Sherlock raised his cane and tapped on the table where Evas and Yunus were drinking. The crystal glass shook a little, and motioned for both of them to look at him.

"Come to think of it, Mr. Yunus—"

Sherlock repeated the question with a serious expression.

- An elven girl named Anastasia, who thanked Yunus for saving her life, so she left a token and invited him to her house.

- and when her father got the token, he told Yunus that she was dead and had never been to Avalon.

"Generally speaking, it shouldn't be asking you first...... What exactly happened? 'Why did you get it?' 'Isn't Anastasia dead?'...... It is even suspected that her body was desecrated by a necromancer - although normally the tree would be incinerated without leaving a corpse. But he didn't think about the possibility that Anastasia would become an apostle or some other illusion and be summoned in the material realm.

"He said that Anastasia was completely transformed more than twenty years ago - but didn't he go to Horus to build a house more than twenty years ago?

"To say that he was so grieved that he had to devote himself to his work...... Then why doesn't he care about the information you bring? ”

Sherlock said meaningfully: "Under what circumstances can a father who loves his daughter and then cares nothing about his daughter's information?

"There's only one truth – he's actually seen Anastasia all the time. And he also knows what Anastasia is doing...... That's why he has been so enthusiastic about you, but he is indifferent to your doubts and my investigation. Because he knew you did save Anastasia, but he couldn't explain why he knew and understood it.

"He's been in Horus for so long, and within a few years he's been in Iris and he's just returned. But can he know how Anastasia is doing? And also know that she met you in Avalon?

"That means one thing—he sees Anastasia wherever he goes."

"—so it's obvious. Anastasia didn't die of the tree disease at all, as she was secretly sent to the fairy kingdom...... There's a fairy forest nearby, and there's even a fairy cave. And Anastasia had her own surname "Moonlight" at a young age. According to your description, it was just a child - she didn't have a chance to get the full inheritance, how could she get a surname?

"That's easy. The inheritance of 'moonshine' can only come from Maxim or his wife's real surname. After that, they gave up their own family lineage and inherited someone else's lineage, so they changed their surname.

"And their child Anastasia is not yet old enough to start receiving the inheritance, so they can only use their original surname for the time being......"

- It's like Innellis inherited the surname "Blossom".

Ivas said this, and silently added in his heart.

"And Maxim helped the Star Antimony people build a railway two hundred years ago. At that time, he was already 'digging'.

"Therefore ......"

"—it's me."

A sweet girlish voice suddenly came from the corner: "My previous name...... It's called Grace Moonshine. ”

The three of them turned their gaze away.

I saw Grace Dead Leaf Butterfly, standing there silently at some point.

She wears a short goose-yellow dress with white stockings, and a hairpin on her head—a color very similar to Neriam's dress. Just by appearance, she doesn't look like a mother at all, but more like a young schoolgirl of seventeen or eighteen.

At this time, Nelyum was lying quietly on her raised fingers. Quietly parked here like a moth, snoring and sleeping.

It's like a butterfly turning into a dead leaf. Her presence is not visible at all.

Obviously, she's been standing here for a long time. At least she'd been quiet here since Sherlock had been in the door...... Neriam suddenly disappeared, and she should have been arrested.

"I guessed it."

Ivus nodded slightly: "I've already guessed it from the time that underage goblin appeared. When I touched the headband and made sure it was a normal item and not something extraordinary, I had a rough idea.

"The dead leaf butterfly is the inheritance of the three paths of adaptation, beauty, and dusk, and it also requires a considerable level of dance skills. This means that the level of the path must be very high...... And the main path of the 'moonlight' inheritance should be the path of beauty. ”

“…… As a human being, how can you know this? ”

Grace looked at Ivus in surprise.

Ivas nodded and said modestly: "It's just that I usually read a lot of books......

- In a sense, he said it very coolly.

Because he really saw it from the book this time, it is no longer a "mysterious information" that cannot be said from the source.

