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A girl with beautiful long silver hair as her characteristic–Claire entered the Guild Master’s room of【Yoizuki】 guild.

"Master, did you call me?"

"Claire, huh. Good, you are here."

Looking at Claire, the man who was sitting at the desk–the Guild Master, stopped working and lifted up his face.

A large number of documents were placed on the desk. And among the documents, one photo of a person was mixed inside.

Perhaps because he noticed that Claire's sight stopped on that photo, the Guild Master said ‘Ah' and picked up the photo.

"Are you interested in this?"

"Rather than interested, I just felt it was strange only that one was different"

"I see, so you are interested. Then, I will give it to you. Here."

"… Good grief, you really don't listen to what people say."

Despite being exasperated, Claire took the photo. It was a photo of a black-haired and black-eyed young man. Unfortunately, Claire didn't recognize that young man.

"Who is this person?"

"He is Amane Rin."

"Amane Rin… It is a name that I've heard from the dungeon collapse incident in Kenzaki Dungeon the other day, right? However, why did you give me a photo of him?"

"To tell you the truth, I'm thinking of recruiting this guy to our guild once again. Hence, I wanted Claire to meet him in person to recruit and bring him here."

Hearing that, Claire tilted her head.

"Recruit him…? But, from what I've heard before, I remember hearing that he wasn't that strong."

"On the surface, yes"

"On the surface?"

"Aa. I suspect that this guy was hiding his true ability."

"… Please tell me your basis."

When Claire asked with a serious expression, the Guild master shows her another document. And 『Regarding the murder case in the dungeon exercise』 was written on that document.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the case where a person from the Adventurer Association was killed by someone, right? Is it related to him?"

"Yes, very much. In fact, Amane Rin was there when this case happened."

"… In other words, he was the one who killed the person from the Adventurer Association?"

"You are half correct and half incorrect. What I am going to say from here is absolutely something that can't be told to anyone, okay?"

After giving a warning to Claire, the guild master spoke about the incident and his own guesses.

A monster suddenly appeared during the dungeon exercise, but because a personnel called Yanagi stopped that monster alone, the students were able to evacuate to the outside of the dungeon. However, a girl called Amane Hana was left behind.

Then, another personnel called Katagiri and Hana's brother, Rin, entered the dungeon in order to find her. However, only Rin and Hana came out after that, while Yanagi and Katagiri were found dead.

Certainly, the more she listens, the more suspicious Rin seems. However, Claire still didn't understand why the guild master wanted to recruit someone like that.

The Guild Master continues his explanation to Claire, who was having such a question in her mind.

"And then, in the place where the corpses of the personnel and the monsters were found, there was also a stone board with the chronology of the incident written on it. According to that, the mastermind of the incident was Yanagi, who was trying to plunder skills from others using his unique skill, Plunderer. Katagiri was a victim and the one who left the stone board was the one who killed Yanagi_ something like that."

"…. He deliberately left something like that?"

The guild master nodded.

"Isn't it mysterious? Of course, there is a chance that both Yanagi and Katagiri were victims, and the real mastermind might leave that stone board to confuse the investigation. But, if you think about it normally, it would be better for this person to just leave without doing something like that. By doing that, there won't be any evidence left behind. This means it is natural to think that the things written on the stone board are true and the person who killed Yanagi was someone with a sense of justice who couldn't overlook this incident just like that."

After picking up another document, the guild master continues.

"In fact, recently, there were some adventurers who had a unique skill and died suspiciously. And it seems Yanagi was sighted near the place of their death. As follows, according to the investigation of the Adventurer Association, they also have the opinion that what's written on the stone board was true."

"…. I understand the whole story. However, I still think it is difficult to judge that Amane Rin was the perpetrator with just that."

"Well, it is my guess after combining all the information gathered so far. Because, Amane Rin possesses an unparalleled unique skill, a transfer-type skill after all."

Hearing that, Claire opened her eyes.

"Transfer? That is indeed a very absurd power."

"Aa, I know, right? Although that skill has quite a useless ability when he just became an adventurer, I don't know what kind of evolution he achieved by raising the level of that skill… Personally, I judged that it was highly possible that the one who killed the last boss in the Kenzaki Dungeon was also Amane Rin. Do you know why?"

"Is it because as long as he activated the transfer, he might be able to enter the closed boss room…?"

"Correct"

The Guild Master elatedly laughed.

And this will be the last question. Thinking so, Claire asked.

"I understand the situation. If Master's guesses are correct, I can understand why he chose to hide his power. Because, I too, understand very well how a strong power can lead to disaster after all. However, why did you especially order me to recruit him?"

"Well, that was, look… I just thought that the success rate would be higher if a beautiful girl like Claire was the one who recruited him rather than an old man like me1. My daughter is the cutest in the world after all!"

"… I understand that it looks like you don't want to answer that seriously. However, as I'm also a little interested in him–understood, I will do that."

"Hou, it's rare for you to be interested in others, but you spared me trouble. This is the address of the Amane Family. Thus, I'll leave the rest to you."

The guild master hands Claire a piece of paper with the address of Amane Rin which she doesn’t know where he got it from.

Well, Yoizuki was the most influential guild around here after all. Hence, surely something like this was easy to get since they also had a connection with the government and even the adventurer association.

After that, Claire took the photo of Rin and his address before she went out of the room as she decided to meet him right away.

"Amane Rin-san… I wonder what kind of person he is,"

I wonder why, but I was very interested in that.

Footnotes

1. Goddamn right.