I'm so confused.

"Brother!　What do you mean by that?　You never told me you had a brother.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of him.

　Why didn't you tell me?
　I thought we as a married couple have nothing to hide.
　I didn't want to hide anything from you, so I told you about my past as a member of the Demon King's Army because I didn't want you to hide anything from me.

Don't get me wrong, you're not the only one. I don't consider them family members who left their homeland at all.
That's terrible.
There's nothing to hide about them. It's just that they're not worth mentioning.

　Ms. Maleeka, aren't you being too harsh on your immediate family?

　I don't like it, but sometimes you show that kind of harshness.
　And Elika, Malika's mother, Elika, is extremely harsh on her father, the president of the Center Guild.
　Is it genetic?　A mother and her daughter?

''I know there's some kind of karma going on, but...?''

　Arantzill-san, who was listening by the side, joined in the conversation with a mixture of confusion.

''Can you tell me more about it? If it's about Dariel's married family, it's not irrelevant to me. Speaking of Dariel's married brother ... he would be a son to me as well!

　Mr. Alanziel, please don't get mad.
　If he heard this, he would be so moved by it that he would swoon.

It's not that big of a deal.　Our village used to be a very small village, didn't it?　There's nothing there, and it was on the verge of spontaneous destruction...?
?　It seemed to be flourishing when I visited you before?
It was only after Dariel came. It is my people's resourcefulness that has made our village prosperous from top to bottom.
'Really?　That's my boy!

　He started yelling at me in a weird way.
　It's embarrassing, so please don't do it.

　By the way, my son Gran, perhaps bored of the boring story, was scurrying around while holding his mother in his arms.
　He is probably looking for a female adventurer with a large bust.

''So, well........before Dariel-san came, Lux village was deserted. It seems that the man who was my brother couldn't stand it....
Don't say 'was'.
'I'm not a man who rots in the country like this!　I'm going to go to the city and win a flag! And then he left. And now it's been almost ten years, and I haven't heard anything...
"And that's why I didn't even know it existed...?

　I only started settling in the village a year or two ago at the most.
　But Marika, let alone your stepfather and mother-in-law. What do you mean you don't even hear from the locals or the people?

Because no one in the village likes him.
Don't people hate you?
The truth is, as the eldest son of the village chief, I should be supporting LUX Village. He was the one who abused his hometown and left it. There are countless young people who were inspired by him to follow his lead and leave. It's as if the decline of the village was accelerated because of him!

　Come to think of it, when I first visited, the village was full of old people.
　The only young people in the village were Marika and Gacita.

　Is that the reason why people don't like you?

''That's why I happened to meet you again here by chance, but I can't bring myself to speak to you by mistake. We are just strangers who abandoned the village and left it.
"Nah, I see...?

　I thought that you're hard on your flesh and blood, but technically, I wasn't.
　To be precise, it is merciless to traitors.

　I'm not sure where the bloodline comes from, which ruthlessness is this?

Wait a minute, I've got the file on him.

　And Mr. Alanziel.
　'Early!

His name is Stanville. Are you sure this is the one?
What?　It's been a long time since I've forgotten and I'm not sure, but I think it's probably true?

　You have to remember that!

"You belong to the Guild of Adventurers of Rayhanton Street. Your rank is B. It looks like you came to the Center Guild to take the exam for promotion to Level A.

　Promotional exams.
　Well, you did say it was close, didn't you?

The examination for promotion to A level is only held by the center guild, any adventurer's guild can approve a D level C level, and a B level can be approved in any large city. However, the center guild must directly judge whether or not it is suitable for the A class.

　Oh yeah.
　There was a time in the past when Gacita had to travel to a distant town to take the B level promotion exam.

　As expected of a small village like Lax Village, the best I could do was to get a C-level approval.
　Oh, that's right.
　Now that we've come all the way to the center guild, let's make a campaign to get the guild in Lax Village to give us B-level approval.
　This would make the guild in Lax Village more convenient and attract more adventurers.
　I digress.

"So if it wasn't for this time of year when you visited, our paths wouldn't even cross. It's a matter of fate, isn't it?
It's a nasty fate.

　Malika has a bitter look on her face!

"Well, I got an idea for you, Dariel.
Yes?
Would you like to take part in the promotion test?
"Yikes!

　What are you going to say now?

What's a test?　It's an exam for Class B adventurers from all the guilds to be promoted to Class A, right?　Impossible, impossible, impossible!

　Well, I'm not an adventurer anymore!
　When he married Malika and became the village chief, he quit the adventurer's job because he couldn't do it at the same time.

　But still, it's a small village!
　I'm sure there's a shortage of manpower in an emergency, so I kept my adventurer's crest intact to fight, and in fact, it wasn't once or twice that I went into battle with my Hermes sword when the village was in crisis.

　Still..........

''When I decided to retire, my final rank was D, and I'm very unqualified to take the test!　Let me turn it down!　It's a great honor!
Who told you to take the test?
What?

　I told you, you did?
　Are you getting old already, Grandpa?

It's not the person taking the test that I want you to do. I want you to be the one taking the test.
What do you mean?

　Aranziel said that an examiner is required for the Adventurer's Guild's A-level promotion exam.
　That's natural.

　By convention, the examiner would be a skilled adventurer who has already passed the exam and has an A-level qualification, yet is still accomplished and qualified to teach younger adventurers.

"I will be the examiner this time.

　Moreover, it was unbeatable.
　To be tested in person by the strongest brave Arantzill-san, who continued to make not just A grade, but the highest level of achievement.
　The candidates would be very enthusiastic.

''I'm already a retired bored man, so I thought I'd be of some use to you. Of course, I can't handle dozens of examiners on my own, so I'll need other examiners. I've decided to have Zester be one of them.
Oh.

　If you're a former "hammering" hero, Zester would be highly qualified.
　I'm sure he's a class-A adventurer, and he was even commissioned as a hero for a while. I've fought him in real life.

I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one. Dariel, will you do it?
That's why I'm a retired Grade D student?

　Don't you think it's too much to ask for a guy with a shitty final record to be an examiner, let alone a candidate?

No problem. I know your abilities well. I know your abilities better than anyone else.

　I said it twice.
　Maybe the second time had a pillow word attached to it that couldn't be made public.

'I know better (than Grand Barza).'

　........... I guess.

''Grade is only an expression of strength. Strength is the main thing and grade is the secondary thing. This is your chance to show that you are the strongest human race, even if there is no grade.

　Mr. Alanziel said.
　It's a means too direct and direct, just like this person.

　How many times have I been crushed by this directness in the days when I used to belong to the Demon King's army, when we were divided into friend and foe, and this directness has crushed the number of conspiracy arts.
　He is the embodiment of the fact that the strong don't need any tricks.

''Besides,''

　I started to say something in a whisper.

'Shouldn't you find a connection with your wife's brother in any way you can?　As an examiner, you'll naturally come into contact with your brother who is taking the test, right?

　I take back my previous statement.
　He was a bit of a trickster.

　Marika hates him like a scorpion, but her mother-in-law, who is waiting for her in Lax Village, might not be.
　Should we try to reconcile the two?

The most important thing to remember is that this is not the case.

　And our Malika, who was the one in charge, was bored with the story and focused on comforting Gran.

　Gran's eyes told the story in a way that was like, 'That one is a C and this one is an E.
　The ABCD in that case would be the exact opposite of the adventurer grade in order of value.