With the departure of a certain black cat, Xia has long lost the mind to admire the murals in the hall, although she is still facing the direction of the wall, but the focus of her eyes does not fall on it at all, obviously thinking about something. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After some time, a voice suddenly drifted into her ears and woke her up---

"What are you doing?"

Natsu looked up at where the voice came from, but saw that Alex had just come out of a mysterious room, holding on to the stone staircase handrail with one hand, and walking down the spiral staircase with a calm step, her posture was extremely elegant. However, the magical girl's eyes were staring at her all the time, and her eyes were a little puzzled.

Probably, someone's daze towards the wall and standing still makes this magical girl a little strange, right?

Seeing Alexie come out, Xia had to temporarily let go of the doubts in her heart that were involved by a certain cat, for Alexie's question, her originally expressionless face just pulled out a pretended helpless smile, shrugged her shoulders, and pointed to the mural in front of her with her right hand, and said in a casual tone: "It's nothing, it's just waiting for someone for a long time, by the way, to appreciate your great works here......"

Long time?

Hearing this, Alexie's eyes narrowed, and she naturally heard the implication of this sentence, thinking that it was just some impatient guy's mockery of herself for too long, so she didn't care.

"Oh?"

Alexie walked over to someone, looked up at the mural on the wall, and only glanced at her a few times, but looked at her strangely, and said in a rather surprised tone: "It's the epic of Grian...... You're still interested in this kind of thing?"

Looking at the girl's appearance, it was as if I had seen an illiterate person holding a book of poetry and reading it with relish!

Hey, what's that expression?!

As if provoked by the reaction of a certain magical girl, she couldn't help but glare at Alexie. Although she really didn't understand what the other party was talking about, and she didn't know what the art of murals was, it was always okay to just look at it, right?

Not... Although she wanted to refute this, she did know that this was just a counterattack by some magical girl to her taunting behavior, and naturally she didn't bother to bother with this grudge guy.

"Grian... Epic? What's that?"

Hearing that Alex really seemed to know what this huge mural was, she looked at it carefully a few more times, not expecting Alex to answer, but asked casually.

However, to her surprise, Alexie actually responded to her doubts seriously: "Grian's epic... Well, it's a very old book, and it records a lot of old legends, some of which have been passed down for a long time, and some of which are interesting anecdotes, but no one knows the authenticity of its contents, and there is no way to verify it...... However, as you can see, this mural is the work of a famous painter from more than 100 years ago, Dante Watson, who painted it based on an ancient legend from the Epic of Grian......!

"As for the name of the painting, it's called 'The Battle of Fate,' also known as 'The Light of Hope,' or 'Heroes Battle the Dark Dragon'!"

"It is said that a long, long time ago, a terrifying dark demon dragon invaded this world from the void, its almost endless evil energy, polluted everything around it, enslaved hundreds of millions of living beings, and finally almost swept the entire continent, dragging the world into a hellish abyss of pain......!

As she spoke, Alexie pointed to a certain part of the mural and introduced her in turn: "Look here, this is the dark dragon that is trying to drag the entire continent into the abyss of hell, and the people surrounding it are the heroes of the various races at that time, this is the 'great sage' of the human race, Nobuts Wenger, this is' Sage 'Alami St. Easter, as for this one, it is the Golden Dragon Emperor of the World Guardian Dragon Clan, and this is the Empress of the Elven Clan, well, the names of these two are too long, I don't bother to tell you, anyway, you can't remember the stupid Xia!"

"This one is Ryan Duo Hart, the 'Lionheart' of the Orcs, and this one is ......"

Ignoring someone's gaze, Alexie casually pointed to the next character and continued to introduce, but suddenly stopped: "...... Well, what am I telling you to do here? It's just some old legend! Forget it, it's not too late, we have to go!"

A magical girl muttered to herself, not looking at the wonderful expression on someone's face, and walked straight away in the direction they had come.

"Uh......"

You, a half-fellow, have only said things halfway, and have just aroused a little interest, and then you just let them go? In a sense, you are a eunuch!

Staring at the back of a certain magical girl leaving in a dashing manner, someone couldn't help but feel extremely resentful in his heart, and even secretly cursed the other party for having a little Ding Ding under him...... Huh? This guy doesn't seem to have that kind of thing?!

"Shh

Pouting helplessly, Xia turned her head and glanced at the figure in the mural who was wearing a Yonghua black robe, holding a strange staff, and even wearing a strange white bone crown, she didn't bother to find out which of the heroes this magical girl had no chance to be introduced by a magical girl, shrugged her shoulders, and followed in Alex's footsteps.

Then, her eyes fell on a familiar object in the other party's hand, and she couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Hey, little girl! If I'm not mistaken, isn't this box in your hand a ......?"

"yes, it's the box!"

However, Alexie just nodded and didn't deny it.

Raising an eyebrow, she couldn't help but ask again in a strange way, "Oh, what about the 'Dream Crown' it contains?"

To this, Alexie's expression did not change in the slightest, and she replied as a matter of course: "Dream Crown? Well, yes, it's still in there." ”

"Tsk, little girl, didn't you just say you're going to hand in the mission, and why is it still with you?"

Looking at the expression of a certain magical girl, Natsu felt that she couldn't understand it anymore, and stared at Alexie's face, as if she wanted to see a flower from it.

"Why can't it be with me?"

The corners of Alexie's mouth curled, and she glanced at her with a squint of disdain, "If you mean the mission, didn't I bring it back in its entirety?

"Uh......"

Well, you have a point, I'm speechless!

Xia couldn't help but laugh a few times and scratched his face with his fingers, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Not......

Wait a minute!

Hey, hey, little girl! The ownership of this thing doesn't seem to be yours, right?! I don't read much, don't lie to me!

After a few seconds, when she bypassed the bend in the words of a certain magical girl, Natsu couldn't help but glare at Alexie.

"Hmph, stupid Natsu!"

However, a certain magical girl just snorted coldly and said, "The reward for this mission is the right to use it for one month, so you should understand it, right?"

Belch...... A month of access to it?

"Hey, wouldn't it be okay if you said that earlier!"

Someone heard this cheeky questioning information, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth and complained in a low voice, but he knew it in his heart.

Not...... Maybe the strength increase that a certain cat said has something to do with this so-called quest reward?

However, didn't this little girl say that the effect of this fantasy crown is to enhance the soul power of the owner or something? In this way, it can only be regarded as that kind of real-time equipment, right? Once it leaves its amplification, won't the user immediately fall back to his original strength level? There is only a month, what does this have to do with the improvement of strength?

Tsk, that strange black cat, it shouldn't have any reason to deceive itself, right?

So, maybe there's another possibility, that is, the little girl lied about the utility of the dream crown, maybe it has some other mysterious effect?

Perhaps, this is another deliberate misleading of yourself?

Thinking of this, Natsu's gaze couldn't help but fall on a magical girl who easily revealed the information to herself, and secretly thought about it in her heart.

However, after secretly observing and looking at Alex for a long time, she found that the other party was completely a clear conscience, and she was a little unsure, and finally she could only sigh in her heart, quite tired.

Alas, what a difficult little fox!

But, regardless of what was going on in someone's mind, she and Alexie quickly walked out of the Witch's Hand branch and re-entered the gate where the two stone dragon statues stood again.

Then, after waving a horse-drawn carriage, it was only a dozen minutes before Alexie had arrived at the magical girl's residence with someone---

It was a very elaborately decorated courtyard not too far from the Witch's Hand Branch.