Purple Vine Flower

"Serie is too kind."

"Why would I run away? I just thought it was almost lunchtime, so I came out to find some ingredients."

Rienta replied with a somewhat fawning smile and righteous indignation.

Actually, he could have escaped.

Even if Serie set up Barrier, covering the entire area around the Palace.

However, with [Intangibility] present, [Barrier Magic] is practically useless against him.

Well, that is, he can reach the Barrier while being attacked by another Serie.

Serie chuckled; she had never met such an interesting human before.

Interesting in every sense of the word.

He slowly walked towards the boy who had attacked him as soon as he woke up.

"May I have your name?"

Rienta quickly replied, "Rienta."

After saying that, he took out a table and chairs from his [Personal Space], and very gentlemanly bowed slightly, pulled out a chair, and gestured for Serie to sit down.

Serie tilted her head, stared at Rienta for a while, and then sat down.

She was quite certain she had never heard of the name before.

But strangely, judging from Rienta's behavior, this guy definitely knows him.

Seeing that Serie had sat down, Rienta quickly cast Magic That Produces Hot Tea.

Yixing Teapot steaming from its spout and a porcelain cup covered in cracks appeared together on the table.

He poured a cup of tea and handed it to Serie with both hands.

After Serie took the teacup, Rienta turned around, glanced at another Serie in the distance whose hand was flashing with terrifying Mana, and said softly:

"Lady Serie, look..."

Serie took a sip of hot tea, her eyes lit up, and with a casual wave of her hand, she canceled the [Clone Magic].

"Rienta,"

"You just said you came out to find ingredients, right?"

Rienta breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the other Serie disappear.

"Yes! That's right! I was just worried that Lady Serie was getting too tired from reading Grimoire, so I came out to find some ingredients to prepare a sumptuous lunch for Serie."

"Then hurry up and go!"

Serie didn't expose Rienta's clumsy lie, and said with a smile that curved her eyes.

Upon hearing this, Rienta turned and walked deeper into the forest.

He had only taken a few steps when Serie's voice came again.

"Don't even think about running away~ I've already memorized your Mana."

Rienta froze, turned around, and forced a smile, "How could that be! I certainly wouldn't run away!"

In the forest.

Rienta looked dejected and sat on the ground, showing no intention of looking for ingredients.

The talk about finding ingredients was just a casual remark.

What's missing from his [Personal Space]?

There's no need to specifically search for it in the forest.

He chose to attack Serie because he thought it might be an illusion or something.

After all, the magic recorded in the [Goddess's Monument] has never been deciphered.

It could contain any kind of magic.

However, subsequent events proved that none of this was an illusion.

Serie seems to have really lost her memory.

However, what about the cost of [Communication Magic]?

Rienta sighed. The more he thought about it, the less he understood, so he lay back down, intending to lie down for a while before going back to his original position.

Just then, he caught a glimpse of a very conspicuous purple color out of the corner of his eye.

Rienta reached out, broke off the purple flower, and casually twirled it.

Crystal-clear petals fell from the petals, sprinkling onto his chest.

Rienta was stunned.

He had seen this flower in a Grimoire.

The author of that Grimoire was the sage from a thousand years ago— Ewig.

When he first met Frieren, Heiter asked Frieren to interpret the Grimoire containing the concepts of "Resurrection of the Dead" and "Immortality Magic."

At the time, he didn't know that Heiter was just using this as an excuse to give him and Fern more time to grow and meet the requirements of traveling with Frieren.

Therefore, he was also very interested in that Grimoire.

That's [Immortality Magic]!

Who can resist immortality?

He would borrow every manuscript that Frieren had finished reading as soon as possible.

It wasn't until later, when Heiter fell ill and Frieren finished deciphering the entire Grimoire, that he understood.

There is no such thing as "Resurrection of the Dead" or "Immortality Magic".

Mr. Heiter only said that to buy time.

For this reason, he was deeply impressed by the information recorded in that Grimoire.

The flower in his hand is called a 'Purple Vine Flower'.

An ornamental flower, typically with five petals covered with a layer of transparent, pale purple pollen.

With just a gentle turn, it will scatter a shower of glistening droplets, just like before.

It's very beautiful.

However, the 'Purple Vine Flower' has long been extinct.

Rienta leaped up and looked around. Every ten meters or so, there was a splash of purple.

"What on earth is going on...?"

"Lady Serie, do you have any dietary restrictions?"

"No."

"Okay, I understand."

In front of the Palace.

Rienta was busily preparing lunch.

He tried everything he could to make Serie happy.

The dishes include braised lamb chops, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, eggplant with minced meat, dry pot pork ribs, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and meatball soup.

The staple foods are white rice, layered flatbread, and steamed buns.

No one could find fault with it.

He had two guesses about that 'violet flower'.

Firstly, like the 'Blue-Moon Weed', the Seed Mouse has passed down the seeds of the 'Purple Vine Flower' from generation to generation, preserving them to this day.

However, this is unlikely, as Seed Mice are accustomed to storing seeds in one place as a food reserve.

Instead of what he saw, the plants were scattered.

Secondly, he time-traveled again.

However, this time it's time travel.

This is not just a baseless guess.

Because the name [Excalibur Morgan] engraved on the [Goddess's Monument] is something only he, the [Extraterrestrial Demon], knows in this world.

Given that the [Goddess's Monument] has never been analyzed.

Furthermore, the [Sacred Scripture] records that this world was created by the Goddess.

So, it seems quite reasonable that the [Goddess's Monument] contains magic that can transport people back to the past, doesn't it?

Of course, what exactly it is still needs to be verified.

As I was thinking about it, lunch was all ready.

The table was covered with fragrant and visually appealing dishes.

There were also two small carts next to the table.

A serving of room-temperature juice and hot tea.

One of the shelves was filled with all sorts of cold drinks, with ice cubes underneath.

Serie looked at all of this with a bit of a blank expression.

To be honest, she never expected that Rienta would actually cook a whole table of dishes.

And it looks delicious too.

Rienta set out the bowls and chopsticks and said, "Lady Serie, dinner is ready."

Upon hearing this, Serie coughed lightly, trying her best to maintain an indifferent expression, and joked:

"Looks like your cooking skills are pretty good."

Rienta replied with a smile, "Of course."

"Lady Serie, please try it and see if it suits your taste."