1882 Episode 1882



One of the knights sent this time by the Marquis of Seysore... who spoke to Elena was relieved to hear that the soldiers had finally entered the house.
 Marquis Seysall was by no means cruel, but he was nevertheless competent... and deserved to give preferential treatment to those who did the work he was ordered to do.
 Therefore, this job was an opportunity for knights to succeed in life, and at the same time a task that they should never fail.
 ...although it was a rather difficult task to capture the people who took him away and to secure him.
 He managed to get the soldiers into the house, struggling with his fellow knight, who had been assigned this task with him.
 That was not enough to say that this mission had been successful, but I was able to get inside the house, so I took a step... well, there was no doubt that I had made more progress than that.

(The single biggest problem is...)

 Thinking so, the knight looks around him.
 The Marquis of Seysore, including himself, is not the only force around the house at present.
 Some soldiers from the Duke of Kelebel family rule this Annesis.
 And Elena, Ray and Arra have already stormed into the house.
 At that point it is safe to assume that the mission was half-failed, though not half-failed, that the knights could not do anything about it against the two nicknames, let alone the Duchess of Kelebel.
 Hopefully, I'm still lost in the house, or I haven't found a Geiska... I had such hope, but the next moment the soldiers around the front door blow up.
 It looks like it's blown out of the house... for a moment, the trap stopped working outside the house, and the trap inside the house had not yet been lifted.
 I have this question, but... I blow the soldiers away, and when I see them coming out of the door, I get even worse feelings.
 for the man -- the man whom the Knight had just seen -- appeared, blowing the Marquis of Sethor head over heels.
 No, it's not just Ray. Elena and Arla jumped out from behind him.
 But the faces of Ray and his colleagues are all desperate.
 If the monsters around that area were to show up for a moment, it would be impossible for a skilled person like Ray or Elena to look like that.
 It was a sign that something in the house... even Ray and Elena... had happened that they had to be desperate for.

"Let's evacuate! Let's all leave the premises!"

 At the sound of the knight shouting so instantly, the soldiers on the premises of the house immediately go out.
 Perhaps because of the rigor of the daily training, there is no one to be confused by the movements of the soldiers.
 If this was a soldier with a loose training, he would not understand why he was suddenly told to leave the premises and would have stopped in his confusion.
 Among the aristocracy, there was a great reason why the Marquis Seysor family had more influence than a certain amount of power.

"What's the matter!"

 Knight's colleagues gather to see if they hear an order to leave.
 But before the Knight had to say anything about it... the reason was clear.
 Because a dozen seconds after the Ray and others rushed out of the front door... everything in the house was cracked.
 It wasn't really a crack in the house, it was a crack in the very space where the house stood, but the knights couldn't afford to see it.
 I don't know what happened, but I still know one thing.
 It's just that even those nicknamed crimson or princess generals have had to flee.

"We're going to evacuate, too,"

 When the knight, who shouted to leave the house, says so, his fellow knights do not object to it, but nod.
 I don't know what happened, but for the time being I knew for sure that it was out of our control.

"Everyone, stay away from the premises as far as you can! It's dangerous!"

 The knight screams, and the others follow his words, and then distance themselves from the premises.
 Naturally, the soldiers of the Duke of Quelevel, who had seen such interactions, would leave, as would the Marquis of Seysore.
 Ray, Elena, and Arra were shouting for a little away from home, perhaps in large part.
 Seth, who was watching the ground from above, and Yero, who was on his back, also descended to the ground, wondering if something had happened.
 Then... when I thought that cracks in the space had spread all over the grounds of the house, the next moment there was no sound... as if the castle made of sand had been swallowed up by seawater and disappeared.
 Specifically, no one knows what has become of course.
 Even Ray and Elena, who had toppled the cocoon of meat, could not see what had happened and what had become of it.
 The only thing we can see is that they were not caught in what could be called a crushing of space... and that the house in which Celestan lived had completely disappeared.
 It's not a metaphor, it's nothing now where the house of Celestan really stood.
 There are holes in the large craters in the ground, perhaps due to the loss of the house, but that's all that remains after all.

