A whopping 400 years old.
Despite this, Scholar El still has a boyish appearance and seems uncomfortable and unfamiliar when dealing with people.
In fact, his true identity was an elf.
El's true identity is revealed in the middle of the novel, in the village where fairies live.
Abel and his party heard from their helper that there were signs of the Demon King's resurrection in the fairy village and went to find it, but it was a territory only for fairies, where not only humans but also all outsiders were strictly forbidden from entering.
As Abel and his party were researching ways to enter the fairy village, the scholar El revealed his identity and put them in touch with the village chief of the fairy village.
At that time, it was revealed that El was in charge of conveying information about human culture and the flow of the world to the closed fairy village and that he had lived for 400 years, not as a young boy of fifteen.
'No one knows El's true identity now.'
Simone silently watched Abel, 380 years his junior, stroking El's head, teasing him, and treating him like a younger brother.
“El, you’re still living in a pile of dust?”
“....”
If he does that, when El's age is revealed later, he'll be so awkward that he won't know what to do.
El was quietly being stroked by Abel, but then he noticed Simone's gaze and moved his hand away from his head.
“Don’t do that. And please be quiet.”
El spoke bluntly and opened a very thick and large book on his desk. Then, without looking at the group, he asked.
“Who is that person?”
As expected from a fairy who is extremely wary of humans, it seems like he is uncomfortable making eye contact with strangers.
Abel said with a big smile.
“Our colleagues.”
“...Not colleagues, but collaborators.”
Simone quickly corrected him. Orkan also quickly added an explanation.
“This is the lady of the mansion we are staying in. We share most of the information, so don’t worry and talk to her, El.”
Instead of answering Orkan's words, El turned his head and stared at Simone.
He said, observing Simone with his overly clear eyes.
“You dyed your hair.”
"... Yes, that's right."
Simone agreed. She had now dyed her hair a light brown with magic dye.
“...”
El turned his head coldly and looked at Abel.
“When you say you’re sharing information, does that mean you’re also sharing information about that person’s identity?”
Simone's eyes widened slightly, then quickly returned to normal.
I see. You noticed.
A creature made from the World Tree's mana. The fairy, who is mana itself, immediately recognizes Simone as a necromancer.
El asks Abel and his group if they know that Simone is a necromancer.
Simone said with a chuckle.
“Everyone knows I’m a necromancer.”
'I guess you didn't notice that Abel and his party were accompanying me.'
Well, even if they had seen it, they wouldn't have been able to peek after entering the building, whether it was the orphanage or the mansion of Viscount Delang, so it wouldn't be strange to think that Abel and his group were being tricked.
“I don’t really have any intention of joining these people on their journey or interfering with them much. I just cooperate because we have a connection and a purpose.”
Aren't you also hiding your identity?
Even though he was feeling like he was having a problem, he didn't do anything stupid like bringing it up.
From El's perspective, he must have said this out of concern because the only humans he had given his heart to were suddenly joined by a necromancer.
Don't act like you don't know and get angry at someone who did your job as a collaborator.
Separately from that, Abel stuck his mouth out as if he was upset by Simone's words. However, even if the group didn't know, El seemed very satisfied with her clear and definite expression of her intentions.
“Then it’s okay if you come together. I will allow you to stay at my house for a while.”
El placed the open book on the dusty table and looked at Simone as if to tell her to come and look at it with her.
Only then did Simone start walking towards the table where her companions were.
“Then let me explain.”
El got straight to the point as soon as Simone laid eyes on his book.
“I have called you here because some strange phenomena have been observed here in Rydel.”
“Abnormal phenomenon?”
El pointed to a place in the book.
A map of the capital city of Rydel was drawn by El himself, and the place El pointed to was a lake located relatively far out in the countryside.
“Here it was. It was a very strange phenomenon. It was as if an invisible curtain had been placed around it, and it was raining and thundering and lightning just there.”
El recalled the sight of that day. The sky was split to follow the shape of the lake.
It was as if it was another world with the same shape as the space with the lake.
