The depressed Vibrio was sitting in the corner of her room when Hillis forced her out of the temple. Hillis’s paladin escorts wore casual clothes so they wouldn’t stand out and could guard her in secret.

"Unni! It's a nice day, isn't it?”

Hillis smiled brightly, but Vibrio lifelessly smiled and nodded. "That's right."

Vibrio's lifeless smile bothered her, but Hillis tried to ignore it and held Vibrio's hand. "I heard there's a market over there? It's my first time in the capital, so can you show me around?”

Vibrio tried to reason with Hillis, who was dragging her in the direction of the market. "Go slow. If you fall, Albatoss will come running in panic.”

"Hehe, really?" Hillis stuck out her tongue and smiled, and Vibrio stroked her head.

* * *

"Huha! This is hard!" Flam sat next to me with an exhausted sigh.

"Did something happen over there?”

Flam was located at training hall seven of the low-rank knight school. Our duties were to distribute the number tickets and some items to the preliminary round participants, as well as crowd control. So, he and I should have had very similar work.

"It was because...