The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

48 – Yggdrasil ①

Me, Riel, Phyllis, Emilia, and Iris-senpai. In addition to two unfamiliar people named Aria and Ferris, the group went to the rest area inside the stadium. Were gathered in

Since another group’s game is in progress for a while, no one is in the break room.

There, Riel explained everything about why she was late.

Surely, the cause was Alan.

Although she was a bit uneasy when she acted apart from Riel, she never dreamed that he would come in contact with her right away.

“They quit the academy. It looks like they’re leaving today…”

What I thought of when I heard Riel’s words was that she was Alan’s rumor that started to spread yesterday.

Starting with the suspicion of match fixing, Iris suffered a disastrous defeat.

I’m tired of even peeing, so that’s even worse.

I really hate him, but I sympathize with him a little…

“But he forced me to go with him…”

“What is that bastard?”

Just cancelled.

The next time we meet, I’ll beat you to rice cake this time.

Fortunately, thanks to Phyllis’ intervention, nothing seems to have happened…

Now that I have quit the academy, I will be strongly influenced by the difference in social status, but my liver must have gone overboard.

I thought about it before, but the real Alan Ludwig was an idiot who didn’t know where his thoughts would go.

“But…We ignored him and tried to attack him with a knife from behind.”

“……”

…Wasn’t he a nerd, but a great idiot?

So…

Alan’s surprise attack was stopped by two people on the way, Aria and Ferris…

Hearing that, he glanced at Phyllis, and Phyllis nodded her head.

Anyway, Phyllis seemed to have noticed that Alan was about to ambush him.

Anyway, the two of them tried to stop Alan, and Alan, who got in the way, attacked them instead.

In the meantime, the military police dispatched to the report from the residents arrested Alan, and they all accompanied the military police as witnesses.

“So, what happened to him, Alan?”

“He must have been taken to the capital by now. It’s not something the military police can handle…”

Definitely.

If it were a general case of attempted injury, the military police would have dealt with it properly, but this time the resolution is different.

First of all, it was a minus for trying to surprise the group of three women from behind.

The duo who tried to stop it were also women, and it was a minus again for attacking them.

One more minus in that two of the three women who even tried to ambush are aristocrats.

Even one is the daughter of a duke. One more big minus here.

Anyway, this is too heavy a problem for the military police to handle.

In the end, what Alan did went over to the royal castle, and if it’s normal, the royal castle should inform the Duke of Ignis of this fact and discuss the disposition of Alan.

The problem is, however, that Duke Ignis, the head of the Duke of Ignis family, is missing.

Since the Royal Castle knows about it and is searching for it, it is impossible to discuss it with the Duke.

The Duchess and the next head of household are also missing, and Riel here is not yet an adult.

In the end, the only person left to discuss is Mr. Eve, but Mr. Eve is currently participating in a duke search operation outside the Duchy of Ignis.

Even if Eve is summoned immediately, it may take a few days, so in the end, the royal castle will decide to dispose of Alan.

“That stupid bastard did something that wouldn’t be strange even if his head was blown off.”

There was a person who heard that and made a hick sound.

None other than Ferris Valtreia.

…Well, it seems he was agitated when he said that Alan might die.

I never knew what would become of Alan.

It will all depend on the king’s decision.

And a few days later, I heard that Alan had been permanently banished from the Kingdom of Palaginia.

“We have secured the ‘Hero’, but our church’s position in the kingdom seems to be further diminished.”

The headquarters of the World Tree Church. Continental Central Church.

In one of the rooms of the church, a man with a long black beard said while reading a report.

The room was full of walls, shelves, and all sorts of expensive items and furniture, as if representing a man’s high status in the church.

…Rather, rather than the pope who usually lives frugally, this man living in a luxurious room was Cardinal Gerald, who could be said to be the real power of the current World Tree Church.

“…Yes. I never thought a ‘hero’ would do such a thing.”

“Even the target he tried to attack was a ‘shaman’… He must have known it but didn’t know it. He was.”

“I’m claiming that I didn’t mean to attack, I was trying to defend… But honestly, that excuse doesn’t work.”

Archbishop Marconi, bowing his head in front of Cardinal Gerald, continued his words.

“Honestly, his obsession with the shrine maiden is strange.”

“In the end, they had to give up most of the Church’s current interests in the Kingdom to get him out…Well, if the hero was worth it, that would be fine…”

Looking away from the report, Cardinal Gerald looked at the Marconi Bridge.

“What is he doing now?”

“I am undergoing training as a paladin. Fortunately, it seems that I have the aptitude for divine power, befitting a warrior recognized by World Tree.”

As soon as he arrived at the Central Church, he was assigned to the Order of the Holy Knights in the church.

As he wished to become stronger, he was undergoing rigorous training without any complaints.

“It’s painful to not be able to secure the shrine maiden. But if you fail once, you’ll be more suspicious if you try again.”

“Yes. King Gallarus was suspicious of the church, anyway.”

“Looking at the situation, it’s natural to be suspicious.”

Cardinal Gerald said, his eyes widening.

“What about ‘The Devil’?”

“It’s difficult to be honest. As long as he is the heir to the Count Wentos family, he could get bitten while using his hands more than this.”

“Count Wentos…”

The family of Count Wentos.

For the Church of the World Tree, the entire county, including the county, is a blind spot.

Insolent people who have fallen into the paganism of indigenous religion and forgot to serve the World Tree.

Several times, missionaries were sent to guide them, but each time they returned without results.

