The week after the briefing, we visited the Hollow Bottom Branch for a look at the crime scene.

The entourage is my escort, so Garnett and Sylvia, who came as the representative of the Spring Pavilion of Young Leaves, are also Sakura, the escort.

Oddly enough, he was a member of the White Wolf store since before and after it opened, but he didn't make a particular offer.

The two non-Garnets and I just happened to bowl together at the entrance to the 'Sun Clock Forest' and came straight up to the fifth tier together.

"It's been a long time since I've been here. Ever since everyone in town pulled out of the basement..."

He looked up at the appearance of the branch that had been converted from the fortress and Sylvia groaned smudgingly.

End of the Demon King's War - When the town of Dwarf, which had been followed by the Demon King's Army, was destroyed as a scorched earth operation and the Golden Tooth Knights besieged Demon King's Castle, Green Hollow residents were also asked to participate in backward support.

Sylvia was one accordingly, serving as a meal to adventurers and other collaborators in the rear camp.

After that, the Demon King's Castle was suppressed, and the collaborators withdrew, and a month or so passed before this happened.

"Today's purpose is to look down on the rental property, so I'm not going to go as far as the 'Demon King's Castle area' underground."

"I don't really want to go even if I have business. It's dangerous."

"If you need to come down again, I'll be your escort."

Surely if ordinary people like Sylvia were to descend into the 'Demon King's Castle realm', they would need to be accompanied by quite a few escorts, even if not to say they were as powerful as Sakura.

Well, since we're only visiting forest-side facilities today, things shouldn't happen that will require escorts.

In the meantime, the four of us will go inside the branch and look around the facility together.

"Start by turning from the area where Spring Young Leaf Pavilion plans to rent"

"Er... three places in all"

Sylvia took a look at the note at hand and the branch's schematic and headed to the nearest destination.

"It's the fortress dining room and kitchen. I knew the food was our sale, and I wanted to keep it here."

"That's the biggest player in town. It's a lot to borrow."

"My mother and I were perfectly planted by my grandmother."

With a laugh somewhat nostalgic, Sylvia began to check the kitchen condition.

There is no waste in the operation.

It is a solid piece of evidence in my head as to where I should be sure of the kitchen and dining room.

Talent who is the billboard daughter of Greenhollow Township's largest inn while also taking on important tasks, starting with cooking. That's Sylvia.

You should consider yourself well educated to be a damsel who carries on the trail of your mother.

"(... I can't believe I remember my hometown at a time like this...)"

An association that seemed odd to me inadvertently brought to mind the faces of my parents in my hometown's White Wolf Forest.

My father was the mayor of my hometown.

If I were to evaluate it objectively, I think my father and mother were good parents.

He was my oldest son, educating me to carry on the trail, but he never put excessive expectations or pressure on me, and I never got to be rebellious either.

But I left my hometown.

Not because of their parents, their homeland, or their rebellion against the prepared future, but because of their longing for the profession of adventurer.

For the next fifteen years, I have never been home.

I never even contacted you.

I don't even know if my father is still the village chief, or if my parents are alive or not, on the contrary.

When I was working as an adventurer, I didn't even want to care about that or anything, but my mood changed slightly after I opened the White Wolf store in Green Hollow and started living my second life.

The cause is too mountainous to determine which is the primary reason.

... while I was thinking about it, the girls kept checking and talking very normally.

"Surely your grandmother often sleeps in the shop. Yeah. Are you tough to see or what?

When Garnett asked that, Sylvia had a decent look on her face and then slapped her hand as soon as she noticed something.

"Your grandmother is your father's mother. You're talking about your mother's mother now."

"That's a tough way to put it, dude. In short, you mean the mother, not the father. I've never seen your grandmother before."

"I don't really come back because I always fly around outside Green Hollow to work,"

If you ask me, I only know your grandmother.

It's been quite a few months since I've been to Green Hollow, but I've never met Sylvia's maternal grandmother.

Of course, it's not a surprise or anything in itself.

If they moved to one of their hometowns after their parents' marriage, the other grandparent would be living on another land.

Even if not, it can very normally happen that all of my grandparents are not aligned for reasons such as having already had full tenure or losing their lives in earlier wars.

What kind of work does Sylvia's grandmother do?

"Mm-hmm, a lot, huh?

"Various… are they too broad to be identified"

In response to Sakura's casual question, Sylvia only gave a few thoughts before returning a longer response.

"You think you're going to buy a product somewhere and take it to a place where you buy it expensive? You think I'm going to ask for the product you want and find it, or vice versa, you're going to buy the product you want to sell? After that, not just the normal stuff, but the land and the workforce... it's like they're really dealing with a lot of things"

I see, it's really hard to describe 'merchants' in one bite.

Should I even say anything as the Chamber of Commerce version of the shop?

"The other thing is, you're such a big Chamber of Commerce. What kind of name is that? Maybe I've heard about it."

Have a casual conversation and head to your next destination, the place to stay.

It was originally a place for a large group of soldiers to stay, but the lodgings, starting with the Spring Pavilion of Young Leaves, are all to be rented and run as inns targeting adventurers.

"It's called the Sundial Chamber of Commerce, you know?

"Huh!?

Suddenly Garnett raised a loud voice of surprise, so Sylvia shook her shoulders frighteningly and circled her eyes.

"Hey you...... uh, you mean that! The Sun Clock (Sun Dial) Chamber of Commerce originated from the" Sun Clock Forest "...!

"Uh. What's wrong with you?

"Thank you very much. When the Sundial Chamber of Commerce was established, Golden Fang outsourced supplies. Probably the most profitable guys in this Demon King's War."

That's exactly when Garnett told him that with his seemingly complicated look, he heard an old woman often passing through from the empty room he tried to pass by.

"It's an honor to keep it as a compliment. We were worthy of working with our feet as sticks."

"Ah! Grandma!

Ahead of Sylvia turning her smile, an old man with a properly stretched spine and full of vitality was grinning in an unafraid manner.