"You guessed that...... Archbishop Ivas. [Moonlight] is about the inheritance of goblins and illusions, the realm of beauty and adaptation, and the relationship with the fairy queen is good. It was only in the past few years that I mastered the inheritance of the Withered Leaf Butterfly. ”

Lady Grace sighed lightly and bowed slightly to the others: "But please let us go......"

“…… Let? ”

Yunus muttered.

"Probably because 'tree disease' is a sacred act in the church."

Sherlock reminded from the side, "After all, it's close to the ancestors. ”

"Not really."

Ivus shook his head.

At least judging from the attitude of the Eternal Saints of this generation, she obviously doesn't think that the transformation of the Eternal Pope is a good thing. The same is true of the other cardinals...... Hardly anyone really sees this as an honor.

But in a sense, it is obviously not okay to openly say that arboredom is bad.

This is a kind of "political correctness" in the church: the giant tree created the elves with its own flesh and blood, and dedicated its own body to them, becoming the country of the giant tree that carries the elves.

“…… But both me, and Maxim, are more pragmatic. ”

Grace whispered, "We don't want ...... Anastasia didn't even spend her childhood before she was summoned by the tree to ascend into the realm of dreams.

"I want to ...... At least let her be happy and healthy for decades. Maxim, on the other hand, simply didn't want his daughter to die.

"More than twenty years ago, one of our human friends alerted me, and that's how I came up with this method - to send Anastasia to the fairy kingdom. When we want to see her, we summon fairies and manifest her with real visions. As long as she does not return to the physical realm in the physical body, her arbosis will not deteriorate to the final stage. She can still play happily......

“…… In the Church, we claim that Anastasia has been tree-turned, and that we have incinerated her tree-like body and belongings. ”

- Only, whether it is lying about the death of the tree disease, or forcibly stopping the tree disease with the help of extraordinary means...... This is bound to be a taboo that is not allowed in the Church. Especially the latter...... That is equivalent to letting the goblins of the path of beauty poach people from the path of dedication, and the fairy queen is only at the level of Tiansi.

The giant tree is the apostle of the candle and can also be regarded as a god. And those who are summoned by the tree disease will directly become the "apostle of the apostles", that is, on the same level as Mother Sasha.

If the nature of this matter were replaced by another path, it would be tantamount to the Fallen Heaven Division using the Great Sin Brand to turn Sister Sasha, who had not yet entered the dream realm, into a succubus.

The three of Ivas were silent.

And Grace said sincerely: "The Anastasia that Mr. Yunus saw is not a real illusion, it is the real Anastasia - she suddenly fell out for some reason. It seems to have passed by the fairy cave and was sucked out. Thanks to Mr. Yunus for saving her from the bandits, the elves were able to get her back again, otherwise......

"—We didn't mean to keep Anastasia forever! I just want her to live happily for a few more decades - our elves' work efficiency is usually relatively low, and when she has had enough, she will come back and re-establish herself, and it will not be too late to ascend to the dream world......"

Ivus understood.

Grace: They just want to make a time difference.

They took a huge risk—perhaps even a great risk of having their soul punished by the Candle—and wanted Anastasia to stay for decades more.

That's not a long time.

In the elf's sense of time, it is equivalent to a few years of human beings.

And these time, just so that Anastasia can have a happy childhood.

Fifty years later, Anastasia returned and became a tree...... Then the "accounts" on the side of the church can be reconciled.

This can also be considered a form of embezzlement—except that it is the apostles of the gods.

Dare to instigate the Graces to do such a thing......

Who has to be this?

What is his purpose?

…… Wait, abetment?

"By the way, that human friend ......"

Ivus suddenly had some kind of intuition, and asked a little anxiously, "What's your name?" ”

“…… I didn't actually know his full name. He calls himself 'The Spider'. ”

Grace shook her head, "And the fairy queen calls him 'James'." ”

(End of chapter)