Funeral, what should I do if I reincarnate as a demon?

"....But I don't know the difference between those dragons at all." Fulian was strangely considerate, which made Feilun feel a little embarrassed.

Compared to their experience, she is truly a newcomer.

"I knew..." Ash smiled and took out a Monster Encyclopedia from his luggage: "When you go to bed at night, Fulian will read you the History of Magic, and I will read you the Monster Encyclopedia~! "

"No! I'm not a child!" His very serious proposal was met with an unhappy protest by Fearon: "After all, what kind of scene is that of parents sleeping with their children?"

"I don't mind." "It doesn't matter to me either."

Ash and Fulian didn't know why, but they once again reached a tacit understanding in a strange place, which made Fearon, who was quite happy at first, immediately become awkward and didn't want to pay attention to them at all, and walked quickly in front of them. To the front.

"...Look, there's trouble again. It's probably your fault." Fulilian looked helpless and put the blame on him.

This left Ya Xiu speechless: "My fault?"

"Because even I know that Fearon doesn't like to be treated like a child...even though he is a child in the first place."

"Alas...she was so cute before..."

"Don't worry about anything else. At least I agree with this."

.......

As elders, the two of them were just as happy as before.

At the moment when the girl they looked up to was getting into trouble, they still just followed her silently, and reached a tacit understanding again in a strange place, shaking their heads and sighing together and reminiscing about the past that cannot be recalled.

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In this way, everyone crossed the canyon while having fun, and successfully passed the final pass connecting the two sides of the central countries, and arrived at the northern countries closest to the center.

And one morning after he successfully left the Central Kingdoms, when Ash was still sitting on the trunk of a fallen dead tree exercising his magic power, Fearon, who was holding a pot and cooking breakfast beside him, suddenly exclaimed:

"——Master Ash! Master Frilian is up!!"

The rare out-of-control voice made Ash open his eyes in frustration.

But before he could say anything, Feilun rushed over quickly, dragged him over forcefully, and said seriously: "Master Ash! We must praise her well at this time!"

"...Why should I do that kind of thing? That old...Baby, just leave her alone~"

Halfway through his reflexive rant, he suddenly stopped his voice when he remembered Fulilian's taboo, and looked warily at the sleepy Fulilian.

It felt like she didn't hear clearly, and was still blinking there. Ash was relieved a little, and he put on a smile and walked up, changing the topic:

"Philon is right, it's rare to get up early and you must be rewarded!"

While speaking, he uncharacteristically rubbed Fulian's shoulders very gently.

Seeing him like this, Fearon hesitated for a while, but still didn't want to reveal his guilty behavior. He picked up the vegetable soup made from various vegetables, as if feeding a young child, while blowing on the spoon. The soup was thoughtfully brought to Fulilian's mouth.

However.....

Fulilian enjoyed the service with peace of mind, chewed the vegetable leaves, and swallowed the soup, then she looked up at Ash above and said expressionlessly:

"You said it again...plus half a time."

"...Have I not been rubbing your shoulders all the time? And I still have to do it half the time? Are you a little too vindictive? It's been a thousand years! You should reset it no matter what. Already?"

"I don't want to...I haven't slept well for half a century because of you."

Although Ash had apologized before, just thinking about this incident made Fulilian's eyes look strange, as if one thing would be remembered for the rest of his life.

But when I said she was old before, it was true that a thousand years had passed, but she was still counting her... Now Ash really doubted, would this guy still be counting in another thousand years?

But he had a headache, but Fearon couldn't help but be curious:

"Having not slept well for half a century? Lady Fulilian, what are you talking about?"

"Ah, that was a thousand years ago." Fulian asked while enjoying the experience of eating food when she opened her mouth:

"If this guy suddenly disappears one day...and asks you to go out together, but you want to sleep and let him go out alone, he will disappear from the world for a thousand years. What will happen to you, Philon? "

"...Is it what happened when Master Ash was sealed? If so, you must be very, very guilty, right?" After just thinking about it, Feilun, who felt like he was going to be depressed, answered with a serious look on his face. Looking at Ash, he said in a preaching voice: "——Master Ash, please reflect on it! Then apologize to Lady Fulillian!"