Into such a family was born a person whom World Tree-nim directly designated as a demon…

“Well, if it’s natural, it might be natural.”

“Yes?”

“It’s nothing. Was there any other information that bothered you?”

“Yes, I think this is quite important information…”

Among the results of his investigation, Archbishop Marconi brought out one result that he thought was a big problem.

“Anyway, the shrine maiden is presumed to be in a relationship with the devil.”

“…What?”

“I’m not sure, but… After my inquiry, it seems that’s how it’s thought among the academy students.”

When Archbishop Marconi found out, his heart sank.

In the oracle the cardinal received, there was a clause stating that the devil interfered with the love between the hero and the priestess.

“That’s in trouble… According to the oracle, love between a hero and a priestess will be needed…”

“Yes. Rather, she is in love with the devil… Rather, she seems to hate heroes very much.”

Gerald, who heard Archbishop Marconi’s words, was lost in thought.

Actually, she didn’t really care what the priestess thought.

What is needed is for the hero and the priestess to love each other.

In that case, you just have to force the two together.

The problem is that as of now, the church cannot directly use its hands against the shrine maiden or the devil.

And because of what the hero did, it’s impossible to use your hands on the kingdom.

“I’ll have to think about what to do in the future. Let’s focus on training the warrior first.”

“Yes. Then…”

At that time, someone rushed into the cardinal’s room.

Among the priests in the church, it was a man belonging to the cardinal sect.

“Cardinal Gerald! I have a report for you.”

“What’s going on?”

“Yes, that’s… Oh, Archbishop Marconi too…”

“Never mind me, just tell me.”

The priest mumbled for a moment, then opened his mouth.

“It is said that the Melotte girl disappeared.”

“She?”

Alicia Merlot.

As opposed to the Cardinal faction, in the Papal faction, she is a priestess who can be said to be at the forefront.

Because of that, at the hands of her cardinals, she had little standing in her church, but she was as real as her strength, and the cardinals were often aware of her movements.

But then she suddenly disappeared?

“Yes. I looked for her because she didn’t reveal herself, but I can’t find her anywhere in her church.”

For some reason, the cardinal felt that troublesome things were about to increase.

Several days have passed since I left the church and set out on the road.

Alicia Merlott eagerly followed the guidance of her treasure, the jewel of her World Tree, that she had enshrined in her own home.

It was a tough road, but as a result of overcoming and moving, she was able to reach a forest.

“It’s just as Mother said…”

As she inherited this jewel, she clearly remembered even the contents of the lore passed down along with it.

She memorized it diligently because one day she had to hand down her jewels to her own descendants and pass on her traditions.

“Then…In this forest…Over there…”

15 Steps to the west from the big rock, and 32 steps to the north.

If you regularly knock five times on the base of the tree you arrive at…

“This is really coming.”

“Hey?!”

Alicia gave a short scream, startled by the sudden sound of her voice.

“I didn’t know what my mother said was real… That jewel…”

“Ah…”

A girl with long ears looking down at herself with blue eyes, her long white blonde hair loosely tied down.

Having come to her senses, Alicia bowed straight to her knees.

“It is an honor to meet the noble elf who protects the three… World Tree.”

“Ah~ I don’t really have to do that…”

Her blue eyes showed off her annoyingness.

A fairy who serves and works for the world tree, and an elf who guards and protects the road to the world tree.

Alicia, who actually saw the elf in her eyes, said it according to her tradition, and she was admiring it inwardly.

“mmm… What was it… The guardian of the world tree…mmm…”

As if trying to think of something about her, the elf who closed her eyes and looked at her, spat out in annoyance.

“Oh, I don’t know. I’m Lilu. I took over her role from her mother and kept it here.”

“Yes…Yes!! My name is Alicia!”

“The fact that you brought it means you came to visit the World Tree, right? Follow me.”

Elf, Lilu led the way, followed by Alicia.

The blonde elf girl moved swiftly through the woods, and Alicia eagerly followed after about an hour.

Lilu stopped in front of a cave.

“We’ve arrived. Just go in here.”

“Yes…Then let’s go.”

“Huh? No, I’m here.”

When Lilu uttered her refusal, Alicia looked at her in bewilderment.

In the lore, it was because she had to go all the way with an elf to guide her.

“Uh…Why?”

“Ah…That’s what I want to guide you to the end, but…”

Lilu scratched her head and lowered her head.

“That…We elves can’t go to the World Tree. Wasn’t it a little over 10 years ago?”

“Has that happened?”

“Yes, the fairies say it’s the World Tree-sama’s order… Even when I tried to go, the road got blocked…”

Lilu said, pointing her finger at the orb.

“If she has the gem, Alicia will be able to get in. She must never take her gem off her body.”

“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Yes, if you meet the world tree, tell us about our elves.”

Alicia went into the cave with Leelu seeing her off.

Alicia continued to advance in the cave, and then her jewel that Alicia had started to emit a bright light.

“Wow…!”

Soon, Alicia was bathed in bright light.

All of a sudden, she was standing in a place that looked like a wide meadow rather than a cave.

“That… It’s just like the tradition…”

According to tradition, the World Tree seen from a distance is not the actual shape of the World Tree, but its shadow.

I needed this jewel to go to the real world tree.

In other words, the real World Tree is here…

“…… Huh?”

The world tree came into Alicia’s eyes as she was eagerly looking around the place where the world tree would be.

A tree of enormous size, taller than any tower, castle, or mountain.

Surely, the tree was the size of the legend. World Tree Yggdrasil.

But the huge World Tree dried up and died.