Request 2

Shiroyasha's lips twitched and asked, "Don't you want to travel to the North Side? I can bear the cost for you."

"Don't worry. We have a way to get there." Haru looked at Shiroyasha calmly and said, "We can talk about the compensation later, so let's talk first about your request."

"Did you agree to accept my request?" Shiroyasha asked expectantly

"Depending on the content of the request first. After all, I don't want to endanger my members," Haru said calmly.

"Well, that's true." Shiroyasha nodded then said, "Before I explain my request, how much do you know about the Floor Master?"

Haru looked at everyone's reaction for a moment, then said, "Some of us know, and some of us don't know, so it is better for you to explain to us about the Floor Master, Shiroyasha."

"Alright." Shiroyasha nodded and explained to everyone about the Floor Master. "The floor masters are an arrangement we have in place where an individual accepts responsibility for protecting peace and ensuring that lower-end communities can grow. These individuals are also entrusted with the duty of leading the charge against the Demon Lord, should one appear, as they greatly disrupt the peace. The floor masters are given a number of privileges for accepting this responsibility." She coughed and said, "The reason why you want to go to the North Side is because of the Celebration for the Rise of the Fire Dragon, right?"

"Yes." They didn't hide anything and nodded.

"You should know that this joint festival is taking place because one of the northern floor masters, the head of Salamandra, is shifting its power to its progeny," Shiroyasha explained.

"Salamandra!" Jin was surprised.

There was no need to explain about Salamandra since they also heard Salamandra from Haru before, considering Salamandra was the community that was the one that invited them to the Celebration for the Rise of the Fire Dragon.

Still, the reason why Jin was surprised was that he didn't expect that the head of the Salamandra would change.

"Who is the leader now? Is the new leader the children of the previous leader?" Haru asked since usually the leader position would be given to the child of the leader, considering the community of Perseus was also doing similarly.

"Yes." Shiroyasha nodded. "Salamandra's new leader is the daughter of the previous leader, Sandora. She has assumed the name of the Fire Dragon in her father's place."

"What? Sandora-chan?!" Lily, who also followed them, was also surprised.

"W - Wait for a second. She's only 11," Jin asked in surprise.

"Jin, you're also even younger than that when you become a leader," Haru reminded Jin.

"....." Jin.

"Well, the scale of our "no-name" community and the Salamandra community is on a different scale after all, so I'm not surprised why you feel so surprised," Haru said frankly.

The "no-name" community's condition was so bad that no one would put this community before Haru, Asagi, Yuu, Asuka, and Izayoi came. Meanwhile, Salamandra was the floor master of the North Side.

"Still, I understand why it is called the Celebration for the Rise of the Fire Dragon," Asagi said.

"Indeed." Shiroyasha nodded. "The festival is also to publicly announce the next Northern Master, Sandora. But given her young age, I was asked to come and be joint host, as I am the East Side Master."

"Well, that's an interesting story."

Everyone looked at Asuka, but they didn't say anything waiting for what she was about to say.

"So when you said, "one of," that means there are other floor masters, right? Would it be more proper to ask one of them instead of us?"

"Well, yeah, but..."

"I guess there are people out there who don't want someone so young wielding that power?" Izayoi asked.

"Something like that," Shiroyasha said.

Haru raised his eyebrow and could see that Shiroyasha was hiding something, but it wasn't the time to ask this question.

"That's sad..." Asuka saighed.

"Well, there are a lot of reasons for it..."

Shiroyasha was about to say something, but she was cut by Haru.

"Shiroyasha, how about you tell us what your request is, and afterward, you can explain it to us since I can tell you that your explanation might take a very long time, right?"

"That's true. I need to explain this matter in about an hour or so." Shiroyasha nodded.

"........."

"Well, I can pretty much tell that you want a helper to fight against a Demon Lord, right?" Haru said simply.

"..........."

"Huh?!" Everyone was dumbfounded. "Demon Lord?!"

"How - How did you know?" Shiroyasha quickly asked with wonder.

"Haven't you asked me before whether this community I and my community are really going to be involved in any matters that are related to the Demon Lord? Is that right? So I thought you might ask us to help you fight against the Demon Lord or something, especially when you have explained the roles of the Floor Master too," Haru explained.

The role of the Floor Master was to protect lower-end communities, ensuring that they could grow. Because of their privilege, they also had a duty to fight against the Demon Lord, so from Shiroyasha's explanation alone, it was quite easy to tell that she wanted to ask them to become her support to fight against the Demon Lord.

It wasn't that the "no-name" community was boasting, but the number of powerful communities on the East Side was quite limited, or rather, wasn't that much?

Still, it wasn't that surprising since the East Side had the reputation of the Failure East Side.

However, Haru had to admit that Shiroyasha was a good woman. After all, even though the Floor Master had a duty to fight against the Demon Lord, in reality, who would want to fight against the Demon Lord?

If the one that was attacked was their turf, then it might be different, but the one that attacked was someone else's tuft.

Even though Shiroyasha was a Floor Master, it didn't mean that she needed to fight all the Demon Lords that appeared in the Little Garden since she only had a duty to protect the East Side of the Little Garden.

Still, with the bomb that had been dropped by Haru, everyone was dumbfounded since each appearance of the Demon Lord would always bring a disaster.

"Shiroyasha-sama, is that true?" Kuro Usagi asked hurriedly.

"Yes." Shiroyasha had a rare solemn expression on her face. "The Demon Lord will appear on the Celebration for the Rise of the Fire Dragon, so I want you all to help me to fight it." She then bowed her head, ignoring the fact that the "no-name" community's reputation was lower than hers. Still, rather than bowing her head toward everyone, she bowed her head toward Haru since she knew that he was the one that she needed the most. As for everyone, even though they were powerful, she thought that they were only a bonus compared to Haru, which was why, even if she had to give her body to Haru, she needed to bring him to the North Side!

'No matter what!'

Luckily, Shiroyasha bowed her head at that moment, or else they would see the blush on her face.