Mr. Colontude picked up a branch that had fallen nearby.

　With the branch, he adds something to the large magic circle that had been drawn on the square.
　Instantly, the magic circle glows.

　Gala, Galalang.

　The four pieces of the 'Flame Eagle' that had been knocked down by Mr. Illtimina floated up in the air as they were engulfed in the light and began to gather on the stone pillar like a reverse rebirth. The next thing you know, there is a stone statue of the hawk that has been restored to its original form. Solstice said, "Lies........time magic? I muttered.

　Mr. Colonnade dumped the branch with a pop.

''.........repairing........''

　Blurting out a whisper, she starts to walk towards Daiki's house, dragging her long blonde hair to the ground.
　And then she looks at me with half a face.

Do you want to...?

　He calls out to us, stunned.

　...........

　We look at each other, and in this way, we are invited to the house of Daiki, where the "Golden Seal Demonologist" lives.


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　The inside of Daiki's house was a veritable fantasy world.

(Oh, wow.)

　The inside of the large tree was hollow and truly a living space.

　There were a lot of books and paper with difficult letters, numbers and figures scattered around. There are also laboratory tools like flasks and microscopes. Along the inside of the trunk, there was also a spiral staircase with doors that led to other rooms. Chains dangled from the vaulted ceiling, and at the end of them hung material that seemed to be part of a demon. Some of them were stuffed in jars filled with liquid........what?
　There was a floating person's right hand with floating Thanatos letters, as if I'd seen it somewhere.

(Wasn't that delivered to the Royal Academy of Magic via the Guild?)

　Noticing my gaze, I find three of them as well.
　Mr. Kilt muttered in a low voice.

''........Why is the right hand of the strawberry here?''
...the price of the appointment.

　Ms. Colontude replies sleepily.

　It seems she's actually in the position of a special advisor to the Royal Academy of Magic.
　Knowing this, Mumpa-san gave the Right Hand of the Demon Princess as a gift to Mr. Colontude in order to get an appointment with me. No, perhaps he decided that he could get better results by having the "Golden Seal Magician" study it rather than the Royal Academy of Magic?
　In his head, the blank beastie was laughing in some fun way.

　Kilt-san fell silent.
　........a delicate air.

　Mr. Colontude sat down on a chair in the tree roots, regardless of that air.

(Err.........)

　I walked up to her and held out the introductory letter.

"Um, here.
Hmmm.

　Mr. Colontude took it and read the letter inside sluggishly.

　His eyes, with their half-closed eyelids, looked like they were in a daze at first. But halfway through, one eyelid went up. Soon the other one rose as well, and she was calling out the contents with a serious face.
　Eventually, she looked at me.

''You........are you.......a 'godgu'?'''
Oh, yes.

　It seems incomplete.
　I nodded in passing.

　Mr. Colontude looked at me with his beautiful jade-colored eyes.
　And.

I need to check. You.

　I said clearly.

　Huh?
　No, no, no, wait.

(I'm here to learn how to communicate with spirits, right?)

　Look inside the room.
　This is exactly the environment for Mr. 'I love research'. I felt bad about agreeing to it.

"....let me examine... your body?
..........

　They are hot and accusing.
　But if I refuse, they won't even tell me how to communicate with the spirits. So, what do you think?

　Ms. Kilt is silent.
　Ms. Illtimina has a jealous look on her face, for some reason.

　And Solstice.

Mr. Columntude!　I've brought you a report on this guy's body!

　Suddenly, he pulled a thick bundle of paper out of the small backpack he was carrying on his back.

(Oh?)

　The girl, who had unexpectedly offered her help, looked nervous and handed it to the revered 'Golden Mark Demonologist'.
　Mr. Colontude flipped one over.

''Hmph?''

　His expression changed a little.

　Mr. Colontude places the stack of papers on the table and reads them as if he were examining them carefully. The girl being read her own report, her cheeks flushed with excitement and her eyes sparkled. Only the sound of flipping through the paper echoed through Daiki's house.

　Soon, after about 20 minutes, the report was finished reading.

''........Good content.''

　Mr. Colontude murmured in a gentle tone.

　Solstice looks like she's about to ascend.
　He immediately huffed and lowered his head, vigorously.

''Ah, thank you!
Hmm. But there's one thing I'm missing.
What?

　One of the High Elf's thin index fingers lifted up.

