Through the window at the back of the audience room, the morning sun was slanting in, creating a band of light.
The figure of the samurai girl standing in front of it, her whole body stained with blood, was somehow fantastic.

She slowly weakens and removes her sword.
The sword fell to the floor with a thud.

The girl looks at her hands.
She looked down at her bloodstained hands and was stunned.

'Are you done, Filia?

I called out, and the girl shuddered.
She had her back to me and turned around.

'...... Yes. You're done with this, aren't you?

A shy, frightened expression.
The girl's body was beginning to glow pale and vague.

I couldn't answer anything.
The same was true for Mee and Cyril, they just watched her.

As I did so, the girl murmured to me.

'Ah, yes. I'm not sure if there really is such a thing as the ...... afterlife. But I understand, Satsuki. I'll have fun even after I die. ......Good luck, Satsuki. ......'

Satsuki must have said something.
Filia answered and wiped her tears with the sleeve of her kimono.
But the girl's tears seemed to flow incessantly, and even after she wiped them away, they began to trickle down her cheeks again.

The girl was still doing her best to wipe them away, but halfway through, she stopped wiping them away, as if she thought there was nothing she could do.
She then turned to the three of us, and with a face full of tears and wetness, said, 'Thank you, everyone.

'Thank you all very much for ....... Even though I was so selfish and tried to harm you all, you were still so kind to me. ...... Gosh ......'

The outline of the girl's pale blue light grows larger.
It was as if something was coming out of Satsuki's body.

No, there's no such thing as 'something'.
It must have been Filia's soul slipping out of Satsuki's body.

'That night at the bar, we ate, drank, talked and laughed together. ...... It was a lot of fun. Goodbye ......, thank you very much ......!

As soon as she said that, Filia's soul softly floated out of Satsuki's body, and then disappeared as if it were transparent from above.

The rest of Satsuki's body lost its support and collapsed with a crash.
Me and Cyril rushed to her, Cyril picked her up, and Me called out to her.

'Satsuki! Are you okay?

'...... Ah,......, sorry, I'm just a little tired. I'm just a little tired. ...... But Philia ...... must have gone. ......'

In the arms of Cyril, who picked her up, Satsuki regained her body and mumbled helplessly.
Then she turned her head towards me and said.

'Hey, Will. I wonder if there's anything more you could have done. ...... I've been ...... talking to Filia, and I've been wanting her to be happier, and I've been wondering if there was ...... anything else. Wasn't there anything else ......?

Satsuki's eyes were filled with tears, whether they were remnants of her time as Philia or not.
But I shook my head at Satsuki.

'No, at least as far as I know, there is no way to revive a person who has once died and become a ghost as a human. As far as I know, this is the best outcome.'

'I see. ......'

The tragedy was all but confirmed when the bandits destroyed the village.
We are just adventurers, and we can't eliminate all the unreasonable and sad events in the world.

All we can do is live our own lives better.
Anything more than that should be considered as a stopgap measure.

...... So, we should split it up.

'Let's go home when Satsuki's better. ...... is not a place I want to stay too long.

I suggested, looking around at the bodies and blood pools.
The three companions nodded, and when Satsuki recovered a little, I left the bloody audience room while lending her my shoulder.



On the way back, I stopped by a room that looked like an office that I had found through the effect of my see-through vision, and rifled through a box of documents that was there.

The box was locked, and there was even a trap with a poisonous needle, both of which Mee deftly disarmed.

I picked up the most interesting materials from the archive and put them in my bag, then left the museum with my friends.

After that, we dropped by the village of Filia, dug up the reward of gold coins from the chief's garden, and put them in our luggage bags... We finally returned to the city of Atratia.