189-Chapter 12-8 Canon

'I would have preferred to stay in my room and relax...'

It can't be helped. It's only natural for a guild to want to hear from the person in charge.

Using the pretext of being sick, I asked Rion and three other noblemen and their escort (Chris-san) to report to the guild. But the head of the guild decided that in order to declare the situation an emergency, he needed to hear from me, who had fought in person, so he was called out in a hurry.

''Well, it's good that he provided me with a wheelchair but my butt is hurting, you know?''

As a guild, since you're calling me out for refusing to come to you because you said you weren't feeling well, it's only natural to arrange a carriage and prepare a wheelchair, but unlike the one in my previous life, the tires aren't rubber and there's no mechanism to absorb the impact, so I covered the seat and backrest with the demon's fur that was in the bag, but it only had a comforting effect There was none.

'This way....'

When I entered the guild and told the receptionist about my requirements, I was immediately escorted to the guild leader's room, but the receptionist who dealt with me was grumpy throughout. I don't know why, but as soon as I opened the guild's door and our eyes met, she gave me a look that said she saw something very unpleasant. However, that was the only place the receptionist was available, so I had no choice but to talk to the receptionist who looked uncomfortable.

''Guild leader, you're here.''

Thank you. Please, come in.

Hmm. I'm here, Yuri...　

The man who was called Yuri by my grandfather smiled and shook hands with my grandfather, followed by him holding out his hand to me.

''It's been a while,''

Yeah, what's it been, six years?

I hadn't seen Yuri-san since six years ago.......when Kukri village was attacked by a horde of zombies led by the dragon zombies, and he negotiated with me when I jumped into the guild to seek help.

'It was fine until we took a rescue team to Kukri village with us, but there were so many zombies that some adventurers started to panic. Fortunately, most of the zombies were just wandering around aimlessly, so no one was seriously injured. But when word of the existence of the dragon zombies spread, some of them tried to escape.

Most of the adventurers who tried to escape came to their senses due to the voices of their friends and acquaintances, but some escaped and were later punished.

''Guild leader, Temma isn't feeling well, so hurry up with your requirements.

'I'm sorry about this. Then, since Rion-sama has said so too, can I ask for your help as soon as possible?　And canon (...), you're going to stay here and keep the record.

Yes sir, Guild President.

The receptionist who had led us to this point reluctantly agreed to Yuri's instructions and sat down at a desk much further away from where we were sitting.

Albert and Cain seemed a bit disgusted by this attitude of the receptionist, but since Leon didn't say anything, they didn't seem to say anything.

Yuri raised his eyebrows at the receptionist, but he thought that Rich was the first to go, so he left the receptionist alone and began to talk.

''I see,'' she said, ''I think you dealt Rich a big blow, but it's not clear if you defeated him,'' and ''It's possible that there are Rich's friends or subordinates,'' according to Temma-kun and Merlin-sama.

Among the Rich that had been confirmed so far, there were individuals who were called 'King of the Dead Spirits' and so on, and controlled the demons of Andet as their subordinate. So this time Rich reported that there was a possibility that his subordinates might remain somewhere.

''This is information that I don't want to make too public...''

This is because the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a demon controlling Andet's men in the Haust frontier county territory is the 'Dragon Zombie'. Even back then, they released information about the appearance of the dragon zombies after it was confirmed that they had been defeated, but there was still a great deal of confusion, and a number of Russell City residents had left.

'About that, but I dare to let it slide this time.

When Yuri was troubled, Rion made it clear that he would release the information to the public.

The reason for this was that even if he hid the information, if he had sent personnel to investigate, there was a risk that the hidden information would be passed on from somewhere, and he wanted to announce that Rich had appeared in the name of the Frontier Count family, rather than the hidden information being passed on and lowering the trust of the Frontier Count family.

