Captain Tableau is standing up and bowing his head deeply to Mr. Druid and me.
âThatâs enough.â
âBut be pretty rude. Iâm so sorry.â
The red demon stone thing was to be handled well by Captain Tableau.
And the newly resurrected demon stone, Mr. Rose told me the story by asking me to give it to him.
So, I had a new cup of tea, and Captain Tableau stood up and bowed his head deeply to apologize.
âCaptain Tableau. I have already received your apology. Thank you.â
To my words, he finally sat me down in the chair with a slightly surprised look on his face.
âUm, can I ask you something?
Weâre going to steam back the story, but we need to be sure.
âWhat is it?
âHow could you have suspected it since we met today?
It was normal when I first greeted him.
Yet today was already suspected from the moment we met.
Which means that in the course of a few days, we did something we were suspected of.
So, whatâs that?
I want you to know not to do the same thing again.
âThere are covert rumors that Gilmouth, a commercial guild, is dyeing his hands in crime. Only me and a few people know it yet.â
âReally?
Mr. Rose is surprised you didnât know.
âUm, can I talk to you? To us who just met.â
Iâm worried that youâre going to talk to me about something so important.\n
âIvy, is that about you?
Mr. Rose stunned me for some reason.
âWhat?â
How could you?
Oh, could it be about Sola?
No, itâs more important to talk about Captain Tableau, isnât it?
âJust the question now tells me that Mr. Ivy and the others deserve credit. Besides, if youâre a bad person to offer such a high level demon stone to, weâre in good hands. I can do a lot of things with this magic stone.â
I wouldnât be offering it as a pong.
The offer is because we also get the right money.
And I wonder what I can do with one demon stone⌠though I canât think of anything.
âLetâs get back to it, this fellow here heard him talking to his people.â There is a traitor who switched ore to gold without permission. Find âem. â
A common betrayal in criminal organizations.
Or are you involved in a criminal organization again?
I was careful.
âSo I checked the commercial guild, and someone sold the expensive ore anonymously, so I went into the investigation. And thatâs where the Druids came up.â
âIn that ore, you were suspected.â
âI see.â
Talking to Mr. Druid for tea, Captain Tableau looks at this one with a strange look on his face.
âWhat, is that all?
âWhatâs that all about?
I donât know what that means. I tilt my neck with Mr. Druid.
âYou were looking into it without permission, werenât you?
âThatâs what the vigilante does, right? And itâs only natural to look into it without permission.â \nMr. Druid is also nodding when I say it.
âThatâs rightâŚâŚ haha, I look like an idiot Iâve been looking into you guysâ
âAhahahaha, that was a waste of time. By the way, Tableau, are you sure the ore Gilmouth was selling?
âAt that time, I decided that I would be sure, Priya.â
Mr. Pria?
âPrior is the Gilmouth of the Adventurer Alliance. Tableauâs childhood friend.â
Is it childhood friendly?
Is it like Mr. Druid and Mr. Gilmouth in All Towns?
Oh, but Mr. Rose had the kind of vibe he hated, didnât he?
âNow I think Iâve made a mistake. Itâs an excuse, but I think I missed the information I needed somewhere because Iâve been flustered about winter preparedness and I havenât slept long enough, and the information was complicated.â
Lack of sleep does make strange decisions, doesnât it?
Sometimes when the rain continued, I couldnât secure a place to sleep and kept walking, but when it lasted for two days, I was surrounded by strange exhilarations and my judgment had dropped.
⌠try to storm the residence without checking for demons, or you were in danger then ~.
âWith that said, what kind of ore did Ivy and the others sell?
âŚâŚâŚâŚ
Thatâs the ore you sold, right?
I look at Mr. Druid with the thought of telling the two of them.
He nodded at me with his usual gentle smile.
âItâs a cave that is home to the guardian god of the woods, and itâs the ore Ciel foundâ
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Is that it?
We both got hardened.
\nLooks like after all the problems overlapping, youâre supposed to be suspicious.
I guess that means it was a bad time.
âStill, thatâs all. Why did you suspect Mr. Druid and Ivy?
âMr. Ivyâs name is a littleâ
Me! Me!
âBecause Priya and I both remembered reading the name âIvyâ in a criminal material.â
That could be it.
âItâs an unusual name, and thereâs a little bit of stuff about it that I remembered. Itâs just that Mr. Ivy is still young, so I had my doubts. So I was going to see the two of you today. Yet before I got here, I was upset to hear that Gilmouthâs guy threatened me with a red demon stone. Iâm sorry, I bumped into you even though it didnât matter.â
I grew up a little, but I was told I was young.
Donât worry about how many people are watching you.
âI see, so did my judgment.â
âNot long ago, there would have been a large number of people who had lent a hand to a group of criminals, and no one, including me, noticed then. So I thought some people could fool my mother, and as soon as that⌠I wanted to pull away if there was a problem. Because my father told me that my mother rarely likes it.â
âYou were worried about Mr. Rose.â
Mr Druidâs words stain Mr Tableauâs face bright red.
Looking at Mr. Rose, this one was blushing too.
Seeing those two, I get a little embarrassed, so I take a sip of tea.
âLook, but donât stick with Ivy and the criminal organization on your own.â
âCriminal organization? Oh, no. Not that way, on the list of meritorious men.â
âA list of meritorious men?
Mr. Rose gives a surprised look.
âYep.â Tableau was still sure! The name Ivy is listed for merit! âMerit⌠â
Someone suddenly opened the store door and jumped in.