Chris's Faith of Fire

We finally escaped from the clutches of the monster, and it has not been chasing us for the time being. It seems that our battle should be successful... But walking in this hot cave seems to have no end... There is no branch road, and there is no exit. We stand In front of this stone wall with a slightly different color, I felt truly desperate.

The three of us stood back to back and slowly slid down to sit on the warm ground.

We took a deep breath, but the sulfur-smelling air filled my nostrils.

I looked at the boy next to me. He noticed my gaze and responded with a gentle smile.

I wanted to say something in an instant, something that I felt was very important and had to be said...but the words came to my mouth like a broken faucet, and I couldn't get them out no matter how much my feelings were in my heart.In the end, I just uttered the simplest words.

"Thank you, Noelle."

"Huh? It doesn't matter. After all, I don't know healing magic, so I can only deal with it temporarily. If there are scars on the girl's hands...if she can go back, she must immediately..."

Yes, even at this time, there is only this delicate tenderness in his head.

I shook my head slightly.

"No, it's always been the case. Thank you very much."

"Ugh?"

The young man tilted his head and didn't understand what I meant for a moment. I ignored him and looked away, then continued.

"When we first met at the banquet, I didn't get angry because of my rudeness. Although I was very angry at the time, now that I think about it, I really caused trouble for you... Later, I followed my will, haha, so that Sylvie could Be friendly with us..."

Hearing this, the girl moved her body slightly, but did not interrupt me.

"Until you saved my life, I was really grateful for your gentleness. There was, for a moment... just a moment, I even thought it was great that the fiancée was Noelle. I thought to myself, if If it were you, then what I have been insisting on would seem so naive, because this person can be entrusted to me for a lifetime."

After saying it in one breath, I realized how embarrassing what I just said was, and my cheeks were burning as if they were lit by the heat around me.

But those two people didn't laugh at me.

"Well...me too, I felt like Chrissy...when we first met. Me, I felt so bad about Chrissy..."

"elder brother……"

At this moment, a roar came from a long distance and interrupted Noelle's words.

Sylvie's blades trembled slightly. If it weren't for Salamander's roar, she would have interrupted her brother before that happened.

The roar of the Flame Elf clearly reached our ears, making us slightly aware of our current position.

"That big lizard should be fixed to the ground. According to you..."

Sylvie paused for a moment before speaking, and looked at me with cold eyes that seemed friendly now.

"When water meets hot lava, it will vaporize quickly, and the rapidly cooling lava will return to its original shape and become a very hard rock. Although I don't know what will happen...but it will make such a mournful cry. , it should be set perfectly."

"What are you talking about, just a scream? In my opinion, the screams of that big reptile are the same."

Is that right?

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a poor child is crying, even the content is very clear.

"It's saying, come back... come back, my container, like this. But since it keeps calling, it means it hasn't escaped yet. Maybe we can compete to see which side will starve to death first. Maybe its meat is more delicious. Well...haha."

I laughed weakly.

The two of them stared at me with confusion.

Is my joke too cold?Obviously I think I have a sense of humor.

When I was about to close my eyes and rest for a while, two people suddenly came close to my cheeks.

"Huh? What are you going to do? Could it be...even if the situation is very bad, don't do something like that suddenly! There are still three of us!"

No matter what, I feel ashamed. Although these two are brother and sister, Sylvie does seem to be in love with Noelle. There is nothing that crosses the line between them.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Chris, what did you just say? Can you repeat it?"

The expressions of these two people were very serious, and they probably weren't doing anything adult.

As for what I just said...well, put aside the nonsense about the three of us together.

"Is Salamander's meat delicious?"

"Nah!"

was unanimously denied.

Wait a minute, what I said before was...

"Come back, come back, my container!"

"This is it!"

This time it became a triplet.

By the way, I didn't realize why I understood what it was saying.

"Why can Chris understand it?"

"I don't understand this at all. In fact, I don't understand lizard language at all. I was so panicked that I didn't pay attention at first. But just now I relaxed a little, and the guy's voice sounded like this in my head. "

Thinking back on it this way, when I was caught by it, I felt like there was an ocean all around me. It was only because of Noelle's rescue that I realized that it was just an illusion.

"Taking Mana's words with the elf...maybe you can accept it better because you are more relaxed. You said during the battle that you once saw that guy in front of Mana's door..."

Not only does Sylvie have a good memory, but her words are also to the point. I am troubled by this matter.

"That's right... At the training ground, when Noelle and onee-sama helped me open the door connection, wasn't this what everyone would see? Everyone would see some kind of monster or something?"

They both shook their heads.

