“… A white rabbit?”
“At this year’s wizard festival, the wizard who handles the puppets serves as a guide.”
As soon as I finished my words, a white rabbit doll approached us. Then he waved his hand and ran lightly in one direction.
Sabaki looked blankly at the stuffed rabbit and said.
“That’s strange.”
“what?”
“Same thing with the box I just bought… How do you know all that stuff? Are you naturally erudite?”
It was a slip of the tongue. It’s because there are a lot of things to worry about. Recalling the need to maintain secrecy, I gritted my teeth and spoke again.
“… I heard a lot of things picked up here and there. Let’s chat later, let’s move.”
I took the lead and followed the rabbit doll. The suspicious-looking Sabaki and the nervous Evangeles quietly followed me.
Excited excitement was reflected in the faces and voices of the people walking about. In the bright atmosphere of the festival, when the three of us had walked for about 20 minutes, we started hearing music in the distance.
A low drumming sound.
flute sound.
The soft twitching sound of a violin-like stringed instrument.
The sound of a percussion instrument like a tambourine being beaten with excitement.
Sabaki, who had listened to the sound quietly, said with a bitter smile.
“It’s crude evil.”
“It’s because the dolls are playing.”
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No matter what his playing skills were, he was now on the verge of entering the [Assassination of the Princess] event in earnest. This is a time when commitment is needed.
I looked at the potion I had taken out of the [Rainbow Potion Kit].
In the world view of ‘Savior from Another World’, ‘HP recovery potion’ that appears in general RPG games is classified as a mythical item. I didn’t like the fact that items that could be directly involved in life were treated as consumables.
Of course, the potion I’m holding right now wasn’t that kind of recovery potion either.
A [Rainbow Potion Kit] that can distinguish the effect of each potion through its color. Among ‘red’, ‘ju’, ‘no’, ‘second’, ‘pa’, ‘nam’, and ‘bo’, up to the first five are related to the five human senses. Visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile.
And the system log of the yellow potion in my hand is as follows.
[Kirov’s Yellow Potion]
[Rating: Premium (normal item)]
[Capacity: 2/2]
[This is a stimulant potion produced by the wizard Kirov. This is a 2-dose dose. When ingested, the user’s sense of smell becomes abnormally acute for 10 minutes. All skills related to the sense of smell receive temporary buffs.]
In other words, this yellow potion can be a booster for the secret skill of the Espertz family, [The Smell of Death].
I know because I am a developer. My [smell of death] that I have already become sensitive to through [Devil’s Egg]. If the help of this potion is added here, even the assassin who completely hid his life will be able to be tracked down.
The only concern is the warning displayed on this item. It is not a warning through the system log. On the inside of the lid of the [Rainbow Potion Kit], the following text was attached.
[Warning: It will taste great, so I recommend only using it in a real crisis. After that, even if the next crisis is to death, you will be torn between death and taking.]
A phrase written by Kirov himself… Even so, it seems that there is a bit of an idiot. Because I wrote the screenplay. This wasn’t just to express Kirov’s personality who enjoys intimidating opponents. I wanted to give a hint by repeating the word ‘death’ in this warning.
Let the user know that this potion can be used as a booster for [The Smell of Death].
And thanks to that, I hit that setting with my whole body. Sabaki said to me who was hesitant while holding the test tube.
“If you’re going to drink, drink it quickly. What are you doing with that?”
“… okay. You should drink.”
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Not all creative elements are based only on experience. There are many things based on imagination or indirect experience.
That’s what I have to face now.
just taste.
I don’t even know exactly what I wrote. About the ‘taste to conflict between death and taking’ written in the warning.
“Sabaki, can I ask you about a painful memory?”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t the warden’s woman feed you something while you were in prison?”
Sabaki slightly squinted her eyes, then opened them.
“Fed.”
“Do you remember the color?”
“purple.”
Well… Then the taste will be different.
Well, even if I knew, I don’t think I would be prepared.
I gave up the advice and looked forward again, but suddenly Sabaki grabbed my shoulder and said.
“Do you know what it is?”
Before I could answer, the distant music of the dolls stopped. Now the parade procession was visible in front of my eyes.
Wizards wearing masks.
Dolls holding musical instruments.
People pulling carts filled with oak barrels around the kiln distributing beer.
The voices of the touts cannot be missed.
“This savory beer is sponsored by ‘Battlefield Cup’, a resting place for soldiers who always use fresh barley. Come and enjoy yourself.”
The boy who was scattering petals next to him also screamed, “Don’t beat me.”
“At ‘House of the Sun’, we now sell Hynelia flower seeds. You all know. If you pick the petals of the Henelia you have grown, write down the name of the person you love, and boil it-”
The boy’s voice was drowned out by the voices of other touts. A coffee shop, a clothing store, a bakery, a weapon shop, a glasssmith… The people dispatched from all the shops in Frantimo raised their voices lively.
