Safe, making money and entering a sealed city, we were in a liquor store trying to get a tummy tummy.

"Now let's split up as much money as we just did. Amazing. That's a sealed city. There are a lot of rich people. Two hundred and fifty thousand bars with just a twist."

Kuna is in a good mood, splitting the bundle of bills and coins into two parts.

One is, 25,000 bars. The other is 125,000 bars.

"This is Sage."

And he gave me a hundred and twenty-five thousand bales.

Perhaps the hundred thousand bars I paid for myself at the entrance fee have been taken from the mountain of Kuna.

"No, that's fine. I only helped, and that's what got Kuna in the way in the first place."

"That doesn't matter. It's the money we both made, so it's a mountain split."

"I was able to hear Kuna's song in the privileged seat, so that alone was worth this money. Right now, there's no Kuna, is there? Take care of yourself."

"But..."

"I played to hear Kuna's song. Besides, I was the only one who could see a cute dance. I can't afford to get paid for that."

"Are you sure?

"Yeah, that's all Kuna's song and dance was worth"

"Sauge-kun is a good man. Elsier...... I thought everyone outside my country was a scary person, but I'm glad to know that's not the case. Thank you, Sauji."

Kuna took my hand and thanked me.

Have you immediately embarrassed yourself, keep your hands off me and get more distance than you need to.

"That's the first treat I've had in a long time."

Get your hands on a dish stuck like a mountain while singing a nose song in the shade.

If I had received the money, I would have used up all my possessions in today's dishes.

"Kuna, it would be too luxurious."

"That's okay. Because it's an occasional luxury. I've been eating all this for a month since I ran away."

Kuna removed the seemingly solid dried meat from her bag.

"I don't think so, but you're saying you've been spending all your time just saving food that you took out of the house so far since you ran away from home?

"That's not true, it's up to you to go into the mountains yourself, hunt your prey, drain your blood, and dry it with fire magic. And then you're eating something like this."

And it was the mountain vegetables that were spread out additionally.

There are different kinds of mountain vegetables, all of which are fine to eat. It is raw, dried and mixed with a variety of things.

"Kuna is a lady, but she has a lot of life."

"Survival technology was planted on my father. That guy's a mess! When I was nine years old, I was transported to Snow Mountain, which I had never even seen while asleep, and I woke up and said, 'I'll pick you up in a month. If what I taught you was wearing, you should be able to survive'!! They threw me out. I was ready to die about a hundred times then."

"…… that's unforgiving. Kuna's father."

So much so that Kuna is angry about that time, she rides herself out and shouts. But that voice seemed like fun somewhere.

"There are a lot of other terrible things to talk about. It poisons your diet every day to build resistance, training for fighting is an abuse, training for witchcraft is torture!

All the complaining, but the wonder and the feeling from Kuna that she loves her father makes me smile.

I listened to Kuna's father with a gavel from time to time.

"Ha, ha, ha, I'm a terrible person for some reason. That, Sauji. You said something about me earlier, didn't you, lady? Am I okay with that?

"Yeah, before I came to the tavern."

Shit. This is something Kuna has never heard of before.

"Were you? Well, fine. I didn't have to tell you, because it conveyed this overflowing elegance or something like that."

"One way or another, I think Kuna has a friendly atmosphere."

"Is that so? Well, either way."

With that said, the elegant lady does not splash the fish stabbed on the skewer with a knife and fork, but wears both ends of the skewer.

"If you say so, you hide your ears."

After Kuna broke up with the merchants, before performing the song, she wore a hat and hid her ears, and her tail slipped into her skirt.

"Firefox will be money. You can't live long if you don't hide it when you don't need to show it. It will be money even if you die. Especially since this city tells me there are a lot of monsters I can't win, so we have to be careful."

"Sure, it's the most powerful city in the world."

Erin, a sealed city.

This place is unusual. The walls are too robust. And I can also make sure it never opens from the inside.

That, for some reason, is to trap demons in this city.

The purpose of this city is to gather and trap all demons that originally gush all over the world in this city.

It is the underground labyrinth that was created for this purpose, so that when demons leak out of the underground labyrinth, they do not go out of this city.

