Uncle Gabriel, since youre here, does that mean youre done healing them? Yeah, of course. They possess good passive recovery abilities in the first place,

theyre warriors after all. By simply closing their wounds, and accelerating their rate of recovery, they will naturally recover quickly. Though I dont know why, whenever I felt that you suffered an injury, you would always recover at an unbelievable rate, was I seeing things?

Youre obviously seeing things. Eh? Thats quite a quick reply.

Thats of course. Since you gave me a yes-or-no question that made everything

simpler and easier to understand, then why do I have to waste my time in thinking of an answer thats neither reasonable or logical?

Are you trying to indirectly tell me youre actually speaking nonsense?

Hey, I didnt say that, did I? Thats simply a guess of yours, isnt it? I simply gave you a reply, isnt that right?

I guess so. Then Im going to put aside how you guys made the corpse of the gryphon disappear. After all, even if I asked, I wont be able to get an actual answer, right?

Just ask away, I might tell you, you know.

Then, how did you guys make the corpse disappear? Not telling you.

I satisfyingly looked at Gabriels helpless and dispirited expression. Nodding my head, I turned and started walking back to the carriages.

When we got back to the carriages, unexpectedly, they were all ready to move off. Although the items in one of the carriages were distributed to the other carriages in the front in actual fact, the most important item in that carriage was already

in my ring.

Though I dont know why they had to transport these Eastern dolls so cautiously, its evidently related to the Smuu household and the Ice Empire.

I kind of feel that the Smuu household is rebelling or it might not be the case either.

Well, though Im not a conspiracy theorist, when I saw these Eastern dolls, which are being transported from the borders, I kind of feel that the actual situation might be different from how Im imagining it.

Just who is the actual aggressor?

I dont know, and I dont wish to know. Whether Im involved in this matter or not is not something I can determine on my own. Why do I say that? Obviously, theres a reason for it.

I didnt receive any quests.

Thats right, because I didnt receive any new quests. The only related quest would be the quest to investigate the Smuu household. This means that Im not a participant in whats going to happen next. To be exact, Im an existence that would not have any significant impact on the outcome.

I have yet to receive a new quest, or to be exact, I have not approached the key event of the entire scenario. Im merely at the intersection between my earlier quests scenario and this situation.

But, if I were to continue like this, I will definitely encounter the main questline later on.

Of course, Im an advocate of peace. If war can be prevented, then obviously, I will wish for it to be stopped. How should I put this? I dont wish for a few students to be absent from school once the new school term starts, because of war.

School life will definitely be boring as hell.

But if thats really the case, although its only a small part of it, I might actually be helping the aggressors to attack the Ice Empire.

As I expected, without sufficient information, its best not to act too wildly.

Though my actions might not have a big influence on the war, after all, there might be several more carriages like these elsewhere. But if possible, it would be good if Im able to weaken their war potentials.

But the problem were facing now is

Who are the actual people trying to harm the citizens of the Ice Empire?

To put it bluntly, currently, the information we possess do not have anything that could directly answer this question, and we can only rely on guesswork.

Looks like theres a need to contact the Emperor of the Ice Empire and the Smuu household later. Compared to relying on guesswork, its a little better to directly ask the people in question.

The Smuu household did indeed conduct many immoral experiments, but

In this world, even if its against human morals, its understandable why they did them.

After all, they are not bound by absolute rules, and only bound by their morals as humans.

There are no complete regulations in regards to morals. With the difference in values, the views on morals will naturally be different.

To sum it up, everything in this world is in a disorderly state.

Though, I cannot accept the Smuu households human experiments. Even if theyre homunculus, they have their own rights to choose their way of life as well. (t/n: human clones homunculus)

Of course, the reason why I have this way of thinking is because of the different set of values I possess. To the people of Smuu household, they might not have treated homunculus as humans in the first place.

So, as long as I think its the right thing to do, I will do it, and thats it. After all, if I were to step into anything and everything, my life here will be over.

In any case.

After reaching the next city, theres a need to investigate the merchant called Abudo. A guy with completely no intel I can retrieve from his titles alone, is really troublesome.

Big brother~ I did a good job in completing my mission~

Suddenly, a voice pulled me out of my train of thoughts. The only person who would call me that, is Oyado.

Currently, she was extremely excited, and she was holding the ring I gave her in her hands. Even if she did not explain anything, I understood her words. Shes basically telling me that she had already completed the mission I gave her earlier, which involves collecting those scrolls hidden in the dolls.

I took the ring off her hands, and the ring was immediately listed in my inventory, and all the items in the ring were revealed.

A total of 374 magic scrolls of various types were fully packed into the dimensional space in the ring.

Other than the time I was playing Elder Scrolls, I have never seen so many scrolls appeared in my inventory. Its such a nostalgic feeling.

I tapped on the virtual screen, and with a single pull, I dumped all of the scrolls into my own dimensional ring. And then

Theres Oyado, who has been staring at me the entire time.

Even if youre the densest person in the world, you would probably still understand Oyados current feelings. If someone were to look at something youre holding with such yearnful eyes then, theres only one possible conclusion.

That person wants the item youre holding.

Then, according to the agreement we made, I will give this ring to you, Oyado~ But, you must definitely take good care of it.

Thank you, big brother~

She took no, she snatched the ring off my hands, and then, immediately put it on.

Looking at her expression, she basically looked like a child who just found a piece of treasure. Her cute smile filled with boundless excitement cannot be described with just words.

But due to the size of the ring, it doesnt seem to fit her fingers. She looked at the ring and pondered for a moment, before running off.

Shes really as cute as always As expected of my little sister.

Though, were not blood-related, so I cant use that fact to explain anything else. Although I feel really sorry, but right now, we have to pick up the pace. I believe

everyone understands that it is for everyones safety. I believe theres no one who would object, right?

No one said anything, but everyone nodded their heads one after another. Then, lets go.

Great! He actually did not have a long speech of any sort. This is an omen of good fortune, right?

It should be, right?