"No...that's force majeure, right? And I've apologized many times before..."

The sudden mutual hatred between the two women made him want to hide behind Fulilian to avoid the accusing gaze.

Seeing that he seemed to be really introspective, Fearon was not too embarrassed. Instead, he remembered the key word "thousand years" in the topic and couldn't help but mutter:

"But I really didn't expect that the great magician Volame is basically a fairy tale. I used to doubt whether she was a real person, but the two people around me actually know each other and have a good relationship..."

"Fairy tale..." This very ordinary evaluation made Fulilian look a little sad:

"Yes, after all, so much time has passed, and the only people who still remember what she looks like are me and Ash."

"No, Celia should remember it too."

"... Celia? That willful guy?"

"Willful?... Indeed, but sometimes it's still very interesting."

.......

The two of them talked about things that others couldn't understand without noticing, which made Philen gradually stop feeding them and stared at them without saying a word, as if he was a little unhappy because he couldn't get into the conversation.

Although Fulilian was very slow, she had learned to read Philen's expressions over the years. She stopped talking and changed the subject silently:

"Speaking of which, the weather is nice today?"

"Huh? Ah... Indeed, it shouldn't rain tomorrow." Ash was stunned, but under the guidance of Fulilian's obscure eyes, he noticed that the child who always took care of them had a strange expression, and nodded silently subconsciously.

But their strange words made Philen really angry and funny:

"Lady Fulilian and Lady Ash... Did you learn the way to change the subject from a teacher?"

"...Speaking of which..."

"What?"

She stared at Ash intently, wanting to see if he had any other strategies to change the subject.

But Fulilian rubbed her sleepy eyes, glanced around and took up Ash's topic, saying:

"Speaking of which, we have clearly arrived in the north, near the base camp of monsters and demons, but there are basically no monsters around here, and we haven't encountered any demons... Don't you think it's a bit strange?"

"I know this." Philen said subconsciously: "Remember that the Kingdom of Ester is raising monsters in captivity, and has also set aside a large monster breeding base, captured quite a lot of monsters and purchased live monsters at a high price, so indirectly caused this area to become much safer, right?"

"Really?... But even the demons don't raise monsters in captivity, and don't think that monsters can be tamed. Where do they get the confidence?"

"But this is a good thing, right?" Philen said subconsciously: "After all, everyone has become safer."

"It's not just monsters, even the demons have strangely decreased..."

Fulilian unconsciously once again connected it to the black hand behind the demons, frowning and about to say something.

Realizing that she wanted to talk about this topic again, Ash changed the subject in time:

"--When I was in the northern countries, I heard that the monsters and demons faced by each country have decreased in recent years, but the north has not become peaceful. Instead, the conflicts among humans have increased, and there are more deserters and bandits."

"... The wars in the northern countries have never stopped. Now that there is no pressure from the demons, are they gradually becoming similar to the southern countries?"

His words made Philen unconsciously think of his hometown that was always in flames, and his eyes gradually dimmed.

This made Fulilian look bitter, and she didn't know what to say to comfort her. She immediately turned her head and stared at Ash, silently urging him, hoping that he would change the subject because of the problems he had caused.

"Speaking of which, today..."

"Change one!" Before he finished speaking, Fulilian quietly kicked him, but he spread his hands innocently: "I want to say that the weather is good today, why don't we hurry up."

"...You might as well talk about the weather."

"Uh..." He was distressed for a while, and then suddenly thought of something, and said: "By the way, Fulilian, are you a first-level magician?"

"First-level magician? What?"

"...Let Philen tell me."

He silently stretched out his hand and pushed Philen, who was still immersed in sadness, in front of Fulilian who was stunned.

