There Is No Spring in the Stolen Field

73. orb

Miss Luna. There are other people out there, but their words and actions…

I broke the silence to explain Luna’s words in the store where the strange silence flowed.

“Ah~ nice pose. You want me to show you, right?”

I stood in a pose that would appear in a portrait of an aristocrat somewhere.

I wondered if this was right, but I just did it.

Seeing my bizarre gesture, Luna grabbed her stomach and laughed.

“What the hell is that?”

Shumi also covered her mouth as if she couldn’t hold back her laughter.

Ha… Luna.

you really

“Anyway, I like it. Good job.”

Luna thanked the tailor with a satisfied expression.

She told me to leave first because she would pay.

So Shumi and I were left alone.

It’s Luna. come quickly

We looked far away from each other and waited for Luna to come.

Luna, who came out later, smiled as she saw us standing awkwardly.

“Sirius. Give me a little ear.”

I leaned over and lent Luna my ear.

“To keep that distance from other girls in the future, okay?”

I’m dying of awkwardness, but you’re satisfied with yourself.

“I’m going to meet my sister and leave tomorrow. What will Luna do?”

“Um… by the way… do you want to see more of Sirius?”

Although the new environment was amazing, there was no room left in the mind to enjoy this place with a pleasant heart.

“…I will follow your will.”

Still, I didn’t want to disturb Luna’s fun.

“Then let’s go back. Shumi. Can you prepare?”

“Yeah. No problem at all. That’s it.”

Shumi rented a carriage for us.

After boarding the carriage, Luna sat next to me instead of sitting on the other side.

“Why are you sitting here?”

It was comfortable to speak casually without Shumi.

“Are you complaining?”

Luna glared at me.

It can’t be.

“thank you.”

I said thanks.

Anyway, I guess you came all the way here because you thought of me.

It doesn’t suit me, but I buy expensive clothes.

“Only in words?”

Luna turned her head to look at me and licked her lips with her tongue.

I knew what I wanted, but a place was a place.

“There are others.”

“If you don’t, I might kill the coachman right here.”

It must have been a joke, but still. Miss Luna.

we can’t go back if you kill me

ha…

I covered Luna’s face with my hands.

He pulled her hair and kissed her.

Luna rather seemed to enjoy the situation of being caught by the coachman.

After kissing her more and more deeply, she came closer and got on top of my thigh.

“Haa… Sirius, you know what?”

Hotly, she said to me.

“What?”

“That outfit. It looks so s*xy.”

After saying that, she greedily coveted my lips again.

I don’t know if I can hear it outside or not, but an obscene sound echoed inside the carriage.

The carriage soon stopped and we arrived in front of the east gate of the academy.

I don’t know if the coachman saw or heard what we were doing, but he couldn’t even make eye contact and set off right away.

“You’ve got some sense. That person.”

Luna said to the coachman who was moving away.

hey. Maybe we just don’t care.

Back to the dormitory across the forest road, we discussed what we were going to have for dinner.

It was Luna who whined that she was tired of dining at the restaurant more than she thought.

“You’re here now.”

someone stopped us

It was the first face I saw.

“Who are you?”

i talked to him

tall stature. A well-groomed silver-haired man spoke to us.

“I’m Ashur. I’ve been waiting for you two.”

“I have nothing to do with you. Will you get out of the way?”

Luna grabbed my wrist and tried to pass by as if it was uncomfortable to have our time alone interrupted.

“It’s an important story.”

“Even though I have nothing to say.”

The man named Ashur must have been annoyed by Luna’s attitude, but he didn’t seem like that at all.

“Let’s go, Sirius.”

I wondered if I could just ignore it, but Luna just passed him by.

“I’ll say it again, Princess.”

Luna and my footsteps stopped at the same time.

Luna turned and glared at him.

“You… what did you say?”

“I told you that I have an important story, Princess.”

His expression was devoid of any emotion.

Luna stood in front of him, clattering her shoes.

“Who are you.”

the air has changed

Heavy gravity enveloped the area.

“It has begun.”

Ashur looked a bit hard to breathe, but he endured it and answered.

“Sirius-sama. Luna-sama. Do you think you’ll listen to my story now?”

this guy. know our identities.

Following Ashur, we left the academy and entered the deep forest.

“From now on, if there is a lie in what you say. You will die.”

Luna’s expression was bloody.

Neither did I.

If there were people in the academy who vaguely knew our identities, it would be a great threat to us.

I was also willing to remove it if need be.

But there was one curious thing.

If he was a demon who came over from the realm of demons, there was no way we couldn’t detect it.

