Yolishia felt shocked when she learned that Kuro was the one who healed the princess. She asked, “What did you do when you left in the middle of the day, Kuro?” Mimiko said that the person who cast this curse on the princess was someone connected to a curse user and capable of manipulating things inside the royal palace. There are only three people who can do that: first, Tristan Minoff, who is the bishop of the Bolan Church; second, Senova Resticons, who is the first general of the queen’s reconnaissance forces; and third, Isidora Archamama, the third wife of his majesty the king. Oilia said that Tristan could use his followers to manipulate the guardians of Liz’s room. Lisa, the princess, said her father’s wife could move freely in the palace, so she could also manipulate things. However, this was not impossible for Sova either. Yolishia said, “No, he has connections with the Thieves Guild, and they are experts in gathering information; they must have some men inside the palace as well.” Oilia said it would be hard to identify the guilty one at this time, and she told them they would need to set a trap. She informed them that Lisa had celebrated her 15th birthday and had become an adult just days ago, and tradition required her to leave the palace for a year of training. “That’s why we will set up a workshop for artists that won’t actually exist, and it will be run by a fake artist teacher, allowing Lisa to train there. Then the criminal will start gathering information about this workshop and the fake artist teacher.” Mimiko said that if this teacher existed, they would have gathered information quickly; however, if he didn’t exist, there would be nothing to gather. The more they tried, the more they learned about the culprit. Oilia said they needed to achieve certain accomplishments to be recognized as artist teachers. Yelisha said, “I have just the thing for this,” and revealed her special crystal. She asked Oilia if it was a magical crystal and asked Yolishia where she got it from. Yolishia answered that Kuro had made it, which surprised both the princess and Oilia.
We shift to Kuro, who was in front of Oilia’s closed house. Then Michelle came to him, and Kuro asked her why the house was closed. She replied, “After you left yesterday, my teacher went out with the princess, and there’s nothing to do today with us.” “I’m sorry,” Kuro said. “All right, I understand,” and left, thinking to himself that he hoped he hadn’t done anything wrong. He also said he should go eat. After that, he went to a restaurant, and while enjoying his meal, he overheard a group of adventurers talking about their carrier being injured and that they had a new mission they shouldn’t refuse, and they needed a carrier right away. Kuro approached them and told them he could be their carrier, though he didn’t know how to fight at all like the adventurers did. The girl scolded him, but the team leader smacked her and apologized to Kuro, telling him she was right because they needed a strong carrier since they were hunting iron goblins weighing about 200 kilos, and the carrier needed to be specialized in this. Kuro then said that if this work was suitable for him, he could lift them, and they definitely weighed around 200 kilos. He lifted the first one easily and then the second one without any trouble. He shook hands with Kans, who said to Kuro, “In truth, we have our own carrier named Bibino, but he’s sick and will take a week to recover.” Kuro introduced himself and thanked them for hiring a regular guy like him, making them laugh a lot. Kans approached Kuro and said, “We depend on you, Kuro.” Kuro thought to himself that they were nice, and he needed to work hard so as not to trouble them. They moved to a tunnel where there was a monster, but Kuro got stuck with slime. Cena told him to stab it until he killed it. Kuro attempted to stab the slime but failed and ended up injuring himself; however, Cena came over and got rid of the slime. Kuro thanked Cena, and she told him she knew he was weak in combat, but that was really awful. Danzou told Kuro not to worry about fighting; they would protect him. Kans told Kuro he only needed to carry stuff, and he’d be fine until this job was done, which amazed Kuro with their