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warrior party.

It is a dream-like existence that is admired by everyone living in the kingdom.

Protect justice and defeat the devil with strong and trustworthy companions.

Their stories remain in history and are read even by children.

Children fight with wooden swords and play warriors.

My friends and I fight over who will play the role of the devil, and there is also a girl who plays the role of a saint.

Thanks to the hero, the kingdom becomes safe from the devil and maintains peace… … .

It was a really good story.

Until you find out the truth about it all… … .

“Hero Party… … Is it? It seems like it’s been a while since I heard something.”

Kubel’s Adventurer’s Guild.

Sylphy said with a strange look on her face when she heard that they were gathering a party of heroes.

Well, that’s justifiable.

After the kingdom became a mess, people must have lost the time to think about the warrior.

“How about Sylphy?”

“If I can follow my senior, of course I want to go! Can I become one too?”

“What… That’s right.”

Although it is not the great and admirable hero party that remains in people’s minds.

In fact, if you had the ability, there was no need to form a party of warriors and it was okay to be alone.

The reason for creating a hero party now is not really to get help in subduing the demon lord.

The priority was to be seen as a ‘believable warrior party’ to everyone in the kingdom, including people from other cities.

It would be nice if I could get help in subduing the demon lord… … It was a strange reason.

『Just as Yunoa thought, there was no point in being a hero party now.

However, the reason Edward asked Yunoa to form a warrior party was because of people’s attention.

The City Alliance was able to unite with the goal of helping the warriors and working together to overcome the crisis caused by the Demon King.

Therefore, the more the new hero, Yunoa, looked like a hero, the stronger the solidarity of the city union.』

The narration summarized what I was roughly thinking at once.

Looking at it like this, it seems like a burdensome situation.

Are you saying that virtually every city in the kingdom is watching my movements?

Just because you don’t have a party doesn’t mean the hero becomes a dragon.

Anyway, the first companion in the hero party was Sylphy.

I can’t see Mileia for some reason, so maybe Mariel is next… … .

I immediately walked towards Mariel’s mansion.

* * *

“What, what, what, what! Hero party?!”

“Why are you so surprised?”

“Aren’t you asking this genius magic researcher Mariel to take on the role of a wizard for the hero’s party!”

Mariel’s laboratory.

As soon as I knocked and went inside and mentioned the story of the warrior party, there was a violent reaction.

“We haven’t talked about it that far yet. I’m just collecting… … .”

“Ugh! But Mariel, there is a mountain of work to do! Unfortunately, there is so much to research! And who will manage this mansion without me?”

It certainly was.

If you recruit Mariel to the hero’s party and take her to the demon world, there will be no one to manage the mansion.

Of course, there is also Saint Selena and Goddess Stellania… … .

Rather than leaving it to those two, it would be better to leave it to Mirabel, the former demon shelter director who was transformed into a demon.

However, given Mariel’s personality, it seemed unlikely that she would want to leave her mansion to someone else while she was away.

There are quite a few dangerous things she left behind in this mansion, doing all sorts of strange things.

Well, it can’t be helped… … If the situation was not favorable, there was no need to force recruitment.

Anyway, we are trying to form a warrior party, not because we really need it.

“Then that won’t work. I understand.”

The moment I turned around and was about to leave the mansion to look for Mileia, Mariel shouted.

“Sleep! Just wait a moment! Don’t you have to listen to what people say to the end?”

“Yes?”

“Although it is difficult for me to go there myself, my ‘Guardian No. 7’ is enough to become a member of the warrior party… … .”

“I refuse.”

When did that can expand to number 7?

Currently, the ‘guardians’ she created were walking around Mariel’s mansion, standing guard.

It was better than the tin can that fell and broke when I first saw it, but its performance was still poor.

Don’t try to add such strange things to the hero’s party.

In the first place, we are recruiting parties to manage our image as ‘warriors’, but what will people think if something like that is involved?

“Ugh… Aren’t you too quick to reject it?”

I left Mariel behind, who was trying to add Guardian No. 7 to the warrior party, and left the mansion in search of the next person.

* * *

“Sylphy, what do people usually think of as a hero’s party?”

“Yes? Umm… I don’t know.”

“Just looking at it, it looks like a trustworthy warrior party! To feel that way.”

“I’ve never actually seen it, but considering it appears in many stories… … .”

Sylphy explained what she knew about the ideal hero party.

A truly standard adventurer party consisting of about 5 people, including a hero.

A warrior, an agile person, a strong person, a wizard, a healer… … .

However, since the saints of this world are far from fighting, there are actually two wizards.

This is something that would never be possible using people I know.

Well, there’s no particular need to match that configuration.

I just wanted to know what stereotypes people in this world think of as a ‘hero party’.

“By the way, can’t you see Mr. Milleia?”

Actually, I’ve been looking for it ever since.

Normally, since he is helping with security activities around Kubel, it would be worth seeing him at least once.

I wonder if he went off to do something big on his own again.

* * *

The mayor’s residence is now the center of the city union.

Edward delivered various instructions and opinions to the envoys dispatched from each city.

The envoys shared Edward’s proposals with their cities and reviewed them.

Every day, the mayor’s office was busy stabilizing the kingdom and preparing countermeasures against the Demon King’s army.

And today Mileia was there too.

“Mr. Milleia, please. You are the only one who can eliminate the remnants of Fifnell’s rebels with minimal resource consumption.”

“No… … I am… … .”

Edward was asking Millia for a favor.

It is nothing other than a request to restore public order in Pipnell, where the remnants of the rebels are still running rampant.

Even after a large number of refugees had moved to Kubel, the kingdom’s capital, Pipnell, was still full of remnants of the rebels.

Because of the terrible events that the former rebel king, Lotus, and his associates experienced in the palace, none of the rebel remnants attempted to take Fifnel’s reign. Instead, they became robbers, plundering and harassing the remaining people of Pipnel.

Like other cities, there is no one to rule the city, the population has decreased, and remnants of the rebels roam the streets.

With the fall of the royal family, its function as a capital city was virtually lost, but Edward thought that Fifnel should not be left like this.

So, we gathered troops through the city alliance and created a kingdom army to send to Pipnel.

The goal is to clean up the remnants of the rebels and stabilize Pipnel, which has become a lawless area.

And he wanted to entrust the command of the kingdom’s army to restore peace in Pipnel to Mileia.

“I think we should do it before it’s too late. When the Demon King’s army begins to move, Mr. Mileia’s power will be needed again. Until Yunoa succeeds in forming a party of heroes and defeating the Demon King, the kingdom must utilize its available resources as efficiently as possible to quickly resolve what can be resolved.”

“… … .”

“There will be no problem with Kubel’s security activities even if Mr. Milleia is away. Why not?”

Edward earnestly asked Mileia, who was standing with an expressionless expression.

It wouldn’t have been easy for a normal person to ask for something like this, being overwhelmed by her aura, but Edward didn’t give up.

“… … You have to ask.”

“Yes?”

“You have to ask Yunoa’s opinion.”

Mileia said to Edward.

The reason she is currently helping with Kubel’s security activities is to prevent the monsters near Kubel from causing trouble and interfering with Yunoa, who has become a new hero.

But restoring peace in Pipnel was different.

Mileia could not accept such a thing without consulting Yunoa.

Even when I couldn’t bear it anymore and went to have a reckless match with Bloodstain, that was still on my mind.

“Is that so…? … .”

Edward looked at the door behind Mileia with a thoughtful face.

After a while, the door opened and someone came inside.

“… … !”

“Someone came to ask a question.”

The person who opened the door and came in was none other than Yunoa.

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