The Evening Primrose
Chapter 12 - The Cheerful Girl

"Hello! Greetings know~"

With his smile, he patted me on the shoulder as if he wanted to be friends with me. I always wondered if He was one of the reasons why Nora's nature changed. And He told it all and it is true that it was his work.

"Actually... He's the one we should be looking for." While taking care of my wounds.

Out of all the people, this little boy is the one we're looking for?

Right, he is the same person as me. Before that we explained everything to Hartmut about what happened before starting from who the man was and the reason why he only attacked me and Nora.

None other than my bracelet is the cause of this mess. He may still be alive, for it is impossible for demons to die that easily. Therefore, the girl thought of taking part to protect me from the hands of demons like her.

In essence, what I thought before was indeed completely valid. Nora is the son of a noble who has long been devastated by the work of his servants. Even so, I do not know in more detail what kind of family he came from and the reason his family can accept demons like him.

Hartmut looked towards Nora with a suspicious look. We're not planning to hide it after dragging it into our problems, it's just that Nora must have thought that she would get in trouble if she spread her name to others.

But Hartmut doesn't mind it, he'll keep everything that happened today a secret. On one condition, he must be paid with 1 gold coin. Basic currency. Nora gave him, and all the problems were over.

"Well, kid. You must want to know the power that the bracelet hides, kan~"

"Talk it while walking," I replied.

Anyway, it's getting dark today. Although Nora has fire magic, I don't want to walk in the middle of the forest especially when it's dark. It was like something terrifying would definitely appear in this forest.

"I'm with you, yeah!" he said it very lightly.

Actually, he got dragged here because of the devil. It would be very troublesome if He had no place to rest let alone He was a child. Hartmut will also temporarily come with us because the trip to the next village will take one day if on foot.

Who told you not to bring supplies?

Well, the name of the disaster could have happened without our knowledge. During the trip, they explained one by one about all these events. Nora goes outside thinking she can find clues as to why her family could be destroyed.

But suddenly the demon who invited him sent Nora into the labyrinth because of his carelessness. He saw a figure he knew while living in his parents' residence, but it was just an undead. Just like we met before being sent to the labyrinth, that's the figure of his father.

Nora had long since discarded all her feelings for her family after they died abnormally except herself and a few people. Until here He can tell you, the rest He wants to keep it a secret because it will hurt his heart.

Then concerning the little boy who was with us, he was the librarian we were supposed to meet in the city of Nevakoda later. But somehow that goal came to us on its own.

Her name was Lana, and what surprised me so much was that she was over 200 years old. He brushed his hair and had two pointed ears with gold earrings. She's so pretty more cute if her hair stays that way.

She was an elf, or people here called them forest fairies. Not many of them live among humans, because they always perceive humans as someone who likes to enslave other races.

Even so, he was a librarian who had kept his place of work for about a hundred years. That was also the reason why he was the only person with such wide insight among them.

But somehow his nature is like a child despite his age which is so long. After all, is it really okay for elves to tell their age to humans like us? Moreover, she is a woman.

And how are you with mine? Unfortunately it has nothing to do with the type of attack, but on the other hand it is a pretty special bracelet. Although unable to use magic or strengthen the body, this bracelet will help me to slow down time at certain times.

Therefore, this bracelet is often referred to as a bracelet that can change time and dimensions. It's a little interesting because a lot of things came to mind after He explained it.

We were too busy talking about it, so we didn't realize we were walking out of the woods. Although it was only for a moment, it felt like I had not seen the village again for a long time. The view of the village in the afternoon looks so beautiful with clouds illuminated by the sunlight behind it.

I apologize to Hartmut for dragging him into our troubles. That way, all the problems are done and we head back to the village together.

"Did you not forget something?"

True, I lied to Zahra that we would return to earth after meeting the person we were referring to.

"Sorry, I'm actually lying let you come with us~"

I can only smile and be friendly with him. With an irritated feeling, Zahra began to pull her knife slowly from the pouch. I could see his eyes were empty and it scared me to shiver.

"Calm down, you two. We'll talk about this at the inn later." Nora held Zahra's hand. "After all, Lana's gonna help us with this, isn't she?"

"Really! Don't rush it like that! I'm sorry I lied to you. So, that's quiet, yeah..."

He breathed so long. Resigned with the situation, He re-sheathed his knife and chose to remain silent for a while. I'm lucky I didn't make him mad just for trivialities.

I don't think it's that simple, huh.

We finally arrived at the park. Hartmut said his farewells and went somewhere, while we returned to the inn. Before arriving at the city, Lana had already covered her ears with hair.

The innkeeper who had been waiting at the reception was happy after seeing us, but was a little surprised when he saw my own wounded here. We're just saying that Nora went to her friend's house near this village and took her out because she always locked herself in her room.

Lana is exasperated by Nora's taunts and hits her like a child. No, she's really cute! I'll hug him when he's off guard. On the other hand, Zahra also felt himself being insulted by Nora because of his habit of being alone and reading books.

I just laughed a grin at him and he hit me on the stomach really hard. That really hurts.

"Alright, it's time for a discussion between the women, sister~" Lana asked who then told Nora to show her the room.

We finally came back here and immediately laid my body on the bed. It turns out that a mattress as hard as this feels comfortable when you are exhausted.

Nora picked up the bench and told Lana to sit right in front of us. And this is where we started seriously talking about this gold bracelet I was wearing.

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...(.(.Illustration for Lana)...