Cecilia revealed she wasn’t a pure blood.
She was probably afraid of being forgotten, of losing her place. For her, who had been left behind by her family, being Fjörd’s disciple was important.
“I wonder why Rondoral-sama sent me on this journey. Well, it was because I was a nuisance, right? They don’t want impure blood in the sacred elf village.”
“Hmm, I see, but isn’t it okay now?”
At my words, she turned back with a look of disbelief.
“What do you mean it’s okay?! I had made that my everything, and you’ve never thought about what it means to lose your place in this world.”
“I agree that where you came from is important. But what world is this world? Is the elf village the only world?”
Cecilia’s eyes widened and she stood up.
“You say that so easily, everyone says this world is vast. But things aren’t that simple. I’ve lost my place and my family on this journey, there’s nothing I can do about it!”
“Well, wait a minute. That’s not what I mean. When I was a child, my family and school were everything to me. I thought I absolutely had to go to school and couldn’t possibly stray from that path.”
As I began to speak, she sat down again.
“But as I got older, I realized that wasn’t everything. If you encounter something unpleasant and don’t want to go, then don’t go. There’s more than one path, you hear that a lot, right? You can’t escape your family, but… In short, I don’t think you need to be so fixated on it.”
“Then what should I do? I know myself how pathetic I am. Even then, I hesitated for a moment, afraid to let go of this sword. I was desperately clinging to a pride I never had, and now I can’t just throw it away.”
She was probably talking about fighting the Boa Orc. She looked down at the ground sadly.
“Cecilia, you’re different from me. You’re still a child, but I think you have enough power to live on your own. So, how about you travel and see various places on your journey? Imagine if you were to live there, and travel while feeling the atmosphere of the people and the town. You don’t have to throw it away completely right now, but perhaps you could live a little more freely.”
After contemplating for a while, Cecilia chuckled, stood up, and walked past me.
“I see, now I understand why you, with no particular skills, get along so well with everyone.”
“Huh? What do you mean…”
She returned to the deep forest without answering.
