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TRAS Chapter 97: Long Time No See
Dressed in a light green cloak and hood, the teen god gave him an embarrassed smile, as he quietly took a sip of his own. “You seem preoccupied. I didn’t sneak up on you last time.”
“Yeah… yeah you didn’t,” Ailn said, mulling it over. He wasn’t going to let the kid distract him though. “Seriously, where were you? I’ve been doing my job. But I’m not entirely sure you’ve been doing yours.”
He paused, and his eyes narrowed. “What the hell do you even do al...
2025-04-20 18:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapters updated! April 17 2025
Hope you guys enjoy! This marks the start of Vol. 3! Buckle in
2025-04-17 12:40:56 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 96: Headed Home
Chapter 96: Headed Home
Renea rode in silence, her heart brimming with anxious excitement at the thought of returning home. She desperately wanted to see her family—Sophie, most of all—and show them she’d grown, even if just a little.
A sudden thought crossed her mind, and she coaxed her horse into a gallop, drawing alongside Sir Dartune. She called out to him.
“Sir Dartune, why is it that you…” Renea hesitated. “Why do you bear such hatred for Sussuro?” 2025-04-17 12:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Chaps updated 4/15/2025! With chap 95, vol 2 ends!
AceGreen here. To everyone who's joined the patreon, thank you very much! For anyone in the Ace Detective tier, Chap 95 marks the end of Vol. 2: A Study in Sunlight. I hope that title's come to become meaningful for you guys over the course of the volume. It's one I personally like very much.
I hope you guys enjoyed Ailn's adventures in Sussuro. Volume 3 starts on Thursday, tentatively subtitled Sorry, Just Missed You.
I'm very excited for volume 3. Maybe even mor...
2025-04-15 15:37:11 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 95: Some Sunny Day
The next morning, a few hours before they were to set out for Varant, Ailn found himself standing in front of the Areygni Villa.
Specifically, he stood in front of the dragon statue. He remembered the passage from The Codex of Hidden Paths that Noué had earmarked.
If the dragon thirsts
Would you let it drink?
He’d brought a tall mug from the Fleuve estate, and scooped up a glass of water from the Sussurokawa.
“Maybe it ...
2025-04-15 15:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 94: Your Smile
“Was she… happy, Ailn?” Elenira asked.
He hesitated, spending a long time considering what to say—and whether he should say it. He reached for a watch that wasn’t there… but his expression didn’t change.
Finally, he decided to just tell the truth.
“I don’t know,” Ailn said. “She thought she was.”
“...You don’t know?” Elenira asked softly. The look on her face was hard to bear.
Ailn sighed, idly walking over to the w...
2025-04-13 13:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 93: Left Behind
When Ailn returned to Noué’s childhood home, he found Elenira still sitting face down at the kitchen table, as if she’d never left.
“... Did you at least eat something while I was gone, Elenira?” Ailn asked.
“I made soup,” Elenira said, sluggish, clearly regretful of every decision she’d made that brought her to this state. She looked up sharply, her glare aimed not at Ailn, but at the empty bottle of veenlyn that had rolled to the far end of the table. ...
2025-04-10 15:53:21 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 92: A Story by Sunset
Ailn stopped in his tracks.
There was a translucent girl there. Blonde, but without any wings. She had a light airy glow to her, but ‘radiant’ would definitely be a stretch.
She was more like a nightlight.
Except, evidently, she wasn’t all that calming. A knight, a water mage, and a former Saintess were each all thrown somewhere into the spectrum of fight-or-flight, grouped together about ten feet away.
“Cora. You’re walking on land,” Ailn remar...
2025-04-08 15:35:13 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 91: The Beautiful Truth
“...Why, Noué?” Ailn mumbled. Was this really a truth worth capturing?
Was this her final piece?
The charcoal portrait of Cora marked the start of the second story of the vault—of Noué’s life and work. And… unless it was metaphorical, it depicted the end of Cora’s.
The word that came to mind was Thanatos. The drive toward death. Ailn wasn’t the type to lean on psychoanalysis, but sometimes it just fit like a glove. Noué felt closest to truth when...
