When he opened his eyes, the surrounding of him was all dark. Was it this place was dark, or he felt dark? He wouldn't know.

Stretching his hands and touching something like ground beneath of him, he started to crawl hoping to get out of here. He saw a glimpse of light ahead of him. Feeling anxious and thirsty in his throat, he quickened his pace. Some choking voices escaped out of his lips as he did so. The light was just an inch from him however, when he was about there, his legs were stuck like being glued.

Deeply shock as he struggling to move, a pair of hand climbed up to his back. The cold touch of the hand made him shivered. To his surprise, the hand suddenly pulled him up side down and slammed him against the ground. Feeling hurt as he let out a light groan, he opened his eyes to find what that's that pulled him. However, what he saw stunned him.

"What now? Do you think you can get away from me?" The boy with gray hair said. His lips formed a cold smile. "Don't be stupid. You're nothing but a tool. You don't even know what you are!"

Grimacing as he felt the boy clutched his throat, shaking his head as if denying the boy. He had a feeling, if he admitted the boy, he would disappear.

"Do you think you're truly living? No, you're artificial! You don't possess life at all!"

"…It's not like that…!" He could finally speak up. As he tried hard on denying, he pulled the boy's hand off his throat. "I'm alive! I'm here now!"

The boy narrowed his eyes and stared at him. A moment later, he laughed— a laugh that only filled with hatred.

"…Fool. You don't even remember what happened thousand years ago. What is the right there you tell me you're alive!? Feeling guilty for what you had done? Talk about pain!"

"…T-Thousand years ago…?"

"Just you wait 'Vayne', I. Won't. Let. You. Die. Easily." Leaving these words, the boy vanished.

He stared at where the boy was just stood, having completely blank in his mind.

Times flew, may be, but he wouldn't know. He wouldn't care. He just kept sitting in daze for the whole time until a voice broke in.

"Where are you coming from? Come over here."

"…Father…?" Muttering softly, he slowly stood up and ran to the light before his eyes. Within that light, he saw his father— the younger version of Bernard.


"Onii-sama! Wake up, onii-sama!"

Shaking her brother hardly on hand, Lily used her free hand to give Vayne a slap on his cheek. She planned on giving another slap if he still refused to wake up.

"H-Hime-sama…please s-stop…!" Whim felt she couldn't watch it anymore.

"Don't stop me Whim!" Lily slapped even harder considered how loud the sound was. Whim could only shut her eyes at that. "Wake up now, onii-sama!"

"Urgh…" Finally, our doctor, as well as our great prince opened his eyes. "…Lily and Whim? Ouch…why my cheek is aching?"

"N-No…i-it's must be your imagination!" Quickly hiding her hands to her back, Lily chuckled dryly with that comment. Of course she won't tell him it's because she slapped him!

"Y-Yes…Hime-sama didn't do anything…" Whim also pretended nothing but her words always betraying her.

"Shut up, you stupid maid!" Dragging the maid closer by her collar, Lily's face reddened as she pulled the maid's ears.

"I-I'm sorry…p-please stop…ouch! Ouch! Ouch!"

Looking at the funny scene in front though he had used to it, Vayne still let out a chuckle. He rubbed his cheek and had a thought that Lily must have done something to him. An image flashed across his mind and his smile immediately gone.

Who is the boy in the dream? He…he has the same face as me…

Fool. You don't even remember what happened thousand years ago. What is the right there you tell me you're alive!? Feeling guilty for what you had done? Talk about pain!"

What was he's talking about? He didn't remember he had lived for thousand years. Logically, no human can live more than 100 years…thousand years? He's only 25…

Is that so?

He jumped up by the sudden soft whispering rang in his ears. What is that? He looked around but found no other people around except he, Lily and Whim. So whose voice was that?

"Onii-sama?"

His thought snapped back with Lily's call. Lifting his head, he found Lily and Whim looking at him in worried.

"Oh, I'm fine." Wouldn't want to let the girls worried him more, Vayne tilted his lips up. "By the way Lily, why are you up on my bed?"

