"You're a hippo ~..."

"Oh, Jill."

The receptionist next door laughs when he sees the receptionist of the guild who stumbled all the way to the counter.

The Kingdom of Pawnsonia, the Pond Adventurer Guild, a satellite city of the King's Capital, was idle.

Last fall's civil war disrupted the city, and it was probably a showdown, but the battle was avoided. The shaped adventurers who were devoured of shoulder blushes in a subsequent "truce" announcement left the pound to earn food.

Because in Pound, the city's function stopped, even temporarily. Even after the ceasefire, he did not return to vigour.

The guild stopped asking for help because of it, and the adventurers flashed.

What's worse, the "King of Choice Wu Guild" will be held this year at Einvist. Even the adventurers were eligible to participate, and those who were ambitious to take a thousand bucks were on their way there.

"Even so... winter is over, why don't you come back"

Jill, a receptionist with red hair as a short bob, peppered the binder on the counter. A number of requests have accumulated without order and can no longer be affixed to bulletin boards.

During the whole winter, the adventurers had gone to the Wang capital and nearby cities, so there were not enough people to do the requests after the city of Pound had normalized.

"It's been a long time since I've been able to slow down, and I'm welcome, though, right?

"That's... well, it is"

Jill looks at Gloria with her lips pointed.

The purple long hair is as bright as ever, down on the big chest. Sometimes the only eyes I could open were horrible without knowing what I was thinking, but the words now seem genuine.

Crowded by adventurers like every day, they process orders and deliveries at a fierce speed —— days that were rushing and fulfilling. You didn't like it before, but you said, "Get some rest! Or add more personnel! Though I thought," Humans are selfish because I actually miss being busy when I get hippo.

"What. I thought you were closed because there were too many people."

"Huh? That's not true, can't you see? This pile of requests..."

Jill, who naturally gave it back to his accidental voice, but to the boy who stood across the counter —— I had no idea he had come into the guild —— I realized that

"Hikaru!?"

I accidentally raised my voice out loud.

Within the Adventurer Alliance, there were no other adventurers. This is exactly what I would expect an idle bird to sound like.

Jill and Gloria sat across from Hikaru, who entered the reception booth —— it's proof of "hippo" that there's no problem with the two receptionists here —— and Lavia sat beside Hikaru.

Paula is acting differently to pick up the inn. Take the koo still asleep.

"So? Why are you in this situation?

"Hikaru rather than that. It's about that girl over there."

Jill looks at me with a jit eye. Once before, I had met with Lavia, but at that time, there were a lot of mock fights with Rank A Party "Pleasant and Painful" Senkun. I left it nagging.

"She, the lady of the Earl of Morgustadt, isn't she?"

"No. I'm just Lavia."

Lavia gives him the guild card he created in the Union of Foresters to show him.

"So, but the name is the same, even though it matches the look of the arrangement..."

"Arrangements? I don't think Count Morgustadt's warrant has been arranged any longer.

"It's --"

"I am Lavia. Just Lavia."

Lavia said the same thing again and hugged it in Hikaru's arms.

"... of Hikaru's lover, just Lavia"

!?

Jill solidifies in amazement and Gloria is niggling.

"Ma... because that's what I'm talking about. So, what's the situation over there?

Hikaru snapped, but Jill was still useless without warning from surprise, so Gloria briefly explained the current Pound Adventurer Alliance to me.

"Hmmm...... understaffed? There's no" Four Stars in the East "?

"The royal palace has called me to stay there."

Hikaru thinks it's tough to be Rank B. I still don't think it's a good idea to improve your Adventurer Rank.

Gloria tends to ask me lying down thinking about it.

"Dear Hikaru, I'd like to ask you a few questions..."

"Hmm?"

"How many are you supposed to marry as a wife?

"Buho."

It was Jill who erupted.

"Hey, be, g, mr. Gloria!?"

"Jill was a little quiet. Because I'm asking Hikaru -- you know, Hikaru?

"Jokes are tough...... You're free to marry whoever I am..."

and blurry hikaru, but the arms hugged by Lavia swoop in.

Um?

Mr. Lavia?

You're smiling, but your eyes aren't smiling, are they? Is that it? Not trusted?

"It matters. I want to know if there's a gap I can put on."

"Mr. Gloria!?"

After Jill screams all startled from earlier, it's like painkillers and lack of oxygen.

"No. I can't believe the gap you're putting in."

"Oh... that's too bad"

"Because I have a lot of money anyway, or something like that, right?

Even Gloria naturally knows that Hikaru received 100 million guillans in battle with Senkun. It is also clear that the money mentions that for a purpose.

