Lead the other world.

- Patchy... Patchy...

A cold breeze blows, and the short weeds that grow there shake.

And there are two shadows, illuminated by the light of the missing moon in the dark, who made a noise and lowered their hips on the side of a flame that sways every bit.

"Ugh, it's cold..."

One girl puts her hands on the bonfire and warms her cold hands, shaking her body with a rattlesnake, peeking her long ears out of her long, sarcastic, golden hair, unlike humans.

"Um, do you?

"Yes! Takumi uses ice attributes..."

"Uh, you did. Isn't it cold to use ice attributes because they are resistant to the cold?"

One brunette boy who laughs so small and adds trees he has collected from close proximity to the incineration.

They are two Elf girls, Iris, and a human boy, Takumi.

The two had set up a simple tent that they had removed from the magic back after the sun had fallen and had chatted since finishing their meals.

Seeing Takumi smiling as she chatted, Iris, smiling, cut out a new topic as she remembered.

"That sounds like we'll be there tomorrow or so."

"Right. My buddies, according to Mr. Luke and Mr. Lumiere, seem to arrive first and wait, but what kind of person are they?"

"It's those two people, so your strength must be considerable...... I have to keep my legs from pulling."

"Don't get too upset, do you?

"I know ~"

The two men out of Radatome were heading straight for a small village a little further away from Metes to do what Luke asked them to do instead of helping to rescue the citrus vegetables.

The request is to investigate and solve the causes of the failure of merchants and adventurers who have gone to Metes in the past few weeks.

Already before Takumi and the others, a number of armed adventurers, including those above S-rank, were dispatched, but so far there are no reports of them returning.

We both found it to be an obvious anomaly that not even an adventurer of S-rank or higher who was supposedly capable of perceiving danger and pulling back judging it out of his own hands had been able to return.

"Eh!

"Wow."

Takumi was surprised for a moment after being suddenly on her back, but she turned around and stroked the head of the person who had been there with a small laugh.

"What's up, Sola?

"Phew, nothing in particular."

Jumping out of the world of Takumi's heart, it is Sola, a pale-haired girl who smiles so much and hugs her to Takumi, a contractual spirit.

And Sola turned her eyes to Iris and asked.

"Has Mr. Iris ever been to Metes?

"Is that me? Unfortunately you don't...... I've only been as decent as Astraire."

"Uh, well."

Iris is the only daughter of the highest family in the Elves, and it has not been two years since she first came to Astrea because she has been unable to get out of there for a long time.

Then Iris, smiling bitterly, answered Sola when he slapped his hand as if he remembered.

"Oh, but I've asked your father! The number of people and the number of buildings do not draw on Astrea, and merchants from all over the world gather to trade seems to be a vibrant city. But you think people with a lot of money are wielding a lot of power in the back."

"I see. Then maybe this whole thing is caused by a rich, power-wielding guy..."

"What do you think? Even the highest-ranking adventurer with arms is out of the news."

"Well, the masters might have more information, and you know what?"

"Right!

Then for a while Takumi heard about the magic of the newly acquired sacred attributes of Iris, and chatted about various things with him about the night watch.

Such casual exchanges and laughing at each other, they wouldn't have thought of it at this time.

That the city of Mates is...