The moment Ed handed the ring to Naria, Iss stumbled and dropped the plate.

The wooden plate is not easily damaged, but there is still a crack that has been broken. Isis looked down in a daze, his hands still half-raised in the air, as if he couldn't accept that he would make such a stupid mistake as "missing".

“...... Hey, but you said you wanted to help!"

Naria casually put the ring on her index finger, squatted down to pick up the plate and stuffed it back into Is's hand unceremoniously: "Go wash it!"

Is's gaze quickly passed between her fingers, and then drifted to Ed, who was standing aside, intentionally or unintentionally, and hung his head to wash obediently.

Ed shuddered unconsciously - there was something in his eyes that was so unfamiliar to him that it made him shudder at that moment.

"This is Moira's ring, right?" Narya looked up, "Did she give it to me?"

Ed nodded dumbly.

It was a gift—a gift from Moira to Naria. So he didn't think much of it when he handed it out...... In fact, his mind was still full of the star map on the ceiling and the high priestess of the goddess of dawn, and he didn't even realize that his actions actually had another meaning, and Naria, who recognized the ring at a glance, obviously didn't pay attention to it.

But Is......

It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck Ed's unenlightened brain, blasting a possibility he had never thought possible in his head, turning him into a stunned, half-charred piece of wood throughout the dinner, unable to poke a few words out of Naria's efforts.

Narya looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, then at Is, who was equally silent, but at least not like Ise, who had lost her soul, and decisively changed her aim.

By the time Ed had finally recovered from his excessive shock, Iss had almost made clear what had happened to them in Balach, and began to talk about how they had gotten that little teardrop beneath the ground of Kriesburg.

After Akan had cleaned up all the food, Iss drew the Sword of Acton and placed it on the table.

The weapon was large enough to have a strong attraction to Akan - though not as big as his hammer. Curiously and carefully, he felt the faint lines on the blade, but his eyes were always clear.

Isis was relieved and didn't care about him anymore.

For others, of course, the crystalline tear on the hilt of the sword. In a world where magic is on the wane, what does a legendary "artifact" mean? It's almost unimaginable.

But Isis had no intention of hiding anything, neither to his friend nor to his foe. If God's Bones can be bait, so can Nyor's Tears.

"So is this really a tear?" Naria tilted her head curiously, looking at the jewel-like transparent droplet. She couldn't touch it, though it looked like it was hanging in the dragon's claws half-gripped by the hilt of her sword, but there was an invisible barrier around it.

“...... But what is she crying for?" she muttered, not expecting an answer. What is it born of relative to the power it represents...... It doesn't seem to matter.

"There is a ...... Legend. Isis replied in a low voice, "It's just a legend, and even the dragons themselves don't believe it...... Legend has it that neither elves nor dwarves were born yet...... Even before giants were born, the gods were able to walk in this world in one form or another. Ni'o had been here, she loved the world, and so stayed for so long, so long that she almost thought of herself as a part of it, so long that she ...... Fell in love with a part of this world. ”

And when she had to leave, she shed a tear for her hopeless love after all.

"'Part of'. Naria frowned, "What the hell is this love story? Is this 'part' a mountain, a water, a tree, or a flower? before the giants were born, what were there in this world? monkeys? dragons...... Is it?"

Her eyes widened in amazement, at the sudden and unbelievable thought.

"Yes. Iss lowered his eyes and replied lightly, "She fell in love with a dragon—a ridiculous legend, probably just because she didn't know that the dragon had made up to mock the gods." ”

"It seems to be ...... It's not so impossible!" Naria commented with gusto, "after all, they are all intelligent and powerful beings...... It's more likely than she's falling in love with a monkey, right?"

She laughed as soon as she spoke, sticking out her tongue in embarrassment for her offense—she didn't believe in gods, but she instinctively had a reverence for the water god that the Lutgars worshipped most.

Ed listened quietly and said nothing. He probably overthought it...... But Is's telling this story at such a time made him feel a little ...... Ulterior motives?

Honestly, he thought back to every movement, every look in his eyes when he was with Naria...... I think I have ulterior motives.

But he didn't dare to look at Is, nor did he dare to look at Naria, and from beginning to end he just stared blankly at the tears shed for love, full of bitterness.

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When he got back to his room, he spread out a large piece of paper on the table, flipped through all his star maps and maps, and made up his mind to focus all his attention on the stars and bones—how nice they were, they were at least something to see and touch. He knew exactly how powerful and dangerous they were, so he wouldn't be stabbed in the cold.

However, the thunder that exploded in his head was still rumbling with perseverance.

"Isis likes Naria, Isis likes Naria, Isis likes Naria......"

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

How could he be so blind that he couldn't even see this?...... Probably because at first he thought they were sisters and brothers, and then he learned that Isis was actually a dragon.

Dragons and people, people and dragons, it's completely impossible.

A spotted leaf dragon fell in love with an elf, and they gave birth to a half-dragon with two souls...... Saxyses ...... Where is he now? I wonder if he is willing to answer some of his questions that are not important to the world, but which are very important to him......

Boom, boom.

Ed groaned silently and crouched on the ground, clutching his overwhelmed head, swaying back and forth.

When Isis walked in, he saw his friend's drunken frog-like stupidity.

“...... What are you doing here?"

He kicked it angrily.

Ed sat down on the ground and looked up at him. Isis seems to have regained his composure...... Calm as if everything was Ed's own crankiness—if he was smart, he should have dismissed it as if nothing had happened, and he still didn't know anything......

"You like Naria......" he blurted out, "...... Is it?"

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