Lily winked at the words from her brother. Taking a look to the bed and then back to Vayne again, her face turned to red tomato.

"N-No…it's not like that…!" She climbed down in rush, almost tripped, fortunately Whim was there to hold her. "T-That's because onii-sama…you're having dream talk…"

His eyes widened. "Huh?"

"W-What? You thought I'm lying!?" Seeing her brother's face filled with shock and disbelief, Lily furrowed her brows and swelled her cheek. "You're talking rigmarole…I can't even hear what was that about. Onii-sama…are you having bad dream or something?"

Vayne felt bad for worrying his sister like that. He was indeed having a bad dream which the boy with same face like him clutched his throat and said something terrible, but he wouldn't want to worry her more. The troubles that happened after their father was gone were getting more and more. He knew Lily was not only had to take care of their mother, she was trying to help him in what she could. Honestly, Lily gained popularity in among nobles and citizen, it would be a big help to have her by his side. However, things still didn't seem turning his side. And just because of this, he wouldn't want to burden her anymore.

He placed a hand on her head and rubbed. "Thank you Lily, I'm fine. Bad dream won't take me down.

Lily let out a smile. She nodded to her brother.

"Onii-sama…do you think…do you think Roze is the murderer?" Her face went gloomy talking about Roze.

"Lily…" Vayne just couldn't help. She loved Roze he knew. In fact, everyone knew about it. He could understand how she felt when she saw him in the King Chamber with blood on his body. He himself also thought Roze murdered father in the first place. "You believe in this?"

"No, of course I'm not!" Honestly, she was glad when Anna and everyone saved Roze in the openly execution. To see her love died in front of her was something she could never bear with. "I believe in Roze no matter what he did. Roze will never do something like this!" They knew each other for such a long time now. How could she consider Roze as murderer? No, never!

"Then it'll be fine. He will come back to this place again when the time is right. Trust him." Anna's face suddenly came in mind. For a moment, he felt his eyes filled with water as he remembered her. I…I just wish she is here…


"…How are you feeling? Do you hurt?"

Who are you?

"My name is Tetri. I'm glad that you're alright."

What happened…?

"Listen Mana of Life, all the mana was gone in this human world. You're the only one left here. Unfortunately, I can't bring you back to Mana Sanctuary. In that case, I advise you to make a contract with human."

Contract…?

"Yes, there's a girl who almost die here. As a Mana of Life, you'll be able to keep her alive. Please, I need to keep her alive."

Alright…

"Princess,, are you alright? Can you hear me?"

Tetri, her body has died…I only manage to keep her soul from vanishing…is that alright?

"Yes, that's enough. Thank you Mana of Life. By the way, what's your name?"

My name is…Aeon…

"Then Aeon, please stay strong, and I look forward for the day we meet again."


"Achoo!"

"Are you alright?" Roze asked the blonde as he sat down beside her with everyone.

Ulrika rubbed her palm to get some warm. "Don't you think it's a little cold?"

Yun looked around and finally fixed his gaze at the hill opposite of them.

"Yeah, I feel a little cold too. Look there." He pointed the snow white colored hill. "The hill there…is snowing."

"That's strange. It shouldn't snow in this season." After recognized which hill Yun was talking about, Roze commented. Anna agreed with him.

"Yes…this is the first time I heard about it." Ignoring the snowy hill for now, Anna shifted her gaze to the beautiful ghost. Now, they had to take care of their own things first. "Pamela and Jess, thanks for saving us. I have to say, that's…close." To think she was defeated made her bit her bottom lips in furious.

The blonde man admitted he was the one behind all this. Though he didn't admit directly he was the one who killed the king, with that 'Vayne' by his side, Anna couldn't help but think negatively.

Anna always knew that Vayne was strong. He was a great doctor, but at the same time, he was too, a great swordsman. They always trained together and tried out some new skills. But Anna never knew facing Vayne in battle was something terrible. Something she could imagine but never experience before. She thought Vayne always did his best in their training. Now she knew he was never.

