Finally, he looked at the sword he was holding in his right hand and made sure that it had returned to its original size, and then withdrew it into the sheath on his back.

bang！ The shoulder was slapped violently from behind, and he jumped in fright. The white hand reversed the frightened Lin Yiyan, and standing in front of him was Senior Sister Solutilina, whose face was even more crooked than Yugeo's.

“…… I thought you were going to be cut down! Listening to the words that the volume was so low that only Lin Yiyan could hear it, Lin Yiyan nodded.

"Hmm...... I think so too. ”

“…… Why don't you surrender! This, big fool! His eyelids suddenly closed, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly. However, as if she had succeeded in preventing the formation of tears, Senpai took a deep breath and opened her eyes. In the blue eyes, there was a gentle look that had never been seen before.

"It's beautiful...... A great way to fight, Yi Yan. Let me say thank you. It's a pity that I didn't get it exclusively...... However, you, as promised, showed me how you fought with all your might...... Thank you!! ”

"Uh...... However, it was only a tie......"

"Still not satisfied with the tie with that Nippon Tein?"

"No, that's not the case." Lin Yiyan shook her head fiercely, and the senior sister smiled rarely, put her mouth close to my ear and said, "It's no longer a matter of winning or losing." From the way you fight, I learned important ...... Very important stuff. I, as the heir of Serluteliu, am now proud from the bottom of my heart...... I was very happy...... The same goes for being your mentor. ”

Pong, patting me on the shoulder again, Lena took her face away, the corners of her mouth still smiling.

"There's still a lot of time before the threshold. Come to my room and have a little toast. It's okay to call Yogio-kun...... His instructor can also sit at the same table, well, let's allow it today. After hearing this, the corners of Lin Yiyan's mouth bloomed and nodded. Yugeo raised his hand towards the audience, his finger pointing for an exit. After seeing him and Kruklon's seniors start to move towards the door, on the floor of the training ground where the lively atmosphere had not yet dispersed, Lin Yiyan and Senior Sister Lina stepped out side by side.

At this time, what occupied seventy percent of Lin Yiyan's mind was neither the wine collection of the senior sister's secret collection, nor the rich knowledge of the infinite round sword history of Kruklon's predecessors

How can you allow yourself to surrender because of the use of the right to punish!!

That's what it is.

In addition, in the corner of the audience, Lin Yiyan didn't notice Wen Bell and Leios, who were looking at Lin Yiyan with strange eyes, but just glanced at them unconsciously.

………

In the former floating town of Al Aingrant, there is also a wide variety of wines and pale ales. However, even if you drink a barrel of strong and spicy distilled spirit, you will never get drunk because of it. Because, the body on the medical bed in the real world did not ingest a drop of alcohol.

However, it is surprising that in this world, alcohol as a wine can play a role to some extent, that is, if you drink too much, you will get drunk. Maybe it's a signal to Fluctlight to be drunk, and it seems that the designers of this cruel world still have a bit of conscience, and this drunkenness will not be fixed to the point of losing reason. No one will cry and get angry when they are drunk, and no one will break the rules because they are drunk.

That being said, Lin Yiyan did not guarantee that this restriction would work for him, and at the tie celebration held in Senior Sister Lina's room, he stopped drinking two glasses of wine after drinking it. The hundred-year-old wine that the senior sister kept tasted so good that Lin Yiyan, a guy with zero knowledge of wine, had to say, "It's delicious!" However, it is quite demanding of one's willpower.

As Eugeo and Kruklon were talking, the memories of the past year and the outlook for the upcoming graduation exams, as well as anecdotes about swordsmanship and genres, the time was soon fifteen minutes before the threshold of the junior trainer's dormitory.

Reluctantly left the dormitory of the superior swordsman, and returned to the dormitory with Yougeo, Lin Yiyan left his partner who had not yet retreated in his drunken state in the room and walked towards the flower bed to the west. Even though it is the Sabbath, there is no rest without watering Zephria. Walk down from the second floor and open the door.

Lin Yiyan let Yugeo sleep on the bed, and the last afterphoto of the black sword after it was put in the drawer disappeared, and the outside was completely surrounded by night.

Lin Yiyan closed his eyes, felt the comfortable night, and breathed in the fragrance of the blooming double bottle of plums, and couldn't help frowning. In the air, in addition to the faint fragrance of flowers, there is a certain sticky animal-like fragrance mixed in with it. Moreover, Lin Yiyan left an impression on this taste. I smelled it at dinner yesterday...... However, this smell shouldn't exist in this place.

As I stared at the path that divided the flower beds with wide eyes, two figures appeared from the darkness on the opposite side. The gray uniform he was wearing belonged to the same junior cultivator as Lin Yiyan's, but the buttons on his chest were opened three, deliberately revealing a conspicuous shirt. Wearing a red shirt with a viscous light effect was Leos Antinos. Wearing a yellowish shirt that resembles fluorescence are Wembel and Zeku.

