Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

"Yeah, yeah, Lorraine. Lent just joined the Alliance of Adventurers…"

Open your mouth the way Augley looks happy.

I could have predicted what kind of content would pop out of that mouth.

"Is something wrong?

To Lorraine, who asks so, Augley continued.

"There it is! Lent finally qualified for the silver promotion exam!

Lorraine, who heard that,

"Finally......! Lent...... good for you. Now I'll be lined up, too, but I can't be happier inside. Do you want a drink today?"

He rejoices as if he were about himself and says that to me.

It is the old man who seems strange about such Lorraine and Augley's attitude.

…… If you were my lord, you'd get it as easy as qualifying for a silver promotion exam, wouldn't you? Is that such a pleasure?

To this, Lorraine,

"... old man. Right... from your point of view, that's what it looks like... not from ours. Really."

and say with slightly moistened eyes.

Weeping tears involves Lorraine's possession, though I quickly pulled it in.

The old man still leaned his neck,

"... what do you mean? He hit me so hard... about a promotion exam."

That's right.

From the way things were going, I could imagine that I had not been able to get it for a long time, but I had no idea why.

Naturally.

But when I explain it in detail, I have to talk about being a monster, too.

Blur, say.

"Well... I don't know. I've been a copper adventurer for about ten years, making money on goblins and slime hunting. One day, I thought I was going upstairs. But I couldn't... I can hardly see the way ahead."

"With that strength?

"Yes. It's a coincidence, somehow, that I was able to be a little but strong. I couldn't imagine that day coming... but today, I finally got a chance to be a silver class. It feels like nothing."

"Uhm...... coincidence. I don't know if that's the case. I mean... isn't it only recently that I woke up with an anomaly?

He is an old man who asks as he came up with it.

Actually, not at all.

It's only recently that I've become a demon, but I can't even say that.

However, when I think about it for a moment, I feel that the presumption of the old man is somewhere close.

It seems easy to use as an external explanation.

So in the meantime, I decided to get on.

"Well, that's the place"

"I see... I don't know when I'm going to wake up. Some can use it from birth, and some suddenly wake up one day. In the case of the Lord, it was a long time ago."

It was Lorraine who was interested in this story.

"How was your old man?

"I've been able to use it since I was a little girl. The same goes for Seylan and Goblin. In one way or another, I think there are more of them... but they didn't look into this clearly. Waking up after some growth is even more tragic than ours."

"What does that mean?

"One day all of a sudden, what do you think if a friend turns into a monster?

To the old man's sudden question, Lorraine and Augley give a slightly surprising look.

I was a little surprised, too.

Because that seemed like you were talking about my situation the whole time.

But to the words the old man went on, perceiving their intentions, surprises disappear.

"I mean, that's what it is. When I grow old, I wake up to my powers. I just said that foreign objects will be eliminated, but that logic will work extra hard. If you are a child...... yet, be merciful. I'm also sympathetic that I was born that way. But in adults...... suddenly turned into a monster, inexperienced, into a monster. I can only be perceived as so. Let's stay friends with monsters, and so on... hardly any of them, huh?

Lorraine and Augley laugh bitterly at this word, then say it in a gentle tone.

"I'm not going to stop being friends as much as my friends have changed their appearance. If there's nothing to change that mind about, we'll be friends forever... maybe we'll just have a little bit of an experiment."

"Same goes for me... generally, I'd be in more trouble if I could stop my friends because they're a little bit different than people. Even I'm a lot more different than people. You're being treated. With clothes, and clothes."

We both have a joking tone at the end, but I can tell you're serious.

To whom.

Naturally, it would be directed at me.

Somehow the old man also seemed to understand that,

"Your Lord seems to have a good friend. Lent."

That's what I said.

"Sounds like it..."

My eyeballs are going to get hot, but this body doesn't get much water out of my eyes.

If I want to get out, I can get it out, but if I want to pull in, I can pull in?

Something tells me you're far more free than when physical control was human.

It's not a bad thing, but I also feel a little lonely.

I wish I could cry as honestly as I do at times like this.

"I guess it is because you are surrounded by these people that the Lord awakens to a heretical incapacity and yet remains so calm. However, that is not the case with the majority of the psychics in the world. People are exposed to malice, betrayal... and many become distressed."

"You don't seem to be?

When Lorraine said that, the old man,

"In my case, I've kept it all quiet by force. Plus, I'm old. It's surprisingly hard to keep resenting people... and I've been able to protect them. People can be people in connections with someone. Even a monster."

I guess that was the dialogue the old man said to himself and about the Seylanes and the Goblins.

But that word echoed my chest, too.

Because I deeply thought you were right.

Lorraine, Augley, there are people who accept me.

So even if my body is a demon, my heart can be a man.

Because that's what I'm talking about.

An alien organization, because if someone like this old man is standing on top...

I guess it's not such a bad group.

The request is like an assassination.

I guess I'll believe it's part of it.