‘This can’t be solved with human powers.’ Even after the priests, mages, and alchemists poked around the territory for research purposes, they all shook their heads and left, only saying that there was a nasty, uncrackable curse cast upon this place. Most residents had probably lost hope for the territory to return to its past condition.

“Haha. But you never know, maybe the seigneur will please the heavens and they will shower us with rain.”

“Mister.” Gordon froze. He called Freeman, who was joking about how that would never happen. “Mister!!!”

“Hey, you! I’m going to go deaf because of you!”

“Was… Was that a raindrop just now?”

Freeman frowned at Gordon. “What kind of cock-and-bull story…” As Freeman lifted his sore body and peeked out the wooden watchtower… Drip… Something cold dropped from the sky and scattered after hitting his head. “Huh?”

They both froze simultaneously.

“…”

“…”

They were silent for a while.

Drip. As the cold water droplets fell from the sky, Gordon rubbed his eyes in disbelief and opened them wide. At the same time, both Freeman and...