No, he wouldn’t have been able to hide here before that, avoiding the eyes of the homeroom teacher and principal.

Yes, this man. What do you mean by human?

“Just answer the questions I ask.”

Luna started asking questions.

“First. Are you a human?”

Ashur nodded.

“Yes. I am a human. Princess.”

“Don’t say ‘Princess’ at the end of every word. Someone might hear it.”

“All right.”

“You. Who sent it?”

Ashur pulled out a scroll from within his arms.

As soon as Luna and I saw it, we couldn’t help but be startled.

It was because what was written was written in the language of the demons.

He politely passed the scroll to Luna with both hands.

The scroll was a copy of the records of the Daema tribe meeting.

The content was like this.

[As the proof of the hero progresses, the demons also decide to start an invasion of the human world in earnest.]

[The Demon King has given permission for some of the great demons to intervene in the human world.]

[A separate invasion of demons is prohibited in the academy itself. Even if approached, access through humans.]

[Since the family of the princess and the hero are committed to the academy, for now, watch the progress. Amelia’s decision.]

[Sequence number 7. Belos invades the Ibelis Empire. warrior’s mentor. Sword Master Iern Duke finished killing.]

[Scheduled to dispatch troops in turn to eliminate key figures in each country.]

After reading the contents, we looked at Ashur.

“So human. Who are you?”

Ashur knelt down to Luna.

“I am a great demon tribe of wisdom. Peanus’ maid. My name is Ashur. A lowly person meets the princess of the underworld.”

“Feanus-sama…?

9th in the sequence. Peanus, the Great Demon of Wisdom.

It was a name that Amelia-sama had told me about before.

[Peanus is the most curious of us.]

[The fighting power itself is not comparable to the other guys, but what made him sit in that position is nothing else but his extraordinary brain.]

[As well as winning with a genius strategy. They are demons who have created countless magic tools that even I can’t dare imagine.]

[I am confident of winning, but I also want to refrain from turning him into an enemy.]

[It’s because he’s the one who doesn’t know what he’s thinking.]

“So. Did you come all the way here to show me this?”

Luna spoke with her arms crossed.

“no.”

Then there is another reason for coming to us…

“Sirius.”

Perhaps Ashur knows that I am Amelia-sama’s disciple, so he gives me an extremely honorific title.

“What?”

“Sirius-sama, won’t you reveal your identity to the hero?”

Did you already know even if I didn’t reveal it?

“Yes. I will not do it until the day the proof is over.”

Luna was silently listening to my answer.

“Then, if it’s not rude, won’t you cooperate with Peanus’s plan?”

“What’s your plan?”

“Please put your hand here.”

He handed me a crystal ball that fit in the palm of my hand.

On the outside, nothing seemed particularly special.

“Could you pour a little mana into it?”

It looked suspicious, but I poured mana as instructed and put it in the crystal ball.

That was the moment.

“evil!”

The stabbing pain in my head threw me off balance.

“Dog star!”

Luna urgently supported me and glared at Ashur.

“What are you doing!”

Luna gathered mana at her fingertips and aimed at Ashur, as if she was genuinely angry.

The missed crystal ball rolled around and landed at Ashur’s feet.

“Thank you for your cooperation. Sirius-sama. And don’t worry. Luna-sama. It’s completely harmless to the human body.”

Holding my messy head, I asked him.

“That crystal ball… what is it for?”

Ashur replied.

“This is one of Peanus-sama’s creations. An orb that steals memories.”

That’s the story…

“Some of Sirius’s memories are now stored here.”

He tapped the crystal ball with his fingernail.

It was very unpleasant.

“Don’t worry, it doesn’t even contain thoughts. Only what Sirius-sama saw and heard will be recorded.”

“Give it up.”

i talked to him

Of course, most of them were full of irrelevant contents even if they were released, but the memories after entering the academy were difficult.

The love affair with Luna and the skinship with Seria were never to be shown to others.

“Don’t worry, Sirius. As I said, there is a limit to the amount of memories that can be stored in an orb.”

“The memories I extracted are the memories from before Sirius-sama came to the Demon World. After that, they are not saved.”

It was fortunate.

But rather I couldn’t understand.

Memories before the village was burnt down mean that only the days the boy Yu-Wol spent with Seria were recorded…

why is that necessary

“What are you trying to do?”

Ashur smiled coldly.

“The princess, Sirius, and me, aren’t we all here with one purpose?”

He flicked his hand to create a portal and inserted the orb into it.

“Elimination of the hero. That’s all.”

His emotionless words made me feel even more uncomfortable.