Mek muttered and then ran to leave the Adventurer's Guild alone.

''Wait!'' Mek!

　I'm going to go after Meku.

'You're not coming! This is my problem! We can't involve them in this!

　Mek yelled at me. Still, I don't stop chasing. I'm faster than Mek, so I catch up to him and take his hand to force him to stop moving.

'What are you going to do by yourself! We're going with you!
Yeah! Trying to go alone is watery!
This war is, in a word, a war against man. You cannot involve yourselves in this war. Even less so for Tetsuya, the human.
There's only so much you can do if you go by yourself, Mek!
I would go even if I could do nothing. I was the queen of the elves.
Queen?
Yes. Well, now they think you're dead.
Still, as queen, I'm not going to overlook the danger to my country.

　Was Mek the queen? Well, at any rate, how could he not be inspired by the danger of his homeland? But, of course, you can't let him go alone.

"We'll go too. I can't let Meku go alone.
So, Tatsuya, you are human. You will be fighting a human.
A man of valor is my kindred spirit, too. I'm not going to sit back and watch him commit treasonous acts against the home of my people.
Yeah! If it wasn't for Master, I'd have died in a hurry! It's time to repay that debt!
You....

　Mek ponders for a moment, and then

Please, I need you to help me.
I'm on it.
You're in charge!

　Thus, our next destination was to leave the free city of Verful for the elven country of Faracion.


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　Before I headed out first, I bought some information from an informant.
　It cost me a good amount of money, but it gave me some meaningful information.

　It seems that there is no doubt that the brave men are attacking the elven country of Faracion.
　The strength of the war is about 100 people including the brave, but even so, the brave are too strong and the elves are apparently unable to counter them.

　I heard that several castles have already fallen and several villages have been burned to the ground.

　After hearing the story, I decided to head out in a hurry anyway.

　Faracion is in the northern part of the human country. From the city of Mestos, where we were, it was in the northeast direction.

　The way to get there is to go east to the Valley of Death. If you go north from there, you'll find a bridge across the Valley of Death.

　Cross that bridge and walk in a northeasterly direction and you'll reach the Faracion.
　It's quite a long way to get there in a day, so we hurriedly finished our preparations and left the town.

　Then, after walking incessantly for three days, we arrived at a certain village of elves.

''This is........''
Oh, my God.

　I was too shocked to say a word.

　The village had been burned to the ground. Houses had been burned down and charred. Furthermore, the bodies of the elves were lying on the ground.

　The first time I saw the corpses alive, I was very upset. What is this, is this real?
　Was this the work of a brave man? It's definitely true.
　How can they do this when they are also from Japan, the same country as the earth? How far they are outcasts.

　I'm not sure how much anger is building up.

I can't allow that...

　Mek muttered, shaking with anger.
　After that, Meku checked for any survivors, but there was no one alive. Well, even if they hadn't killed everyone, they would have escaped in this devastation, so no one would be there.

I'd like to get there as soon as possible, but I don't know where they are. We'll go to King's Landing and get information!

　Meku said, trembling and struggling to control his anger. I thought that Mek had great mental strength, as he didn't forget himself in anger even after seeing such a scene.

　He then followed Mek to the royal capital.