"But Julia was my best friend. Even after the separation, the exchange of letters was so indispensable. If you can, if you can still make it...... we want to help"

Alexia looked me straight in the eye and declared so.

As I exhaled deeply, I kept my weight to bring to the accounting counter.

Garnett looks at me like he cares about me from the side.

You don't have to worry about it.

I'm not going to make you feel rough about this.

"You've heard of my relationship with the Brave Party from the Alliance. On top of that, you want me to help Julia?

"Chi, no! No way!"

Alexia raised her voice in a hurry.

In the meantime, when asked by hand to explain the situation, Alexia began to speak after she had breathed well.

"The last time I saw Julia... and Falcon was ten years ago"

Hitting and changing from the easygoing attitude I had just had, I'm losing my energy in my smile.

Approximately ten years - nearly half of my life when it comes to Alexia's age, and even in my case, it's a long time equivalent to a third.

"So I stopped with my childhood impression... and when I heard what the two of you did to you, Luke, I couldn't believe it right away"

"What were the two old guys like?

As far as Alexia's mouthfeel goes, there seems to be already a huge gap between the personalities Julia and Falcon she thinks of and the words and actions I actually see and hear.

"Julia was gentle and firm, and a weak bully was a child who did not overlook. Falcon was really a friend-to-friend relationship, but I think he was a good looking after kid general against his people."

"Well, he's definitely something else"

A decade as a boy, among other things, is too much to distort humanity.

It is no surprise that in the approximately ten years since he was invited to the King's Capital at the hands of a general - now a minister - who has dominated a multi-tiered city, even if the results are allergic to the many negative effects he has had on personality formation.

Even so, my impression of Falcon doesn't shake at all.

The worst personality coloured with alarm and chronic mind, to the ability to be privileged in every way.

A being whose discomfort creeps up just to remember.

Whether there was a cause for distorted personality formation or not, it could not be a reason to revisit the rating.

"But you and Julia were exchanging letters, weren't you? Wasn't it uncomfortable or something?"

"There wasn't. That's why I can't believe it. Oh, I've brought a couple of letters."

"Show me."

I'll take a thick wrap from Alexia and try to open a few of the letters that were contained appropriately.

A status report with no weirdness whatsoever. An unmistakable statement that spells out about the person being looked after, including Falcon.

It's like a different person from a brave party I know - no, would this happen if I deliberately pulled out the poison?

"... If this is the only source of information, then you don't realize it's gone 'no man'. I don't care where you come from, it's a letter from a friend who's the same as old times."

- Surprisingly, I remember a letter I was going to write to my parents.

In the end, I gave up writing letters, but if I had written them up like that, I would have bent the facts as much as this Julia letter did.

It is another matter of whether we are satisfied with the status quo and whether we can honestly communicate the status quo to our homeland.

I am happy with my current life with my friends, but I feared it would be misleading not to tell my parents.

And Julia is happy to be with the personally distorted Falcon, but she may have been afraid that she could pass it on to her best friend in her hometown to alter her perception.

"If it's true, he wants to go to Greenhollow Town right away and find out the truth… if he can, he wanted to help Julia and ask Luke why he did such a terrible thing to you."

But there was something I couldn't do.

I just thought about it a little bit, and I thought about the situation and the candidacy.

"Master of Mechanical Engineers, you're the employer of your main business."

"... Yes. Luke, I know I've told you before, but when I act as an adventurer, I need my master's permission."

"But I didn't get permission this time. Regardless of the adventure involved in the main business, you can't give me permission because it's irrelevant."

"Ugh... you're right"

When you were working with me, Alexia's adventures had a bent purpose related to the main business.

Exploration for rare materials. Test operations for prototype arming.

Both went through the duties of a mechanical engineer who is the main business.

But not this time. It's a complete personal affair from one to ten.

It is also natural for a master, who is also an employer, to rely on permission.

"The request for cooperation from the Adventurer Alliance was my last chance. My master also convinced me that it would be a direct request of the Alliance. So..."

"You mean you ate so desperately because you didn't want me to reject you? Convinced. I know more or less what's going on over there."

Alexia has gradually made me look anxious and gaze at my complexion.

"You know... now that I think about it, Luke, I'm supposed to use you to help people who did terrible things to you... sorry, my thoughts were sweet"

"Mind you, before you meet the White Wolf's. I don't know how anxious you were."

"... sorry"

It was pointed out by Garnett in an unrelenting way, and Alexia grew smaller and smaller.

If I decide this is it, I will try to move to immediate action and reflect later. It's Alexia's faults that haven't changed for a long time.

"Well, that's fine. If you're an adventurer, you're strong enough to use anything you can."

I would have thought of the same operation if I was in the opposite position.

Though I think he stood around a little better on the boulder.

"So, what's up, White Wolf's"

"... Alexia. You must be asking via the guild what happened to Falcon. Julia could already be too late. What are you gonna do then?

Falcon fell into the hands of the demon clan and became a dragon man synthesized with the dragon.

If you believe Bran's statement, which you voluntarily turned around, Julia has already undergone some modification as well.

Then there's a chance that I won't be able to help you, no matter what.

"I've decided that!

Alexia tapped a metal case containing a large crossbow (Scorpion) as she raised her voice.

"I've made adjustments to Scorpion that I can tailor in one blow that it would be Wyburn if it even hit the steeple. If there's nothing I can do, I'll take care of it."

The power in my eyes is strong and I can't feel lost in my voice.

"He may have betrayed you at his will, staying human. Can you still talk about it?"

"... I'll discuss it. I'll take it."

When the moment comes, no one knows if they can live up to it and act as declared.

But at least now it seemed like I was really getting ready at this time.

I finished checking everything I wanted to ask. All we have to do is draw conclusions after that.

"I will not cooperate with you. I don't feel heartbroken when Julia dies, and I have no step-in-law or reason to help. If the Golden Fang asks me to help you crusade, I will not hesitate to ask for it."

Alexia is pulling her lips together and listening to me.

"But whatever you do on holiday, you're on your own. Unless it's to my or the town's detriment, there's no interference."

"Then...!

"But if you're going to be on the side of the Brave Party, I will advise the Knights to treat you as having fallen back on the Demon King's Army, too. If that's all right with you, you can start tomorrow."

"Yes! Thanks!

With the momentum to flip Scorpion's case, Alexia bowed her head and jumped out of the store saying she would be ready for tomorrow.

Around the corner where its footsteps are no longer heard, Garnett leaks a sigh of words.

"Even if I'm lucky enough to help, I could be sent to jail for what I did to you. If you have succeeded in the Demon King crusade, you have no expectation of special measures."

"Much better than being killed without even being brought to justice like a human being... maybe that's the place"

I'm not sympathetic to Julia, but I can understand Alexia's mood.

"So, the White Wolf's. Are you sure this is a good idea?

"It's true that you're understaffed, and you can't introduce people from your guild without them."

"... even if Julia and I helped?

"You don't just pay to die, do you? If you can be rescued from the castle and legally tried as a human being, that will convince you."

Having heard my point, Garnett clapped his shoulder and then slapped me gently on the back in silence.

Though he didn't throw any words at me, it was a trick that did convey that he cared about me.