kind treatment of him. He remembered how his previous team had been, and they were nothing alike. He started to cry, but Cena asked him if he was hurt and couldn’t walk. He told her, “No, I’m fine.” After that, they entered the tunnel, and Cena told Kuro that she would light the place up using glowing algae. After brightening the area, Kuro looked beside him and asked Cena what that was. She said it was goblin waste. Kuro asked if there were goblins here, and Kans answered, “Of course, but don’t worry, we can defeat them easily, but if a large group attacks us, we’ll run away immediately.” Then they continued walking through the tunnel, and Kuro approached the walls to check for an exit. They encountered a goblin, but Cena threw a knife at it, and Danzou delivered a fatal blow, eliminating it. Kans asked if it had been calling for its friends, and Danzou replied that he heard their voices; they were everywhere, even near the tunnel exit. Cena asked what they should do, and Kuro urged them to find a way out, saying that this was a secret exit. He opened a door in the wall, and when they entered, Cena closed it behind them. Kuro asked her why she did that and reminded her that Danzou and Cans were still outside. She told him she knew, but they needed to escape. Kuro countered that they had to fight with them. Cena snapped back, “You’re stupid! You can’t even kill a little slime, and you’d hinder them if you went.” This surprised Kuro as he realized that Cena wanted to fight much more than he did. Kans told them not to argue and asked Kuro to protect Cena as well. Can then asked Danzou if he felt regret. Danzou replied, “Not at all,” and turned the question back to Can. Can replied, “Never dying to protect my little sister is the greatest honor for me.” Danzou said, “Dying would be an honor for you too and wouldn’t bring you shame.” Kans responded, “How could I regret it when I’m still your friend?” Kuro thought that they were really kind and loved each other, wanting to protect him, but he couldn’t help them. Cena said she knew that her brother and Danza would survive and urged Kuro to move. She lit up the area, but a massive creature, an iron dragon, appeared, filling Cena with deep despair.
Now we shift to Yolisha and Lisa. Lisa said, “So this is the loom that Kuro mentioned.” Yolisha said, “You should always remember that we’re hiding from Kuro that you’re a princess.” The princess replied that the most important thing was that she was just an ordinary girl in front of Kuro named Lisa, asking Yolisha to also call her Lisa and to drop the formalities.
Yolishia agreed that they should do that and told her she could also call her Yuli. They then went to Kuro’s room to look for him, and one of Crow’s friends told them that he went to an iron goblin tunnel with his new band Sakura. Lisa asked Yulisha what this is. Yolisha replied that it could be a trap, but if Kuro had really gone to that area, it was a great danger for him since they had completed their training there due to the spread of the iron goblins. She asked Lisa to stay here while she went to search for him. Lisa insisted, “I will stay with you.” Yolicia urged her not to be foolish, but Lisa replied, “What about you? How could you think of leaving someone unprotected?” She added that as a member of the royal family, she had learned some magic she could use to defend herself and wouldn’t hinder Yolishia’s path. Yisha told her, “All right, but promise me you won’t stray from my side.” And they went on their way.
We moved to the tunnel. Yulisha said these glowing algae are new, and Lisa said she sees Kuro’s tracks and thinks he walked this way. Ulisha asked Lisa how she could recognize him from his footprints. Then Lisa used her magic to discover more footprints, and Ulisha said, “That’s good; it will help you hear his voice and find him right away.” Lisa began to move closer to the walls and said that Kuro moved from this direction. When she got to the nearest spot, she told Ulishia there are warriors fighting inside. Yulisha approached Lisa and told her to stay here so she wouldn’t get hurt. Lisa boosted Yulisha’s physical strength, and Ulicia moved forward to help Danzou and Cans. She struck the goblins, taking many of them out.
