Log Horizon

Even the smell of the wind softened when I wondered if there was a white jaw under my feet.

At night, the weight of the satchel is abandoned, becoming more transparent and lighter. That's a sign of dawn. The city of Akiba was still engulfed in darkness, but there was already no heavy pressure to crush the chest in the middle of the night.

The sky gradually changes its shade to clear blue. Time flies, even if the silence remains intact.

Akatsuki was tired of finishing his overnight patrol.

Adventurer's health is not frightening all night, but nerves that continue to be strained by enemy work cause more fatigue in the mind than in the body.

(You're hungry...)

I think so. I want a warm potage.

This is a special potage soup made by Nyantai with lots of corn.

But this place is on a nearly collapsed elevated track. On the Horizon of Records, our people are in their deepest sleep before dawn. I can't get stuffy.

In the first place, this late-night wandering doesn't tell the Alliance's people. I'm jealous of my buddy, the girl, and I want to gain comparable power to the "Adventurers" of the Massive Combat Guild, and I'm after a killer when I get out of the home like every night. There's no way I can tell my people that.

Akatsuki sighed deeply as he looked down at the city as it grew brighter and brighter.

There's no way I can tell you, and I'm feeling fatigued this way, because I'm aware that this exploration itself is in the end only Akatsuki's own selfishness. The desire to gain power is ego in the first place. Even Siloe's direct line has never made such a demand. Not to mention Akatsuki knows that chasing a killer is like catching a cloud.

If you do go after a killer, you might be able to witness the battle of a high-ranking guild.

That way you might be able to see their manipulative oral.

If it works, I might find that tip.

They're all hypothetical. It is a sloppy course of action that just "might".

Akatsuki also knows that. So I can't tell my people.

Crossing over Central Avenue, Akatsuki walks the elevated tracks towards the centre of Akiba.

The darkness was gone and early mornings had arrived in the city of Akiba. The cold wind cuts off the skin characteristic of winter mornings, taking the temperature away from Akatsuki's cheeks. My body was getting cold after spending the night in a sneaky outfit so I could fight whenever I wanted. It was good in the middle of the night when he was moving around maintaining his nervousness, but he froze while the night dawned and watched the city blurry.

I didn't feel very bright.

Akatsuki takes that for granted too. I wandered around the city all night without success. Rising to a large mass of mossy concrete, he reaches further and Akatsuki stands on the rubble. Probably the home of the central line in the old world, this place had become an aerial garden where many trees grew. The air is cold, but the wind is blocked so I can just relieve myself a little.

This huge building is not an individual zone, but an open object publicly installed in the city of Akiba. There is no specific exit for that, and if you care about it, you can jump off the elevated tracks (although of course you won't be forced because of the fall damage).

Akatsuki blurred and just thought about going down the central staircase and going out to Guild Hall Square... and lowered his back to the decaying bench.

I don't think I was that tired.

I just don't want to move anymore.

Sit down, it's heavy around your stomach. Something stiffens up and feels unbearable.

Akatsuki surprised himself.

Why do I sit back on the bench and stare at the ground like this? I was caught wondering if I had thought of it so much.

Try kicking pebbles with your toes. Cracked and crushed everywhere. Pebbles rolled down the formerly homely aerial gardens where ancient trees forested. Seeing as the little bird flew away, it apparently surprised me.

Akatsuki thought about different things in a terribly depressed mood.

About the Alliance, about the Siloe, about the silly, nasty direct line, about Nata and her delicious dishes, about the juniors, about the Three Moons Alliance, about the enemies we've fought so far.

And about Minori.

She's a girly girl, I think. Beautiful. Dizzy. Bright, unfamiliar, and then polite... Each is no big deal. I think even cuteness is only somewhat popular in the class, and there are parts of everything that say too much stuff.

I can't even cook, and I'm a middle school student, so I'm sure you don't even know it's a fashionable store everywhere. I think Pochette's hobbies are childish, too. Even when talking to Siloe, she must have been so shy, so tall and fed up with Siloe.

