Yomigaeri no Maou

Episode 166: The Story to Tell

"Can I use this?

When Zoe asks the official man that, the man replies.

"Yeah... no problem. Adventurer cards can be used across countries without problems, so if you have an Adventurer's Union (guild), anywhere. However, there are countries that do not accept Adventurers' Unions (guilds) or areas that impose various restrictions, so if that's the place you can't use them... are you under the circumstances of saying so?

As for Zoe, I asked him if he could use it without any problems even with the age stuff called the Adventurer ID fifty years ago, but he mistakenly thought it meant that men could use the Adventurer ID made outside Leonard's country.

I tried to correct it, but the man was talking through Zoe's Adventurer ID to something that looked like a magic device on the desk, and I decided not to say anything about it because it seemed to be working fine and I dared to make it a long time ago.

If there was a problem, it would be something to say at that time.

After passing the Adventurer's Certificate, the official man works a lot as he sees the strings displayed in a plank-like place floating as if a thin junction were stretched in the air.

When Zoe peeks from the side to side at what is written there, information about Zoe appears to be displayed.

Some of them should have indications such as the year of registration, but officials looking at the string opened their mouths strangely.

"Ha ha... this isn't the first time I've processed a card for a special someone, but also for a special superior person, that card is, after all, specially made. Even officials have a lot of nondisclosure information…"

"Really? I'm not sure... what kind of information can I see?

Zoe asks how much can be seen in the official's words.

The official then:

"Your name and rank, plus just the request you're currently ordering. Originally we can also check the registration date, age, race and past order requests and request achievement rates… all of which are non-disclosed information about Zoe. Only Zoe himself and the designated Adventurer Union Leader (Alliance Master) can confirm the contents. Again, if you are an extraordinarily senior person, you will also be highly sensitive as an Adventurers Union (Alliance)."

Said.

There is no doubt that it would be troublesome for a single official to see all that content.

I'm not doing anything wrong, so it won't mean I'll be caught where I'm seen, but there's a chance they'll ask me about root digging leaf digging.

I just want to avoid that becoming the seed of some kind of problem, and if you say you can't see it, thank goodness.

Nod appropriately,

"Heh, you are..."

I said that and gave an unusual answer, and decided to leave the scene as soon as I was sure that my Adventurer's ID could be used.

The other receptionists seemed to confirm about their request, so Zoe approaches you.

After Zoe left, an official with Zoe's Adventurer ID through his magic implements looked strange.

"... what is this screen?

and tilted his neck and looked at the string.

There were no bright red letters there before,

"ASAP! Contact the Head of the Northern Adventurers Union of the Kingdom of Leonard (North Master)!

described and flashing.

Officials recall and rush out that when such indications were made into magic implements, they were taught by their predecessors by souring their mouths that they had to contact them immediately.

"Hey, what, what...!?

As I said, I closed that magic fixture and got up from the spot and ran out to the third floor of the Union of Final Adventurers (Guild).

There are expensive and valuable magic tools installed there to keep in touch with other Adventurers' Unions (guilds), which are allowed to be used in such cases.

Because it takes a lot of magic to use it, it takes a month to use it again, so I can't use it again, but I have to use it this time.

The official man jumped into the third floor room where such magic equipment was installed and hurried to start hitting the report.

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"Did you hear anything funny?

Zoe asks Lulu and Iris, who are in conversation with officials.

Officials suddenly tried to pay some attention to Zoë, who came, but they seemed to understand that Lulu and Illis were not particularly offended and that they knew each other because they had begun to respond to Zoë's words again.

"No, there's nothing special about this. It's just a fact that demons are rough after all."

In Lulu's words, an official woman puts in an annotation.

"The number of demons coming all the way to the finals is also about triple to quadruple compared to normal years, and is in a very dangerous state. Some human and material assistance has also been sent by Wang Du, so we should do something about it… If we keep doing this, it seems that the limit will come soon."

Apparently, he's in a rather dangerous state unexpectedly, and that seems to contend for a moment.

"Well, that's not why it doesn't mean what happens where we go to see it, but he wants so much information about the current situation in the Logsuela Mountains that he can get his hands out of his throat. He wants you to come as soon as you can."

"Yeah, even if it's our Adventurers' Union (guild), we sent adventurers to the Logsuela Mountains a few times, but they won't come back... The Rank of Adventurers seconded is between Intermediate and Advanced Lower. More than that, it was also difficult and troublesome to dispatch inside from the point of view of the Final's defense. So..."

So the official woman goes on to lurk her voice a little.

"I heard that Master Lulu and Master Iris were shown to be the winners and semi-winners of the Martial Arts Games, as well as being recommended by Master Uvezd. Master Zoe also said he was superior in class...... If you can get those people to investigate, even this one is a ship across the street. Your Majesty has ordered that reports against the country be made via the Adventurers' Union (Guild), and we have also been given leave to share information, so it would be very helpful if you could go. As far as rewards are concerned, we are to be released separately from Dear Uvezd, the Kingdom of Leonard and the Union of Final Adventurers (Guild), so we will never treat you unfavourably in that regard. Thank you..."

And he bowed his head deeply and said:

Zoe wasn't directly requested, but she said she would increase the asking fee for that as much as she did from the Adventurers' Union (Alliance).

That's all I'm having trouble with, I guess.

