“Good grief! Tiara is doing something unpredictable as always.”
“Keith, everything will be over if you say something, won’t it?”
“Wait, I don’t want to be told that by you, Pheles.”
Watching Tiararose and Crail stormed out of the room, Keith let out a long sigh. Pheles might be mocking them, but viewing from a third-person perspective, the three of them behaved similarly.
Akari’s heart was racing with excitement, while quietly witnessing the series of scenes and anticipating what was to come.
“Prince Aqua, are you going to take the encampment and bless Marineforest?”
“Yes. … Speaking of which, why is Miss Akari here?”
“It’s only natural for me to come rushing when there’s an important matter regarding Marineforest! I was lucky to come just in time to join Miss Tiara.”
Even though Akari announced her purpose with a triumphant face, anyone watching would personally think it was a nuisance ….
“But doesn’t that mean you have to go around the entire Marineforest? That sounds tough.”
“I’ll go around, indeed. I think very highly of this country, after all.”
“… Prince Aqua.”
Moving across this territory from one end to the other would certainly take days. The fairy kings could use transference in the first place, but Aquasteed couldn’t.
That aspect could be an overwhelming disadvantage for him.
With her fingers on the lips, Akari mumbled, “Hmm,” while immersed in thoughts.
Akari loved all the characters in the sequel, including the fairy kings. The main part was undoubtedly for Aquasteed to capture the encampments, but she wished everyone could win.. If compared to a continent on earth, it would slightly be smaller than Australia ….
Vertical and horizontal lines were formed over the territory, creating square grids. There were ten lines in each direction.
Nonetheless, the area of each grid was still immense.
“It will be tough if I can’t do this efficiently.”
To become king of the Starry Sky, Aquasteed had to win. The condition to win was by acquiring his territory larger than what Pheles currently owned. By doing so, he would show his superiority over Pheles as a king.
Well, let’s move.
At the moment Aquasteed thought so, the atmosphere of Marineforest shook. Then he felt an overflowing power of the forest.
— Could Lord Keith have acquired an encampment?
“I must find the fairy’s blessing soon ….”
A blessing had the same form as things that existed in nature.
It could be a flower, a nut, a coral, or a falling leaf. To find it, he had to love and be loved by the fairies.
Another possible method would be for the fairies to directly reveal their whereabouts.
Aquasteed looked around his surroundings and spotted three sky fairies flying around merrily. Without further delay, he asked them the location of the blessing.
“I’d like you to tell me the location of the blessing.”
“It’s Aqua –-!”
“He said blessing. What to do? Is it that? It must be that! Shall we tell him?”
The fairies seemed to know the location of the blessing and began a discussion about whether to tell Aquasteed or not.
“If compensation is required, I will make the arrangement. So please, tell me.”
Their eyes gleamed upon hearing Aquasteed’s offer.
“Compensation! In that case, since we are about to look after the trees, please help us –-!”
“Look after?”
Immediately, many sky fairies gathered and pulled Aquasteed, then led him into a small forest at the foot of the hill. As he was observing and wondering what the fairies were up to, a remarkably strong wind blew.
“…?!”
“Aaah –-!”
Leaves were fluttering around the frolicking fairies. The looking after they were referring to was the cleaning up of leaves that had been blown off the trees by the wind.
The fallen leaves were often left sprawled on the ground, but the fairies would help animals create kips when requested.