“What are you doing? I told you to take it.” The old man shook the leather scroll. Then, a middle-aged man behind the old man sighed and approached the old man’s side.

“If you say it like that, the guard won’t know what to do, master.” The middle-aged man carefully took the leather scroll from the old man’s hands and approached the guard.

“This is the letter Mr. Zich gave us while requesting our help. In the letter, he told us that we just needed to show this to the Count,” the man said and glanced at Til and Leona. “It seems like there are other people with the same request as us, so I think it will be better to take them altogether.”

“W-We will.” The guard took the letter wrapped in leather and handed it to his companion. His companion had a total of three letters now and hurriedly ran inside the castle walls.

“Are you guys also Zich’s friends?” Leona showed interest in the new group. The old man, Walwiss Dwayne, stared at Leona.

“A friend…I suppose you could say that.”

“As I thought!” Leona exclaimed.

In terms of outer appearance, Leona looked much younger than Walwiss and could seem disrespectful to an elder, but Walwiss didn’t fault her....