And behind the background of that fuss.
There was a wizard burned on a large palanquin.
A girl sitting cross-legged at the tip of a palanquin that would be about 3 meters tall.
You should be the main character of this festival.
This year’s wizard, Arien.
Amidst this crowd-
And at a distance of about 30 meters-
I’m not surprised that she’s looking right at me. For her, who can even distinguish the sound of footsteps and the sound of her heart, it would be no task to capture my voice.
thump-
A new performance began again with the sound of drums beaten by the teddy bear. Sabaki shook my shoulder a little and said.
“I asked if I knew what it was.”
I decided to take Sabaki’s words as a toast. The time indicated by the clock tower is 11:49. I couldn’t put it off any longer.
I said, slightly lifting the test tube.
“Cheers.”
He brought the test tube in his hand to his mouth. Then tilted it.
***
“Sister, sister.”
“yes?”
“You know a lot, don’t you?”
“… why?”
“Why are the wizards helping the parade wearing masks?!”
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Needless to say, Ida was frightened. It was because of the squirrel doll dug into her chest. Adrine quickly grabbed the doll’s tail and pulled it out.
“It has two meanings. One literally means to highlight the main character. Hey, can you see the wizard sitting on the palanquin?”
“Yes, I see. that base… No, only that wizard didn’t wear a mask.”
“yes. That’s the wizard of the year. ”
It wasn’t the first time Ida had seen her face. It was the girl who followed John on the night that John and Adrin went on patrol together.
Adrine’s explanation continued.
“In another sense, it symbolizes the ‘stubbornness’ spoken of in the Wizard’s Tower. Why, you must have heard of it. There’s a famous saying. A wizard does not give up his efforts because he is old, but loses his way when he loses his stubbornness. So the masks they are wearing… .”
It was a question she asked herself, but Ida wasn’t even listening to Adrinne’s explanation. It was because he followed Arien’s gaze.
There was a frowning John and his older brother.
Ida clenched her fists.
‘I can’t approach first.’
It was a promise I made last night. To be the woman who ‘must come first’ to John, as it was to Jackal Frodo. Perhaps, while she had been thinking that she wanted to win John’s heart, she had never thought that she could become a woman of value to him.
As Adrinne finished explaining the sorcerer’s mask, the guardian knight standing behind the two women was concentrating on the general meaning of the mask.
It is a tool that covers a person’s face. Like a bandana or mask or camouflage cream.
And all of them are also tools favored by assassins.
“Whoa… .”
Looking at Adrine with a bright expression, Hoan let out a deep sigh. Originally, he had thought that a guardian knight should paranoidly accept the meaning of ‘protecting someone’.
So it was even more disturbing.
Adrine’s bright expression, how long it’s been since I’ve seen her.
Her blonde hair, which draped over her shoulders, would ripple a little with each little smile she had.
Protecting someone is not the same as putting the person you need to protect in a box and putting it in a basement where no light can reach.
This will make you reflect on what you have done. She wondered if it was a little too much for her to threaten the officer on duty who was teasing her, to dig into the back of the boy who sent her a love letter, and to break the wrist of the soldier who harassed her.
Everyone needs time and space to breathe life. Especially if it’s a girl who hasn’t turned 20 yet.
‘Let’s focus only on what I have to do.’
Hoan made up his mind to regard this place today as the time and place needed by Adrinne. At the same time, he bristled at the masked men.
Is there anyone who turns his head several times toward Adrine?
Is there anyone hiding a weapon under the hem of a flat robe?
And he didn’t know that at that point there were three people in the crowd to help her with the role.
By the time the parade passed the academy’s central pond, the hands on the clock tower pointed to the hour.
It was 12 o’clock.
Sabaki and Evangeles were marking the assassins that John had picked up in advance, one by one. And the action to stop their assassination began with John.
[Arms of Justice] were held in John’s hand, who had estimated the place where the parade would pass and was hiding. It was in the form of a bow. At the same time as he let go of the string, the light that had been hanging on the string went out along the line where the [smell of death] emanated.
shhh-
With a flash of light, a straight line of light was drawn and then disappeared. It was a fleeting sniping that only those who were closely observing the air, where glitter and confetti were flying, could notice.
And the target of the sniping was not the masked person.
“gagging-”
As the light faded, a human-sized teddy bear thumped to the ground. And this was also a signal that had been tipped off to Evangeles and Sabaki in advance.
Sabaki and Evangeles performed short steps.
Subsequently, Sabaki’s wooden sword and Evangeles’ sword were swung at the doll standing behind Hoan.