Akatsuki bit his lip all the time.

I wonder what you're thinking.

Shallow.

Isn't it narrow enough for me to be stunned?

My appearance in the mirror was ugly and distorted. The bitterness of jealousy accumulated like starch blames Akatsuki. What did Minori do? I didn't do anything.

At least you've never been malicious to Akatsuki. Even so, I look down on Minori as a busy little guy in my heart. Even though I know that's not true. Though I know Minori is a cute junior in hard work. I can't suppress the feeling that I think that I'm too good at middle school.

When I'm thinking about it alone this way, I can't stand it. Usually, when there's a lot of people, there's a lot of jealousy in your mind that you can forget. I'm going to be swallowed up by a torrent that I can't even hold down.

Akatsuki took many deep breaths.

I loosened my clenched fist.

deciduous trees that withered and dropped leaves in winter, conifers that still leave a dark green figure. The shadow falls into a moist garden.

Somewhere, I heard a small bell wave. This is the little bird I saw earlier. The ruins of the gods without man's signs have a flamboyant beauty in the winter air. Even the clear air that freezes the exhaling breath white is an indispensable part of its beauty.

In an even white light rather than eyelids, Akatsuki felt himself like a black stain. It's a black stain that just spreads dirt. With that in mind, even the brunettes I've been proud of are adorable.

Thinking that maybe Siloe doesn't have dark hair and thinks she's cute with bright colored hair like Minori, she feels as though her stomach area has been hardened with stone.

Even though Akatsuki herself knows very well that Shiloe doesn't decide whether to like or dislike the color of her hair. Siloe doesn't have such a physical color of hair.

Yet he said, "Don't you prefer bright colored hair? It was all because of Akatsuki's jealousy that I thought about the crap.

Akatsuki spreads the filthy jealousy of Akatsuki into the siloe he calls his master.

Even now, Akatsuki's jealousy is silencing Shiloe.

(What kind of mouth is calling for a master? I am)

Akatsuki finally understood why he sat on this bench.

In other words, Akatsuki doesn't want to go back to the Horizon of Records.

It's like an elementary school student who's gone back to school.

That makes me laugh funny to think about. It's a childish escape.

Akatsuki felt cold, hard and miserable. It was an important place to be, but I was feeling so happy, but to protect that happiness, I pursued my strength through the night. To give it up, it's hard to go home. A falling reality blamed Akatsuki.

Minori and Toya, the younger group, go out hunting for a stay and are not there.

I'm not in a state of face-to-face when I go home to the Alliance House. I know very well that you will warmly welcome me to. 'Cause I'm sure he'll make a crappy joke and worry about Akatsuki.

That's why I don't want to go home is Akatsuki's selfishness.

Even Akatsuki knows it looks good.

But I can't throw it away.

I want to see my master.

Akatsuki thought so. The wish is enough to tighten your chest.

I want to see Siloe. I want to talk to you just a little bit. I want to snap a white coat by the vicinity. I want to pour black rose tea out of the water bottle for a cup of siloed water. I want to sit on the couch with you and look out the window. I'd like to try to put on a difficult face myself next to Shiloe becoming just as difficult looking at difficult paperwork.

But that's not good. I don't think I deserve to be selfish and admirable to rest in peace with Siloe. On the contrary, if I go back there now, I will never be able to rush out again. You're going to live forever as a "siloe".

I didn't think that was bad either.

Next to Siloe, I thought I would be happy if I could be sneaky with my master, like playing sunshine with Siloe.

But that's deception.

Minori made me realize that she was just sweet because she was happy now.

A swallow that can no longer fly will soon be unable to go about the siloe. In that case, there is only separation.

I'm thinking of just going around the same thing from now on. None of this. The subject is me, and myself. It's too self-centered and disgusting for me.

No one will like my daughter like that. Even I don't want to have such a self centered, friend who can only talk about me. So I can't see Siloe right now.