Of course, the splitting of the sky was a phenomenon only visible to the fairy El, and since there was no one else in the lake, no uneasy rumors spread among the people of Rydel.
After hearing El's explanation, Abel and his group and Louis' expressions became very serious.
“The sky split open and rain fell there as if it were another world...”
“That’s for sure. That’s a sign of the Demon King’s resurrection.”
Abel and his party spoke with confidence. They did not know much about the Demon King, but through continued investigation, they realized that when the Demon King revealed his presence, it was accompanied by distortions in space and time, thunder, lightning, and rain.
And Simone also agreed with Abel and his group's thoughts.
This is definitely a sign of the Demon King's resurrection that she saw in the book.
It was written that the Demon King was divided into eleven parts and sealed and that whenever the seal of each part was released, the space-time of that area would be distorted, and thunder, lightning, and rain would fall.
In particular, rainy weather always follows the Demon King.
As each seal is released, the area where it rains expands and the duration of the rain gets longer.
In the end, if the Demon King is resurrected, the world will be on the path to destruction, with rain falling forever.
'But why is the seal already broken?'
Simone unconsciously bit her lips out of an inexplicable sense of anxiety.
Normally, it would have been a long time before Abel and his group noticed the signs of the Demon King's resurrection, and the first part of the seal was released.
“I don’t think that phenomenon is natural.”
As the thought grew longer, Simone and her companions looked at El again at his stiff and awkward speech.
“Isn’t the sign of the Demon King’s resurrection an unnatural phenomenon in the first place?”
At Abel's question, El shook his head and spoke with his characteristically glum expression.
“No. If the Demon King were to resurrect at this time, it would be a natural phenomenon.”
“What do you mean-”
"Abel."
Abel frowned as if he didn't understand what El was saying, but Orkan silenced him.
Perhaps El's explanation couldn't get any easier here, and after Orkan heard everything, he planned to explain it again in a form that Abel could understand.
Abel exhaled, biting his lip and nodding.
El continued speaking, pretending not to see Abel's reaction.
“The unnaturalness I spoke of is a precursor phenomenon without a cause.”
“A precursor phenomenon without a cause?”
El nodded in response to Bianchi's question.
“Out of the eleven parts of the Demon King that were sealed so far, only three have been unsealed. Including the Rydel lake, that’s four.”
El flipped through the book he had been using as a map and showed Simone another page.
It had written there the areas and places where the seals had been broken.
The areas where the seals were released are the right hand, left hand, right leg, and left leg, respectively.
The areas that were sealed were extremely diverse, spanning borders and continents.
However, all the countries of the world, who had already experienced the Demon King's disaster once in the past, were working together to share the situation and manage it so that the seal would not be released, so it was a seal that could not be released unless there was a special reason.
But in that short period, four of them were solved.
“I don’t know why. I’ve been going out to the lake every day since the first seal was released and watching, but there were no mana waves and the sealing sphere was perfectly in place. Even the day before the seal was released.”
“But does that mean it was resolved overnight?”
El nodded.
“It’s not natural. Something has been tampered with. We need to find the cause quickly. Is it possible?”
In the end, the reason El called Abel and his group was to ask them to investigate the cause of the seal that kept breaking.
Will humans actually grant his request?
El looked at Abel and his group with a strange expression that seemed both hopeless and anxious about being rejected.
Abel chuckled and placed a hand on El's head.
"Of course!"
Abel spoke without hesitation, and El opened his eyes wide in surprise, then hesitated while looking at his book.
Then, with a solemn expression, he handed his book over to Abel.
“This is the data I have researched on the Demon King so far. Keep it until I ask for it.”
“Haha! Thank you!”
If you give, you get what you pay for. What is that? Until you ask for it.
Simone smiled and prepared to go out with Abel and his group.
The Demon King's resurrection must have been done artificially and quickly by someone, and if so, Simone must also know the cause.
This change occurred because Simone's actions were different from the original.
'What on earth is the reason?'
What is the cause of the Demon King showing signs of resurrection despite having nothing to do with Simone's actions?
Because the changes that occur due to the actions that are different from the original will definitely affect Simone's future.
