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"Ha ha, that was a disaster"

"Absolutely..."

My brother was laughing when he heard about my recent situation.

But it's not funny to me, being a party.

"After losing a mock fight, Sylvia's trying to be strong."

I'm not close enough to an adventurer in the city to ask for a mock fight, though I can't get emotionally serious in Sylvia because my opponent's position as a family is in the way.

Three days after I had no choice but to do a mock battle there, I crusaded all the demons I could hunt in the near field to build up my fighting power. Plus, I'm going after a crusade request at the guild, so if I'm good, I might be able to rank up by the end of the day.

I'm in such a hurry to take the request I'm taking with me.

"I'm not gonna let you help me even though I'm hissing that I'm going to fall over because I'm too unscrupulous."

He refuses to accompany me by telling me to go with him, "It's my training, so I don't have to bother your husband's hand".

I let the demon follow me only once, but Sylvia sensed me, and I couldn't let her tail me.

"Shouldn't you be careful with just one word as your husband?

"There's something about him that's overprotective about me, and if it's for me, he's going to be okay with something unscrupulous."

You're supposed to be tired of going on crusades, but you can't stop taking care of me. The meal will be ready like every day when you get home.

Besides, it also puts all the rewards I get from the request in the house, so I was honestly feeling sorry for it.

"I know this training is also thinking, 'If I get stronger, that's all I'll be safe', but deep down in my heart..."

I regret losing to Ira.

Until a few days ago, no matter how clear and following like a squire, she was a vicious village girl.

"In that sense, I just want to finish this request."

Sylvia is really going to be D-ranked within a week.

Then Sylvia will be able to receive the "Night Guard" that I am now receiving from the Alliance.

I wouldn't worry that much if I were in my normal full condition, but Sylvia is very tired right now. It is dangerous to make them take requests for security, which must always be vigilant in such a state.

But I'm not on guard.

"So, how's the city going?

"I can't say anything because I don't have it all figured out, but it doesn't seem unusual"

My brother and I have only walked in the city at night to the extent of dating because we have family waiting at home, but the downtown area is as busy as it usually is. Conversely, no one in the residential neighborhood leaves the city at night for fear of hearing rumors of Tsukuba slaughter.

"And that's a really handy ability."

"There's more to it than being a 'demon of use', though."

Our job is to stay alert while walking to see if there are any suspicious people. If you find them, listen to them, and they may be tied up depending on how they come out.

Tsukuba has already killed as many as five human beings, as the opponent's position is attacked regardless of ordinary people or knights.

You don't have to walk around looking for someone like that.

He's releasing a hundred user-demons in the city - Sandrat, a labyrinth-born demon that only looks like a wild rat - to be put on surveillance.

There are only 100 demons that can be used, not as many as 100 demons that can be controlled at a time. If too many wild rats move around the city, that's all there is to it. I wanted to hide who I was. I wanted to avoid being noisy.

It's possible to control 1,000 bodies at the same time if you want to.

Receive reports from sandrats who are still peering outside from the shadows of buildings and gutter clearances to make sure there are no suspicious people. Still, in a hundred bodies, we can't monitor everything in a vast city and there's always a confirmation leak.

"But if Tsukuba doesn't come out, it's better for the policemen, but if he doesn't come out these past two days, I can't help but be bored."

"That's no choice. Let's just think that just looking around prevents the killer from committing the crime."

Though I say so, I'm suspicious if the lookout is really a crime prevention.

The killer has already killed the knight to the fourth and fifth victims. Doesn't that have anything to do with the killer's power or anything?

Then the arrest of the offender as soon as possible takes precedence over efforts to maintain law and order.

My brother also asked me yesterday morning to use my powers as a labyrinth master to help apprehend the killer.

- There's been a sixth victim.

I was relaxing the night I came back from the labyrinth, but in the meantime it seems that the knight who was looking around was killed again.

The knight killed was a young man who joined the army a few months earlier than his brother, sometimes close to his age, and he was close to his brother.

There was no way I could have kept my mouth shut that such a knight had been murdered unharmed.

My brother knew I didn't want to stand out, but still didn't want to rely on me with special powers.

The knight killed had signs of a fight, but no trace of the killer-like figure was left where the fight was. What can be considered from that is the fact that the killer was stronger than the knight.

My brother's strength was a little weaker than that of the knight who was killed, and the results of the mock battle had been slightly overwhelmed. After calmly deciding that he couldn't have fought the killer, he snuck up on me with shame.

Of course, I was asked to help my brother so that he could use my powers to the fullest in receiving the guild's "Night Guard".

"But there are other people besides us who are asking for security."

Through the eyes of the demon of use, the sight of the demons of use is reproduced in my brain.

There was a reflection of an adventurer paired with a knight and vigilant, just like us.

"This city is an easy place to earn money for adventurers because of its periphery, which means that there are labyrinths nearby, and places where demons can easily become active. If there's a slaughter in a place like that, the adventurers don't care."

"I don't know if I agree with you that Tsukuba can't be left alone."

Even my mother, my sister, and Olivia live in the city.

If they are sacrificed, I will use them to hunt them down without concealing their abilities.

...... hmm?

"What's up?

My leg stops unexpectedly, and my brother calls out.

But I don't know what happened to me either.

Suddenly the link with one of the demons was broken.

No, exactly one of the demons was killed by someone.

"Best of all, go whoever's nearby!

"Choo"

The broken user of the link Tell him to head to another user demon who was closest to the demon.

The user demon I am using this time uses a sandrat that only looks like a wild rat, with an emphasis on appearance. If the city's inhabitants mistakenly disposed of it as a wild rat, then they would decide that they were sorry for Sandrat but had no problem.

But if it was Tsukuba's killer who killed him...

"Choo!"

He let me know that he reached a staggered spot in the back alley where Sandrat was killed thinking about the killer who killed Sandrat.

There, the body of the sandrat, slashed and torn apart by the blade, had been unbroken and rolled.

"Choo......!

The anger of Sandrat, who sent him to the murder site, travels all the way here.

"Chuh!"

Sandrat jumps big forward.

But that's not enough to circumvent it. They sever my hind leg.

I see the killer Sandrat has attacked himself even as he was severed from the leg.

There was a man wearing a black robe to disperse in the darkness of the night.

"Come on."

A man in a robe pierces his sword toward a sandrat with his leg amputated.

When the sword is pulled out, Sandrat collapses without gut force as he bleeds heavily.

Definitely - he's the murderer of Tsukuba.

And the word 'come quickly'.

He's provoking me, my husband, by killing Sandrat, after he finds out that Sandrat is my user demon.

Fine, I'll get you on that provocation.