"----"
Silence hung in the air.
Everyone's gazes focused on Emerald, watching the girl who had remained silent all this time with different emotions in their eyes.
Iris felt reverence.
Lasha was stunned.
Shien's feelings were somewhat complicated and indescribable.
Because he had long known that Emerald's identity had to be extraordinary.
There had been a passage like this in the ancient book Tris had given Shien.
"Since the founding of the kingdom, Duke Streim's Territory has often encountered an incomprehensible phenomenon."
"Many people have claimed to encounter a little girl with blonde hair and violet eyes, and to have experienced certain events with her."
"Some adopted her and cared for her deeply, only to discover one day that she had suddenly vanished."
"Some harbored ill intentions toward her and wanted to use her for something, only for their corpses to be discovered some time later. They seemed to have suffered an extreme fright before their deaths, even showing signs of mental collapse. Their deaths were horrifying."
"Even nobles had encountered such a little girl. As a result, some of those nobles were unable to find her one day, while others suddenly died in their homes. It was exceedingly strange."
"Gradually, this began to cause panic among the people of the territory. Some even claimed that demons were trying to harm the area, causing such incidents. For a time, everyone was deeply unsettled."
"In the end, to prevent unrest, the Streim Family, as the territory's rulers, issued a ban strictly forbidding all citizens from discussing the matter. Anyone who did so would be punished."
"Under those circumstances, the territory gradually returned to peace. Yet rumors of this sort still occasionally emerged, seemingly because people continued to encounter such incidents."
"Thus, people began to claim that the little girl with blonde