Sirk suddenly crying was surprising, but he eventually stopped, and now he’s embarrassed and hiding behind Sahana.
“I get that you’re embarrassed about crying like a baby, but don’t you have something to say?”
Sahana is really merciless, isn’t she?
“…Sorry…”
“That’s it? Oh all right. I guess he said his name before too, but this is my brother Sirk. It’s not by choice, but he is my brother.”
This introduction is bringing the tears back to Sirk’s eyes.
“To put it simply, my brother is in love with Hikari. It’s a problem. And…”
Now Sirk’s face is bright red.
I think his heart’s HP is practically zero at this point.
“Ah, I’m Sora, and this is Chris.”
I introduce Chris too, because Sahana looked at her for a moment.
“Mister Sora and Miss Chris. I see you came from the outside, but what is your goal here?”
“…To check if a certain person was in the slaver. And we also need to get laurel tree fruit, but we heard in the guild that that’s hard to come by now.”
“I see.”
“Yes. We’d like to try to get it ourselves, but we’re waiting for permission.”
I answer Sahana’s question strangely smoothly.
“Well, I’m sorry for the trouble my brother caused today. We will apologize later, so excuse us for now. Do you have a problem with that, Sirk?”
Sahana says as she turns around to face her brother hiding behind her. I’m pretty sure he’s trembling.
They finally leave, and we hear more about this situation from the other four.
Hikari really didn’t go easy on him, did she?
It sounds like his overbearing attitude, plus him saying this and that about her master, me, made her mad. And then she beat him hard.
I look at the other three, and they have awkward smiles on their faces.
“We couldn’t stop her.”
Says Rurika.
“So, what now?”
“I’ve gotten plenty of exercise, so I’m ready to go back. I’m pretty tired.”
Sera and Mia agree with Rurika. They seem tired both physically and mentally.
But it sounds like they managed to just do normal mock battles before lunch, so they’re happy enough with that.
“What about you, Sora and Chris? How was it going around the city?”
Mia kind of sounds like she’s purposefully changing the subject because talking about that whole thing with Sirk is putting Hikari in kind of a bad mood.
“I guess the best I can say is that the city is quiet. We saw children and elderly people, but barely any working age people.”
“We think they might be working somewhere.”
Says Chris, and it gets me thinking about where everyone might have gone.
Only one place springs to mind. Well, it’s the only place we haven’t been to yet, but it’s also hard to imagine the castle on the other side of the gate being big enough to accommodate most of the city.
Actually, is the laurel tree near the castle? But they said there were minotaurs hanging around nearby. What’s up with that?
I don’t know when those people will be back, but if we wait here, we might get to see them pouring out of the gate. If they really are working on the other side of the gate, that is.
“Should we just go back to the inn?”
The four that were training are cleaned with purification magic, and we start walking again.
The guild employee looks at us with an awkward look on his face as we leave, but he doesn’t really say anything.
When we go back to the inn, everyone hangs out as they want.
That said, there’s really nothing to do, so we just chat while looking at the Hikari doll and Mia doll.
Mia’s the only one working on something, another doll.
By using Life Granting on dolls, I can get them to execute simple commands, but not more complex orders, and they don’t move for very long.
I see I can get them to move, but will they move if I tell them something like ‘guard’ or ‘keep watch’?
By the way, the Hikari doll is currently chasing the Mia doll.
I gave orders to the Mia doll to run away from the Hikari doll, and ordered the Hikari doll to catch the Mia doll.
I used the same amount of magic energy on both, so the distance between them stays the same, but I feel like the Hikari doll is trying to lure the Mia doll to catch it.
“Do they have the ability to learn?”
“Who knows? But I do feel like the Hikari doll is moving better than the Mia doll.”
I think Rurika is right.
The only difference is the amount of time they’ve spent moving, so does their uptime matter?
But that would mean the dolls are moving through some sort of will. Is that even possible?
By the time we get called to have dinner, the Hikari doll still hasn’t caught the Mia doll, and Hikari ends up consoling it.
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Lol so good that she is console the doll at the end.
Thanks for the treat.