279 277 Chiara

"This way, please."

A few minutes walking the red carpet of the royal palace, taken by a woman official. We were in front of one room.

"This is it?

"Oh, it's the room given to Master Chiara"

"Excuse me. We have brought Master Gwendalfa and Princess Black Thunder."

The room welcomed by the servant was quite sumptuous. An elegant conditioner that is golden but not too flashy. Curtains and carpets were also considered luxury items. It's well cleaned every corner, and I can understand that the lord of this room is being treated politely just by looking at the room.

King-sized bed, placed in that room. There was that old black cat woman.

It looks like I woke my torso out of bed, but from my pinned and stretched spine, I can tell you how stubborn it is. You talked about being 68. Sure, her hair is white and her body is thin, but her eyes are sharp and she has an atmosphere she can't call a very old man. He is also tall and would be over 170 cm if he stood up.

From the appearance of hanging feathers from the shoulders that resemble twigs, I feel strangely compelling and awesome. If you were human, you would have constricted just because you were stared at. That's how powerful it is. But it's Fran who doesn't shy away from such opponents at all.

"Are you Grandma Chiara?

"Hmm? Who used to call me that?

"Beast King"

"Kufu. Well, I heard good things. Next time you're punished."

It's like a man's language, but this old woman has that way of speaking. I have no discomfort at all.

"Sure, I'm Chiara. So, who are you? I know who you are, Hanatare."

"What's a Hanatare kid... I'm 22, aren't I?

"Everyone below forty is a hanata."

That would make the Beast King treat you like a hanata. No, he said he was a master of battle, and isn't that strange?

"I heard they came with Hanatare and Princess Black Thunder. Are you the Black Thunder Princess?

"Master Chiara, don't you know?

Gwendalfa looks sincerely surprised and is unwittingly listening back. The surprise is the same for me. I didn't think Chiara, the same black cat tribe, wouldn't know.

Chiara just woke up yesterday.

According to the servant, Chiara was ill and what a wandering state of life and death for nearly 20 days. You don't look that way. But if you ask me, my arms are thin and thin, and my cheeks are slightly swollen. Maybe he was really in a coma.

Because of that, he didn't seem to know anything about Fran.

"This one..."

"Oh, wait."

A servant woman tries to explain Fran, but Chiara makes it stop. And I gently invited Fran.

"Come here."

"Mmm."

"Can you tell me from the name first?

"I'm Fran."

"Right."

When Fran, who moved directly next to the bed, names his name, he glances at his face zippily. And, most importantly, I embraced Fran's body.

At first it is light and gradually its power grows stronger. A few seconds later, he turned his arms around Fran's body and there was a figure of Chiara hugging Fran in his chest.

"Right, right! It's Fran... thank you"

The last word was a whispering, deep grunt as if squeezed out of the depths of his chest. But I would have heard everyone on the spot. It was such a caged word.

"What I spent my life looking for was not an illusion... that's what told me...!

"... n"

It was Chiara holding Fran, but after a while she calmed down or softly let go of that body.

And stare at Fran with a serious face.

"So what's the path to evolution like? Can you tell me?

"Of course. But I heard Grandma Chiara knows how to evolve"

"Who said that?

"Diaz."

"What? He... you still remembered me..."

"Mmm."

Fran told me about Diaz, Orrell and Dungeon Master Lumina he met in Ulmut and made me listen. Chiara was listening to the story with a half surprise, half joy look.

I'm glad my old friend, who I thought was so forgotten, remembered me, but it seems sad to know that I'm still tied to it.

"My information is a little skewed. I'm not sure."

Chiara, who was traveling towards the path to evolution, reaches Urmut and meets Lumina.

Lumina seems to have been very good to Chiara and eventually even told me to try to help Chiara evolve.

But then what Lumina tried to do, he said, was his own evil personification.

In the first place, the Black Cat clan of the past, with the protection of the Evil God, had been turned into a semi evil man. Even if Lumina was not of her own free will, she also had power as an evil man under the influence of it.

And Lumina was trying to use her powers as a dungeon master to turn herself into a complete evil man. Chiara was sensitive to changes in Lumina because she had an evil sensing skill.

Why should Lumina be an evil man in order to evolve Chiara? So Chiara remembers the existence of a parchment. It is an old parchment that was mixed with various literature bought and collected everywhere to look for reasons why the Black Cat tribe cannot evolve.

More than half had been torn and lost, but the part left said why the Black Cats touched God's wrath and that the curse could be lifted if they defeated the Evil God or a powerful evil man similar thereto.

That being said, there are many stories in the world that have said that. There's a lot of confusion about what the Black Cats have created to hope for, and what the scammers have made to deceive the Black Cats.

In the end, he told Lumina that he didn't want to evolve until he sacrificed Lumina and made Lumina stop the evildoing.

So, although Chiara was somewhat certain, it's hard to say that she knows for sure the conditions of evolution.

"That's why."

"I see."