"Didn't I tell you?

"I'm not listening. Yikes! Ouch!"

I knew you didn't say...

With a smile, I got the answer I expected.

In retrospect, I do feel I only told you my name.

To me, misleading with a smile, Mr. Leo gave me so much momentum that I thought he was an artist.

Soon after that, Mr. Corinna was physically stuck in it.

"Again, this is Sai Takanashi of [the Virgin]"

Yeah, it's subtle to call yourself [the Virgin].

But this, do I have to name myself every time next time?

Hopefully, I would shy away from that.

With his face in his heart alone, Leo, who received the name, seemed subtle, saying things he didn't quite understand, such as "This is polite".

I watched Leo like that with a frightened look on Corinna's face.

"That's why she never belongs to a mercenary regiment. Anything else you want to ask me?

"Oh, no..."

"Then that will be enough. I have business for her, too."

Seeing that the story had been separated, the captain spoke to Mr. Leo.

Though more soothing than at first, because of his faceless expression, the look on the head of the regiment looks more rugged than usual.

It won't be my fault that my voice feels a little prickly either.

Did Mr. Leo feel the same way, even though he still looked like he said something, it looks like he decided to pull it off here.

After thanking us, he left the place.

"Well, I guess I'll be back."

"What?"

"You need to talk, don't you?

Raising her voice in surprise at Mr. Corinna, who put me down and walked out with Stasta on her own, Mr. Corinna said as she looked back.

Oh, well.

You said the captain had something to do.

When I remembered and convinced him, he also passed it on to Mr. Corinna.

Mr. Corinna sighed one more sigh, turning again and going straight back to the distillery.

Later, only me and the captain, the two of us stayed.

"Were you working on it?

"Oh, no, I'm just finishing up"

Blurring and dropping off Mr. Corinna's back, he was called from next door.

If I looked up, the captain was looking around at the plant pot on the shelf.

On his face, he has a look that looks sorry, from faceless to flippant.

In a hurry, telling her that the work had already been done, her expression turned to something horrible.

"What did you plant? I don't even have to ask."

It's a herb.

"I knew it."

"After all, what is it? I knew it."

Protesting with his mouth pointed, the captain raised his voice and laughed.

But if you and Corinna, the lord of the distillery, worked together, you'd soon find out it was the herb that planted it.

I don't think it's because I don't have eyes for herbs or something.

"By the way, you said you needed something?

"Oh, yeah. I need to talk to you about something. Why don't we just stand here and move the place?"

What are we talking about?

Around being advised to move the place, the story seems to be lengthy.

Then you should settle down in some room and talk.

That's what I thought, and I walked out urged by the captain.

Talking on the road is about Mr. Leo for some reason.

Nevertheless, there is not much to talk about from me.

Leo and I just greeted each other face-to-face, enough to occasionally add to the public discourse.

So even if they ask me what I told them, there's not much I can answer.

Speaking of the contents of the public discourse being mostly about potions too, the captain smiled at his mouth.

If I go on and tell him that the mercenaries as well as Mr. Leo have spoken praised me for the high performance of the potion, I will squirt.

Asked what was wrong, the captain told me with a laugh.

He remembered when he started wholesale potions to the Knights.

If you ask me, the knights had the same reaction as the mercenaries in the beginning.

Remembering that time, my mouth also drew an arc.

While we were talking, the atmosphere of the captain also came back as usual.

I'm glad the two of us didn't have to walk in silence with the tingly atmosphere we had earlier.

Walking alone with someone with such an atmosphere is a spiritually painful thing.

"It seemed enthusiastically solicited, but was that from before?

"No. This is the first time you've been invited."

"This is the first time..."

The captain leans down with his hand on his chin so that he can think of something.

However, even if I thought about it, I couldn't think of an answer, and the frowning between the captain's eyebrows gradually deepened.

"Do you have any idea why I was solicited?

"Is that a reason for solicitation?

He was thinking about why Mr. Leo had been soliciting me.

I already know that.