This is the exact opposite of what Cain expected, but even if there were to be people who would leave the frontier county because of the announcement, there is a high possibility that their reputation would be damaged in addition to the people who would leave if the hidden information was exposed, which is why Leon has decided to minimize the final damage. The most important thing is that he will have to send a letter to the frontier county to let them decide, so there is still a possibility that the decision will be as Cain had expected.

As for me, if we are thinking about the future, I think it's better to do what Leon says.

''Indeed, it might be easier to move afterwards if the danger is clearly disclosed rather than hiding it poorly. Rion, you can use my name then, you can use my name.

When releasing the information about Rich, I thought it would be more positive for the Frontier Count family if there was a sentence that said, 'I (Temma) defeated Rich, but there is still a slight chance that he may have survived,' so I gave my permission.

' "By asking the Count of the Frontier for permission, you mean that you will stay in Russell City until you hear back?

Well, I suppose so.

If Russell City had a courier like Ted, it might be possible to get to Shellhide and back in a few days, but a normal fast horse would take twice that long. So they would have to stay in Russell City for about two weeks.

''Snow I hope it doesn't come down.

Well.....

Thus, we were going to have an unscheduled stay in Russell City.

Why would I...

The day after the meeting with Yuri, during our stay in Russell City, the receptionist with a bad attitude who was appointed as the liaison and caretaker between us and the guild, was showing us around the city, complaining in a small voice from earlier.

'Temma, do you really not know anything about her?'

Cain came to visit me in a whisper as he pushed his wheelchair, but I had no idea what he was talking about. Yesterday, Cain and Albert were apparently angry at her attitude during the discussion with Yuri-san, but they apologized without me. The two of them accepted the apology, but they couldn't get to the bottom of why she was behaving badly. But what I found out was that I was the only person she disliked, and she seemed to change into a very amiable receptionist when I wasn't around, and she seemed to have a good reputation with the adventurers who responded to her.

''Cain I don't mean to say this myself, but I'm a man who keeps my relationships with people I'm not close to to to a minimum. I don't remember ever having a word with a half-elf woman in my life. In fact, I don't even remember seeing one.

'Well, I know Temma, unlike Rion, isn't the kind of person who would talk to a girl on her own but it's not something to be proud of, is it?

Well, that's true.

'But you didn't really pick up and fail, did you?　Is that why you don't like me?

'I think Albert's right. For example, even if he was jealous of the younger Temma-kun's activities, or even if Temma-kun succeeded in the request he tried to accept or failed to accept, the person who resents him will resent him... But from what I've heard of her usual reputation, I think that's unlikely.

Albert calmly expresses his opinion to Leon, who is chuckling. Then Chris, who was casually gathering information, joined me and Cain in our conversation.

While we were conversing, Grandpa was walking around the city with a nostalgic look on his face, and before I knew it, he was gone, and the other women were listening to our conversations even as they peeked into the shops and open air... especially at the 'pick-up' part that Rion mentioned. All three of them, except Leni, were giving me sharp looks.

''Hm?　Well guys, Kanon-san is waiting for you.

Kanon-san stopped a little further on, probably noticing that we were running late.

'Hey, Temma-kun. Is that boy shaking?

I guess so.

Maybe Leon was so vulgar that he got scared.

Hey!

I don't think I have the character for that, do you?

As I headed over, talking in a whisper, Kanon-san was mumbling something to me. As I approached in front of him.

'I don't remember... after all the horrible things you did to me...'

Kanon-san's muttering was getting a little louder, as if she hadn't noticed us in front of her.

'Temma you nah, what did you do?'

I didn't do anything!

I couldn't help but react to Leon's words and deny them out loud. And those words seemed to be a switch.

'I didn't do anything!　I can't believe you don't remember me after what happened to me!　f*ck off!

Stop!

Kanon-san, who had packed up to me, flew away from me in a position where he could reach me in one step afterwards and was tackled by Amur from the side.

''Whee~ good job.''