And that is also the fate received from Siloe.

"... Let's stay in the inn today"

Akatsuki forced his heavy body to rise.

You can't be tired, but you're weird, because of your feelings.

This homeland, where the winter winds stroked, was vast, and there was no voice to answer Akatsuki.

◆

Rainesia felt unexpected when the young man was told of his visit.

Because, of course, he was familiar and important, but he realized he'd never imagined himself, or anywhere else to visit him.

"Visits" are supposed to take place a few days to a few months in advance in the aristocratic society, but for better or worse, this was the city of Akiba, so the servants of the Water Maple Hall where Rainesia lives were used to "sudden visitors".

Even then, visitors were sent to the reception room and Rainesia received a report.

Rainesia gently fixed her hair and revealed her clothes as she asked Elissa to help. Youth are also "on this side" of the human race, but not aristocratic, and above all between "earthlings" who live in the city of Akiba with each other. The decision that I wouldn't need to dress as well as the night club led me to choose a long sleeved, laid-back one-piece type dress today.

It was a pink souvenir of Marielle from the Alliance of the Three Days and Moons, as sweet as light snow, and it was quiet in the gift - Raynesia didn't put it to words, but she liked it.

The guests in the reception room stood up and welcomed Raynesia, who rushed just a little.

"We're out of time. Dear Lainesia,"

It was one young man who bowed his head in polite manoeuvres. His name is Jinji, and he was the young leader of the Sacrifice clan who lived in the city of Akiba.

"Sorry to keep you waiting"

Rainesia also returns a gentle thank you.

As soon as Elissa prepares the tea, a subtle silence flows.

Rainesia doesn't know much about this young man. Instead, I only knew enough to be the young leader of the Sacrifice clan. It may be said that the sacrificial clan is one of the "earthlings", but also a one-of-a-kind clan, and that it possesses a distinct force in a sense in this Yamato.

There are five main areas of this yamato.

The "Ezzo Empire" was founded in the desolate lands of the north. The Shipping Commercial State at the End of the South (Ninetail Autonomy). The Duke of Fawland has already perished and is now a monster's trekking and dangerous island. And draw the blood of the Westlande dynasty "Holy Empire Westlande". The last is the Alliance of Free Cities Eastal, rooted in this eastern Yamato, which includes the capital of Maihama, ruled by Rainesia's grandfather.

In these five areas the same currency is in circulation. Half-gold coins (halves), quarters (quarters), positive gold coins - the currencies that are usually called gold coins in a bundle. Rainesia had heard that these were not just Yamato, but that the exact same thing was used even on the continent.

It is the sacrificial clan that dominates the circulation of gold coins, or 'banks', which have been used ever since ancient times.

They inherited some of the ancient Alv technology and were able to interact with goods remotely in a different way from the intercity gates. Using that technology, the Sacrifice Clan operates' banks' in various locations.

Most importantly, they are not a family of 'banks'.

It is their mission to manage the magic technology of the ancient Alves.

Although "banks" are the most representative, they are also responsible for maintaining the defensive magic formations of the contiguous cities in the Alliance of Free Cities Eastal.

Fewer than thirty contiguous cities in the Alliance of Free Cities Eastal are built with ancient facilities that transmit magic in the basement of the city itself. This magic prevents the invasion of monsters and conveys power to the Guards.

With the exception of a few cities in the "Holy Empire Westlande", which hated the revolt of the nobility, most contiguous cities present in Yamato are supported by the Sacrifice clan.

Of course, it is the clan responsible for all that. In a way they can be said to be even more necessary clans for Yamato than nobles. In his assignment to Akiba, Rainesia has also been properly advised by his grandfather about the Sacrifice clan.

On the other hand, however, this sacrificial clan was also known as a clan that, more strangely than in ancient times, did not seek prosperity or power. It was the impression that the Eastal nobles unanimously had on them that they were passing on their mission and concerned only with its fulfilment.

