(Besides, if you can use this book to study like the merchant said, studying between practice might also not be a bad idea.)
As she was walking, lost in her imagination, cheers sounded out from the direction of the thoroughfare.
Apparently, the parade seems to have begun.
After hearing all that noise, Nina became a little interested.
Her original intention was to go right to Isolte, but now she kind of wanted to go toward the parade and watch.
"Eh?"
On the edge of Nina's field of vision she thought she saw something, just a glance.
It was something she had certainly seen before, a woman with red hair caught her eye.
"Eris?"
Why is that girl here?
Her eyes, hopefully, chased after the girl.
This was surely her.
Two meters above the elevation of the thoroughfare that red head suddenly appeared.
She only saw her from behind, but, based on her demeanor, Nina was convinced.
There was no doubt.
It was Eris.
"Eri-s."
She didn't understand why that person was here. A nostalgic feeling clung in her chest and her voice was arrested.
"Look, Lucy, do you see it?"
"I see! It's sparkling!"
She had suddenly stopped. The reason was a nearby little girl receiving a piggy back ride.
"Eris, I wanted to let her ride on my shoulders."
"No good, wouldn't you just lick Lucy's thigh anyway? Yesterday you did something similar to me."
"How rude! That's not something I would do to my own daughter!"
"Is that so!"
"Well if it's you I would certainly lick it clean..."
Eris was having a conversation with the man standing next to her.
He was someone familiar to Nina.
Something which had become a bit of a trauma for Nina, the Demon Lord Badigadi.
Someone had killed him with a single blow, he's that magician.
He's regarded as 'The Right Hand of the Dragon God' and, recently, he has been sighted in many different places.
It's Rudeus Greyrat.
" .... "
Nina received some kind of shock.
She knew that Eris went to find Rudeus.
She knew Eris went to join up with Rudeus to fight Orsted.
Because Eris did not send any letters after that, Nina assumed she was dead, and yet she had heard rumors on the wind that Eris had appeared in the Asura kingdom alongside of Rudeus.
Rudeus then became 'The Right Hand of the Dragon God', and so Nina assumed that Eris had been forced into the Dragon God's camp.
Nina thought, surely she has become stronger, stronger than in the past.
However, the Eris which can be seen right now, she was in a place far from Nina's imagination.
While arguing jokingly with a man, those two people.
That girl getting the piggyback ride, Nina wondered if she could be Eris's daughter.
Eris married and raising children, this is something she couldn't possibly have imagined.
Eris, that beast, that mad dog, how could she become like that?
Then the pair of them, coming sightseeing peacefully, flirting with her husband...
"... I'll go meet Isolte."
Thinking that, Nina removed herself from Eris's line of sight.
She had thought that, becoming a Sword King, she had finally leveled the field against Eris, but now she felt a tremendous sense of defeat.
By the way, though they were not visible to Nina, just on the other side of Rudeus stood Roxy and Sylphy. In the immediate vicinity, it should also be known, were two other people, Zanoba and Julie.