「Time remaining 36 : 18 : 44」

Cadel stared at the intrusive system window that filled the upper right corner of his vision.

Countdown.

That system window popped up last night, right after Lydon told him about the demon, and the moment it recognized that ‘if they didn't get rid of the demon soon, the villagers would turn into monsters’, the system kindly showed Cadel the ‘time remaining’ for the villagers.

‘36 hours. If we don't catch the demon in that time, they'll all become monsters. If monsterization proceeds, killing these people will eventually be a matter of.....’

He felt sick to his stomach. Taking a deep breath, Cadel shouldered his simple bag and looked back at Van and Lydon.

“If things go well, Lumen will bring in reinforcements. Van takes care of the residents until then.”

“....Commander.”

Van, who had been staring gloomily at Cadel, approached cautiously. The golden eyes beneath the lowered eyelids shook anxiously.

“I know we need to find the demon quickly, but it's going to be dangerous, and taking a single fairy with sealed powers is not―”

「Knight ‘Van Herdos’ ’s favorability has increased by ???.」

「Current favorability: 85/100」

「Knight ‘Van Herdos’ has achieved the maximum favorability of B-grade! Please raise the grade of the knight to build up more favorability.」

“Huh.....”

Cadel let out a sigh, a mixture of dejection and relief.

It seemed that awakening was necessary to raise the favorability of a B-grade knight to 100. He always checked the stats, but he didn't know that the favorability also rose to the maximum level.

‘I was scared for nothing! ....But, well, I can deal with him with peace of mind for a while.’

「Time remaining 35 : 05 : 21」