Charlie pushed the door open and saw Neil sitting on the side with his chin propped up in a daze. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Neil, I'm back, what are you thinking?

Neil heard Xia Li's voice, turned his head, nodded, and sighed heavily.

"It's hard to imagine that such a tragic thing happened here, the murderer is too cold-blooded!!"

"It's really a very heavy topic, as long as it involves life, I don't understand why someone would do this, is there any hatred?" Xia Li also sighed slightly.

"By the way, what about that guy Ami?!didn't come back with you?"

"Now Ami is probably wandering around the temple, ah, I almost forgot my business, I brought some bread, Neil want to eat it?"

Time goes back five hours to a short time after Neil and Charlie arrived at the Suzaku Temple.

They met Eden, the chief shaman of the Suzaku Temple, the chief knight Edward, and the high priest Duru, and although Neil was not very good at dealing with the guys in the temple and was not very willing to take the initiative to visit the temple, he still had to bite the bullet and accept the gaze of the three people in a triangle.

Under the baptism of such a gaze, Xia Li pulled Lanier's cuffs, Neil scratched his head, and looked back to see Xia Li winking at himself a few times, so he took a deep breath and responded to these glances seriously.

"You don't look like you're lying. Eden, the head shaman, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his cold expression matched the cold tone, retracting the question he had just given Neil.

"How could I be panicking!!"

Neil's worst deal with someone like Eden, but his words annoyed him, and Neil pointed at him and yelled, "I'm a dragon slayer!!!

"I didn't disbelieve you, Neil. Edward smiled, took a step forward, put his hand on Neil's shoulder, and looked at Eden with his head down.

"Eden, this guy has always been like this, obviously the last to come, but now he has become more vocal than me and Durru in the temple. As he spoke, Edward shrugged his shoulders: "The temple does have funds, and I have already said before that Duru and I have already said that whether it is external relief funds or internal consumption within the temple, a decision can only be made after a very strict assessment. ”

Duru smiled and nodded, "That's it, Edward and I don't really have any reason to object, the real key is that the three of us agree at the same time." Neil, Charlie, you're up to the mark. ”

“…… You guys. Eden pushed his glasses, "I just said he doesn't look panicked, but I'm not done yet, after all, I don't know you two well." However, for Edward's and Deauld's sake, I reluctantly agreed, but ......"

"Just ......?"

"Edward, there is one thing I don't understand about the temple this month, I waited from yesterday to today, and you are responsible for the purchase of a hundred sets of armor this month, and those knights who have been waiting for a long time have finally applied for new armor. Eden habitually pushed his glasses, "I felt a little uneasy, so I ran to ask myself, and a few knights complained to me, saying that you pushed the date back, what is going on?"

"The shop that makes the armor has been very busy lately, and I can't help it, I've sent letters more than once, and I hope I'll put it back, that's it. Eden, isn't it, why do you care about such a thing?" Edward let out an exaggerated exclamation, staring at the other in disbelief.

“…… Don't you know what this month is? El's busiest travel month of the year! During this month, the toll for the post house in any town has risen by two or three times, which means that we have to pay extra for the blacksmith to bring these hundred suits of armor here!"

"You're thinking too much, it's easy to fix this, pick some knights to move the armor back and save this travel fee! Don't forget that there are also those magic arrays in the temple, it's convenient to come and go, isn't it?"

"This means that more magic crystals need to be added to supplement the energy of the magic array, which is also an additional cost. Eden stared at Edward coldly, "And I've warned you three times. ”

"Enough of you, don't talk about it in front of the two children. Duru felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up for the round, and the two of them quarreled like this, which was really unusual.

“…… That's the end of the matter, I'll talk to you later. Glancing at Edward, Eden pushed his glasses again, "You two have heard it too, this month is the month of travel, so the temple will receive more guests than usual during this month, and this is also the busiest time of the year for the Suzaku Temple." ”

Eden turned to Neil and Charlie and continued, "Regarding the welfare money, I think it's too cheap for you to get it so easily, and it can easily make you think that you don't get it for nothing. ”

"How is it possible, the money we want to apply for is not a one-sided monopoly!Besides, the dragon slayer knight is not short of money in the first place!" Neil exclaimed excitedly to Eden, defending himself and Charlie.

