Hikaru and Lavia left the Adventurers Guild and headed to the Grand Hotel Pound. I'm supposed to keep the material I've been collecting for now and have it pick up what I need in my guild.

"Hikaru. As I was saying, 'The Silver Mask' listed in the castle of the Empire of Quimbrand, is that about you?

"... probably"

Only once in the past, Hikaru has visited the Imperial capital of the Quimbrand Empire. Just to meet with Kagli-Gi-Quimbrand, the emperor.

Being of the same Mannorm race as Unken, he read Unken's letter entrusted to Hikaru and gave him the "Dimensional Dragon's Box" to reward Hikaru for his hard work.

A silver mask set up at the castle gate of such a Cagley residence.

I'm pretty sure he's calling Hikaru on some errands.

"Well, from what I can think of —— I wonder if Vileocean ravenous"

"I guess so?

"There's been a suspicious move, and the upper echelons of the country are hiding information. That's where the most suspicious things are right now."

Get inside from the hotel entrance. The entrance lobby is spacious due to some of the finest hotels in Pond.

"Excuse me, I think I'm holding down one room in Paula-Nola's name--"

And Hikaru, who was about to say at the counter, stopped tingly.

"Yes, there is. Hey."

A woman who has returned it with an extended voice —— two cat ears on its head. I have a cat.

Is that it? Huh? Wasn't this guy the one who was at the business hotel?

Sir, what's wrong?

"Oh, no..."

We've met before, haven't we? I can't say a bit because what a constant coat of nappa to ask.

"--Hikaru?"

There, I was called out.

"I knew it wasn't Hikaru! Where have you been?

Looking back, there was Celica-Tanowe.

Celica said she wanted to speak in Japanese because she couldn't speak the language of the world yet, and Lavia, who was tired, went back to her room first.

Opposite Celica in a lounge co-located in the entrance lobby. She was wearing the same superior robe.

"So? I wonder why the Rank B party, which is supposed to be called to Wang Du, is better here?

"It's still Her Royal Highness who called me to the King's Capital —— uh, Her Majesty the Queen already. Because His Majesty's neighborhood is at stake, that's why I wanted a protective presence. You know, if Sarah and Soluz were here, I'd be free."

'Is it a condition where danger is visible? The civil war is over. "

"Prince Austrin gave up when he found out Einvist was going to pull his hand. Hey, the chief of the squire who was putting him aside, this guy is behind this. The chief samurai doesn't have a future when the prince gives up. Because I've done something scattered and bad. That's why he disappeared, and it seems to me that he's after Master Cujastria's life for a one-shot reversal."

"Hmmm... that's tough, too, Master Rank B."

Raise your rank, too.

'I'm not kidding. It doesn't have any benefits. "

"Lots of money-- uh, you were already a big rich man, right? You have to understand how hard it is to do that. '

"I don't want to be told by anyone who took 10% of it."

Of the 100 million guillans wound up from the rank A party "pleasant and painful" senkun, it has invested (...) 10% in celica.

'Hot dog chain, sounds like it's working out there. I'm surprised you hired a retarded adventurer.'

'Mmm... ma, right. This world is light, isn't it? Besides, there are fewer chances and more risks. I just made one mistake, and I wanted to save someone whose future would be turned down.'

…………

'You think it's hypocrisy? Or what are you going to do?

'... no, it's not'

What Hikaru thought was —— how far I should intervene in this world.

I intervened in Lavia's life. That's why I want her life, her life, and Lavia wants it.

Intervened in Paula as well, and Paula will be by her side in the future.

But what about the others?

In Claude's case, he's going to lend some help and leave the rest to him. The same goes for the "Blue Knight" conia and Gilberto.

Using Hikaru's soulboard can save more people. But if we do that, secrets will eventually be leaked, and those who want Hikaru's abilities, those who neglect Hikaru, and those who consider Hikaru to be in the way will attack us. Or that Lavia and Paula, which Hikaru cares about, are in danger.

I don't like that.

But —— there's a way to do it.

Seriously injured people, for example, who have no choice but to sit and wait for death, can also manage with Paula's restorative magic. Death, even if you don't go to it, those who have closed their future as adventurers can be made to regenerate with healing magic. You just have to run that from behind. In that case, you don't get paid anything, you end up just being self-satisfied.

In the end, it's a question of how far we should intervene.

The more we intervene, the more trouble we get for Hikaru.

"What's wrong, Hikaru?

"... Celica's strong."

Celica is intervening in this world, using her full powers. I raise my name as an adventurer, I sift my power as a wizard myself, and now I save a retarded adventurer.

"Ha."

Then, Celica grinned sarcastically and buried her body on the couch.

"I'm not strong enough. As soon as I came to this world, I was dying. Well, the monsters were in the woods, so naturally, right? I've been crying for the first week. I want to go back to Japan, miss my family, resent my unreasonable fate... I'm lucky to survive today, but I don't know what's going on tomorrow, I won't be able to live a month. You're dying-- '

Even Hikaru cannot be said to have been a blessed reincarnation. Suddenly he said, "Kill people. Or you'll die, too." But —— I guess Celica was a different, understandable "hardness" than that.

'... I was lucky enough to use Spirit Magic to eat the meat of a monster I killed crying... and blew it off. It's the only way to be. The creature eventually dies. So I'll do what I want.'

That's why, Hikaru thought.

Why Celica intervenes in this world--.

'Ah. That's weird, I didn't even want to talk about this. I thought you were relaxed in Japanese...'

She shyly turns away and points her lips.

'No... thanks for talking to me. I've been a little lost, too, so it was helpful. "

"You'll be worried too."

"What does that mean?"

'It's okay for you to be old, boy. Adolescent.'

Then Celica and I talked about the development of the hot dog chain. They don't seem to be funded besides their thoughts, they have a lot of job seekers, and they're rather busier that way to sift crying talent or good offices for other jobs.

So what were you doing? Go to the Sovereign Nation of Bios, go to Eimbist, then?

"I 'm--"

Hikaru spoke about it in the Union of Forestia. Over the winter, he said he had seen the wedding.

"Heh. I don't understand going out of my way to the coldest country in the cold winter."

It is the serica-like opinion of a rationalist.

'With that said, I heard in the guild that the upper echelons of the country were hiding something, you know what I mean?

"Uh, that's what the letter from Soluz said today. In some cases, you may be held for a long period of time, and you've been diagnosed with something like that. '

"Heh..."

Request for an escort that takes a long time? Because the dispute with the chief samurai prolongs -- I thought, if Quinn Brand has the same movement, it wouldn't have anything to do with the civil war.

Then he exchanged some information and Hikaru broke up with Celica.

(I figured I'd have to go to Quinn Brand)

Long-term detention of "Oriental Four Stars". "Calling" from Quinn Brand.

As these two come from the same thing —— Hikaru "intuited".