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Summary[]
At a tent in their camp, the Loki Familia executives were surprised that Hermes had joined the rescue party as he thanked them for saving Bell. After asking them to let them stay at their camp and Finn agreeing, he congratulated them on their successful expedition and wondered what they had found on the 59th Floor. They refused to tell him and Hermes commented that he had formed an alliance with Loki and Dionysus but they told him that they would have to confirm it first. He agreed with their decision however, before leaving, he revealed to them that they had deduced there was a second entrance to the dungeon and planned to have them search for it when they returned. After he left, Finn commented they wouldn't be able to rest after they got back.
After Tiona and Tione told the others about it, the topic of Ais came up with Alicia commenting that she had recognized the monster as a Spirit while Narvi noted she had reacted in a strange way. Tione asked Aki if she knew anything about her past but she said that when she asked Finn she hadn't told her anything. Tiona said that the name Aria and the Spirits made her think of Dungeon Oratoria but Tione dismissed it as it was from a thousand years ago and it was impossible for Spirits to have children, to which Tsubaki revealed that there was someone there who had Spirit blood.
Welf didn't understand why he was there and asked Tsubaki for an explanation. She revealed to the others that his name was Welf Crozzo and Aki asked if he was one of the Crozzo noble blacksmiths which Tsubaki confirmed. Alicia was upset since their magic swords had destroyed the Elves' forests but Tsubaki calmed her down by commenting that he also hated magic swords, refusing to create them, and had abandoned Rakia. Tione asked if he really had Spirit blood and Welf complained to Tsubaki for telling them about it but she told him that he had nothing to lose. Although he was reluctant to do so, he finally agreed to tell them. He told them that the first Crozzo had saved a Spirit from some monsters though ended up getting hurt, so the Spirit had given him its blood as thanks. Due to the Spirt's blood he was not only saved but also had obtained the powers of the Spirit. Lefiya asked Tiona if there was a description of Aria but she said she hadn't seen a version of the book that had it. Tsubaki asked Welf if he knew anything and said that he was useless when she learnt that he didn't. Welf said that if they wanted to know about hero stories, there was someone who knew much more than him.
Bell didn't know why he was there and Tsubaki explained that Welf had sold him. Tiona asked him several questions to see if he knew any hero stories and was surprised when he was able to answer them all. Tione interrupted her and asked if he knew about the story where Aria cut herself to give her blood to someone or where she helped an injured human by giving her blood and the human later having offspring. He responded by saying that it could have happened but it was not mentioned, however, he said that Albert had had a son. Tiona said she hadn't heard that before and asked him if he had read the original version from a thousand years ago but he said it was from a book his grandfather had written for him. Tiona asked him what happened to the child, noting that Albert had been involved in the fight against the One Eyed Black Dragon before Bell finished by saying that after the battle he had disappeared. She asked him who were the women in Albert's group. He recalled Evelda and Celdia but when he mentioned the latter Alicia and Lefiya reprimanded him saying that she was the pride of her race and that it would be impossible for her to have had a child with Albert, a person of another race. Alicia told him that she and Lefiya would educate him to avoid more mistakes which scared Lefiya and Bell while the other girls tried to calm Alicia down.
After Bell left the girls got depressed as they still didn't know how everything connected with Ais. Riveria arrived which surprised them but she commented that it was impossible for someone not to hear the commotion in their tent. Tiona asked if they shouldn't tell them Ais's secret since they were a Familia but she replied that Ais wasn't ready to talk about it yet, and that they should leave her even if she was dishonest. However, she told them that she could safely say that Ais was blessed with the blood of a Spirit. In another tent, Finn asked Ais if she still couldn't tell the others to which she replied that she felt that if she did she wouldn't be able to get stronger as well as being afraid of how they would see her when they found out, to which Gareth commented that maybe she was worrying too much. Back at the other tent, Riveria asked them to wait for Ais to tell them and that the day she did they continued to treat her the same. They told her they would do it no matter what and Riveria thanked them.
The next day Ais invited Lefiya to go with Bell and the rest to Rivira. She wanted to go but she had to attend to her duties as a nurse so she promised to go as soon as she finished. However, she got too excited because of it which only made the sick members feel even worse, earning her a scolding from Riveria. While she was washing something in a river she complained to Bell claiming that it was his fault that she acted like this and refused to forgive him despite knowing that she shouldn't. Once she finished, Cruz told her that an Elf had come to visit her and was surprised to see it was Filvis. Filvis told her that she had wanted to see how she was doing so she asked Dionysus for some time and went to see her. Lefiya thanked her saying that her magic had allowed her to protect her friends. At that moment Riveria arrived and thanked her for teaching her magic to Lefiya. Filvis told her that it was her honor to meet her and ran off, prompting Riveria to advice Lefiya to follow her. Filvis told her that she didn't want to dirty Riveria since she was a High Elf. Lefiya tried to convince her by telling her that her magic had protected Riveria but she told her not to misunderstand and Lefiya responded by telling her that there was nothing to misunderstand.
She asked if the fact that she was okay with her but not with Riveria meant she wasn't special which Filvis denied. She tried to leave again but Lefiya wouldn't let her. Filvis asked her if she was like that with her Familia but she replied saying no and that she was only like that with her. After that, she finally managed to make her stay.
Due to her talk with Filvis Lefiya felt very encouraged and went to continue helping. As she did so she felt that she was forgetting something important but she brushed it off and downplayed it, something she later regretted.
Characters[]
- Hermes
- Asfi Al Andromeda
- Finn Deimne
- Riveria Ljos Alf
- Gareth Landrock
- Tione Hiryute
- Ais Wallenstein
- Tiona Hiryute
- Raul Nord
- Anakitty Autumn
- Tsubaki Collbrande
- Lefiya Viridis
- Alicia Forestlight
- Narvi Roll
- Welf Crozzo
- Bell Cranel
- Liliruca Arde
- Cruz Bussell
- Filvis Challia