Chapter 5: The Witch Who Fell into the King's Hands
In a guesthouse with a beautiful Japanese garden.
The expansive garden of the former aristocratic residence is a space of great interest to Liliana Kranical, whose grandfather was Croatian and who was born and raised in Milan.
In the area of tens of thousands of square meters, there are many natural scenery, green trees are neatly trimmed, water flows into the pond along a small river, and in the depths of the waterfall, there seems to be an ancient pagoda and an altar.
However, for this exotic courtyard, the companions with her seemed completely unmoved.
Sasha Dejansdal Woban, who had decided on a place to live in Tokyo, immediately went to the place where she was staying, and as if she was struck by the compactness of the garden, Liliana complied.
Woban's bedroom, in another building built in the courtyard of this guesthouse, is a small, traditional Japanese house, but it is very modern on the inside compared to the old-fashioned exterior, and very modern on the inside compared to the old-fashioned exterior.
There are bungalows that Europeans like Liliana can quickly adapt to, and occasionally you will find some Japanese-style houses with tatami mats and screens.
"By the way, Kranichal, is there any news of the shrine maiden?" Woban asked suddenly.
Looking at the menu that is typical of Japanese foods such as tempura and sashimi, but lacking in individuality, I picked up a glass filled with sake and drank it dry, and said in perfect Japanese.
Until yesterday, the old man didn't know Japanese at all.
However, both Campione and the high-ranking magicians have excellent language learning skills, so it is not surprising that he has mastered the language by using his conversations with Liliana, who is good at Japanese, as a teaching material.
And it only takes 50 or 60 minutes.
Liliana couldn't learn an unknown language in such a short time, not even the other Grand Knights and the other Campiones.
"No, not yet, I'm sorry." Liliana hung her head and apologized.
- Yuri Ori, a fifteen-year-old man who lives in Minato-ku, Tokyo, has excellent psychic abilities and is the leader of a special religion known as the Shrine Maiden.
In fact, it was very easy for the Bronze Black Cross to which she belonged to investigate and deal with news of this magnitude.
Despite this, Liliana did not report honestly.
I remembered what had happened to the girl in the Austrian mountain village four years ago, and she was the most taciturn, the most conservative of all the witches, and she looked the most delicate and weak.
But who first came to the ceremonial site in Woban?
Everyone was very scared in that place, but she was the first to enter, and she understood the other girls' fears, and decided to take herself as a pioneer.
ββ¦β¦ Well, yes, it doesn't matter, what if there happens to be such a thing, what if a bird wants to jump into the cage, if you tie a rope to pull it, then it can easily find the cage no matter where it is. While touching the big shot glass,γ΄γ©γγ³ while gloatingγ
- Little birdcage? Liliana frowned at this wonderful analogy.
"It's about who I just said, who has hallucinated me Woban. I don't know what kind of opportunity I was given, but the person who can detect my breath with inspiration must just think of this ability of foresight as a psychic ability - it's not a great witchcraft power, right? β
Of course, whether the person seen in the vision is Yuri, and Liliana doesn't know.
However, Campione is said to have a supernatural ability for intuition.
I've heard rumors a few times that Campione is able to sense his own danger and has an animal-like instinct to sense the breath of a god who is his old enemy, but this is the first time I've heard of being able to see through the psionic magic he casts on himself.
What kind of extraordinary ability is this old man's ability!
"I don't know if that guy needs to find the shrine maiden, but just catching him will help me a lot," Woban smiled, and drank the wine like water.
After a few days together, it was easy to see that he was not the kind of foodie who ate anything, drank everything, and did not eat and drink for taste, but only to satisfy hunger and thirst.
"You don't seem to be good at finding things, so who should you entrust your quest to explore? Again, this method and work is limited to the witch - Maria Theresa, come out! "Woban called a woman's name.
The response was one of the Servants of Death, a female deceased who emerged from the void, wearing a large black hat and eyes sunken.
"This deceased used to be a witch, and it won't be difficult to find out where the visionary who cast the hallucination on me is located, use all your skills before you died, and find it for me!" Nodding at the tyrannical command, the Servant of Death Witch vanished again.
Yuri Wanli will always be caught. Liliana was convinced of this and sighed deeply.