'It doesn't say anything about reproduction,'
..........

　Reproduction.
　Mr. Colon-Tude Resta was very serious.

'I haven't checked this boy's semen,'
..........
'Jingu you can make a baby with a man?　....should be collected and examined properly...

　Solstice was frozen.

　Words from a godlike person, but the maiden's sense of shame wanted to reject it outright.

　Gigi.

　He looks at me like a rusty machine.

'...........
..........

　His eyes were excited, almost tearful. No, no, Mr. Solstice?

Oh, you're not serious, are you?

　I got a little worried and winced.

　And as I stepped back, Illtimina's white hand took me in. She hid me behind her back, as if to protect me. Then, her crimson eyes glare at Ms. Colontude with a silent anger.

'Don't be silly. Marle is not a lab animal.
I'm not kidding.

　Mr. Columbudo looks out of his mind.

"God's Household, artificially multiplied and artificially multiplied equals more strength to fight demons.
..........
It's very important for the world.

　You say that with your mouth.
　But the eyes that say things as much as the mouth says them, 'I want to satisfy my intellectual curiosity! And then she let out her true feelings.

　And then she looks at me and Solstice.

It won't hurt. And if you don't want to, I'll...?
No, you can't!

　Ms. Illtimina cries out and takes me in her arms.
　The body of a bountiful adult woman is pressed against me, and her soft, beautiful hair gently strokes my cheek and neck.

(............)

　The high elf sister pouted her lips in frustration and scratched her blonde hair with a polish.

.........confident, huh?
Shut up.
Mmm.

　She seems to have finally given up on the silver-stamped demon hunter who stands up against her fur like a mother cat.

　A little disappointing.
　But I'm still relieved.

　I don't have any experience with that kind of thing, including in my previous life, but I still want to be with the person I love for the first time. So, well, I slowly looked up at her.

'It's okay, Marle?　Your virtue is safe with me.
..........

　Noticing my gaze, she laughed softly.

(...yeah...)

　I smile, too.

　Illtimina-san was dealt a deep hand by demon hunters when she was a child, and her body became incapable of bearing children. That's why I'm no longer interested in making babies. Maybe it's because I'm still a child myself. I just want to be able to laugh with her.
　No, no, no, of course I want to, I want to, very much, right?

(But it's still early, right?)

　Someday, when I become a man worthy of her, I too.

　Illtimina-san's crimson eyes look into my face as I make such a resolution.
　And with a little bit of color on her cheeks.

Someday I'll give Merle his first chance.

　In a really small voice, I muttered.


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　There were twists and turns, but I finally talked to Mr. Colontude about the main topic, 'How to Communicate with Spirits'.



　The answer that came back was unsympathetic.

　Of course, it's not because I refused to examine the body.
　She tells me the reason in a sleepy voice.

"....we weren't created that way to begin with.
..........
"...we don't have wings. That's why we can't fly. That's why people don't have gills. That's why he can't live in water. That's why man does not have a spirit organ. That's why they can't communicate with each other.

　Mr. Colontude puts his finger to his forehead.

'People and elves, here, different.

　This means that the structure of the brain is different.

　From the beginning, human beings have already been incapable of communicating with spirits. There are a few people who are able to communicate with them, but that is because of an inherent or acquired abnormality in the brain. But it was only people with congenital or acquired abnormalities in their brains, or just a misunderstanding, the Golden Seal Demonologist declared.

(.........Oh no.)

　It was a shocking fact.
　I stare at the 'silvery white cuirass' equipped on my left arm.

(So I can't talk to you for the rest of my life?)

　I was sad.
　I didn't want to believe it.

　The repercussions of my expectations for this day were great.

Touching the silver cuirass, I nodded my head.
　The three of them seemed too depressed to say anything to me, and Illtimina-san and the others didn't seem to have anything to say to me either. I'm sure I don't have the energy to answer them either.

　Mr. Colontude's jade-colored eyes are gazing at me with a somewhat sleepy atmosphere.

''But there's one way, okay?

　I said in a whisper.

(.........what?)

　I looked up.
　She was moshing her sleepy blonde hair around.

This is not normal. But that equipment that you were wearing it came with a genie in it.
..........
So we can interact, which is a bit of an anomaly, right?

　............
　The moment I realized what that meant, I asked.

"What do you want me to do?
"Hm.

　Mr. Columbudo rose from his chair and dragged his long hair to the door.
　He half turned around.

