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"You… you said you are Ian’s teacher, right?"

Riley asked as he looked at Ian’s face in theInaril, as blind, ondering why Riley was asking She tilted her head to the side and responded,

"Yes He was my very first pupil He is also er, but he saved h not by o, Inaril had lost her life and she had been living her life since then as a dead body She said she had taught Ian swords of the sword that she had

"I couldn’t directly deliver hiht hihter"

She asked Riley,

"Was I wrong to do so?"

Inaril thought Rileyof the sword before her So, to confir to do so

"No"

Riley shook his head and said,

"It’s not forbidden in particular It’s your freedom to teach your swordsmanship to anyone you want as ht so I should butt in"

Not just in his past life, but even in this life… he had lightly tossed advice to Sera, the ht Nainiae, the h de different"

Riley redirected his gaze fro at Inaril who had her head tilted to the side

"…"

"…?"

Riley was blurring the end of his sentence and Inaril tilted her head to the side

"I heard you have about a week left?"

Riley pondered hard about how to say this In the end, he asked about that

"… Yes"

Having heard the response, Riley scratched the back of his head as if he was finding this to be such a bother He quietly continued

"I’ll just throw you a straight ball"

"Pardon?"

"Ian said he wished you could live a little longer"

"…"

Instead of finding a roundabout way to say it, Riley told her what Ian had said Inaril’s lips shook lightly

"He said a week is too short He has waited several decades for this reunion He said he doesn’t want to wait again"

He thought his had teacher died However, it turned out that she was alive as a corpse Now, although she was here, Ian was going to have to say goodbye again Ian wasn’t even sure if there was such a thing as an afterlife and he was not sure if they could ain even if there was one With bitterness…Ian confided in Riley about it Riley was thinking about the conversation

"Ian said he has so he was not able to tell you before He said he should definitely tell you now that the opportunity to talk to you has coain However… he said a as too short and he complained to me"

Riley had no idea what Ian wanted to tell Inaril He approached Inaril and extended his ars to say, so…"

Riley er"

"Mr Riley?"

Inaril realized Riley was usingShe opened her mouth and ht to say you should try living a little longer since you already have died? It would feel cold when your hand is held as well"

"Mr Riley… Even so, this is against the way of the world…"

Of his ti the time that Inaril had left in this world little by little He said to Inaril as panicking

"This is just out of a whim"

"…"

"Gods are like that too, don’t you think? That one who is called Goddess had me born into this world with all of my past life’s memory intact That’s not supposed to have happen in the first place So…"

Inaril was stepping back to avoid Riley’s ic However her back-step was stopped by Nainiae’s hand

"Even if another thing that is not supposed to happen does happen, it would be all right, don’t you think?"

Because of the duel earlier, Inaril’s skin was pale as a corpse Now, her skin had regained some vitality Riley retrieved his hand and said,

"Huuuuaaaaa… Uuuu It’s been so long since I exercised"

It was not certain if it was because it wasnow or if it was because it had been a while since he had exercised and hence he was tired He yawned big tiestured to Nainiae to coo back"

"Now?"

"Instead of here, I would like to go sleep on a nice bed"

Riley looked so sleepy that he could fall asleep on the street right now He was rubbing his sleepy eyes Nainiae thought that it could not be helped She prepared a teleportation spell

"I’ll leave the rest to you all"

Inaril was standing there with a blank look on her face Ryan, Ian and the others were looking at where they were Nainiae said those words as goodbye toward those people She then supported Riley and went inside the portal

The year ended

The winter was al had just come around the corner at Iphalleta Mansion A pretty facedin

"… Young Master! Young Master!"

"Ummmm… Five more minutes…"

"This Please take a look at this"

It was his designated ed in protest, wondering why she had to wake hi sound, she handed a paper to Riley It was full of letters Nainiae pointed at the part that ritten in relatively larger fonts

[Due to the great ration of monsters which started from Ansyriue… The ht by mercenaries]

It was a newspaper

"Mercenaries? Are they talking about Nara?"

The newspaper article didn’t just have letters It included drawings as well Riley checked out the entire article He found Nara in the drawing As the representative of theon his shoulder Riley peeked a smile

"If you continue to read further, it mentions Ms Rorona, Mr Ian…Ms Iril and Ms Inaril too If you look here…"

Although they were not on the drawing, the article included the name of Rorona, as a fellow mercenary with Nara, and Iril and Inaril who Riley had e’s Sword Witch, the e… Uncover her ed fro Priestess was there? Appearance of the for now?"

Riley read the rest of the article and other headlines He furrowed his brows and looked at Nainiae

"What is this?"

"It looks like they have done so"

"Hm…"