Are you overseeing the research at ......?

　They tell you something you weren't expecting and you just ask them back.

　It's hard to believe that I'm suitable for such duties.

　It's true that I was able to do a reasonable job in the last underground search, but that was only because of my limited role of 【Restoration】 of the collapsed part of the underground labyrinth.

　Even if it was expected to traverse the labyrinth with 【Analysis】, it must be said that the magic efficiency was indeed poor, and if the destination of the labyrinth was an open underground space, it would be impossible to do even that.

　It's hard to imagine that the one who is supposed to be His Majesty Alfred wouldn't come up with this kind of thing, though it's not very likely.

''But Your Majesty, my skills are unlikely to be able to fulfill that great commission ......
'No, it's not, Luke. This isn't something I'm expecting your [restoration] skills to do.

　I was puzzled by the unexpected reply, and His Majesty folded in a statement that couldn't help but be even more puzzling.

"The person proposing this matter is Gilbert over there. It would be better to hear the reason directly from him.
"As you wish.

　Gilbert gets up from his seat and moves in front of us.

"As you well know, there are two organizations operating in Green Hollow's 'Demon King's Castle Realm'. Our Golden Fang Knights, who are wary of the Demon King's army's renewed offensive, and the Adventurer's Guild, who make their living by exploring. At first glance, it seems like the division of roles is appropriate, but in fact, that's where the conflict lies.

　As a prelude to a fact that I also know well, Gilbert began to explain the inner workings of the 'Demon King's Castle Realm' that outsiders couldn't know.

''Although the exploration is called adventurers ......, in reality, due to military necessity, the Golden Fang is overseeing the activities of the adventurers.
Especially when it comes to exploring the basement of the Demon King's Castle.
''That's right. Considering the possibility of an engagement with the Demon King's army, we can't very well stay uninterfered.

　The last time we explored the underground of the Demon King's Castle was the same.

　The adventurers' free exploration was restricted, and only Travis and his party led by A-ranked adventurers were allowed to explore with the approval of the party.

But we're essentially a knight's club whose job is to use force among humans on earth. We are not specialized in fighting with demons or exploring dungeons, and our relationship with the Adventurer's Guild is very limited. But we still have to assess the adventurers' achievements and preparations and make decisions.

　Ah--I see.
　I'm beginning to understand somehow why Gilbert proposed such a thing and His Majesty approved it.

''In other words, to be an organization that acts as a go-between for guilds and adventurers, that's what you mean.
Yes. We don't know what the Adventurer's Guild feels like or what it is. We don't know what the guild feels or what they want, and the guild doesn't know us either. If this is the case, a group of knights and adventurers would be able to communicate with each other more easily if there was a group of horsemen between them.

　The difference in values between the Knights and the Guild had manifested itself many times before.

　A classic example of this was when the Golden Fang tried to ask Travis for a secret security mission when it was discovered that the Mad Golem of the Demon King's Army had infiltrated the ground.

　The Golden Fang took the form of a circumvention request for Travis to accept the request, which he withheld the contents of, and attempted to conceal the dangerous information against Green Hollow Town.

　This in itself might have been a natural decision for the war-governing Order.

　However, for Travis, who was an adventurer at heart, it was even more nerve-wracking than this.

　The policy of hiding dangerous information within the dungeon, not to mention a request to bypass the gray area of the guild rules, was an extremely unpleasant act for that guy.

　By proposing the request without grasping it, not only had the Golden Fang been refused a security mission, but he had also been forced to spread information about the Mad Golem that he wanted to keep hidden from the general public.

　Probably even after that, we must have been troubled by the difference in values.

　Even if I were in the position of the Golden Fang, I would have come up with the idea of 'letting someone familiar with the adventurer industry act as an intermediary' as a solution.

''The Golden Fang Knights who govern the knights deployed in the Demon King's Castle Realm. A guild branch that manages the adventurers who have gathered there. Mediating between them and overseeing the exploration and investigation by the adventurers from the standpoint of the knights in line with the values of the adventurers. ...... This is the mission I want to entrust to you.

　There was no way that he couldn't understand it after being explained so elaborately and carefully.

　It's just as His Majesty said, ''It's not something I expect your [Restoration] skill to do.

　My ability that could be used to its fullest extent was not my 【Restoration】 skill, but my fifteen years of experience as an adventurer, and the knowledge and connections I had cultivated during that time.

''It's Luke. I think Gilbert's proposal is a reasonable one too. You may not like the fact that you are being treated as a subordinate of the Golden Fang, but will you take on the task?
No way. I respectfully accept.

　He bows deeply in his chair.

　Travis, the A-ranked adventurer who is at the center of the search.
　Florence, the head of the Adventurer's Guild Hollow Bottom Chapter.

　Both of them are old friends that I can call old friends.

　In addition, I have a connection with Dustin, a dual spearman who is also known as the Demon King's hunter, and Theodore, the legitimate son of a frontier earl, as well as the A-ranked adventurer Roy of the Hundred Beast Plain, who is scheduled to join our quest soon.

　It's impossible to say, "I can't mediate," when you have such a deep relationship with them.

　But there was something that was really bothering me, so I decided to take this opportunity to ask him.

''Your Majesty, may I ask you one question?
Hmm?　What do you want?
As a matter of fact, I thought I'd be ordered to do something related to [restoration] and weapons manufacturing. Why wasn't it one of those missions?
''It's true that that kind of idea was brought up by the staff. If you're going to continue to be an arms store, you could just ask the White Wolf Store for help without bothering to make it an official business. Besides, ......

　His Majesty ran a hand over his beard and looked at me with a dignified smile.

...... Such work can only be done by you personally and your store. This is not the point of gathering knights to form a knight's organization. The official duties of the knights must not be a genus.
'I see. ...... Thank you very much, that makes sense.'

　If you ask me, you're right.

　Knowledge, experience, and connections can be extended to other knights as they continue to work, but things like [Restoration] and the manufacture of crafting and magic tools, and other things that rely on skills, are not the same.

　Neither the Silver Wings nor the Golden Fang is an organization where skills can be useful in their duties, but it's not an organization that would be possible without the specific skills of specific individuals.

''Now, this is a great opportunity. Shall we also finalize the name of the new Order while we're at it?''

　His Majesty rested his weight on the heavy backrest and quite naturally moved the conversation onward.

'As you can see from the names of the four senior knights ...... No, only the Dragon King is the old name, but the names of the twelve knights consist of 'colors or words reminiscent of colors' and 'creatures and their parts'. For example, the name of the guys entrusted with fighting pirates in the trade routes is the Order of the Blue Shark.

　The Knights of the Dragon King ...... formerly known as the Black Dragon.
　It has silver wings, golden fangs, and seven-colored rainbow scales.

　Indeed, the names of the four senior knightly orders all follow their naming conventions.

I assigned them as much as possible to avoid overlap, but looking back again, there is a word left that is strange that it is not used. We thought it would be a good idea to combine the two.
It's ...... no way. ......

　He couldn't help but immediately guess those two words from His Majesty's thoughtful behavior.

''Mm, that word is white, and wolf. Luke, the name of the knights you lead shall be 'White Wolf Knights'.