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Not yet!

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　Ary's shout.

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"What! Rose, get them back! Sherloul, get going! Full speed!"

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　I give the order in rapid succession.

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　Rose's ivy wraps around Kareen and Ary. They follow me as I hurry to the carriages.

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　I glance at the rose ivy. The area where the liquid has just been applied is discolored black. It looks like a bruise. They look like the ones that were carved on Taura's face when we first met.

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　A curse. And at the cost of human life. ....... Sorcerer!

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　I jump into the carriage that Scherrleur drives toward us. The scroll of manifestation continues, and Arli and Karin roll in, wrapped in the rose ivy that grows from it.

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　That's when it happened.

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　The rest of the assassins that Kalene had knocked out. Their bodies also swelled up and then exploded, one after another, spraying liquid. This must be what Ary saw.

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　The splattered liquid stained the alley and the walls.

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　A carriage runs out of the alley in the nick of time.

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"Karin, I'm going back to the inn. Are you ready?"

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　I ask Kalin, who has just gotten out of Rose's ivy and is wriggling to her feet.

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"Oh, my God! Oh, I'll do it. That one doesn't look like it has a clue. What do you got, Rust? Ary?"

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So far, there's no sign of another attack.

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　Ary answers Karin.

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　I breathe a sigh of relief and tell Sherl to slow down a little.

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　Full speed is hard on the beast and the carriages. It is not advisable to keep it up for too long.

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　Still, the carriages are moving through the night at high speed.

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"About those assassins, the first one who exploded seemed to have done it of his own volition, but the rest were activated by someone else, I think. They completely stunned you, didn't they, Karin?"

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　I tell them my guess.

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"Yeah. I hit him almost as hard as I could. So there was a being watching."

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　Kalin sits down on a chair with a thud and crosses her arms.

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　The carriage shakes under the weight of the sword still in her hand.

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"Oh. A far-sighted magic eye like Loa's is quite rare, and if the assassin and the being he was looking at were connected by a magic elemental path, I would have been able to detect it. So maybe it's a sighting."

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The sorcerer, I presume.

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"Yes. Almost certainly. Taura will be pleased. She's been depressed because she hasn't had any leads.

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　While Karin and I were talking, a carriage was rushing into the inn where we were staying.

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