Published: July 5, 2025
A café that had no customers left due to the fighting at the port.
As a result, everyone was able to enter.
First, Ryo was seated, with Kinme sitting to his left.
Perhaps out of a sense of wanting to help, Abel sat to Ryo's right.
The four others, including Patris, sat across from the three of them.
Surrounding them at a distance were the Royal Knight Order...
"I... I have a woman I've decided on in my heart..."
"Don't worry. I don't plan to monopolize you. If I did that, I'd burst."
"R-Really?"
Ryo clearly looked relieved.
He thought it was best to say what needed to be said as soon as he sat down.
Of course, Ryo did not understand the meaning of "burst"...
Abel seemed to be surprised, his eyes widening at Ryo's words.
Ryo did not understand the meaning of Abel's expression, so he considered asking, but Kinme's words came first.
"Well, if I can touch your cheek again in ten thousand or twenty thousand years, that would be fine."
"...Huh?"
Ryo was confused.
It seemed that Kinme's party members thought it was a joke.
"Geez, Kinme, always joking around."
"In ten thousand years, everyone will be dead."
Those were the words exchanged.
Ryo thought the same, but pondered a bit.
Since he believed Kinme was a demon, she might still be alive in ten thousand years.
However, he thought he wouldn't be alive.
Indeed, he did not feel like he aged much, but...
...He wouldn't be alive, right?
No, even if he did not age at all.
"I feel like I'm not alive because many people are targeting my life."
"Targeting your life...?"
Ryo said, and Guti was surprised.
As she was surprised, she realized something.
"We haven't introduced ourselves."
"Oh... We are the escort party 'Refreshing Five Peaks' from the Eastern Provinces of the Dark Continent, Bardale Principality."
"I’m Guti, this green-haired one is Patris, the yellow-haired one is Toko, the white-haired one is Mau, and this blue-haired one is Kinme."
"That's very polite. I'm Ryo, a C-ranked adventurer from the Naitorei Kingdom of the Central Nations."
After Patris and Guti introduced themselves, Ryo introduced himself as well.
"Oh, so your name is Ryo."
Kinme nodded with a smile.
"Eh? Kinme, you didn't know my name?"
"Yes, this is the first time I'm learning it."
"Even though you seem so friendly...?"
"Ryo-san is my benefactor. He freed me from my shackles."
"Benefactor...?"
The four from 'Refreshing Five Peaks' were astonished at Kinme's explanation.
However, one person tilted their head.
It was the water attribute mage.
"Did I do something?"
Ryo recalled that time.
They all entered the shrine, and after a while, it shook and they escaped... Kinme appeared floating in the sky.
Ryo had done nothing.
The power that revived her, or broke the seal, was said to have taken the power from the vampire who visited the shrine a few days prior.
"Yes, I absorbed the vampire's magical power and completely revived myself, but the seal had not been broken. However, thanks to Ryo's arrival, the 'droplets' that burst the seal overflowed there."
"What do you mean...?"
The seal of the demon confined in the south had actually been broken due to the 'fairy factor' overflowing from Ryo...
((I didn't know that))
((So, because of Ryo, the demon broke the seal))
((So, I didn't know that...))
((I just organized the facts))
((Is there a possibility that I could be charged with aiding the escape of a demon and locked up?))
((As far as I know, there is no such crime in the kingdom, so it should be okay, right?))
((Oh, is that so?))
Ryo felt relieved.
((It's not something so light; it would be more like treason or conspiracy against the state with a life sentence or death penalty, right?))
((Why does it have to be something so severe...? It can't be helped. I’ll show my sincerity and aim for leniency.))
((Sincerity?))
((I'll allow you to downgrade my weekly cake privilege to a monthly one...))
Ryo made the offer with grievance.
((So you intend to get leniency for a major crime?))
((Yes. Also, let’s promise that the violent neighbors from the Forest of Rondo won’t invade the kingdom’s mainland.))