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08-07 Unexpected Reunion

Content warning: some graphic violence.
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In a sense, you could call the provincial city of Tellurs the gateway to entering the royal capital Esaia.
Just why is the royal capital Esaia so close to the national border?

Originally Celuroa Kingdom was a very small country. After the Great Magic War and after Dinar Kingdom had split into smaller countries, Celuroa Kingdom which was built on top of the Dinar Kingdom’s capital city’s ruins, had its eighth king Roland the First command troops to fight a neighboring country.

The annexed lands were in the north and east, west, and then southwest. That’s the reason why the capital’s location was lopsided.

Incidentally, during that time the southern Egelia Kingdom had fought stubbornly to the last, and to avoid the national power declining due to the prolonged war Roland the First made peace with Egelia Kingdom.
Since then there had been only small fights, but mostly the diplomatic relations have continued seemingly favourably. That is, until the events 18 years ago which Elsa’s father participated in.

“Didn’t Reinhardt say that the current king seemed a bit warlike…”

There were two more days until they would board the ferry. Reinhardt had said he’d try visiting a friend, while Jin went off on his own.

After over an hour of walking, Jin was a little tired and sat down on a bench that the plaza facing the main street was furnished with.

The street traffic was large, and the place was lively. Parents with their children, families, pairs of lovers. Traders, nobles, elders, children. Many sorts of people were coming and going.

“Hm?”

“Let’s see, you were.”

The girl he had met in the village with the mine, Yada Village. The young daughter of Viscount Secatt’s house.

After remembering, Jin smiled and spoke to her.

“Huh, a pleasure cruise. Was it fun?”

Schiede smiled and made hand gestures while she explained to Jin. Her behaviour was charming and just by listening Jin had fun too.

Jin asked, and Schiede made a somewhat uncomfortable face.

“Eeh?”

“Your mother’s group is surely looking for you too, right? Oh yeah, do you know the hotel you’re staying in?”

“Green Bower Hotel…I wonder where it was.”

(Father, that hotel is on the street east of the intersection on this street.)

“Let’s see, if I remember right that hotel is this way.”

“Thank you, mister. That miss is not with you today?”

“Mmh, she’s doing something else right now.”

It appears after Elsa healed Schiede’s wound, she took a liking to her.

“So after all, she can’t go outside so often because she’s a noble too?”

There was no way Jin could tell her the truth and so he dodged the question, while Schiede then said with a serious look on her face.

Those words made Jin think of something but,

He said to persuade her. Schiede meekly nodded.

“Mmh, Schiede-chan’s a good girl.”

“Ehehe, that feels nice.”

Meanwhile, they arrived in front of the hotel.

A hurried woman’s voice. It was Schiede’s mother, the wife of Viscount Secatt, Mariria.

Mariria came running over and hugged Schiede.

Hauro was probably their butler, Jin thought idly while watching the meeting of parent and child.

Then Mariria let go of Schiede whom she was holding and looked at Jin.

She appeared to remember Jin’s face.

“My my, so it was you. You’re by yourself today?”

“I see. I’d like to give you something as a token of my gratitude but as we’re traveling I’m short of money at hand…”

“No, it wasn’t such a big deal, well then, I’ll be going now.”
He said and bowed, and turning his back to the voices who still wanted him to stop for something, Jin quickly left the scene.

“Parent and child, huh. That sort of thing, isn’t it nice.”

A riverbank about five meters tall had amassed along the river, and it was possible to climb it up. Jin who was a bit sweaty from walking tried climbing up the riverbank to for something like a breeze off the river.

He climbed up the bank and could see the dry river bed, but there a group of people had gathered.

Reiko told Jin while staying invisible. Reiko’s eyesight was sharper than a falcon’s. That’s what Jin was thinking, but for the invisible Reiko using infrared rays to see it was difficult to discern faraway details so for a moment she had gone closer and come back.

“What!? Mine who was supposed to have run away with Elsa turned up as a drowned body!?”

After getting down on the riverbed Jin urgently rushed there.

“It really is…Mine.”

“Out of the way please! I know her!”

“Ugh…”

Her right arm appeared to be broken and bent in a weird direction, her head was swelled dark red as if she had been hit, and a knife had pierced through her abdomen.

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