When will a turning point in your life come? No one knows that.
　If you know in advance, no one will have a hard time.

　You may notice it later, or you may be able to notice it when it comes.

　It may be lurking in the midst of your everyday life, or it may be an event far removed from your everyday life that changes your life.

　In other words, it is literally the same for all of us.
　I am sure there are as many kinds of turning points as there are lives.

　I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm ...... not going to have to talk about it again now, but for some reason, I had to tell the man in front of me from scratch.

'Yeah. I'm sorry, I know. I was busy with a lot of things back then. I don't know the details of the situation you were in.
Not a lot of things, but he's been busy hunting dragons, hasn't he?
'Haha!　That's harsh. I suppose it's no surprise that you think that, given your daily conduct, but that was really a different case.

　Dragon Slayer, Theodore Beaufort.
　The heir of a frontier county family and an A-ranked adventurer chuckled as he re-crossed his legs on the unremarkably expensive chair.

　This was the parlor of a villa on the outskirts of Green Hollow Town.
　It is one of the base rooms where Theodore lives with his attendants who take care of his personal affairs.

　Green Hollow, a hot spring town, has an abundance of inns, but Theodore buys the villa and uses it as his base of operations instead of using it.

　Perhaps this is the decision of Maria, Theodore's chaperone and treasurer.

　Maria is quite concerned about Theodore's prestige and rating as a prominent aristocrat, a free-spirited hobbyist.

I'm sure you'll refrain from pursuing this further because of the fact that it involves my family's home. It's a good thing that I was able to come up with the best way to do this.
Well, ......, I don't want to get into details, but...

　He exhales briefly as he sits down in the chair across from Theodore.

'So, all I need to tell you is how I started as a weapons dealer - from the time I started to be knighted and the time I was offered a knighthood and the appointment as head of the new Order, right?



　Initially, he was stranded in the depths of the A-ranked dungeon "The Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss" by the heroic Falcon, but he succeeded in escaping after his 【Restoration】 skill evolved, and he started running a weapon shop in Green Hollow.

　Soon after that, Green Hollow was exposed to the threats lurking in the dungeon, namely dragons and the Demon King's army.

　Because I wanted to repay this town for accepting strangers, and because I felt guilty that those threats had become the remote cause of my appearance on earth, and because I began to feel a sense of fulfillment in living as a weapons dealer, I cooperated with the Knights and worked hard to fix the situation.

　At first, I used my 【Restoration】 skills to provide logistical support to the Golden Fang Knights, but perhaps because I was getting too deep into it and even started to perform strategically important tasks, the situation started to take a strange turn.

　The Silver Wing Knights, whose main mission was to maintain security, were responsible for ensuring the safety of the ground.

　The Golden Fang Knights, whose main mission was to fight foreign wars, and the Golden Fang Knights, who were responsible for fighting the Demon King's army underground.

　The two knights began to try to take me on as a member.

　Since the Demon King's War was still going on at that time, it was frozen by His Majesty the King's decision to approve or deny knighthoods, but with the end of the war, the situation started moving again.

　It's a good thing that you're able to have a good time with them.

　The situation has developed into a crisis that has even involved the Dragon King's Knights, a near-guard corps.

　His Majesty and the royal palace, who did not want the conflict between the knights to intensify, proposed an unprecedented alternative that no one in this world had ever imagined.

　--That is to say, a new knightly order was established for the first time after continental unification.
　And it would place me, who had just finished my knighthood, in the position of its leader.

It's a good idea to have a good idea of what to expect. It's so hard to believe that this is a joke. I thought that the establishment of a new knight's order would not be possible for the next fifty years.
I can't believe they're all in on it. I can't believe that all the high and mighty in the palace are on board with this.
I feel the same way. But then again, it's only natural, isn't it?

　Theodore thrust his elbows into his splayed knees and laughed, resting his chin on his crossed hands.

''In the past, the royal court restricted the privileges of the nobility during the unification process. The only exceptions to this were those families that were made dukes for their outstanding contributions to the unification process and those that were charged with guarding the few borders that still exist today, the rest can only be described as rich and landed families.

　My hometown and Green Hollow have been under the rule of His Majesty the King since quite early on, so to be honest, I don't really feel it, but the whole country is in the same situation that Theodore mentioned.

　In the past, the nobles were the rulers in name and reality in the territory.
　It could be said that everything, including the inhabitants, was the private property of the nobles, and they acted as absolute beings, even though it was a limited area of the territory.

　However, in the process of unification of the continent, His Majesty changed territories and increased or decreased the number of territories by His Majesty, and many nobles became in the position of being entrusted by the kingdom to manage a specific area, and had to comply with the common rules of the entire kingdom.

''What does that story have to do with my story?
'There is. Perhaps the Royal Court wants to make the Order less special, too?

　Theodore shifted his center of gravity back and creaked his back.

'Can't you think of it this way? The twelve knightly orders formed in the process of unification. You will be able to see that these are not special fixed quotas, but rather redefined as organizations that can be consolidated or established according to the convenience of the royal court. ...... The 'Thirteenth Order' that you are going to lead was chosen to be a pioneer in this reform... ...
Please don't do that. That's too political for me to handle.
''Haha. But if you're going to be the leader of the Order at any point in time, you had better get used to that kind of talk. If it's okay with you, I can teach you some of it when I'm free.
That's just too much.

　As if enjoying my reaction, Theodore has a joking smirk on his face.

　I didn't understand because I hadn't been involved with him until now - or rather, he hadn't been interested enough in me to remember my face until recently - but Theodore is quite a nice(...) s*x(...) person. ・).

　The hobbyist side of this guy's obsession with dragon hunting was probably just one aspect of him.

Well then, you can get to the point.
'The main topic ......?　What are you talking about?
There's no need to rush. You still haven't told me how you rode into some Count's soirée and kidnapped the daughter of House Argentea of the Silverwing Order.

　Then Theodore's smile deepened.

　Totally, he has a really good character.
　I didn't realize that he was going to casually bring it up later, but he wasn't even going to give me the time to prepare my mind for it.