Putting aside the random questions that were suddenly added, which made me even more mad, we and Virtine visited Reitina Cathedral that afternoon.
Knowing this was a risky decision, she still insisted on going along.
The person I mentioned, Eliane, was one of the Six Elites of the Nobles, and also a high-ranking member of the Church.
She's about my age. In the past, our family used to be very close thanks to favorable business cooperation.
Cecile liked her really much. But for me there was a strange distance.
The memories I have of Eliane feel like a mess, or maybe it's not even mine.
I identified myself as Cecile right in front of the girl suspected of being a witch.
Was I myself too obsessed with my sister that I became paranoid?
Or is there another secret I don't know yet.
The whereabouts of Duke Ress and Rolas…
So many questions flooded this mortal's tiny brain.
But no answer was given.
With the title and power of an Elite, Eliane must have known a little of the truth about what was happening to me.
Or maybe she… she could be the one who caused it all. A person with the power of Zeinreich should be able to manipulate others.
No. Calm down, Ray. I must not let myself sink deeper into this madness.
"Virtine, you said you were being hunted by people from the Church, so why do you want to go to the Cathedral? It's a bad decision if you ask me."
"I know a person in Reitina Cathedral, maybe he is there. I need to see him face to face."
Lair ran ahead, gazing at the beauty of this land with mischievous eyes that occasionally turned back to look at us.
"You two look good together, eh? It won't be much of a suprise if others think you two are a couple."
I replied to her.
"Very well then! So it's only our little Lair that will remain lonely and old forever?"
She ran over, kicked me in the leg, giggling.
"Oops, sorry! Though I am willing to be lonely if it means I don't have to be you! Ugly old man!"
"Do you have a grudge against my body or something…"
Virtine seems to be a quiet person, or maybe she is still shy.
"That girl named Lair, how strangely natural she is... How old is Lair?"
"I think about 18. She never mentioned her age, and I'm not too curious either."
The girl turned to look at me with her deep blue eyes full of charm.
"Raymond Scottfield. You're a Zeinreich user, aren't you?"
"…How do you know that?"
"But there is something very strange about your Zeinreich. Or rather its existence. An unnatural existence."
"Unnatural you say…"
Reitina Cathedral was built on an old church ruins.
Previously, it was a shipping port for one of the Ten Empires.
Merchants and soldiers often stopped by the church to pray before leaving the port.
After the Reunification of the Ten Empires, the church was severely damaged as a result of the campaign to capture the port of Reitina.
In 1225, receiving instructions from the Church, King Jourls II began the construction of the Cathedral of Reitina.
My original purpose of coming here may have been changed more or less by the fact that was not in the calculation.
If indeed the woman named Virtine was a priest of the Reitina Cathedral, the information about her would surely be known.
Though, she may not be safe when we arrive there. I have to think of something as quickly as possible...
A strange woman like her may prove useful for solving the mystery surrounding the missing of the others, or at least that is what I hope to be the case.