After Victor talked to me, I came back to the guild with Tunorabi.

By then, Lyla and Roger were in the guild and had a workplace tour with Meili.

Roger slipped his gaze when he met me.

"Guuuuuu..."

That's how he roared, Roger, but lowered his head in a low voice.

"... sorry"

"No, fine. Glad insurance helped."

Give Tunorabi to Meili, who looks strange.

"Wow... Usa, you brought me here -?

"Oh, I saw you. That's what I was doing."

I stroked Mairi's head embracing Tunorabi all the time.

You'll need to report this to Reite.

I don't care when you come, Raythe told me, so I didn't hesitate to knock on the door to my private room.

"It's Loran. I'd like to report to Lady Leite."

"Go ahead, go inside"

When he opened the door and walked in, Reite was glittering with some paperwork.

"Are you busy?

"Stop saluting me. We're alone now, aren't we?

Raythe says with a smile on his face, so you did, and I make the tone the way it usually is.

"In short, Meili - Alias kidnapped"

"Huh!? But just now..."

"Oh. I had sensed the enemy's movements beforehand, so I was prepared beforehand. To be precise, Mairi's fake has been kidnapped"

From scratch, I told you what happened today.

"That happens, albeit for an hour or so... You prevented me from doing so. Thank you, Loran."

"No need to thank me."

"Yeah. Still, let me thank you. If it happens suddenly, I won't have anything on my hands... because I think it will be quite spiritual..."

"Never mind. He's... important to me."

Sure, Dee told me it would be easier to understand if I called him this.

"Hehe. Alias is getting eyes on amazing people."

Victor's story says he's not going to grab a failed target again.

The level of vigilance on the security side will jump. As efficient as trying to grab it again, it's more efficient to target another human being.

But I've never moved on to being vigilant.

"You won't like it, but in the future we'll have other escorts for Roger. A guard that doesn't look like an escort would be easier for Meili. If I'm an adventurer, I'll arrange it."

Reite accepted the suggestion.

The castle was protected by its escorts, and when they went out of the castle, they decided to increase the number of knights in addition to it.

Four of them came to mind in that escort: a squad of beautiful girls.

Those four guys are going to get along with Meili.

Not yet in the power of the individual, but if the escort was made into more than one person, what mattered was collaboration.

There are several kinds of 'protect'.

Defeating an impending enemy is also 'protecting', and if the subject is safe to lose to an impending enemy, it is' protecting '.

If there's more than one, there's as much to do.

"I heard about the killers from a man named Victor, one of them."

Thanks to Victor's information and Dee's sucking the information up from the bail, I see the whole story.

"This time, Mairi's abduction involved two types of human beings. The actual work force we talked about before, doing the covert business that the Welger Chamber of Commerce is doing behind it, and the skilled man requested by that Welger Chamber of Commerce. These two kinds."

Bail is on the Chamber side. Victor got a request, like the so-called 'adventurer' of the back guild.

Victor doesn't even know the details, but he says the person who directly kidnapped Meili is also the 'adventurer' who got the request.

And he said it was a man on the side of the Chamber of Commerce that I killed in that house.

The request Victor received was to protect the kidnapped person from the person appearing in the recapture.

"It was a young woman who grabbed the princess and named her Maria. You think I should keep him here, don't you? They initially did, but they turned it into that kind of contract. She was a waggy mama. I took it because it seems interesting to grab it, and then it's boring to protect it - what did he say '

Maria...... it was a name I wouldn't ask.

It has been four years since I joined a brave party, but has my name recently begun to sell?

In the back society, many people do not change their name when they raise their arms and do their job to some extent.

Because when there are name values, there are more requests.

Most importantly, it is not a pseudonym or real name, but a street name that is more widespread in the industry.

I always changed my name, except for someone I could trust, as my master did.

There is no street name. I don't even know what they call it in the industry.

"I'm called in part every now and then. I'm the one who killed him, 'he said to himself, and he's not first-rate. At least I don't know.

There was no point in remembering it, because it's just a street name that you won't hear in six months.

Depending on the content, work information was consciously erased from memory. Because even if you remember, it only increases the risk.

In the one you remember and try to hide it from, and the one you don't remember at all, you act like you're different.

Forget it, it became the best camouflage.

Well, if you look at the faces of past clients, there are jobs in there that you can recall.

"I made him look into the Welger Chamber of Commerce a little bit. Looks like we have about 40% of the opaque funds. That said, just until I crush it... because it's a chamber of commerce that binds all sorts of merchants"

"Depends on how far you're rotting. I don't think you have to be going to crush it from the start."

Right, and Layte nods.

"Victor was the man who got the job via the organization that brokered the Chamber's case this time. These guys are definitely not amateurs. Now that the Chamber of Commerce is active behind things, there will be people with this hand in the future," he said.

"In the future..."

Reite clouded her expression anxiously.

"We keep abreast of trends, too. Try not to take care of it."

"Thank you. You're really reliable, Lorraine."

As such, I finished reporting this case to Leyte.

On the way back from the castle to the guild, I remembered Victor.

I wondered how far he would talk to me, and he almost told me everything he knew.

'Is that okay? I don't care how much you talk.'

'I don't mind. You must be the only one who can kill me. "

"Absolutely defensive" or... a really useful skill "

'Aren't you, Adventurer Guild...? I'd like to try your job, too. Sounds more fun than this one. "

"The reward is cheaper than the job back there."

"I don't mind."

Victor didn't even plan Mairi's abduction, and he actually grabbed another person.

I was there to stop the recapture, but there was no more reason to fight or kill than without 'Meili'.

I said, 'If you're interested, come to the King's Capital Adventurer Alliance. If you're capable, you're welcome.' That's what I said, and I broke up with Victor.

Victor, unlike me, I'm sure the roots are good people. So I expected him to show up somewhere fluttering in the Adventurer Guild.

... but Victor didn't come.

A week later, they found him as a corpse. Fishermen said they spotted him by the lake.

I checked the condition, he was stabbed to death.

A dagger, or shorter blade crossing, with one punch in the chest.

It was a love move. I wouldn't have suffered either.

Is that the luck of being unhappy?

Victor was also a confident believer in his skills. It was a powerful skill that I couldn't help overconfident. But "Absolute Defense" has holes.

There is absolutely no defense.

At the same time as I thought it would be rust coming out of me, I thought again that the back society was not so sweet.