She Professed Herself The Pupil of The Wisemen

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The magic beast Cockatrice was safely subjugated by the group of black knights. When Joachim who dealt with the remnants had used wizardry and was burning the Cockatrice and the Lesser Demon corpses, Galet joined them with a clearly disappointed expression.

And like this, the party that completed the mission laughed brightly like nothing happened as they entered the road back.

It was about the evening time. Mira was having a late snack in Arkite Castle's office by the way of giving a report. As for Solomon, he was reading through the report Joachim had written on the way back and also interjected on Mira's own report.

"Lesser Demon cursing a Cockatrice. Certainly, within these thirty years I haven't heard of anything like that. Rather, it's been ten years since the last time Lesser Demons appeared."

"Is that so. What was that, I wonder? I thought it would disperse, but there came the plot twist."

"Well, thanks for your hard work."

The past and now, between those two there were countless large differences. While for Mira some things might be new, they could be well-known facts in this world. However, the grudge cursing a living being was something Solomon heard of for the first time.

"Lesser Demons, huh. I wonder where do they come from."

Placing the report he finished reading on the desk, Solomon muttered in thought.

"I wonder myself, too. Nothing good ever comes out when they are related, mm."

"Right? In any case, we need to find where they come from before it turns into something weird."

"Hmm, where they come from, huh."

Heaving a sigh Solomon reseated himself deep in the chair, and Mira too, leaned strongly on the sofa as she groaned in thought. Back when it was a game, Lesser Demons only appeared during some quests. Most of quests related to them ended with a bad end.

While trying to recall their source in the past, Mira stuffed her cheeks with cookie snacks.

And when she poured tea inside her mouth full of cookies, a certain person's image appeared in her head.

"Oh right, what was that man's name again...?"

"Nn, you mean who?"

Although she recalled the person she did not remember the name and furrowed her eyebrows as it was on the tip of her tongue. Seeing Mira have as hard time remembering names as always, Solomon felt nostalgic as he asked back.

"Come on, the guy who chased around after Lesser Demons while holding large amounts of holy water, the NPC devil researcher guy."

"Aahhh, you mean Howard."

"That's right, that one!"

When Solomon spoke the name she forgot, Mira pointed her finger holding half-eaten cookie at him and nodded confirming it was correct.

"Hmm, but didn't he die already? When he first appeared he was already quite old, after all."

Howard, a man who researched everything about devils. He was an aloof old guy who treated people to medicinal tea poured with holy water.

"Is that so. I thought he might know something, mm."

Hearing that fact Mira lost her momentum but her hand carrying cookies to her mouth did not stop. Then suddenly, another idea came to her head.

"If he's gone, then how about that. There's the mirror that lets you talk with the dead."

"Ahh, the Dark Aid's Mirror. But to speak with the target that thing requires some kind of strong connection or an item belonging to deceased that had a sliver of their thoughts in them."