Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

"Well, the Naos are gone, but what do we do? Until you get back, you can't really move, can you?

That morning, when Nao and Hulka left for Raffan, the remaining Toyas were gathered in the assigned room to discuss their policies.

Even so, Toya, Natsuki and Yuki are the three people in the conversation.

Mary and Meatier are only listening, gobbling on the bed.

"At least we need to avoid something that's going to be a fight. My classmates might come out."

"You don't have to be a classmate to find out that the other day's raiders, people on that level, are normal, and you can't be alarmed."

At that time, I remembered that it was a plain pinch, and all three of them looked serious.

Although one person was made to suffer major injuries, everyone is running away in more than one-on-one situations, so the level of skill is never insulting.

In contrast, the Marys, who have not seen the situation in person, give a slightly disturbing look.

"Were you that strong?

"Brothers, even though you're so strong?

"No, we haven't, honestly. Maybe that was a good opportunity too. In the sense of knowing where to stand."

"I couldn't beat Sazius... I knew you were right."

Yuki is right about Sazius's dark smell of "the soldiers of Viscount Nenas are weak, including himself”.

In fact, the Viscount Nenas lead is weak.

If the lead soldiers are strong in the first place, there is no way to leave the raffan town's namewood until it feels scarce.

Since it is an important specialty and can be exported to other territories, it would be natural to use the soldiers to secure it.

"So if Mary and the others could beat me, would you be humble? Still up there, if you don't think so, you're gonna get your feet kicked.

"I don't think I can win very much...... yes, I will try not to forget"

"I understand."

To Toya's words, Mary nods honestly, even with a slightly bewildered look on her face, and Meetia mimics it as well.

"But what shall we do? Even if they told me to fix it, we're complete amateurs..."

"Yeah. My knowledge is about what I learned in a deductive novel. What about Toya?"

"No, if you two can't, what do you expect me to do? About a game at best? But I don't know what games can do with a total choice."

"Intercept, stake out, investigate? It's like that, you know, a drama or something."

"Yes. I don't know how to do this in detail."

All three of them, they're not originally police or detectives. They're just high school students, they can't know how to investigate, etc.

Therefore, there would be no choice but to come up with TV dramas, reasoning novels, and knowledge at that level.

If you say it already, in this world where there are no pictures or anything - to be exact, there are similar things, but you can't easily prepare a picture of a suspect like a drama - you listen while showing a picture, and you can't even take any methods.

The family registry is also vague, so we don't even know if it's really missing, so the difficulty of the investigation is definitely up there.

If I were to raise the vantage point, would it be as small as the population?

"... Shall we just go talk to the lead soldier? Then there's no danger, and you'll know more about the investigation than we do."

"Right. Why don't you start with that? I don't know."

To Toya, who said so and stood up, Mary, who had fallen asleep in bed, stood up as well, but spoke to them like a little trouble.

"Um, what about me and Me?

"Well, you can come with me, but it doesn't make much sense, does it?"

Even though I say I'm an adult, we're both kids who aren't even ten yet.

Think normally, there's no way you can help with an investigation, and in the unlikely event of a rough scene, you could end up with a pair of feet on the contrary.

Only in the world of cartoons for boys can elementary school students conveniently solve cases.

"If you don't get out of the city, you can be free... to participate in the training of the lead soldiers, or to play with Master Ilias - no, study?

I can't even tell you to go play in the city where the disappearance is just happening, and that's the option Natsuki suggested.

Hearing that, Mary thought only a little and immediately nodded 'Yeah'.

"I understand. Make it appropriate. Me too. Is that good?

"Yeah. I'll leave it to your sister."

"I know it's okay, but don't bother the Viscounts"

"Of course it is. Take care of yourself, Natsuki."

"Sisters, please go."

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The first time the Natsukis left the room was in the office where Sazius was working.

From the Toya's point of view, Sazius is only under the impression that he is training, but he is also in a position to put together the lead soldiers, so naturally he also has clerical work and a room for it.

A short distance from the main residence of the Viscount Nenas, this building also houses the quarters of the leading soldiers.

One corner of it was Sazius' office.

