Ed opened his mouth to say no, but he couldn't.

Nalya let him go.

Her chest heaved rapidly, and her eyes lit up with anger and disappointment made Ed feel like she was going to punch him up. But after a moment, the girl hung her head.

"Farewell, then, Ed Singall," her voice was unusually calm, "to greet Mrs. Singhal on my behalf." ”

Then she quickly turned and rushed into the hall, never looking at Ed again.

Ed, who had been thrown away, stayed for a long time, resentment and grievance gradually filling his chest.

"She didn't even ask me 'why,'" he whispered, knowing that the elves could always hear, "and in her mind, had I always been just a willful person who would casually give up her promises and be good for nothing?"

"Maybe she's waiting for you to tell her, Ed. Norway comforted him softly.

“...... Don't you ask me either?" Ed had a faint anger in his heart, "Do you believe me, or don't you care at all?"

A trace of consternation slipped through the elf's eyes. Ed immediately began to regret it, he had no idea how he could say such a thing.

"I'm sorry!" blurted out the apology, he had known many years ago that only this sentence could not wait.

"I'm sorry......" Guilt stained his cheeks, "I don't know what's wrong, nothing is wrong......"

His dejected look made Norway rub the young man's messy black hair, as Filly used to do.

"It's nothing, Ed, we're friends, you don't have to be so careful. ”

He always felt that Ed's attitude towards friendship was like holding a precious and fragile glass, lest he would lose it if he was not careful, which made people feel a little tired while being moved.

Tess rushed out of the hall.

"Ed Singer!" she cried menacingly, "what did you do to my sweetheart?!".

Naria was packing her bags with the momentum of preparing to chop down a few skeletons - there was nothing to pack at all, most of their belongings were still in the temple of the sun god.

"Naria," Ed approached her a little trepided, "you'll have to listen to me......"

"It's nothing, Ed. Naria's pretended relaxed tone only made Ed more uneasy, "You've done enough as a friend. I can go to the ice field on my own, Alan said that those barbarians are not as terrible as the legend says......"

"Naria......" Ed's sad voice finally stopped the girl. She turned, folded her arms, looked directly at Ed, and said stiffly, "Okay, I'm listening." ”

Ed stayed there, sweating on his forehead, in fact, he hadn't even figured out what to say.

As Naria's anger apparently began to burn, a voice rescued Ed.

"Ed, I don't know if you're ......"

The young blonde priest looked at Narya and Ed, who were sweating profusely, "Sorry, did I disturb anything?"

"No, no, not at all!" Ed looked grateful, almost rushing over and hugging him, "I was looking for you!"

The tall and handsome priest with the same eyes as Is's is his best explanation, but ......

"Maybe we should find a better place?" asked the pastor.

"I don't have any secrets with my friends, and you should be able to clear up some minor misunderstandings, so ......" Ed looked for his friends, Nalya with an angry face behind him, Tess staring at them not far away, Akan staring at them curiously, and Norway standing further away, watching everything.

"Of course," said the priest with a smile, "this is a matter for all of you. ”.

The temple of the sun god was grand and vast—it was a little chilly, but now, even Tess couldn't care about that. She slipped into Norvi's arms, her eyes widened, looking at Ed, then at the priest, with the same expression and posture as Mochi.

"Why do I have to be here?" said Philip Zeri, with a look of reluctance, "I've got a lot of trouble on my back, and I don't want to know any secrets!"

"It's no secret to you, Fili, if they don't believe me, only you can prove my identity. The pastor said.

Fili shut his mouth in a huff, still not very happy.

Naria was even more upset: "I don't like any secrets! What the hell do you want to say?"

The priest frowned in annoyance, as if he didn't know where to start, and finally he said, "Well, I know you're looking for my brother...... I think you should go home. ”

In the long, long silence, Ed moved his toes in his boots restlessly.

