167 – Litigation (2)

“Rumia? What a year.”

“Yes? You don’t know me?!”

Lilia reacted sharply. On the other hand, Rumia opened her eyes wide in surprise, as if she was shocked by Lilia who didn’t know her.

“…Lumia?”

“At that time, a paladin…”

“I-Iba knows a lot of people!”

Innis encouraged Eva with a forced smile, but I could see her eyes were very good. Those half-open eyes were coldly contemplating Rumia sniffing Iva.

“Who really…”

Stella was also confused. I had knowledge of the original work, so I could guess most of the characters from their tone of voice, behavior, and appearance, but I couldn’t possibly read that beast woman from memory.

“Master… No, you don’t even know me, Lillia?”

“Master? Why am I your master!”

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Lilia growled. Iva looked at Rumia, quite puzzled.

“You f*cking freed me from slavery, but then you put your feet under a man? Do you want to die?”

“Hee, hee! No! It’s not like that!”

“Master? Lord Ini? This baby is behind.”

Eva raised her arms in anger. Her startled Rumia quickly pulled her body behind her.

“It’s not like that! It’s because I’m working as a butler under Lilia’s house! Come on! Look!”

Rumia spun around in her lap, showing off her current outfit. A neat black suit that stuck to her body, and a more mature line that had grown overall compared to what she had seen before stood out.

“How about it! It’s a butler’s outfit! It’s just a title for my boss at work! I’m not a slave!”

She shouted as her spirits increased.

“Wait. You’re my butler? I’ve never heard of that?”

Lillia opened her eyes wide to examine her Lumia.

“You’re not even that kind of racist… Using a prisoner as a servant…?”

“Lee, Lilia it’s okay! Maybe that’s what you like… Huh…”

“Innis Don’t talk weird. It sounds real!”

Eva tilted her head, not understanding the reactions around her.

‘…What’s wrong?’

There were two problems.

One is that Rumia, except for her Wiz, who has memories of her return, has not been able to see her face with most of them.

That’s why I couldn’t draw out the possibility that this place of hers was the future because I couldn’t draw a sense of gap between her in her memories and the her now.

“Lilia. This is that friend. Why did you try to assassinate me before…”

“Oh that dog!”

Lilia clapped her hands and succeeded in recalling a face from her memory. Unlike back then, she had a very far-fetched impression, so it was difficult to compare the two. Besides, at the time she met, she was dressed as a man, which made the comparison even more problematic.

“Somehow I didn’t like it from the first time I saw it…”

“Oh, Assassination? Eva, should I kill now?”

“Don’t kill me.”

For some reason, Wiz and Innis reacted violently to the word assassination, but when Iba stopped them, they calmed down.

“Dog, bastard…”

“Huh? But weren’t you a man?”

“No! At that time, I was just dressing up as a man in case something happened! I’m definitely a woman!”

As she strikes a pose that shows off her own curves, Rumia proudly declares her own gender. Lilia stared at the voluptuousness of her mound, and nodded her head timidly, wiping her interest like a ghost.

“Ugh… Yes.”

“But master… No, nothing has changed about Lillia! It’s just like the person I saw yesterday!”

“That’s because I’m a witch… Huh?”

Lilia frowned as if she had finally noticed something strange about her.

“Does the horse speak like a person I met in the future?”

“Of course!”

Rumia strongly affirmed. It was only then that his expression, which had been hardened in bewilderment, was stained with shock. The situation was finally figured out.

“According to Master and Iva-sama’s words, this is the future based on your standards! Even though you are people from the past by my standards!”

**

“Now! This way!”

Rumia kindly guided us beyond the Garden of Flowers to Lilia’s villa. Everyone looked blank as if they didn’t realize what the future was.

“Rumia, if it’s the future… How many years have passed since you and I met?”

“Yeah? Since then… It must have been about a decade!”

“Ten years…”

It may not be for elves, but by human standards, it’s been a long time. The time when rivers and mountains change once. A time that is not strange at all, even if there are great changes in people.

‘Damn it, I caught something like a beggar to compare.’

Long-lived species with long ears. The things involved with them were not very pleasant memories for Eva. She never said they were not at fault, but she couldn’t deny that she committed the massacre as an outlet for her anger.

Her memory now was painful.

She was suffering from a lack of humanity, like a phantasmagoric pain from being cut somewhere, and a sense of guilt that should not be ignored.

Elf Hani Iba has a question.

“Rumia, how are the plant demons now? What social position do they hold…”

“Ten years? Then he and I must have finished the ordeal?”

“Stella and Eva’s relationship…Isn’t it still good…?!”

