After a slight hesitation, I follow my master's back down the aisle.

When I stepped down to the white stone ground and raised my face, a little further, there was the figure of a master who fortified himself with magic and raised his defense with magic.

Quickly ready for battle, the master glances at me and opens his mouth.

"Laust, pull out your dagger. Don't be too vigilant from here on out."

After saying so unilaterally, the master walked out to the back of the aisle.

I move my mouth small as I look at the master's back.

"You know what?"

It was then that I finally understood why I had accompanied myself, not Mr. Ronald, this time.

In a narrow passage, the master who walks slowly does not cease to be alert to his surroundings.

That attitude of the master was due to his assumption of fighting in this narrow passage.

Assuming an indoor fight, Mr. Ronald, who deals with the Great Sword, is clearly disadvantaged and could be the worst way out of the fight.

That's the same with Mr. Sieg.

Being a militant, Narsena makes combat possible indoors, but the speed of the best weapon in this space becomes unusable.

Unlike my master, I only get luggage when it comes to Armia, who has a chant in magic and can't even fight melee.

Taking those circumstances into account, the Master decided to accompany me with the least harm in the indoor battle.

The master's judgment was reasonable.

Rational judgment conveys, above all, the seriousness of the master.

And it was the seriousness of that master who told the story of the anomaly of a man named Branch Manager.

"Who, what...?

The small words I leaked contained amazement at the Labyrinth City Branch Manager.

While my master was so vigilant and unaware that he recognized me as his opponent, tension grew in me.

The master who was walking in front stopped when that tension reached its climax.

"Found"

"Huh!"

Reacting to the Master's words, as I peered forward through the Master's shoulder, I saw a harsh door at the end of the dim passage.

Having performed natural and magical detection, I was unable to detect the end of the door at all, causing my face to snap.

Despite doing magic detections, it's like I don't understand anything.

That was my first experience.

And it was the anomaly that was, above all, eloquently telling me that there was something at the end of the door.

You notice my anomaly, my master speaks to me in a small voice.

"You would have understood the anomaly of that man, too. I don't know what's going on up ahead either."

Even more anxiety spreads in my chest to the master with a rugged face.

But we can't just stay like this forever.

Having consolidated my resolve, I opened my mouth to my master.

"Let's go"

After peeking into my eyes to make sure the words were genuine, the master walked out to the door.

Soon we will reach the door, and at the end the master will look at me.

And when I grabbed my dagger, I nodded silently.

To that signal, the master opened the door.

At the next moment, the interior of a loud, open door becomes exposed.

In the room, only a few lights existed, as did the passage.

What was illuminated by that little lighting was a room that felt slightly killer landscaped for people to live in and a handsome tumbling behind it.

And he was an old man with long gray-haired white clothes who sat down so that he could follow Hanzam.

"Huh!"

As soon as I see him, I understand him intuitively.

It is this old man whose master is on guard.

This man is the one who was holding back magic detection.

The old man had something I could instantly understand.

Reflectively understanding that this old man is equal to his master, I put a dagger in front of him.

However, even if the dagger was pointed at me, it should be noted that there was no change in the attitude of the old man.

"That's noisy. At least as much as a knock, don't you think we should?

The old man's words didn't feel as though he was hostile.

On the contrary, the old man talks to us intimately as if he were dealing with his own children.

I realize that I feel familiar with the old man's tender attitude, and I get even more alert in me.

Don't be as hostile as your master can be, I can't lower my dagger, even though I remember that being the case.

"I don't even know if you're going to reply. I miss you inside."

When he sees us like that, the old man tells him to stand up small.

It was then that certain parts of the old man's face were to be exposed to my eyes.

"Become!"

The rise of a long-lasting old man will further illuminate his face, which makes him feel old and righteous.

The result of this exposure to my eyes was an ear that was unlikely to be human.

Upset by the sight in front of me as if I hadn't expected it, I kept the words in my head.

"Elf⁉ “ Why did a race not receive God ’ s favor......!

A race that was not spoiled by God, it was the generic name of multiple races that were supposedly extinct long ago, also said to be subhuman.

Each of the subhumans was exterminated hundreds of years ago by the fact that they were able to use powers and sorcery much stronger than humans, but were not given skills by the Creator, unlike humans.

I get very upset because I read about it in a book.

On the other hand, however, he whispered that it was not strange that the sober part of his head could have guessed this possibility from his master's words.

The master said there was a heterogeneous technique involved that should have disappeared long ago in this case.

It is the birth parents of that heterogeneous technology that are the elves, a kind of subpeople that supposedly perished hundreds of years ago.

Did the master know from the beginning that the elf was the branch manager?

Having come to that thought, I try to turn my eyes to my master.

but my consciousness was taken away by the angry voice that resonated at the next moment.

"Hey, defect healer. Don't say that abominable name."

When I looked at him whose voice sounded, there was a handsome figure staring at me.

Handsome overlaps words against me, surprised by sudden hostility.

"What kind of mouth are you listening to, not even at the feet of this one?

To Hanzam, who even started pointing at me, I enter a state of war with nature. [M]

Handsome also lays his hands on the pattern of the weapon that was tied behind his hips as he responds to it.

It was Toru's branch manager who defeated such a handsome man.

"Hanzam, calm down. I don't care. Besides, in this day and age, I can't imagine a thing."

"Huh! But!

Hanzam will not take his hand off the weapon even if he is deceived by the branch manager himself.

When I saw it, I also raised my guard and the strained air dominated the room in front of me.

But the air was to be smashed to pieces by the master.

"Later for the extra talk. You want to be killed?

Handsome, who was credited with all his earlier interactions as extraneous, turns to the hostility of his master.

but the hostility that floated in its face soon became foggy.

─ ─ Notice that the master builds the magic to the point of activation and points it towards Hanzam and the Branch Manager.

"Become!"

After such a boring glance at Hanzam, the master turned to the branch manager and opened his mouth.

"Keep in mind that public discourse is also included in the extra story. From now on, just answer what I've been asked."

That's when everyone in this room understands.

Until now, the master had not uttered a word because he was ready to activate the magic.

"Whatever you can, I will fight you..."

In the meantime, I was also doing some physical strengthening upset. [M]

Considering the master's magic is complete, it's almost like a battle has been decided, but you'd better be ready for battle just in case.

Either way, fighting is inevitable.

"Shit!"

Seeing the attitude of me and my master like that, even though I know it's too late, Hanzam unleashes his weapon.

But even in that situation, it just didn't change the attitude of a single branch manager in any way.

In the tight air, he smiles and opens his mouth with a favourable grin that he can no longer even feel abnormal.

"Larma, isn't it terrible to suddenly activate magic on this scale?

It was then that I realized that the Branch Manager's words were overflowing with familiarity with the Master.

Having decided that it was just a mistake, I immediately tried to shake the idea off my head… it was just before that that that a possibility came to my mind.

At first, when we came into this room, the Branch Manager spoke as if talking to a child.

I was wondering if you were implicitly telling me that there was only a childhood threat, such as acting to keep me from asking inside.

But other than that, I realized it now.

Yes, the possibility that the master and branch manager have known each other since before.

"I don't think it's an attitude toward my master, even if I'm wrong."

"... Huh?

Branch manager who told his master he was his disciple.

There is a likable grin on his face.

"And one thing. If you think you can stop me from being a homegrown elf with this much magic, I'm gonna have to mourn the degeneration of my disciples, right?

... but I could no longer have any emotions other than fear for that laugh.