* Alfine Perspective
He had been rocked by a carriage and had arrived in Algren, a large city in the north.
They say the northern mountainous areas are always cold areas where snow remains undissolved, and this Algren is also a city buried in snow within a year, nearly six months.
However, there are many mineral resources sleeping around this Algren, and the refining industry seems to be thriving to mine and refine them.
Exporting refined metals to various locations had created a lot of wealth and had developed into one of the kingdoms' leading metropolises.
"The whole city is smoking. I've never been this way before."
"Since the furnace for refining many minerals is moving day and night. The city is also known as The City of Ashes and Smoke. Now."
Whimpering about the city I saw through the window, the butler told me the alias of the city of Algren.
"Yes..."
I'm not particularly interested in the city alias, but my chest tightens cuddly when I think Fern might be in this city who supposedly dumped the Adventurer badge.
Let's find him and apologize for what we've done so far and go home to the King's Capital.
I don't want the luxury of him staying by my side as unconditionally as ever...
Luxury...... no, thinking so would be my unconscious arrogance in itself.
A silly woman who was sweet to the position of childhood taming, who was sweet to his kindness, who didn't realize that her relationship had changed since taking office in Kensei, and who couldn't cut off becoming an adult who continued to sweeten unconsciously.
That's me.
I finally realized that with him gone this past month.
I think a woman like this, a decent person, would have done her love a long time ago.
Still, Finn endured unreasonable behavior in anticipation of me changing.
But I didn't see how I was going to change at all, so I finally left.
She's a really stupid woman......
I can't fix anything that falls out of my palm any more.
At the very least, I just have to apologize for what I've done to make sure he's all right and take a different path from each other.
Because there's only one way for me to stop hating him any more...
I had no choice but to sigh deeply as I turned my gaze to the grey stained sky and the city.
When the carriage stopped, I saw the Algren Adventurer's Guild, the destination.
Above the entrance was written the design of a badge depicting a large, far cry and ore.
It seems to be the source of this Algren Adventurer Alliance badge.
When I got out of the carriage, a man and a woman, thought to be officials of the Adventurer's Guild, bowed their heads and waited at the entrance.
"Dear Alfine, I've been waiting for you. As reported in advance, the man in question has been taken to an underground cell."
"I understand. Can I see you right now?
"Yes, we are ready"
"The entrance will be that way"
When the man said so, a female employee began to guide him gently to the entrance to the dungeon, which served as the back door.
To avoid the adventurers, I was taken to an Algren Adventurer Guild official and taken to an underground cell.
The cell is a guild facility that houses sinful adventurers until their sentences are confirmed, and they say it's also in the King's Capital Adventurer's Guild, but it's not open to the public.
Such cells were stinking and filled with even smells.
At the head of the staff, he arrived in the cell of a man who used Fern's Adventurer badge to falsify his identity.
"Hey, get up. I'm going to do some research here."
The man seemed to have rolled on the floor and slept, responding to the official voice and moving out with gossip.
"Ugh. I don't have anything to say anymore. I told you everything."
A man of unknown age, covered in a barren beard, had replied in various words.
I grabbed the collar of a man's clothes over an iron lattice and drew him in.
"I'm not interested in who you are, but I'm very interested in someone you've falsified, so could you help me?
I thought I could ask for it without raising my emotions as calmly as possible.
But the man looked blue, afraid of my temper.
"Hii. Don't kill me. I can't help it. I said I just faked my identity with my heart. That badge was the relic of a man who went down in Slam Street."
"Down on the road man?
"Oh, he was a young man with rare dark hair. He seemed sick, and by the time I found him in the slums, he was already a bug."
The man started talking about the pepper and the one who got that badge.
A young man with dark hair went down sick in Slam Street...
No way, Finn... no way... someone else, I'm sure.
My anxiety spreads when I hear a man's words and I can't even say it in my chest.
"So what happened to that man!?