Or the Vayne they fought was someone else? If so, how should she explain the skills and techniques he used? That's definitely Vayne's…

"It's alright. Aeon was the one to do that." Pamela smiled, stretching out her teddy bear.

"Aeon? Who's that?" They all focused on the teddy bear now. They remembered seeing a small creature flew out from the teddy bear. However, they never saw something like that, nor something like that existed in their world.

The teddy bear suddenly went off from Pamela's hand and floated in front of them.

...Though this is not our first meet, let me officially introduce myself. My name is Aeon, the Mana of Life.

For that one moment, everyone only stared at the bear in silence. Pamela only saw them winked their eyes as if to confirm something. Seeing that, Pamela burst out a laugh before they reacted. She could have imagined their reaction!

"T-Teddy bear i-is t-talking!" Ulrika was the first freaked out. She jumped to the back of Roze seeking for a place to hide.

Yun and Roze almost jaw dropped. Jess opened her mouth in O shaped, while Anna remained expressionless. Being in the same house for quite some times in Land of Renaissance, though Anna was surprised, but she didn't as freak as the others. Now I can understand why Pamela will talk to the teddy bear.

Ahem! Sorry I don't mean to scare all of you. Aeon seemed a bit annoyed with the laugh from Pamela. She protested a bit to her contractor. As you can see, mana is not existed in this world. I can understand your feeling.

Anna coughed, pulling everyone back to reality and having them to concentrate in their talk.

"…So Aeon, what is this mana is? Are you the one who keep Pamela alive with her soul?"

Yes, we're bound by a contract. As I said, mana is not existed in this world, but they once lived in this land with humans. Aeon flew back to Pamela and rested on her lap. It's has been thousand years ago…do you all know how this land was built?

Her question made everyone of them looked at each other, but no answer was gained. At last, they all shook their head.

"…According to the book, our land was built thousand years ago on the kingdom named Al-Revis. Al-Revis was destroyed by disaster…" Roze recalled the book he flipped during his childhood life.

No, that's not correct. Al-Revis was destroyed due to an unknown explosion. And more of it was, they totally erased the existence of mana in this land. Aeon's voice mixed with a hint of displeased. Though she could understand the reason behind, it didn't mean she could tolerate with that. In fact, I don't really know the reason of the explosion either. When I was waked up, I was handed to Pamela to keep her soul from vanishing. Then only I got to know all the mana gone. I'm only one left.

They all could hear the weight in her tone. Being the only one left to survive, Aeon must've gone through a lot of things and avoided them from finding out her.

Ulrika took a glance at the teddy bear, feeling sorry for her. To her surprise, her mind rang a bell when Aeon talked about Al-Revis. She had no idea what that might be, but the name Al-Revis brought something up. She felt familiar with the name, and somehow Al-Revis made her felt her chest in ached. She lowered her face and leaned against Roze.

In Al-Revis, human and mana lived together, needing each other to survive. Al-Revis was an alchemy land. Even the king was an excellent alchemist. I heard something happened to him before the explosion. Aeon paused for a moment to see everyone. They all concentrated on her talk with long gloomy face. She should have warned them before starting this. Before the explosion was occurred, I was caught and locked inside a large crystal along with other mana. One by one, the other mana were brought out and they never came back. At the end, I was the only left in that crystal.

"Aeon…" Pamela hugged her tightly in front of her chest.

It's alright. Then, Aeon continued. And then the world started to shake. The explosion sent me away from the place. I was lucky enough to stay inside the crystal. It kept me away from death. That's the time I met Pamela. She's almost die, so I made a contract to kept her alive…unfortunately, even I was there in the explosion, I couldn't figure what was actually going on. Pamela, you're the person lived thousand years ago in Al-Revis. That's all I can tell you.

"I-I was living in that awesome Al-Revis? Wow…"

"But Aeon, if you said Al-Revis was an alchemy nation, why we know nothing about alchemy? Didn't the people inherit the techniques of alchemy?" Anna asked after hearing the whole story. In fact, they all knew nothing about alchemy or Al-Revis. They had many questions, but it's hard to figure which to ask first. Mainly their question would focus on the explosion.

