Although it was late summer, the wind was quite cold at night in this barely northern region of Nolan Gals. In the warehouse where there are many gaps, and he is still sleeping on a bed made of straw, his belly is exposed, and the probability of a mild illness is not low. And, tomorrow, August 28, the year 378 of the human calendar, the two of them will face the greatest difficulty of their trip so far.

I've been working on this farm all summer and getting paid a lot of money, so at least today I should go to the hotel and get some rest. I wanted to say this to them many times, but direct contact with them was not allowed. While anxiously guarding them, the two slept in the humble warehouse as usual.

- As a result, this is the embarrassment.

…… No way. This level of interference will be allowed by the 'master', it must be.

On the high beam, the right wrist waved lightly. Singing quietly, a little green light appeared in front of the fingers, and a 'wind element' was generated. It was carefully induced to fall, and soon it descended to the side of the black-haired boy, penetrated about thirty centimeters below the dry straw, and then gently 'liberated'.

The breeze that gave birth rolled up a handful of straw and fell on the boy's exposed belly. Although it is a little insufficient as a blanket, it can still shield the wind from the gap. He put his hand down and watched the two of them, who were not aware of it at all, continue to sleep peacefully, and think a little about their actions just now.

The Mandate of Heaven was frozen forever, and the Demon Envoy as the 'master' had taken on many similar tasks in the past two hundred years. However, in the case of those who are interested in the above feelings of the subject being observed, such memories are not. No, even the most fundamental 'emotional' functions did not exist from the beginning. If you want to ask why, it's because this body is not as a human world...... Or the physical body possessed by the main character's human unit.

It was just a matter of predicting that the boy would catch a cold before the major trial, so why didn't he ignore it, but even interfered with the use of the technique. Rather, the fact that he had health problems, failed the trial, and had to return to his hometown would bring this long observation mission to an end, and he would be able to return to the corner of the bookshelf of the big library that he missed.

Other words...... Rather than being able to go home, do you want to continue your journey with them? It can't be, it's not scientific. Isn't this that I was infected by the irregularity of the two?

Forget it, don't think about it anymore. This is not part of the mandate. The only thing to do is to wait and see. Follow them, the flaxen-haired teenager Yugeo, and the black-haired boy Yi Yan to the same place.

On the beams, reduce the size of the body to a minimum of five millimeters, and then jump down. At this size, even if you don't use a technique, the drop of Heavenly Destiny will not be reduced. After landing silently on a dry straw, he moved his thin legs smoothly and dived into the long black hair of a young man named Yi Yan, who had been in his old position.

Holding a few hairs of the same color as oneself and fixing oneself, again, unexplained feelings filled the tiny body. Peace, calmness, peace of mind, what's chirping in the depths of these feelings...... I can't figure out why I feel this way.

- Really, incredible kids. Thinking like this again, he closed his eyelids and fell into a light sleep.

………

The next day, the last day of August, the weather was very nice from the morning.

Yi Yan, who stretched his waist and opened his eyes, looked at the dry straw covering his body, and picked up one of them in surprise, but soon Yi Yan sat up. This shaking made someone's consciousness completely sober, and he also stretched his waist in Yi Yan's hair.

It moves smoothly at the root of the black hair and stops at the position where the front hair is slightly advanced. That's it, old location during the day. Yi Yan has a habit of occasionally making a commotion, so he should pay attention to it when the time comes. The Mandate of Heaven is frozen, but that's only for the body's own aging, and if the body is injured, the Mandate of Heaven will still be reduced accordingly, but the general small impact is not a problem.

Unaware of the fact that there was a grain of wheat lurking in his hair, the observer slid down the straw hill and reached for his partner's shoulder, who was lying on his side.

"Oh Yugeo, get up, it's morning" The boy who was shaken a little roughly, his eyelashes, the same color as his hair, shook slightly, and slowly lifted up. The dark green pupils shone with a trance-like light, and after a while, after blinking his eyes forcefully, they turned into a wry smile.

“…… Good morning, Yi Yan, it's still the same, I only get up early on the day of something! ”

"It's better than the other way around. Hurry up, get up, finish your morning's work, and do the exercises before breakfast. I'm still a little worried about the seventh action! ”

"So, ah, I said a long time ago, not only the simulation battle, but also the type of practice should be done well... I can't believe that I was still in a hurry all night on the day of the conference...... No, it's morning, the wrong word. Amount......"

"It doesn't matter if you're in a hurry, or it's a complete rush, that's the only time for this kind of performance anyway!" While saying lines of unknown meaning, he dragged Yugeo down, and Yi Yan picked up the dry straw that had just been made on the bed with both wrists and put it in the big wooden barrel next to the wall. Easily picked up the full barrel and walked towards the door.