All in all, mysterious and strange, it was the general "earthly" aristocracy's perception of the Sacrificial clan, and the Leinesian's perception of the "earthly" clan of the changed, who have long helped to maintain the world.

"Have some tea, please."

But that's why I don't know what to say. Rainesia recommended Elissa's tea for now, without difficulty. It was the green tea I recently bought that was placed on the low couch.

Xing Xing lays down her usual half-eye softly and puts her mouth on the cup.

I had asked Elissa that she was a young man, and even if she was relative like this now, she would not be able to express herself otherwise, but this man, with black hair in his smiley eyes and a standing collar courtesy, his age is unclear even as he stares.

Of course, he's older than Rainesia, but what if he jerks off with the Monster Warrior (Krusty)? Smooth cheek lines seem much younger, and tense hands seem much older.

"I apologize for asking so suddenly today. It's up to you to apologize for the serious incident and explain it to Lady Rainesia."

Xing Xing, who returned the cup to the saucer, echoed the expression.

"What are you talking about?

"From the Guard's Stuff, a single Power Armor (Movable Armor) was stolen"

"Huh -?"

"It is presumed that it belonged to one of the guards, my sacrificial clan"

From time to time, I don't think I'm a good guess, Rainesia, but all this time I really took my meaning away.

And I'm clearly aware of the blood pulling away from my head.

Their bad vertigo strikes, and it seems to darken in front of them.

"Power Armor" is one of the legacies of the ancient Alves, a special armor to protect a particular zone. The biggest difference from normal armor lies in the ability to significantly improve the wearer's physical abilities, with a magic supply from the outside.

The battle ability of the "Earthlings" is never high in this world. Not only does it not extend to adventurers, but it also doesn't stand teeth to monsters above intermediate. It is because there are a number of helps that such "earthlings" can protect their own living areas in this world.

The presence of legendary "Earthlings" heroes called "Ancient Species" and guerrillas fighting the enemies of this world called "Adventurers" is one of them, as is the connecting technology that protects large cities and major trunk roads from demons.

And the guard mechanism equipped with "power armor" is considered to be one important element.

The "Earthlings" strengthened by the "Power Armor" gain the ability to exceed the high level "Adventurers" in some cases. In addition, they have the ability to transfer and imprison, although they are limited to cities. The guards use this ability to keep the city secure.

Of course, this ability is not unlimited. The Power Armor, which requires a great deal of magic just to operate, should only be available in a limited number of cities.

"Yeah, you're right. Power Armor can only be used in a limited number of large cities. Without constant magic replenishment from the giant demonic squares built in the city's basement, it is characteristic of that armor that the wearer can't even move. Also, the power armor is tuned to the magic wavelength of each city, so if you go outside the city of Akiba, you'll get frustrated."

The star continued his words as Leinesia answered with dismay.

"Something like that, the seriousness of things hasn't changed. If you take it outside, it's a pain in the ass, but inside this city, it's incredibly strong."

"Power armor" allows for significant output enhancement through adjustment. In this city of Akiba, its abilities exceed level 100. To control the "Adventurers" who commit violent acts throughout the city, so while it may be natural to say so, its combat capabilities are set to exceed even the highest levels of "Adventurers".

Speaking of truth, there was also the aspect that Rainesia came to this city ruled by the Adventurer only if there was a back shield: the power armor and the protection of safety by the guards. Of course, there was a prehistory of taking responsibility for causing the Zantreef meeting without the permission of the Lords' Council in a statement that did not look beyond, but there was also that degree of reading in Rainesian grandfathers when it came to stationing them in the cities of the "Adventurers" with only a few snacks of the defenseless princess of the "Landlord".

But the battle capability behind it spilled out to the outside world. The news also pointed to various things at the same time.

"So, no way... the killer"

The star nodded at Leinesia's inquiry, which turned pale.

"Yes, that offense involves the Sacrifice Clan. I'm ashamed to say so."

