âAll right, Iâll trust Garth and the others for now.âJust tell me everything you know. â\n
Garth and the others nodded to Ursâs words.
Oh, this is a sign of Jinnal.
Did you notice that, Mr. Url turned his gaze toward the front door?
âGinar is back.âGarth, can I talk to Jinnal too? â
Yes.
Mr. Garth nodded and made a noise at the front door.
âJust there. Whatâs wrong with getting together?â
Did you know by the signs, Mr. Jinnal came into the room without any particular surprise.
She had a somewhat happy expression on her face.
âGinnal, Iâm sorry to be back so soon, but listen to Garth and the others.â
Ginar-san glances at Garth-san and the other three.
âOkay, I think it has something to do with what the Church is looking for.â
What, did you know?
Ginar-sanâs words surprised him, and Garth-san and the others were surprised.
What, did you know?
It looked like Uru-san was a bit dumbfounded too.
âI knew it, or I heard it just a few hours ago.âI was diving into the church. â
Huh?
Ginar-san puts a new cup of tea in front of Uru-san and drinks it all at once.
âPhew, finally, donât take a breathâ
âGinar, were you telling the church?What? Did you plan to do that? â
Ginar laughed at Uru-san with a confused expression.\n
âThanks to someone else, my schedule has changed a lot.âBy now, Fischer will be happy to manipulate information. â
âFischer, itâs⊠againâŠâ
Do you mind if I tell you this story?
Besides, is there anything Mr. Fischer can do to manipulate the information?
Uru-san had an indescribable expression for a moment.
âIâll tell you more later.Letâs talk about Garth and the others first. â
When Mr. Ginar sat down, he explained that Mr. Urs was under guard, that he was running away from the church, and that Mr. Ars was being chased because of his skills.
âI see. Did Padre Odato tell you to keep an eye on Arus?â
Yes.
Ars looks at Ginar nervously.
âDo you know why the Church is gathering people with fortune-teller skills?â
âI asked the fortune-teller who let me off a little.âBut she said, âI canât tell you the details because I have a contract with the church.'âBecause itâs a contract that can harm anyone who hears of it.â
Did you hurt anyone you heard of?
I have a contract for that.
Iâm scared.
Speaking of which, the paper I used when I was dealing with everyone.
You said it was something special.
âŠâŠ You canât be dying talking about me, can you?
âShe said, âThe Church is looking for what it needs to achieve its purpose.ââ
What do you need to achieve your goals?
I wonder what it is.
âDo you know what youâre looking for?â \nâIt seemed like I couldnât talk.However, I was afraid that if the church found me, the future would change. â
Is the future going to change?
âOnce upon a time, I found someone with the fortune-teller skill, and I was forced to come to the church and kill all the beings I could rely on.âWhen I told her about me, she said, âWell, thatâs the way it went.â
Those with fortune-teller skills have long been victims of the Church.
âIâve been checking the church, but I didnât know there was a fortune teller.Is everyone being tortured in the capital? â
Ars shakes his head to the side at Ginarâs words.
âI donât seem to be in church all the time.She said, âI was a fortune teller in the village where I was born.âWhen I asked him why he was at the church in the capital city, he said, âWhen I criticized the church, they thought that brainwashing was solved and brought me back.The contract was actually more loose, though. â
Brainwashing?
Were you even brainwashed under a contract?
Terrible.
âAs a precaution when I was running away, I was told to stay away from the fortune teller.âEveryone who works as a fortune-teller has a covenant with the church.Brainwashing loosens for some reason over time, but the contract is strong.As soon as the fortune-teller finds you, run away. âWhen he asked me to take Arthur away, I was told. â
I took a breath in Mr. Garthâs words.
âEveryone has a pact with the church,â he heard.
If what he said was true⊠was the fortune-teller who helped me⊠connected to the Church?
But Iâve never seen anything like it.
No, I donât know.
I may have been desperate to see the fortune-teller every day.
Could it be?
âNo, because you have consulted me so personallyâŠâ
Huh?
I felt the warmth in my fatherâs sitting hands.
When I see it, my fatherâs hand is holding my hand.
\nI wonder how Iâve lived.
Was that the life of the fortune-teller who helped me?
Tied up in a contract, brainwashed⊠thatâs it?
âBrainwashing is about bringing people together in the church,â right?
When I was abandoned by my family, I was never told to go to church.
When I was weak, I could have gone if I had pushed my back a little.
I wonder why.
âWas that so?â
When Uru-san bows her head to Ars-san, she shakes her head sideways in a hurry.
âNevertheless, to change the futureâŠâ What do you think youâre looking for at the expense of so many people? â
Uru-san looked at Ginar-san, but he shrugged his shoulders so he didnât understand.
Change the future.
What kind of thing can change the future?
Rare magic items?
But with a magic item, the church would move against an adventurer.
What the church is doing is tie up the fortune-teller with a contract and brainwash people into the church.
âYeah, itâs a skill.â
Are you looking for skills that will impact the world?
The fortune-teller didnât lead me to the church because he already knew my skillsâŠ
My skills were famous in the village, so the fortune-teller knew about them.