2025-04-06 18:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 90: A Study in Shadow
It was obvious who they saw—they’d be up there this whole time. Ailn was more caught up in the question of what it meant.
The chamber was completely dark, save for the light from their lanterns, and Ailn found himself wondering, for a moment, what happened to the illusion when no one was around.
“Do you ever get lonely, Noué?” Ailn asked. He couldn’t help himself.
“I don’t ‘get’ anything,” the reflection replied. “Do you talk to your ...
2025-04-03 16:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 89: Hiding in Sunlight
The knight met the gaze of the reflection in the water. For a moment, it was as if the colors had dried on the surface, and a rock had been flung through, causing the image to crack.
“A life driven by paradoxical impulses is it, sir knight?” the reflection almost sounded offended.
“...It could have been,” Kylian said. “Yet we would never know. The person and the illusion were never the same.”
Ever since he’d met the resurrected Ailn on that fateful day in...
2025-04-01 12:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 88: Her Smile
There were four different paintings, in four different mediums. And maybe most saliently, there were four different versions of Noué.
They all wore the same off-white dress with a golden sash, stood in the same pose—one hand brushing her hair, the other pulling the dress into a slight curtsy. They all smiled, yet each smile gave a different impression.
“...Elenira Lirathel was a true master of her craft,” Naomi said softly. “Every portrait seems as if they're a diff...
2025-03-30 07:56:37 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 87: Reflection in the Water
As the heavy, white stone door opened into the antechamber, its true thickness became apparent—two feet at its heaviest point near the center. A low groan echoed, and the marble strained under its own weight.
With a resounding, almost painful creak, the door halted before it could fully open—still, there was enough room to pass.
The rest of the group stared at Safi astonished. Cora even patted her on the back for a job well done.
“How did you…? This riddl...
2025-03-27 10:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostVol. 2 Cover!
Hey guys. Here's that exciting thing I was talking about. It's volume 2's cover! I thought if there was anything worth showing from this arc, it was the mysterious portrait. It'll be uploaded to RR by Friday, probably. Here it is for you guys a little early.
2025-03-26 19:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 86: An Unfinished Supper
All at once, the group realized what Ailn had: that the entire chamber was the medium for Noué’s art.
“Unbelievable…” Naomi muttered, from beside him. “How would Areygni even manage to…?”
Her head slowly rose to the ceiling, and she shuddered. It was such a visceral reaction, Ailn wondered if they’d ever found cave paintings in this world.
The most natural comparison he could think of was Lascaux.
Like its Hall of the Bulls, the paintings o...
2025-03-25 17:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostSlight change to the posing of Noué's portrait
Whoever painted this portrait, however, must have loved her dearly.
“She was beautiful,” Renea said softly.
Were this portrait to be believed, Noué Areygni was a fetching woman, and she’d evidently dressed in her finest for this sitting.
Her auburn hair fell just past her shoulders, braids of it playfully woven like a tiara, lending her a pixie-like air. One hand lightly brushed against it, while the other held her tunic—prettier than any gown—in a sli...
2025-03-24 23:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 85: Into the Dark
The next morning, before he and a few others entered the cave, Ailn stopped by the old house to give Elenira the portrait. He wasn’t all that surprised to see the grieving elf trying to drown her sorrows in liquor.
“Veenlyn, huh?” Ailn asked. “Better than anything from our old world, Elenira?”
“...’s the worst,” Elenira mumbled. “Like drinkin’ sp’cy dirt.”
Head resting on the table, curled into her own arms, Elenira stared vacantly off to the si...
2025-03-23 15:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostTRAS Chapter 84: She’s Not There
Why’d her mind immediately jump to ‘locked in a cupboard?’ Listening to Elenira struggle not to laugh, Renea felt her face grow even hotter.
“It, ahem, shows you have a kind soul,” Elenira said. Her smile was gentle, and her eyes soft, even if it looked like she was about to wheeze. “There’s no—hah—reason to be ashamed.”
Her kindness, unfortunately, only made it more embarrassing for Renea, who wanted to move past it.
“Why—um, how’d you figure...
2025-03-20 17:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post