Chapter 654: 654 \nâIvy, letâs go somewhere where we can rest.â\n
Huh?
When I saw your father, he looked worried.
Whatâs the matter with you?
You look pale, but donât you notice?
Huh?
Pigmented?
Is that so?
Speaking of which, I may feel a little uncomfortable.
âGinar, Iâm leaving this place for a moment.â
âWhatâs the matter, huh? Ivy, whatâs going on?â
I saw that Mr. Ginar looked at me and was in a hurry.
Could it be that you look rather pale?
âItâs okay, Iâll rest upstairs.â
âOh, take a good rest.â
When I left the room with my father, I went back to the room I was using.
As I entered the room, I saw Sora and the others playing.
I was relieved for some reason by the unusual sight.
âIâll get you some tea. Slow down.â
My father leaves the room as I sit on the bed.
When I hear the door of the room closing, I collapse to the back.
âSomehowâŠâ
My heart is in a mess.
âPlump!â
âPhew!â
When I turned to Sola and Solâs voice, I could see them jumping on the bed.
When two cats come to my side, they pull themselves together to stick to my body.
After that, shells in the shape of Flem and Slime stick together in the same way.
When I stroke everyone in order, I feel a little higher.\n
âThank you, everybody. Iâm so grateful to the astrologer.â
The astrologer taught me a lot.
Ways of living in the forest, letters and calculations.
You can say that you have built the foundations for survival.
âYes, I wouldnât do that if I were in contact with the church.â
Are you sure?
Because Mr. Garth said, âEveryone has a contract with the church.â
Whatâs that?
And the astrologer said, I have not been to the kingâs city.
You were gathered to the church in Kingâs Landing, right?
So the fortune-teller has escaped?
⊠no, I was working as an astrologer, so I donât think so.
If you were running away from the church, you wouldnât be an astrologer.
âI had a contract with the church.â
Maybe she approached me for a reason.
But itâs also true that you protected me.
But that might have been an instruction from the church.
Ahh, the inside of my head is so messy, too
When I replied because I could hear the door knocking, my father brought me tea.
Yes.
Get up and get some tea from your father.
Tingling and warmth are transmitted to the hands.
âAll the astrologers have a contract with the church.â
I felt a tingling and a small pain.
Tell me yourself, are you hurt?
Sounds stupid.
âI guess so.â But are the fortune-tellers following the churchâs instructions? â
Huh?
Look up at your father. \nHe looked at me with his usual gentle smile.
âThe fortune-teller who let Arthur escape was bound by a loose contract.Still, I let Alus go. I bet I turned my back on the church to keep him from leading his own life.Perhaps the contract was activated. â
Thatâs right.
You werenât released from your contract.
Itâs just âloose.â
So I was brought back to the church without escaping.
Still, she defied the will of the church to let Mr. Arth escape.
I donât think the fortune-teller did everything, but maybe he didnât do everything just because he had a contract.
Perhaps the astrologer who helped me also helped me, independent of the Church.
This probably contains my hopes.
So, it may not be true.
But she never told me to go to church.
Thatâs true.
You look a little pale again.
When I saw my father, he stroked my head gently.
âThank you. I thought âI had a contract with the churchââŠâ
What should I say?
I canât believe it anymore?
I think this is different.
Itâs just⊠yes.
I felt scared.
I felt so scared of something.
âThe fortune-teller was an important childhood support for Ivy.I guess thatâs how I got scared because I didnât know it. â
I see.
I was afraid I might not be the fortune-teller I knew.
âFor Ivy, youâre the first person to believe it since you fled to the woods, right?â
Who did you believe?
âMaybe so. If it werenât for the fortune-teller, I wouldnât have believed anyone.â
\nYou were just gathering people in the church?
Maybe not.
There must be something else.
What did the Church want the astrologers to do?
âHmm, thatâs it, right?â
Father says.
âIâm not sure Iâm going. I think the astrologer who helped Ivy is a good person to listen to.Iâm just worried about the contract.It seems that the astrologer who helped Arthur said that the contract was more dangerous than brainwashing. â
âYeah, itâs more dangerous than brainwashing, isnât it?â
Besides, I donât know why I bring people to the church to brainwash.
I thought we were going to do a skill check earlier, but since weâre all going to be at church when weâre five, we donât have to go out of our way to use a teller to bring people to church.
âI wonder what they were going to do with the people in the church.â
âThatâs it, isnât it?âYou donât have to check your skills.Then thereâs something else, but thereâs nothing I can think of. â
The church.
You do a lot of things, donât you?
The church is involved in killing, imprisoning, roaring people, and magic circles.
Itâs a treasure trove of crime.
âThatâs right, Dad. How far can the contract go?â
Iâm worried about the wording âcontract is dangerousâ.
âIf you betray me, Iâll kill you.â
You can kill people.
The contract is heavier than I thought.
âIs that when you use the special paper I used?â
âNo, you can contract on any paper.However, the paper used by Ivy is absolutely secret to the third party.If I tried to find out, the curse would be activated.The curse is not only for those who actually hear whatâs amazing, but also for those who order it. â
⊠somehow, I was signing up for a lot of paper.
Now I know what it means to be absolutely fine when Ginar-san signs up.
âHuh? Other than the paper I used, could the third person have a secret?â
âOh, thereâs something in the magic item that will void the contract.âIf you use it, you can void the contract.Well, itâs a rare item, but itâs not easy to get. â
Still, ordinary paper is dangerous.
Is that why Mr. Ginar recommended the contract using special paper?