At the Northern Fort

Looks like the Kicks left the fort early the next morning with Mr. Teena and the others.

I went to the fort during the lunch break, but at that time, Mr. Branch Leader and the Ship-Eyed Knight were in the dining room talking to the gatekeepers Aniki and the Kowamote Corps about the "strange incident".

Today, by the way, the royal family and the family of the subdivision chiefs who are coming for summer shelter say they are hunting near your lord's mansion.

They decided to go away, reluctantly hunting near this Mount Snowlea with the Spirit.

"What the hell is the killer's purpose?

Mr. Branch Leader says with a serious face, his gaze looks at me sitting in the front the whole time.

I was now becoming a person, just looking at the burger on the plate in front of me.

I became a person because I thought I wouldn't use my hands to eat burgers, but now I'm worried about Kix and Kix's sister and I don't have an appetite.

I'd love to think your sister is safe, but if she wasn't... I'd have a bad imagination.

If it turns out to be the worst, how do I comfort the Kicks? What an extra thought at this point.

"You're not hungry?

Mr. Branch Leader stopped talking and spoke to me once. I snort silently. and the mundane tail is much less energetic, looking down.

"For Mill's sake, I need Kix to protect my sister safe and sound and come home."

When Mr. Branch Leader said so, he pushed the plate with the burger slightly towards me. He thinks if he gets close to his nose, he'll eat it because of the smell.

But I didn't end up eating, so the knight in the eye with me on his lap returns to the conversation.

"It's the purpose of the killer in a series of cases, but isn't it also possible that he's looking for someone?

Saying, the Shigeye Knight pulled out vegetables such as lettuce and tomatoes that were caught in the burger.

No, me, because being drained of vegetables doesn't return my appetite...... Because that's not the problem.

Mr. Branch Leader returns the hamburger as only the hamburger is pinched.

"So you're saying you were safely returning it because you weren't the intended child until now?

"Yes."

When the knight with the naked eye nodded, now Aniki, the gatekeeper who was sitting at the table with him, opened his mouth.

"Suppose the child the killer is looking for falls under the condition of" blonde or brunette, "" well-dressed, "" relatively young, "right? They're taking them both male and female, so they don't even know if the child they're after is a boy or a girl?

"Don't have too many mysteries"

And Gregorio, a red-haired member of the Kowamote Corps who was sitting next to the gatekeeper Aniki, also said as he looked at me.

"Wouldn't it be easier to target the mill of a person's appearance? Although silver is the color of hair, blondes also have white colors."

"I have tails and fox ears, but maybe they'll be after me. I've never been cautious."

It was Mr. Branch Leader who said it with a harsh face.

And the knight with the naked eye puts his hand on my head and says:

"Stay away from suspicious people, Mill."

"Yeah."

But I don't think you have a good chance of running into suspicious people in the first place. My range of action is about this fort and Mount Snowlea.

Besides, in case you run into the killer and get caught, you can easily get away with it using mobility.

"Ha..."

I sighed with a small mouth. It's more about Kicks now than it is about me.

Has Kix arrived at his parents' house yet? Or not yet? We still don't know if the killer who took Kix's sister is with the killer in the strange case. It could just be lost in the first place.

But anyway, I just have to hope your sister finds you safe.

- And then.

One of the knights rushed into the dining room and showed Mr. Branch Leader the one letter he had.

"Branch leader, this! In a letter I just received, addressed to Kix! The envelope also says' ASAP '"

"Sounds like you're from Kicks' home. The sender is probably the father......"

Mr. Branch Leader received the letter in a calm manner and looked at it.

And I say with a little thought.

"Bad for Kicks, but let me open it. Kix will be at his parents' house soon, so he can hear the letter directly from his father, but if we need more support from him, we better figure it out soon."

The knight of the ship's eyes then took the knife that had once been placed for my burger and gave it to the chief of the branch. Mr. Branch Leader uses that knife to open the envelope and retrieve the letter.

And follow with your eyes the letters written in the letter. There was only one letter, and the text didn't seem to be long.

As soon as Mr. Branch Leader finished reading, he exhaled heavily.

"Hey, what did it say?

I asked scared.

But when Mr. Branch Leader grins as relieved, he tells me this and the knights.

"Apparently Kicks' sister is back safe and sound"

"Huh? Good!

I said as I nearly cried. Both the tail, which was not energetic, and the ear, which slept in a flash, turned upwards.

At the same time my appetite returns and I add back tomatoes and lettuce before hitting the burger. Yum!

"It's too early for me to get my appetite back."

Gregorio looked at me and said that, and asked Mr Branch Leader:

"After all, were you lost or something?

