Traces?　You don't know that.
Yes, people like me are very sensitive to traces.

　I learned about the waves of magic in the academy and was able to sense them, but I was never taught about the "traces", nor was I told about them by Lord Elferise. I believe that the "one like me" that the Sufiria refers to is an engineer who makes magical tools. I could have asked, but I was immediately and easily convinced.

''This is........''

　As soon as Sierra opened the door, she suppressed her mouth and frowned. But the smell had already reached me - the smell of blood.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to get to the end of the corridor with a small window inside and each room leading to the end of the passage.

''It's in the back,''

　Nem says the smell comes from the back of the room, and we don't check the rest of the house, but Nem leads us to it.
　Nem stops and says, "This is it," and a door appears in front of us. An unseen pattern attached to the top of the door is lit up.

'In surgery, you mean?'
You're on vacation. And Toa.

　We both looked at each other and laughed with only one corner of our mouths. They heard Sierra cough and looked away from each other.

'You're too distracted,'
I don't feel the vibes. Which means no one will be there.

　I'm spreading my magic sensing to the outside of the building, but I don't feel any disturbing magic.

''Masamne-sama, the traces are in here.
Yeah.

　As if she's given up on blaming me, Sierra softly opens it.
　Sierra's expression becomes panicked.
　It was a horrible situation inside. Everything, everything, was scattered and in a state of turmoil.
　It reminded me of something I saw in a foreign drama set in a hospital one day, but the inside was poor, unlike anything I'd seen in it. It may have been an examination room, but it was fully equipped with windows and was cluttered open. The curtains could be heard slapping in the wind outside.
　There, in the corner of the room, I spotted an old man with bloody white hair and a female nurse. They were both wearing what looked like white coats or white nurse's uniforms, and I knew at once that they were related to this clinic.







　The clinic has been put on alert, and the inside has become a den of kingdom knights. It seems that a site inspection is being carried out. The area was in a state of turmoil and the appearance of onlookers was visible.

I'm not sure if I'm right or not. But I'm sorry for getting you involved.
You're overreacting, Sierra.
Sierra is overreacting.

　Caught up in Nem's smile as she mimicked my words, Sierra laughed, "Thank you.

''Hey, those people just now........''
I'm a doctor and his assistant here at the clinic.
From the look of it, I'm guessing the guy got away.
Yes, sir. But this is a human being, and it's not the same one we're looking for.
Things are getting a little crazy in King's Landing, aren't they?
'Recently, the number of refugees flowing in from other countries has increased. Some of the eighteen countries have been destroyed by someone, and the territory of the country in question has become an illegal zone. To escape the damage, some of them moved from the surrounding villages and ended up in this country as well.
I see...

　We knew it was coming. From the beginning.
　It had come up several times when I had meetings with Lord Elfelise, Tom and the others. From the conclusion that "we can't save everything," but it ended up being that the bloodline of the Charity is not an organization that is designed to save humans in the first place, but rather that the humans who are in a position to use it are secondary to it.
　--I never imagined that the wave would come to the royal capital.

　It's a strange thing to bring up the subject of what will happen to King's Landing, and if I said that, I'm sure he would have asked me why I was so concerned about the human nation. I would have been at a loss for words.
I know it's a contradiction in terms.

'I guess this place wasn't relevant...'
But you're a big help.

　Nem was pleased by Sierra's words.

'And the orphanage, but there are more beastmen in this country than any other, and that's worrisome.
Yes, but there's nothing else we can do. We just have to find out who did this.
Yeah. Sierra, what are you going to do after this? We're going to the orphanage.
'Then don't worry about me, just go.

　Sierra seemed to be in charge of the place.

　It was getting dark. The sky is orange at this moment. Let's go back to the mansion and look for the culprit tomorrow.

Let's go home.

　When I told the three of them that and was about to leave--

---------Hitaka-kun.

　It was partly because he hadn't been called by that name in a long time, but also because this was Rashausen.
　It was chilling.
　Because I could tell by the voice in the first place. It was--.

''.........Ichijo.

　The fact that it was.
　There, against the sunset, was Ichijo Yukimura.

I found him.

　Ichijo smiled loosely, relieved.