We shift to Kuro. Sienna said, “This is impossible; I have to abandon this mission so no one gets killed.” She told Kuro she was sorry for pulling him into this job and informed him they couldn’t get through because these dragons were here to stop them. She mentioned that her brother and Danzou tried to buy them some time to escape, but they couldn’t escape at all, and she started crying. Kuro approached Sienna and told her not to worry, assuring her they would escape. He drew his weapon and said he would take care of the dragons first. He moved in on the dragons, and the first dragon attacked him, but Kuro dodged the strike. He counterattacked, landing some hits that took them all out, which left Sienna very surprised. After finishing off the dragons, Kuro told her he was used to mining iron goblins. Then Ulisha came in and asked what happened here. Sienna said he took them out by himself with a single strike from his weapon and noted that he’s used to mining. Ulisha asked Kuro if he was okay. He replied that he was fine but asked her to save Danzou and Kans because they were in a tough battle. Ulisha reassured him they were okay and alive. He said, “That’s very good.” Ulishia thought to herself she had heard legends of a man with a G rank in combat skills but possessing an S-rank talent in harvesting with a scythe to defeat a brier dragon, “but is that also possible?” Lisa appeared and said to Kuro, “You’re really impressive.” Khan said, “Get us our other party member; it’s important, but we haven’t heard of a horde of goblins that fled from training.” He told Ulishia he didn’t know how to respond to beauty. Danzou said, “We owe you so much.” Ulisha replied, “You don’t have to.” She told Kuro they would establish a workshop for artists soon and that she would work there as an adventurer and main character, asking him if he would come to work with her. She told him she heard he did a great job at Oilia’s place. Kuro said he was working with Sora now. Kans told Kuro this offer shouldn’t be turned down, and he should take it seriously without worrying about them. Ulishia said they were starting this workshop which was very new and had no workers and asked him to hire some adventurers. “What do you think about joining us?” Hans asked if that was possible, and Sora’s team agreed. Ulisha told Kuro that when they returned to the country, he would have to undergo a talent test to find out what his talent was when he started working in the workshop. Kuro told himself he wanted that too. “When the technical artist arrives anyway,” he said, “Okay.”
We moved to Mimkco’s house, and Mimo welcomed Kuro, introducing herself as the one responsible for evaluating his talent. She knew he arrived with a recommendation from Oilia and told him she had seen his magical crystal, but she wanted to see him in person. After that, we shift to the tavern where they are celebrating together. We switch back to Ulishia and Mimo, and Yulisha asked Mimo, “What about Kuro’s talent?” Mimo replied, “She told him he had a B rank in cleaning and a C rank in everything else.” Ulisha asked Mimo what the actual results were. Mimo told her that Halo work is the only one able to measure talents between G rank and S rank, and she informed her his strength was very large, and I couldn’t measure it. Mimco said they were lucky since she was the one assessing the talents; if word got out, who knows what would happen. Then the maid Cell came to them looking shocked. Mimco approached her and said she was happy because Kuro’s talents were SS rank. Ulishia said to Crucial that if anyone learned about this, it would be very dangerous. Cricelle replied, “I haven’t heard anything at all.” They went to the new workshop location where they would be working using the express carriage. Liza asked, “Are there any teleportation stones in the city we’re going to?” Ulishia replied, “There used to be some, but it was a military base on the border of the Demon Lands.” Liza said, “Even though the new viceroy hasn’t been appointed yet, it’s a crucial city that doesn’t receive any help from the alliance.” Danzou said, “And we will be the personal party for a new artisan in this crucial city.” Kans said, “This is more than we deserve.” Ulishia said the decision was made with full consideration of your abilities. Can asked Danzou, “What about Biboni?” Danzou told him, “Leave it to me.”