The story already seems to have gone through, and as soon as Toya and the others ask, they are welcomed in.

"I'm sorry to bother you this time, but I have to ask for trouble."

"No, I don't mind. It's an official request. But... you work like that, don't you?

Some of the office rooms Toya looked at with interest presented a view of the room where she was truly doing her clerical work.

The desk where Sazius is sitting is crammed with documents, and there is a sloppy line of paper-bound booklets as to whether it is some sort of material on the bookshelves arranged on the wall.

From their point of view, it is the first massive amount of paper to be seen, with the exception of the bookstore.

"If you're about me, there's more of you here. If it's about Jasper, there's still more in the field... haha, I'm in a good position about that, too. It's a pain in the ass."

The Toyas smile bitterly at Sazius for throwing the pen he had in his hand, looking really troublesome.

In fact, it is clear that Sazius is not very good at clerical work, even if he just looked on that unorganized desk.

"I don't have to know what it feels like. but let me talk to you for today. For once, you know best, don't you?

"Copy that. Right... when it comes to what happens, it will be spring. We found one young woman's body. Well, that's an occasional thing in itself. It's no big deal. The problem is that the woman was a resident of Kerg."

…… Wait a minute, please. How did you know he was a resident of Kerg? They found it here, in the pinning, didn't they?

"Oh, you're adventurers, so don't you know? Viscount Nenas is issuing a residence card if you wish. There aren't many of them."

A residence card that a person who is settled in a town and pays taxes can have issued by applying to the office of that town.

The main use of this is to obtain tax exemption when entering or leaving town.

This exemption is not only granted to the town in which it resides, but also to other towns in Viscount Nenas territory.

So it works just like the Adventurer Alliance guild cards.

However, the vast majority of residents who never leave the city have no use for it, so very few have it.

To the extent that merchants who go to other towns to buy them out or farmers who go out of town have them, even for those people, I know mostly the gatekeepers in my town, so I don't actually have much chance of getting issued.

"So, well, the way the victim died was slightly more suspicious. I thought I'd check it out, but Kerg investigated it... and it looks like he left town without even telling anyone he knew about it around winter. Probably, but"

"In itself, I can't even assume that I had an errand to pin..."

"The fact that I'm here to pin is not in itself. Because the victim was doing something like a street vendor. But on the contrary, he never went without saying anything around."

Even so, it was the wholesale trade for shops, not for the average person, who was the victim's line "Ogata".

Therefore, if you are going to purchase somewhere, it is natural that you should go to ask in advance, and tell them when you will be able to purchase it and come back.

Nonetheless, they remain missing without any of them.

It was such a suspicious situation that Sazius was able to purchase some information.

"By the way, what kind of suspicious way to die?

"Oh, I haven't found a trauma that could cause death. I guess it's poison, because it was in the alley that I was rolling. Were you poisoned somewhere and walked all the way up there to do it, or were you dumped after you died? Oh, by the way, the victim is a woman."

"No trauma...... by the way, how old are you?

"You're in your mid-twenties. But, well, one of the women in question just died suspiciously. That's when it ended."

"Oh, it's over, so"

Toya leaks a slightly unexpected voice, but the fact that a body is found in the city itself is generally not such a rare story.

It was investigated once, because it is not very common in the relatively secure Viscount Nenas territory, but quite often if it is Clevilley, the more common it is for Mijara to find a body if she walks somewhat - such a world.

So, unless the murder was committed in an eye-catching state, or the person killed was not a leading man or his associate, it ended up incinerated as it was.

Even in homicides, we are very understaffed, even with a lot of hard work investigating about one civilian dying.

"So, was it before the summer next? There was a complaint from a woman's family that her daughter was missing."

Saying so, Sazius takes out a piece of paper and continues to explain it as he sees it.

"You're talking about the woman's sociopath, the man's body being found, and the woman's missing. But I looked into it and there was talk that I saw the woman and the man arguing. It ended in the form of an emotional killing a man and the woman fled. The time (...) of this (...) is (...)"

"At this time?

When Natsuki hears Sazius' words and hears them back, he nods softly.

"Yes, at this time, yes. I'll explain later, but we've been busy these days. I couldn't afford it."