"How is it possible?" Erina disagreed: "The guy who pulled so many people into dreams is so powerful... It's unimaginable."

"Haha, that's right! So I'm just imagining it a little bit. The probability of this hypothesis coming true is even lower than the probability of Saye-chan falling in love with pet cockroaches."

"That's completely impossible! It's even a negative number! If it's lower than that, it's two negative numbers..." Erina said, hesitated for a moment, and then she was shocked: "Nani?! That is

A negative makes a positive! Isn’t this bound to happen! Nao, you have a crow’s mouth!”

"The one with the crow's mouth is Erina-chan! Don't do multiplication casually. Isn't addition bad?"

"But of course a negative number plus a negative number is also a positive number!"

"How do you calculate this...Um, Erina-chan~ Let Yukikaze Maru teach you more math next time you have time?"

"What! It sounds like I made a miscalculation! What do you think is wrong!"

"A negative number plus a negative number, no matter how you calculate it, it's still a negative number, right?"

"But there is a plus sign! A plus sign and two minus signs are together, so the minus signs must be eliminated, right? Then it will be positive!"

"Hey hey hey~ Even Dr. Mario needs more than three blocks of the same color to eliminate them! How can two of them be eliminated directly when they are put together!"

Nao felt that she could not teach Erina well just with her above-average grades. She had to be in the top three positions in the whole grade.

So, she changed the topic and talked about the astringent things that Erina liked.

"Say, this kind of giant dragon can basically turn into a human form, right? And it's very good-looking~ Then there must be dragon knights who like it and do all kinds of things, right? For example, ride a dragon during the day and ride it at night.

dragon……"

"Well, that one is really a dragon knight in every sense of the word..."

"Right, right~ And then, I was thinking, if I could turn into a dragon and be in the sky with Saye-chan..."

"Nani?! Is there a giant dragon with rabbit ears?! I can't even imagine it! It's so weird!"

"Hey hey hey~?!"

Half a day later.

"We're finally crossing the border!" Erina pointed at the map excitedly and said, "After this point, it's no longer Hawke City's sphere of influence!"

"Don't be too happy, Erina-chan? We don't know how influential the lord of Hawke City is. The wanted order against us may still be valid in other places."

"I know, don't be so disappointed." Erina muttered like this: "What's wrong with this lord? Why is he wanted for us? He ran away in a hurry without understanding this matter. I'm really unhappy... This matter will follow me.

Does the identity of the underworld witch have anything to do with it?"

"But, there is no underworld in this world, right? That shouldn't be the reason." Nishida Nao thought for a while and said: "It probably has something to do with our status as outsiders. The city lord may be hostile to all people from other worlds.

"

"That doesn't make sense. When have our identities been exposed?" Erina was not convinced by this answer: "We didn't take things like mobile phones out! Although I often wear the same clothes when I came here,

It’s not like you have fancy clothes here at all. You can buy similar ones everywhere..."

"Well, so this is an unsolved mystery~ It's better not to worry about it. We just need to be more vigilant from now on. No matter where we are, we have to be careful about whether there is a sneak attack?"

The two of them carefully crossed the Hawke City control area.

The influence of this kind of city-state outside the territory is often not high, so Erina felt that there was no need to worry too much about pursuing soldiers. However, under Nao's suggestion, the two of them avoided the main road for the time being and stayed as secretive as possible.

go ahead.

Once you have horses, it will not be so difficult to go to areas that are not connected by public transportation.

In this way, they arrived at their destination—Saint Frye Village—before dusk.

"Who is this Saint Frye?" Erina was riding on a horse, looking at the dilapidated street scene around her, and asked Nao quietly: "Could it be related to the Tianyi Cult?"

"After all, it must have something to do with being canonized, right? He may be the greatest person who has ever appeared in this area, so he just changed the village to his name... Think about it this way, the underground tomb deep in the big hole may be

It has something to do with St. Fray."

"Oh... indeed. Now, the bones of St. Fran may be buried inside, right? Maybe there were people who worshiped this specifically before! But in the story we heard before, did it mean that all the dead in the village were buried there?

Are they all buried inside?"

"Yes. Not long ago, this was the cemetery of St. Frye Village."

"Can it be called a period of time that was more than a thousand years ago?"

"Jiuyuan Township has such a long history. Of course, more than a thousand years is only a short period of time~ Hehe!"

Nao said this, looked at the church in the distance that had not been renovated for at least a hundred years, and continued to whisper to Erina in a low voice.

"But this village is really depressed... Or should I say, gloomy? It feels like there is a plague here... There are no people on the streets, and many shops have been closed early. Some people even have red paint on their doors.

Draw an x..."

"I have an impression of this! I learned it while playing games!" Erina immediately took over: "In the past, when there was the Black Death or something like that, people would draw an x ​​on the door of a room with patients as a warning.

No one else should come to visit."

"Hmm. So there may be a plague in this place... We have to be careful not to get infected."

Her spell has limited protection against disease, so Erina is worried about this.

The two of them didn't have any masks on them, and they didn't have any medicine that could prevent the disease.

Therefore, if there is really a plague, it is best to minimize contact with people and leave as soon as possible after investigating.

She is more afraid of normal biological plagues rather than plagues caused by spells.

She is no longer afraid of that kind of plague. She and her teammates are well protected.

"Wait? Look there, Nao - does it look like someone is watching us from behind the window?"

Erina was walking, suddenly stopped her horse, pointed to a dilapidated house in the distance and said this.

"Hmm..." Nao stared there for a while and shook his head: "I don't think so. There should be just ordinary shadows over there."

"But it looks very human, right? You have to get closer and take a closer look! Hey, hey, hey - are you willing to be regarded as an adulterer all the time?"

"As expected, this is still not allowed." Nao said simply: "Only Sayo-chan and Yukikazemaru can do this to me!"

"Hey? Why can Yukikaze Maru do it?"

"Because although the more we get along with each other, the more I realize that Dagouzi is a bitch, but he is a dog, so it doesn't matter~"
Chapter completed!