They flew together and together they ran into a store that was lined with fruits and vegetables. And only Amur got up and gave a nice smile and a thumbs up. It's been a long time since I've seen something so typical of Amur, but I wondered what that behavior was like from Leni's point of view, but Leni also gave a nice smile and a thumbs up.

'I'm sorry, shopkeeper. That's the way I am. And by the way, that's the kind of guy I am, and I'll buy everything that's broken and lined up in the storefront, so you can keep it that way.

Albert immediately went to the shop they had rushed into and talked to the man who appeared to be the manager. What he showed the man seemed to be the crests of the Duke of Sangha and the Haust Frontier Count family, and the man nodded repeatedly with a surprised expression on his face.

''Temma, the transgressor has been avenged!　And put Shiroumaru out.

The uninjured Amour carried the unconscious Kanon-san on his shoulder and came to report to me.

''Oh thank you, Amur. Shiroumaru, you can come out now. Ah!　I'm sorry, but Solomon's on standby.

Woff!

Solomon was about to come out after Shiroumaru, but I didn't know how the unaccustomed people of Russell City would react if a dragon suddenly appeared in the city, so I decided to make them wait in the dimension bag just like before. Well, some people screamed in surprise at the sudden appearance of Shiroumaru, but it wasn't until I immediately informed the people around me that he was my consort and a safe demon that they became confused.

''Shiroumaru, get down!''

Amur made Shiroumaru get down and started to put Kanon-san on his back and tie him up with a string to keep him from falling off.

'Temma, let's go to the guild.'

''Well it sounds like you should talk to Yuri-san.

I would have to talk to my boss, the head of the guild (Yuri-san), to ask him why Kanon-san had gone out of control. Everyone nodded at my idea and turned to the guild.

''Well, okay.''

The details will be different, but if you can find the general path, you'll be able to get back to the inn, and you won't have to go looking for it, since they might ask the townspeople and come directly to the guild.

'What's wrong, Temma?'

After replying to Cain, who was pushing a wheelchair, that it was nothing, I told the receptionist to get Yuri to come over.

I was very surprised at the reception desk because I kept Kanon-san strapped to Shiroumaru's back from the place where the commotion occurred, but at the same time, I heard voices like "I knew it..." from the staff and adventurers, so I let them meet me. I think he had a premonition that this was going to happen.

'Hahaha...'

As soon as I entered the guild leader's office, I looked at Yuri-san in front of me and asked him to talk about Kanon-san. I'm sitting in a wheelchair, looking up slightly at Yuri-san, who is sitting in a chair, but behind me are three idiots waiting for me, beside them is Chris-san, and further behind them is Amur, who has his bird feathers pointed at the soles of Kanon-san's feet, which are tucked into Shiroumaru's back.

'Guild leader, what is this receptionist's attitude towards Temma?　The Guild of Russell City........or rather, Russell City should owe Temma a great deal of debt and debt of gratitude. I don't want to do it too much, but I'm thinking of using my authority to have the entire guild bear the punishment they deserve if this continues.

Rion seemed to be thinking of even punishing the other staff members as a joint and several responsibility, showing a different and more severe side of him than usual. Well, if word got out that the guild staff treated the adventurers who had killed (and defeated) the dangerous demons hiding in the frontier county on their way back from receiving the request of the frontier county family, not only did the guild staff treat them wickedly, but also tried to harm them (an action that seemed to have been done), then the economy of the frontier county, which was getting back to normal, might go down again.

''........Then shall I tell you why she has such an attitude, to the best of my knowledge?　It's going to be a little long.

Yuri-san began to talk about why Kanon-san was only overreacting to me, as if to remind me of why she was overreacting to me.

And in conclusion, it turned out that it was Kanon-san's recrimination.......but I also felt some sympathy for her.

'I didn't think there was such a connection between Temma and her in the past...'

'Her attitude is unacceptable, but if you do that and then tell me you don't remember it, I might as well be pissed off.