She had to find out the cause.
Despite this, Scholar El still has a boyish appearance and seems uncomfortable and unfamiliar when dealing with people.
In fact, his true identity was an elf.
El's true identity is revealed in the middle of the novel, in the village where fairies live.
Abel and his party heard from their helper that there were signs of the Demon King's resurrection in the fairy village and went to find it, but it was a territory only for fairies, where not only humans but also all outsiders were strictly forbidden from entering.
As Abel and his party were researching ways to enter the fairy village, the scholar El revealed his identity and put them in touch with the village chief of the fairy village.
At that time, it was revealed that El was in charge of conveying information about human culture and the flow of the world to the closed fairy village and that he had lived for 400 years, not as a young boy of fifteen.
'No one knows El's true identity now.'
Simone silently watched Abel, 380 years his junior, stroking El's head, teasing him, and treating him like a younger brother.
“El, you’re still living in a pile of dust?”
“....”
If he does that, when El's age is revealed later, he'll be so awkward that he won't know what to do.
El was quietly being stroked by Abel, but then he noticed Simone's gaze and moved his hand away from his head.
“Don’t do that. And please be quiet.”
El spoke bluntly and opened a very thick and large book on his desk. Then, without looking at the group, he asked.
“Who is that person?”
As expected from a fairy who is extremely wary of humans, it seems like he is uncomfortable making eye contact with strangers.
Abel said with a big smile.
“Our colleagues.”
“...Not colleagues, but collaborators.”
Simone quickly corrected him. Orkan also quickly added an explanation.
“This is the lady of the mansion we are staying in. We share most of the information, so don’t worry and talk to her, El.”
Instead of answering Orkan's words, El turned his head and stared at Simone.
He said, observing Simone with his overly clear eyes.
“You dyed your hair.”
"... Yes, that's right."
Simone agreed. She had now dyed her hair a light brown with magic dye.
“...”
El turned his head coldly and looked at Abel.
“When you say you’re sharing information, does that mean you’re also sharing information about that person’s identity?”
Simone's eyes widened slightly, then quickly returned to normal.
I see. You noticed.
A creature made from the World Tree's mana. The fairy, who is mana itself, immediately recognizes Simone as a necromancer.
El asks Abel and his group if they know that Simone is a necromancer.
Simone said with a chuckle.
“Everyone knows I’m a necromancer.”
'I guess you didn't notice that Abel and his party were accompanying me.'
Well, even if they had seen it, they wouldn't have been able to peek after entering the building, whether it was the orphanage or the mansion of Viscount Delang, so it wouldn't be strange to think that Abel and his group were being tricked.
“I don’t really have any intention of joining these people on their journey or interfering with them much. I just cooperate because we have a connection and a purpose.”
Aren't you also hiding your identity?
Even though he was feeling like he was having a problem, he didn't do anything stupid like bringing it up.
From El's perspective, he must have said this out of concern because the only humans he had given his heart to were suddenly joined by a necromancer.
Don't act like you don't know and get angry at someone who did your job as a collaborator.
Separately from that, Abel stuck his mouth out as if he was upset by Simone's words. However, even if the group didn't know, El seemed very satisfied with her clear and definite expression of her intentions.
“Then it’s okay if you come together. I will allow you to stay at my house for a while.”
El placed the open book on the dusty table and looked at Simone as if to tell her to come and look at it with her.
Only then did Simone start walking towards the table where her companions were.
“Then let me explain.”
El got straight to the point as soon as Simone laid eyes on his book.
“I have called you here because some strange phenomena have been observed here in Rydel.”
“Abnormal phenomenon?”
El pointed to a place in the book.
A map of the capital city of Rydel was drawn by El himself, and the place El pointed to was a lake located relatively far out in the countryside.
“Here it was. It was a very strange phenomenon. It was as if an invisible curtain had been placed around it, and it was raining and thundering and lightning just there.”
El recalled the sight of that day. The sky was split to follow the shape of the lake.
It was as if it was another world with the same shape as the space with the lake.
Of course, the splitting of the sky was a phenomenon only visible to the fairy El, and since there was no one else in the lake, no uneasy rumors spread among the people of Rydel.
