When she returned, Celeste was back to normal (,).
　A model beauty with beautiful hair, sober as usual, I couldn't help but look at her.

'Sorry to keep you waiting, I encountered a freak outbreak of sleeping slime in Tellurian, so it took me a while to catch up.
A glitch?
Every once in a while, a large number of the same monster is spawned from a dungeon.　Don't you know?
'It can't be helped, anomalies aren't usually noticed much. It's only noticed when everyone is at a festival and there aren't many people in the dungeon.

　I agree with Emily's explanation.
　It's true that adventurers usually swarm the dungeons, I don't know how many abnormal occurrences there really are, but even if they are in somewhat large numbers, the dungeon zakos in this world are doomed to be killed in the blink of an eye by adventurers who are used to going around.

''So that's what happened.''
"Bunny saw heaven.

　Eve is still buried in a pile of carrots. It's not so much Eve anymore as it is a carrot.

'There's an awful lot of them,'
Carrot-obsessed.
Wow, I've been wanting to cook.

　Suddenly, Emily said with a weird barb.

'Emily?'
I've been wanting to make carrot dishes for years.
I'm gonna eat a carrot!

　It was normal for Eve, who was biting so hard.

I'm going to make it right away. I'm going to make sweet peppers stuffed with carrots...
'Whoa, whoa. Huh, rabbit suggestion. Carrots stuffed with carrots.
No, that's just a carrot.
I wonder what it will look like.

　Celeste and I look at each other with a slight smile.

"Yes, I'll be back to make it then!
Yeah!
Celeste is with Yoda. There are carrots all over the place, so no one but Eve is allowed to come home for a while.
No, it's strictly forbidden.
...... haha.

　Celeste noticed something and huffed next to me as I was giggling.
　Emily winked at her and left with Eve.

"What's going on?
'You don't have to do that anymore, Emily.......
Well, that's okay, with Emily's cooking skills. I might even have a carrot stuffed with carrots later on and go, 'Whoa!' You know how good Emily is. You know how good Emily is.
'I know, but ...... I know, but it's not.'
?

　For some reason, it was Celeste who started to squirm.
　I wonder what's wrong with her.
　Is it still anxious about stuffing carrots with carrots?

　Hm, then you need to take away your anxiety.

It's okay, I trust Emily.

　I said.
　Celeste looks at me with a surprised look on her face and is now shocked.

"I envy you,
Hmm?
I'm so jealous of Emily, that she believes in me so much. I'm so jealous of--
What are you talking about? I believe in Celeste, too.
What?

　Celeste is surprised again. I've been repeating my surprise and depression from earlier with roller coaster-like ups and downs.

'Do you believe me ......?'
'Oh ...... for example, the Inklese Goblin. You know.
Yeah, yeah. The monster on the eighth floor of the Germanium. On the one hand, they're very poor monsters, but on the other hand, if you don't defeat them with a single blow, they recover all of their HP and reinforce themselves, so they're a troublesome monster in many ways. For adventurers, they're practically harmless, but they grow up and are used for all sorts of things. By the way, the drop is a bell pepper, and it's not a very good way to earn money.

　Celeste returned to her usual tone and explained the details of the monster I had just defeated in the city, the Incredible Goblin.
　I just gave her a name, and she said the information was far more in depth than what I knew.
　As opposed to Emily, who knew nothing about it when I asked her.

'That's it,'
'What?　What's up with the Inkless Goblins?
No, I mean Celeste.
"Huh?
''Of course, Celeste's great magic's widespread annihilation power is the best in our (family), but even more than that, her knowledge of the subject is unparalleled. If I'm not mistaken, Celeste already knows every monster in every dungeon in Cyclo, right?
'Yeah, yeah. I've been in town a long time, and I've learned it all the time.

　It's a no-brainer, and besides, "What about it? Celeste says with a look on her face.
　I'm sure she has no idea how great she is doing.
　This makes me like her even more.

That's what's so great about it. I can't imagine being without Celeste anymore.
Does that mean I need ...... to go to ......?

　Celeste frowns fearfully.

"Of course. We'll always be friends.
...... Mr. Lyota.

　Celeste stared at me for a moment, then smiled at me with a giggle.

'Do you realize that's pretty awful?'
'Oh, my God!　What?
The line about being together for life.

　What's so terrible about it?

'Hmmm ...... or whatever, I won't bother with it now. As long as I don't give up.
Oh, oh. Don't give up?
And I'm going to try even harder.

　Celeste's gentle smile as she said this caught my attention and I couldn't help but notice

...... Oh, oh. Good luck.

　That's all I could say.

　With that, we watched the festival for a while before returning home.
　As a side note, we were served a dish called carrot stuffed with carrots.

"Whoa!

　And both I and Celeste groaned with hearts in their eyes.

　　　　　☆

　The next day, at the southern end of Cyclo, in the Harvest Festival arena.

　In the midst of a large crowd of spectators, Celeste and I were confronting the High Guts Slime.

　Celeste unfurled a magic circle and chanted, then thrust her hand straight out and unleashed an inferno.

　The flames burned the High Guts Slime - suddenly, Celeste clenched her outstretched fist and 'guffawed'.
　So the flames disappeared in an instant, and I saw the slime dying in tatters.

　I fired a conventional round to finish it off.

　There's a cheer.
　The arena is filled with adventurers, ordinary townspeople, and tourists alike.

''That's great, that ne'er-do-well, I'm pretty sure that high gut slime reflects excess damage, right? It's unharmed.''
He can do big moves and make small adjustments. That's a feat you can't do without knowing the monster and having the technique to do it.
Celeste of Lyota's family: ...... I didn't know such a high level wizard was unknown.
I trusted him completely, and he was the leader of the family.
Check it out.

　She used to struggle with a pile of garbage, but now she turned to me and smiled at me with all kinds of compliments.
　I felt a pang of excitement.