"Is that it?"

As I walked down the hallway of the lab holding a box with potions, I saw the captain come on horseback.

Can I run errands for the director?

Unusual.

When talking about the Knights tangle, the chief is mostly going to the Knights' quarters.

I wonder if Master Hawk will come to the lab about when he sends me.

"Hey, Sai. Is Johann here?

"Hello, I'll be in the director's office if you're in charge."

"Thanks"

As I passed the entrance to the institute, I joined the captain who had just come in.

After all, he had business with the director, and when he told him he was in the director's office, he headed straight to the director's office, like a place he knew on his own.

Will the story be long?

Though I'm used to it, I may be thirsty because I've been on a horse.

That's what I thought, and after I carried the potion, I headed to the dining room to make tea.

"Excuse me."

After knocking on the director's office door, wait for permission to enter before entering the room.

We both turned this way, but he has some kind of harsh look on his face.

This is what the captain will talk about until he comes to the institute.

Maybe he was talking about something that wasn't good or something difficult.

Mr. Commander and Director.

That's what the Third Knights and the head of the institute talk about.

I thought it wouldn't be a good story for me to hear more than the bare matter, and as soon as I put the plate with the teacup and the tea contract cookies on it, I was going to walk away.

But he was stopped by the director when he tried to leave the room.

"How about you join us?

"Didn't they tell you something important?

"That's over now"

He changed his expression and was invited by the director back to his usual face.

They're done with the important story, but can I be there?

In the first place, I'm at work.

Besides, if you want to make tea, you may want to go get your own tea.

…………

Well, okay.

I give up picking up tea and sit next to the director.

When I saw the Captain, I had just included a sip of tea.

When swallowed dull, the wrinkles that had stopped between the eyebrows faded.

Around with the cookies in my mouth, this one went back to its usual look.

Maybe it's not the kind of thing I worry about, but it still worries me when I look difficult.

That's for both of us.

One person, satisfied that it was somehow good, caught sight of the captain and Pattiri.

Shit.

I accidentally stared at him again.

Seeing her eyes narrow on the sweet and calf, she became embarrassed and rushed off her gaze.

"Uh, have you forgotten my existence, you guys?"

"Eh, that's not true. Yikes!

I objected to a voice that included the director's shyness, but it wouldn't be convincing.

Even if I hadn't really forgotten.

"Al's leaving King's Capital for a while."

"What?"

Panicking me in the ass, the director cut me out like that abruptly.

Unexpectedly looking at the captain, the captain smiled as troubled.

"I've been settling around Wang Chengdu lately. Now we're going to the province."

"Is it a demon that you've calmed down?

"Yes."

"Could everyone in the Third Knights be on the move?

"Some will remain, but the majority will go on expeditions to the provinces"

It was my first thought to see if I was here at last.

The season may spring soon, and it would be just right to travel.

My body is nervous because of anxiety, although I don't think I can help it if I save the situation.

It's been a while since I went to the West Forest, and I may have been a little relaxed.

It's been months since that crusade.

Immediately after we came back, rumors had come that the gushing of demons around the Wang Capital had settled rapidly.

The Knights felt it, too, but the Royal Palace seemed to be watching for a while, just in case.

And even after a few months, he confirmed that the demon gushes remained diminished.

With this result, the atmosphere is spreading around Wang Capital in the Royal Palace that it will be all right now.

The story of the settling around the Wang capital spread throughout the royal palace, as well as many requests to the clerks.

It is a request from the nobles who rule each territory to send a knighthood to their own territory.

They say it's just as tough in the region as it was around the previous Wang Capital, with more demonic springs.

Nor were the nobles who had made the request doing anything.

Originally, outside of Wang Capital, mercenaries were hired to exterminate demons in the territory.

Did you manage to maintain a balance against the increase in demons in recent years by increasing the number of exterminations?

However, there are limits.

These days, they don't keep up with the speed at which they gush to crusade demons, and they're reaching their limits.

"Which way are you headed?

"Hit me, Klausner territory. We're going to see what's happening in the middle of nowhere."

"Klausner territory? Of that herb?

"Yes."

I was surprised to see and hear a lot of place names recently.