"No, I didn't write that far. Kix's father must have also rushed to write to Kix as soon as his daughter was found. You thought Kix was worried too if you didn't let him know soon. 'I sent him a letter saying he was missing, but soon afterwards he came back safely. No injuries, I'm fine. He doesn't look frightened, and on the contrary, he's laughing in a good mood. Were you having fun with someone...? Anyway, I'm sorry to bother you. I'll write to you again when I'm settled,' it only says."

"Well, the Kicks will hear the details,"

The Shigeye knight gave me a glass of water after saying so and stuffed the burger in my mouth all at once.

Kicks and Teena, Rekka, Jildo and the Jets returned the following afternoon.

Is it time to come back? and i waited with the ship eye knight at the fort gate so i could hear from kicks as soon as possible.

"My sister was safe. I'm sorry for your concern. I'm sorry about Mill."

Kicks laughed a little with a carefree face.

"Yeah, don't kiss me"

"I hurried over there and they'd already found my sister."

When you say that to me, Kix looks at the knight in the eye and goes on.

"I was asking for more information about how they found me, and the sun was going down, so I stayed over there all night and came back."

"Oh. Whatever, I'm glad you're okay"

"Sister, she seemed fine."

When Jildo brightens up, Tina and Rekka go on to say, "Yeah, really" and "I'm glad I didn't feel scared," too.

And so the knight of the ship's eye told Kicks that he had read a letter addressed to Kicks.

"I let you open it on your own. Sorry about that."

"No, I'm glad you opened it. Apparently, shortly after his father sent out a letter saying, 'My sister is missing', my sister fluttered home. So I hear my father wrote to me again soon saying, 'I'm back safe,' but now I'm a step late to get it out, and it looks like the delivery center was closed at night. That's why he said he let it out the next morning. So the delivery was delayed by a day."

"'I'm back pretentious' means I'm back home on my own, even though I'm no longer visible in the city?

The knight in the eye asks. Kicks replied as he got off the horse.

"No, it's almost the main road from the city to the house, and my sister seemed to remember to go home, but she didn't come home alone, thank goodness. My sister asked the person who took her away to give her a ride home."

"So you weren't lost?

I stand up on my back leg and listen as I balance. When you're on the ground, it's hard to gaze at Kix.

But how could the killer who took Kicks' sister have acted strangely to send the kid he grabbed once to his house in a few hours?

I don't know why, but I think that the fact that the child was safely returned may be the same person as the killer of the "strange incident" that has occurred recently.

Kicks held me up fluttering with two hind legs.

"I'm not sure about that. I also think my sister got lost and the kind person who protected it may have asked my sister to send me home...... But then I wonder why the guy left without saying anything to his father or mother who was at home, and it's taking him a few hours for his sister to come back, but it's taking him so long to send his city protected sister to us? I also think"

"I don't know if you took him away once and then sent him home to protect him from being lost, but your sister saw who he was with, didn't she?

It was the knight of the eye who asked. Kicks nods and answers.

"Yes. My sister seemed to be with a beautiful man she didn't know when she realized. Some beautiful women said so. But I'm not sure about anything else. I lost track of my sister's story."

So Kicks imitates his sister and makes a cute voice.

"'You know, I was with a beautiful man! Man, it's so beautiful. Woman, I don't really see you, but it's beautiful! They're both so beautiful!' At this rate all the time, apparently the people were beautifully shaped, and I remained excited about it. Anyway, all I'm saying is that they were beautiful. That's all I'm impressed with."

Sharon does, and I know how you feel, but even kids are girls, right? I admire handsome and beautiful sisters.

But your sister is so excited about the aesthetic shape, I might want to take a look.

"They may be the same people who are responsible for the strange cases that are frequent in the country. It's true that before, the child taken must have testified that the killer was beautiful. Plus, the testimony of multiple offenders, man and woman, is consistent. Then again, Kix's sister wasn't protected by them, she said," Once they were taken, "

"Yeah. I think I'm the same guy. I still have no idea what the killer looks like other than" beautiful, "or where he's lurking or what he's after."

At the end of the conversation, Kicks left the horses to Mr. Tina and tried to go to Mr. Branch Leader for a report as well.

But there, a horse on which an unfamiliar man rode rushes into the fort. The man in a state of panic wore a different uniform than both the knight of the fort and the knight of the king's capital.

(That's for sure, the knight at your lord's grandfather's...)

He didn't look familiar to me, but he remembered his uniform.

He soon found out that the knight of the ship's eyes was also the knight of your lord, and he went through the gate without stopping.

"Looks like we're in a hurry, is there something wrong?

When the knight with the eye of a ship asks, the man says quickly as he rides.

"Oh, that's...! In our mansion, Master Sharon went missing!