Some time passed without the question about Ruben being resolved. He now had to prepare for rice farming in earnest.
I brought the black hawks to the mountain a little down from Duke Siaster’s residence.
Because it was on the side of a mountain, the open space was not as large as a plain, but it was an appropriate size for experimenting with rice farming.
It is said that originally, during the reign of the previous duke, there were plans to build something like a villa here. So, the foundation of the land was well established.
Above all, there was a large lake on a nearby mountain peak, and a valley was formed from there, with water flowing down.
The valley is right next to it.
It was truly the perfect land for making rice paddies.
I stood looking out at the entrance and gave orders to the workers.
“Now, let’s make a ridge first!”
“ancient!”
The workers, mesmerized by the rice cakes, shouted at the top of their voices, holding their shovels militantly.
And as they both ran, they screeched to a halt.
They asked me with puzzled faces.
“Sister, what is a ridge…? … ?”
“oh.”
I realized that I had not explained the rice fields sufficiently to them.
He called them together and squatted down in a circle.
The sight of huge men sitting around me, each holding a shovel, was very burdensome.
He said with a serious face.
“To make rice, you have to grow rice. And you need rice paddies to grow rice!”
“Oh oh.”
“Paddy fields are also called water fields, and they are filled with water and rice is grown there. Is there a valley nearby? We’re going to let the water flow from there to here, and let it pool on one side. “After that, we will let it flow into the rice fields.”
“Oooh.”
“Before that, we need to find a place to store it. Then, we will pile up the soil around the land that will become the rice field to create a ridge. That way, the water that flows in won’t escape.”
“That accumulated dirt is a ridge!”
He suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the bald head with his index finger, nodding as if he had done well.
“that’s right.”
A blush appeared on the bald man’s cheeks. He seemed embarrassed by the compliment.
Since he didn’t look very good, he quickly turned his head and continued speaking.
“That’s why I gave you the shovel. “Half of the time we will dig the ground from the valley, and half of the time we will make the rice fields here.”
“yep!”
They were certainly knights.
Although we occasionally saw people staggering around due to hangovers, most of them dug the ground without difficulty.
It was much better than Carl eating 10 carp juice!
That fact was enough to raise expectations for them on a day when they had hit rock bottom.
‘Oh, it’s worth more than I thought?’
The black falcon seemed to be around twenty.
When I see ten people making a ridge in front of me.
‘Isn’t there a separate seed?’
I know that knights usually keep squires.
Well, when I thought about it, the Siaster duchy was a very closed place, considering it was located deep in the mountains.
It was said that almost no external manpower was used.
Even in the original work, black hawks were treated as a somewhat special group, so it was somewhat understandable that they had no seeds.
While I was supervising their work for a while, I suddenly heard a familiar voice from behind me.
“I thought it might be because the backs looked so similar. After all, it’s Celia, right?”
“!”
“So the person developing food at the Seastar residence was Celia! Wow, such a coincidence!”
I turned my stiff neck creakingly.
There was the man I had met at the mill last time.
Fluffy pink hair, a good-looking face, and round glasses.
A man who seemed to have the words ‘No matter how much I get bullied, I don’t hate you’ written on his face was smiling at me.
“I am the person sent by the imperial family to receive training. Cedric Eihartz. “It’s been a while, Celia.”
okay. His name was Cedric.
I awkwardly lifted the corner of my mouth.
“Long time no see.”
I felt like I could hear the sound of me crying when I broke my glasses when I was young.
* * *
“Hey, last time I met her at the mill in Sui, I thought she was really Celia. “You rarely leave the house.”
Is this the name of the city Sui went to last time?
Instead of answering, I just laughed.
“haha.”
“This is our first time meeting you since graduating from the academy, right? It’s been so long. It’s been almost 7 years. “I guess you’ve changed too.”
The pink-haired boy in my memories has now become an adult.
Well, it’s the memory of a possessed body. Not my memory.
Cedric carefully observed and recorded me making rice paddies.
After that, he came to the annex with me and had tea time.