Who did that, and how was it happened? If Aeon was right, then why she was caught? The question was just going around and around. Without getting an answer for one question, the others would just leave blank.

Good question, Anna. During the restoration of the land, some rumors started to spread around. Some said the explosion was something went wrong in the middle of experiment. Some said the king did it because the explosion was caused by the royal family…sort like that. Thinking the situation that time, Aeon couldn't help but let out a sigh. It's not difficult to imagine how confused the rumors caused. Most of the assumption leaded to alchemy. To avoid the tragedy from occurring again, people suggested sealing the knowledge of alchemy. They gathered all the recipes and divided them into several files, and stored in a secret place along with the history of Al-Revis, so no one would find out about alchemy again.

"Where were those things stored at?"

It's been a long time ago…If I'm right; they should be in the far southwest part of this nation.

Ulrika felt her heart skipped a beat. "Huh? I'm from the village in southwest…" It wouldn't be in that kind of coincidence…right?

I'm sorry. I can't sure since so many changes during these years…

"…I see…but is there anything to do with the two men we fought?" Yun finally spoke after a long moment of explanation.

I think I saw that blonde man before. I'm not sure…but I think I saw him when other mana were brought out from the large crystal…

"Huh? Is that mean they're from thousand years ago too!?" Ulrika blurted out her question. This all was just completely out of they knowledge. Human would never live for thousand years. "…Are they mana too?"

I'm sorry. I can't say for sure. This is all I know.

"It's alright. This helps a lot! Thanks Aeon!" Jess smiled, tried to lighten up the situation. "By the way, are your wounds really gone by now?"

Everyone checked on their body after hearing that from the female doctor. Though it's still a little hurt, but no more blood or wound could be found. This was all thanks to Jess.

"Yes, we're fine."

"A lot better. We'll fully recover after some rest."

"Oh that's good!" She smiled, feeling relief to hear that. "So, what should we do now?"

"That's no problem!"

"Huh?" Stunning, Jess found so familiar with the voice that broke in. Was she having imagination or what?

Anna cursed under her breathe. She was too concentrated in the explanation, completely letting off her guard. If not, she could have spotted him…"…Come out, Flay."

Like a magic trick, Flay appeared out of nowhere. Though they're used to it, but after such an intense battle just now, they all got shocked.

"Interesting story indeed! You're Aeon, right?" Flay looked to the teddy bear, didn't seem surprised by the fact at all. "I can suggest you to look for Roxis."

"Roxis?" Like remembering something, Jess tilted her head. She let out a chuckle after that. No one knew what she was chuckling at. "Oh yeah, I heard his family own a large stack room."

Ulrika raised her brow, having no idea who this Roxis was.

"But wasn't Aeon said those things are sealed?" Perhaps that Roxis person owned a large stack room; it didn't mean he knew about those books.

Anna lifted her head after pondering. She seemed had the same question as Ulrika, but soon her question gone as if remembering something.

"…I heard some historians tried to dig out the history of Al-Revis few years ago but gave up at the end. Though, the searching is still in the process…is that so?"

Flay raised a smug smile. "Brilliant Anna! If Aeon is true, it's not surprise why those historians couldn't find anything useful in their research. Roxis might have some of their research left. After all, he's pretty into this for sometime."

"…I think we can give it a try." Roze finally concluded. He looked to everyone there asking for their opinions. Yun only gave him a shrug. Pamela and Jess nodded to him, and Anna gave him a serious look.

"…I think it worth to try it out." It's better than having completely no clue. But she doubted Flay had other intention. "Is that all you want to tell us Flay?"

Twitching his brows, Flay crossed his arms and snorted. "Anna, how can you read my mind everytime?"

"…It's not I'm a mind reader, it's because I know you too well!" Anna retorted back. She didn't know the reason. Everytime she would find evil light shined in his eyes when he planned on something. From that time on, she would keep an eye on those eyes to avoid any possibility she would get drag into this plan. However, it seemed that no matter how hard she tried to prevent it, she would always get involved in his plan.

