Late at night──
Diablo felt that only his consciousness was awakened.
However, it wasn’t enough for him to get up.
Even though his body was exhausted, his eyes were awake──it was that kind of feeling.
He opened his half-open eyes.
The room was close to pitch dark.
Since the climate of the Faltra area was warm, he wasn’t cold.
──I wonder, about what time is it right now?
There was no clock.
If sunlight were to come in through the small window, it would be morning, the time to wake up.
However, the room was still dark.
Then, he suddenly noticed. Shera was standing beside the small window.
With an expression that looked like she was thinking about something, she was looking up at the sky. Her golden hair glittered from the light of the moon.
It was an appearance that could make one even think that she was holy.
He felt like he could understand the reason why Elves were said to the closest to the Divine Beings.
What could she be thinking about?
Diablo wasn’t able to call out to her, and simply gazed at her.
Rem’s voice could be heard.
「……Are you unable to sleep?」
Rem brought her legs down from the bed. She was now sitting on the bed.
Rem made a slightly surprised face.
「Rem, you can’t sleep either?」
「……I can’t trust Prince Kiira at all. I woke up ready for an attack.」
「Ahaha……Nii-san, he really isn’t trusted, is he. Well, I guess he wouldn’t be~」
Maybe because they thought that Diablo was asleep, the two of them talked while lowering their voices.
Rem once again asked.
「……What were you doing?」
「U~n……I was thinking about various things, something like that I guess? Like memories of my hometown, or like things I did in my travels, I was reminiscing about various things.」
「……Were you immersed in sentimentality?」
「That’s right, that. That’s what I wanted to say!」
「……Don’t let out such a loud voice. Diablo is going to wake up.」
「Ah, sorry.」
Shera blocked her mouth with both hands.
──Well, I’m already awake though.
It became hard for him to join the conversation.
Because he kept silent due to not knowing how he should talk to them, it turned into him eavesdropping on them. He thought that he would try to go back to sleep since that would be rude but……maybe because he got nervous from the strange situation, his sleepiness flew away even though he was tired.
The two continued their conversation.
「……Shera, what are you going to do from now on?」
「From now on?」
「……You won’t be chased after by the Elves anymore, right……I believe you don’t have a reason to continue being an Adventurer. Don’t you have some kind of dream or goal?」
「Do I, really have no reason to continue being an Adventurer?」
「……I won’t stop you if you do it because you like it, but being an Adventurer is a dangerous job……To begin with, if your objective was to become strong so that you wouldn’t be brought back to your hometown, then I believe your need to continue on has disappeared, don’t you?」
「Ah~, now I get it.」
「……If you say that you’re going to continue being an Adventurer, I think it would be alright to look after you as your Senpai.」
「Really!?」
「……However, because it isn’t something that you can continue doing forever, it would be good to think of a way of living for when you retire from being an Adventurer, right? Shera, you have a future after all.」
「Ahaha, Rem, you also have a future, right?」
「……Th……That’s right.」
Rem became an Adventurer with the objective of taking out the Demon King Krebskrem’s soul and terminating it.
However, that was an outrageous objective.
Because of that, she probably never thought about her future.
──But, the Demon King Krebskrem will be defeated by me!
That was what he promised.
Shera, who didn’t know the circumstances, tilted her head.
「You’re so weird, Rem! So, well, Rem, you’re asking me what I want to do, right?」
「……That’s right. Although it feels like you’re misunderstanding me a bit……That’s fine.」
「Well then, I want to try running a cafe.」
「……A cafe, is it.」
It was a voice that sounded curious.
Shera strongly nodded.