episode_0072

As I took a deep breath, I felt the fresh air filling my lungs.

No matter how unindustrialized a place is, a place where people live is a place where people live. It was not easy to feel the refreshing air of an early morning forest in the middle of the royal road.

In many ways, this is obvious, but the only place where you could feel the forest was a real forest.

“Awww!”

I took a deep breath and let it out with a sound.

The wolves have very bright ears, so they could hear me well even from a little distance away. In fact, no matter how hard I tried to imitate the wolf sounds, it was impossible to make sounds like real wolves, so picking up their characteristics was a simple task for the wolves. It will be one day.

Oooooh—

I heard the same wolf howling in the distance. The distance seemed a bit far, so I waited for a moment and put the bag I was carrying on my shoulder at my feet.

The floor rang loudly.

Still, seeing as it doesn’t ring as loudly as it did in the middle of winter, I guess it’s time for the ground to slowly thaw.

A warning was issued not to climb on the ice on the lake near the royal capital. This was because the ice was slowly melting and it was clear that people would not be able to withstand the weight if they climbed on it.

Spring has come to this northern country too.

“… … .”

Spring had never come to Delki City. It was not far from Gratton Mount Territory, but spring, which came to Gratton Mount Territory, did not come to Delki City.

There must be some magical reason. I’ll have to ask the Magic Tower owner about that reason later when I meet him.

10 years is by no means a short time. To put it in perspective, the time I spent next to Amelia was longer than the time I lived in Delki City.

Someday, when I return to Del Kish, will I be able to see that spring has come to my hometown?

As I was unpacking my bag and thinking about this, I heard panting from afar.

Mon, mon! I heard a dog barking vigorously.

In reality, it was a wolf that was barking, and the sound was much louder than that of a normal dog, so people who saw it for the first time would have been frightened—

“Gray!”

Amelia, who had a bright smile on her face, did not seem overly scared.

Gray passed right by me and rushed at Amelia.

Wow!

Amelia, who fell to the floor because of Gray, patted Gray’s head diligently.

“Oh, wait, Gray, stop! It tickles!”

Even as he said that, he didn’t throw away Gray who was licking his face passionately.

The reason I intentionally didn’t put any makeup on my face when I was getting ready to go out this morning was probably because I was excited to play with Gray. Gray wouldn’t have a stomach ache just because I licked a little makeup, but Amelia was strangely worried about that.

Seeing that he cared for Pori so much, it seemed like he liked all animals in general.

Ahahaha, Amelia laughed as if she was truly happy for the first time in a long time.

It’s nice to see that, but—

Gray, aren’t you licking me too much?

I know very well that this is how wolves show affection to humans, and I also knew that other dogs, not just Gray, lick their owners or close friends eagerly, but still, seeing them do that makes me feel a bit.

Every time I touch Amelia’s body, I have to give a reason or another to make it less awkward.

I feel like a blessed person.

As I was looking at Gray and Amelia with sullen expressions, I felt someone tapping my shoulder.

When I turned my head, I saw Snow’s face.

Eyes as red and clear as rubies were looking at me. Snow, who had been sniffing my scent, opened his mouth and

“Ugh.”

Before I could avoid it, it licked my face.

Even though I haven’t seen you in a long time, I still smell like a dog.

Snow, who was playing with the corona by poking it a few times, soon turned his nose towards my room.

Yes, you are saying that properly slaughtered meat is delicious, right?

When I looked around, I saw a group of Snow and Gray approaching us as if they were surrounding us. It was a bloody sight that would make anyone who saw it for the first time, like Amelia, collapse on the floor in fear.

“Ah, Gray!”

As soon as I took out a large piece of meat from the open bag, Gray’s face, who had been playing with Amelia, turned towards me.

Yes, if it’s a wolf, it should be like this.

I grinned and threw the piece of meat I was holding upwards.

Snow and Gray jumped up towards the meat at the same time.

*

There was a reason why Amelia followed me to places I usually go alone.

“I want you to find the information guild.”

Amelia said that to me last night.

An information guild is, in modern terms, a place like an ‘errand center.’ In reality, there are places that often do illegal things—that is, things that a crime report agency might do, and so it is in this world.

Rather, the legal system is not as tight as it is in modern times, and it is not a world where personal information is written down in the form of documents, so the influence of information guilds that ‘make reports’ and submit such information in this world can be said to be much stronger than that of an errand center. there is.

Moreover, as you can see from the form of ‘guild’, its scale is bigger than you think. If a competitor arises, it absorbs them all or ruins them somehow, so in a sense, it fits the original meaning of ‘guild’.

In the ‘original work’, Adele was unable to find the headquarters of the information guild in the royal capital, but eventually came up with the idea that it was located ‘outside’ rather than ‘inside’ the royal capital. However, before conveying such an idea to the crown prince, Adele believed that Amelia was there. You will continue to suffer damage from things done using the information guild… … It was in a novel I was reading.

In the novel I read, even though Amelia knew her true identity, people from the information guild did not approach Amelia. Since they were an ‘information’ guild, they gathered ‘information’ and figured out that Amelia was living a much cleaner and more knowledgeable life than expected. am.

So, even though Amelia knew its identity, she was unable to deal with the guild in the beginning. She thought that if she even leaked the fact that she ‘knew’ to others, she would be treated as a villain like Amelia in the original work.

But it’s different now.

Because I know the ‘original work’.

Of course, the original work I know was a ‘simplified’ version of what was described in the novel.

It was okay because I at least knew enough to sympathize with Amelia’s words and find a solution together.

“The information guild will be in this forest.”

In the original work, it was closest to the royal capital, not inside the royal capital, but at the same time, it was in a large forest. The problem is that all we know is that it is ‘in the forest.’

It seems that even in the original work that revealed the location of the information guild headquarters, no further description was provided.

If it were an old, authentic high fantasy novel, there would have been a world map, but usually web novels do not provide that much information, so we have no choice but to go out and find the information guild ourselves.

If not, I’ll have to get someone else to do it.

“So, you’re trying to use my wolves to go after him.”

In the original, the Crown Prince sent a ‘person’ to find it, but for us now, there is no need to do that.

Because there were huge wolves that could roam tens of kilometers a day.

This was the reason why Amelia came all the way from the royal capital to here, holding on to my waist while I was riding a horse.

“Okay, everyone gather here and sit down.”

At my words, all fourteen wolves came and sat down.

The wolves were over 2 meters tall at the shoulder, so their height when they were sitting was also enormous.

Still, everyone gathered together without missing a single one. Seeing that they were obedient and listened to what I said, it seemed like they still regarded me as the leader.

I was afraid that a hunter walking in the forest might try to hunt me.

“Hmm… … .”

But, now that I’ve collected it all, I don’t know what to say.

At the very least, if there was even a piece of clothing worn by a member of the intelligence guild, they would have made him smell it and look for it.

Even though he listened to me well in the first place, I didn’t know how much he would understand me.

“Have you ever seen people walking around in the forest?”

When I asked that just in case, Gray tilted his head.

I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t understand what they’re saying or because I’ve never seen people like that before.

“I’ll try.”

When I moved aside at Amelia’s words, she came over to where I was standing and cleared her throat.

Then, he rummaged through the small bag on his side and took out a piece of paper.

… … There was a very sloppily drawn picture on the paper.

It was a picture of a person dressed in black from top to bottom, who looked like a ninja no matter how you looked at it.

“Find someone who dresses like this.”

… … .

uh… … .

Well, I’m a little sorry.

Can you recognize me from that?