Cedric drank black tea and smiled as he looked at Carl pouring it into the teacup.
“It’s nice to see you too, Kal, after a long time.”
“Cedric, how long has it been since we met like this? How have you been?”
The two seemed to know each other well, perhaps because they had been childhood friends.
They talked amicably without me.
Then Cedric suddenly looked at me and said.
“No matter how much you are a member of the Seaster dukedom, aren’t you scared?”
“huh?”
There was a look of worry on Cedric’s face.
“What are you talking about?”
“also. “It’s nothing to you.”
“No, what does that mean…” … .”
“I was brave and strong since I was young. “Celia.”
“… … .”
Cedric’s pink eyes became opaque as he looked at me raising a question.
It was a vague look that traced back to the distant past.
I felt like there was a very strong iron wall, as if none of my voices could be heard.
“I’m a crybaby and scared, so I always got help from you. phew.”
“therefore,”
“You don’t have to worry. Even if Duke Siaster is a murderer who brutally murdered my father and brother.”
“… … ?”
“So, despite his elegant appearance, some people call him a monster duke.”
Hehe?
hey. I think even I should be worried about that, right?
I thought Cedric was going to repeat what Elston said a few days ago!
‘This is a rumor that everyone in the know knows. It is said that among transcendental people, there are sometimes people who remember their past lives.’
I looked back and forth between Cedric, who still had his mouth wide open and a vague look in his eyes, and Karl, who was reminiscing about the past together next to him.
Even though my eyes were rolling faster and faster, they weren’t paying any attention to me.
‘What do you mean, Dazar killed the former duke and his brother?’
ah. Is this the bloodshed Elston was talking about back then?
‘It’s because of the bloody storm that blew through the Siaster duchy in the past.’
No matter how hard I search my mind, I can’t remember anything, so I guess it happened when I was obsessed with farming or when I was young.
“Well, even excluding His Excellency the Duke, this is ‘the’ Seaster.”
“What is ‘that’ siaster?”
“Ugh, I’m scared. So I was shocked when they told me to learn a job here.”
“no,”
“Even though I come sometimes, Celia… … As expected, it’s amazing. phew.”
“… … .”
As I look at this wall and window… … . Celia, who had tormented him so cruelly, began to understand.
‘By the way, the more you dig into him, the more strange things come out.’
Dazar Siaster.
I was trying to feel some kinship with remembering my past life. In an instant, a sense of distance appeared again.
* * *
An all-white space without a speck of dust.
The owner of the room, which was all white from the desk to the chair, floor, and ceiling, was holding a letter on a white sofa.
“Is that how it went?”
It was a reply to a letter I sent the other day.
Elston frowned slightly after reading the reply from the first sentence to the last sentence.
Elston muttered, remembering someone who would have written a reply with a smile on his face.
“Dazar must have betrayed God.”
Elston, with a cold face, placed his reply on the table. Then I leaned back comfortably on the sofa.
“You probably recognized Ruben, but you kept him alive.”
Ruben.
It was the name of the being that Celia found in the study the other day.
Elston twisted his lips slightly.
“Considering his abilities, there’s no way he wouldn’t notice.”
Among the transcendents, the unique abilities of the Siaster family were special. They were inseparable from Ruben from birth.
Elston burned the letter in front of him with magic to remove all traces of it and stood up.
“As you said back then, it was a good idea to send the demon to Dazar. Thanks to you, I learned that he may have betrayed God.”
They’re demons.
It was a word that did not suit Elston, the timid magic tower owner.
“Now then, as Celia said, let’s try to work as a ‘dark figure.’”
Elston hummed and took out another letter.
Unlike the previous ordinary letter, there was a symbol engraved on it that felt sacred. This was a special letter created for the purpose of exchanging directly with the owner of the letter.
“I really don’t want to contact this strange woman, but I have no choice. “Because this is my role.”
Elston suddenly thought about it and thought that I was the only normal person around him.
Without even thinking about the golden rattle in my arms.
