Master Val, come in.

　Meena takes out a brown hooded robe and puts it on Val.
　She uses her own powerful cognitive inhibition system of magic, which must be as good as hers in order to break it.
　She also wears a white mask with the same magic used.
　The same trick could be done with Bal's light anomaly, but he wasn't overconfident in his own anomaly.
　Balu, who is just a plain old man, is set up to be walking along the streets at a leisurely pace, not knowing anything.
　The one who is currently there is Bartholomeus, who boasts of being the strongest of the eight gods, and is the only one who can control Meena.

''Where shall we start?''

Do we know where these firewolves came from in the first place?

'The sighting was east of the plains. I hear they didn't believe it at first because of the location.

　The eyewitness traveler was initially frustrated when he was ridiculed for saying that a fire wolf couldn't just suddenly appear in such a place.
　A number of similar testimonies were given, so the request was passed around to the Adventurer's Guild in the imperial capital after the facts were confirmed by doing a crowd outing.

''Then we can start calling on other regions to provide information?

We've already done that, but there's nothing to report. We won't be expecting much.

　Val smiles reliably at Meena, who comes with an immediate response to her words.

'I see. If there are no sightings elsewhere, then it's highly likely that he was sent through transfer magic.

'But what did the enemy want to do by sending a firewolf to that extent?

　He answers Meena's question.

'One, an experiment in transference magic.'

To send more powerful demons into the world?

　She had an idea right away, too.
　Val nods, then moves her mouth.

'Two, confirming the empire's ability to investigate, and ah, thinning out the lower adventurers.

'I understand the confirmation of your ability to investigate, but are you thinning it out?　What does it mean for the enemy to thwart these low ranks?

　This time Meena nodded her head, seemingly unable to understand.

''Everyone's a low rank at first. If we crush the low ranks, we can annihilate those who might have become high ranks in the future after gaining experience.''

...... With all due respect, I think you're overthinking this.

　She did not agree with Val's opinion, which was very unusual.

'Honestly, I don't think our enemies this time are that smart.

I hope so. I'm tired of the enemy being so smart.

　Val laughs and says so.

'The emperor predicted that a second attack would come around here.

　Meena opens her mouth with a look of skepticism.

'Is that why you think Firewolf is an experiment?

''Right. Well, I'm actually skeptical that they're going to send a stronger demon to the same place with transfer magic, too.

　Val shrugs his shoulders.
　He thinks he should have been warned, since he prevented the enemy's first attack with an unorthodox move of bringing in Yagami Akira.

'His Majesty said that since he's done it once, he might think it's gone: ......

'Yes. We don't get thrown in all the time.

　Their conversation stopped here because they felt the signs of transfer magic.

'Meena, what is this?'

It looks like the emperor was spot on.

　She answers Val's question shortly.

'As I said before, it's difficult to send hordes of demons through transference magic. So maybe that's why I'm practicing.''

It's annoying.

　He frowned when he heard her guess.
　In front of them is a lone man in black robes with about fifty trolls in tow.
　The man looks at Val and Meena and is momentarily jittery.

'Hey, why is an elf ......?　Yeah, get it done.

　The man gives the troll an order.

''Well, that's normal. Even for an elf, it's rare to find one that can take on fifty trolls at once.

　Val said as if it were someone else's business, and he showed his admiration for the man's quickness of judgment.

'Then let me tell you that there is an exception,'

　Meena responds to his words nonchalantly.