The mayor of Toba Town is slightly chubby, with a big nose, gray temples, and a small fur hat, and he looks more like a businessman. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After being introduced by the old man, the mayor of the town warmly entertained Arthur and Witt with black tea and icing cream cookies, and asked them to tell them about their passage through the cedar trees. Witt was still a little hesitant, Arthur saw the gold-plated porcelain for the first time, he picked up the teacup, his dark eyes turned flexibly in the sockets, and looked the delicate teacup up and down, left and right, and then still couldn't stop looking at it.

Mayor Mare glanced at Arthur as he looked at the teacup, and when he looked back at Werther, his small eyes stretched and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, hiding his usual smile.

"Well, actually...... We didn't make it through exactly as well, maybe it was dark and heavy rain that kept me from seeing, but ......"

Werther still decided to tell the truth, he couldn't let anyone else take risks, but the mayor with a deep expression on the other side of the table, after listening to his story, seemed to have deliberately missed something, and decided that the initial fall was the cause of the rain in the dark, and no matter how Werther explained and described his feelings at the time, the mayor of the town only thought that Werther had misjudged.

Seeing that the two sides had a tendency to escalate into an argument, Arthur kicked Werther and gave him a look, and Werther calmed down and stopped responding.

The mayor straightened his bow tie, raised his blushing face, and addressed Werther and Arthur with his nostrils, and he coughed, still a little excited, and said, "Even if there is no news of your successful passage, I have already decided to burn that ominous cedar tree!" ”

The surprised old man suddenly asked, "Burn it!?" ”

"That's right!" The town chief exclaimed, "The herald from Wommeer came a few days ago, and he said that the border is tight, and the demand for medicinal herbs has increased, and he hopes that the town of Toba will be able to supply them. This is a precious opportunity to bring prosperity back to Toba! How could it be possible to let what haunted cedar trees destroy! I consulted with the pharmacists in the town, and everyone agreed to burn the tree! ”

"But, but......" said the old man in a whisper, "that's the tree planted by Nayin and Gibel, and that ghost may be Nayin......"

"Nain?" Arthur's eyebrows raised.

"Are the dead of a hundred years ago more important than the living of today?" The mayor of the town yelled at the old man, "The people in the town are leaving more and more, and the young people are going out to find a livelihood, isn't your son too?" Don't you want him to come back here and live with you and Lindy? ”

Seeing that the old man lowered his head and lost his voice, the mayor straightened his bow tie and snorted coldly: "Anyway, it's decided!" As soon as the rainy day passes, burn the tree! ”

The pace of the three of them was obviously much slower than when they came, and Witt stepped forward to comfort the old man when he saw that he was a little frustrated, but the other party just shook his head and sighed. Arthur leaned over to the old man and asked, "Who is Nain?" ”

The old man shook his head again and sighed: "That was a hundred years ago. At that time, the entire Kaiya Nolan continent was in the midst of war, and the town of Toba was still just a village that produced medicinal herbs. Nain's parents were well-known pharmacists in the village, and their medicines were very effective and sold well, and their fame grew. When the army physician heard the news, he came to Doba and wanted to ask them to dispense medicine for the army, and that person was Gibel. During the back and forth, Jibel fell in love with Nayin, who gave his parents a hand, and made a marriage contract. They planted cedar trees in the medicine field to protect the foundation of Topa, and promised to marry after the war ended. But ......"

Arthur answered: "That military doctor, didn't you come back?" ”

"Alas, they are all such kind people...... Everyone advised Nain to tell her not to wait, but she firmly believed that Gibel was not a soldier but a doctor, and would not be on the front line, so she would definitely return. Later, her body was found...... She clung to the cedar tree to the end of her life, waiting for Gibel to return. ”

Arthur pouted.

"After the death of my daughter, her parents passed away due to excessive grief, and just before they died, they also taught everyone the prescription and dispensing methods, so that everyone could continue to make medicine. They are the reason why Toba is able to prosper, alas...... We all grew up listening to the stories of Nayin and Gibel, so even if we couldn't cultivate the medicine fields, we didn't think about burning the trees, but now we ......."

Looking at the back of the old man sighing and leaving, Arthur and Werther knew that everyone had chosen the present.

Walking slowly behind his head, Arthur looked at both sides of the street, many houses were vacant, shops were unattended, and the roads were in tatters, which was clearly a withered scene. He thought that if it was him, one was a story that he had never personally touched, and the other was the foundation of his family's survival, he would also choose the latter, so he could understand the merchant mayor.

"Arthur, what do you think?" Witt asked, "Is it a Shadow?" ”

"Ah, eight or nine is not far from ten."

"Looking back now, we were able to get through, maybe that's why you shouted in your dreams."

"Ha, if you shout and let us pass, it means that this spirit shadow is very weak."

"Do you think everyone knows that ghosts are actually ghosts?"

"Of course I know, although they say that the Spirit Shadow is a ghost, but destroying the bound place and medium is the most direct way to kill the Spirit Shadow, since they first thought of burning the tree, they naturally knew it a long time ago."

"What do you think?"

"What ...... me," Arthur smirked and touched his nose, "I don't believe anyone can be so stupid." ”

"Huh?"

Stepping through the deserted medicine field, Arthur walked under the cedar tree, and after taking a few deep breaths, he sat down cross-legged and looked up with an imposing look.

"Come on! The stupid and weak spirit shadow, let me see and see! ”

An hour passed, and nothing happened except for the occasional crow flying by and criing out a few "ahhhhhh

Werther rubbed his face, his feet were sore, his stomach was hungry, but he wanted to pull Arthur away, but Arthur was unusually determined. Seeing that it was getting dark, Witt had to go back to the old couple's house first, and after dinner, he would bring some bread to Arthur. He didn't expect this guy to even go to sleep, so he had to go and get the quilt again, wrap Arthur in the quilt, light a bonfire to keep it, and sleep again during the day. After discovering that Arthur planned to fight for a long time, Werther simply built a grass hut under the tree, so that he was not afraid of rain.

Three days passed, and nothing happened, and the rainy time gradually shortened.

Arthur didn't feel pity for a spirit he had never met, he just wondered if there really was anyone who would wait for someone all the time, he thought of Yulenda, and was afraid that what his mother was waiting for would have the same sad ending as this ghost.

Arthur thought that one of the few things in the world that could be called eternal should be time, nothing is more precious than time, and he sat under this cedar tree, exchanging his precious time for the appearance of the ghost under the tree, to verify the possibility of needless waiting.