At the Northern Fort

"Hey, something was amazing"

Says Kicks on its back as he walks his horse with Pokupok.

"I can't believe His Royal Highness's maid seems so in love."

"Pretty, but you surprised me"

Mr. Tina laughs bitterly.

We finished our picnic and were on our way back to the north fort. The only knights now are the knights of the fort, as Sharons separated from the royalty who headed to the grandfather's mansion of your lord, the family of the chief of the branch, the chief of the regiment, and Kugarg also returned to his residence.

I was on the leader with the knight of the ship's eyes listening to everyone chatter. Mr. Branch Leader was hoping to get on me, but I'm sorry, but I want to be with the Shigeye Knight this time.

'Cause there's still a yakitori roasted aftertaste. I thought Sharon would take the Shigeye Knight.

"Besides, I can't believe I even fell in love with the deputy director or Mr. Rodos"

Mohican-headed Jets, a young man in the Kowamote Corps, says it's funny.

"But it's going to be tough. His Royal Highness Ask."

It was Mr. Rekka who said that. By the way, Mr. Rekka had a good face, so Sharon was about to fall in love with her even though she said she was a woman.

Sharon likes someone even if they scold him, but it's a big premise. They fall unconditionally in love with aesthetics.

Mr. Rekka continues.

"His Royal Highness Ask should be wary of bad bugs on Master Sharon, but I don't care who Sharon is, because he likes them better."

"You'd be worried."

Kix also continues with a hammer.

"I'd be worried if my sister was like that, too. My younger sister is only two years old, but she's getting older up there at twelve... and my sister could wipe out the guy she fell in love with one after the other"

"" I know how you feel ""

To Kix's words, the ship-eyed knight and Mr. Branch Leader nodded at the same time. Besides, Mr. Branch Leader looked this way for a moment, and the Shigeye Knight put a little effort into the hand that was spinning around my chest.

Is that it? It feels like a dead man would come out if I liked someone...?

Once I got to the fort, I went back to my mother and moved back to the fort at night. Occasionally, but at night, before I go to bed, I sometimes go to the fort to play. Just in time, because everyone is relaxing in the talking room.

"Mill, are you here?"

At the same time as the move was complete, there was a knight's voice in the eye from right behind. Apparently, on the lap of the knight with the naked eye who was sitting on the couch relaxing, he flew good.

So I lean on my back as it is.

"You're fast enough to relax when you get here."

The knight with the naked eye grins and strokes my stomach.

There were a lot of knights in the bickering room, and Kicks, Teena, and Rekka were friendly chatting. The windows in the bickering room are open, but the bugs don't come in much. There doesn't seem to be any mosquitoes in this area either.

Besides, compared to Japan, it would be appreciated if the evening was cooler even in the summer.

And as I was grinding on the lap of the knight with the eye of a ship, the Jets came into the talking room. The Jets hold a box with letters and parcels.

Aniki, the gatekeeper sitting near the door, asks.

"You, today's baggage handler?

"Yes, Mr. Rodos told me. I don't think there was anything else going on today."

Aniki says to Jets, who don't seem to fall.

"You said during the day, 'Besides, I can't believe you even fell in love with your deputy or Mr. Rodos' about the way Sharon looks in love, right? In a way that sounds strange to fall in love with Mr. Rodos. The vice president didn't seem to care, but then Mr. Rhodos looked down on you."

"Uh, that or"

The Jets seem convinced and go around the bickering room and hand out their bags to everyone.

"When you hand it out at this hour, it's easy because everyone's assembling in the bickering room....... hmm?

The Jets saw a certain letter and stopped moving for a moment. And when I look over to the colloquial room and find Kicks, I walk away with a quick leg that way.

"Hey, Kicks! Letters to you! It says' ASAP 'in the envelope."

"... what is it? From my parents' house. And rarely from his father."

Kix has received a letter confirming the contents. Me and the ship eye knight were looking at you somehow, but while I was silently reading the letter, the look on Kix's face got all harsh.

"... what?

"What's going on?

Tina, who was next door, asks.

When he finished reading the letter, Kicks whined as if he couldn't believe it, keeping an eye on the text.

"My sister... said my two-year-old sister is gone..."

"He's gone!? You mean he's missing?

It was Tina who spoke out, but everyone in the bickering room was surprised. Of course I'm surprised, too, jumping out of Hesoheaven's posture.

By two-year-old sister, do you mean the second child from the bottom? Because at the bottom is a boy who was just born before this.

"What do you mean, missing? What's the situation where he's gone?

