Roland--.

That's what they called it, and Hikaru inadvertently stopped his feet as a scarecrow.

But —— I managed to hide the upset.

Guards with demon guide lamps run around.

Hikaru passes early, but without hiding herself in particular. It has been confirmed time and again that we will not be seen through to this extent.

(How does the princess know Roland? There's no such thing as a princess in Roland's memory...)

Even from Hikaru, the princess was a perception of "first meeting". I never even saw the name on the soul board and my face came to mind.

(I don't know. But it's pointless to think about. I'll never see you again anyway)

Purpose accomplished.

This shouldn't even make East a capital offense. Precisely, it might, but if it did, it would be good for you as a hical. I would be able to help you get out of jail, but thank you, East seems like a serious character. I don't even think he wants to get out of jail.

(The Wang du stay is a blur)

At noon the following day, the princess had summoned one investigator to the office. It's that investigator who was investigating Lavia's escape.

The investigator was visibly screwed. Originally, a sobering expression that made me feel intelligent is now slacking.

"... what's wrong, that face"

"Yes, no, nothing"

A superior clerk who was in the same room tells Kujastria.

"I hear you made a direct report yesterday in His Majesty's presence. Next call from the princess if you think you've played that major role. This is what nerves do."

"Um... I'm sorry I'm tired"

"Oh, no!

An investigator who is apologized to by the princess and fears the opposite.

"Will you give me the report again that you did yesterday?

"Yes."

Refresh your mind and the investigator will make a report.

The content is naturally not so different from what I heard from Knights Chief Lawrence.

"Investigator, what did His Majesty say when he heard the report?

"... you said 'unusable man'"

The investigator answered in agony.

In her heart the princess sympathizes with him. I think the amount of information I have brought back in this short time is a good achievement there. But what the King was asking for was a clue as to the whereabouts of the Countess. The result is refreshing on that point.

(... Your father wanted to get the Countess by so long... why?

It can also be imagined by Kujastria that if we move so far blatantly, there will be some kind of secret in the Count's warrant, not just in the countess's murder.

(Probably about war. … but it would not be something I would explore any more)

It doesn't work when the reckoning passes and they think "don't do anything extra".

"I'd like to ask the investigator something."

"Yes. Why should I?

"Sure, I think Pound had Viscount Zarasha's oblivion. Didn't you see him?

"Viscount Zarasha......?

The investigator does what he thinks —— beside it, the superior clerk glanced at him. Princess Kjastrya spoke of a name that had never come to anyone's attention before. Of course the superior consul knows that Viscount Zarasha was ruined by Count Morgustadt. I didn't mark it until after that though.

"I'm sorry. I don't know you like that."

"Really...... ok. You made me take the trouble. Step back."

"Yes."

When the investigator drops back, the superior clerk looks intrigued.

"Princess, is the princess concerned about that Viscount Zarasha's oblivion and behavior?

"Yeah, a little... How was your meeting today?

Your previous meeting begins at 10: 00 a.m. when the king takes office.

Serious officials and generals bring cases here to speak directly with the King, but also for those who hold key positions to participate there.

"It's rough (...)"

I guess so, the princess thought.

Today's agenda is —— the defeat of the Knights Commander. It's up to that.

"What happened?

"Tell me, can I ask you something about Viscount Zarasha?

"Yeah, if that's what I know."

"It's a promise, isn't it?

The superior clerk is quite an ambitious man. He wants to buy anything he has on the aristocracy.

He seemed to think for a moment, what should we talk about?

The King and the First Prince also participated. Kujastria had refrained from participating in the meeting. I've never wanted to participate as much as I did today.

Lawrence was seriously injured. in the Knights' facilities. What kind of reaction would we all have?

As a matter of fact, Kjastria returned to the royal castle alone so that the soldiers would not find him. Because if I were a princess, I knew many ways out, and my coat woven to mislead my gaze from others.

"So, this is your meeting, but first it came from a report that the Knights chief was injured and couldn't move for a while."

"Well, the Knights chief?

Surprise me white-white. The superior clerk doesn't even think that Kujastria was ever on that scene.

"What a thief seems to have broken in. You think the Knights Commander managed to hold that by himself? The Knights-owned training ground was destroyed and quite a fierce battle."