And Philen looked at her dazed look, and couldn't help showing a shocked expression:

"Don't you know, Lord Fulilian? Because monsters, chaotic soldiers, bandits, and demons may appear at any time in the northern plateau, many places are restricting personnel exchanges, and then..."

Among them, the chaotic soldiers, although they were once soldiers, they actually killed, set fire, and robbed people, and they did it as if it were commonplace, and they were even more dangerous than demons in many cases.

Because demons and monsters only kill people, if you can't defeat them, they will be eaten or killed. If they are bandits, women may not even be able to hope for death.

It is also because that place is too chaotic, many places in various countries require that even adventurers must have a first-level magician to pass through, which is also for the safety of travelers.

Just after saying what he heard from the previous city, Philen stared at Fulilian suspiciously and asked: "Lady Fulilian... Don't you even know these?"

"No, what is a first-level magician?" Fulilian was confused.

"That is the magician qualification recognized by the Continental Magic Association... You don't know this, are you an unqualified illegal magician?"

"Don't make me sound like an illegal doctor, because... the team that manages magicians changes all the time, and they can't pass the exam one by one."

"But that was half a century ago." Facing Fulilian, who would get upset if he turned around, Fern took out a piece of paper from his bag and showed it to her directly: "Look, this is the third-level magician certification I passed when I was in the Holy City."

"...Half a century? That must be not long ago, right? It was clearly something else when I set out with Haita and the others? And..." Feeling that it was not good for her to be the only one out of touch with the times, Fulilian turned her head and looked at Ash, pointing at him and said: "Ash must not know either."

"Don't point at people casually, it's rude." He waved his hand and slapped his fingers away.

"Look! He feels guilty, and he really..."

"No, I actually know."

Rather than saying whether he knows or not, in fact, when Celia was not around, Ash was basically considered by everyone to be the head of the northern branch, which made his facial expression very subtle when facing this elf girl who was looking for a companion.

This made Fulilian feel betrayed: "Why, why do you know?"

"Because I used to live in the largest magic city in the northern countries, and the only branch of the Magic Association is also there..."

"Then are you a first-level magician?"

"...No, I haven't participated in the certification."

His subconscious answer made Fulilian smile immediately, and she looked at Philen happily: "-Look! Philen! This guy is useless!"

"...Why are you still proud at this time? Isn't this very troublesome?" Philen was completely unable to empathize, and instead sighed helplessly: "There is no way, let's go to the magic city to take an exam first."

"In fact, you can hire one with money..." Ash didn't want to go, and raised his hand to give a different answer.

But Philen didn't even wait for him to finish, and said without thinking: "- No! That's a waste of money."

"Then I'll ask someone I know..."

"You'll owe me a favor if you ask someone else! It's better to take the exam yourself! Well, let's decide! Master Ash! Okay?"

"Uh, okay... okay..."

The past life made Philen almost regard the Magic City as his second home, and he was naturally inexplicably stubborn about going to the Magic City.

Even Fulilian saw this, and couldn't help but patted Ash's shoulder with a smile, making him hesitate to compromise.

After all, he was the one who half-forced Philen to leave the Magic City, so he should at least make up for it by revisiting the old place.

So, the three of them changed the direction of their journey - they changed the route to the Magic City.

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Under the enthusiastic leadership of Fren, the three of them maintained their high morale and happily stepped into the northern plateau, and then...

As expected, the initial enthusiasm of Flillian and Fren was quickly extinguished by the sudden blizzard.

"It's not even winter yet, but it's snowing... and I'm lost." Fulilian, who had already wrapped a scarf around her, lay in the snow, looking at the white snow in front of her and muttering: "... That's why I hate the north."

"Instead of complaining... What should I do now?" Ferren, who was curled up, couldn't help but look at Ash, who looked calm and didn't even need a scarf, and said worriedly: "Master Ash, aren't you cold?"

"I'm also a warrior, and I'm a little bit powerful. You can withstand this level of cold with your coats, but it would be bad if I can't?"

"... It seems that you are really the same as Aize."

"But I haven't tried the poison arrows that can make dragons sleep."