Neither from the cultivation department, nor did they think that they would dare to be interested in plants, so why were these two people in the flower bed, as if they were pressed by this doubt, and a bad premonition came up. Taking a step from the door set up on the west wall of the school building, for Lin Yiyan, who was standing in place, Leios and Wembel walked directly over and stopped one meter away.

"Oh, oh, it's just right, Yi Yan Practitioner." Leios said in a sleek, but indeed malevolent, voice, "I was thinking of looking for you." It's a lot easier. ”

For this sentence, Wembel behind him spasmed and leaked a high-pitched laugh. Lin Yiyan turned his gaze back to Leios and asked, "...... What's the matter! ”

Wen Bai's face was suddenly distorted by Lin Yiyan's cold words, but Leios stopped him with a wave of his right hand and answered Lin Yiyan's question, "Of course, I want to give you a congratulatory message for your beautiful battle." I really didn't expect that the entourage of the swordsman who broke the ban would actually have a tie with His Royal Highness Nippon Teyin. ”

"Really, really. Well, such juggling swordsmanship, even His Royal Highness the Chairman will be a little overwhelmed, that's what it's all about. With the words, Ku, Ku, Ku smiled. In this regard, Lin Yiyan lowered his tone and said, "These words, are they compliments, or do you want to sell a quarrel?" ”

"Hahaha, it's not! The high nobles would never sell anything to the commoners. There is still almsgiving, haha. Smiling very pleasantly, Leios slipped his left hand into the pocket of his uniform. Soon, something slender was taken out of it.

"For your juggling...... No, it's called a battle, and I'm presenting this to you. Come and receive it. After Lin Yiyan took a step forward, Laiios stretched out his arm and inserted the thing into Lin Yiyan's chest pocket.

“…… So, we're leaving. Good night, Your Highness Yi Yan. He whispered at a very close distance, his lips hung up, and with a smile, Laios shook his long blonde hair and walked past Lin Yiyan. Then Wembell leaned his face over as well.

"I hope you'll be happy, unnamed dog." After spitting out the line, he chased after Lyos. Both disappeared into the dorm room, bang! The door was slammed shut, and Lin Yiyan's body couldn't move for the time being. Because

What Leios inserted into Lin Yiyan's chest was a bud with green leaves. He put his cold right hand in his pocket and took it out, staring blankly.

The thin stems were crudely cut off, not any of the four sacred flowers cultivated in the four flower beds. It was Lin Yiyan who was desperately raised in half a year after several failures, and it was Zefulia that was native to the Western Empire.

When Lin Yiyan recognized it, Lin Yiyan clenched his teeth tightly. If he had a sword on his back now, Lin Yiyan really wanted to draw his sword and rush towards Leios and Wembel's dormitory. On the other hand, Lin Yiyan held the thin water-colored bud in his right hand tightly and walked towards the depths of the flower bed. Cross the road to the tool shed next to the wall inside. Placed in the corner, the flower pot made of white tile comes into view.

"Woo, ahhh......hh The seeds, which were sold as spices, germinated and grew tenaciously in foreign lands, and all of the twenty-three Zevria seedlings that would soon bloom were brutally split in two from their stems.

The round buds, scattered around the pots, have faded in their characteristic turquoise color. The stems that remained in the soil also withered, and it was clear that the destiny of both sides was rapidly decreasing.

Then, among these dead flowers, the murder weapon that triggered the killing stood like a tombstone. When planting bulbous plants, a small slender iron shovel is used. Who the hell is it...... Without even thinking about it, it was Leios and Wembel who wielded this thing and cut off the flower seedlings without hesitation.

His feet suddenly lost strength, and Lin Yiyan knelt down weakly in front of the flower pot.

Looking blankly at the flower buds scattered in the shed, he moved his half-paralyzed head and began to think. Why. The motives and means are known, and why they are able to behave in this way. Deliberately damaging other people's possessions is a complete violation of the taboo list, and even the high nobles cannot violate this absolute law.

In Under Orld, there is simply no room for misunderstanding about the ownership of an object. Lin Yiyan learned during the journey that when he opened the "window" of his possession, the P mark showing all the states would be indicated in the corner. On the other hand, an object without a p-tag is not its own, and it is absolutely impossible to rob and destroy.

It is true that the ownership of the plant in the rooted state does not exist, but the soil, that is, the soil, does have ownership. Whoever grows plants on the soil that owns it will become someone's thing. The flower bed behind it is the land of the Sword Academy, so the double bottle of plum blossoms blooming on it is the property of the Academy. The flower pot in front of him was also bought by Lin Yiyan from the market in the sixth district, and it was his own private property, and the Zeflia flower seedlings growing in it would automatically become his own property, Lin Yiyan had always believed in it.

Anger and despair paralyzed his feverish mind, and when he finally thought about it, Lin Yiyan's eyes widened when he noticed something.