That was exactly the kind of scandal that Leinesia would freeze.

That the sacrificial clan, and the guards, should not cause such a thing. On the contrary, it was something that the "earthlings" had never imagined for hundreds of years.

But it explains a few mysteries, for example.

It is also natural that this murder will not be detected in the city's guard system in Akiba. That surveillance network functions to be perceived by the Adventurers and the Earthlings when they cause harm to their countrymen. It is not a crime, but a security activity, that a guard carries out a combat act.

In other words, there's no way this murder can be detected (,,,,,,,,).

The killer wearing the "Power Armor" must have gained more combat ability than the "Adventurer". I didn't know how much more than "above" is actually in Rainesia without the power to fight, but if I had heard the rumors of the last few days, I knew that fewer victims were already out there.

Above all, it was fatal in two respects that the Sacrifice clan was involved in this case.

The first is that the clan is too transparent and natural as air. Be it a security guard for the city, or a banking network strewn throughout Yamato, the system is too pervasive in society on both sides of the "earth" and the "adventurer". Its convenience and safety are entirely the foundation of society.

But isn't that why the underlying crack is so bad? Unprofessionally educated Rainesia could not imagine exactly what kind of disaster it would cause, but she felt anxiety like a black cloud.

The other is more direct. To say that it is a variant of the sacrificial clan, but that the "earthlings" killed the "adventurers".

The Adventurer is quite different from the Earthlings. They are also likely to misunderstand each other because of their similarities in appearance, but their potential as organisms has the opening of heaven and earth. Every time you repeat a tough battle, the Adventurer, who dramatically increases his abilities, has enough combat power to fight the 100 Knights of the Earth alone.

Until now, the "Adventurers" of the city of Akiba have covered me with Rainesia. He also supported me. But isn't that because the Rainesians were weak? Even if that's not everything, Rainesia feels part of the reason is that.

When it breaks down, the relationship between the Adventurer and the Earthlings could lead to a fatal breakdown.

(How could you do this...)

Rainesia's head fills with remorse and resentment.

I just feel like it. How can you have such useless trouble only when you've been on duty and only when you're on the table? Wouldn't it be nice not to have a case like this? Even though it is a sacrificial clan that hasn't had a single scandal in hundreds of years, more importantly, it is hard to understand why, now, at this moment, and in the city of Akiba, where Rainesia lives, m such an untimely end.

"This case is untimely for us. I'm so sorry."

"The... sacrificial clan, I mean... can't you do something about it?

Rainesia asked.

I had a hunch before I asked, but I couldn't possibly not ask.

"I'm sorry, Lady Rainesia. Of course, if you stop the magic supply, the Power Armor will stop functioning. But in that case, the city's defensive demon squares also lose their ability. I can only say that it will take ten years to get it back up and running."

Demon Square cannot be stopped to protect the city of Akiba from external monsters.

Rainesia was defeated by the fact that the demon squares were empowering the killers.

◆

Akatsuki, who had been put through the modem, was warming the cup in his hand with a strange face.

Not that it was cold, but because there was nothing else I could do.

I don't know how far it is an accident, or the conspiracy of my maid Elissa, but the sharp perceptual abilities of the [Tracker] have made me almost hear conversations in the neighborhood.

But the contents, no matter what you think, are still in Akatsuki's hands. It's like you can't deal with it without a major guild like the Westwind Brigade or the D.D.D., or the Roundtable Conference has to move - isn't it the Akiba crisis?

Akatsuki thought maybe we shouldn't go home pretending we didn't ask.

The beautiful princess in the light of that moon was also worried about telling The Adventurer. I feel it's too influential for me to hear one end of the mystery of a killer case before I make that determination.

So I thought about looking at my face might be the result of a whim gone by if I think about it later. The reason is probably the mission given to Siloe. Because it's my lord's word, I thought I'd see about the look on Raynesian's face. That was about the reason. In the first place, Akatsuki couldn't afford to care less about others right now.