『……』

 No one can speak out at such a sight that can only be called out of the blue.
 Those who are particularly likely to have stormed into the house.
 Fortunately, those who were hit by Ray were bounced out of the front door, half instinctively out of the property.
 Those who avoided Ray's charge in the house were able to survive by escaping immediately after seeing cracks in the space.
 Some people think that it is hard to understand why they were saved because they literally had a narrow escape from death.
 Still, when they realized that their lives had been saved in the night, gradually everyone was relieved... and the next thing that bothered them was what happened after all.
 Naturally, many would like to know what happened and how this happened, but only three of them, Ray, Elena, and Arra, may know this, so they can't hear it.
 Still, for the knights in charge of this case, they need to get information about it to report to their boss.
 Knights forced each other to go and hear, and eventually forced the first Knights to talk to Elena because they knew each other.
 The knight walks nervously toward the three men who are talking.

"Well, Mr. Elena, can you tell me what happened in the house? I need to report it to my boss..."

 The knight's words make Elena look a little lost.
 This is not because I'm trying to hide this incident... but purely because I'm at a loss as to how to explain it's because I don't know what to do.
 Elena often doesn't know about the cocoon of that meat cocoon.
 No, it's safe to say that we know less.

"I'm afraid I don't know the details, but...There was a monster in the house that had been sealed in the past, and it had the power to manipulate the space, and as a result, it probably ran away or did something."
"... I see, was that the case?"

 Elena's words didn't convince me of everything, but the knight replied, "until I get the point."
 And... ask about the most important person to a knight.

"And wasn't Mr. Geiska in the house?"

 In the first place, the Marquis of Seysore's army was largely to help the Gaisca who had been taken out.
 In fact, the rescue of Geiska had become a top priority in what the knights had ordered.
 However, the task of rescuing Geiska was completely unsuccessful, given that the house had disappeared.
 That being the case, it was only natural for me to get some information to report to my boss.

"There it is. Just...Geiska was not really alive when I saw her, although she may still have her ego, given that she had avenged Celestan for such an experience."
"Well, can I ask you a little more specifically what the situation is?"

 Elena was momentarily at a loss as to whether to mention the cocoon of the flesh, but she determined that the matter would not last long, and that it would be all right to speak, given that all the evidence had disappeared with the house before that.

"Well, I don't know why, but Geiska was embedded in what could be called a meat cocoon."

 He tells the knight about the situation in Geiska.
 But I didn't really tell you everything, only about Geiska.
 When the knight hears it, he looks indescribable... so subtle.
 Naturally, Geiska was a source of concern for the Marquis of Seysore.
 He had done so many things to tarnish the Marquis Seysore's name, and had worked hard to keep it secret.
 It was such a Gaisca, but he was still descended from the Marquis of Seysore, and that was probably why he had so much in mind.
 Contrary to such a Geiska, the knight's expression becomes grim when it comes to talking about Deotres.
 Unlike Geiska, it's because he's a clear traitor.

"I see. Both Mr. Geiska and Mr. Deotres... Thank you."

 The knight's words of thanks confuse Elena.
 Was it about the end of Gaisca, killing the traitor Deotre, or anything else... or all of them?
 While Elena is in such confusion, the knight walks away with his head down.
 For a knight, the information he needed was readily available, and he would need to give it to his boss as soon as possible.Seeing him off, Elena comes to herself when Ray slaps her on the shoulder.

"Well, what are we going to do now? ... It turned out very differently from what we had originally expected."
"Really? I'm sure it's more important than I expected, but you can still assume that Celestan's death was a little unexpected."

 In the sense that it was aimed at Ray, a guest of the Duke of Kelebel family, I would say that this incident was a great success... but it was nevertheless a success.
 It would also be all right if it meant to diminish the influence of the Marquis Seysor family, which caused so much trouble in Annesis, and, above all, Deotre's cooperation with Celestan.
 And in terms of checks and intimidation against the underlying organizations other than the one led by Celestan, who is probably watching the situation around here, the house itself has disappeared, so it has succeeded in a way that is no better than this.
 There have been times when Celestan appears to be some sort of sealed monster, and when Geiska is sacrificed, it is true that the results alone are not so bad.

"Is that the case? ... But what was the relationship between Celestan and the Black Wolf after all? Celestan also saw the Black Wolf as a disposable tool... I don't think so."
"Any information about that..."

 Elena pauses and looks where the vanished house was.
 The moonlight, and the bonfires lit by the knights of the Marquis Seysore family, and above all the night-lit Elena and Ray, could see the site clearly, but, in the end, nothing more could be said.
 Only that point remains completely unclear.
 The only clue that could have been given was the documents Ray, Elena and Arra brought out as they escaped.