That's Klausner territory.

These days, the laboratory is famous for producing herbs that have been the subject of discussion.

Due to the fact that few herbs are shipped from there, the laboratory has issued a potion production ban.

After all, did that even become a problem in the royal palace?

The director answered the question.

"After all, they see it as a problem that the herbs don't come into the king's capital"

"Really?

"Ah. In fact, Johanns and the others would be in trouble, too, wouldn't they?

"Neither do we, but not the Knights?

"Right. Even though there are fewer demons, it's not like they're gone."

As the captain also said, it's not like the demons are gone, so each Knights is going to crusade for something that is less frequent.

The potion is still a necessity.

That's why they say the effects of the lack of medicinal herbs are in the knighthood as well as in the lab.

Maybe that's why the Royal Palace also decided to send the Knights to the province.

"So when is the departure going to be?

"It's going to be about two weeks, because I'm ready."

"Okay. Then I'll be ready by then."

"" Ready?

To my words, the captain and the director look suspicious.

Is that it?

"Why do you need to be ready? Oh, is that an expedition potion?

"There's that, too, but you need to prepare for a lot of other things, right? Get dressed..."

"Get dressed?"

Continuing the conversation still doesn't change the look on the faces of the two of us.

I kind of don't think the story's meshing.

Could it have been sooner?

"You..., are you going to go?

"Didn't I tell you that story before?

As you see inside me, the director asks.

Apparently, among the directors, I was talking as something that would not participate in the expedition.

I looked at the two faces like I was surprised, and I felt that.

That's crazy.

When I was talking to the director about the rumors here at the Royal Palace these days, I thought I was going to go to the province one day.

"I feel like I was... And you've been riding a lot."

"Uh..."

"You're hiding something. Confess."

You wondered if I was willing to embark on an expedition, and the director asks with a surprised gaze.

I've been trying to get away from things about the scattered [Virgin] all of a sudden, so maybe I can't help it either.

In fact, when I talked to the director about rumors before, it felt like I had no choice about the expedition to the region, and I wasn't in the mood for a ride.

Going on an expedition and doing research at the lab is something I prefer to be studying.

There's only one reason I'm so concerned about getting on an expedition like that.

"Klausner territory is called the sanctuary of pharmacists, isn't it?

In one of my words, you understood, the look on the director's face changed to something spooked.

Excuse me.

But you also feel like you can't go without this opportunity.

The captain still looks wondering if he doesn't understand.

The director who noticed it briefly briefed the captain.

In the middle of the explanation, the captain also seemed to think of a reason why I was ridiculous, and that expression turns to a smile.

"I see. Sei wants to know about the herbs, you want to go to Klausner territory, right?

"Yes......"

When people smile at me for going to dangerous work, my reasons are too light and very uncomfortable.

I accidentally dropped my gaze.

But it wasn't the wind that both the captain and the director cared about.

"Right. Klausner territory will also sleep with a lot of knowledge of medicinal herbs that we do not know. You might want to check that out."

"You'll be staying there for a while."

"Can I follow you?

The two of them looked at each other in my inquiry and smiled back bitterly.

"I'd rather have it here"

"Actually, the royal palace told me to take you on an expedition, too."

"Really?

"Yeah, but we disagree with that. I was just talking to him about how to say no."

Listening to the story, he said that the two of them were opposed to taking me on an expedition because they had received a request from the Royal Palace but could not stably activate the [Virgin] technique.

As a royal palace, I want the track record of sending [the Virgin] to alleviate the grievances of local nobles.

However, the two of them were worried that if they dispatched me and couldn't use the technique, I would likely be put on the arrow of criticism as well as the Royal Palace.

Plus, it seemed like one of the reasons I wasn't really into riding originally was because I was against it.

"Sorry for the inconvenience"

"No, I don't mind. 'Cause this one's saying it's impossible."

"That's right. You don't have to care."

I apologized for something, but they both laughed and told me not to worry.

Not this time, but I'm sure you've been protecting me this way for a long time.

Something I haven't had a lot of bad feelings about in the royal palace tangle since I came to the institute.

I thought I was blessed with a good boss, and I felt smudged.