"Hmph, never mind." Crossing his arm, he gestured all of them to look at the snowy hill. "Something seems happened in Villnore. There's a report told Villnore is raid by snowy storm. Everything in there is covered under snow."

"So…?"

"Of course I need you guys to check it out for me!" With a laugh, Flay finally revealed his true intention as if they're his subordinates.

A spine appeared on Anna's forehead as she unsheathed her katana.

"…Flay, you're the worst!" However, the general was faster then her. Before her katana was down to him, he already disappeared in front of them like he was not there at all. "Flay!"

"Then, I wish you all good luck!" Only his voice could hear along with his laughter added at the end of the sentences.

Everyone dropped their faces, but they couldn't help at all. His suggestion was right in time and also what they needed the most. Roze guessed it's no use to protest. No pain, no gain, he always knew about it. They all let out a sigh. God damn sake…no, god damns that Flay. Who was there saying he's the general? Dispersing, all of them went to get some rest for tomorrow job.

Roze watched them took their leave one by one; he glanced at Ulrika behind him.

The chick was too quiet since the explanation started. She just hid behind him. Though he didn't mind that, but her expression always got his mind. I know the reason is not only her…

Al-Revis…an unfamiliar yet familiar enough to rang a bell in his mind. He always had a feeling he knew about Al-Revis. That's a beautiful nation, with kind people, with warm sunlight, lovely garden and…

A flash of golden light across his mind blinded him for a moment. What is that? Like a flash of sunlight along with some pleasant chuckling…like a girl behind them…

"Hey Jerktown?" Ulrika beamed down to look at him. Her voice and face pulled him back from blink. "You look dead."

"…N-No, it's nothing." Speaking of which, the chuckling voice…is like hers. Quickly shaking off the possibility, Roze felt his face was burn. He walked away from her, avoiding eyes contacted with her.

"Hey!" Ulrika chased after him. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing…leave me alone, will you?"

"No!" She retorted bluntly, causing the baron to twist his brows. "Do you know about Al-Revis?"

"Huh? No, will I?" How supposed he knew about it?

Ulrika dropped her face at that. "…I think so…it's just…I feel like I know about it."

Her words made his heart skipped a beat. "What?" She's the same?

However, Ulrika didn't seem she wanted to talk about it. She shook her head and closed the topics. "No, never mind. I'm not sure either. Maybe it's just my imagination." She turned around and heading to the place where everyone was for some rest like the others.

Looking at her back, Roze felt a sudden urge to embrace her, to felt her in his arm. He didn't know the reason, but he desperately wanted to do so. However, his pride was the first got into him and prevented him from doing that, as well as saving him from any embarrassment that might be.

I must be crazy…maybe I really need some rest…

Shaking off the crazy desire, Roze followed the blonde back to the take a rest.


"What…are you kidding Flay?"

"Do I looking I am?"

Ignoring the baron face, Flay acted leisurely and naturally, didn't influence by the fact he told him a while ago. Roze face palmed as he tried to calm down and took a moment to clear his mind.

He was in the middle of sleep when Flay suddenly dragged him over and shook off his sleepiness. He thought the genera should have gone as he was supposed to. Anyway, that's not important at all now…due to the shock information he threw at him just now.

"No…" That's no point Flay lied to him on this. "…But is this true?"

Flay merely shrugged. "No idea. But it spread among the nobles recently. It wouldn't take long to reach to the people."

"…It's just the matter of time, huh?" Roze muttered with a finger under his chin. "Does Vayne know about it?"

"No, this is only in among the nobles." Flay looked up to the dark sky. A hint of uncertain across his face as Roze got shocked by it.

Even this Flay also has this expression…I can understand. If this rumor is true, not only Vayne will be in trouble, but the whole nation.

Silence settled in between them. Flay remained his posture to the sky while Roze sank in deep pondering. None of them exchanged a word. Word couldn't settle the problem in front of them.