Naria jumped up from the ground, "What is this?!Why are you letting us go home!......" Then she suddenly realized what the priest meant by the previous sentence, which made her eyes widen in shock, "Are you Is's brother?" Scott ......"

"Scott Criesers. The priest smiled at her, "You're Alan's daughter? ”

"I'm like my mother......" Naria replied blankly, sitting back down, she couldn't accept the fact in front of her, "I thought you were dead......"

"Where have you been? Why don't you come back? Alan has been looking for you...... Iss has been waiting for you!" A brief shock was followed by an even stronger displeasure, and Naria glared at Scott. He didn't look like he was doing much, still young and energetic, with a bright smile and clear eyes.

In contrast, Alan, her father, ages much faster......

"But isn't that awkward guy's brother a paladin of the god of water?" Tess asked another question aloud, "Can the paladin of the god of water be a priest of other gods?"

Philip was expressionless, pretending not to hear.

"No, you can't. That's why we're here—" Scott looked around, "I want you to keep it a secret for me for a while." ”

"No problem!" Tess agreed, "I love this funny little secret the most!"

"I don't have the slightest interest in your secret!" said Naria, furious. Scott obviously ignored her question, and she didn't need to be polite to such an irresponsible guy, "You don't have any right to let me go home!"

"But, Naria......" Ed called her cautiously, "he's Is's brother......

"Isis is a dragon!" Narya roared back, "they are not related by blood!, even if Iss called him 'brother'...... He even called me 'sister'!"

Ace shrunk his neck and obediently shut his mouth.

"But you're also Ellen's daughter. Scott tries to convince her, "The ice field is a dangerous place......

"Allen said, 'Find Is, go home safely.'" Naria interrupted him with her head up, "That's right, I'm his daughter, so I'll listen to him, not yours!"

Scott blinked, and after a moment of speechlessness, he laughed helplessly: "You are exactly what Alan described. ”

"And you don't describe it like Is!" Naria replied unceremoniously.

Is, at least the one before he became a dragon, adores his older brother as a paladin, like almost all boys. But Naria didn't feel at all that the person in front of her had anything to worship.

He left behind the little boy and never returned, hiding his identity from the believers, and he belatedly did anything to help them face the undead, except to say soothing words to the pile of corpses, whether they were true or not...... He didn't even serve the gods consistently, did he? and he didn't even seem guilty!

Scott's eyes darkened, and his smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

"Whether we give up or not...... Noway looked at Ed, who was speechless with his head down, and spoke slowly, "What are you going to do? You're going to go to Is? Do you have any news of him?"

If Scott had been in the Castle Forest, haunting the icefields, he should have more information than they did.

But Scott shook his head.

"I'll go look for him, but I don't know where he is...... I don't even know what I'm going to do if I find him. "But as Filly said, it's my responsibility, not yours." From the moment I named him Iscontia Alan Christos and made him my brother, it was my responsibility to become him. I should have gone to him when I knew he had become a dragon, but I didn't...... If I had been by his side, maybe none of this would have happened......" He looked down at his outstretched hands, as if the little baby was still in his arms.

The expression that softened in a trance made Ed swallow his question back. He couldn't forget the words of the paladin he couldn't even remember by name—"Once he knew that his brother was an ice dragon, he would be even angrier than we were." After all, he was deceived by that evil creature and raised him with his heart for ten years. ”

But apparently, whether or not Scott knew from the beginning that the boy he raised was a dragon, he didn't seem to want to kill him at all.

Those words were something else to Naria's ears entirely.

"He's not the hell's 'responsibility'!" Naria slammed the ground, making sure she didn't like this Scott at all, "even if I'm not the one who raised him and named him......"

Admitting this made her unhappy, but helpless.

"But he called me 'sister'! His middle name is my father's name! If you want to go to him, no problem, if Ed wants to go home, no problem, but I won't go back if I don't find him!"

She stood up, at least making a decision for herself that no one could object: "Even if it were just me, I would find him before you, Scott Christus, and let you, and Alan, go to hell with all your secrets!"