As soon as he walked out of the warehouse, the rising sun shot into both eyes. Step back slightly and hide in the shadow of your black hair. Is it because I have lived in the corner of a large dark library for a long time, and I am a little uncomfortable with the sun. However, Yi Yan was in a happy mood and inhaled the morning fog, and did not deliberately say it to anyone.

"It's a little cold in the morning, but fortunately I didn't catch a cold on an important day, which is good!" It's really, you're so embarrassed to say it, I'm so speechless to you. When I was thinking about the next time I showed my belly, I didn't care about it.,The chased Eugeo answered on his behalf.。

"Almost, it's going to be hard to sleep on the straw in the warehouse like this. Why don't you start tomorrow and pay for the room and go to sleep in a formal room? ”

"No, there's no need for that!" With a wicked smile on his face—of course, the host's expression was not visible from the root of the previous hair, but it could be surmised that it should be a face full of mischievous smirks—he said without fear, "After all, we're going to live in Zakaria's guard quarters starting tonight!" ”

“…… Where does this confidence come from, I really want you to teach me too......" Really, shaking his head helplessly, Yugeo also held the barrel that was as full as Yi Yan.

Although the expressions of the two of them were very relaxed, even if it was dry straw, it was a large wooden barrel with a diameter of one meter, which should be quite heavy. The average person of his generation would not be able to walk twenty steps even if he could afford to hold such a heavy barrel.

The two of them have medium-thin physiques, why don't they have a drop of sweat on their foreheads. The reason is that the Object· Control privileges are unusually high. So high that even the unpretentious sword that stood against the wall of the warehouse, the Class 45 'artifact' class object, could swing it as he pleased.

Why, then, do two ordinary youths born in a border village hold such high authority. This reason, after half a year from the beginning of the observation to the present, has not been figured out.

This is a privilege value that can never be reached by training or point-to-point competitions. It's still possible to fight against high-class beasts, but the amount of hunt needed can make the beasts around the village extinct for a while. In short, the vocation is not a hunter, and then the number of beasts hunted exceeds the limit, which is a double violation of the taboo catalog. Even Yi Yan, who is full of action, can't do such a thing, and it goes without saying that for the honest Ugeo.

The only remaining possibilities are the enemy whose permission rise rate is completely incomparable...... That is, to fight and win against the invaders from the Dark Territory. However, this is an impossible event in another sense. I can't imagine how the two of them, who are not guards, can deal with the terrifying army of darkness. After all, for the Dark Knights and Goblin Scouts who come on a regular basis, the Knights of Integration sent from Santoria, the central capital, should have all repelled them on the outer side of the Final Mountains.

Suppose that even if an unexpected enemy were to invade the village where Yi Yan lived...... In fact, this situation is even more serious than the abnormal rise in authority of the two. Because, this may be the precursor. It is the one who is bound to come, but who is convinced that it is still a matter of the future, the 'hour of prophecy'......

While thinking like this in the shadow of the black hair, the two young men had carried the full load of straw to the adjacent stable, and filled the bait buckets of the ten horses. The bodies of these fast-eating horses were washed one by one with a brush. This job is the first job that Yi Yan and Yugeo have in the morning who temporarily live in the Urud farm on the outskirts of Zacharia.

The work lasted only five months, and the duo continued to scrub it in a way that would have led one to think that this should not be the proper job of a horse breeder. By the time they had finished brushing the last one, the horses had just finished gnawing away the dry straw.

After that, from the church of Zakaria, about three kilometers away, the bell rang at seven o'clock in the morning. These artificial clocks, made by the Congregational Church in Yangdu and equipped in every village, have the property of being able to transmit sound almost undiminished within a radius of ten kilometers, but barely audible from ten kilometers away. This nature is a psychological obstacle for the spontaneous long-distance movement of the human unit, but it has no effect on Yi Yan.

The two washed their hands in the bucket, and the large horse hung a nail from the pillar with a brush, and each walked out of the stable with the empty bucket in his right hand. At this moment, as if waiting for this moment, a vigorous greeting sounded.

"Good morning, Yi Yan, Ugeo~!" "The owners of the uniform voices are the farmer's daughters. This year, the twins of Tilin and Tillulu, who are exactly nine years old.

With the same reddish-brown hair and burnt brown pupils, and the same pattern of tunic and skirt, the only thing that distinguishes them is the color of the headband tied in a ponytail. Five months ago, when they introduced themselves, the red one was Ti Lin and the blue one was Ti Lulu, but the two prank girls sometimes swapped headbands to deliberately make Yi Yan and Yugeo mistake someone.

"Good morning, Ti Li......" Yugeo's mouth, who wanted to respond as usual, was gagged by Yi Yan behind him.

