Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

"... who say Lent"

When I named him that, one of the two soldiers standing in front of a bridge that runs as far as the royal palace across the moat, in front of a sturdy stone gate, looked at me with a suspicious face.

Naturally.

For him, that's probably the first time I've heard my name.

"... who are you? What are you doing here?"

The gatekeeper spits at us the dialog he expected.

Yeah, it's us.

Me, Lorraine and Augley.

We talked to the public for a while after that, and the meeting was cut off, but the next day, the three of us got together and came to Royal Castle.

I was nervous about boulders when I walked through the city where the general public lived and into the aristocratic neighborhood, but as Edel's men investigated, I was able to get out normally without any security equipment functioning.

Quite a few of the gatekeepers who stood in front of the gate to guard the noble mansion saw it with surprise, but they are basically the private soldiers of their respective nobles, not coming after a suspicious guy halfway through the mansion gate of their own free will.

Well, wielding weapons and letting go of witchcraft, he said, "I'm immortal! By the life of the great vampire Lawra Latour, I will destroy this king's capital!" or something like that, you'd be reported to the boulders, and all the gatekeepers would fly by.

I wouldn't do anything like that.

Because if you do that, the whole Yarlan kingdom will be my enemy.

... No, though it's much scarier for the Latour family to be enemies than that.

I'm still afraid that doing all that doesn't make me feel like an enemy.

Laura smiled, "If you can play, do what you want. Again, that sounds like fun" or something, and I guess Isaac will obey with such predominantly norinoli.

No, too much.

I don't feel like I can win in the first place.

I'll have to deal with that one sooner or later when I'm in the divine silver class, to the point where they shake my dreams since I was a kid.

... just kidding.

I answer the gatekeeper while I think about that crap.

"... a bronze adventurer. Today the Second Princess's...... Her Royal Highness Gia Regina Yaran has business to attend to. Never suspicious. Please, let me through."

That's a dialogue that honestly describes the purpose of the visit, but the gatekeeper has a blatantly deepening look of suspicion and goes on to ask questions.

Well, that gaze will be right.

Anyway, I'm a monster.

And he's immortal.

He hates it among demons.

When it comes to the image of the immortal, it sucks that an extremely cut sorcerer sells his soul, or that a man who dies resenting the world will do so for revenge.

Nevertheless, the gatekeeper does not know that.

"You think the bronze adventurer degree can help Her Royal Highness?... I'm not even saying it's never going to happen... but I haven't heard you have plans like that today"

Extremely frigid of me, but for once, he was thinking about me, and maybe this man was honest as a gatekeeper.

Other countries would pay up front here.

If I were a gatekeeper, I wouldn't let a dubious man like me into the royal castle because he told me how much His Royal Highness had business.

But I have a trump card... or I should have gotten it out of the beginning.

I start messing with my nostalgia.

I have a magic bag, but I already took it out of there.

That's better.

Pfft... you're not coming out.

That's definitely around here......

I've been searching for nostalgia, and I think it's super suspicious.

The gatekeeper's right hand rests on the pattern of a sword lowered to his waist.

... This is not good.

We need to find him quickly.

Oh shit... uh, yeah... there it is!

Feeling so handy, I pulled it out of my chest... and at the same time the gatekeeper's sword.

I guess I thought you even gave it out with a weapon.

But that's not what was in my hand...

"... Medal?

The gatekeeper, yes, spoke up.

Then he puts the sword back into his sheath and tells me as if nothing had happened.

"Does that mean an introduction to nobility... you're here, the guy who deceives the small nobles of the province, tries to get medals and get into the royal family. Are you that mouth too..................!?

Bringing the medal a little closer to the gatekeeper's eye he was talking about, he also seemed to understand on the boulder.

With a surprised look,

"Ko, this is the crest of the Anklo Marquis family!? Besides, this belongs to Lord Naus..."

I didn't really make a serious observation, so I didn't know, but the medal even seems to state the information that the individual who gave it to me could identify.

That's what I got this... no, you borrowed it.

I borrowed it for the first time.

I don't know any more information. I didn't get a chance to know.

Marto has only a large aristocrat or other lord, Viscount Rottnell, and that lord and I didn't mean that I was sincere.

At best, but so much so that I've seen it from a distance at a party or something Viscount Rottnell held for me in front of the building called to forge a relationship with the adventurer.

At a party like that, the Viscount didn't have time to talk to a copper class like me, other attendees...... for example, Wolf, who is the union leader, or the head of an organization that has a deep relationship with the union, and he didn't even get close.

Well, even if I try, I can stop you from being a squire or something around the Viscount.

So you didn't have anything to do with me.

I just might get a chance to see you one of these days.

Anyway, the Viscount Rottnell family was talking about having a deep relationship with the Latour family, because I am now pretty close to that Latour family.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't even need to think that deep at the moment.

"... you, where did you get this?

I know you wanted to say, you must have taken it from Naus, but the gatekeeper swallowed the word and asked calmly so.

I answer.

"I saw His Highness and Lord Naus on the road struggling with demons before. I thought I couldn't overlook it, and I assisted him with a machete. So are the two of us."

and shows Lorraine and Augley.

"... well, you guys... Sure, I'm listening to that story. I should have invited you, but you wouldn't be here forever. That's why I was getting out of my head thinking I wasn't coming anymore"

It seemed that this was true at the same time that it was disgusting.

Just because you've been invited to the royal palace, not everyone, responds to it.

For example, those who have scratches on their tibia and do not want them revealed cannot come.

It goes without saying that it was typical of me and that if the alarm was to be operational, it would have had to be.

Even if it's not as extreme an example as I am, I'm a merchant now, but I used to be a bandit, and now I'm an adventurer, but I run away from my parents' aristocracy and I'm active under a pseudonym, and I don't know what.

I don't care how honorable they are, they don't come here.

That's why, even as a gatekeeper, this doesn't come anymore, and if I think about it, I'll drive it to the back of my memory.

Still, I should also say it's great because it's in the corner of my memory.

"There were a lot of things going on. I didn't mean to. I would also like to apologize directly to Your Highness and Lord Naus... will you let me through?

To my words, the gatekeeper nodded,

"Fine...... but letting the three of you head inside the royal castle like this will be the same exchange again. I'll keep up with you until I'm done with the squire inside."

And he was kind enough to buy me a guide to the entrance to the royal castle to get out.