The hero Fiona Spencer was worried.
It was about an event that happened during the other day’s battle at Rhodan.
It was about when she was attacked by a mysterious man.
Those man’s clothes were commonly found work clothes.
However, they had Cantabridge Academy’s embroidery on them.
In other words, there’s a high possibility that he’s a janitor at Cantabridge Academy.
Fiona is also a part-time lecturer at the school. To a certain extent, she remembers the faces of the janitors.
However, she can’t remember the mysterious man’s face very well.
She thinks that it’s because it was evening, so it was dark.
It was the effect of his jaki, but Fiona doesn’t know that.
She checked the employee information, and learned that one new janitor was hired recently.
When she investigated his personal history, she couldn’t find anything strange.
Or rather than just being clean, there was almost nothing.
Normally, such a person wouldn’t be able to be hired.
However, this person was hired on a recommendation from the director Serena.
In order to gather intelligence, she invited one of the director’s secretaries’, Orion out to dinner.
At the same time, she also invited one of her friends from the Adventurer’s Guild.
It was the receptionist Auretta.
“Recently, something amazing happened.”
In the beginning, Orion was reserved, but as she drank sake, she gradually became more talkative.
“The director was madly in love with this guy, and I was so surprised.”
Fiona and Auretta were surprised.
“I thought that the director has lived for nearly 70 years, yet didn’t have any rumors regarding love though?”
At Fiona’s words, Orion nods.
“That’s true, it made me think that it was because she was always thinking about this guy.”
Orion spoke in a tone that which was hard to tell from heavy or light.
“The director’s secret method has preserved her in her 20s, so is her partner an old man?”
“About that, he’s a really cool handsome guy in his mid-20s.”
“Then, didn’t they meet just recently?”
Being told something that doesn’t fit their theory, Fiona judges that he’s drank too much.
“But there are a lot of points that make it seem like that in their relationship. The first thing he said to me was to tell the director ‘Although I told you we wouldn’t meet again, I’m sorry to have lied again.’”
In front of her eyes, Orion *gui* drinks a beer.
“I declined him saying that I couldn’t convey his message to the director, but he asked me to so nicely that I did, and when I told the director, she was surprised. Then she ran over to him and hugged him.”
“Kyaa--------”
At first glance, this is a girls’ meeting where they simply talk about romance.
“After that, she decided to hire him, along with an idiot.”
“An idiot?”
“Yeah. He’s a real idiot. I had a hard time teaching him. He’s a person who seems sort of mentally unstable. The handsome guy became a teacher, and the idiot became a janitor.”
*Gatatu* For a moment, Fiona gets up.
That was the information she wanted.
“What’s wrong?”
Auretta asks, puzzled.
“Nothing. What kind of guy is the janitor?”
“Nn, we’ve never really met other than for the new employee training…….well, he seems to be working seriously, and his reputation isn’t bad.”
“Is there anything else? Anything is fine.”
Fiona leans forward as she becomes interested.
Orion misunderstood the reason why.
“What? Are you interested in him? You should stop, don’t go after a guy like that.’”
“No, it’s not like that.”
“If it’s Fiona, then you can choose any guy you want.”
“No, it won’t bud into anything…….”
Fiona looks up to the heavens.
“It’s hard to find a guy that fits you.”
“That’s a misunderstanding. For n.o.bles, don’t talks of marriage happen often?”
Auretta interrupts the conversation.
She often hears complaints.
“I absolutely don’t want that.”
With a strong tone, Fiona expresses her unwillingness.
“Anyways that guy, Jeko, stop chasing him.”
“Jeko?”
This time, Auretta’s the one surprised. She just heard that name recently.
“That’s a common name, right?”
“Well, it’s commonly found in great historical figures. Is he a guy with short red hair?”
“Yeah, I know him.”
Hearing that answer, Auretta is convinced.
He was Ashtal’s servant she met the other day.
Since that’s so, is Fiona investigating them?
Auretta strengthened her vigilance.
