"I was beaten in vain. Where should I vent this anger!?"
"It's very noisy. You driver, don't worry about such trivial matters. I have already apologized."
"When did you apologize? Could it be the sentence you just said, "Sorry, idiot, you did it in a hurry?" That's it? That's not called an apology, but a further insult, right?"
Sitting on the driving platform of the dragon car that started moving again, Otto said angrily
"So these things happened before I came out? I thought you just had a dispute."
Yuexing played with the wind element dagger gathered in his hand and looked at Otto in confusion.
"No way! Lady Emilia fainted after the carriage was illuminated, and Mr. Huang and Mr. Natsuki disappeared! Can you think about the desperate situation I was forced into? Especially when I was followed by someone who looked like a bandit.
They’ve been caught!” Otto looked up to the sky and sighed.
"I was teleported not far away, and was robbed when I came back." Subaru shrugged helplessly.
"But, that person who looks like a bandit is probably talking about me, right?"
"Is there anyone else? He stopped the dragon carriage forcibly, knocked Mr. Caiyue unconscious and threatened me with his claws, and forced me to drive the dragon carriage to Mr. Huang..."
"By the way, how did you know my location?"
There were no obvious marks at the location after being teleported, so how did they find it accurately?
Hearing Yuexing's question, Jaffier, who got on the dragon carriage together, rubbed his nose with his fingers.
"Um~ It's just that I smelled an outsider. I didn't expect someone to run into the tomb. To be honest, I'm very anxious."
"Smell? I shouldn't have any special smell on my body. It's better to say that my "smell" is no different from ordinary people."
If I have to say it, only Subaru has a special smell - "the lingering fragrance of the witch"
"I'm just following the smell that I haven't smelled before. It's the so-called "Mei Mei Yi will also have busy periods"" Jaffier said, shaking his head.
"...Sorry, there seems to be a bug in the language translator between you and me?"
The mysterious sayings that came out one after another left Subaru and Juggernaut scratching their heads, but Jaffier wrinkled his nose as if to ask what Subaru was talking about.
"——Ah, hoo"
After exhaling slightly, the girl sleeping on the simple bed opened her eyes
"Ah...Emilia!"
Emilia raised her upper body and blinked her blue-purple eyes. Subaru hurried over and took her hand, as if to confirm her body temperature and presence.
"It's good that you're fine. No, I really thought something was wrong with you..."
"Subaru...? Weird"
Looking up at Subaru who was feeling relieved, Emilia looked like she didn't know what was going on. However, when she looked around the car and noticed a strange man, she immediately jumped up.
Then he pushed Subaru behind and confronted Gafiel.
"——Who are you!? Let me tell you in advance, I won't let you lay a finger on Subaru!"
"Wait a minute, Emilia-chan! I'm very happy but my heart is complicated. Anyway, it's okay!"
"Hmph! I thought you could only sleep, but you dare to bark when you wake up. It's interesting...!"
"Don't get so motivated all of a sudden, okay? Calm down! Sit down and talk!"
Emilia's unexpected preparation for war aroused Gafir's desire to fight, and the situation was about to break out.
"Be quiet, Jaffier, this won't do you any good."
Yuexing leaned lazily in the carriage and said to Jaffier who was eager to try.
Subaru quickly grabbed Emilia's shoulders and said
"Don't worry, Emilia-chan, a lot of things happened while you were asleep, but the dust has settled. That guy is Gafiel, do you understand?"
"Gaffier...he is the person Frandelika was talking about?"
After hearing the name, Emilia blinked and stared at Gafir. As a result, Gafir raised his chest and said:
"Yes, I am Jaffier, the strongest man in the world."
"That's right, that's right, the strongest in the world... Huh? What did you just say? The strongest in the world? Are you not drunk?"
"I mean, what's so weird?"
"But you can't even beat the guy next to you, so why do you have the nerve to call yourself the strongest in the world?"
Originally he just wanted to explain to Emilia, but unexpectedly he made unexpected exaggerated remarks. Jaffier curled his lips in dissatisfaction.
"Let me reorganize it. You are Jaffier who lives in the "Sacred Realm". You are related to Roswaal. The people in Ram and Alam Village are also in the Sanctuary. Can we believe that?"
"It's your freedom to doubt. No matter what, you have crossed the barrier. Now you can't go back, right?"
"Hey, we have crossed the barrier? When?"
Emilia's eyes widened in surprise when she said that she had crossed the barrier but there was no sense of reality. By the way, Subaru was also surprised, but Javier continued to talk to the two of them.
"Hey, hey, please spare me, uncle. Isn't it just because I'm close to the barrier that I fell asleep?"
"That is to say, the moment the stone crossed the barrier, the stone immediately reacted." Yuexing pointed to the pyroxene in Subaru's arms.
"It's at the same point in time, so this will react to the barrier!"
Subaru played with the stone he took out from his arms. Emilia looked at it and nodded vigorously, then——
"——? What's wrong with you, Jaffier?"
Emilia made a confused sound, and immediately she saw Jaffier at the end of her sight looking at the pyroxene with a complicated expression.
It was as if that blue light gave him bad memories——
"It's probably because of this stone that I've had bad luck, and I'm also very concerned about why only Emilia-chan fainted when passing through the barrier, but everyone else was fine."
"It has nothing to do with the stone. It's normal for the barrier to only react to Lady Emilia. After all, the barrier is used to test filthy bloodlines."
"--Well"
"Hey, Jaffier, what do you mean by filthy bloodline?"
Gafir's words made Emilia's cheek twitch. Subaru, who was angry at this, asked him what his intention was.
"Don't make me say it so many times, you are a half-goblin..."
