Inside the royal castle, Yuria has been assigned to a luxurious room, with maids taking care of her needs, and she was provided with proper meals, a bath and a fine change of clothing. Whereas Raynor got a normal room with only meal provided.

Normally, other people will complain why the unequal treatment. But Raynor didn’t even touch the meal or bothered with any of those stuff. He has helped Yuria reached her destination, and now, he has a room of his own to work on his stuff while thinking of what to do next.

He is busy with his equipments, and making some adjustment to his systems. When he is too engrossed in his work, he can even forget to eat and starve for few days until he finally realizes it. But recently, he has Yuria to keeps check on his daily life, and thus he has been eating properly this past few days. But now, Yuria is in a separate room, which makes him go back to his old habit of lifestyle.. or not.

The door to Raynor’s room suddenly burst open, and Yuria barge into Raynor’s room.

[Ojamashimasu!!] ..google it..

Seeing the plate of food on the table that hasn’t been touched yet, Yuria begin scolding and lecturing Raynor about taking care of his own health.

Raynor begin to suspect that she might be a doctor back on Earth, or it might be normal for a healer in this world to lecture others about healthcare.

While it is chaos in Raynor’s room, it is more peaceful in another room. Izanami is in that room with another woman who is sitting behind a fancy desk, a desk which has a similar type of design with the Resolute Desk.

The woman with young appearance, and has a more firm and feminine aura than Izanami. That person is non other than Queen Erina.

[So, if we contain Yuria here, that other Kingdom might want to invade our territory. What if we keep her whereabouts a secret, will they refrain from invading our territory?]

[It is unlikely, the news of Yuria appearing in our Kingdom will eventually leak out, so we can’t keep her here for too long, we should send her further away from here, if Your Highness are willing..]

[I will ponder about it. Did you make sure that no one knows about her ?]

[Rest assured, all has been taken care of.]

[hmm.. what about the boy with her? Any information about him?]

[I can’t find any background information about him, but here’s a report about what we gathered about him.]

Izanami hands over a sheet of paper about Raynor towards Erina.

[So, according to your reports, the boy’s attack is at least a rank C, and he is also able to detect you in your invisibility form?]

[Yes, but unfortunately, to what extend he is able to detect, I’m not too sure..]

[Why don’t you try him again? This time, use a higher form of stealth skill and sneak into his room.]

[Eh? But..]

[Isn’t it your job to determine a person’s ability? Plus, he bested you in your stealth ability, isn’t it your responsibility to redeem your honor? Go sneak into his bedroom!]

[Y..yes..]

[By the way, this is not an order. You don’t have to do it if it is unpleasant, unless if you really want to do it.]

That night, nothing happen in Raynor’s room.

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The next day, Erina and Yuria begin their meeting in a private room with Izanami standing at the entrance. Raynor is not included in the meeting, so he is still shutting himself inside his room.

[So, how did you manage to escape safely?]

Without hesitation, Erina went straight to the point with her first question towards Yuria.

Although they may be close friends in the past, but right now, Erina seems to be more dominating, and there is no sense of closeness in their conversation. Except their conversation is in an informal way, which is rare among nobles.

Yuria told Erina how her subjects sacrificed themselves for her, and how she meet Raynor and was also saved by him. Erina seems cautious about Raynor, and have doubts about him. She asked Yuria more regarding him, but didn’t get any noticeable information. Seeing how much Yuria really trusted Raynor, she didn’t further question about him. Yuria also didn’t mention the part of him from their home world. Although Yuria purposefully avoid mentioning the topic about their home world, but Erina brought the topic up.

[About our origins, do you know anything about it?] Erina looks at Yuria and asked.

Erina seems like she knows something, and is testing her. Also she has enough social experience to detect a lie. Yuria knows that she can’t hide any secrets from this woman, and she is not good at telling a lie, so she decided to tell her the truth.

[Yeah, I remembered mostly everything.]

[I see.. good for you. Finally, yet another person among the Heroes has awoken. But I guess you don’t know anything bout the seal, Do you?]

[Seal? What seal?]

[The seal to our memories. A seal has been place on our mind the moment we’ve been summoned here. The seal will slowly remove our attachment towards our former world, and then slowly sealed away the memories before we are summoned here, making us unable to recall anything.]

Looking at Yuria who has a shocked expression, Erina continued,

[But I’m a Rank S sorcerer, a magic seal placed on me won’t escape my detection. My seal has already been removed, and I’m also currently studying the mysterious summoning magic that have been used to summoned us. Not even the most prominent people knows of its existence.

You must have encounter something that acts as a key to unlock your memories, do you know what is it?]

[I have no idea.. So, what is the purpose of the seal for, if it does not contribute to us in defeating the demon king?]

[I’m also trying to find out the answer.]

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[Although my seal have been removed, but I still holds no attachment to our former world, because right now, I can only recall small part of the memory of our former world, it is called Earth, am I right?]

Yuria nodded

[Since I’ve already been living here for more than a century, my attachment towards this world is more than the previous world, where I’m just an insignificant population.]

[What about curiocity? don’t you want to know more about our origin? About the world we are from?]

[I have no interest in that, the people there boast of their greatness, when they are just a short-lived mortal, and can’t survive without their technology. If I’m interested in that world, I’d rather send a bunch of Rank A to invade that world, I bet we can even take that whole world to ourself.]

Yuria was startled by Erina’s way of thinking, about invading Earth. She has become more like a person that is overconfident of her power. It is true that a rank A is very powerful, that can reduce a whole castle to rubble, and a bunch of them is a force to be reckoned with, but compare with Earth’s technology, it is still too weak. Technology can keep improving, unlike a human’s ability that have a limitation to how strong a person can grow. Not to mention, how much Earth technology have progress since then. From the things she heard from Raynor, it has more than enough force to invade this world, not to mention a country. But Yuria won’t tell Erina about these things. She won’t even listen or respond rationally. Not to mention, there is no way an invasion from Earth can happen any time soon right?

[Alright, let’s move on to our main topic, what are you planning to do from now on? And do you have any plans for your citizens that are still lingering outside my city? If not, I will have to deal with them myself.]

[I don’t have any plans for now, but let me do one last thing for my citizens. Please let them become a citizen of this Kingdom, I will personally manage and assign them to the place where they are useful to this Kingdom. At least it can help remove your refugees problem.]

Although a Kingdom’s military strength is based on its amount of powerful people, but normal citizen also plays an important part in contributing to a Kingdom’s strength. They will contribute in improving the economy of a Kingdom, and also provides work force and labors towards a Kingdom. So the additional large number of citizen migrated into the Kingdom of Kouma can be considered as a benefit towards Erina.

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[If you have no plans for the future, can I ask of you to do us a favor? Will you help us find out who is it that summoned us, and why a Seal have been placed on us, and what are their purpose?]

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Yuria has no answer for all those question, and she also wants to find out the answer. But now, Erina has asked for Yuria to find out that answer for them.. To determine the purpose of an event that took place 200 years ago is no easy task, and any person related to that event may have long gone. It might have a chance that she will never find an answer to those questions. If she accepts that task, it will become her responsibility, and she has to delve deeper into what actually happen 200 years ago. It might also become a dangerous mission, because the person who placed the seal on them might be hostile...

[So, what is your decision?]