For a moment, a violent turmoil spread through the great hall as the main actors appeared.
　The attendees gathered here included military personnel or even nobles, but there was no one who didn't know the identity of the new singles who would be joining them this time.

　It was natural to have that much investigative power, and in that sense, Ars and Loki had yet to obtain any information.
　Nevertheless, their appearance creates the power to take the next step for humanity and gives us hope. There is a lot of hope, but on the other hand, there is also the need to avoid the mismanagement by the single wizard and the lack of turnover that comes with it. Therefore, it is natural for everyone to be worried about it.


　The lead walker was an old man who could hardly be called a wizard - he reminded me of a kind of wizard who creates even something out of an imaginary nothing, rather than modern magic.
　He poked his staff, but his gait made those who saw it seem unnecessary. His hair, which extended to his shoulders, was dyed white without a trace, with fine hairs that bounced off the ends like the fibers of a hemp rope.

　Furthermore, his back was stretched out, and his physique seemed to be condensed as if fat had been shaved off. It was clear that this was the result of continuous squeezing and abuse of his own body without regard to the deterioration of his physical body.

　Therefore, I would like to describe it as a fresh dead tree.

　I wonder if he has reached 80 years of age if you look at it from an outward perspective. It was perfectly natural for Ars to determine that he was one of the main actors, and there was no room for even doubt.

　A man and a woman followed behind.
　The woman was bravely dressed in a military uniform that was uniformed in white, and her cloak dominated as if she were wearing a feather. You can feel the bravery from the way they walk with their military boots clanging.
　Her blonde hair flowed over the fur on her collar and swayed as lightly as cotton.

　Most of all, the woman had a black eye patch wrapped around one of her eyes, calling a stern presence into the room, as if she were returning from a battlefield.

''Is this a bunch of incompetents all together?''

　The woman did her mouth with the kiseru she was holding and scattered purple smoke as if she was sighing.

''Kochkohoho.................There's also the head of the state here. I thought we should weigh those preferences. Since we are being tested it's the same for us.

　A man walking next to a woman in a stylish suit, with smoke staining his slit eyes, turned his moist eyes and coughed and threw caution to the wind.
　The man appeared to be in his early thirties. His skin was unusually white, as if he had just stepped out of a hospital room. The skin was so translucent that one would think he hadn't been exposed to sunlight in his entire life.
　However, a woman would not be inclined to envy her if she saw it. It was too white for that.

　Of course, he didn't give the slightest hint that he was about to collapse, so it seemed certain that he wasn't morbidly close or sick.


　Turning his gaze to the three of them for a moment was probably the right choice for this occasion. Even without learning from Ars, Loki caught the three of them faintly out of the corner of his eye.
　But both Jean and Letty turned their attention to him for a moment. I wonder if they knew, and then they returned their attention to their eyes as if they weren't much interested.

　Jean and Letty didn't seem to be paying any attention to the new single. Then, as if to push kindness somewhat, Letty opened her mouth for an explanation. It wouldn't be my imagination that she seemed to be waiting for her turn to explain for a bit.
　However, it was Jean who, unfortunately, was the first to speak up.

　Letty, who was out of line, responded with a jerk of her comekami and a snap of her fingers. If I were to compare it to a stage where I was a key player, I felt as if a supporting actor had ad-libbed my way through the show.

'Excellent.'
'Master Letty, please calm down for a moment!　No rough stuff here!
"...this guy's fault.　They always interfere with me at the most crucial point. It's more like a fight or a war.

　He directs a childish threat, but is met with a refusing affectionate smile from Jean, who checks the time. It's certainly an act of adding oil to the fire, but Loki immediately puts his hand around Letty's waist.

　--I don't want to wrinkle it too much, but oh.

　Loki inwardly lets out a grand whine, and Loki does his best to quiet Letty down. It's a great dress, but it's also true that things are just too important to ignore. In the midst of such a dilemma, Loki decided that it was time to stop.
　Nevertheless, as soon as Jean's explanation began, Letty also seemed to understand the situation, and decided to easily close the curtain on the farce and listen to it.
　Of course, it would be something that Loki would not be able to miss. But one thing he had learned was that he couldn't just joke about it, as the other man was a single Letty.


　Jean, who cut out of the story slowly, only scratched out the necessary information and began to talk about it.
　Even Ars, who has no prior information, could at least get their names at the time of the meeting, but that's as far as it goes. Deeper information will surely not be revealed, and in anticipation of that, Jean will extract only a few bits of information he can find.

