“If you put on an accessory, you will walk away somewhere …… I see. I’ve been getting requests for some time now to look for a woman who has gone missing in the city of Ullarad, and this may be the reason.”
The next morning. I explained the situation to Mami and Julie, who arrived first thing in the morning, and had them transport me to the city of Ullarad.
Incidentally, Yuri, Yudit’s doll, is accompanying me this time to detect the curse …… But…
“Yuri won’t do anything weird, will she?”
“Papa. What do you mean by weird?”
“No, it’s nothing. A lot has been going on in the last few days and I’ve been feeling a little out of sorts. Don’t worry about it.”
We were in close contact in the barrel and I thought that even Yuri was going to do something weird like Tsuki and Rena, but it was not like that at all.
Yuri sat on top of me as I sat on the floor in the barrel, and we spent the rest of the day playing Shiritori together until we arrived, which was very healthy …… Yeah. This kind of thing is normal.
When I got out of the barrel at Julie’s house, as usual…
(T/N: Shiritori is a Japanese word game.)
“Mami! Take me to the stall where Rena bought the ornament yesterday!”
“Okay-pon!”
“Mr. Alex. As a vigilante member, I’ll go with you!”
Julie and Tsuki also said they would come along, so we decided to go together.
Yuri’s wings are too conspicuous, so she covers herself with a thin coat and I carry her in my arms.
“Daddy. I ……”
“Rena didn’t do anything wrong. The only one who is to blame is the one who sold the ornaments. I’m going to go and destroy him, so don’t worry and wait for me.”
“Okay ……”
After patting Rena’s head, who looked like she was about to cry, I asked Kate to take care of Rena and departed.
Mami led us to the street lined with yesterday’s stalls ……
“She’s not here.”
“She’s not-pon.”
The place that sold the ornaments was selling clothes.
The owner yesterday was a man, but now a girl about my age is the owner.
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“I’m sorry. I’m looking for the guy who was selling jewelry here yesterday.”
“As you can see, this street is called “free stalls” and the lineup of stalls changes every day because the first one to arrive gets to choose the spot they want. So I don’t know what you were talking about yesterday.”
“I see …… surely the stall next door feels different too.”
“I’m sorry to hear that, but you’ll just have to look harder. More importantly, the miss over there. Is she your wife? How about this dress? I think it would look great on her.”
As the girl said, the location should be right, but the line of stalls is completely different, and it might be difficult to find yesterday’s ornament stall from here.
“There are a surprisingly large number of people dealing in ornaments. I can’t tell which of them is yesterday’s stall.”
“The owner of yesterday’s store was also a man without features.”
“He seemed to be a small man, but …… I’m sorry, I didn’t pay that much attention to it.”
It seems that neither Mami nor Tsuki can’t remember the owner’s characteristics as well as I do.
“Right. Yuri, can you feel the curse?”
“I can! But the only thing around here is the brooch Papa has.”
“I see. So he is not here every day.”
Not only are the locations of the stalls random, but they are not open every day in the first place, which is a problem.
I borrowed the brooch that Rena gave to Meilin, but I can’t even check to see if they are selling the same item.
“Oh …… Mr. Alex. Do you by any chance have that cursed ornament in your possession right now?”
“Hmm? Yeah. I have one just in case, what about it?”
“No …… if you don’t mind, I was wondering if you could lend it to me. Because I’m sure if I wear it, it will probably take me somewhere, right? If you follow me, you will probably end up with the person who sold or made the cursed ornament, right?”
“That …… might be true, but is that okay?”
“Yes. Mr. Alex is here, after all, Alex. If Mr. Alex will protect me, I have nothing to worry about.”
Julie then puts on the cursed brooch.
“…… Huh? Surprisingly, nothing happened, did it?”
“No, it seems to be the type that activates after a while after being worn.”
“Let’s wait a bit.”
We moved from the street to an unpopular spot by the river and was watching Julie …… when suddenly, she turned expressionless and started to walk away.