After that, Senna said to herself, “My brother and Danzou agree instantly.” She also thought, “They assigned us to silence us, but I will protect my brother and Danzou if anything happens to them.” Then Kans asked Ulishia what this artisan master craftsman is like. Ulishia said he is a very honorable man. Then, moving to the city, Crow was surprised by its appearance. Liza asked Crow what’s wrong. Crow told her, “I used to work on repairing the walls of this city before, but I was fired after 3 days of work.” Then, moving to the workshop locations, Ulishia told them, “This is the land that will be your training ground.” Kans said, “But it’s empty land.” He asked her, “What are we supposed to do here?” Ulishia said, “We’ll wait at the inn until the artisan’s workshop is finished.” Ulishia asked Crow, “Can you build this workshop alone?” This surprised the others. Crow said, “I can build a wooden house by myself, but building a workshop for an artisan in one day is unreasonable.” Kans said, “That’s right.” Senna thought, “Crow doing everything by himself is difficult.” Danzou said, “Completing this in one day is impossible.” Crow told them, “I think I can do it in just 3 days.” This surprised them. Elisha said to Crow, “Okay, take as much time as you need and build it your way, even if it takes 3 days, and if you need any materials, don’t hesitate to ask.” Crow said to her, “You mean these?” He wrote down all the things he needed on a piece of paper and gave it to Ulisha, asking her to bring these materials and telling her that if she prepared these things, he would be very grateful to her. Ulisha read the materials and told him that she would bring them to him in just 2 days. Senna said to herself, “Does he really need these things?” Then Ulia asked everyone to go to the inn so they wouldn’t hinder Crow from building the workshop. She said to Crow, “Make sure to come to the inn for meals and to take a break.” Crow said to her, “Okay,” and told her that he would come in the morning and at night. Liza said to Crow, “You have to eat well.” Crow said to her, “Thank you for your concern.” Then moving inside the inn, Ulisha gathered them. Cena said, “Are you going to tell them what happened in the cave, right?” Kans asked, “What happened in the palm reading?” Cena said, “Crow defeated the iron dragon alone; he was cutting it like he was used to it, and with just one knife too, and with ease.” Cena asked Ulicia, “Who is Crow, and who are you two?” Ulishia said, “Okay, I’ll start with myself.” She told them that she was an adventurer working under the royal family. She asked Liza to introduce herself. Liza introduced herself and showed them her royal crest, which proved that she was a princess, which surprised the others. They were about to bow to her, but Liza asked them to sit down and told them that she was hiding her identity for certain reasons. She asked them to treat her as they did before seeing her crest. Cena asked, “Is Crow from the royal family too?” Ulishia said, “No, he’s not even from the nobility, and we don’t know the origin of this boy yet.” Cena said, “How don’t you know who he is yet?” Ulishia said, “We only know that all of Crow’s combat abilities are of G rank, and other abilities are of SSS rank.” Kans said, “Is SSS rank the rank that people doubt exists?” Ulishia told them that Crow was very unaware of his strength and that they had hidden his true rank from him, telling him that he was of B or C rank, “and to be honest with you, the new artisan master is actually Crow himself, but this is a secret between us too.” Santa said angrily, “Why are you hiding all this from him?” She told them that they should tell Crow everything. Ulisha said, “If we told Crow the truth, he wouldn’t believe us, and who knows what kind of evil people would plan to misuse Crow’s power and exploit it if we announced the truth.” Senna said, “You’re the ones exploiting him now.” Can asked Senna to calm down. Cena said to her brother, “I don’t want to hear any more of this because this is too much.” But Kans hugged his sister Cena to calm her down. Danzou asked Yulisha to continue. Liza said, “Crow broke the curse that was cast on the handmade porridge.” Ulisha said, “Someone wants to kill Liza, and the reason for building this workshop in this city is to uncover our enemy and identify who it is.” Cena asked, “Does Crow know this?” Liza said, “He doesn’t know anything; he didn’t even know who I was, and when he knew that I was suffering from a curse, he saved me without asking for anything in return.” Ulishia said, “Crow is very pure, and the others influence himself a lot; this is what makes him a good boy, so I want to protect this boy.” Liza also said that she was asking them not as a princess but as Liza, their friend, to keep this secret and protect Crow with them. Danzou said, “It is the duty of a knight to obey members of the royal family, but we are adventurers; we don’t have any of these obligations, but we are also comrades, and we risk death with Crow, and we are his friends.” Kans said, “That’s right, we are already friends, and we must protect Crow.” Danzou said, “Since I am Crow’s friend, I swear on my weapon to protect you both too.” Liza thanked them. Cena said to Danzou and her brother, “How can you do this? We’ve only met him 3 days ago, and we don’t know anything about him.” Ulisha said, “I understand what you’re feeling.” Cena said to her, “How can you understand?” She told her not to say anything that meant nothing to her. Ulisha told her, “I understand that because I went through it, because I met him only 6 days ago,” which surprised the others. Cena said, “So let me think about it,” and left. Kans said to Ulia, “Don’t worry about Cena; she’ll be fine.” Then Cena went alone and said to herself, “How is this happening? And Crow must know everything.” Then she moved to Crow and was very surprised. Crow came to her and told her that he hadn’t finished building the workshop yet. Cena asked Crow, “Did you dig this?”
