Yomigaeri no Maou

The Adventurers' Union (Guild) is a place where many adventurers visit, receive requests, or report on their completion no matter what their time.

For this reason, by its very nature, the business hours will last throughout the day, unless it is a special case.

Having said that, however, it is extremely natural that the basic hours of human activity are during the rising of the sun and that, whenever possible, people want to sleep at night at the request of the day.

Thus, even though it is a 24-hour union of adventurers (guild), in the midnight hours after the sun goes down and many liquor stores also close, it becomes common for there to be just idle birds.

At that time, precisely during that time, there was only one intermediate adventurer in the Union of Final Adventurers (Guild) who finally cleared up and reported on several other time-consuming requests besides his thoughts and was awaiting processing.

Speaking of the Adventurers' Union (Guild), where the roughmen gather, no one bothers to break into a robbery here because anyone knows it's an organization with enormous force.

It was therefore inevitable that the midnight security would be diminished, but still there had been little problem, and it was normal that even if robberies were to come, the next day they would be retaliated against without skin.

I guess that's why.

Even the Adventurers' Union (Guild), which is sufficiently capable of dealing with such understandable violence, was not even strong against quiet intrusions.

Of course, even so, we are more alert than elsewhere, and some crime prevention equipment exists, but there is also the fact that officials were exhausted because of this disaster that hit the finals.

Neither the officials nor the adventurers on the spot noticed that the lights shook that lit up inside the Loose, and Adventurers' Union (Guild).

When I said what happened as a result, nothing happened.

No.

Everyone recognized that nothing had happened (...).

Despite the presence of a suspicious figure in the Adventurers' Union (Guild) wearing a single black robe, neither the officials nor the adventurers noticed it. It was a glimpse, and they stayed as usual.

Even though the person's leg is headed straight for the stairs leading to the underground prison, and if he is an Adventurer's Union (Guild) official, he must always hold back, and also ask for his purpose, and in some cases be eliminated by force.

Nor did the two inflexible watchmen standing in front of the stairs leading to the underground prison react in any way to the person.

As we always do, when we work hard, we say that one of the cat's children is not close to the stairs.

In fact, however, a suspicious figure slips past them to see them and arrives at the stairs in a calm manner and descends.

As a result, no one on the spot noticed the person and would later testify that the usual time was flowing on the spot.

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Sophie, who was sleeping in prison, realizes that she smelled something she had smelled all the time and gets up.

"... Dude, wasn't the security here adequate?

You sound like you made a fool of yourself, but you don't seem too happy about it.

Instead, I said give me a break. The meaning of that tone is

"The scent of dragon gall... are you here to finish me off"

I mean, that's what happened.

Sophie knew where the hell the scented person was from.

In fact, after a while, someone stood there, in a way as expected and in a way unexpected, and Sophie slaps his forehead.

"I knew you'd come..."

who stood in front of the iron plaid of the prison in that pitch-black robe, to the evil of Sofi,

"I have trouble being survived by those who fail. If you have a heart to be ashamed of, do yourself harm."

That's what I said, I took the dagger out of my nose and threw it at him.

He understood that all Sophie's weapons possessions had been taken away and that he could not even harm himself.

Sophie grabbed the dagger, saw the glow of its fullness, looked at the pattern again, apparently noticed something, and asked the person in front of her.

"Is this dagger...?

"It was given to me by His Majesty. At the end of the day, thank you."

Sophie laughed at the person she said most of all,

"Heh, Your Majesty... By the way, you're still a new face, aren't you?

and asks changing his expression all the time.

Sharp, swordswallowing look.

Obviously, the person in the robe has also figured out that it is not the look on the face of those who are about to die themselves from now on, which makes him look suspicious.

"... that's what it is"

In fact, Sophie's point is correct, and the person in the robe is a little wolfish.

However, you are also equipped with the skills to hide it, and the signs that you said so immediately were foggy.

But Sophie was also not the only one, and even a moment of agitation was nothing more than a clear affirmation for Sophie.

Sophie says bump.

"Did someone accommodate you...? That emperor will do that to you, Haz. Hey... I don't know. Well, you think I got lucky?

to that word. The person of Robe,

"You... what are you talking about? I didn't say bump, just self-determination!

The words were in an order tone, but there was something like impatience mixed in there, probably because they instinctively perceived the disturbing signs of Sophie.

"You know, if you have muscle writing, should you? Ma... I was lucky, you were bad, it's best to give up thinking so"

"What... what, are we talking...?

"Here's the thing."

A dagger was thrown from Sophie's hand with tremendous momentum, hitting the throat of a robe figure.