After hearing El's explanation, Abel and his group and Louis' expressions became very serious.
“The sky split open and rain fell there as if it were another world...”
“That’s for sure. That’s a sign of the Demon King’s resurrection.”
Abel and his party spoke with confidence. They did not know much about the Demon King, but through continued investigation, they realized that when the Demon King revealed his presence, it was accompanied by distortions in space and time, thunder, lightning, and rain.
And Simone also agreed with Abel and his group's thoughts.
This is definitely a sign of the Demon King's resurrection that she saw in the book.
It was written that the Demon King was divided into eleven parts and sealed and that whenever the seal of each part was released, the space-time of that area would be distorted, and thunder, lightning, and rain would fall.
In particular, rainy weather always follows the Demon King.
As each seal is released, the area where it rains expands and the duration of the rain gets longer.
In the end, if the Demon King is resurrected, the world will be on the path to destruction, with rain falling forever.
'But why is the seal already broken?'
Simone unconsciously bit her lips out of an inexplicable sense of anxiety.
Normally, it would have been a long time before Abel and his group noticed the signs of the Demon King's resurrection, and the first part of the seal was released.
“I don’t think that phenomenon is natural.”
As the thought grew longer, Simone and her companions looked at El again at his stiff and awkward speech.
“Isn’t the sign of the Demon King’s resurrection an unnatural phenomenon in the first place?”
At Abel's question, El shook his head and spoke with his characteristically glum expression.
“No. If the Demon King were to resurrect at this time, it would be a natural phenomenon.”
“What do you mean-”
"Abel."
Abel frowned as if he didn't understand what El was saying, but Orkan silenced him.
Perhaps El's explanation couldn't get any easier here, and after Orkan heard everything, he planned to explain it again in a form that Abel could understand.
Abel exhaled, biting his lip and nodding.
El continued speaking, pretending not to see Abel's reaction.
“The unnaturalness I spoke of is a precursor phenomenon without a cause.”
“A precursor phenomenon without a cause?”
El nodded in response to Bianchi's question.
“Out of the eleven parts of the Demon King that were sealed so far, only three have been unsealed. Including the Rydel lake, that’s four.”
El flipped through the book he had been using as a map and showed Simone another page.
It had written there the areas and places where the seals had been broken.
The areas where the seals were released are the right hand, left hand, right leg, and left leg, respectively.
The areas that were sealed were extremely diverse, spanning borders and continents.
However, all the countries of the world, who had already experienced the Demon King's disaster once in the past, were working together to share the situation and manage it so that the seal would not be released, so it was a seal that could not be released unless there was a special reason.
But in that short period, four of them were solved.
“I don’t know why. I’ve been going out to the lake every day since the first seal was released and watching, but there were no mana waves and the sealing sphere was perfectly in place. Even the day before the seal was released.”
“But does that mean it was resolved overnight?”
El nodded.
“It’s not natural. Something has been tampered with. We need to find the cause quickly. Is it possible?”
In the end, the reason El called Abel and his group was to ask them to investigate the cause of the seal that kept breaking.
Will humans actually grant his request?
El looked at Abel and his group with a strange expression that seemed both hopeless and anxious about being rejected.
Abel chuckled and placed a hand on El's head.
"Of course!"
Abel spoke without hesitation, and El opened his eyes wide in surprise, then hesitated while looking at his book.
Then, with a solemn expression, he handed his book over to Abel.
“This is the data I have researched on the Demon King so far. Keep it until I ask for it.”
“Haha! Thank you!”
If you give, you get what you pay for. What is that? Until you ask for it.
Simone smiled and prepared to go out with Abel and his group.
The Demon King's resurrection must have been done artificially and quickly by someone, and if so, Simone must also know the cause.
This change occurred because Simone's actions were different from the original.
'What on earth is the reason?'
What is the cause of the Demon King showing signs of resurrection despite having nothing to do with Simone's actions?
Because the changes that occur due to the actions that are different from the original will definitely affect Simone's future.
She had to find out the cause.
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