But you know what? It wasn't Temma who did it, it was Solomon....　I don't blame you for not remembering it.

Either way, it's her fault for not impressing Mr. Temma.

'Mm, Chris is right!　Temma's not bad.

'Yes. I'm sympathetic to what happened after that, but it's not right to hold a grudge against Temma-san.

Everyone's opinion was this. Jeanne and Aura didn't say anything, but the women's team's conclusions were harsh, and the men's team had a slightly higher level of sympathy.

'That being said, I do remember that... what was the team called (...)?'

'Roen Glynn,'

Behind me, he said, "You say you remember it, but you don't! I heard a voice say, "I'm sorry," but soon after, the owner of the voice was quieted by attacks from both sides, so I ignored it and proceeded to talk with Yuri.

''Kanon was an archer in 'Lowen Glynn' and clashed with 'Oration' in the main battle in the team match of the martial arts competition and lost badly.

Kanon-san was the player who fought in the first martial arts tournament I ever participated in, in a team fight, and was taken into the sky by Solomon with his legs and dropped from above. The way he lost at that time was so traumatic that for a time he was unable to demonstrate his abilities against lizard demons that resembled dragons or demons that flew like birds. Nowadays, he said that things have improved quite a bit, but in the meantime, the party had disbanded and he had been invited by Yuri to work for the guild.

''Moreover, both Kanon and members of the same team had lost to Tenma-kun in the individual qualifying round.

All of the members of "Lowen Glynn" had also competed in the individual competition, and to my surprise, three members of the same group as me, including Kanon-san, were in the qualifying round. It was quite a fortunate event, and all of the members were happy that if they worked together, at least one of them would be able to make it, and maybe even two. However, that joy was short-lived, as the other members were also eliminated in the qualifying round due to my magic, and the individual competition for "Roen Grin" was over.

As a result, the other members of the team were also eliminated from the preliminary round, so the "Roen Glynn" was disbanded and not even given a chance to stand on the same stage as Tenma, as if to mock Kanon's enthusiasm for the next one.

Mwah!　

The reason why they broke up was that they were all too eager to get revenge on me, and it seems that they all started to get crappy on a daily basis. The gap between them exploded with the loss of the second tournament, and they broke up in a fight less than a month after the tournament.

'Still, it's not Temma's fault, is it?

Mmm....

Yuri-san nodded in response to Leon's question.

''Yes, it's completely counter-intuitive.

Hmmmm....

Kanon-san is Yuri's niece, and she wants to do something about the current situation where she is disturbed by the mere mention of me in her daily life, or hearing a word close to 'Temma'. So, she saw my coming to Russell City as an opportunity to come to Russell City and made me be our caretaker, hoping that my contact with her would improve things... but it backfired on her.

'Hm!'

Amur, you've been bothering me!

Chris cautioned Amour, who had been making a lot of strange noises during the conversation earlier.

'Temma. Kanon, you're pretending to be asleep.

With those words, everyone looked at Kanon-san in unison, but he was still in the same position he was in when he was brought here, not moving slightly.

'No, you're still unconscious, right?

'It could be dangerous for you to still be unconscious so I'm going to find out for sure now. Here it is!

Amur held high the bird feathers in his hand from earlier. So what to do with it?

Ticktock, ticktock, ticktock...

As originally planned, Amour began to tickle the soles of Kanon's feet. And a few seconds after Amour began tickling him.

Whew!

Mr. Kanon couldn't stand it anymore. But Amur didn't rest his hand on his wings.

''Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Kanon-san's voice, which couldn't speak properly, gradually sounded more and more s*xy.

''Hey, Amur.......Isn't it about time you forgave me?''

Hmm?

Of all of us (.........), Rion, who was the reddest of us (......), said that to Amur, but Amur kept moving his wings while pretending to be distressed.

''Oh, I apologize!　I'm sorry, forgive me!

Amur, that's enough.