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The next morning, Lulu and the others had been summoned to Orotos and had come to the Adventurers Union (Guild) underground prison.

"... you're bright red"

What Lulu saw so crushed in the absence of any great emotion was inside the prison where Sofi should have been put until the other day.

The room, which was tainted with vast pieces of blood and flesh, looked dirty, as well as some object.

"Is that girl... is Sophie going to say she was killed?

Iris also has no upset whatsoever, with the sight in front of him that should be described as too miserable for his young daughter.

The experience of running through wartime lives in her as well.

Naturally, to Zoë too.

"Easy-to-understand mouth seal, isn't it... Now that I think about it, those words on the way home must have come out of my guard against mouth sealing being sent. Pathetic."

"I'm sorry that you caught me because of this... it's a blur to see my sources die like this because of me even as an Adventurers Union (guild)... even though I've heard the important things in advance... too, terrible..."

Among this member, it was Orotos who showed the most sympathy for Sofi.

I don't know how many enemies you were, but maybe you don't think you should have died this bad before.

In fact, as far as I can think of a way of dying a person, it is a way of dying that goes into a pretty bad way.

"Is it so harsh to say the mouth seal of the Demonic Empire..."

And, unfortunately, Orotos said.

But Lulu shook his head at the words.

"No... it's not so surprising in itself that the mouth seal is coming, but it would be too flashy to do anything at all. At times like this, it should usually be best to dispose of them quicker and easier unless you have so many reasons. Take that..."

Words hung up along the way, but not Orotos who can't imagine the words that follow.

Lulu says we need to do this far, ethically, not reasonably.

"There's also information we can get from the body. Isn't that a sign of intent that you're not going to give anything to the other party about what you said?

and Orotos said, but Lulu shook his head.

"I would have already done that kind of research. Even though I can tell, it should be about where you came from or how much magic you had at best. You won't have to do this far to hide that on purpose. Though you've fallen within the Adventurers Union (Guild), it shouldn't mean no risk at all. You'll want to spend as little time here as possible."

"But no official or adventurer said he saw anyone entering here. And the guards."

"... hallucinogenic magic? No..."

That said, Lulu thinks a little, then, uh, smells it.

"Don't smell like dragon balls. I remember this smell. Illis, Zoe......"

When I said that and looked back, the two of them nodded.

"You probably used incense (like this). It's not as effective as hallucinogenic magic, but depending on the proficiency of those who use it, it can badly blunt their perception of what's there..."

"Oh, that's the only technology that's been handed down over time. There doesn't seem to be any raw materials around here, but I wonder if they're being picked up and made. Difficult."

As the three of us nodded to convince ourselves, Orotos said,

"Explain it to me so I can see..."

I said, so Lulu starts talking.

"Simply put, it's a drug. It helps to diminish people's perceptions and interests in things for a certain amount of time. You shouldn't be able to make it with the medicinal herbs you can take around here, but, well, that kind of thing is something you pick up from afar, but you make it. Perhaps they used that. The characteristic is that the scent resembles dragon gallbladder… it is also advantageous to be able to prevent it from working by training. Treasure it. Whoa, we're not gonna use it."

We state our innocence, Lulu, because Orotos' gaze is getting tougher along the way.

"Drugs or... I'm sure we have measures in place within the Adventurers' Union (Guild) against those things..."

Orotos said so and tilted his neck.

In fact, it turns out that a good number of countermeasures against drugs and witchcraft are in place within the Adventurers' Union (Guild) if you ask about their substance.

But there was no measure against what the Lulu and the others called incense (like this).

I know that, and I dared to choose, maybe that means.

Because if you are a Magic Leader Empire, you are likely to have some information within the Adventurers Union (Alliance).

That said, measures against sorcery, etc., are also.

Because there was nothing I could do about this one, maybe.

"After getting into reality like this, they're accomplishing their purpose... He was better at the Magic Reich, I guess that means..."

As I said, but there were colors in Lulu's words that I was somewhat unconvinced of.

Ilis, who felt it, asks.

"Something... even your concern?

To Iris' question, Lulu thought a little before

"... concern, maybe not so much... sophie. You're not dead, are you?

"What? But the bloodshed and pieces of meat in this place..."

To the neck leaning iris, Lulu continued.

"Like I said, it's too flashy. Of course, that's not the only basis, and that's probably where it ends when I say it's just a reckoning... too dirty for the job of the guy who came to seal his mouth..."

"So what happened here..."

Orotos asks.

Lulu answers.

"I'm surprised the guy who came here to seal his mouth was more in return. And Sophie slipped away... well, just imagining"

That's how crushed I found Lulu's predictions to be met, right after then, after visiting Aero's room with concern.