"Ugh."

"Oh man...... isn't that what you usually hide about your belly blackness?

"Of course it is, isn't it? But it's easier to show your future companion everything from the beginning."

…………

Scary. It's like they're saying, "I'm serious about it".

And it came to Hikaru's brain at that time, that she felt herself being searched for by Gloria, the day after her.

She was alone in the room, undressed and fell asleep --.

(Ha. What do you remember? I am! That's just a mistake, mistake! The fact that I saw her naked wasn't meant to be offensive!

Dj, and Gloria are looking at this one.

"... Master Hikaru, are you hiding something?

That's why it's so hard on this guy! Too sharp!

"-- So how many daughters does Hikaru welcome?

"Lavia...... you hear that?

"Mmm."

Ravia asks at close range with a hug.

"... at least one of you wants me to be my daughter-in-law..."

I'm ashamed. I'm too ashamed. I can't see Lavia's face from the front.

Then Lavia dyed her white skin a little like a white magnet,

"Okay, then."

and smiled.

"... so, if Hikaru is in Pound for a while, I have plenty of requests for you to do it"

Not entirely back from the upset, but I managed to regain my attitude and Jill said,

"Huh? I'm interested in who Master Hikaru said 'one daughter-in-law' was?

"Hikaru, what's the second?

Hikaru wants to get into it.

Though it was clear that Lavia's "second person" was referring to Paula, there's still no sign that Paula and I are going to have a romantic relationship, nor is Hikaru willing to step in.

Or so I thought Jill,

"Well, I'll hear that from Hikaru next time."

"What?"

"Huh?"

Yep...

"I'll get back to it! Ha, ha, ha!

Bang bang and slap the table Jill.

"Uh... well, I'm going to take it as far as I can. Some of the materials we've collected by the time we got here."

I haven't just moved from Scalazard to Pound.

While confirming the functionality of Lavia's new magic, Hikaru's Gravity Balancer, he has also fought monsters to raise the "Soul Rank". If you have a rank, you can strengthen your abilities on the Seoul Board. Even thinking about the future would raise the level necessary (...).

"Really!? Could there be werewolf grass?!? Rogue bee honey crystals?!?"

"Both."

"Wow! My client was in trouble rushing me... I know this is hard, but there's no such thing as a miserable orchid...?

"Yes, I happen to find the Forest Barbarian, so I've been knocking him down"

"Wow!

Jill is overjoyed. Even as a hical, I thought about wholesale material in the pound, so I've been collecting dizzying material remembering the requisition I saw in the pound before.

"Where is the material!?"

"In the bag I put at the entrance --"

Gatan and I get up and Jill runs out.

Hikaru left his big bag at the entrance because it was not popular within the guild. Jill is cheering for joy when she opens the bag on her own.

"... I'm sorry. Our guild receptionist violated manners..."

Gloria's eyes dwelt in a dark light, her face facing Jill.

"Yes, no, I wish I was so happy for you. I mean, you're really understaffed."

"Yes... even though we are understaffed, the most powerful adventurers are gathered in the Wang capital."

"To the king's capital? There's still a civil war?

"No, they said you got the conversation together in a hand-to-hand direction."

Austrin, brother of Princess Kjastria and Crown Prince, was guaranteed his life and territory instead of returning his right to inherit the throne.

The civil war is over once and for all.

"I can't even pick it up on the network of guilds, but apparently there was something (...) in Villeocean, and you think the neighborhood of Master Cujastria is in a rush"

"Vileocean...... a maritime state"

It's the only country where Hikaru hasn't set foot.

"Yes, there should have been a queenly crowning ceremony at the same time as it would have been in the spring, but enough to postpone that too"

"It is Pawnsonia who is dealing with the Villeosean, and with the Eimbist, the Sovereign Nation of Bios, and with the Empire of Quimbrand...... is it dealing with everything but Forestia? Is there something wrong with other countries, too?

"They see a similar trend in the Quimbrand Empire. However, the Sovereign Nation of Bios is surrounded by papal sacraments --"

Oh, I thought Hikaru seemed like another HR while keeping himself set up, as the regional priest was in the big picture.

"--Eimbist is going to be the King of the Choice Wu Guild."

"With that said, is it? Hasn't Quimbrand Empire's Adventurer Guild grabbed anything?

"No, the information seems pretty secret. - Oh, yeah, something a little different."

Gloria had a slight grin.

"Quimbrand Imperial Castle —— the castle of His Majesty the Emperor, isn't it? There seems to be something strange in the castle gate."

"Something strange?

"Yes. It's a silver mask"

Now it was Hikaru's turn to erupt buho.