Chapter 46 – A new relationship

She didn’t even eat properly, so Ed decided to feed her first before he heard about the help she needed.

Ed didn’t know what she liked, so he went to a nearby restaurant and ordered calf tenderloin steak and risotto.

Since it is a food alley in the Royal road, everyone seemed to guarantee more than the basic taste. Ed came out of breakfast and ordered a cup of tea and watched Merjen eat.

Ed took a sip of tea as he watched her drink orange juice with a mouth full. Mysterious. Ed doesn’t think she’s a beginner when he sees her equipment. But why was she hungry in the royal road?

Even if he wanted to ask a question, he couldn’t ask because she was chewing. She looked kind of cute.

So Ed waited silently. First of all, he wanted her to fill her stomach and wash her up. She was so hungry that she spent almost an hour eating all the food in front of her and drinking all the orange juice.

Although her appetite was not as big as Arin’s, it was fun to watch her chewing for a long time. After finishing the meal, Merjen smiled.

The only time Ed met a mysterious magician was Sirke and Sylvia, who he met as enemies. Both were Wind magicians dealing with wind attributes, and he wondered what kind of attributes this girl had.

“Now that you’re full, shall we talk? How can I help you?”

Merjen finally gave Ed a look. Then, Ed thought she was thinking for a moment, and soon shook her head and opened her mouth.

“I lost my group. Help me find them.”

Ed thought he picked up a mysterious magician on the street. Did she have a group?

Ed guessed there’s a group of people who take care of the mysterious magicians because she was clumsy.

Ed so looked at her still and nodded.

“Where are you supposed to meet them?”

“Under the Pendragon statue in the central square.”

It’s not far from here.

“When?”

“Three days ago.”

“But you didn’t meet them?”

“Yeah. I think something happened. They are not the kind of people who breaks promises.”

They were not the type to break promises. Did they leave her behind? Or did something really happen?

The problem was that it was the first time Ed was on the royal road.

“How many people are in your group?”

“Two. Kyle and Leaf.”

“Is there anything special about them?”

“Kyle has blonde hair and emerald eyes. He’s human. And Leaf is a brown short-haired dwarf. She’s a girl.”

The combination itself seemed to stand out because it was a human dwarf, but why didn’t they meet up for three days?

Thinking about it doesn’t solve it. Ed asked just in case.

“We’ll see what we can do. Why don’t you take a shower first though? Don’t you feel itchy?”

Merjen scratched her head at the words.

“There are times when I can’t wash up for a month.”

What should Ed do with this dirty girl?

Ed sighed and stood up from his seat.

“Follow me.”

Ed asked the staff for directions while paying for Merjen on his way out, and left the alley to find a hotel. On the royal road, there was a five-story hotel, not an inn.

Ed went in there, booked a room, asked for warm water, and said, putting Merjen inside.

“Wash up and come out. There’s a place we need to go.”

When Ed was about to leave, Merjen grabbed the hem of his cape. When Ed looked back, Merjen looked up at him.

Ed smiled when he saw an anxious look.

“I’ll be waiting, so wash up and come out. But if you don’t wash up, I’ll just go.”

Seeing Merjen nodding and entering the bathroom, Ed walked to the window. The hotel was overlooking the central square.

The central square of the royal road. The size of the royal road itself is enormous, and since it is a square in the center, the size was surprisingly large.

Ed’s gaze turned toward the two statues built in the center of the central square. One was a statue of the first king, and the other was a statue of Pendragon, who killed the great demon Rifelas, who was located in the kingdom of Travia.

His credit was worthy of honor in the kingdom.

Come to think of it, the upper demon alone is so strong, but how strong would a great demon be? Since Pendragon killed such a great demon, they should have been awarded the princess of the kingdom.

In honor of him, a statue was built in the central square.

That’s natural for a person at the level of strategic weapons.

Ed was looking around the central square when he heard a presence from behind.

When he turned his head, Merjen, whose cheeks turned red with a towel on her head, came out.

“I washed clean.”

“Then, since the central square is close, let’s go there and go to a place for help.”

“Okay.”

Ed went to the central square with Merjen. They could have arrived quickly not far from the hotel, but there were so many different people walking around.

Everywhere else was busy, but there seemed to be a lot of tourists here. Not only the nobles but also those who had time to walk around.

Ed, who was passing through them, stood under the statue of Pendragon. Ed, who was looking up at a 30-meter-high statue, was able to feel the status of Pendragon in this world.

Ed looked around for a moment, but there was no combination of a human man and a dwarf woman.

There was no way that they wouldn’t stand out.

