The Branded Female Fencer

"... -s"

"Alphilis! It's dinner!

"I told you to stop waking that up!?

Alphilis accidentally puts a penetration into Lisa through the wake, but because of the momentum, Lisa and her forehead run into each other, stuffing each other. Seeing how it was, Muscade and the closet were grinning, though.

"Yep. Where am I?

Alphilis looked around as his vision tickled with the impact he hit. The first thing that caught my eye was a huge mountain that was already spraying smoke and dyeing parts of the sky black. The place where we are is apparently forest, but the trees had no green, and almost everything was dead trees. Not that there are no greens, but Alphilis figured out that it would be because the sky was covered in black clouds and less sunshine, mostly in situations such as shrubs and weeds.

But it is a strange sight. I should have been in the ice field before now, but it was a sweaty temperature, with a hint of humidity wrapping around here. Because it was cold gear, it was superfluous. Alphilis took off his jacket to change and wore it on his skin.

"Where am I?

"I don't know. The only thing I'm sure of is that it's not North Seal."

"Probably 'Ash or First Forest'. What you see over there is a mountain of fire called Greystone. Don't be quite westerly on the continent."

"Has Muscade ever been here?

"Then it's the land of the Spirit of Fire, perfect for training. Better not, Alfie."

"What?

"There's too much exposure and the layers are in trouble"

When Alphilis turned around, behind him stood a layer of reddish faces to solidify. I accidentally took off my clothes because I only had a woman in front of me because it was hot, but from what I could see, I had an upper body close to my underwear. Alphilis undressed his undressed clothes.

"Gee, I'm sorry"

"No, the..."

"You don't have to turn away, layer. Instead, you're going to be looking at rape, and you should take a closer look. Plus Alfi serves more, you can take it off."

"What do you say to the woman before you were married!

"You can't even be my wife if you don't do that!? You've grown in size again, I envy you!

"It's true, Lisa..."

"Oh, that's a great exchange. Is this always the case?

"Hmm, I feel like this has been happening since we met"

Nia responded to Victoria's question, embarrassing as Larna joined the tears, first gaining nothing. One end calmed Alphilis sorted out the situation. I thought I was caught up in the fold of the battle at North Seal, the magical bump between Bikezel and Lifeless, but at that moment everyone remembers Titania waving down the Great Sword. And a black shockwave hit them, and then nobody remembers. When he realized, he tried to fall and some of the mercenaries were here.

In that regard, I could imagine that Titania had probably exploited the properties of the Devil's Sword and forcibly transferred the Alphilis and others. It just remained unclear why Titania went into such action and why she was in this ashy first forest.

Here we were: Alphilis, Lisa, Larna, Muscade, Closes, Renatica, Victoria, Nia, Seite, and layers to it. Lisa and Lunatica explored this perimeter before Alphilis woke up, but said no one else could find it.

And I didn't know why Layer was here except Lunatica, but after Alphilis happened, I only told the people here about his role in the mercenary corps. Everyone can't hide their surprises in the identity of the layer.

"Assassin," he said. In that year?

"I don't know the exact age, but it meets the requirements of adults in some countries. It's nothing wrong with an assassin, and Lunatica is like that in the first place. Apparently, the younger the assassin, the more valuable?

"By reason, yes, but nevertheless..."

"Rather than assassinating, the lay people are mainly helping with their scourge work. In a different way from me, because the investigation works. It was unexpected that it got off on the North Seal, but it survived with its own ideas"

"It wasn't like the original role, though. And it's not without fruit. I was able to bring up some of the anomaly research."

"Is that true?

Renatica was also surprised, but Layer took a book out of his nostalgia. There were other luggage, but they disappeared during the transfer. All I had left was one book. When Alphilis took it, he turned the book all over.

"... the letters are like ciphers in the first place, the left and right ones are inverted up and down, and there are a lot of symbols I've never seen."

"I saw it a little too, but it was an incomprehensible word. Is it not used in the middle of the continent"

"You have dragon language. Only some magicians will understand. There are also elf languages and hieroglyphics used by goblins. The usage and everything is so varied that I suffer from understanding. It's not very much content in the first place, but it's too rash, and I'm hesitant to put it into words."

"Isn't that what you don't understand?

"If it takes time."

A plainly said alphilis, but a closet with a view of the book, seemed incomprehensible. Hilariously Muscade, I asked Larna for her opinion with my eyes, but they were both shaking their heads beside each other. Some of the languages used were even more rare and elusive, and many of them could not be read with their knowledge.

When Alphilis returned the book, he stood up completely and looked around.

"Layer, first act as a scout as ever until you return. And you can wave your sword."

Copy that, Captain.

"It's a sword in its original sense, isn't it? You must be as powerful as Renatica in the first place, right?

Layer looked at Renatica. Lunatica is shaking her head sideways. I didn't even tell Lisa what happened when you two fought. We talked only about taking care of the mercenaries as unaccompanied children.

But Alphilis seemed to notice at some point.

"I've also noticed Rhine and Venn. Strong people are things you can't hide even if you hide them. Besides, the smell of blood doesn't come off that easily. I used to use the smell erasing vanilla, but I know that vanilla. It might not even work for a well-armed pharmacist."

"... shouldn't I hide it?

"Do as you please with that. I don't think Elsia or Gail have noticed yet. You don't want to tell those two, do you? 'Cause I kind of know that."

"... if possible, if you keep hiding it. I've never rubbed it against it. At least not until they establish their own direction within the mercenary corps."

"That's a tough story, each other"

Alphilis laughed bitterly, but decided to keep it a secret among those here. Until one day the time had come, the layers had decided to carry their baggage.

And Alphilis decided to move on to the crowd for now. I hope I got out of the crisis with the metastasis, but I have very little food in hand. I only have minimal food for exploration when I enter the workshop, so no matter how little I eat, I run out of food tomorrow. Besides, there's very little water in the first place. It was necessary to find people as soon as possible, as the water supply could also be unsatisfactory in this dry earth.

Continued