"I'm here for the underground labyrinth. Why is Kuna here?

"I'm with you. I'm looking for an underground labyrinth, too. This is the only place where force can be money peacefully. Unlike my brothers and sisters, I can't possibly fight anything but songs."

Kuna made a grip and squealed softly.

"Kuna had a brother and sister."

"Yeah, me, I can often be mistaken by my sister, but I'm actually the youngest of five brothers and sisters. I was born more or less the same way as everyone else, but only one child was born more than a decade later, so I grew up spoiled by my brother and sister."

"I like my brother and sister."

"Yeah, I love my brother and my three sisters. But I hate my father."

"If you were so hard on me, you'd hate me."

"That's okay. In my position, I understood that it was necessary, and all the other brothers and sisters were on the path I had followed. But what I can't forgive is that I prepared my fiancée on my own. That's someone in another country, too. You tell me to marry you, too, and get out of Elsier!

"Wasn't Kuna's father thinking about Kuna's happiness himself?

... Oh, Kuna's father knew the imminent crisis in Kuna. And yet, because Kuna ran away from home, it went crazy. The question of the tragedy that once followed Kuna clears up only a little.

"I might be. But I didn't like it. Looks like they used it as a tool. So, me, if you want me to leave so much, I'll leave you. But I ran away saying it couldn't be my father's tool. But that wasn't enough, and I decided to be an amazing person, like my father asked me to come back for a favor."

"So here it is. The only city in the world that has the opportunity to fight massive demons"

"Yes. We defeat demons here to get demon stones and be stronger!

"Mostly, you're with me. But you know how only demons sprang up in this city in the first place?

"Of course, I know. Thanks to the Erna integrated device resting in this underground labyrinth."

"Yes, the invention of the century made by Cyril, the archdeacon."

Monsters exist in this city alone in the world.

It is located in an underground labyrinth in the heart of this city.

A monster in the first place is the negative energy produced by a magical recoil… commonly known as Erna. That is what was embodied by the orientation given to it by human emotion and fear.

Demons appear anywhere with Elna. In fact, it appeared everywhere until thirty years ago. That could even mean that one day, a demon suddenly appeared in the house.

Thirty years ago, Cyril, the Elf's archdeacon, invented something. It's a magic trick that collects Elna in one place. By gathering the Elna, which was overflowing all over the world, there were no demons outside the perimeter of the device.

… there are instances where Elna, who was rarely able to collect it, turns into a demon somewhere.

There are eight places in the world where the device is installed. The one in this city is the biggest, and the other seven are sub.

"Nothing, Cyril's not a big deal."

"He's a big guy. The underground labyrinth was built by him too."

A device that keeps gathering Elna, around which demons continue to gush with already horrible momentum. That, too, is full of powerful demons.

So I built an underground labyrinth to trap it.

It's also a living labyrinth. A miracle move that made possible, albeit partially, the use of Elna, who was said to be impossible. The labyrinth becomes more complicated as we consume Elna and increase the hierarchy underground. The labyrinth is a complex structure on which demons turn into habitable shapes, and it's hard to get out even if demons want to go outside.

"I know about Cyril. I mean the Elna integrator, I mean the labyrinth. That's enough to make me hate it."

"That's right. You're sensible. You know these stories? Now they say the lower level of the underground labyrinth is sixty levels."

And the good thing about this underground labyrinth is that the closer you get to the Elna Aggregator, the higher the concentration of Elna, and the stronger the demon. Paradoxically, the thinner the higher the level, the weaker demons appear.

Weak demons become the best prey for obtaining demonic stones by people, and hunting for them reduces the total amount of Erna. It's a one-stone structure.

"But there's also a problem. No matter how hard people are gathering in this sealed city right now hunting for the weak demons of the upper echelons, they can't keep up with the increase in consumption at all, and more and more, Erna builds up, and there are demons so strong that no one can defeat them at the lower echelons."

"Right. So now the country is desperately gathering attackers from the underground labyrinth."

Kuna is right, we are now seeing the saturation of the underground labyrinth.