Unknown to where this rumor started from, it spread and caused commotion in among the nobles. Soon, this would reach to the people. If so, Vayne would be in big trouble.

"I'll watch Vayne for the moment. You know to do with this information right?" Finally, Flay broke the silence for them.

Roze nodded. "…I won't tell the others." Especially Anna, he added at the end. He wondered how far she could take all this.

Troubles kept coming up one after another. Were this too, planned by the blonde man and fake Vayne? If so, they were successed.

"I know you're reliable!" Flay slammed a hand on Roze's shoulder and clapped. "Your grandfather will be proud of you."

"You don't have to tell me…" Roze looked away. "And you don't have to say that. I know how serious this thing will be."

"Well then, good luck on your monster hunting!" With a wave, Flay again disappeared, not leaving any trails.

"Huh? Monster hunting?" Not understanding what the message was, Roze was not fast enough. Flay was nowhere to be found. Cursing mentally, Roze felt he was burdened with lots of questions and weight. Why all the troubles are coming to me? "…I had a bad feeling…"


Villnore, a modern town with many young people gathered, now was more than a dead town. All the things there were covered in white. The street was left empty since all the people shut themselves in house, it made Villnore even dead.

Shivering, Ulrika rubbed her arms and circled them hoping to get some warm however, freezing breathe blew away all the warmth. Jess and Pamela leaned against Aeon to search for warmth, at the end two girls hugging each other with Aeon in the middle.

Hey…I can't breathe…let go of me…!

"Aww…don't be so cold Aeon. You're hiding inside the teddy bear but we're leaving out to the cruel freezing wind…"

"Yeah…spare us some warmth!"

No, I refuse to. And Pamela, you're the one giving me this teddy bear to hide in the first place. Don't talk like you're innocent! Ouch…hey, it's pain…don't push!

Jess and Pamela exchanged a smile, barely ignored the Mana of Life, squeezing the bear even harder.

"I-It's cold…" Even her voice was shaking! Ulrika tugged on Roze's hand. Winter season was better than this!

"Shall we go to look for Roxis first?" Anna suggested, hoping she could get out of here as soon as possible. As the noble in Villnore, Roxis should know what has happened.

"Yeah…"

As they walked further into the town, they're stopped by a beastman, or half-cat, half-human according to her appearance. She had blonde hair and two big cat ears and tail. She wore a thick high collar skirt covered her body, only leaving her legs and tail out.

"Jess? Anna? Pamela…and Roze? Yun also here?" Raising her brows as if she had mistaken, the beast man ran to them. "Aha, I know! How dare you guys walk around like that!?"

Immediately she grabbed Roze and ran. Roze didn't even have time to stop her. The others looked at each other for a while, quickly followed the beastman knowing they're under wanted.

The beastman girl took Roze to a wooden house, where it appeared to be her house, Roze supposed. It's been quite some times he visited her…

"…Let me go, Nikki."

The beastman girl—Nikki turned around and looked at him with disbelief on her face.

"Hey, are you guys dumb? You know you guys are under wanted…especially you Roze!" Poking the probably broken brain of the baron, Nikki reprimanded.

"…It's not like we want to come here…Flay told us to come." Rubbing his poked head, Roze huffed. Why he had a feeling like he's been used by Flay?

"Flay? Why?" Talking about the general made Nikki winked her eyes. The others rushed into the house by the time. They wiped off the snow on their body, causing the beastman protested they had ruined her house! "Hey, my house is reserved for my future children, not the snow and dirt!"

"You don't have children now." Anna blurted out.

"Yeah, so it's reserved for us now!" Pamela followed up.

"What!? I…I'll soon have a lot of children!" Nikki defended.

Smirking, Pamela floated closer to the beastman. "Oh~ how about we stay in Roxis's place?"

"What!?" Nikki's face reddened, even smoke could be seen. Ulrika thought her face was exploded at that moment. Glaring at the ghost, Nikki shifted her gaze to the female doctor. "No, I won't lose to you Jess!"