"Hey, wait a minute... Something confusing."

Kix had forgotten to blink and held his mouth with one hand, but when he found me, he came here.

"Deputy, can I borrow it...?

"Oh."

And when he holds me back, he goes back to his original chair and lowers his back. Trying to calm my mind by stroking me, I reread the letter as I stroked my head and back.

"... my sister, with her other brothers, said she was out buying out with her father to a nearby city, where she was blind"

"If you got lost in the city, there'd be plenty of adults around, and you'd usually find them soon. I can't get far on my own at two, and I'm not old enough to run away from home. If so, did someone take him away?

"I don't know..."

Kix's hand, stroking me, was shaking a little.

A knight in the eye asks, watching how such a kick looks.

"When did he go missing? It won't be today because there's a time difference between the letter and the time it arrives here."

"Yes...... according to the date on the letter, it looks like it was yesterday afternoon that went missing. I can't find him when the sun goes down, so my father hastily wrote to me to let me know."

"You're worried. But if it's a city near Kix's parents' house, it's not under our jurisdiction, and they'll say no to trying to support the search."

"That's right..."

Kicks can nod. The knights in that area will be searching properly, and on the scale of the 'one child is missing' case, I wonder if this knight is hard to get out.

But the knight with the eye continued to do so immediately afterwards.

"But you're a missing person's family. It is natural for families to join the search. So go home tomorrow. You can also use horses. It's tough having a baby, too, so help him with his family."

"Is that okay?

"Absolutely. I'll get permission from the captain."

"- There's no need for that. I'll give you permission now."

The sudden addition to the conversation was Mr. Branch Leader, who came into the colloquium. Looks like Mr. Branch Leader has just come up from the bath, holding a towel in his hand and appropriately tying his moist, wet hair together. Plus he was wearing rough clothes that looked like sleeping rolls.

"It's unusual for a chief of branch to come to the talking room."

Jets says, Mr. Branch Leader answers in a whisper with Boso.

"There was a sign that there was a mill..."

So I reattached the ice mask firmly and continued to do so when I became the "Branch Leader" face.

"As Grail said, give the Kicks some time off. And give Jets, Jildo, Teena and Rekka a vacation too. You guys are close to Kicks. It's no surprise that friends of the missing person's family join the search. If we're friends, we won't be backstroking the pride of the knights over there."

"Okay."

"I will always protect Kix's sister!

Mr. Tina nodded loudly and was in a mood for Mr. Rekka's words. Mr. Rekka has been kidnapped as a child and felt scared, and I guess if Kix's sister had been put in the same situation, I wouldn't be able to leave her alone. Jets and Zildo were willing to go, too.

"Thank you, Branch Leader. Thanks, guys."

"Early tomorrow morning, leave. Get some sleep today and get ready for tomorrow or later. I know you want to leave now, but if you run a horse at night, you could have an accident."

"Yes."

I was hoping to follow you, too, but would it help me to follow you? I can only see a future where I can get my feet together or make extra cases.

But if you're stroking me calms down Kix... I'll follow you if you want Kix to come. I thought so and looked up at Kicks.

Kicks, though, was stiff but laughed a little and tried to reassure me.

"Are you worried about me? I'm fine. If you take me there and someone grabs me up to the mill, I'm in trouble, so stay here."

"Say it as soon as you have one power! I'm not much help alone, but I am to my mothers, and I'm gonna get everyone to help me!

"Thanks. But you, I know a lot of spirits, and if you ask for help, because the spirits will gather together for my sister, that's kind of..."

Kicks laughed again, but his expression is still hard.

Then Mr Branch Leader says.

"With that said, Kicks, is your sister blonde?

"Yes, she's blonde, just like me..."

"How do you look? Pretty?"

"Why would you do that... She's cute like me. I think it would be cute to lose your inner hips."

"Well, you're a child face, too. But then..."

"What is it? Are you some kind of pervert after a pretty blonde?

Kix's tone got a little rough. I also have a deep wrinkle between my eyebrows imagining that my sister might be caught by such a person.

"No, I don't think he's a pervert...... However, a growing number of cases are occurring in the country in which blonde or brunette, male or female, well-dressed, young children will disappear. The killer seems to be on the move, and I've been trying to tell you guys about this and strengthen patrols in our jurisdiction."

"What is his purpose?

"I don't know that either. But if it was the killer who took Kix's sister, I'd be a little relieved. All the kids the killer's ever taken, they're all coming back to their parents in a few hours or so without fear."

When I heard about Mr. Branch Leader, there was a slight anticipation in Kix's eyes.