The three of them nodded and promised to leave as soon as possible, leaving the Adventurers' Union (guild).

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Continue south on the streets stretching further than the finals to reach the Wang Capital, but the streets were also stretched west.

If we continue that way, we will eventually reach a strange place with several caves with their mouths open, ahead of us through the deep forest.

And even stranger, you'll notice that there are a lot of people coming and going through that cave.

It was not, in fact, just a collection of caves, but a city.

That's the kind of city that says there are many hierarchies in the cave, at the bottom of the earth, and cities built there, not on the ground.

So the people who go into the cave are constant and the size of the cave is not the same again, but the big ones are the size that a large carriage can get into without any problems.

The name of the city is Teram Nadia, an underground city.

It was once a special constituent city where the exiled displaced began to use the abandoned underground city, where the Dwarves supposedly lived, saying they had a huge underground empire, as their own residence, is said to have begun.

Its history is long enough, as in the finals, to stand on the founding of the kingdom.

The part of such a city that hits the third basement floor is used as the headquarters of the Northern Region of the Kingdom of Leonard in the Adventurers' Union (Guild), where numerous Adventurers' Union (Guild) officials and heavy towns were busy walking around.

Among them was a large and splendid building built of rock and earth, set in a central location, inside the office room on the fifth floor, located on its top floor, with one man wearing small glasses, roaring and calling for a report.

Its appearance is enormous and obviously not human (human).

On a bright white, big head, you can see the long tail stretching out of it if you look behind a chair that looks sturdy, which would have been set up for its giant.

Seamen (Aquarius) - It is clear that it is the strongest of all, the strongest and longest-lived whale phases.

On the ground, the appearance of a mix of people and whales, which also makes them feel dressed as if they were not dressed.

But its eyes dwelt on a definite intelligence and calm, and it was clearly understood that he was different from the beast.

Such a sweaty Adventurers Union (Guild) official in front of him is waiting upright immobilized for the Seamen in front of him (Aquarius) to finish reading the report.

And...

"Hmm... I understand. I didn't think you'd show up now... but no, it's a name I miss"

and a loud and soft voice that was hard to imagine from its appearance echoed into the room.

His eyes, as the saying goes, are filled with a light that seems nostalgic, and his warm and gracious character is disturbing.

"I know you, are you?

When the official asked the seaman (Aquarius) man so, the man nodded slowly and replied.

"Yeah, yeah... when I was younger... I was older than you are now, but that's when I took care of you. One day all of a sudden, I stopped hearing that name and the news, and I was worried I was looking, but fifty years of months passed without finding it. So I'm not happy to hear that name again..."

The official man is surprised by the delightful voice from his heart.

Because he had never seen that seaman (Aquarius) man in front of him expose his emotions so much.

Besides, a seaman (Aquarius) man takes off his glasses and makes a case, and says as he stands up.

"This is not how I'm not going to greet you. There's a lot to talk about - even if it's not over there, it's a lot to me... can I get the carriage out?

Seamen (Aquarius) Moitz-Divik, who is in a position to rule the Northern Adventurers' Union (Guild), asked the official man that way.

In the Leonard Kingdom Adventurers' Union (Guild), one of the most senior Quadripartite Union leaders (Kvar Master) except for the Great Union leader (Grandmaster), Northern Adventurers' Union leader (North Master) Moitz.

Very little, such as how he decides where to go according to his own wishes.

Even so, that's only when it's too important, and I spend the rest of my time in the clerk's office, keeping him busy.

Yet he made the immediate decision that he had to go to one adventurer, even though he was a premier adventurer.

It was also inexorable for the official man to wonder who the hell that was.

Does that mean I was personally taken care of?

No, from the way I said it earlier, that's not how it feels.

In the first place, he's registered with the Adventurers' Union (Guild), and he's been contacted by the Adventurers' Union (Guild) of the Finals, so he probably knows each other in that relationship.

Moreover, the acquaintance of fifty years ago should be quite old.

On the other hand, I don't find it particularly strange from the fact that Moitz himself is alive.

I've heard that Moitz has a long-lived whale factor in him among the seamen (Aquarius), so he can live five hundred years, and in some cases about six hundred years.

The acquaintance also thinks that it may be such a being, but from a glimpse of an earlier report, I recall that the race was described as a human race (a human being).

Again, quite an old man, maybe.

So, because it's physically difficult to call the other side here, does that mean that Moitz himself will go?

Think that far in an instant, but in the end they didn't send me any information about the look, so I can't say anything.

He was also in quite a rush to contact me, I guess, and I had no choice.

Emergency contact is required through magic equipment because it is rarely, and it is almost impossible for that to happen just through a card.

I can't help but think, and the official man stops thinking there and responds to Moitz's words.

"Then we will arrange it immediately. We will be waiting for you at the Second Great Cave Gate to the east, and we will leave as soon as you are ready. Now, if you'll excuse me."

That's what the man said, colored, and left the room.

Moitz, who dropped him off, wrapped his jacket around the corner of the room, grinning and squeaking as he wore a wide range of hats.

"- I guess it hasn't changed, you know, he's been a real stranger for a long time... pretty much, maybe he's had his year... but I'm still looking forward to seeing him"

As such, Moitz left the room behind in a pleasant foothold when packed with various things in a candy trunk.