"Sylvie and I don't know, but I feel like this is not a good sign... Maybe Chris can feel this because she is from the royal family."

"That's it, but there is no way out here now. It is very likely that this place was originally a structure without an exit, otherwise the clown would not have teleported me here... After all, it is the sanctuary of elves or something, and you cannot enter and exit casually. Yes."

"That's right."

"Anyway, we should go back and see that lizard..."

Sylvie summed up the conclusion in one sentence.

Everyone looked at each other and nodded silently.

……

Let us once again return to that place that can be called hell, and no one wants to.

But the retreat has been lost.

Maybe it was this situation that gave me courage. Maybe some people will make a desperate move when they are desperate.

I was still held in Sylvie's arms, and she borrowed wind magic to jump up to the hole that was two stories high.

The ground was still steaming.

Its cry reached my ears in words, and I listened to its words on the way back.

These words troubled me, and I made up my mind to them, thinking that I had nothing to fear from them.

Looking down at the pitch-black area below, the newly hardened rock still looked very scary.

Salamander's body remained motionless there. After seeing us, he struggled to raise his head and roared like crazy.But its head and almost its entire lower jaw were buried in the rock.

The situation is better than expected, so it will be difficult to use the scorching fire breath, and it may be fixed here for the rest of its life as a living specimen. The elf should be immortal, which is really pitiful.

"If you go down like this, you'll get burned by the ground. The rocks probably haven't completely cooled down yet."

"Yeah, but I don't have a problem."

"Ugh?"

"The guy told me that this temperature couldn't hurt me at all because I was protected by fire."

Yes, until I stepped onto this platform I was hesitant to turn back, but now it was completely different.

The elf roaring on the ground has been telling me all kinds of things unilaterally.

As if he understood everything, he showed a calm expression to the girl.

Magic is really a powerful thing. With such power, no matter how much you want to say, you can end it in an instant.

Why does the spirit of fire appear in front of my Mana Gate? Why do I wear this necklace-like magic weapon?

I fully understood all of this, in an instant that no one else knew.

"what?"

Ignoring Sylvie's surprise, I got down from her arms and stood at the entrance of the cave, which was as high as two floors. Just now, due to Salamander's sweep, the originally narrow entrance was sealed with gravel, and I had to Jump down from here.

Although he won't die...but he might break his leg.

"Pavanaasheervaad (Blessing of the Wind)"

Suddenly my body felt much lighter.

I looked at Noelle who said the curse.

"It seems that I have recovered a little strength just now and can use magic again."

To which I merely smiled.

"Be careful, Chris..."

"Well, leave it to me."

The lizard looked hateful just now, but now I feel full of sympathy for it, no... for him.

"Hey! Do you really want to jump? We can find another exit."

In the end, Sylvie became uneasy.

"Believe Chris..."

Noelle gently pressed the arm that her sister was holding on to mine.

"Well, it's okay, I have completely understood...he is not an enemy."

After saying that, my body fell slowly like a dandelion, and finally stopped in front of Salamander's big head.

The soles of my feet were a little warm, but it never hurt me.I touched the magic device, the Heart of Eliog, that was always hanging around my neck, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Even with his jaw fixed, he could still swallow me easily.

But I knew it wouldn't do that. It wasn't Salamander in front of me who told me this, but Mana herself.

She told me that I was the vessel for this spirit.

He wants to leave here, and I want to carry his soul. Because I am the princess of the Kingdom of Fire, only I can do it.

Accept him and we can go back together...otherwise we will stay here forever and eventually lose our lives.

I stroked Salamander's big head.

He closed his eyes lightly like a kitten and acted coquettishly at me.

He didn't mean to kill me from the beginning, he just wanted to become one with me.

Maybe he was uneasy about Sylvie and Noelle's existence, so he went to war...

I continued to stroke his head.

The hand with the boy's shirt tied up no longer hurts. It must have been cured by him.

"It must be very lonely to be alone in this place with only heat..."

I know this feeling all too well.

He chirped twice.

"I can take you out, or I can be your container or something, but there are conditions! You have to promise me!"

I held out my finger.

The elf opened his eyes wide, as if waiting for my words.

"First, you are not allowed to hurt my friends. Second, you are not allowed to show up casually without my permission... and most importantly, you are not allowed to betray me, no matter what happens! If I can do it, I will accept you, Otherwise we will turn around and leave, even though we will die in the end! But you will never be able to come out from here! If you agree, just close your eyes."

My tone is tough and commanding. This is not acting skills, but our bottom line.

This is the basic tenet of this agreement.

The big lizard lowered its bony eyelids.