"Wait! I always feel that the atmosphere is a little strange......" The girls who heard this looked at each other and laughed at the same time, "Say hello, what's wrong?" ”

"Maybe it's just your delusion?" The voice, the mischievous smiley, even the freckles on the cheeks were exactly the same. Yi Yan and Yougeo let out a low whining in their mouths as they looked at the two of them interchangeably.

Why does human·unit have twins...... Or the appearance of three sons, the reason for which even the owner does not seem to fully understand. In many cases, twins are born immediately after the successive deaths of units in the neighboring area, which may be a phenomenon caused by the population regulation function, and if this is the case, there is no need to make the appearance exactly the same. At the very least, this has the disadvantage of being difficult to identify, but it has no advantages.

- Speaking of which, from the perspective of an observer, you can see the whole unit from time to time...... In their language it is the window of Stysia, and the twins' headbands are the opposite of usual, and they can be seen from the window. That is, Yi Yan's intuition is right.

At the root of the black hair, he sighed and said to believe in his feelings, although it was impossible to be heard, but Yi Yan raised his left hand and first pointed to the red hairband on the left.

"Good morning, Tilulu!"

Then point to the cyan headband to the right.

"Good morning, Tilin!"

Then the twins looked at each other again and said in unison, "That's right!" ”

He turned his hands behind his back and held the four corners of the rattan basket in two small hands.

"As a bonus for answering correctly, today's breakfast is Malubeli's pie!"

"It took a lot of effort to make Malubelli, and it took us a day to collect it in order for the two of us to win today's conference!"

"Oh~, that's so gratifying. Thank you, Ti Lulu, Ti Lin" Yi Yan put the barrel at his feet, stretched out his hands, and touched the heads of the two with a grunt. A bright smile suddenly bloomed on the Twins' faces, and at the same time, they looked at Yugeo with a somewhat caring expression.

“…… Upset, Eugeo? ”

"Do you hate Malubelli?"

After that, the flaxen-haired girl shook her head and hands in a panic, "No, no, I like it too!" It's just that I remembered the past a little. Thanks, you two! ”

Hearing this, the twins laughed reassuringly, and ran to the table placed between the stable and the grazing ground. Yi Yan's gaze left the girl who was quickly preparing breakfast, came to Yugeo's side, and tapped him on the back.

"We won the tournament today, we will soon be number one in the Guards, and we will be in Santoria next year...... Arrive very close to Alice. You're right, Eugeo! ”

Yugeo nodded deeply and said something small but powerful, "Yes, yes. That's why I've been learning from Yi Yan for five months! ”

Although each person only said one sentence in this conversation, it contained several meaningful information. I've spent more than 200 years as a demon and I've never heard of it.,An incredible name for swordsmanship.。 Then, there is the ultimate goal of the two - a unit named Alice.

If the Alice they are looking for is the same as the Alice in my memory as a demon...... Then their hopes will be very distant, very illusory. Because she is now in the high ground of the towering 'Santolaru Cashedolaru' in Santolia......

"Yi Yan! Ugeo! What are you doing!! ”

"If you don't come back, Tilin and I will all eat it all!!"

The twins who had finished preparing shouted loudly, and Yi Yan pushed Yugeo's back in a panic and walked over.

Because of this shock, I also stopped thinking, after all, thinking is not my task as an observer, and I don't know how many times I have said this to myself in the past five months. However, before reacting, they always think about the future of the two...... No, but worried about the future of the two.

Tightly tugging at the roots of his black hair, he let out a sigh that he didn't know how many times this morning. At the end of the riotous breakfast, the twins are left with "I'm going to cheer you guys!" And he went back. Ten horses were put out in the grazing field, and after the barn was cleaned, they would normally start practicing with a wooden sword, but today was different.

While the two were washing their hair and bodies by the well, they left Yi Yan's head and took refuge on the nearest branch - after changing the work clothes they had issued for their own tunics, they went to the main house of the farm a little away from here.

The wife of the family, Doriza Urud, as the hostess of a farm of this size, is an atmospheric person and has a good personality. That's why I hired the strange two who wandered so easily, and today, I also encouraged Yi Yan and Yugeo loudly because they were going to attend the conference, and even the bento was ready, so let the two bring it. When he saw him off, he also added the following words: "If you lose, don't be a street guard, come to my house and be my son-in-law!" At that time, the smiling faces of the two were really complicated.

Saying goodbye in the main house, walking to the town three kilometers away, on the way, the conversation between the two gradually decreased, and they were really a little nervous.

Every year, on August 28, the 'Norland Gorth Northern Sword Tournament' held in the town of Zakaria gathers more than 50 participants from neighboring villages or streets. In principle, all members should be responsible for the duty of guardians in their hometowns, and it is estimated that only Yi Yan and Ugeo are exceptions.