Lead the other world.

"... Mi...... Mi... Takumi... Takumi!?

I thought I heard someone calling my name, and Takumi slowly opened her eyes.

When I opened my eyes, I looked at this one with a walnut, Iris peeking into my face with a worrying look on his face.

Slowly rising, Takumi looked around, apparently falling near the elevator leading to the top floor of Arcadia Castle.

I've been calling out to Takumi, who seems worried about walnuts.

"Are you okay? The receptionist just ran in and told me Takumi was down, so I hurried, but I don't think there's any trauma in particular. Besides, you seem to have lost your mind, but is something wrong?

"Is that...? I should have been talking to the Knights Commander earlier..."

Asked by Walnut, Takumi was baffled in an attempt to remember earlier. I clearly remember talking earlier, but I can't remember what some of the conversations were about. Plus I felt something physically uncomfortable and something was different than usual.

"In the meantime, move it"

After that, the three of us had lunch, and as a result of the discussion, Takumi was probably tired, so we were to dissolve today.

- Whoa, whoa.

Takumi, who was free, was lying on her own bed in the inn where she was staying. Sleeping down, Takumi was staring at the ceiling, trying to remember what was blurry today.

(I thought you asked Mr. Lumière about his father..... for some reason I'm losing my memory... Plus, I think they entrusted something important.)

While I was thinking about it, Takumi fell asleep either because of her tiredness in today's duel.

Whoa, whoa.

About the night of Takumi's contact with the St. Knights of Astrea.

Deep in the woods where cold winds blow and monster howls are heard.

The trees twitch, and the lakes lie upon the stars that extend into the sky.

No one noticed me in the fantastic atmosphere, and I appeared so that the black shadow would descend on the lake.

He appeared to give people the fear of death.

- Whoa, whoa.

The next day, Takumi and the others were coming to the Arcadia Castle tavern to have breakfast before the three of us received the request. The three of them were chatting until breakfast was brought in when they ordered each breakfast.

"No. Hasn't there been any recent increase in requests for monsters to crusade? I wonder if it's my fault...... I've never seen such a sudden increase in crusade requests."

As Walnut, who cheeks on his desk and exhales, said, the number of recent crusade requests was two or three times higher than when Takumi registered as an adventurer. I'm not sure about Takumi, who hasn't been that long since he became an adventurer, but Walnut talk seems to be the first time he's seen a sudden increase in crusade requests so far.

"Almost all I've got is a crusade request, and do I even get a B-rank crusade request today..."

"Right. So how about a Giant Boat Troll crusade? It's easy to read, and it confirms the beginnings of standing around."

After breakfast at Iris' suggestion, Takumi and the others happened to hear the story of two adventurers talking in the back seat when Takumi took a seat to head to the reception to receive a request to crusade the Giant Boat Troll.

"I hear a quartet of C-rank adventurers who recently received a request to crusade in the Forest of Death has gone missing."

"Missing? Did you find them?

"No, he's still missing. Now they can't take a crusade request in the Forest of Death except for adventurers above S-rank."

(Forest of Death? It's definitely where I first had walnuts when I came to this world... Is there something over there.....?)

As Takumi took her seat and thought about it, she took her seat first and was called back to me by Walnut, who was at the reception, running towards Walnut and Iris.