What should I do? It is my fault.
While running through the Light Grand Church at full-throttle, I was tormented with self-deprecation.
Even though we had gotten along…
The earth hero, Gonbee Sasae-chan.
For the first time since she was born, she left her homeland, and in the strange land she had arrived and was on the peak of helplessness, she would meet the first people she could open her heart to.
Those people were supposed to be us, and yet, I was unable to accept what she had said, and rejected it all along with her very self.
With this, it feels as if I made her trust us just to betray her.
Right now, the meaning of what she said about that oracle doesn’t matter.
I have to catch up with Sasae-chan and apologize as soon as possible.
The chances of Sasae-chan still being inside the Grand Church is high.
It is big and easy to get lost in here after all.
There’s a chance that Mirack-chan or Celestis-chan, who separated to cover more ground, will find her sooner than me, but I have to make sure to be the first one to find her, and apologize properly to her.
“Uwa?!”
“Karen?!”
In the middle of it, I stumbled upon Mirack-chan at a turn.
“How was it?! Did you find Sasae-chan?!” (Karen)
“Not even a shadow! If we have met here, it must mean that she wasn’t in your search area either. In that case…!” (Mirack)
Is what we were thinking when…
*Zudon*, a sound strong enough to make the whole building tremble reverberated.
When I look out from the window that was close by, I could see a waterspout from afar. There’s no doubt that’s the work of Celestis-chan.
“That direction is…the outside plaza?!” (Karen)
“What is that woman doing?!” (Mirack)
At any rate, there’s no doubt that something happened.
This is no moment to be caring about manners. I jump from the window, and control the fall with my light divine power, and head at full speed towards the waterspout.
“?!! Hey, wait, Karen!” (Mirack)
Mirack-chan followed after.
This Light Grand Church is my base, that’s why I can tell. The place where the waterspout came from is the plaza. It is normally used as a training space for the people of the Aurora Knight Corps.
That’s why it is wide without any obstructions, so there’s no problems in having a waterspout as big as that being made, but…but why did Celestis-chan do that kind of technique in the first place?
* * *
…While I was thinking that, we arrived.
The first thing that entered my vision was the back of Celestis-chan.
“Aah, you are finally here. I was waiting!!”
It hasn’t been long since we split to search, and yet, Celestis-chan was talking as if we haven’t met for several years already.
“Celestis-chan! Did something happen?!” (Karen)
“Instead of explaining, it would be faster to just see it with your own eyes! Look at that!” (Celestis)
And then, being suggested by Celestis-chan, I look, and…
“?!! Monster.” (Karen)
That’s right. There’s a monster in the training grounds.
It is the first time I have seen this type, but there’s no doubt that this is a monster.
It is big and humanoid. From what I see, it is made up from what seems to be minerals.
The looks of monsters are normally uniform. If it’s fire element, it is a land beast type; if it’s water element, it would be a fish or a water lifeform; if it’s wind element, it would be an insect type.
But this is the first time I see this type of monster. It gives a different kind of atmosphere from the Dark Giant-san we met in the Great Sea Dragon battle. Just what in the world…
Since this is a training ground, there’s -as expected- many light knights that were here in the middle of training, and were now surprised by the sudden appearance of a monster and were agitated.
“To think a monster would appear in a place like this! And so, Celestis, what happened to Sasae?!” (Mirack)
Mirack-chan who had finally caught up, asks this from Celestis.
“…She is right there, you know.” (Celestis)
“Eh?”
“As I said, she is there! Look, over there!!” (Celestis)
In the place where Celestis-chan points at, at the aforementioned monster.
I was wondering what she was saying so I strain my eyes to see, and what I saw was…a girl standing at the back of the giant earth humanoid.
“Sasae-chan?!” (Karen)
Why is she at a place like that? She is close to the point that you could say she is clinging to the leg of the monster!
“Why is she at such a place?! That’s dangerous! Hurry and get away!” (Karen)
“Shut up-dasu!”
Words of denial that felt as if they pierced at me.
“Every one of you! All the city people be enemies-dasu! My only ally be this child-dasu! ‘Golem Boy’! Kick ‘em away, don’t let ‘em get close!!” (Sasae)
Saying this, the humanoid monster rushes at us as if it were following her desires.
“Uwa?!”
I fall back in order to evade.
And so, Sasae-chan stood alone at the place where the humanoid monster was before, and takes something out from the rucksack she had brought for her journey.
“What’s that? A brick?” (Karen)
“Crap! Again?!” (Celestis)
Seeing that brick, Celestis-chan gets agitated.
“That girl, is she thinking of making more of those?!” (Celestis)
“Making? More of those?” (Karen)
“I had found that girl and cornered her all the way here. After that, that girl took out a brick that looked similar to the one she has now, and wrote something on it. And when she did that, the earth and stones in the surroundings of the block began to gather, and what came out of it is the giant thing that you see now before your eyes!!” (Celestis)
Eh? Then—!
The two blocks that Sasae-chan is holding currently in her hands are—!!
“C’mere! ‘Golem Father’, ‘Golem Mother’!!” (Sasae)
- 109: Puppet Sumo
There’s a total of three.
Right in front of us, monsters we have never seen before had appeared.
The three shared the trait that they were all earth puppets.
“‘Golem Boy’!”
The first one to appear from the earth humanoids.
As of now, it is the smallest one of them, but even with that, it easily surpasses the height of a man at his prime.
“‘Golem Mother’!”