"Humph! You are the only ones who are so eloquent. I never said that Lady Emilia is special, right? The dirty bloodline is not only half-elf, I and other people are also... just mixed species."
"Mixed...you mean mixed?"
Emilia asked, and Javier confirmed silently. After hearing this, Subaru understood the special nature of the "sacred realm" he had heard before, and what the "problematic" demihumans meant.
"In other words, the "sacred area" is a place for mixed-race demihumans to live."
"The correct answer... But speaking of it, since you are coming to the "Sacred Realm", why didn't you hear Frandelica mention these things?"
"She can't go into details. She insists on this, so she only tells us within the scope of what she can say...your matter is also because of that oath, so we only know your name."
"Oath, oath... Huh, huh! What a nice excuse, just like her owner."
What Gafir smacked his lips was more like a curse than a malicious one.
There is no doubt that he and Frandelica are related by blood, but their relationship does not seem to be very good. The reason that Frandelika refuses to tell him may be——
"Don't you and Frandelica have a very good relationship?"
"Emilia-chan!?"
"If you ask whether the relationship is good or not, the answer is no. The next thing has nothing to do with that guy. The next thing is between us and you guys who have crossed the barrier."
Emilia's direct question frightened Subaru, but unexpectedly, Gafiel answered calmly. While filling up the seats, he gestured to the window with his chin.
Just by looking at this action, you will know that the destination "sacred area" has arrived.
"Welcome, Lady Emilia and the three of you"
There were greeting words with a respectful title——but the tone did not contain a trace of respect or goodwill, and Gafir said this, which attracted the surprised looks of Subaru and Emilia
Then he tapped his teeth and spread his hands as if to express the surrounding area.
"Roswaal pretended to be named "Sanctuary"...but this place doesn't match the name. It's just a place where waste gathers and lives, a useless experimental ground."
"Experimental site...?"
"--waste?"
Hearing the unpleasant words, Subaru and Yuexing frowned at the same time
Seeing the two of them like this, Javier, unlike Frandelica, smiled without covering his mouth.
"Uncle, I think this place should be called the tomb of the "Desire Witch"~"
"——Desire Witch!?"
Hearing this, Subaru, who had never heard of this person before, tilted his head in confusion, but the person who responded with an exaggerated reaction instead was Otto, who heard the conversation in the car.
He looked at the front of the car from the driver's seat in embarrassment.
"Please, please, please, please...does this really have anything to do with the "Desire Witch"...?"
"Wait, wait, wait! It's because you were too surprised that I reacted a little late, but who is the "Desire Witch"? Doesn't the Witch just refer to the "Jealousy Witch"?"
The most terrifying disaster that plunged the world into an abyss of terror and is still feared today is the "Jealous Witch"
All Subaru knew was the witch named "Jealousy", and he had never heard of anyone else. An unexpected word appeared, and the worst possibility flashed through Subaru's mind.
"Could it be that every witch has a witch cult, right? There are seven witches, and there are seven sin priests each? Please don't, do you know how miserable it is just to defeat one!?"
That's for sure, Yuexing said secretly in her heart
"That's also a terrible thing, but you don't have to worry about that. It's just that the mention of witches other than "jealousy" is the biggest problem among the big problems..."
Subaru breathed a sigh of relief when his worst suspicions were denied, but Otto's worries did not disappear.
Subaru was confused by this, so Emilia next to him continued speaking for him.
"Actually, a long, long time ago, but only four hundred years ago... At that time, in addition to the "Jealousy Witch", there were six witches, but all of them were killed by the "Jealousy Witch"..."
"It should be said that they were eaten. In fact, there are almost no records of other witches eaten by the "Jealous Witch", but there are exceptions."
"Is this one of the exceptions? That's why it's troublesome to name other witches?"
Emilia said, Gaphiel added, and Subaru's last question was left to Otto. He sighed and said reluctantly as if he didn't want to say it:
"I really don't want to talk about this topic. It's actually the habit of witch cultists. As you know, they only believe in "jealous witches"... They don't acknowledge the existence of other witches at all. Just hearing the names of other witches will make them jealous.
Unable to accept and excitedly wreak havoc"
"If you can't accept it, then you will destroy it..."
"In the Flakia Empire in the south, there were rumors of witches other than the "Jealous Witch", and there was talk of "shooting stars" related to witches appearing, but I don't know if they are true or not."
The Southern Empire, the Witch Cult—in memory, these two clues can intersect on something, which is what Yurius and the others said when they were conquering Betrugius.
"Could it be that you're talking about the time the Archbishop of Sin destroyed a city?"
"That's it. Is the rumor of "Meteor" true, or is it just nonsense to gain glory... No matter which way, the cost is the destruction of the entire city. After that, the topic of witches became taboo everywhere."
Otto summarized the annoying topics, and Subaru nodded deeply.
"Wouldn't it be too dangerous to talk to others about a topic that is equivalent to disaster?"
"I'm not talking about it outside. It's the old woman inside who said this is the tomb of the "Greed Witch". "Peromio started to rot from the other side where he heard it." I'm so annoyed."
Hearing this, the bracelet on Yuexing's hand had an uneasy vibration, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
"I'm very interested in what's rotten, but you don't know the details?" Subaru said.
"If you want to know the details, just grab Roswaal's collar and ask - I don't know if he can tell me now."
"——? What do you mean? What happened to Roswaal..."
"Sorry to interrupt, it seems that we have reached a village...is it a village? It seems that we have arrived at the tribe, can we go in directly?"
Gafiel's words had other meanings. Emilia wanted to ask more questions, but Otto on the bridge reported first that the group had arrived at their destination, so everyone looked outside.
"This is the "sacred realm"..."
Emilia whispered, Subaru sighed in the same way and narrowed his eyes.