“Not dead…”
“Iril?”
Ryan was trying to take a step toward Iril. Iril was holding her sword on her right hand. She swung it widely through the air. She raised her head that she had pulled down a moment ago and shouted.
“My grandmother is!”
Ian opened his eyes wide and strained them to stare at Iril. He confirmed the purple eyes on Iril’s face and tightened his grip on this sword.
‘It’s coming!’
“… not dead!”
It seemed what Ian muttered inside was right. Iril stumped on the ground to charge toward Ian. She was coming at speed that was several levels faster than before.
* * *
“Iril?”
Riley muttered as he wondered if the woman simply forgot to include the ‘na’ sound in her own name. Inaril shook her head and grabbed her staff for the blind.
“I am sorry. I think I’ll have to save the detailed explanation for later.”
Tagak, tagak…
Feeling the ground with the staff, she was trying to get out of the house. Riley extended his hand out to grab her.
“Hey, wait a min…”
Not just his hand, but his words stopped in the middle. Nara and Nainiae were standing to left and right of Riley. Wondering what that was for, they had question marks on their faces.
“You…”
“Mr. Riley, please follow me too.”
Just now, from Inaril, Riley was able to detect something. He was staring at Inaril’s back. Inaril opened the door and breathed in the air outside. She added in a calm voice,
“The sword I am supposed to give you is missing.”
The sword disappeared…
“By any chance, are you….”
Having heard her words, Nainiae furrowed her eyebrows like Riley. She remembered what the goddess told her in Riley’s dream.
‘When you wake up, please find Mr. Riley’s holy sword. Of the purple people who live in your world, one of them should have it.’
Inaril said she died 30 years ago and the sword that she was supposed to give to Riley was missing.
Riley and Nainiae put together the puzzles in their heads and found answers. They tumbled and headed out to catch up to Inaril who left the house earlier.
“What the… Just what’s happening?”
Nara was the only one who still didn’t understand the situation. Breaking cold sweat, he also left the house and followed after Riley and Nainiae.
“I’ll help!”
Inaril was using the staff to feel the ground as she walked. Nainiae caught up to her and said she will help Inaril. Nainiae then promptly asked,
“The Holy Sword, that is the one that went missing, right?”
“How could you know that?”
Riley was the only one who supposed to know about this, yet Nainiae was also aware of this, so Inaril panicked. She turned to where Nainiae was standing and asked.
“This kid became my accomplice.”
Riley said Nainiae was his accomplice. Nainiae put on dissatisfied look on her face. Meanwhile, Inaril put on a puzzled look on her face.
“An accomplice… You mean more like a help.”
“…?”
“Anyway, hurry up and tell me. Tell me what happened.”
Riley added that it was all right for Inaril to tell Nainiae. Thinking it could not be helped, Inaril sighed and explained why she quickly left the house.
“I have a granddaughter.”
“A granddaughter?”
“I can’t say that she is related to me by blood, but she is as precious as a real granddaughter to me. She is a child who I took in. To be precise, that child found me, but… The important thing is that I think that child, Iril, took the Holy Sword.”
Riley looked at Nainiae and asked,
“Your eye?”
“Not yet.”
“Tsk.”
Riley crumpled his face and clicked his tongue. He looked around and asked Inaril this time.
“About this girl who is your granddaughter, what’s her age?”
“About fifteen to sixteen…”
“What does she look like?”