-- It has been a few days since Luke White Wolf, the leader of the group, left for the basement.

　Mark Easton, one of the knights entrusted with his absence and Luke's blood brother, exhaled with exhaustion as he leaned his weight on the back of his work desk chair.

　There was a large amount of paperwork in front of him that had been assigned to him.
　Mark had just finished them, and the thought of not wanting to look through them for a while was swirling in his chest constantly.

Finally, it's time to relax ...... and take a break. As I recall, there were still some tea leaves left that you could use as you please .......

　Mark got up from his seat and walked down the brand new corridor towards the break room.

　As a rookie knight with no skill in combat, he thought it was natural that he would be sent to stay at home in this kind of situation, but he didn't expect to be drilled in the basics of office work.

　She knew it would be useful for her future work, but hard work is still hard work.

　Then, when I came to the front of the break room, I bumped into the very person I had in mind.

'Geez, ......'
'Oh, Sir Mark. Have you finished?

　Sophia Wedgwood, the female knight of the Blue Peacock Order.

　Mark has an inexplicable dislike for her as a colleague and senior knight.

　In the first place, the Blue Peacock Order is a knightly order that acts as an auditor, so to speak, to make sure that there is no injustice or negligence in the activities of other knights.

　It is not a small number of knights are not happy with the blue peacock, who are examining their work with suspicion, and Mark had been told many things by the senior members of his order's purple dragon.

　Stubbornness, persistence and shrewdness.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work for you.

...... Yes, it's done properly. So I thought I'd take a breather.
'That's fine. It is the nature of a knight to take proper rest. When you're busy, being able to find time to rest your body can make a huge difference in your work efficiency.

　Sophia has been talking and making him listen to her as if she were an instructor.

　This is clearly out of step with the preconceived notions of bitterness that Mark has unwittingly built up so far.

　He is certainly strict, but not with the severity of a supervisor pursuing injustice and negligence.

　It's as if he's trying to train Mark to be one of the best while he's at it, so that he can be a force for the White Wolf Knights.

''I've been thinking about this for a while now. Sir Sophia's mission is to audit the White Wolf Knights, right?　Isn't administrative work and training for new recruits out of your jurisdiction?
...... That's part of my job, but I'm also a member of the White Wolf Knights now. Since Commander Luke personally entrusted me with the task, I will do my best to carry out the mission to the best of my ability.

　Indeed, Luke had left the management of the headquarters and accounting process while he was away to Sophia, as he wanted to.

　There was no such thing as a painful belly to be probed by a knight group that had just started its activities, and since he had shown them all the money handling so far, he would still be a reassuring companion even if he was from the Blue Peacock--that should have been the reason.

　But I'm sure he didn't order them to train new recruits.

　If I remember correctly, when I explained to Luke, who trusts Sophia, the reason for the other knights' wariness towards the blue peacock, it was something that came from Sophia, half in retaliation.

'...... Sir Sophia. Just to be sure, that person has a fiancée in King's Landing, right?　You are the daughter of the Silver Wing Knights, and you are so young that even my brother is speechless ......

　Mark swallowed the words he was about to utter when he felt the urge to poke around in the bushes again and have to bring out the snake.

　He was merely trying to refer to the fact that the leader (Luke) and his fiancée (Alma) are twice as old as each other, and he has no other intentions at all.

　I wasn't trying to say that Sophia is not young.

　In the first place, there is not much difference between Mark and Sophia's ages, and the difference in their knightly backgrounds is only the difference between Mark, who was recruited from a civilian and started training at fifteen, and Sophia, who was born into a knightly family and was ordained early after learning the basics at an early age.

　Mark reluctantly turned his gaze back to Sofia while running a full circle of excuses from various angles in his head.

　But Sophia only shook her head in a dumbfounded manner.

''Do you think I'm acting out of love and affection?　I'm certainly pleased that you trusted me, but I'm not so much of a child as I am a side-splitting infatuation with you for that.
'Oh, ...... sorry for the down-to-earth misunderstanding,'
It's not too late for that, so don't worry. Since it's time for you to go, I'd like you to do one more simple job for me.

　Sofia smiles at him.
　Mark could only accept the envelope presented to him with his cheeks tugging at his cheeks.

''This is a request letter to the Adventurer's Guild. I've included all the necessary documents, so please go deliver it to the guild house. Once that's done, you can finish your work for today. You can have dinner at the site.
Are you sure you want to go to ......?　Earlier than usual, though.
It's okay, once in a while. I've got a few things to do here too, so I thought I'd take a break from my instructor's antics.

　I'm not sure if he was angry or not, and Mark was more than a little confused by the response.

　I had intended to tell him this from the beginning, but since he said something somewhat annoying, I guess I made him include a light threat.

　If it is the Commander (Luke), he should be used to reading other people's faces, so he may have been able to respond to Sophia's intentions, but Mark could only convey his approval with an ambiguous expression.

''I understand. I can just deliver it to the Guild Branch, right?''
No, the guildhouse is fine. It's relatively closer.

　Mark lightly looked up at the ceiling and recalled the location of the main facilities in Green Hollow.

　His knowledge of the Adventurer's Guild system was only hairy to the average person.

　He had heard somewhere sometime ago that the guilds had two types of sub-branches all over the continent, and the large base that was the center of regional activities was called the guild branch, and the smaller bases set up in local towns and villages were called guild houses?

'I think the users of the guild houses were mainly low rank adventurers. Wouldn't a chapter be appropriate for a request from the Order?

　But Sophia chuckled back with a giggle and a small laugh.

'You're overreacting. I'm just going to ask you to clean up around this building. It's only in the mountains, so if you're a little careless, you'll be in trouble with the leaves and branches of the trees in no time.''