'The two men walking behind me, the pale man, are Lehail Kirktooth. He's a new addition, a single-digit Hydrangian. He used to be a double-digit man, and shouldn't have had any significant achievements... but apparently, I heard that his unit had a long period of quite strenuous missions, as Crockel was hardly out in the outside world. It seems that they were famous for being highly united in the Three Man Cells. It seems that his fame never spread to other countries, but he was a powerful man who supported them in the background.
'They're all alike. You can't help but be overshadowed by the prestige of singles. If nothing else, singles are able to achieve their achievements thanks to a lot of good wizards.

　Answering as a matter of fact, Ars caught a glimpse of the strongest boy out of the corner of his eye, and with a small smile on his face, as if agreeing wholeheartedly with him, Jean replied, "Oh.
　Then a little question that he had been having until today came out of Jean's mouth.

'From what I've heard, Lehail has stubbornly refused to work as an individual, no matter what the mission is,' he said. But even so, once his unit goes on a mission, it takes only three men to complete it and come back. All three of them must have been in double digits.

　Being together in a unit for a long time creates more unity than blood kinship. Ars can't understand it, but as a matter of fact, a high degree of unity raises the rate of mission completion - along with emotion.
　If anything, it is probably the exact opposite of the way Ars was thinking when he was in the military.

　As expected, it's a bit inefficient to incorporate double digits into some of the squads, but it's not unintelligible composition if you think of it as filling in the holes in Crockel. In other words, it can be taken to mean that the Hydrangee Army was building a unit that was expected to work as well as a single.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but I'm sure it's a good idea.

The next time I'm going to go out to the outside world on the Hydrangee side to make a request, but from what I've found, it's pretty sloppy, and it's not the kind of activity I would praise.
That's why I've been looking around. There's a gap of over a year in the history of defeating Lehail before the last two months or so.

　Perhaps to advance the conversation, Jean did not pursue the request that Ars made, in particular. Still, I was somewhat surprised inside.

I'm sure there are some questions, but talking about it here won't get us anywhere. The next time, as you know, that's next to it...

　That being said, Ars is only expecting the woman next to Lehail to be the woman next to Lehail, but he doesn't get any confirmation.

''It's Teresa Nefizari, isn't it? The former lieutenant of Froese, he did a great job in building the Zentray base. It's Teresa's power that she was able to keep it running for several years. Of course, she was recommended to fill the void left by Al, but her ability was recognized after the incident the other day when she single-handedly defeated Orneus, a member of the Kurama leadership. It is correct to say that she has been hiding her power until now.

　Letty had bought into the role of explainer that her soil was turning around.
　It was confirmed by those who were there that Orneus was as good as a single as a Krama executive, and that had propelled her to singles in a heartbeat.

　The only reason Theresa had stayed in the triple digits so far was because she had deliberately manipulated it. It's not uncommon for the rankings to be out of proportion to your ability. But in her case, she had done it on purpose, and so her reputation of being about a triple-digit ability was newly reviewed.

　It's not clear why she was doing that, or if it was because of the many troops she had in Zentray. In any case, it is certain that if he was a single equivalent wizard, he could not have stayed in Zentray for a long time.

　This time, Jean also seems to have turned to gather information and listens to Letty's words.

I'm not sure if I'm right. Just as they say, he's a man of habit.
Even Rusalka didn't expect that Alpha still had a hidden gem.

　Unconsciously, Ars gave Theresa a sharp look, perhaps because of the incident with Felinella. If it was as they said, she would run around the battlefield to give her troopers an honorable death. It seemed that the guardian of Xentrei was also vigorously defeating the demons as a matter of fact.

　Hearing Jean's lines of resignation, Ars guessed. The two of them would be single mages joining Hydrangee and Alpha. In other words, if the unspoken rules were followed, the rest would be Balmes. In short, it meant that Lusarka's holding quota was no longer in one.
　This is due to the fact that Ars is still in first place despite being in the association.

''I don't like Teresa's way of doing things, basically. I don't like Teresa's way of doing things, but it's a matter of considerable trouble in the military. But even so, since Teresa did not commit any major act of authority during her battle with Orneus, the voice of the governor boosted her ranking.
I know. So whether you like it or not, you're a good soldier, huh?

　There's no room to doubt Teresa's ability to defeat it as Ars, who experienced Orneus' power firsthand in the Aristocrat's Ruling (Tembram).

　-- her ability is certain, right?

　You will be able to get a good deal more than just a single. The question is whether it can be done, but I didn't say it aloud because I felt that if I said it, it would come back to me.

　There was only one person left waiting for the commentary. But instantly, Letty closed her mouth with a difficult look on her face.