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The night passed quickly, the afternoon of the next day.
Yuri walks down the long stone steps of the Seven Shrines to the entrance of the shrine.
Yuri got into the domestic car of the official history compilation committee that was waiting in the costume of a shrine maiden.,Because I'm going to come back as soon as I'm done with the vision.,There's no need to change clothes.γ
After sitting in the back seat of the car for 40 minutes, I arrived in front of the library in Aobadai.
After saying a few polite words to the official history compilation committee who had sent him here, Yuri got out of the car and came to the entrance.
- Why?
The building feels even quieter than it was yesterday.
Because it's a library, it's a matter of course to be quiet around and inside the library, but have you become neurotic? Yuri felt a little uneasy as he walked into the library.
Reception hall.
Yesterday there were a few members of the canonical history compilation committee sitting here looking bored, in order to prohibit outsiders from entering the museum, and to exclude them by force if necessary.
However, I can't see my figure today, have you all gone to rest?
Yuri felt a sense of incongruity and agitation as he continued to walk in.
Wide corridors, reading room on the first floor, stairs. There was no one anywhere.
So, isn't there a guide who replaces the gandies? Moreover, there was not a single person who came to greet Yuri.
As if to expel the restlessness and loneliness, Yuri naturally quickened his pace. In every corner of the reading room, which contains 10,000 books, look for people.
However, there was no one, there were still a few library clerks yesterday, and Ganji was there, but today, no one could be seen-
He quickened his pace and walked up to the second floor, and the moment he saw the figure, Yuri felt relieved.
"Well, I'm sorry, what the hell is going on today? I was a little surprised that I couldn't see anyone......"
The words of greeting are whispered the more they are spoken.
Yuri found a white figure, literally the color of snow-white, the face, the hands and feet, and the body, all - salt.
It is said that the people of the city, who had perished by the wrath of God, were turned into pillars of salt.
The same is true of the people that Youri is discovering now. He used to be a man in his thirties, but now he is just a solid piece of salt.
With intense terror, Yuri ran.
I don't know where I ran to the museum, but I just ran as hard as I could.
- And then, finally, I found out.
In the vast reading room, where the pillars of salt stand, no, are more than a dozen members of the official history compilation committee who have been transformed into the image of salt.
Behind them stood a tall old man.
Absolutely.
Yori knows that there is only one person in the world who has the power of salt that turns the living into solid and the evil eye of emerald that transforms living inorganic matter.
"I've finally found you, shrine maiden, is that you, relying on the Book of Wolves of unknown provenance, to make visions of the strongest wolf in the vicinity. People who don't have that kind of excellent qualifications shouldn't be able to do it. β
He should not have forgotten his wise countenance, but this is not his essence.
Fierce and hideous, rough and wild, in order to hide those, the position of the ruler gave him a good coat.
"It's so nostalgic, that look, I always feel like I've seen itβthis girl, what's her name, Kranichal?"
The person the old man asked was not Youli.
Rather, it was a slender girl waiting next to him. Her silver-brown hair is tied into a ponytail, and her expression is tense, like a hard beauty of Eastern Europe.
"It seems that his name is Yuri Wanligu, Marquis, but isn't it a bit excessive to do something here in order to get this girl alone?"
"Hehehe, Milan's green knights are unexpectedly stubborn."
Blue Knight - the way it looks, it's appropriate.
A long-sleeved black T-shirt and a small ruffled skirt, as well as black leggings and a blue shawl on the upper body. The blue and black vertical striped top is well reflected.
Isn't it similar to the red and black top that Erica is wearing?
"Hey, let's be honest - I love fighting, hunting, not bad games, and acting aggressively. So, at this point I want to do whatever I want, do you understand? The old man said happily to the girl with a slightly unconvinced expression.
"Ahh
"This is my honor, Marquis."
He smiled softly at the hard tone and etiquette, and turned to face Yuri.
"Shrine maiden, you will be my possession from now on, one of my assets, understand?"
An emperor who has an evil eye and decides people's lives and deaths. The man who can call out the wolf and dominate the storm - Sasha Dejansdal Woban.
After four years of meeting the oldest demon king, Yuri's whole body trembled with fear.