Crow said to her, “Of course, I’m from rank B in mining.” Cena said to herself, “Even those with rank B can’t do that.” Cena told Crow that he was amazing. Crow told her, “It was common to build a few dozen houses a day in my hometown, so I feel like I’m still slow.” Cena asked Crow, “Are you feeling stressed because you’re assigned too much work?” He told her, “No one forces me to do anything, and I’m happy to do it.” He told her that his old party told him that he was useless and kicked him out; “now I feel happy because I’m someone who is useful, and I was able to prove this.” Cena remembered Ulia’s words about Crow and said, “I understand now.” Crow asked Cena, “What did you understand?” Senna said, “We are friends now.”
Moving on to Danzou, he meets with the informant, and she is telling him some information. She told him that she had gathered a lot of information about Biboni, who is known as the thousand faces, and that he accepts missions from evil people. Then he sneaks into adventurer parties, and she rebuked him that he is treacherous and he has destroyed countless parties and that he accepted the last mission with the intention of destroying Sakura, and he thought he was sent from another party that harbors a grudge against you for taking the job recently. She told him that the rest of the details are in the paper with him. Danzou said, “I understood everything, and I’m indebted to you,” and gave her the money.
Moving on to the tavern where Biboni is, Biboni wanted to force a girl to stay with him, but the girl left. He said to himself, “I didn’t expect Sakura’s party of scoundrels to survive, but now I hear that they have been employed in a new workshop related to the third princess, and if I crush them, I will earn a lot of money.” Danzou told him, “That’s really a good idea to make money.” Biboni said, “Of course, and I can find many clients who want to tarnish the achievements of the third princess.” But Biboni stopped talking and was surprised when he heard Danzou’s voice talking to him. He turned around, astonished. Danzou asked Biboni, “You’re drinking a lot to celebrate your recovery, aren’t you?” After that, Biboni ran away from the tavern, but as he was running, he was tripped and fell to the ground by a trap set for him by Danzou. Then Danzou approached Biboni and said to him, “You were smart, so you can’t be unaware of the huge goblin colony.” Biboni said to Danzou, “Forgive me,” and told him that they were friends in the same party and that he didn’t know anything. But Danzou drew his sword and put it on Bibinoki’s neck and said to him, “You were never my friend, and if you approach those I trust now, who are my friends, I will kill you without hesitation.” He left and left him alone without any harm, but the informant was watching them hidden so that no one could see her. She said that she wanted Danzou to finish off his target because he could become an obstacle in the future. Then two people came to Biboni and took him away. The informant said that these two men are from Phantom, the intelligence unit of Mimiko, the royal court sorceress. Then a message came to the informant in the legs of the bird, and it was about Marv. “I feel bad for them, but oh well, since my lord asked me to leave this woman alone, I think I should go now to Crow’s hometown.”
