At the Northern Fort

(ball of light...... fairy?

I looked back at my mother's fairy flying a little anxiously near the leader.

The color was yellow-green, but the size and round shape are the same as the fairy on her mother.

"Mill, Kgarg, you okay?!?"

Everyone who worries comes running over.

If you noticed, the blackened men had also disappeared from the scene. I guess he ran away while we were being attacked by that bird.

Were the two who attacked me and Kugarg at the same time companions?

"Earlier birds were spirits...... right? You know Mills?

The Shigeye Knight began to inspect everywhere for injuries while fixing my hair disturbed by the wind and the necklace where the red stone was turning towards my back.

Tina is inspecting the reluctant Kugarg.

"I don't know you. Besides, I think it's because I don't want to. Come on, you got it in the light, right?

"... you mean the main unit is different? The birds seemed to be targeting only the two mills, but do you have any idea what they might be attacking?

"Yeah, no"

"What about Kugarg?

"No, I don't know him either."

"Hey, Seki Cancer Kishimi. Wasn't that bird cooperating with the carrots earlier?

Face up and stare at the knight in the eye.

Even spirits who are cooperative with humans, like their mothers, do not lend their strength to individuals.

but I thought if you were a strange spirit like me, you might lend a hand to a person you liked.

"Right..."

The knight with the naked eye was also nodding and thinking of something, but eventually when he stood up, he turned to the captain of the regiment and to the chief of the branch.

"I'm talking about the men earlier... they looked familiar to one of us who was fighting me. I'm not absolutely sure because I hid more than half my face on top of someone I'm not familiar with, but I don't even think of it as an aerial resemblance to someone else"

That's right. Keep going after the prefix.

"It was a face I saw in the Knights several times when I was in Wang Du."

"... you mean they're knights of this country?

When the captain frowned, the knight with the naked eye also distorted his lips as he could not say.

"Yes, I don't know his name... but I do know who his superiors are"

"Who, that's"

Before the knight with the eyes answers that question of the captain, the captain of the branch pinches the words.

"Wait, I also recognized the look in the eyes of the man Kicks was dealing with. I don't know his name, but that's..."

Mr. Branch Leader continued with a bitter face after saying it for a moment.

- Captain Sarrell's men.

Everyone but Kugarg breathed when he heard the name.

The Shigeye Knight quietly agrees.

"I've seen that man behind Captain Sarrell a few times, too."

If those men were Captain Sarrell's men and this raid was also directed by Captain Sarrell, I felt it could be enough.

Captain Sarrell is aiming for the seat of the chief of the north fort.

Kix, according to the info, he doesn't seem to like the schemer, and it's not weird to think, 'Whatever you want, kick the guy who has it and take it'.

Says the captain as he touches his short jawbeard.

"I don't want to think Sarrell is falling that far..."

"But you could do it, that guy would."

It was Kicks who disputed that, and he said the same thing I thought of.

"For example, suppose Captain Sarrell thinks he's in the way of Chief Cromwell and he set up this case..."

"It's not a good idea to decide."

"For example, Teena. But if Captain Sarrell was behind this, it would explain the fact that the men just now knew who Mill and Kugarg were, and that they were trying to grab both of them. If we can't believe they caught the two of us, the Sons of the Spirit, all of us - especially the Branch Leaders - will pursue their responsibilities within the Knights. Besides buying royal disappointment and losing trust from Snowlea"

"As a result, I have to leave the North Fort."

The knight with the naked eye opened his mouth after the remark of the chief of the branch, who said pale even though it was about him.

"But it's also possible that neither the man I know, nor the man I know, has already resigned from the Knights and is a subordinate of Captain Sarrell. I was in Wangdu many years ago."

"Oh, I need a little more information to assume it was Captain Sarrell's work. Kicks used to be under Captain Sarrell, didn't he? Didn't they recognize you?

