For the next three days, Emilia remained locked in her bedroom, never giving any response.
It was more than just a lack of response. Even the meals Rem prepared could not be delivered inside.
In other words, for a full three days, Emilia had not drunk even a drop of water, nor had she taken a single step out of her bedroom.
If not for Rem's sharp sense of smell, which allowed her to clearly detect Emilia's presence within the bedroom, everyone might have suspected that Emilia had vanished without a trace.
Under such circumstances, everyone's concern continued to build.
In contrast, the village's unease was also mounting.
After all, the trials had failed to proceed as scheduled for three whole days. The villagers' doubts about the matter grew increasingly severe, and they had even begun to wonder whether Emilia was incapable of passing the trials and leading everyone out.
With members of the opposition fanning the flames as well, the atmosphere of unrest became increasingly intense.
Compared to those wavering villagers, the others were instead remarkably well-behaved.
For example, Garfiel.
For example, Roswaal.
Those two, who were the most likely to stir up trouble, had instead been the calmest over the past three days.
Every day, Garfiel repeated his routine of entering the forest to train and patrolling around the barrier, but aside from that, he did nothing else.
Roswaal was even more thorough. Not only had he moved into a small cottage at the edge of the village, completely isolating himself from others, but he had stopped showing himself altogether. Only Ram was able to see him.
According to Sylvia, who had been monitoring Roswaal, he had been much like Emilia during this time, keeping himself shut inside his house without coming out even once.
That abnormal behavior