"May you not have that thought. ”

"Hah, this guy is starting to scare kids again!" Edward laughed out loud as he looked at Eden.

"......" Eden looked at Edward with a gloomy expression for a moment, until Duru coughed hard, and then he turned back, "Continue what I just did, I want you to do something, and when you are done, I will send you the relief." ”

"What's the matter...... Neil said angrily.

He saw that they seemed to be joking all at once, and suddenly quarreled again, as if they were watching a farce.

"Some time ago, there was a terrible thing in a small town in El, where almost the entire town was slaughtered, and there was blood and corpses everywhere. Neil, Charlie, I want you to go to that town, take the sword of light, and search the whole town. ”

"Eden, haven't we completely turned over the whole town? more than once, and what can we find? Is it necessary? Now that the town is just starting to plan to rebuild, even if we send them, it won't help. ”

"He's a dragon slayer knight, and besides, I think Excalibur might find something, we're not the same as Excalibur, and this is also a possible conjecture of mine, so it's okay to send them there, right?"

"The new emperor also went with the Wind Sword once, and the Wind Sword didn't notice anything. ”

"It's just to be on the safe side, after all, the only thing that is most sensitive to shadow magic is light magic, which is the sword of light. ”

That sounds a little bit of a point, too. "If that's the case, let's set off early tomorrow morning, for they've just arrived and haven't rested yet." I'll leave this matter to me, this month is the month of travel, and the temple must be guarded by Edward. Eden, can you put your hands down beforehand? I think it would be better for you to take them there, and you were the one who performed the ceremony for the town after that incident, and you knew the most about what was going on there. ”

"It's fine. Eden nodded, no objection.

"It's not for nothing that I bring it up for nothing, because, this morning, before you two came to the temple, I received a letter, which, by the way, was anonymous. Although it is not known who sent it to the temple, the content of the letter is worth looking forward to, one of the prisoners who slaughtered the town has been found. ”

"Hey, wait a minute, you didn't ask us if we agreed!" Hearing this, Neil felt no need to do what they said, "The slaughter of people in the town or something, it sounds very unreal, I still can't believe it, but I have to believe it, you just said, the prisoner has been found, so we don't need to go to that kind of place!"

"It's necessary. Eden stared at the two of them, "I can't tell you more details, you are not the ones who solved this incident, but only assisted in the investigation, and I will take you there, which is what I said just now." ”

"That's what it means to not be denied?"

"Of course. ”

"My mood has changed very badly in an instant, very bad!"

"Don't make a fuss, little ghost. Edward, who had been arguing with Eden not long ago, became serious, his expression was serious, even Deru was serious, and seeing their faces, Neil swallowed the rest of the words back into his stomach.

Then the three of them left, as if they were in a hurry to do something.

Neil and Charlie came to the guest room for the guests to rest, and the two of them will stay here tonight, and on the way to the room, Neil didn't say a word, and Charlie didn't say a word.

“……”

Remembering it over and over again, Neil picked up the pillow on the bed and threw it at the wall.

"Why go to such a horrible place!"

"Neil, I don't want to go either, but we have to go, in order to find clues. ”

"They're so mysterious!ahhh

"What kind of fierce and cold-blooded person can do such a thing. ”

"Who knows! I don't want to know what that guy thinks!"

"Well, let's rest early today, we're going anyway, if only we could help a little in this matter. ”

"Such a terrible place...... If there are restless ghosts there......"

"I think Mr. Eden is more terrifying than a ghost. Xia Li smiled dryly.

As soon as they finished speaking, the two fell silent and did not speak again, each of them thinking about something. After a few minutes, Ami returned, and was surprised to see that they were as quiet as wood.

"Ami is back, isn't there a welcome ceremony? What a strange! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"You've been missing since you entered the temple, where the hell have you gone?"

"Ami and the knights in the backyard of the temple exchange love experience!"

"Ami, you...... Well, I'll talk about it. Xia Li recounted what had happened a few hours ago.

Unexpectedly, Ami wasn't as shocked as they were.

"Well, if you say that, it's probably the shadow mage's doing, it sounds like you're looking for something. More than four hundred years ago, Ami and his predecessor's predecessor and his predecessor's master had crusaded against the Shadow Mage more than once, and that time was when the Shadow Alliance was at its strongest!"