Lacey, how did you end up here?

Why is it here? …… Yours...... Soul?

…… You've been waiting for me here?

Although we had been mentally prepared, this square secret room, which was only five meters wide and high, still brought us great surprise and confusion. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kindness...... How to put it - the dazzling white light from the heavenly gun illuminates the entire chamber, and we cannot help but be taken aback when we see everything in the chamber.

Destroyed altars, messy broken bricks, and mottled walls.

It's a big difference from what we imagined to be similar to the one in the secret room of the Lacey family.

Moreover, the place we have been passing by all this time is a well-preserved mausoleum, and suddenly there is such a secret room that has been destroyed to the point that it is not in shape, and I feel very uncomfortable.

“…… Over here...... What's going on? Little Luca first stuck the spear in the middle of the chamber, and then looked around curiously, "Why is this place destroyed?" Still so badly damaged? …… Did Brother Lacey do it? ”

Yes, the altar was badly damaged - why was Lacey's soul sealed here?

Confused, I slowly walked over to the ruined altar—

Messy, but somewhat regular, gravel - the center is concave, and the gravel grows larger and larger from the inside out, as if something has exploded strongly on the altar. First the altar was destroyed, and then the blast wave from the explosion destroyed the frescoes on the walls.

The mottled bare walls must have been covered with palm-sized pieces of milky white porcelain, which were naturally the same as the ones we found in the Lacey family's secret room—except that many of the porcelain tiles here were broken and peeled off—oh...... It turned out that the broken porcelain found by Mr. Renard came from here.

The broken porcelain fell directly into the sink in the corner of the wall around the chamber. After that, they were carried away by the constant flow of water, and flowed out of the small exit in the corner of the chamber, and then ...... It is probably a system of water flowing into the mountains. Eventually, the water dripped from the hole to form a curtain of water - and was found again.

"Sakura, what is this altar for?" Nabal asked.

"I don't know......," I shook my head, "In the past, the altar of the Lacey family was used to seal weapons, but now this altar has many different things. So ......"

"What's different?"

"Well......" I compared it slightly, "The altar of the Reis family is not as big as this one, and the altar of the Reis family has at most a wooden box on it, although this one is broken." But look at the pedestal...... Ten wooden boxes with weapons on top will do! ”

"And Brother Lacey's altar has a curtain - not here!" Little Luca interjected.

"Gauze curtains?!" Nabal was a little puzzled, "Covered on the altar?" ”

"Oh no! -- It's a curtain that hangs up," I explained. "And it's covered in strange patterns -- just like the broken porcelain on the walls."

"Oh—are you talking about the patterns you used to mark geographical directions?" Nabal nodded, reaching out and digging a piece of intact porcelain from the wall, "...... This piece of porcelain is very light-huh? He suddenly exclaimed, "And it's thin!" ”

"Thin?" I don't understand.

Embar said. You may not know about trade cherry blossoms...... It is said that the thinner the porcelain, the more precious it is and the higher the price. ”

"Huh? Isn't the thicker the better? Little Luca also took a piece curiously and looked at it carefully, "Isn't it thicker and less likely to break?" ”

"Yes, the thicker it is, the less likely it is to break—so the thinner the porcelain, the less easy it is to fire, and when it comes to us in the West, it will go through the storms of the sea, and it will be more likely to break—so it is almost impossible for this thin piece of porcelain to appear in us...... What's more, it's all over the room! ”

"Oh...... So what? Little Luca blinked, "Uncle Bal, do you want us to take the porcelain out and sell it?" ”

"Little fool! You see! "To little Luca, the cold Nabal always seems more gentle than usual. He smiled as he flipped the porcelain tiles over, "Look. The back of this porcelain tile is plastered -- they are glued to the wall, and if you look at the bricks on the wall -- the brick wall is not plastered! ”

"What's that?!" Little Luca pulled a piece out of the brick crack with great curiosity.

"I don't know—" Nabal shook his head, "but it's certain that the stucco behind the porcelain tiles is not the same material as the ones in the brick joints...... Not even at the same time! ”

"Not at the same time?!"

"Well, the plaster on the back of these porcelain tiles is still very fine and has few pores, so it shouldn't have existed for more than ten years!" Nabal speculated, "These decorative porcelain tiles should be worth a lot of money if they are sold outside, right?" Spending a lot of money to paste these high-priced porcelain tiles into the mausoleum has happened in the past ten years, and this mausoleum is hundreds of years old, right? ――Isn't that strange? ”

Porcelain tiles that have only been pasted in recent years?

Has this mausoleum ever been opened and renovated?

Why?

Does this have anything to do with Reis?

"Meow!" Just as we were in our confusion, the cat bell, who had been let aside, suddenly barked strangely, and at the same time tried to pull the gravel by the altar with its front paws.

"Cat bell? What's wrong? Little Luca stepped forward curiously, "Did you find anything?" Watch your hands! - Let Luca come me? ”

"What can cats find? Forget it," Nabal began to frown again, then looked at me, "Sakura, you're a sorcerer, what do you think?" ”

"Huh?"

"Didn't you say that sorcerers are the best at discovering the connections between things? Now I can say that all the secrets that can be discovered have been discovered, I mean - porcelain tablets that were not at the same time as the mausoleum, Serestine's soul, and the secret chamber that had been destroyed like this, well...... And why both the Masked Man and the Demon King are preventing you from coming here - do you think there's any connection? ”

"Ugh! This one...... It's too hard, isn't it? I shook my head helplessly, looking at little Luca, who was there picking up gravel with Catbell, "It's all messy......

"Well, yes, even I can't figure it out, of course you-ah! By the way, Sakura, I should tell you something. Nabal's tone suddenly became solemn.

"Huh? What the? ”

"About—"

"What is this? Ahh Suddenly, little Luca let out an exclamation, and at the same time hurriedly pushed away the rubble that was in the way—"Sister Sakura! You see! You see! She turned and ran towards me with a brown object held aloft, "Look at this! ”

It was a piece of linen.

No, it should be said that it was actually a small double-layered linen bag.

A small brown linen bag the size of two fingers.

It's-

"What is this? How do you open it? …… Why does Luca think like I've seen this somewhere! The little guy was holding a cloth bag and showing it in front of me, "Sister Sakura! Have you ever seen this cloth bag? - Sister Sakura? You...... Why are you crying? ”

Have you seen it?

Have you seen Luca?

Of course you have! Of course you have!

It's not just you, Ruthia, Lagersis, and me, we've all seen it!

Trembling and taking the bag, I found the mezzanine...... That mezzanine...... From the memory, something enough to shock everyone was taken out - a piece of pink ...... Cherry blossom petals. u