Gently exit through the window of the armoury onto the veranda. The figure would look like a shadow soaked with plain everyday clothing. Flying to the veranda of the reception room, where three meters could have been, was easier for a high level (adventurer) of physical ability than breaking the edge of a tatami again.

In the shadow of an elaborately sculpted window frame, beyond the curtains of a bubbly lace, was Rainesia. The young man I was talking to earlier must have also gone home, on a sofa in one reception room, burying his face in a big cushion.

Strange, I thought Akatsuki was blurry.

Rainesia was always a beautiful girl who was calm, bright, honest, stretched out her spine, just like she had to be jealous. Always modest and courteous, more than beautiful silver hair or a sneaky neck, creates an atmosphere that is decidedly different from our own who are the "adventurers". It was a girl named Rainesia who was persuasive enough to convince any [adventurer] that growing up would create a human being.

Its Rainesia is bending forward like she did her best to get her face into the big cushion she hugged with both hands. I don't think it's another sloppy trick, but I found it uncomfortable that it doesn't look like Rainesia.

"No more"

Over the glass, but I heard that voice.

The thin voice was like a silver bell, but there was a throwing confusion creeping in there.

"No, really."

Every time I loosen my cushion, my saggy silver hair spills like a waterfall.

"... why not?... Why me?

I felt Rainesia's body squash.

While exhaling, Raynesia becomes a little, weak girl.

"It won't stay -"

Akatsuki nodded on the winter veranda. I know exactly how that feels. The world is too difficult and my hands are too little I can do well. That is so regrettable and miserable.

"Can't you do something about it?... Can you service me? Would you mind?"

Even Akatsuki has wished for that. But there's nothing I can do.

I don't think anyone has ever been betrayed. Everything you wish for doesn't come true at any time. Whatever I thought I got, whatever I thought I could, or just one of myself, all fade away and leave my fingertips.

It's too tiny, and sometimes I want to think that maybe what I want was wrong in itself. The main ingredient in the world is enough to make me want to give up.

"What should I do?"

To Rainesia on the way, that's why I answered.

"Talk to the meeting?

"But if you do that, won't you be arguing with the adventurers?

"I can't even keep it a secret. It's hard to say I know enough."

Stand in front of Rainesia without slipping through a window with minimal opening and without even shaking the curtain.

I just felt a little nostalgic. I've looked down at a nagging master in such an attitude. I've been a long way from that time. The princess with silver hair is not the "granting magician" with dark hair in front of her.

"You still have to say..."

"I don't know that."

"Why isn't that monster at a time like this? - You showed your face so much when you didn't have business, it really doesn't help."

"Lord Crusty headed to the Goblin castle, Seven Falls."

"I know. But that's why... oh, no."

……

"Not so!?

Rainesia gave her toes as they were played. The end of the drawn-knot lip was trembling, desperately trying to make an expression, but her eyes were just a little red.

"Ah. The"

Akatsuki stood before Raynesia, who rushed back to sit and stretched his spine. Because the little acorn is the opponent, even if Rainesia is sitting, her gaze doesn't change much if she stretches her spine. Rainesia lay her gaze down, perhaps because she was uncomfortable. Akatsuki feels sorry for making me feel that way.

Even Akatsuki didn't mean to eavesdrop or go into the room like this.

"Nah. Oh my... I was listening..." Akatsuki nods to Rainesia, who comes to the top. Rainesia dropped the end of the phrase as she thought "right......"

Time flickered between the two of us like we lost our words.

Akatsuki had no choice but to serve the bread he had bought for lunch from inside the bag and give it to Rainesia. The two girls, sitting side by side on the couch, had been quietly eating tiny chiseled bread for some time.

"Murderers," said the Earthlings?

In response to Akatsuki's question, Rainesia replied that it was pompous.

"Yes, it is...... It appears that the Power Armor (Movable Armor) has been stolen from the clan in charge of the city's guards, the Sacrifice Clan. This" Power Armor "is a guard's gear, so they won't report incidents all over the city, and they can gain significant combat capability. Really, I'm sorry, no."

