It was the evening after I stole the treasure sword that certain news was brought to me by Elle. When the sun went down, Harold was greatly upset by the news that he had stepped in just before his departure, thinking about starting his journey in the dark.

Wentus was seen in the face, which is fine. That's what happened in the original, so it's so troublesome if you don't.

The problem was that 'it is likely that Colette will not accompany the liner in its pursuit'. According to Elle, there's a conflict between a liner who wants to go after the killer right now and Colette's opinion that we should stop because that's dangerous.

Oh, why? That was the frank question Harold had first of all.

I try to find that answer with a confused head. Until now, I never even thought about Liner and Colette acting differently because that's what happened in the game.

Why is that trying to come here and cause a deadly original divergence?

What is the difference between the original and Colette in this world? The only factor cited is the survival of her mother, Clara. End of story.

So what kind of change does that make? The original Colette resented Harold for the irrational killing of his mother. Let's assume it was driving and loaded with workouts with the liner.

But what if the mother survives and no longer has to let her vengeance roll. I can't put it all together, but there's nothing strange about being a remote girl from the blood-scented world of revenge. Rather, I can even say that's normal.

Would a girl like that follow a childhood tame trying to chase a robber? Emotions come first, doesn't seem to apply to a swine rushing liner, but a normal sensibility would rely on a real person.

Well, anyway, this is going to have a big problem.

If Colette doesn't follow the liner and one member of the main party falls out, it's quite painful to look at it militarily. The original Colette is a gorigorical avant-garde, contrary to her cute looks. Physical attack values are the third highest among all party members, and HP and defense values are high.

Instead, magic is a tease, and the magic of an attack system can only be calculated as a damage source by an understated opponent, and I don't even remember one healing system magic. Even liners can use minimal healing magic for thin things.

It is a character named Colette who is very ungirly, one way or the other takes advantage of her brain muscle system status, wielding a ton of fur and beating her enemies to death.

In addition, I can no longer predict how the original flow will change. There's a further part of Colette's revenge event flag because it's already broken, but it could also have a bigger impact on the overall story than that. It's a difficult question that has stuck in Harold's eyes over and over the last eight years.

Anyway, I have to get Colette to join the party members at all costs in order to keep the impact to a minimum and take control of the developments I know. Because even at the beginning, liners can suck when they act solo.

(What can I do? I'm saying it's only possible, but I feel almost certain that that means Elle gave me that information on purpose)

Even in the unlikely event that it is assumed, it is too late in the unlikely event that it happens. Likely or unlikely, if you are pregnant with the danger, you cannot overlook it.

Do something about Elle on the ground, and he wants to throw it, but it doesn't work either. In this world where Elle doesn't have a phone call or email to convince Colette to do so, it takes time to communicate her will to a remote person. No matter how I persuade you, I can't even hit anything without heading to Brousch Village right now.

The time is near sunset. I would have left this town in less than an hour.

And the action was going to tell Wentus and Lillium that it might be hard to find from the surroundings to go through Fog Valley, treading in the night, lighting up, and then out into the streets.

Those two would follow without a single complaint where they changed that behavior just before, but they might ask why they did so when it was exposed to Justus sooner or later. Suppose that triggered suspicion by that Mad Scientist, who boasts a genius brain.

It's about Justus. One of the triggers is not necessarily to root for the secrets Harold has, dig for leaves, and not be exposed.

Then we have to act differently for a solid reason, Harold thinks.

Based on the fact that the liners had a pair of raiders and that Wentos had been seen in the face, it was also inconceivable that witnesses would follow them quickly, relying on that information. If there was a chaser, you could take it backwards, and Harold, the third person the other person didn't recognize, would knock it down by surprise.

Conversely, if there's no chaser, we can just keep running. If Fog Valley can hide itself in a thick fog, the surprise attack from the covert that Harold is trying to do will also greatly support the effect. It's not that strange as a reason for another action.

If you ask me if I'll do that, I'll make sure it's all right, but if I give it back, that's fine. If the chaser comes, Harold's judgment will not have been wrong, so he won't be extra prying either.

With that in mind, Harold considered the possibility of pursuing him on the argument that he had been seen looking and face, and gave Wentos and Lillium an order for another action in the name of checking for and eliminating the pursuit in order to keep his hindsight worried in Fog Valley.

Nothing, just wait in Fog Valley until Harold meets up. Naturally, they obeyed this instruction honestly.

Those two wouldn't have to worry about getting hit by a monster either. I'll also give you an order to "look into their hands without killing" in case the liner comes into contact with Wentus and the others sooner Harold gets back. This should also reduce the chances that the liner will be killed.

And when he dropped him off from town with the sunset he visited, Harold headed to the village of Brousch on his feet.

Anyway, I don't have much time left. In the game, the liners travel the day after the incident. In other words, this morning or noon, within the high sun anyway. Either way, we should be on the move by now.

Considering that, the liner is also an imposing date inside. Let's just say he has a lot of vitality because the nightmarish nightmare of his parents being troubled by an intruding robber and the treasure sword being stolen dawns or goes after the killer.

