Chapter 26: Waiting

'Demonstone? The stone they found among the monsters?'

A nod.

The fact that Chris had come by last night and told me this made the lord's story more credible.

The unpleasant aura I'd sensed six months ago was probably caused by magic that used demonstones.

People had already begun abusing demonstones.

Humans really were creatures who put their own greed ahead of peaceful lives and other people.

I didn't know why they'd used demon magic, something they themselves abhorred, to control the lord's mind, but it was probably for money. The city had apparently been wealthy, after all.

I'd only wanted to go home, but now I'd gotten caught up in something like this. It hadn't even been long since we'd had trouble at Deus. What terrible luck.

'Sorry. I suggested we help even though there wasn't anything I could do...'

Even though I wanted to grumble inwardly about my bad luck, I couldn't bring myself to when I saw Eah blaming herself as she wrote on my palm...