remember, Eric just remembered a little bit. Ed comforted him awkwardly, in fact, the little bit that Eric "remembered" was what Fili had forced into his head—"My name is Eric, I have many brothers, this is Fili, this is Ed, our family are all hunters in the Windwhispering Forest, and I was unlucky enough to pass through a village where the plague was going on......" When Eric regains his memory, he probably won't be very happy about Fili messing around like this.

Here, the amnesiac are more likely to be trusted, and a blank past makes them the most devout believers in Nesses. Perhaps Ed should be glad that even after losing his memory, Eric still believed in Fili as always, and accepted his every word without any questioning, as if it were an instinct. Otherwise, a younger brother like him who suddenly appeared would be suspicious no matter how you look at it.

"At least you know your name, and you have a father, and Eric remembers everything at first. Ed said.

"Someone else told me the name, but he's not quite sure if ......it's me," Huo An straightened up, looking around at each unfamiliar face, "and Huo An Xiao has a father...... But he probably doesn't remember it anymore......"

Now he really started crying. Ed panicked and almost wanted to run away, but Hoan quickly wiped away his tears and smiled shyly at him, "I'm sorry. I hope I didn't cry so much before I lost my memory...... I'm always ...... now I feel a little scared. ”

Knowing no one, not being known by anyone, walking alone in this strange world, with no past and no future in sight, Ed couldn't imagine what it was like. He was suddenly able to comprehend the religiousness of those people—the eagerness to find a reliance was such a normal reaction. But for a teenager, no great god can replace an ordinary father.

"Don't be afraid, Joan, as the priest said, even if you can't recover your memories, you can still create new ones, and you will have more friends and relatives. Ed patted the boy on the shoulder, "At least we're friends now, and I have a lot of ...... They're going to like you!"

Ed quickly introduces his new friends to Fili and Eric, who just smiles innocently, while Fili makes fun of him for being "really good friends".

"It's better than having no friends at all. He replied dismissively. If the time is right, he also hopes to introduce Joan to the elves and Naria.

His companions changed their hiding spots. And the elves are probably lying on some crumbling stone bridge above their heads at the moment, taking in everything. The occasional stone falling from high in the sky, and the muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the rest of the city, seemed to be unconcerned, but Ed was a little terrified—both for fear of being smashed in the head and for the elf to fall.

Norway had planned to help only in the shadows, but it was Ed who volunteered to join Filly in the crowd building the temple. He still didn't trust the paladins, and he hoped to find an opportunity to let the goblins go sooner - though he found that the little monsters were better at laziness than he was, and screamed loudly, but they weren't mistreated. He couldn't figure out why the runaway goblin was so crazy.

He also memorized all the descriptions of Nesses and his priests. The elf would need this, and although he didn't say anything, his reaction when he saw the symbol on Fili's wrist was unusual.