"... so? What happened to the thief?

"I'm lurking in the aristocratic district. I never made it through there first because I immediately consolidated the gate. Now the noble city must be bothering to find its killer."

No, Kjastria thought. That boy —— Roland, the boy who unintentionally called, would no longer be in the aristocracy.

It was so easy to sneak in by the royal castle, to the Knights' quarters, for the second day in a row. There's no way that's staying relaxed in the aristocracy.

My chest squeaks when I think about him.

Who is it? How did you help yourself? Lawrence said he didn't even realize he was lurking.

I can't believe he's Roland now that I think about it. Different faces, different colors of hair, different colors of eyes.

Roland -- though he won't know anything about himself.

"Fortunately, he said the Knights captain's injuries were quickly healed by healing magic. As planned, the king has concluded that he will send the Knights Commander to the front."

"Eh."

"What's up?

"... can the Knights Commander fight?

"Yeah. It's healing magic. It looks like it was scratched to the point of blockage. Of course, I'm even surprised that the Knight Commander suffered a hand wound."

The wound was certainly, not great. Because I only took a baton.

But that's the amount of bleeding. Recovery magic prevents you from recovering lost blood.

(Lawrence...... you underreported it to keep the upsets around you down)

The symptoms have healed already. If you insist, you will feel safe around you. It will be a story where one of the Knights chiefs can only force himself to go to the front line.

"It's just that more than the thieves are still lurking in the aristocratic city, they'll be on strict alert for a few days. Please do not leave the royal castle."

"I know. Is that all we're talking about at your previous meeting? It also sounds mild to say rough."

"That's where the rough came from. The nobles have begun to argue about who let go of the assassins. Do it, Count XX has a relationship with Kunikuni, so, do it. Baron ○ ○ wants to include his son in the Knights cadre, because, do it, I have absolute loyalty to His Majesty the King, because"

…………

What a shallow place.

Kick other people down and sell the charm to the king.

Kjastria was a dizzying thought. This seemed impossible to discover that boy.

At first Kjastria thought on the line of mere "arm trials". But when I saw how he behaved, I felt a little different.

Try your arm and you won't -- you won't help your daughter, who shouldn't know who she is. If you want to sell your name, you'll name it first. If money was what you were looking for, you'd have taken the jewelry you were wearing.

I'm not sure what the purpose is.

"More than that, Princess, it's time to tell me about Viscount Zarasha"

"There's a few things I know, isn't there?

Will I ever see that boy again?

With that in the corner of his head, Kjastria told him about Roland. That they are to be sent to the province after the Viscount family crush. That he was probably in the same city of Pound at the time of the murder of Count Morgustadt.

That was all. The superior clerk didn't think it was much information and seemed disappointed.

Let's get back to work.

That's how they started clearing out the pile of paperwork.

Lawrence looked sinister in a room at the Knights Dedicated Treatment Center.

Out of bed, I come down and arm myself with a chair. You look pale. My lips were rough and cut by the way because I didn't have enough blood.

"... Captain"

Across from Lawrence were three knight captains, and eight knights, including East.

Hikaru broke their bones, but they were all already cured by healing magic.

"I lost, too. The traits of thieves are too incompatible with us"

"But such an attack is not a compliment. If you think this will scratch the captain's name--"

"Stupid!!"

Everyone is frightened by the voice.

"Loss is loss. If you get hit on the battlefield, you're going to get killed while you're denouncing it."

"Yes......"

Captains of the knights who nag. Not so long ago, the Knight Commander's "loss" declaration has been upheld for them.

Rather, Lawrence felt more positive. I lost too much blood to recover. Both the wizard and the doctor decided that it was even "dangerous," but if I slept overnight, I could get up and act. I was hungry and hungry, and I even jerked off 10 servings of rice. The body is making blood.

No, my body is trying to "live".

You can't die without losing to that boy, he said.

With that said, there must have been a princess at the training ground last night, but I haven't heard from Kjastria in particular. Shut up, I guess.

"We must reflect. That thief —— no, you can no longer call him a thief. That man is good at playing tricks on our perceptions. All we need is measures to discover that man. And... you know who? I need another thing."

Oh, and it was East who raised his hand.