There are more demons coming out of the underground labyrinth and out, and there are examples of powerful demons coming out to the upper levels that are supposed to be in the lower levels.

We need to defeat the powerful demons of the lower levels rather than defeat the weak demons of the upper levels immediately. The underground labyrinth is approaching its limits to the point where it has to.

"That's why it's money. I don't care, because if you don't defeat more and more demons, the world will be overflowing with demons. Someone as good as me has to try the labyrinth. That's why the state is helping us."

"Exactly. But you may not know Kuna, but I have a license to go into the underground labyrinth."

"Oh my God!

I'm surprised that Kuna got herself on board.

Such a shame about her. I don't have enough research.

"How do I get that license!

"If you do it normally, you'll be lucky if you take your exams next year in order because your application is killing you right now."

"No, I can't wait a year."

Kuna drops her shoulder disappointingly. I can't see him hiding in his hat right now, but the fox's ears are falling down.

"It's too early to be depressed. I said do it normally."

"Is there an unusual way!

"Of course, except. Three days from now, a chance is given only to those who are under sixteen, rank one, and fall under that condition."

"I'm all right. Make sure you tell me!

"Yeah, that's why I'm here in this city. Three days later, there is an entrance exam for the city's school, the Vergrande Knights School. That's a school with the goal of raising a strong knight, so students will be eligible to enter the underground labyrinth. Until recently, only nobles were allowed in, but now general frames are available."

"That's amazing! But I don't have the money to go to school..."

"You don't have to worry about that. The city is now helping young men excavate to defeat a little more demons. For the top three entrants in the general framework, admission fees, dormitories with three meals and tuition are free of charge, and teaching materials are paid just for."

"What is that super VIP treatment!

"It's too early to be surprised. If you have reached rank 3 on graduation, you can become an honorary nobleman"

Yes, that's what I'm here for.

How convenient is your status as a nobleman. There is no need to rule the territory because it is an honorary nobleman, and the point is high that it is less obligatory.

But rank 3 on graduation is a pretty high hurdle. I hear that only about one student in five years will show up to use this system.

"Wow! I'll take it. I'll take it."

"It's nice to take it, but besides my practical skills, I have a sitting class, okay?

"Za, seating!?

"Fine, I'll have a maniac problem. I don't know the level of education in the country where Kuna lived, but I can't do it without studying exclusively."

Kuna collapses again.

But I got up in seconds.

And then you stick your hand in your wallet and make me hold all your possessions.

"Kuna, I refused to share in the performance."

"No, this is another money. All my money, three days, my tutor, please."

"What can you do in three days?

"Three days would be enough for me."

Kuna responds instantly. Surely she would. She'll be fine in three days if I know her.

"Okay. Let's take it on. I'll take this money."

"Yes, please"

I shook hands with Kuna.

"Kuna, by the way"

"Yes, I wonder."

"Kuna said Wallican when she entered the store, didn't she? But the whole fortune, the kuna you paid me for, was nothing."

"Uh, you know, if you lend me money, I'd be happy, I don't know."

"I'll take advantage of this place. Now I owe Kuna one. I want you to pay me back with interest, so be prepared."

The moment I say that, Kuna turns red in her face, hugs her own body, distance herself and opens her mouth.

"No way, are you going to make me pay with my body!? Brother, mother, I knew the outside world was scary. Please forgive Kuna for being fouled by such animals..."

"Who said I would go that far!

"What, you won't?

"I won't. Can you do that to your future classmates! I'll take the inn first. It's gonna be all night until the exam, so you and I can have a room."

"Well, as a maiden, I'd like another room."

"Kuna. You are illiterate and don't have time to make money because you have no time but to study for three days. I'll pay for your lodging, but I wonder if you want a higher room."

"... I'm sorry. In a room for two, please. But let me just say one thing. Don't think you can do it freely, but you can do it freely."

"If you tease me too much, I'm serious."

I make a bitter smile.

Kuna must be making fun of me for realizing I wouldn't do that.

Now, whatever it is, I can act with Kuna for a while.

If we continue without problems, we will be able to build a relationship that will challenge the labyrinth together even after entering school.