“There is a lot I want to ask. Well, lets return to the living room for now. After that, we will talk. As for forging a sword, that’s for later.”
“Then let’s go quickly. I want to see Shin forge a sword!”
They returned to the living room and Yuzuha had sparkling eyes with anticipation. Even though Shin didn’t know what Yuzuha was looking forward to so much, he lightly checked the tools and followed after Yuzuha. As for Schnee and Tiera, who were taking care of the cleaning after the breakfast, it should be done soon.
When he returned to the living room, the three of them already surrounded the table. He sat down on his seat while smiling wryly at Yuzuha, who urged him on with “quickly! quickly!”.
“What did Shin want to ask?”
“First of all, why were you in such a weakened state in that Shinto shrine. And, did a large amount of people disappear around 500 years ago? If you know something about it, then please tell me.”
When Shin’s question was heard, Yuzuha closed its eyes and folded its arms like it was thinking about something. After several seconds like that, Yuzuha began to talk.
“Well, err… When Yuzuha was there, I was having the most painful experience from the inside. It was very painful, so much that I collapsed.”(T/N: Yuzuha sometimes refer itself as “Yuzuha” when talking.)
“Is that so? Did you understand the drawing on that floor?”
“No~, I didn’t know it.”
Shin thought it was some sort of relief feature that delayed the condition, but Yuzuha didn’t seem to remember it.
“I understand. How about the people who had disappeared?”
“I don’t know. People didn’t come very much.”
“Now that I think about it, there was some kind of erected barrier that made people stay away from there.”
Shin remembered that a barrier, around the Shinto shrine, affecting one’s mind had been erected. A person might not come near it because of that.
“Eventually, what was Yuzuha doing in such place?”
“Uhm, I was basking under the sun, when suddenly the ground went ‘bam’, the wind blew ‘byu byu’ and the mountain went ‘clang’. Yuzuha was surprised and jumped. After that, I tried my best so that the ground would not be wrecked apart.”
“…In other words, the natural disaster occurred, and you tried to suppress it?”
“It is likely so, I have no doubt if it is Yuzuha.”
“Eh, is that true?”
When Schnee chimed in with an agreeable response, Tiera was amazed and had wide eyes.
Though Shin didn’t know what kind of technique Yuzuha used, the Element Tail was a monster that corresponded to all attributes. The possibilities of interfering with the natural disaster by some special method was high.
“A lot of power was used while I kept at it, then I took a rest in the Shinto shrine. Because my power could not be held in my body then, I thought I was gonna die soon when Shin came.”