Upon hearing the details of Mr. Ridley's nomination request as the "Masked Adventurer," we were asked to collect affordable herbs as the "Hidden Sword," leaving the Adventurer Alliance behind.

"When it comes to running adventurers, it's a request to collect herbs."

Now out of the city from the East Gate, he was walking down the street to pick up a certain herb, growing in a small grove in front of a filthy forest.

"Yep... I feel so much better now, and I don't know what to say myself, but I don't think I should be in a position to say anything about running out already..."

Jito, I feel Yuina watching you with her eyes, but don't worry about it and keep talking.

"I knew you'd do the trick first of all to get the Alliance to remember your name."

"Hey. Trisk. Don't run away from reality."

I feel like I hear some noise, but I figured when I say rushing out adventurer......

"We're intermediate adventurers in the first place, so I'm not going to call it a rush anymore."

"Tris may be a slightly different start than the adventurer I've dreamed of since I was a little girl, but don't look away from reality ~"

Yes, it is.

By now on my plans, I was supposed to have managed to get daily food from herb collection, while battling my E-rank demon opponent in action on the occasional crusade request, climbing the stairs of strength step by step... step by step...

"Huh, why are we all suddenly intermediate adventurers..."

"Do you want to ask me that? To be clear, Tris is much stronger than I am, right?

And he said, "Does it feel like out of standard you're walking with a demon sword?" and they come after me.

"Gu......"

"And Tris. You said Mr. Johanns had enough intermediate prowess, even if Tris wasn't in a boost state, right? At least that strength is the result of what Tris has been accumulating over time, right? So sooner or later, I think Tris would have gone up to the intermediate level, and the point is... give it up."

That's what I'm saying, Yuina, who talks to you about putting your index finger up and telling you.

I wonder what......

When I was always told this by weak Yuina, I started to regret it asexually......

I stare at my index finger, which I stand good at,

"Huh? Hey, what...?

I gripped him.

"Hia!? Hey, what are you doing!?

"Somehow, because you were good at it?

I let go of my fingers as soon as I said that, but I was stared at with great jito eyes.

"Nor!? But... really, Tris has been building up since he was a little girl, and I think that effort has borne fruit?

I felt a little lighter about those words that I said staring straight at this one.

"... I feel like I've been comforted by something Yuina, and I get caught... right. Well, I'll change my mind."

"Huh!? Something isn't messy with me!?

Walking on such a conversation, I could see the forest I was looking for.

"Ah! Tris, isn't that it? But..."

There was indeed a grove at Yuina's fingertips, but more than a dozen trees had been forced to crush and break from the roots just to catch my eye.

"Yuina, get ready for battle at once."

I erase the slightest floating feeling so far and tell Yuina to say so.

"Yeah. Okay."

Yuina is also heavily trained on crusade requests, and the change of heart around here seems to be something she's used to already.

As a precaution, I will remove the mask from the backpack and rest it on my hips so that it can be worn immediately.

"For now, I'm going first. Yuina, keep your distance and follow me. If you need anything, I need backup."

"Ugh, yeah. Let me take the back."

When I pull out the Devil's Sword and place it in my right eye, I move slowly in my footsteps and close to the woods to avoid failing to be vigilant.

The forest itself is about the size of an end to end walk, but the trees grow quite densely and the vision is not very good.

I approached the edge of the forest with vigilance so that I could cope with demons popping up from anywhere, but there was no sign of demons nearby and I was able to enter the forest without anything.

"Yuina. Any demons nearby?

Yuina can sense nearby demons with the skill of a brave man.

So I relied very much on it in places where this kind of vision didn't go through.

"Wait a minute. Mm-hmm... yeah. Looks like there are no demons around. I don't know about Nanica knocking down this tree, but it doesn't look like she's anywhere near it for now."

Hearing the words, I finally weakened my guard a little and put the Devil's Sword in my sheath.

I won't be completely alert yet, but I won't be more careful than I need to be.

"But quite a few trees have been knocked down... from this way of falling, I don't think it's normal..."

The tree is forcibly broken and knocked down by force, or hit with something huge, destroying the trunk, and it looks like it's been knocked down.

In the meantime, its direction of falling and where it is falling apart.

"Yeah. Something's creepy...... let's just get some herbs and go home"

It's creepy, and I'm sure it bothers you, but it doesn't look like we can look into it any more.

"Right. Then look in the tunnel..."

And I tried to recall the characteristics of the herbs I heard earlier in the guild...

"Ah, it's growing over there. Besides, that's it, right? And over there!

From among the depressed and lush grass trees, Yuina points to the exact location of the desired herb one after the other.

"Ha!? Appraisal eye..."

Yuina's skill in collecting herbs quickly gathered the necessary amount of herbs for the first time.

In the end, we didn't know why so many trees had fallen, but after we had successfully collected the herbs, we had a large quantity of herbs stored in Yuina's item box and headed back to the city.

"I don't think it's what I thought it was about herb collection..."

"Huh? I was easily collected, so I was wondering if you wouldn't mind?

It sure was easy.

Normally, even though I have the hardest time finding the herb I'm looking for, Yuina points to where the herbs are growing one after the other without getting lost, and I just follow the instructions and it's all over in no time.

"We've been struggling a lot, haven't we? So, you know, sometimes it's okay to have these easy requests, right?

When they said that, they certainly had no words to give back.

It hasn't been that long since I partied with Yuina, but if you're a regular runaway adventurer, that's what I've come across so many times in situations where my life is in danger.

"Sure, the Greater Species in the meantime are the rare demons you see when you're normal."

"Isn't that right? Sometimes it's easy for us to ask..."

I wondered that Yuina's mouth stopped talking in a good mood, and I followed that gaze.

"People, huh?... No, demons... right."

There was a shadow standing there blocking the street, pointing an empty head (...) towards this way.