Fiona is one of her friends. Ashtal is her master.
Which one she’d choose was obvious to Auretta.
However, there should be paths in which they don’t confront.
“There was also another guy. A kid who was put into the adventurer’s A cla.s.s. The 3 of them are probably acquainted.”
“Aren’t you talking too much? Is it alright to lightly give out this information?”
Auretta quickly stops the conversation.
“If the hero formally asked me to I’d end up talking anyways. Ah, Auretta keep this a secret.”
Drunk people aren’t shy.
After that, she heard various stories, but Fiona didn’t hear any more useful information.
Later.
Fiona secretly met with the Briton Kingdom’s king, Richard Ⅱ.
“I see. There seem to be various strange things.”
This was about the war the other day.
And about the great magician Serena-sama.
It is about the 3 evil G.o.ds.
“However, at the same time it is also an absurd story.”
Richard Ⅱ makes a difficult face.
There aren’t many things they know.
“If Serena speaks it’ll be resolved immediately though.”
“That person has hidden everything inside herself. For the past 50 years.”
“50 years ago……I don’t mean to swallow everything she says, but there’s no point in examining her.”
There are lies in her words.
However, is there a point in revealing the truth?
Richard Ⅱ doesn’t know.
“Those people, can you defeat them?”
“If I don’t try it, I won’t know.”
This was Fiona’s best answer as someone from the military.
“At the very least, there’s no doubt they’re stronger than the Maou Lamelept that I fought.”
“It’s strange that such people are hiding. What’s more, they’re not humans nor demons.”
“Yeah, they’re neither humans or demons. That was a different aura.”
Evil G.o.ds. A race that releases jaki.
An unknown race to humanity.
“On whether I should investigate more or not, I thought it would be better for me to ask for the judgement of your majesty.”
“That’s admirable. Since you’re a hero, I couldn’t blame you even if decided to move on your own.”
“It was too ominous of a problem for me to solve alone. Also, this is preparation for the off chance that something happens to me.”
In other words, if she investigated this matter, there was a chance that even Fiona might be killed.
If she never told anyone, this information would be buried in the dark.
That situation had to avoided.
“Those people aren’t hostile to humanity.”
“Yes, at least for the time being.”
“Since they’re hiding, they must not want to investigated.”
“Yes.”
“Although there are an ominous presence, it seems there isn’t any merit in desperately investigating them……”
Richard entertains himself.
Isn’t there no need to enter this tiger’s den?
While thinking that, he looks through the report again.
“Umm, they’re at Cantabridge Academy, one’s a teacher, one’s a janitor, and the other is a student?”
“Yes. He’s become Yufilia-denka’s 5th friend at school.”
“What?”
“They’re together often, and do club activities together.”
“What!?”
The complexion of Richard Ⅱ’s face changes.
“It’s true that Yufilia said that the number of her companions increased. I didn’t think it’d be him……”
“It seems so.”
“Investigate. At full power.”
“Eh, but……”
Fiona is fl.u.s.tered that his att.i.tude has flipped 180 degrees from before.
“No, should we talk to Yufilia and tell her to stay away from him?”
“Conversely, that’s more dangerous. She can’t act like she doesn’t know anything, so he’ll notice.”
“That’s true. Doing that would be too foolish.”
“Thus, it would be better to keep it a secret for now.”
Richard Ⅱ talks for a bit, and calms down.
However, his conclusion hasn’t changed a bit.
“There’s no need to do the impossible to investigate. However, nothing can stay unknown.”
“I understand.”
“If you need anything, just say it.”
“Yes. I’d like to have treasury secretary Eldred to help me investigate.”
Upon hearing those words, Richard Ⅱ knits his eyebrows.
“The treasury secretary? Are you planning on spending that much gold?”
“Not that much, but as long as I have the treasury secretary, it’s easy to do a lot of things.”
“I understand. I’ll go talk to them.”
“Thank you.”
Richard Ⅱ didn’t notice that Fiona grinned for a moment.