"If Temma says so,

At the point where I thought it was too much of a quirk, I told Amur, and he stopped tickling me... but...

Hey.

Shiroumaru, who didn't want to be lashing out at his back, shook his body and tried to shake Mr. Kanon off. However, Kanon-san was wedged in tightly, so she didn't leave, and instead Kanon-san's foot hit Amur's face.

''Mmm...''

Amur held his wings in his hands in an attempt to fight back, but before he could do so, Leni stepped between them and freed Ms. Kanon from Shiroumaru's back.

With Kanon-san off his back and lighter, Shiroumaru, after shaking his body tremendously, fled to the dimension bag where Slarin and the others were waiting.

'Kanon, by 'apologizing' as I said earlier, you're sure it was for your previous attitude towards Temma-kun, right?'

''...Yes. My attitude until now was out of resentment. From now on, I will change........

With everyone's eyes on her, Kanon-san, sitting on the ground, bowed her head in acknowledgement of what Yuri-san had said.

''But isn't an apology alone a bit light?　Even though no real harm was done, he held a grudge so much that he tried to grab onto it, and you can't make the grudge go away just by being told, can you?

Cain and Chris-san nodded to Albert's question. The three of them knew about the interactions between the nobles, so they probably couldn't trust them to just talk. Rion........seems to be unfamiliar with such things, and maybe he hasn't thought much about such things before. That's probably why Albert and Cain had such a hard time.

'That's why I apologize in front of the three of you. If Kanon does something that would cause him to flip out on this, he can take the blame for it and drop you into Temma-san's slavery.

Since he admitted his fault and apologized in front of Albert, Cain, and Rion, it seems that if he does the same thing next time, Kanon-san, who crushed the face of the nobles (the three of them), would have no choice but to be dropped to the status of a slave, but

But I don't see any slaves in Temma.

'Yes. Temma's slaves are treated too well, as you can see from those two.

When Cain pointed to Jeanne and Aura, they nodded in affirmation.

'If you're going to drop them into slavery, I'll introduce you to a slave trader we can trust. But I don't know where we'll go from there.''

'Yes. 'Well, he's got a good face, so I'm sure he'll find a buyer soon. The only thing that we don't know about is how that buyer will handle it.

It seemed as if something black was pouring out of both Albert and Cain. Kanon-san's face turned so pale that we were worried about her as she listened to the two of them. And behind us, Jeanne and Aura were also pale, though not as pale as Kanon-san, as if they had imagined the future they might have become.

Yuri-san thought she had gotten a little too carried away with her aristocratic counterpart, but she couldn't get her next words out. Chris-san and the women also judged that Yuri-san had a problem with her statement, or maybe they just watched, and I also couldn't interrupt her poorly because of the statement, 'To my slave', in the course of the conversation.

' "Don't you have to go that far?

As the room was dominated by a bad atmosphere, Rion stepped between him and Yuri in his usual tone.

'Well, if you're going to apologize in the form of having us as witnesses and still harm Temma, I think you need to be punished accordingly, but you don't have to sell us out to the slavers, right?　For example, I suppose you could leave her with your mother, educate her, and have her do menial work for the Order.

'Well, if you're saying that Rion is responsible for being a frontier county, then we need say no more.

Yes.

They withdrew so easily that I wondered what they had said earlier.

''For me, it's a relief to know that Rion-sama will take responsibility for taking care of the canon if it happens.

Yuri-san was also in such a light mood that I wondered what the tension we had just had was.

While questioning the three of us who were acting strangely, we dismissed the conversation as over, and left the guild, but on the way home, we found

'Rion, you've created a weird atmosphere by not getting into the conversation earlier!

''Right. I just wanted you to be Leon as usual and not shut up in the air just for a moment like this...

Wait a minute!

Let's just leave that no-good man Leon alone and go back to the inn.

Leaving a stunned Leon behind, Cain pushed me in my wheelchair and headed for the inn.