Chapter 56

The smell of smoke drifted in the tranquil Etowafu forest.

The storm of gunshots has stopped, and at the same time the screams of the monsters have disappeared.

All that was left was the silence that hurt my ears.

“Wow …. That kind of monster in an instant …”

It was Annette who lowered the sword when she saw the piled up corpses of monsters. The Deputy Chief of the Kingdom of Carneria blinks her eyes many times.

I don’t know if she saw the surroundings and saw it as a dream or hell. She just stared at the corpse of the demon that I flattened with the other knights.

Then Annette looked at me, got on her knees, and bowed further. Other knights follow suit and hang their heads as well.

“Excuse me, are you an S-class hunter in the Kingdom of Vanahia-Zelet Winter?”

Annette is clever. There is no irreverent attitude to the point. When I said she name, her lips seemed to quiver a little.

“Oh … that’s right.”

“I’ve heard rumors for a long time.”

“I remember when I was hallucinating due to Stardust Oaks.”

“While I’m dim …”

Well, can’t it be helped?

Annette doesn’t know what I looked like when she was hallucinating, but the bad one is Stardust Oaks.

Would you like to flush it with water?

“I don’t know that you’re wearing a black coat with a raised collar …”

Oi. wait a minute.

“By the way, that black coat … What kind of punishment game is it?”

“I’m taking the initiative to wear this! Do you know this is fashion?”

“Ahahahaha …. Zelet-dono is good at joking. I can’t wear such clothes even if I was given money.”

Ghan …….

I’m pushed down to the edge of despair. The exhilaration of defeating the monsters was blown away, and I just stood there stunned.

“Well, ok … Hi, different people have different aesthetics.”

Pamela coming out of the cave enters arbitration without accumulating. However, her face was already laughing. From the inflated cheeks, there is a sound of air leaking.

Yeah! If you want to laugh, laugh. That unpleasant face will hurt you a lot.

“Wow! “

Rir suddenly barks.

Seeing her nose point north, the next person to discover him was Pamela, who had a spiritual vision.

“Zeletto, that!”

There was a child of Stardust Oaks in the direction she was pointing.

The more it looks faint to me, the more it has a presence, and it seems that it’s staring at me.

Even if the monsters were wiped out, the child did not run away. I don’t even know what it’s thinking.

Do you think of us as parents? Do you want the “stardust milk” in our luggage? Can’t that Stardust Oaks just move anymore?

It looked like it was all, and it seemed to me that it wasn’t.

“Well, it’s due to that child that you can drink the spiritual body Stardust Oaks ‘Stardust Milk’.”

Pamela made a move and I nodded.

As I said before, the older you get, the thinner the body of Stardust Oaks becomes. However, the raw milk squeezed from it can be drunk probably for children who are still physically fit.

As we ponder the sad fate in that mysterious figure, the Stardust Oaks kid finally begins to move.

It turned its back and slowly walked toward the mountain on the west side.

The child who broke up with its parents leaves the forest, shaking his tail lightly. There is no parental order from now on. It should be developed in a truly harsh natural world.

Perhaps the fledging of Stardust Oaks is the moment when the parents die.

When I thought so, I felt a little sentimental. It’s just a little bit like me.

“It’ll run away, Zelet. Won’t you chase?”

“Did you forget, Pamela. Our purpose is Stardust Oaks ‘Stardust Milk’ . It’s not Stardust Oaks itself.”

“Fun”

“Did you say something strange?”

” … Zelet has grown up.”

What are you saying to an older man, Pamela?

“If it was a little while ago, you would have made a fuss about killing it, right?”

Certainly, if I could subdue Stardust Oaks, my fame would grow even more.

But I’m not interested in fame.

What I’m interested in in the first place is …

“Only S-ranked monsters. Even if it is said to be a “phantom”, the opponent is A-ranked. I’m not interested.”

“Is it really? I was happy at first when I heard that I was defeating the “phantom monster” .”

Pamela grins.

not at all……. She’s a childhood friend, but she still has no delicacy.

“Zelet-dono”

Annette moves forward.

“I confirmed that no knights were missing. This is also thanks to Zelet-dono.”

“If it’s a thank you, you should tell Rir and Pamela, not just me.”

“Thank you, Rir-dono. Pamela-dono”

“Wow! “

“No. No … I’m not doing anything. I did it because of Zelet.”

“Sho! me! me!”

It was the unscrupulous disciple who came into my sight with her eyes on the batten.

You haven’t done much, this time. You were being manipulated by hallucinations. Fortunately, no one was injured.

I don’t know what would happen to the Etowafu Forest if Prim seriously rampaged.

“Thank you, but from here it is faster to return to the royal capital of the Kingdom of Carneria than to return to the Kingdom of Vanahia. We will guide you to the royal palace, so please stop by.”

“Eh? Can you invite me to the royal palace? Ah … but we have to deliver “Stardust Milk” …”

“It’s okay. Guide me.”

Annette raised her head and made her face shine.

“Okay, Zelet?”

On the contrary, Pamela has a suspicious expression.

“Oh … I don’t mind.”

I hit the magic bag that was hanging on my waist.

“The freezing bag provided by the guild should keep it fresh for more than a week. And —“

“Is there any purpose?”

“Oh. The Kingdom of Carneria is inhabited by the requested monsters.”

“Well … which one is it?”

Annette asks a question.

I kept an eye out and said:

“The name is Kerunea —“

Called “God’s messenger” It’s a monster…….