"Why?"

"Huh?"

"Why, was it stolen? Who stole it?

"They say the person who stole it is also missing. I don't even know if it belongs to the Sacrifice Clan stolen by the people who are using it now. Purpose, lurking place."

"The lurking place, I think, is sewage"

"Sewage, is it?

Akatsuki told him what he thought.

"As far as I hear, I don't think there's anything hidden outside the city of Akiba. If so, I haven't been able to find it yet, and the unseen places are about sewage."

From what I've heard, the killer seems to have the power of a guard.

The moment I hear that story, I'm surprised, Akatsuki, but that makes me good at a few things.

Killer's ability to fight will probably be closer than level 100 to 110. It is also natural that Akiba Adventurers with a level of about 90 will not achieve it.

At the same time, if you're using the power of a guard, you won't be out of the city of Akiba first. Because if you go outside, you lose your ability to fight. Think of it that way, lurking places are limited.

But captivity was expected to be extremely difficult.

The Guard has a “transfer" (teleportation) function to immediately seize crimes committed throughout the city. It's a comforting feature when punishing PK, etc., but when the killer can actively use it, there's nothing more useful as a means of escape.

Even if a large Alliance is surrounded by a Raid unit of troops, the opponent can surely escape if they only flee.

"Really..."

Akatsuki looked at the girl in front of him.

The largest nobleman in East Yamato - the daughter of the Cowen family.

A legendary beautiful girl who gives Eastal its name.

Bridging of the "Earthlings" and the "Adventurers", a useful actor in the Zantreef offensive.

Silver moon witch princess.

The girl in front of me looked normal, unlike any of them.

With a melancholy, painful look, still eating a small loaf of bread, everywhere, a normal girl. And I'm sure that's the same with herself in her eyes, Akatsuki thought.

"Trouble?

"Trouble."

The two nodding coldly probably couldn't afford each due to their own problems. At least Akatsuki saw himself in this silver princess.

Akatsuki's master said.

You should protect Rainesia, the princess of "The Landlord".

Akatsuki understood the word as an escort mission. But I've come to the possibility that it's not.

(I wonder what my lord said to protect...)

Didn't you have to attend that tea party to protect Rainesia? If it was just to get her to protect herself, wouldn't it have made sense for her to have a tea party? Am I missing something important? Besides, didn't Marielle and Henrietta notice just as well?

The word Akatsuki wants to say to Rainesia is "no choice".

A lot of unreasonable things happen. There are many things out of my control and many wishes that don't come true. I don't have a choice anymore. Akatsuki herself doesn't have the talent to just attract miracles to her. So "no choice" is the only word that can be put to Rainesia.

If I could add another word, would it be about "hanging in there"?

Akatsuki has seen the work she has done in the Lords' Council. I also heard what Siloe would say about it. And for a while now, I've been lurking near her and watching. So, "you're hanging in there," I can say.

But do I deserve to speak the language? As a daughter of nobility, as a representative of the "earthlings", or to this girl with heavier responsibilities than the eleven guild masters of the Round Table Conference, I am anxious to know if it is a good word I can write.

Thinking that far, Akatsuki realized that he himself had only a little respect for this silver-haired girl. That's why I've come here like every day and watched near it.

Whether every day you want to gain combat skills (from us) and feel like you're having a hard time getting home to your guild house, to the extent that you're concerned.

"I'll find it"

Akatsuki stood up.

If the person you are looking for is a "Landlord" and you possess a special transfer item, then there is a way to find it again. During the day you probably lurk in the sewage, where at night you can see the whole city - and the average [adventurer] enters the unspoiled place with a transfer, observing the city.

"Huh -?"

"Do your part, because you will. 'Cause I was watching you hang in there."

Reynesian hands stretched out grab the universe.

Akatsuki, who got the clue, set out again from the open window to the city of Akiba.