(... It's Sin. Lord, why did you run away now?)
"No... I don't care what they say..."
Behind an alley just outside the Adventurers Guild, I was being questioned by a cross.
If you ask me why I ran away, then it's because I'm surprised.
I thought nobody knew about me, so if you said you were wearing a mask like that, and yet you overheard your character name there, it's more impossible to be surprised.
(… well, the fact that the Lord is quite surprised is painfully conveyed to me)
Do you understand?
Then I'd be very helpful if I didn't explain myself.
But don't read my mind too much.
I'll sue you for invading your privacy.
(Where are you going to sue me... shouldn't I think about those who have spoken to the Lord earlier than that?)
"... oh, just now?
Speaking of which, yes.
The guy who spoke to me earlier, how did he know my character name?
I mean, you used to realize I was wearing a mask.
He couldn't see his face because he was wearing a full face helm over there.
Who the hell was that?
Voicewise, I think maybe it's a man...
"... that's when you said no to Sin."
Well, I remember what the man said earlier.
The guy who calls me 'no to Sin' is pretty limited.
... Sounds like you need to uncover who he was earlier somehow.
(You might as well imitate it. This is a space full of enemies for the Lord.)
"Oh, I know"
I wouldn't take such a conspicuous approach.
I just want to find out what the man was like earlier, and I'm not trying to do anything rough.
"In the meantime, shall we wait for that man to come out of the Adventurer Alliance"
I begin to monitor the Alliance's entrance while hiding in the shadows.
I don't know how long you're gonna wait, but I'm patient here.
It would be safer to ambush him in the alley than to step inside that guild again.
"... are you out already"
Less than a minute after I started the stakeout, an example man came out of the building.
All right.
This is lucky.
Worst case scenario, I was also prepared to be waited here for a few hours.
But the man was walking in the opposite direction to me.
It would have been easier if you'd walked over here, okay?
(Lord... what are you going to do?)
"What... Discuss?
Answering Cross with a small voice, I approach the man.
And I stand behind a man...
"Don't turn around. Turn around and you'll die."
- I whispered softly in the man's ear and grabbed his neck.
At the same time, I took the man's arm and led him between the buildings of the dim building with my joints in the air.
(Something... It's like a thug does... I really don't know if this is okay...)
Ugh, shut up.
It's my act to talk as peacefully as possible.
Look how big this is.
"... hey, who the hell are you? Answer me."
I turned from cross to man and asked in a low voice.
The place is the place, so we should be careful.
We must always keep in mind that this can be an enemy land.
"That voice... I knew it wasn't for Sin, right?
"... you, you know me?
"You bet. Even so, I haven't seen you in years, so you don't have to know me."
The man kept his back turned and took the helmet he was wearing on his head.
And I've slowly turned my face to this one.
The man was a human race.
…… The wound... "
Besides, on the man's cheek, there were marks like cuts.
The moment I saw this, one boy's face crossed my back of my brain.
"Kiss......"
"Oh, you finally figured it out. Long time no see to Sin."
The man of the people I met in the Devil's City... was Kiss, one of the new American adventurers I once planted an adventurer activity with.
".................. Huh!!!
"Huh!? Hey, instructor!? Duh, why are you here?!?
"Kee, Mr. Kiss! What is this about!?
I was taken by Kiss to a room in a certain inn.
Then he also reunited there with former New American adventurers such as Kuri, Liana and Emma.
So is Kiss, but we're all growing up pretty good.
When I first met him, he was about an elementary school student, but now he was a fine adult about 20 years old.
For what I saw, I feel younger now.
"Cooli, Liana, Emma, it's been a long time. How have you been?
I greeted the coolies in my room softly.
Whether they look grown up or not, it's not me who changes my attitude.
It's the way it used to be.
"Ha, yes, we were doing fine, but..."
Emma is sending her gaze to Kiss.
You seem to want me to explain why I'm here.
"No, I went to the Adventurer Guild earlier, and I stumbled upon Singh."
Kiss told me about how she met me there.
He also explained what I was doing in the Adventurer's Guild, and when I got out of the Guild, I got stuck in the shadows.
"... so I'm sure Emma and the others won't want to see Singh, so I brought her here."
"You did...... I feel destined to see you again by chance here!
Hearing Kiss explain, Liana nodded.
Liana seems convinced by the explanation.
"What I'd like to ask is something more fundamental..."
but Emma doesn't seem to be convinced.
Well, you're right.
This isn't the continent of Wolds, it's the continent of Fuvel, so even if we could see each other again, we'd think it was too suspicious.
In fact, I'm wondering why these guys are here, too.
"It might take a little longer, but listen to me."
For one thing, I spoke in an orderly fashion from Meermill Continent to being flown to this land.
Then, with a serious look, the Kisses listened quietly as they pinched the question from time to time.
"Ha... No to Singh, no to Singh, I've been having some pretty hard days."
"I can't believe I'm left alone in this land... it's outrageous..."
"If I see the same thing as the instructor, I'll be dead when Magma drops me first..."
…………
All four of the Kisses have looked at me with a drawn look, or a worried look.
You don't have to be sympathetic.
Although fatigue, lack of sleep and hunger overlap, I'm still pimping.
"Then it's your turn next. Why are you guys on the Fuvel continent?
I couldn't help but keep talking about me, so now I've decided to get the Kisses to talk.
The Fuvel continent, where the Demons are giving it width, is basically not where people come from.
In spite of this, I think that Kiss and the others are here for some purpose...
"We received a mission (quest) to scout the demons' insides at the Wolves Adventurers Guild… on the way"
"So, reconnaissance?
Whoa.
That's definitely an A-rank quest.
You can call it the finest difficulty.
"You've taken that a lot."
"Hehe! We're all A-rank adventurers!
"Ho..."
Soon, the Kisses seemed to have grown up to be A-rank adventurers.
This makes me very happy.
You're already a totally first-rate adventurer.
"... but you don't have Rio"
"Your brother will inherit the Freya family, so we don't do adventurers like you."
"I haven't seen him lately, but I hear it's a breath disaster"
"Oh well."
For me, it felt like a party with all five of us: Kiss, Emma, Cooli, Liana and Rio.
So I felt just a little lonely about not being alone with Rio, but, well, he wasn't the only adventurer, was he?
I can't help but say that I'm not here.
"So, you four came to this city together?
"Yes, it is. This mission (quest) needs to be done confidentially, so we were asked to act in small numbers."
"It's a lot of nerve to move around in the Devil's City. Four people are the limit."
That's right.
Kiss out there was hiding her face.
Maybe we're all acting in concealment here that we're all people.
If so, you should want to avoid acting in too large a number to stand out.
If you're on a reconnaissance mission, all the more so.
"By the way, how long has that reconnaissance been going on?
"Mostly since about two weeks ago. Actually, it's not like we've been doing this for that long."
"Oh, really?"
Even two weeks can be said to be quite a long time, but I can also say that it has been very recent.
In the first place, a reconnaissance mission is a difficult task to understand how long it should last.
How long are the Kisses going to be staying in the Huvel continent?
Or, in the first place, does this city have the kind of information that the Kisses have to scout for?
"But, wow, they bought the big news, so maybe we'll head back to Wolves soon."
"Hmm? Big news?
"You want to ask Singh no?
"If it's something I can tell you, I want to hear it."
I nodded cocklessly as I looked into Kiss's eyes.
"Even so, this is information that anyone in the city knows."
Kiss foreshadowed that and looked at Emma.
Then Emma coughed with Cohon before continuing ahead of Kiss's words.
"- 'Nidork Fjord', the 127th demon king who had long ruled the Fuvel continent, said he had collapsed the other day."