“There’s none.”

“I know.”

“Don’t you have any signs?”

“We don’t have any.”

Now that Ed confirmed that they’re not around, he should get help.

“Follow me. There’s a place we can go.”

Fortunately, there is a place in the central square where carriages are lent, so they can rent a carriage and move. The Royal road costs a lot of money to do anything, but if you have money, you have many conveniences.

When asked to take the carriage to Pendragon’s house, the coach gladly drove the carriage. Perhaps because there were many people who wanted to see Pendragon’s house from afar, it seemed insignificant.

However, Merjen in the carriage was different. She looked at Ed with a curious look.

“Do you happen to know Pendragon?”

“No.”

Merjen’s face showed little disappointment, but Ed didn’t care. When the carriage arrived in front of Pendragon’s house, the coach stopped the carriage.

“We’re here”.

Ed stuck his head out of the carriage. Soldiers guarding Pendragon’s house opened the door when they saw Ed’s face.

“Huh?”

When Merjen was surprised, Ed spoke.

“Go straight in and go to the right at the intersection.”

“Okay.”

The coach’s voice became polite, but Ed didn’t care. Seeing Merjen’s eyes twinkling, Ed asked just in case.

“Do you want to see the Pendragon?”

“I’m curious. How strong the free knight was to hunt the great demon. And I want to ask him something.”

“What are you going to ask?”

“I’ll ask him when I meet him. Why? Can you let me meet him?”

Ed tilted his head.

“I don’t know because I haven’t met him yet either.”

“How did you get in here without seeing the Pendragon?”

“I’m here to meet Thane”.

“Thane? The demon researcher?”

“Yes.”

When he saw Merjen twinkling when she heard that they were going to meet Thane, Ed had something to ask her, but he kept it in. The carriage quickly arrived at the house, and Ed got off the carriage with Merjen.

While giving money to the coach and sending it back, the butler approached.

“Didn’t you say you were going to check out the royal road today?”

“I have something else to do.”

Originally, Ed was going to leave Merjen at the hotel and return alone to find more information. However, Merjen was afraid of being alone, so Ed brought her with him.

“Thane is in the lab right now.”

“Please take me.”

“Follow me.”

As they walked along with the butler, they headed to the basement of the house. There was a large door underground of this large house. Ed wondered why they needed an iron door as big as that.

When the butler knocked on the iron door and waited for a while, the iron door opened. And there, Thane stood with a cane.

Thane’s gaze turned to Ed.

“Huh? You came back early.”

“I came first because I had a favor to ask of you.”

“Really? Who’s that behind you?”

Ed stepped aside from the words. Merjen stepped forward and bowed her head to Thane.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Merjen Lucilia.”

Look at this! She knows how to speak formally.

Thane tilted his head at her greeting.

“Lucilia? What’s your relationship with Helena?”

“She’s my mother.”

Ed was surprised by Merjen’s words. What is she saying right now?

Helena is the protagonist of demon’s Age 1 and a mysterious artist he enjoyed playing. It’s her daughter?

Thane’s face caught a bright smile. Thane approached her and held her hand tightly and said,

“Looking at your hair and eyes, you really look like Helena. It’s been 15 years since I haven’t seen her, but I didn’t know she had a daughter. My my my.”

Seeing Thane happy, a smile was also drawn around Merjen’s mouth.

“I’ve heard a lot from my mother about you. She received a lot of help from you.”

“Did she say that? I handed over the information Helena requested, but I didn’t think it was very helpful.”

Happy to hear that Thane was Helena’s daughter, he took her to the drawing-room.

Thane told Merjen to sit on the sofa and asked.

“Alright. What brought you to the Royal road?”

When Thane held out a glass plate containing candy on the table, Merjen quickly opened it, put it in her mouth, and replied with a mumbling sound.

“My mother disappeared about a year ago. So I came out to find her mother and met a group while looking for clues, and I was in trouble because I lost them.”

Merjen’s gaze turned to Ed.

“If I hadn’t met Ed, I would have been in trouble.”

Thane looked back at Ed and smiled.

“You were lucky. Come to think of it, there’s a rumor about a mysterious magician who kills demons. Is that you?”

Merjen nodded at the words.

“I encountered demons on my way to find my mother. In addition, I think I’ve caught about ten of them so far while helping my group.”

Last time, she said it was seven, but when did she catch three more?

Ed never thought Merjen was one of the people expected to be the main characters of the demon’s Age 2. However, her origin was unusual. The daughter of Helena, the main character of demon’s Age 1?

Is she the real main character?

A new relationship has been made.