"Another search for your cat..."

Miriam looks at the reception slip and puts it in a box of current status checks that bothers her her.

Me and Miriam were deciding whether to make the consultation I received from my client a quest.

Right now, I'm just looking through half of it that I've been accumulating.

"I haven't seen Mr. Loran's cat lately, what's wrong -?

Look at one more and put the reception vote in the box that Miriam rejected.

"Oh...... I should be making a big deal out of you at home now"

"Really? I don't feel very liked, but I'd like to hug you next time I see you."

Speaking of which, Miriam didn't know that was Lila yet.

"I hope they like it. 'Cause if you don't like it, you'll catch it."

"Ahhhh. You're catching on... how can you like it..."

I turned down a consultation called Arbitration of a Fight, and I looked at the next reception ticket.

"... yeah"

My client is a Kikori man. The content was that when I went to work in the woods, I often saw unfamiliar demons, so I wanted them to be crusaded and chased away.

When I went into the current situation survey and looked at the next one, it was similar.

That there are demons in the same forest that I have never seen.

"Mr. Loran, has anything changed recently in the woods?

"What's wrong?

"No... I saw a mysterious demon in the same forest, and there were some consultations."

"Here too, I have two of those consultations so far"

Quite a few humans have witnessed it and say they are unfamiliar with keeping their mouths together.

When the two of us saw the reception slip as one, the example consultation went up to eight in all.

"Mr. Loran, may I ask for the procedure?

"Yes."

Grab eight reception slips and go to the branch manager's office.

"Yeah. I've had many of the same consultations...... That bothers me."

Iris Branch Manager signed the reception slip with his face up and gave it back to me.

"Rehearsal and field investigation, please."

"Okay."

Put the paper together, put it in your pocket, and put the guild behind you.

Even similar content is rarely matched so far. And eight cases.

I decided to head over to Kikori's house first.

"I thought it was a dream, huh?

The Kikori man explained to me how big he was with both hands.

At the home of the man who came, I was listening to the demon I supposedly saw.

"I know how big it is. Which is bigger than this home?

A two-story house. This house is bigger than that in general.

"Exactly... you were smaller than this house... No, it could be comparable."

I'll make a note of it.

"Other features"

"I'm pretty sure it was a four-legged walk.... but as soon as I freaked out, I ran away. I saw that one time..."

"Many of you would have seen the same demon, so you may be staying in that forest"

"I haven't been to work since then..."

"It's a matter of no choice. There's a big demon in the house."

"Clerk, please. Because even if it's a little expensive, the rewards are fine."

"I don't know what to say here, but let me do a power analysis based on other people's information and it, and then we'll talk about ranking and rewards again."

"Oh. Nice to meet you"

In this way, I asked the other seven to gather sightings.

... but they're all falling apart.

There was one other person who was as big as a house as Kikori. There were several people who said they were about the size of horses.

Some testified that they stood on two legs.

"... why so different"

I went back to the guild and compared the information I had noted.

Does that mean there was a wide variety of unfamiliar demons, not identical demons in the first place?

What we have in common is that what we see is evening to midnight.

It was not that big of an information as it is also the activity time of nocturnal demons.

The counselors were all those who went into those woods on a daily basis, like Kikori, for work, to get domestic water, to get food.

Being out of the woods is a dead end.

It was a forest where adventurers would never go because there was no such thing as a quest.

Between closings.

Gita, the guide, came to the guild.

He's an animal boy I used to sneak around in Wangdu. Now I work as a guide for beginners of adventure, not to get lost in the woods.

"Gita"

"Hey, Loran. What's the matter with you?

"In the woods northeast of here, anything unusual?

"Something unusual? Hmm. I wouldn't even show you around at work... I'm not going anywhere."

"Right."

"Oh, but from evening to night, there's some sign of disgust in that vicinity. I don't even think about going in there, so I'm just passing by."

"After all, it seems faster for me to see it with my own eyes."

"Are you okay? Just your left hand."

"This is enough to blow you from here to the woods."

"Whew...... Oh, you're still a surprise combat ability..."

Gita, who made her cheeks snap, just left by submitting a summary of the day's report.

I decided to make progress report Iris Branch Manager and get permission to head to the scene.

I got it straight home, so I'll just go home when I find out.

When I came to the woods, the sky began to stain blue from the cedar, and the stars were at a small, blinking time.

It is easy to walk in the woods and the road is clear. I know how often people come and go.

Rivers where someone would normally be pumping water, still a few new stumps, mountain vegetable flocks left after being harvested.

I saw a few squirrels and rabbits, but this is somewhat in every forest.

When I inadvertently couldn't hear the quiet bugs, the signs of the small animals kept away.

At the same time, there is a heavy noise.

The stench that made me possible, as if I fermented something next, poked my nose.

The moonlight plugged from the trees was blocked by something, and the surroundings darkened.

When I looked him in the eye, the whole house revealed itself as a likely giant demon.

Probably a demon that this is what Kikori witnessed.

The short four legs are thick and the whole body is covered in something rocky.

The face and the thoughtful part have four eyes as thin as thread. Even though the tortoise is the closest, was there such a tortoise, or a tortoise shaped demon?

One of the threads opened wide and my eyeballs moved slightly to see me.

"I was going to investigate, but I couldn't help it more than I saw"

Pick up the stone under your feet, throw it with your eyes open.

The stone struck directly into the eyeball and penetrated the other side of the eye.

"Gyhhhhhhhhh!?

A demon screamed so much that the forest trembled.

Big also means you have power, but for that matter, the movement is dull.

I can take you down on foot.

Not all of the limbs are covered in armored rocks more than they were in motion.

Well, then, because it's inconvenient to move.

... the articular part must always have skin that is not rock.

As I turned back looking for the right branches, my skin was exposed, as expected, to what seemed like the back of my knees.

Stick the branches in your hand there. With the same procedure, I did so to the other three legs.

"Gywow!? Guio -!?"

The demon, unable to move, shook his head and screamed.

"I have no grudges, but there are many people in trouble for you to be here. You can't mess with their 'normal'"

He activated "Demon Armor" and stabbed his magically covered left arm in the demon's head.

The demon, who raised a silent terminator, cramped for a while, then ran out.

"... hmm? This is-"

Observing his body, he found a line of letters similar to some sort of surgical ceremony.

The letter was very similar to that of Lyla's collar.