Yeah.
Yes, sir.

　I stood up vigorously and followed her back.


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　I'm standing in the square in front of the House of the Giant Tree, in a magic circle 30 meters in diameter.

　The other three people are outside the magic circle.

　Mr. Colontude picks up a branch that has fallen to the ground and uses the soles of his shoes to erase the magic circle, while drawing new letters and symbols again.

'That boy ... he's angry.

　As she worked, she said.

"The previous contractor told me to 'protect my daughter' But you're not my daughter.
..........

　Your daughter, Mr. Shakra?

(So the previous contractor was Shakra's father or mother?)

　In other words, Shakra-san's parent elf was worried about her precious daughter, so she made a contract with the spirit that resided in this "Silver Armor". But Shakra herself gave it to me, the one who helped her lover.
　Shakra may have told the genie about it.

　But the spirit's contractor is Shakra's parent elf.

(I bet you didn't agree, did you?)

　I stare at the 'silvery white cuirass' on my left arm and touch its shining surface.

''Phew.''

　Mr. Coloncude finished his work.

　He looked at me with a thump on his hip.

There it is.

　I drew inside the magic circle, indicating another small magic circle.

　I unbuckled the clasp belt and placed the 'silvery white cuirass' in the center of the magic circle. 'You, there,' she said, moving away from me by about ten meds. She nodded in satisfaction and walked out of the magic circle with the three of them.

　Mr. Kilt looked suspiciously at Mr. High Elf, who came up next to her.

'What are you doing?'
"Fight.

　A short reply.

　Me and the three of us stare at her, unsure of what it means.
　Realizing, she explains some more in a sleepy voice.

'The spirit world and the human world, they overlap. ...but they're out of alignment, there's no contact. .... only in this magic circle is there no misalignment.
You're trying to phase the world!

　Solstice is surprised.
　Mr. Colontude nodded happily, "Yes.

　But I don't understand two adults.

　Even I, the party in question, don't understand.

　Mr. Colontude gives the three of us a disappointed look of 'I knew it'. And then he goes back to that sleepy face.

You'll figure it out.

　As he muttered that, he added the last letter to the magic circle.　

　Jijiji.........

　I heard that sound.
　The sound of the spirit's presence that I heard in the ruins of Dior.

　

The white silver cuirass trembled and white silver ore began to flow out of the green magic stone, flowing out of the green magic stone. Eventually, it grew into a 'silvery white beast' that was about three meds in length.

　It was a beautiful beast, like a wolf.

　It had three thick tails.
　Its muscular limbs had sharp claws like a dragon, as it had once crushed a skeleton king.

　Its twin eyes, red like burning flames, stared at me, and on its forehead, the green magic stone from the White Silver Armor was shining like a third eye.

(...Are you the spirit that resided in the 'White Silver Armor'?

　Its beauty was mesmerizing.

　Reflecting the sun's rays, its 'silvery white wolf' shimmered like a jewel.

　But.

　with a grinding noise

The 'White Silver Wolf' scraped the ground in a show of hostility.
　Sharp claw marks remain on the earth.

''.........''

　I could feel the killing spirit stinging my skin.

　Kilt-san and Illtimina-san were about to rush over here as if in a panic, but were played by the wall of light created by the magic circle.

''Hey, Cologne!''
What's this?
...there's a whole other world in here. No one is allowed in here.

　She replied nonchalantly to the 'Gold Mark' and 'Silver Mark' demon hunter.
　Then, the 'Gold Mark Demonologist' looked at me with her beautiful jade-colored eyes and said, "I'm not going to let you go.

''Fight.''
..........
I want that boy to see that you are a force to be reckoned with. And then you will be the new master.

　...........
　I saw the 'Silver White Wolf'.

　That beautiful, large beast looked back at me with its proud, combative eyes - at that moment, a tremendous "pressure" hit me.

　It's like an ogre or red tusk dragon class.

　Feeling this, Illtimina-san also makes an impatient face.

''Don't be silly!　What are you going to do when Merle is dead!
Then I'll dissect it. ....for fun.

　A crazy researcher muttered.
　As expected of Illtimina-san, she couldn't help but lose her voice.

　And the Golden Seal Demonologist, Colonchudo Resta-san, smiled sweetly.

''--Now, begin?''

　Within the 30-medium diameter magic circle, his voice rang out coldly.