Well, Harold, who went in to steal last night, went back to the inn just before dawn, and just got a few hours of sleep, and is thus challenging himself to a late-night walk, five hour course each way, can't even say this about people.

We didn't have much time until Elle rephrased the plan of action from his report and moved it into action. It was also possible to borrow a horse a little sooner, but if you can't, there's only one more thing you can rely on for your own feet.

Dozens of minutes to thrust at almost running speeds. Harold, my ears caught a certain sound.

Dull metal sounds, heavy bass beastly voices. It's not unusual or irrelevant, it's just someone fighting a monster.

It's only a matter of hurry, but if it's about the monsters that appear around here, it's not like killing them instantly. Harold approaches there, thinking that he seems to be engaged just on the road and that if he's a pinch, it's not a rush to help. By doing so, we found out who that person was.

A voice used to hearing burning red hair. It was the protagonists of this world, the liners, who were fighting the monsters.

"It's you!" and I can see it coming. Fortunately, Harold has not been made aware of his existence thanks to the fact that the liner is focused in battle and wrapped in darkness.

On top of that, Harold observes the fight. Sometimes the monster is not strong, but there was a sense of stability around the liner. You don't seem to lose first.

He seems to have suffered a few injuries, but nothing is likely to be fatal. Probably the wound I got in the fight with the other monsters during the time I got here.

Harold, often troubled, decided to keep the liner through.

Even one liner won't lose to this monster, and from here to the next town you won't encounter a monster that's both eye and nose tipped and powerful.

Most importantly, Harold knows his liner. Reiner and I are very cheap boys, and we can be friendly and tangled up when we meet here. I don't even have time to waste doing that. Now I just want to avoid making contact with the liner.

So Harold walked away from the spot with a healing item full of hearts on the path that the liner would go on after defeating the monster. It is at least a care.

Then a few more hours later. Harold finally arrives at Brousch Village in the middle of the night when the date is about to change.

If you look, there was a shadow by the gate that served as the entrance to the village. It was Elle who stood in the darkness no other. Apparently, he was expecting Harold to behave.

You've arrived early.

Tell me what's going on.

"The liner left by itself. Looks like Harold's out of line."

"... how's Colette doing?

"You seemed worried, but there was no sign you were going to go after him."

Elle provides the information Harold wants without precipitation. Then persuade me, it would be Harold's selfishness to think.

It is a matter to which the sweetness of Harold's prospects has invited more than his ex, and it is just cruel to ask El, who knows nothing of the circumstances, to go that far. And Elle herself has fulfilled the goal of meeting liners and collets as Harold asked.

You should take back your mistakes yourself.

"Get two horses ready. I don't care what you guys are on right now."

"How long?

"Within an hour."

Copy that.

I can count on Elle to make me happy with my sudden order. It also helps not to add extra prying. I further asked Harold to give some instructions to the personnel in the town where he was staying.

Harold strengthens his resolve to make sure that he rewards Elle for his sparing cooperation, which he also accepted.

Once he breaks up with Elle there, Harold searches for Reiner's house. From what I hear, it looks like Colette and the others' new home is next to Reiner's house. "Looks like you're doing well with your neighbor" was reported by Zen, who used to care about Colette and the others and regularly peek into the village of Brousch. In doing so, I somehow put my exploration into the identity of my neighbor, and when the phrase red-haired boy came out, I was heartily happy.

With that in mind, we go for a destination in a village not as narrow as the map of the game, following the moonlight from a landscape that we look familiar to rely on. If you're not following the liner, Colette should be in her own house.

After some time in the quiet village, I see the house I've been looking for. A two-story house I've seen more than once and a wooden warehouse built beside it. And a bungalow private house nestled across the street from such a house. There are no other private houses in such a position as to be neighbors. Perhaps this is the house where Colette and Clara live.

Are you asleep already? There's no light leaking out the window. I'm sorry, but Harold slammed that door so hard. A heavy bass called Gongon sounds.

After a lot of silence, I feel signs of people moving across the door. But the door won't open.

(Well, you'd be on guard if someone came at this hour. Not to mention my mother and daughter, I only have two women)

I don't expect Colette to take a fall for that guy, given his strength in the game, but that's not what I'm talking about. Not to mention if a robber had broken into the neighbor's house last night.

But I can't even pull it off as Harold, and I don't mean to scare Colette and Clara like this.

"No one? I'd like to ask you about the robbery that happened last night."

It's not a robbery for now. Attempt an appeal. but the door on the front door remained tightly closed because the words alone seemed not to be trusted.

Harold pukes one sigh. And I decided to get my hands on it.

Even if you had received a bad review, if you were the benefactor of your life, you would welcome me in. The more I think about it, the more I name myself so that I can ask the person across the door.

"I know I'm in there. If you want to defy me, Harold Stokes, be prepared."

I couldn't say enough lines like that. Because before that, the door opened with momentum. I almost crashed into the door.

It was from the look of it that I was in such a hurry, and from the look on their face, that I could guess. The opponent, Clara, Colette's mother, opens her eyes wide from consternation when she looks forward to Harold, and then weeps in her eyes.

Clara drooped her head like this, trying desperately to contain something that was either impressed or engulfed.

"Long time no see, Master Harold......!