So, you're not with the guys you invited? I didn't see anyone else while I was here.

　Garnett deliberately raised his normal voice in a deliberately normal voice, as if to shake off the air that was leaning in a strange direction.

''Yeah. I'm going to join you after the ceremony. I'm going to tell my relatives back home and everyone in Green Hollow ...... yeah, I'm going to tell everyone later that 'Garnett was going around to guard the venue', but that's fine.
Thank you. I'm going to tell you the identity of the knight as soon as possible, but I still can't tell you...

　Garnett scratched his hair in an embarrassed manner.

　The new knight order that I will be in charge of is supposed to send a maximum of one person from each of the twelve knight orders as an initial member, and Garnett will continue to be the representative of the Silver Winged Knights and will continue to guard them as before.

　With this, there's no need to hide the knight's identity, so they can publicly say they are a member of the Silverwing Knights.

　However, their true gender and the fact that they are the same person as their sister (Alma) must remain hidden from now on.

　If there is a time when I can make this public - that I joined the Silver Wing Knights, which stipulated that its members were male only, falsifying my gender, even though I am the sister of the Knight Commander - the only time I can make this public is when I have lost the meaning of my commitment to the Silver Wing Knights.

　It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you want to do with the Silver Wing Knights whose mission is to maintain security and investigate crimes.

　That is to say, it is the organization that can most reliably obtain the clues of the mithril trafficking organization that is the avenger of his mother.

You can't mess with your hair too much. You'll ruin your perfect look.

　As I hand combed Garnett's hair, I mentioned one more thing I wanted to make sure of.

'Hey, Garnett. Can we make time for you right after the ceremony?
'What?　If you change quickly, well, that's what you get: ......
I need you to make me something to eat before I get dressed.

　I told him frankly, and Garnett swept his gaze across the room as he seemed to sense my intentions.

'Could it be ...... that?　I want the other guys to meet 'Alma' or something like that: ......
I mean. You know how hard it is to do that when you don't have this opportunity?

　If I let this opportunity pass, I'll have no choice but to give the appearance of 'inviting Alma to Green Hollow,' but then I'll have to come up with a plausible reason for Garnett not to be present this time.

　But today, when he reveals his knight status later, he can make an excuse that he couldn't be there because he was working on that side of the business.

...... It may be so, but there's no need to rush to meet up with them, right?
If you don't see him when you're supposed to see him, it could call into question the authenticity of a lot of things. Besides, it's time for me to show off to everyone.

　When I expressed my frank opinion, Garnett gulped and averted his gaze.

　My earlier statement was half lighthearted, but the other half is serious.

　There's probably only a few people who can't come to the same conclusion as me while looking at the girl in front of me.

　Of course I like the way she's normally dressed, but the dressed-up Garnett is flying in a different direction than that.

'Alright, alright!　I can't be a stay-at-home mom from now on anyway. I'll just think of it as preparation for the good times to come.

　Garnett sniffed in desperation as he reopened the door.

　Just then, the clock in the room pointed to the time he was scheduled to leave the room.

　The time had flown by in the blink of an eye when I was talking to Garnett, as opposed to the time when I was feeling nervous and the passage of time seemed slow.

'Oops, we should be leaving soon. Do you want to go with me?
I'll follow you to the main auditorium. Abigail and a few others are there, though. From there, attendees and guests have different entrances, so we'll split up.

　As they left the room, Abigail, who had been waiting for them in the hallway, quickly ran up to Garnett and quickly adjusted her appearance.

That's all right. That's why I told you not to mess up your clothes. Your skirt was almost out of shape.
Shut up, you have a weird way of saying things.
Don't sweat too much. You'll ruin your makeup. Would you like me to arrange for a carriage to take you to the venue?
I don't want any of that. That's right under our noses. You can't even drive a carriage through there.

　Garnett quickly left the inn on foot, waving away Abigail, who was piling on the small talk and worry with a blank expression on her face, and Garnett quickly left the inn on foot.

　With Abigail and a few other companions in tow, Garnet and I walked towards the main auditorium, which was really close by.

　The main street was filled with people who had the same purpose as we did.

　Young people dressed in brand-new formal attire, and men and women of all ages in formal attire who seemed to be guests, were moving in all directions toward the main auditorium.

　The crowd was so crowded that there was no room for the carriage to pass, and those who had carelessly tried to ride in the carriage were forced to dismount and walk outside the crowd.

'Miss Alma, please walk inside,'
Oh, oh, .......

　The shoulders of the dress-clad men stick to my arms as the attendants push the garnet inside.

　Is it perfume or expensive soap?
　An aroma of a kind I would never normally get from a garnet softly tickled my nose.

......, that's as far as we go together. We'll take the front entrance for our guests, and you guys will go in the back and wait for a while.
'My lady, if I may be so presumptuous. When you enter the hall, I will ask you to perform a change of tone. Don't run off on the wrong side of the line with words like 'shit'.
I don't need to know. I don't need to think about it. Then, the white wolf. After the ceremony, meet up at the inn we were staying at.

　The fact that she has the appearance of a deep-windowed daughter herself and a rough tone of voice is also a good thing, but I kept quiet so as not to mislead her by saying unnecessary things.

　I parted from Garnett and looked up at the large auditorium, the site of the joint ordination ceremony, from close up.

　I heard that the building was once used as a temple or place of worship for a large religious power, and it is filled with breathtaking grandeur and opulence.

　I don't know the details of the building's history, but it is said that the building was not used as a place of worship due to the concentration of all the temples in the capital at the Temple of All Nations and various other reasons.

　After that, the building became the property of the royal palace and was used as a large auditorium for various meetings and ceremonies.

...... Okay, let's go.

　Thanks to Garnett's arrival, any unnecessary tension was erased.

　I took one big, deep breath and then turned to the knight candidate's waiting room, keeping this feeling intact.