A young girl in a village without protection - Chapter 86

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How disturbing the words like ‘a never-bloomed great tree’ sounded. Selesina repressed hard a sudden urge to hold her head in her hands. 

‘I must be graceful before Lord Soratek.’ 

Selesina calmed her down by taking short deep breaths repeatedly. 

A picture of a black tree was drawn on the opened page of the old literature in front of her. A black, ominous feeling was conveyed enough through the picture. 

In the literature, it was written that the black tree — a never-bloomed great tree, appeared to carry the opposite nature to the great tree. That meant it would cause unstable weather and disaster in the land. 

It seemed the description wasn’t beyond imagination because the number of examples were too small to be proved. 

‘First of all, how can we deal with it?’ 

The never-bloomed great tree had to be removed in some way before the damage was done. They read on desperately page after page — and found no further description. 

There was only one page…, that showed a picture and said about disaster, which was all. 

Looking at Selesina fall silent, Soratek shook his head helplessly. He didn’t have any more information either. 

“When I looked up Sele’s blessings, I read all the books about the great tree. But about a never-bloomed great tree… I couldn’t find any other literature.” 

“Was that… so.” 

In this case, there was no way but to wait for the never-bloomed great tree to grow. 

Another possibility could be finding a book around the shrines. Since Soratek had already been through books in the small shrine before, there could be, if any, a book in the great shrine. The thing was —- she wasn’t willing to go there as Lucaria crossed her mind. 

However, Soratek seemed to have had the same idea. 

“It may be difficult to find a clue for the solution unless we try the great shrine.” 

“That’s… right.” 

She had turned down a proposal from Lucaria who is the chief of the great shrine, on which he hadn’t given up. 

‘Oh, but now I remember I was supposed to hear about my blessings.’

She felt gloomy thinking that she would have to see him anyway to move on. She didn’t have any choice but to send a letter to him back in her mansion. 

“I will go to the great shrine before long.” 

“Yes, you had better do so. I wish I could go with you, but… It seems to take some time to adjust my schedule.” [Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

Selesina stopped Soratek who was hurriedly trying to adjust his schedule. She couldn’t possibly keep him any longer for the Rinklats’ matter. When it came to the great shrine, it would take 10 days to get there by carriage. 

“But…” 

“Don’t worry about me. Please continue your work, Lord Soratek.” 

“…I’m sorry.” 

Although of course it all started with Meria’s black petal, it concerned Selesina and Meria in the beginning, and now the tree grew at the Rinklats’ garden. That meant it had become the Rinklats’ problem. 

Even Selesina understood she shouldn’t rely on Soratek furthermore. 

Nevertheless, that Soratek himself looked dejected. He must have been so disappointed that he couldn’t accompany her to the great shrine. 

“It’ll be all right,” she repeated once more, smiling. 

“I will consult my father before I set off so that my brother will come along.” 

“That’s reassuring… But if anything is wrong, just tell me. I will do whatever I can about my schedule.” 

“Thank you, Lord Soratek.” 

They had a family meeting back in the mansion and sent a letter to Lucaria. 

All they could do now was to wait for a reply. 

It was decided that one of her brothers whose schedule was available would accompany her to the great shrine. 

‘I wonder how Hel is doing for that matter.’

She reminded me of the last boss in the basement of the great shrine. 

Strictly speaking, he hadn’t been the last boss yet. Selesina wished… that she would help him in some way before he became one. 

“…Phew.” 

Laying back on the sofa, she took a deep breath slowly and repeatedly. She had had many things to think about lately. 

“I’m going to the village tomorrow to water the great tree.” 

Then she would harvest crops and play with children… It would be good to forget difficult matters for the moment and to be physically active. 

Yet, she would have to tell them about Odette’s illness. Selesina was going to have Odette cured in the Selin village which would be better for her than staying in the mansion as she had been. 

She had already asked the servants who had a place to stay that they should take leave once before they felt sick. That would make the mansion empty for a while. 

Probably because of all the thinking, she became tired enough to fall asleep on the sofa.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]