Mr. Branch Leader looked at Kicks and asked,

"Even if you stay downstairs, I was really the lower end of the rookie, so I rarely looked at Captain Sarrell, and I remember there was always a perimeter around the captain, but when he told me if the guy who was fighting me was that perimeter... um, I wonder how it was, because he was hiding his face, I'm not sure. The other four faces couldn't afford to be watching closely."

Kicks just put his arms together and twisted his neck.

"So, what about the captain? Didn't you recognize those men?

In response to the question of the chief of the branch, the chief roared, "Uhm......", arm in arm, just like Kicks.

And put it succinctly.

"I don't remember."

"Don't you remember?

Mr. Branch Leader's expression gets cold as ice.

"You're basically in King's Capital all the time, and Captain Sarrell and I will be face-to-face every meeting, right? As Kix says, Captain Sarrell usually brings close men around, so there must be plenty of opportunities for you to see them."

In the pursuit of Mr. Branch Leader, Mr. Branch Leader gets cold sweaty and twitchy.

"Hey, I'm not good at remembering people's faces. Especially when I meet with Sarrell, I can wear my beard and jacket, so I keep my eyes peeled. That's why I don't know the faces of my men around Sarrell."

"What are you..."

When Mr. Branch Leader sighs like a school teacher, Mr. Branch Leader says hastily.

"Wait! I have useful information, too. There is a deep valley in the territory of the Duke of Dehramon, the home of Sarrell."

What are you talking about all of a sudden? And I leaned my neck.

Mr. Branch Leader also had an unforgiving eye like 'I won't forgive you if you're talking nonsense', but he changed his complexion when he heard the continued words.

That's where the Spirit of the Wind came in recently.

"Spirit of the Wind?

"Ah! The bird just now! The wind's made it. It's good!

Following Mr. Branch Leader, I also joined the conversation by stretching my neck from below.

Because after we got serious, I felt somewhat forgotten about being there.

"Thank you, Spirit of the Wind. He seems to be changing his residence and rolling around the world, but he showed up in the Valley of Dallamon about a week ago. They decided to use it as a place to live for a while. So, the Duke of Dehramon should be taking his own men and Sarrell to visit him once to say hello. However, since the officials of the country were following along, Sarrell would not have had the opportunity to speak with the Spirit of the Wind personally on the spot, but he might have been able to make contact again after the official had returned"

The captain said to the branch captains.

He doesn't even look at me this way, so I wonder if I can't see him participating in this discussion, too, so I'll make it as loud as possible.

"I wonder if Mr. Sarrell meant“ taken "by the wind! Right?"

"I don't know what kind of hand you used, but could Captain Sarrell have gotten the help of the Spirit of the Wind"

Mr Branch Leader makes a difficult face and says something slightly similar to what I said, in a slightly wearing manner to my words.

That's because I said so!

"Yes, yes! I don't know what kind of hand you got, but..."

"Captain Sarrell has something to do with the men who attacked us and the Spirit of the Wind, right? Isn't it decisive already? Captain Sarrell is after you, and you'd better move."

I roared around and bit into Kicks' boots that blocked my remarks.

You do this, you do this!

"Come on, what the fuck!?"

"Surely you shouldn't fail to be vigilant. If it's their aim to attack Mill or Kugarg and hold the Branch Leader accountable, this time it failed. Maybe they'll set something up again.... What's up, Mill"

A ship-eyed knight says as he hugs me scattered across the kicks.

"You're smart, aren't you, Sarrell?

When he regained his mind and asked the knight of the ship's eyes,

"Right, so much so that the commanders at headquarters have their own staff, but Captain Sarrell says they don't need it."

The answer returned.

(If that's all smart people can manipulate even spirits as their own pawns...)

It's not normal for the Spirit to lend a hand to fulfill a man's selfish wishes, but what if the Spirit of the Wind was turned over to Captain Sarrell?

I thought about it as I remembered those emotional eyes that really hated me and Kugarg.

If Captain Sarrell was behind this, what the hell did he say to the Spirit of the Wind?