"Isn't it about making heavy armaments available from day to day?

"Mm-hmm. You're almost right. Improvements to shape sheet metal armor so that it can be worn immediately, or developments such as foldable shields that can be deployed on hand. That man is to hide himself —— because he specializes in hiding, the attack is mild"

I see... and the captains of the knights nod.

"The man reminded me of the term 'constant battlefield'"

Standing up, Lawrence flutters slightly.

Hold down the knight captain trying to lend a hand.

"I still don't have enough training, either. Those who fought and lost that man have a mission to reward others for that threat. East."

"Ha."

"I lost to the thief, for that matter, and I was going to plead death to you. Forgive this shallow."

"It's a waste of time."

East's voice, which devoured his teeth, was trembling. Hot tears spilled out of his eyes. That could be the regret of losing. It could be a relief spared from death. It could be jealousy that some people have defeated the coveted Knights Commander. That —— it could be everything.

Lawrence looked at East's tears and nodded small.

"Everybody listen up. When that man reunites with us, I'm sure he'll regret it. We have to grow up so much."

"Ha!!"

"Yuku, to the battlefield."

"Ha!!"

Thus Lawrence, the Knight Commander, pushed his unwell body to the front line.

"Ugh... my body hurts"

"Are you okay?"

"If you think it's terrible muscle pain, well, you can manage it"

Hikaru was walking in the king's capital with Lavia.

It's big enough that you're going to get lost as soon as you're not careful. The blacksmiths gathered in one place, and the gardeners gathered in one place again, and they had to walk by that standard because there was a specialty shopping district here and there.

My body hurts because of my fight with Lawrence. The full force of "instantaneous force" 2 seems to be intolerable in Hikaru's body. Probably can't keep up without increasing "muscle strength," "flexibility," "balance," "stamina," etc.

(It's not a point favor around here, I might have to train myself)

I'm not willing to be a muscle mucky, but it doesn't hurt to keep working out.

As for Hikaru, he had this pain, but he thinks it was a huge gain to have tried the limits of what he could do last night.

Though there was a danger of death —— I had a lot of experience making up for it.

That is the battle of the highest class. And my "secret" worked for them, too.

"Yes, dear city, adventurer. Is the autograph here?

Hikaru pulled up to the Adventurer's Guild with Lavia when he was signed for delivery completion.

Having completed the prescribed number of quests, complete the process with the Adventurer Alliance.

"Congratulations. Now you're rank F, too"

The receptionist, unlike the other day, blesses me.

[Adventurer Alliance Card]

[First Name] Hikaru

[Record] Pawnsonian Kingdom Pond Adventurer Guild

[Rank] F

[Occupation] - - -

The "Occupation" column is blank. Keep it "civilian". It's troublesome to be told this, and I'd rather give you the name of "hidden god".

"To get from Rank F to E, you can just go for material delivery, right?

"Yeah, that's right. That said, it's a long way to go before it gets to e ~. If it's not enough to put together a monster with a high crusade difficulty, then yes, we won't be able to gather any material."

"Right."

"Hehe, you seem confident. Come to me if you want to wholesale rare materials."

Is it any good to be in charge of wholesale materials? Like a bonus?

I'm idle in my guild enough for this receptionist to slap me in the mouth for nothing. I guess it's being driven out for war.

"Uh... as you can see from the card, I'm a Pond adventurer"

"There's no downside to what I changed, and I shouldn't use Wangdu as a base. There are no monsters in the vicinity, but there are plenty of requests for 'escorts' for that matter. F would get some, and the reward would be fine. More importantly, the King's Capital has a lot of money to spend."

"For once, I have a brother-in-law."

"Yes... too bad. And what's a pound anyway? Oh, I'm not fooling around."

"There are other adventurers like me?

"Mm-hmm. Because the Rank B adventurers belonging to the Wang du also headed to Pound"

"Heh..."

Rank B intrigued me.

"By the way, what kind of person are you, may I ask?

"Yeah. What a party they are with a 100% request fulfillment rate. Four women together."

The receptionist gave me the name of the party.

"Four Oriental Stars," he says.

"... yeah"

Hikaru also quickly realized that they were supposed to be the party to escort Lavia.