"Huh? What's wrong with me?" Jess tilted her head in innocent.

"Oh…you're out of topic Nikki." Chuckling, Pamela looked she was enjoying the scene.

Anna took a glance at her and then looked away. "Jess…you really don't know or you pretend you don't know?"

Winking a few times, Jess tapped her finger on her chin started to think. Looking at the scene, Ulrika felt like she was the one really don't know what happened.

"Hey Jerktown, what's this?"

Roze let out a sigh at the noise they created. He looked to Yun, How can he always pretending like nothing? "…The beastman is named Nikki. She always wanted to have a lot of kids to save her clan form decaying. You know, beastman is pretty rare now."

"Yeah I know…" Honeatly, Ulrika hadn't met any beastman before Nikki. Nikki could consider the first beastman she met. "And who is Roxis?"

"Roxis is…"

Just when Roze wanted to explain, the door suddenly opened. The freezing wind blew into the room and making everyone shivered. A blonde man with spectacle on his good looking face walked into the house along with a blue haired boy. The boy was around fifteen years old.

"Why this place always noisy?" The blonde man Roxis took a look to everyone in there, didn't seem to surprise this place was filled with a bunch of wanted. He flinched a little seeing Pamela but face reddened after seeing Jess in the group too. "Ahem…good morning, Mr. Murderer."

His teasing tone made Roze cursed in his mind. To be honest, he didn't like this man.

"I'm not the murderer." He told him, slow and firm. "We're here because Flay told us to."

"Well, Flay informed me, and you're willing to lend us your hand." Adjusting his spectacle, Roxis spoke coolly.

"What?" They're here to CHECK it out, not HELP, right?

"…Something happened in Villnore. Roxis, what is it?" Anna probably already had an idea what that Flay was planning in his mind, she just asked, though her face had darkened a bit.

"Nikki, explain it to them." Roxis looked to the beastman.

"…Okay…um, well, it's like that…two days ago, my friends Harpy came and told me, the hill up there behind Villnore was taken over by a group of snow Harpy. The snow Harpy only live in cold place, and they bring snow to where they live with their Snow Harpy Queen's ability." Nikki dropped her face. She wondered how the other Harpy were. "The Snow Harpy Queen can change the environment for its clan to live on. And I heard the Queen is very strong."

Everyone remained silence. Roze bet they're cursing Flay for putting them into a worst trouble. If that general, he doubted the Snow Harpy Queen could fight against him.

Just what the hell he had to drag them into this? Damn you Flay…

"…Fine, we'll help you guys." Thinking he had gotten important information from Flay, even as a paid back, he had to get himself worked with this. That man really knows how to get people work for him… he thought while reminding himself not to get dragged into things like this next time.

However, he might have forgotten, that he was always got dragged by that man no matter how many times he reminded himself not to.

"I appreciate that however…" Roxis looked a little uneasy. The boy next to him took a step out.

"I'm sorry to cut in, but you see…Et has run to the hill by herself."

Almost everyone rolled their eyes after hearing that.

What? That girl also gets herself into this? Interesting…

"Yeah, I agree Aeon!" Pamela hugged the teddy bear tighter.

"I doubt it. She only making the things worst." Anna shook her head to the mana.

"What? She went ahead!?" Nikki exclaimed.

"Oh…I think I have to prepare more medicine…" Letting out a sigh, Jess opened her bag to check.

"…We'll see." Yun tilted his lips, didn't seem to bother at all.

"…That Et…" Roze grunted.

Among all of them, Ulrika was the only one completely having no idea. She looked around one by one. She wondered who this Et was making everyone commented like that. Finally, her gaze landed on the baron.

"…Hey, again, who this Roxis guy and this Et is?"


Hello, it's me again!

Though I have a complete plot by now, but it's still so difficult to put them into the story. Sometimes the conversations just keep leading me out of the plot. This chapter I have corrected it for three times. Phew…sure is hard.

Oh, a little reminder, next week I'm going to start new job. Update might delay a bit…