"During this time, I magically recovered the mercenaries who returned from the crusade. I think it's because of that."

"Magically?

"Yes. At first I thought I'd give you the distillery potion, because they told me that was a waste..."

Talking about the meantime, the captain stared at me with a wrinkle between my eyebrows.

This gaze, I think, is the so-called jitsu eye.

Um, was it a bad idea after all? It was bad, wasn't it?

From the captain, he missed his gaze and heard a loud sigh of sigh.

I'm sorry for everything.

Apologizing in my heart, I reached my destination.

It was the Knights' waiting area that the captain brought me here.

It's in the waiting room, when you enter the captain's office, you are prompted to sit on the reception set.

Being guided here means that what you want to talk about is about the crusade of demons?

Sitting on the couch, where we breathed one breath out of each other, the captain opened his mouth.

"So, what's the story?

"About future plans."

"When it comes to plans, is it about crusading demons?

"Oh, with a paragraph in the perimeter investigation, I think it's time to start the crusade in earnest"

Will it finally begin?

When the captain's mouth was told about the crusade, consciousness switched to working mode.

Nature and spine stretch.

Once, I heard the knights report, but the knights have apparently continued their authentic investigation since then.

And they said the planned range of investigations was completed yesterday.

Then again, the captain told me what he found out about the demonic situation around this city.

As for the amount of demons, it's no different from what I've heard before.

They say there are as many around the King's Capital as there were before.

Even the story of the locals meant that it was more than it used to be.

I just asked the mercenaries if they feel like they've been decreasing here lately.

Specifically, some people said it had decreased since the Knights came.

I know the cause.

"You had a similar story in Wang capital," said the captain, smiling bitterly, and I didn't want to return the bitter laughter.

As for the number of demons, our visit to Klausner territory seems to be making a good change.

The problem is the quality of the demons that go out around Klausner territory.

You think there will be higher ranked demons than around the Wang capital?

High rank means strong.

I thought it looked like a role-playing game I once played in Japan.

In the game, as you leave the first town, the demons that emerge become stronger, right?

Could the demons that come out be stronger enough in this world to stay away from the king's capital?

No way......

Forget the joke.

Even though the number of appearances is the same, when high ranking demons emerge, it naturally becomes difficult to crusade.

The Knight of the Royal Palace is a selected elite, with many strong people, but he has only been to crusades around the King's Capital lately.

Around the Wang capital and Klausner territory, the types of demons that emerge will also differ, so will the way they fight.

Of course, the captain seems to intend to be cautious about things, but I think there will be more injuries than when crusading in Wang Du.

There is also a limit to treating an increasing number of injured people with potions alone.

So, it's time for recovery magic.

"So, from next time, I'll be on the crusade, too."

"I'm sorry. This expedition also involves people from the Court Magic Division, but there are not many people who can use healing magic."

"I don't mind. I originally intended to participate."

Yeah, the main business here is crusade, potion making is a hobby.

I don't put it in my mouth, I just add it in my heart.

"We've roughly looked at the range we can go on day trips, but so far we haven't found an example swamp. The demons that come out are strong, but they won't deal with as many demons at once as they did in the West Forest"

"Example swamp?

"It's a black swamp in the west woods. Due to the increasing trend of demons, I thought it might be here too..."

Right, haven't you found that swamp?

When I first came to Klausner territory, I couldn't activate the [Virgin] technique as I wanted, and to be honest, I was anxious to see what I would do if I found a black swamp.

But not now.

Not yet, but I've also been able to give out golden magic, and I'm a little sorry I couldn't find the swamp.

Around the Wang capital, just purifying the black marsh quickly reduced the number of demons.

I thought if we could find a swamp, we could solve Klausner territory's problems the same way.

The operating conditions are very troublesome though.

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"What's up?

"What?"

"My face seems a little red, but I'm fine..."

"Become, it's nothing!

I shake my head to the side in a hurry.

I asked the captain, who was also worried, desperately to be okay, and I managed to put the place away.

There's no way I can explain why my face turned red.