We move on to Kans and Danzou, who are looking at the new workshop built by Crow. Cena was on the other side telling Ulisha about the existence of a babaomo tree. Ulisha said, “We’ll have good kinds of fruit then, but it hasn’t fruited yet.” After that, Lisa ran into the place and said, “From today, this will be our love spot, me and Crow.” Ulisha said, “It’s the new workshop.” Then Crow came out of the workshop and told them he was sorry he hadn’t prepared a welcome for them. Ulisha said, “We weren’t ready either.” She asked him, “Can we see it from the inside?” He said, “Of course.” Then they went inside, and Crow explained the palace entrances and everything in it, which surprised them. Ulishia asked Crow, “What is this device?” Crow told her that he had converted the blue sapphire he brought into magic crystals and used them to create a perpetual motion water engine to generate water, which amazed everyone even more. After that, he took them to the bedrooms and told them they were designated for all of them. Lisa lay on the bed and said, “It smells like Crow.” Crow said to Lisa that she was exaggerating with her jokes. Ulishia said, “It’s the smell of the griffin.” After that, they moved to the craftsman’s room, and Crow asked Ulishia, “When will we meet the master craftsman?” Ulisha said, “It seems he’s late; I think he’s busy.” Ulishia asked Crow, “Which is your room?” Crow told her that he was only responsible for the housework, so he would sleep in a small area next to the kitchen, which angered everyone. But Ulishia asked him to sleep here in the master craftsman’s room until he arrives. Crow strongly refused, and then he told them that he agreed, but he would leave after the master craftsman arrived. Ulisha asked Crow, “Can you put a curse barrier around this palace?” Crow told her that it was difficult to do. Ulisha said to herself, “So he can’t do it then; I have to use the spells that protect against curses that Mimiko gave us.” She hung up a lot of curse wards, but only Lisa’s room remained, and it was the most important room. She moved to hang a ward on it, but Lisa came out of her room suddenly and thought that Crow was outside. She said to him that she was waiting for him a lot. Ulisha asked Lisa, “Why are you waiting for Crow?” Lisa told her, “Because I want him to sneak into my room,” which angered Ulisha. Ulisha said to Lisa that this was not the behavior of a princess at all. Lisa told her, “You’re shouting; you might wake everyone up.” She asked her, “Are you jealous?” Ulisha told her, “What are you saying? Why would I be jealous?” She told her that Crow was pure and innocent and told her that she should be ashamed. Lisa said, “Okay, we move on to Crow, who is in the kitchen.” Lisa went to him and said to him, “What dishes do you want me to help you with?” Elisha came and asked Lisa, “What about the modesty I told you about yesterday?” Lisa said to Ulisha, “You’ve been very noisy since yesterday.” Ulisha said to Lisa to be quiet and asked her, “How can you wear these revealing clothes?” Crow said, “I was surprised too, but Lisa told me that these clothes are common in her house too.” Ulishia said, “No, they aren’t.” Lisa said, “I think you’re misunderstanding something.” After that, Cena came to them and asked, “I smell fresh bread.” Crow said to Cena, “Of course, I made an oven so I can prepare fresh bread for everyone every morning.” He asked them all to wait in the dining room and asked them which they preferred, tea or coffee, which greatly surprised Ulia. Crow prepared a lot of food for them, which everyone praised as wonderful, but Ulisha asked, “Where is Crow now?” Lisa said that he had left to do some cleaning, carrying a cloth, and said that someone had scribbled on parts of the palace and that he would return after cleaning it up. After that, Ulishia went to Crow quickly to prevent him from erasing the protective spells. When she reached him, he was cleaning the spell that was on Lisa’s room and told her that it was the last one, which made Ulia feel let down. Crow said to her, “There were a lot of them.” He asked her, “Do you think something happened here?” Ulishia, sitting on the ground, said to him, “I think it was the work of Scraeni, the plotter that people have been talking about recently,” which amazed Crow when he heard the name. She told him, “I think he saw Lisa and left all these lines to get her attention.” Crow said to her, “I understand now; we should tell Lisa.” Ulisha said to herself, “I succeeded in not revealing that there are killers seeking to kill Lisa, but I don’t have many spells left, and it will take Mimiko a few days to get here. Will I be able to protect her?”
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