The strongest swordsman was disappointed with the world's too low level and reincarnated into another world.

"Ugh..."

"Ah... you noticed"

When I woke up, Sona was peeking at me with a worried face.

I must have come to crusade the dragon.

So, after the ground dragon, he fell into the river with Sona and was flushed.

"That's right! Are you gonna be okay?

"... yeah, I'm fine"

"... you, that's right..."

I just realized that Sona was in underwear for some reason.

Plus, I only wear underwear, too.

"... I'm drying my clothes. It's wet in the water, and if it stays that way, my body will get cold. I don't really think you can look at it."

"Well, I see... or here."

Check around again, this looks like a cavernous place.

There was a fire nearby.

"I carried you and came all the way to this cave. The wind will shine..."

"Was it? That was tough, thanks..."

Apparently, Sona carried me all the way here by herself and made me take my clothes off.

Somehow, that would have been a very big deal.

"Not really... magic would have made it that easy."

"Magic? You, can you use magic like that?

"Yep..."

I see, was Sona good at magic?

So you were able to carry me.

But still, it shouldn't have changed anything that was hard.

I guess that's what Sona's telling me to not worry about me.

"Well, whatever it is, thank you."

"Well... then I guess I'll take it..."

That's what Sona says, she smiles.

So I questioned Sona's attitude.

Until before the mission, he even turned hostile to me, and now he's somehow obnoxious.

Wouldn't it be a little bad for you to be feeling somewhere?

"I don't know... are you okay?

"... what could it be?

"The... attitude..."

……

When I asked, hostility came back a little bit.

Apparently, it's not like I'm sick.

"I didn't want to admit about you, but you seem to help me..."

"... you were aware of that?

"Yeah, it was just a situation I thought it was..."

You think my attitude is softer because I helped you?

No, in the first place, you can't even get a bad attitude in a situation like this. Even if he's a deputy captain, he'll make a calm decision.

If you can, I'd like you to do the same during normal times.

"... why are you eyeing me in the first place?

At this time, I wanted to make myself clear why, and I asked.

I have a big anticipation, but I want to be clear about this.

"It's..."

Sona looked a little subtle.

Well, even though you hate the other guy, you don't like to say it directly.

Sona slowly opened her mouth after thinking for a while.

"Because Captain Faraes likes you."

"Do you like it?

"Yeah, Captain Faraes' appreciation of you is pretty high..."

Apparently that's why Sona doesn't like me, an assessment from Faraes.

Mostly as expected, I thought the first time I saw him was pulling his tail, but that doesn't seem to be the only reason.

"So you don't like me..."

"Something I have no idea how to value a guy like you so much"

Maybe I'm good at it. Sure, that could be it.

But if that's all you hate so far, it's tough as this one is.

"... that I was jealous of you"

"Jealous?"

When I was thinking about it, Sona shrugged.

"I want to be recognized by the captain... as a single crew member"

"What? There's nothing Faraes hasn't admitted about you, is there? You wouldn't be a deputy captain if you weren't appreciated."

Sona's words are uncomfortable.

At the point of being in the position of deputy captain, it should be appreciated from around. And you can't possibly not appreciate Sona's prowess, which Faraes has climbed to the position of deputy captain.

But Sona shook her head sideways.

"It's not my strength... I don't know the status of deputy captain..."

"... what do you mean?

"My house is a house in aristocratic status... I mean, it's a house with power..."

"Nobility..."

"So my status is only given to me by the house... it's not strength..."

……

Is that sometimes the case?

I heard that knights cross nations, but it still seems privileged to be such a family of powerful people.

That's probably a complex for Sona. So I didn't care about guys like me.

I'm unidentified, completely out of touch with power, and Faraes likes me. I guess that makes me feel, in the way that it's defeated in all respects for Sona.

But, so, it's not like you're gonna hit me.

"... if it hits you, you can't help it."

……

"That was, like, eight wins. Sorry......"

Sona herself seems to be aware that it is an eight hit.

"... that's fine, but I have one question"

"Doubt...?

"My question in the first place is, where do you feel that you are not recognized by Faraes?

"It's..."

Listening to Sona, it didn't seem like Faraes had recognized her.

Sona, at least, shouldn't be wielding power.

If she says she's trying herself, it won't be Faraes who doesn't appreciate that aspect.

Then where did Sona feel that way, that's the problem.

"Captain Faraes... didn't use his power, he took that position at that young age by himself. There's no way such a fine person would admit something about me..."

"... what?

Wouldn't that be different?

Various orders have gone wrong due to the complex against the pattern.

Such a thing would also be called paranoia. But that's what's happening in Sona.

Is it something like I feel miserable compared to my position and that of Faraes?

"It's... not"

This is something we need to do. I don't think it should stay this way, for me or for Sona.

"No?"

"Think more about Captain Faraes."

"Huh?"

This seems like the only way for Sona to change her own consciousness.

Then what I should do now would be to give Sona a hint for it.

"What do you mean?

"Is Captain Faraes a man who judges people by their households?

"That's... maybe not..."

Sounds like a little doubt has arisen in Sona's mind.

"You should know better about Faraes than I do. Think about it."

"It's..."

Sona began to ponder there.

I guess Faraes is looking back in himself as to who he is.

"... Captain Faraes doesn't care which house he comes from?

"That's right. In the first place, you appreciate me for amnesia."

"Then why am I...?

"Because that perception is a mistake. You blamed your family for not being appreciated, but you didn't have a premise."

"Ah..."

So Sona finally seemed to realize her mistake.

"Maybe... my thoughts were wrong..."

"Yes."

"... me, how could I not have realized such an easy thing?

"... I don't know. But now I've covered your premise."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

Soona says suddenly the problem is solved and confused.

But now you should see the real appreciation that Faraes put out for Sona.

"So you can see the true assessment Captain Faraes gave you."

"True evaluation......"

"Oh, how's that?"

"... Wow, I don't know"

From Sona's mouth, those words came out.

"It's hard to change what I think, because I've only ever seen it from a biased perspective."

"... well. Then why don't we just think about it from now on?

"... maybe that too..."

In the meantime, Sona's troubles don't even work out, but it looks like she could fix the trajectory.

But there was one thing that had not changed the status quo. That means we're almost missing.

Me and Sona spent some time in the cave after that.