“Is this, did Iba get married or something? Ji, Ji, is she dating a woman right now?”

However, Iva was not the only one who was curious about the knowledge of the future. Various questions attacked Rumia at the same time.

‘If you know everything in advance, there will be no romance~’

Stella alone kept her silence.

She, of course, she, she, she had some things she was curious about, but she had a strong desire to keep the fun of going through the unknown beyond that.

“Yes, yes?! I’m sorry! I didn’t hear that one by one… Ah, sum!”

Rumia stopped listening to her questions and covered her mouth with her chin hand.

“Oh, no! I have an order!”

“Orders? What? Rumia, people should pursue freedom. You can’t just follow orders.”

“I can’t even say Iva! Now this is an order, but I’m acting of my own free will! I won’t listen!”

Huh. Reluctantly, Rumia turned her head and started guiding her as before.

“…You say I’m your master? Is it okay if you don’t listen to me?”

Lilia smiled sinisterly and tried to gain knowledge of the future, but Lumia was stubborn.

“I-I-I’m not serving Lillia-sama right now! No, Lillia-sama is also serving now… Ah, that, I mean, I’m serving Lillia-sama from my time period, so no!”

“Really? What if I hold a grudge against you and later retaliate against you?”

“Threats don’t work! No!”

Even after that, Rumia did not accept any questions and only steadfastly guided her path. Although she broke out in a cold sweat, her stubbornness was unbreakable.

In the end, it was after arriving at the door of her mansion that Rumia opened her mouth again.

“Okay! Here we are!”

The appearance of the mansion hidden by the iron gate was quite grand. It looked like a typical aristocratic mansion.

“…Is this a villa?”

“Lillia is very successful! If this is a vacation home, how amazing would the house you live in right now be?”

Innis was delighted, shaking her Lilia’s shoulder. Lilia scanned the exterior of her mansion and the flowers in the garden, then she placed her hand on her waist in satisfaction.

“Yes! In the future, there must be a villa like this!”

The iron gate opened and Rumia guided them through.

“Come in.”

I followed her instructions and moved her feet.

“Huh?”

Everyone who moved into it felt it.

The air has changed. The flow of the wind is different, and the atmosphere is different. The flowers were still bright, but the bright flowers felt cold like flowers for condolences.

Compared to the gentle and comfortable garden of flowers earlier, it was like a cold snowy field.

Her breath caught in her throat.

Eva became anxious for a moment and recalled her ordeal.

‘Come to think of it, I hear that the ordeal is still over…’

I gave up killing my past self, so why haven’t I heard the sound of completing the ordeal yet? Could it be that there was still something threatening her life?

Eva doubted and carefully put her foot in front of her.

[@#!? Congratulations on passing!]

“What?”

At the moment, the voice of the ordeal was heard and the body staggered. Unlike her usual, there was a loud crackling noise. As she frowned at a sensation similar to prolonged tinnitus, the sage’s voice continued to shake her brain.

[Congratulations on passing the ordeal! I’m sorry. The communication condition was not good because the dimensions were different.]

It was a congratulatory voice for passing the ordeal.

Now, the ordeal of ‘survive’ meant that Iba no longer had to.

But that didn’t mean there was no need to be very suspicious of this mansion. How do you trust others

It could be that everything Rumia said was a lie.

No matter how much grace is given, grace can also turn into resentment depending on how people change after that.

With nothing to know what might happen in the future, the amount of ignorance raised her alertness.

“Come in! He’s waiting inside.”

“…Waiting, who?”

Rumia opened the huge wooden door and ushered them into her waiting room.

“He’s the one who will answer what Iva said earlier.”

As we followed Lumia, we saw her green hair and green eyes. And long ears.

“Oh, are you here?”

He was a prophet.

“It’s been a while, Mr. Iba.”

“The Prophet? Why are you here…”

“hahahaha, I miss that title too. Wouldn’t it be nice for everyone to sit down first?”

Lillia quickly sat down in her chair and raised her voice.

“Wait! Why are you here! This is my mansion!”

“It’s still the same. You… Since it’s a villa, there’s no way the flower witch will stay there.”

“But if they knew of our existence, they might come!”

“Don’t you know. Because of your personality, you’ll never come to a place like this.”

“Yes…But…”

Convinced by that explanation why there were no owners and only outsiders, I put myself in the chair one by one. Eva grinned at the soft sensation she hadn’t felt in a long time.

“Then why did you come, Prophet? You would have hated us?”

“Okay, I’ll have to explain that first…”

The Prophet’s green eyes sank melancholy.

“Because few of you who are here right now could possibly come here.”

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