Soil, black soil in a pot...... It was neither dug up from the land of the academy nor bought from the market. It was transported from outside the central capital, from a field that did not belong to anyone. Lin Yiyan only told Mi Lei from the cultivation department about this matter. Lin Yiyan judged that it was Lyos and the others who overheard this incident and knew that the plants that grew on the land where there was no ownership did not belong to anyone.

In this case...... That's my own mistakes. Put the pot in this flower bed that anyone can freely access, and you should think more seriously about the issue of ownership.

The people under orld will never break the law, but that doesn't mean that all the inhabitants of this world are good. In it, there must be people who can do whatever the law does not prohibit and think like this.

Lin Yiyan should have learned this matter as early as the Zakaria Sword Conference.

“……… I'm sorry!! From his mouth, such a voice leaked out.

With the right hand, pick up the flower buds scattered in the shed one by one and gather them on the left hand. However, in the palm of his hand, the original vivid turquoise has gradually turned gray. By the time the twenty-three buds had been collected, they had all lost their destiny. In Lin Yiyan's hands, the buds turned into cyan dream light particles that drifted away, dissolved into the air and disappeared.

Inadvertently, my eyes were already overflowing with tears. Crying at the raised flowers as if they were separated from their own children, Lin Yiyan sneered at his appearance, and turned his mouth into a smile. But his cheeks kept trembling, and tears fell to the rubble at his feet.

Lin Yiyan finally understood what he was pinning on Zefria flower seedlings. The first reason for raising these flowers is to experiment with the imagination in under orld.

The second reason is...... In the past, Senior Sister Lena told herself that it would be good once, she wanted to see the real Zephria, and Lin Yiyan was also to help her fulfill her wish.

However, Lin Yiyan has never realized that there is a third reason before. I must have overlapped these flowers that I was desperately thinking about blooming in a foreign land with myself. Because of their own conceit, from the real world...... Separated from the people close to me and loved ones, when will we meet again, I don't know the loneliness and pain, I just want to understand this feeling with the flowers......

Tears kept overflowing, flowing down his cheeks and down. Desperately holding back the whimper, he shrunk his body into a small ball and propped his hands on the ground, at this time.

Again, that voice.

Please believe it.

The power of flowers that grow so big in a foreign land. Also, raise these flowers into such a big one, inside yourself.

During the long journey, I heard the incredible sound several times. Although Lin Yiyan thinks it is a woman's voice, it is not a woman that Lin Yiyan knows. Two years ago, it was not the same as the voice of a young girl heard in the cave that ran through the Ultimate Mountains. Calm, wise, and very warm voice......

“…… However, it has been ...... Everyone, they're all dead. For Lin Yiyan's words, the voice replied calmly.

It doesn't matter.

The roots beneath the surface seem to be alive. And...... Feel it, right? The many sacred flowers blooming in this flower bed are thinking of helping these little companions. I hope to share some of my destiny in the past. If it were you, you should be able to convey this wish to the roots of Zephria.

“…… Impossible. I can't use that advanced divine art. ”

No matter what kind of technique, it has to be done by heart! That is, the imagination of your mouth is to guide, and the technique is just to make it more complete. Now, there is no need for formulas and mediums.

Come, wipe away your tears and stand up. Then, feel it with your heart. The prayers of the flowers.

world, apologies......

At this point, the voice disappeared into the night sky in the distance. Lin Yiyan's trembling chest took a deep breath, and after spitting it out, the cuffs of his uniform wiped the corners of his eyes. Stand up.

Slowly looking back, I saw an amazing scene. The sacred flowers cultivated in four flower beds...... Not only the double-bottle plums in full bloom, but also the marigolds that have not yet produced buds, the dahlias that have just grown from their roots with short stems, and the catalans that have only their roots under the ground, are all with green points of light in the dimness.

Divine power, spatial resource. I thought these words didn't mean much, but the more I thought about it, the more gentle, quiet, and powerful I felt. As if he wanted to be guided, Lin Yiyan stretched out his hands towards the four types of holy flowers.

“…… Please. Put the power ...... Give them some of it with life. After a short sentence, he quietly imagined. The vitality that emanated from the sacred flower, with Lin Yiyan as the wire, was injected into the roots of Zephria that remained in the flower pot.

Countless roots rose from the flower beds, and the green light converged into thin lines. These thin threads converge, weave together, and become several large ribbons. Lin Yiyan moved it with his fingers, and the ribbon flew silently, and finally flowed towards a point.

For the rest, just wait for the ribbons to flow in. Ribbons of light, encircling pots with only wilted rhizomes, seemed to be tied in knots...... Or it takes the form of a large flower, and finally is sucked into it by the earth.

Twenty-three rhizomes, slowly, but certainly at a speed visible to the naked eye, grew again. The leaves of a sharp sword are separated from the stem, as if guarded by the leaves, and the round buds begin to grow.

Lin Yiyan's eyes, who were looking at this scene, overflowed with tears again.