Dragons flying in the sky.
　It's already a familiar sight to the humans of Dexter City.

I never thought I'd see a day when dragons would be a part of the human experience.

　The person who let out such a comment was Lasse himself, the Lord of Dragons.
　Lasse moved his eyes and looked into the city.

"And a city where humans and demons coexist.

"The construction of my territory has been destroyed by the dragon!　You'll have to pay for it!

"And the idiots who come in droves.

　Lasse held his head in his hands.

　Lasse held his head.

"During unloading, the dragon moved and the package was broken!　You'll have to pay for it!

"A child fell down because of a howling dragon!　Pay for the treatment!

"The flying dragons have spooked our livestock and made them taste worse!　Let's hold them accountable!

　Now, all sorts of trouble had come to Lasse.
　Complaints were pouring in from the towns where the dragons had landed and those who had passed over them.
　But most of them are deceptions for money, and most of the lump are harassment by business enemies.

　The majority of them were harassed by their business enemies.

"d*mn, that's a lot of money for me.

　In a room at an inn, the men were smiling wickedly at each other.

Oh, speaking of dragons, they are in the customer's business, and they will have to pay for it for fear of damaging their reputation.

Well, that's a good idea.

　A pleasant voice comes from right above the giggling crooks.

Who's there?

　The crooks are startled and try to get up, but they're baffled by the fact that they can't move.

It's just a spider.

　Coming down from the ceiling was a beautiful spider girl, Arachne.

"We get spiders like you so often. Let me just get them.

　Against these frauds were caught raiding the scene of conversations hatched by Kuro Dog and the intelligence work of Arachne and others.

　.

　An old man who was working in the fields in a quiet farming village looked up at the sky at the sound of a loud flapping of wings.

The old man was working in a quiet farming village when he heard a loud flapping of wings.　Did the birds come for the seeds in the field?

　The old man thought the noise was too loud, and when he looked at the sky, he saw a figure in pure white pants.

I'm sorry, is there a man named Claude living in this village?

"Pa-pants talk?

　Of course birds don't wear pants and pants don't talk.
　She is a harpy. She is the messenger of Lasse, and she has come to check out the towns and villages where the imposters have been declared to live.

　Those who were careful to speak in the streets were quickly investigated by demons who could fly and found that no such person lived there, or that no dragon had ever passed over them in the first place.

　On the rare occasions when the investigation did not turn up anything untoward, the Order of Letty would show up in person, either to play a trick on them or to deliberately give them money to track them down and wait for them to be found out.
　Especially the latter, there were a great many people who were careless in speaking out after their successes.
　This is even more so when there is more than one offense.

But there really are more of them.

　Business interruptions are more intense when a name comes up.
　The biggest problem was the conflict with the existing industry, which was surprisingly resolved with minimal trouble.
　Because there was a clear difference in rent between the existing interest group, the stagecoach association.
　A stagecoach was affordable for ordinary people, but the dragon carriage was obviously more expensive.
　Ordinary people couldn't even ride in it.

　As a result, those who came for the dragon carriage gave up because of its high price and took a normal carriage ride, which indirectly benefited the village.
　Because of this backstage situation, the stagecoach association pretended to be reluctant, while behind the scenes they welcomed the entry of Lasse and his team.
　When people know it's in their best interest, they'll turn their hand as much as they can.

"That's good, Lasse. Let the demons do the research and such.

　And there, groggily, it was Letty, who was lying on the sofa in the private area of the office, who called out, "Me and the guards are out of here.

Me and the rest of the guards have been out of here for a while now. We've been hiding from the criminals, catching them, questioning them, asking the Order to investigate the area. We're full of work.

　As he said, Letty was the one who was busiest about this case.
　She was assigned to this town as Lasse's bodyguard, and she was obliged to take care of all the troubles around Lasse.
　As a result, Letty would normally come to work for the guards.
　The guards feel relieved that they were able to send Letty to work.

It really got busy all of a sudden.

　Letty was right, it was only recently that the imposters started to gather.
　One day, the imposters started to appear all of a sudden.

That's when the nobleman arrived.

　Previously, a man claiming to be a nobleman of the Seger State came to Lasse to demand payment of an illegal entry fee.
　Since then, all sorts of imposters have appeared around Lasse.
　The scam of selling land cheaply, the scam of selling a valuable treasure in your favor.
　A scam claiming to be your relative or even a scam claiming to be your child.

I don't think he has a child.

"Well, I don't think he understood that. Maybe they just heard Lasse's reputation and thought it was worth it.

　A hero who led to the end of a war, an upstart who was knighted by a nobleman, and a successful dragon tamer.
　Certainly, you wouldn't think that Lasse is actually a young man disproportionate to his achievements.
　In fact, the woman who identified herself as Lasse's daughter introduced herself without realizing it was Lasse herself, and when Lasse said she was, there was a very awkward moment.

I didn't expect to see a girl older than me: ......



　Letty chuckles as she sinks into the sofa, remembering that moment.

"That was a masterpiece,

I was also surprised to see a relative I'd never heard of before.

"Was it that one?　The grandson of a great-grandfather's son who left his hometown when he was young?

They're all so needlessly elaborate in their settings.

　Incidentally, countless self-proclaimed relatives have already appeared on both hands and feet, and the majority turned out to be frauds when I looked up the address.
　Because whatever one is, he or she has a hometown where they lived.

　Sometimes they falsely claimed to have traveled since birth, but those who did were quick to assume that Trow, the head of the Adventurers' Guild, was an impostor.
　Outside the city is full of danger.
　Even if you don't encounter any demons, there are still many dangerous wild animals.
　Trow said that he was too cavalier for such a grueling journey.

　He was also unable to talk about the places he traveled to as far as he could.
　Trow had traveled to all the towns the culprit mentioned, and he had an accurate understanding of their lies when he listened to them.
　At that time, I was impressed by the adventurer, but after watching him play with the demons at the ranch, I have to tell you that I have revised my assessment of him.

It's time to do something about it.

"What better way to do it?

"There's no way in hell there's only more scams. I think someone is working behind the scenes.

"A criminal who seduced the nobleman?

Maybe.

"How do you catch that?

　Catch the perpetrators who instigate fraud. It's easy to say, but it's harder than words.
　The con man himself can be caught red-handed, but the criminal who instigated the con man can be caught because he has already escaped.
　If this was an attempt to get a share of the profits, you could seize the meeting place, but since the other party only instigated the scam, there was no need to stay in the same place.

Well, I'll work on that.

"There's something about ......

　Hearing those words, Letty felt a chill run down her spine.
　When Lasse said these words of "I'll try something," there is no doubt that there will be something.
　That is to say, there is some way to find out who is instigating the fraud that is spreading inside and outside the Kingdom of Tend.

(It's bad luck for your neighbor that this was the enemy.

　A few weeks later, an unprecedented number of imposters in the history of the Kingdom of Tend would be caught.

The cat network makes it easy. Even a bad guy can't beat the cuteness of a cat.

"Scoundrels do business in unpopular places. Such places are overgrown with vegetation. The plants know all about it.