Unexpectedly, I made a mistake in the power of my hand grabbing the man's collar and pulling off his clothes.
"Oh, I didn't kill him. I didn't kill him. He said he was a boss, but he couldn't hear me, and he had trouble leaving his body behind to blame me, so he dumped him at sea from a nearby harbor. So, I just impersonated him with my remaining badge and tried to suck sweet juice as a platinum-grade adventurer!
The man didn't kill himself to twitch, and the young man with dark hair was soliciting death from illness.
No way, even though that sturdy fiend was a cold land, it shouldn't be easy to die of illness......
Even a young man with dark hair is separate from Fern...... I'm sure someone else.
My heart was disturbed by the information brought to me by the man.
The man who was dead got Fern's badge in some way with someone else, and I want to think he went down in this land, and I want to believe that, while I really wish Fern was sick and dead. Those feelings were at best in my mind.
"So we also searched the ocean, based on a man's testimony, that we abandoned the man, and found the body of a young man with rotten dark hair."
"Huh!?
A man on the guild staff had inherited the word to supplement the man's testimony.
They tell me they found the body, and my heart tightens even tighter.
If the body was really Fern... we'd never see each other again, and we'd never be able to apologize.
Please... please, be separate from Feen.
Please. Please, God...... please.
I think the upset was on my face when I was told I'd found the body, but now I couldn't afford to be haunted by that.
"The body is housed here. Confirm if you are looking?
A female guild employee asks to see what's going on here.
If you keep going home, don't make sure Finn's dead.
But then nothing will remain the same as before.
When I run back here, I'll remain the sweet idiot bitch I've ever been.
I've made up my mind over the past month with myself like that.
I snorted silently at the female guild clerk even though I felt frightened.
The female guild clerk took her out of the cell and the body was housed in the room on the other side.
"This is the body of a man pulled up more than the sea. Corruption is progressing because we were immersed in the sea..."
Inside the coffin, cooled by snow, was the body of a young man with dark hair who was half-corrupted and swollen all over his body.
I was used to seeing the bodies of adventurers devoured by demons, but when I thought the body in front of me might be Feen, I couldn't contain anything that crept up from my stomach.
"Ugh, wow... Keho, wow"
Spread the puke all over the floor and wipe the dirty mouth with your hands when you cough.
"Use this one. Don't worry, I'll take care of the dirt on the floor."
A female employee of the worried guild offered me a handkerchief.
"Thank you. I worried about you. From now on, let me do the confirmation."
He wiped his dirty hands with a served handkerchief and gazed once again at the corpse of a rotten young man.
The outfit is as good as Fern's... plus the hair has a long forehead and dark hair...
This is all I see, it might be Fern... but even though dark hair is rare, it's not like there's anywhere else...
And then there's the little tattoo that the director of the orphanage put in everyone's neck muscles, or not, to avoid the plague...
I was desperate to quantify the rotten body and find out why this body wasn't Feen.
"Excuse me, I'd like to see your neck muscle, so I need your help to turn it over"
"Understood."
With the help of a female guild official, carefully turn over the body and look for a small tattoo of the hair lifting neck.
"Huh!?
When I put my hair up, there was a plague avoidance tattoo of the same design as mine on the neck muscle of the body.
Ko, this is Finn's tattoo......!?
I knew this body was Finn...
At that moment, the emotions that I was holding back overflowed, and I couldn't stop the large tears from overflowing from my eyes.
The last thing I wanted you to do was stick out in front of me as a reality.
I'll never see him again, and I can't apologize for what I did.
Though I'm all bad, I didn't know I'd be treated this cruelly and terribly......
Is this a punishment from God for himself who was arrogant and selfish......
Then I wish you'd just taken my life... why, why Finn...
"Feen!! That's not true! Why did you die on your own? Whoa, whoa! Feen!! Tell me you're lying!! Feen!!! I don't know how this ends. Oh, my God!
When I took the body without knowing why, I cried and fell to the dirty floor with my own vomit, losing my mind.