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Cortina had come to the city of Lilith with Lyell.

Comb City State Union Second City, Lilith. A city that once suffered an unexplained devastation and once perished.

From there it is a city rebuilt with the aid of the comb, but it is also a city thus with darkness. And the darkness that lurks in this city is still alive.

There were rumours that the Gentiles of Matheus were also based in this city.

So Cortina, with the land exploration, and Lyell, the greatest power, were visiting the city.

Maxwell is Dantotsu in terms of annihilation, but there is a problem that his destructive power is difficult to exert throughout the city.

"Well, I'll keep the inn for now."

"Oh. I'm gonna talk to the Knights of this city."

"I think Maxwell is making circulars everywhere, so I think the results are thin, but for one thing, please. I'll have the Knights tell me where the inn is."

"Please."

So far, Crain's escape has preceded him.

To fill in this difference, Maxwell had used the Adventurer Guild's communications network to fly circulars everywhere.

But the achievement is not fragrant, and no reports of crane sightings have come in from any guild.

That circular should have reached this city, too, but there is no response to it. This meant that even the Knights, the regular army, were unlikely to get new information.

Still, there is a time difference in the transmission of information. Confirming directly is never a waste of time.

By contrast, Cortina, with its land exploration, intended to base itself there by choosing a safe accommodation in the city.

"We might have Crain's hands here, so don't go too far alone, okay? If anything happens to Cortina, Maria and Nicole will kill me."

"I understand that. Still, I know there are times when I have to go... but don't worry, I'll leave a note at that time, and I'll be in touch."

"Yeah, but let's be careful."

Leaving it at that, Lyell heads to the Knights.

Cortina also continues down the street in search of safe accommodation on the front street. This city is particularly careful about choosing accommodation, as some areas are nestled with groups of criminals.

Cortina, a native of the region, knew some of its candidates.

"I wonder if there's more to that inn."

But that was over twenty years ago, too. A number of shops on the street disappear, with unfamiliar shops connecting them.

Driven by the sight by the long-forgotten desire to go home.

"Ma, I don't have a home to go home to. I was an orphan too."

Cortina, who had found the talent from the orphanage, was thrown into the dorm of a military school.

That orphanage is already crushed, too, and there is no such thing as a clear 'place to go' for her.

He then toured several inns, but was told that only the big city and a few inns were already full and refused.

We go back and forth several times down the street and finally find an inn to calm down and get a room there.

I'm not staying in this inn. Maxwell will pick you up at night, so we return to Raum. However, with a base, it is easy to consult in an emergency.

Preparing a base at any given time is a lesson learned during the adventurer's time.

Cortina, who picks up the room, lightly unloads it and gets a little lighter, writes to the Knights' Lyell to tell him where the inn is and heads to the counter.

So I caught a servant boy and asked him for a message (messenger).

Then for a while, I waited in my room for Lyell to come back.

I'm just gonna go check on the Knights for information, so it shouldn't take that long.

And in the unlikely event of a raid, Lyell can do it alone.

In that respect, Cortina was not worried.

But continuing to wait in the inn for the most part is also a leisure time.

"Wow."

Stretch out your body as you stretch out grandly while sitting in a chair.

I didn't even bring the tools to crush my spare time because I planned to return once at night. When I started to figure out what was going on, the door to the room was knocked.

"Nha?

This inn door has a key mechanism from the inside, plus a peek window.

Safety is pretty good in this city, too. It's unlikely the werewolves will step in.

But if Knock is the innkeeper, he should be able to speak afterwards. But there has never been any sign of it.

On the contrary, from the gap in the door, a piece of paper was plugged in.

"What...?

Obviously dismal behavior.

Cortina took the paper in her hand while keeping the windows alert besides the door.

The windows were alerted because they were penetrated through the windows while drawing attention to the doors and were alerted to being poked at unexpectedly.

Pull out the paper while holding a scepter for protection. Then a slice of cloth was tied to the paper.

On that cloth stained with something red and black, Cortina feels a slight sense of ready-to-see.

"This cloth... somewhere?

And this is what the paper said. "I kept the messenger boy," he said.

Cortina remembers just looking at it that far. The cloth belonged to the apron that the boy asked for the message from.

I got involved - so I open the door. There was no one there.

He then rushed over to the window and looked out onto the street. If the kidnapper came this far, he thought he might have left some information.

Then across the street, a strangely long-armed man was waving at us with clothes of the same color as the cloth in Cortina's hand.

"He...... no way a man named Matheus!?

An assassin of great skill, serving as Crain's escort. That characteristic comes from Nicole and Michelle.

The distinctive style of duplicity on the long arm catches my eye wherever I am.

Matheus disappeared into the shadows of the street as he smiled cheerfully out of place with his nigga.

Seeing it, Cortina leaves a new writing, deliberately making a flashy noise, breaking through the window and jumping out onto the street.

Now the innkeeper should come and see what's going on. And you'll find the notes left behind. So sure, he followed Matheus.