The city I visited after a long time was just like the romance fantasy world I had imagined.

Colorful dresses and suits, European-style houses, and garlands adorning the streets.

It was a cityscape I hadn’t seen in ‘Chelsea Center’.

Chelsea Center was located about 30 minutes away from the city, with a dense forest surrounding the center to prevent outsiders from entering.

In other words, the only view from my room was the forest.

‘If I was going to be possessing someone anyway, they could have put me in the body of a stupid villainous young lady.’

Then I could live in this splendid street, not coveting the female lead’s position and just taking care of my own business, until the male leads become enamored with my changed self… I could have created a story where the villainess becomes the female lead.

It was lamentable that I was possessing a supporting character whose life was hanging by a thread.

But no matter how regrettable, I can’t change the fact that I’m possessing Yerena, so let’s stop feeling sorry about this point.

The place I’m heading to now is the ‘Honey Butter Guild’, the most famous guild in the empire.

The Honey Butter Guild appeared occasionally in the original work as well.

Mainly in scenes where the female lead conversed with the Guild Master.

To cut to the chase, the Guild Master wasn’t a male lead candidate.

He played the role of a helper assisting the female lead.

Perhaps because of this, he didn’t have a big presence and there wasn’t much mention of his identity.

However, there was a part where the female lead thought like this:

‘Judging by his proper behavior, dignity, and cultured speech, he must be the young master of some distinguished family.’

A nobleman, huh. I wonder who he is.

I’m not sure about the Guild Master’s identity either.

But considering that he kept the female lead’s request confidential until the end and didn’t harm her, he doesn’t seem to be a bad person.

So I was planning to ask him if there was a way to make money using my new ability, that is, the ‘Tamer ability’.

If I could just pay off the debt, I could escape from the center right away.

Wouldn’t the Guild Master suggest a good method?

Eventually, I stopped in front of a potato wholesaler.

The place with lumpy potatoes piled up was called ‘Hot Potato’.

The headquarters of the Honey Butter Guild existed deep underground here.

I knew where the guild was hidden through the novel.

I glanced at the workers carrying potatoes, then carefully stepped inside.

As I went in, an old woman with graying hair greeted me.

“What brings you here?”

I recalled the content of the original work and recited the password to enter the guild to the old woman.

“Potatoes and honey are a great combination.”

“……”

The old woman just glared at me without saying anything.

Was this… not the password?

I liked Honey Butter potato chips, so I remembered this part quite in detail.

“They’re a super great combination.”

“……”

…Is this not it either?

A few seconds that felt like dozens of minutes passed. The eyes of the old woman looking at me narrowed.

“Follow me.”

Oh! This must have been the correct password.

I let out a sigh of relief and followed the old woman.

The old woman gestured with her chin towards a door located in the deepest part of the potato shop.

“Go in.”

I nodded.

When I opened the door, what greeted me was pitch-black darkness.

In the darkness where nothing could be seen, I carefully held Bless hidden in my robe.

I could feel Bless’s warmth in my hand. That small but certain warmth reassured me.

If I wasn’t with this small life form, I might have been trembling in fear.

At that moment, I suddenly felt like the ground was sinking.

It wasn’t a phenomenon like a sinkhole, but the space I was standing on was falling downwards.

I guess the place I entered was something like an elevator.

Ding─.

With a cheerful sound, the movement stopped. At the same time, the door slid open.

Bright light poured in from the opened door.

“Welcome to the ‘Honey Butter Guild’.”

A low, deep male voice welcomed me.

As I opened my eyes, squinting from the bright light, I saw the person who had spoken.

There was a large desk about twenty steps away from the elevator, and the man was sitting there.

He was wearing a large hood as if trying to hide his identity.

‘Even in the original work, he wore a hood and never revealed his face until the end.’

I addressed the man.

“Are you… the Guild Master?”

“That’s correct.”

And I couldn’t help but cough at the man’s following words.

“Please call me ‘Honey’ comfortably, customer.”

“…Ahem.”

I wasn’t the only one surprised by that sweet title; I heard Bless’s voice from inside my clothes.

―Kyuu. Kyuu.

He says, ‘S.hock.’

I felt the same way.

‘Honey.’

It was a title I had never used in my life, so I hesitated to utter it.

“If I have to choose between Honey and Butter, how about ‘Butter’?”

The Guild Master answered firmly.

“Customer. If you press the close button in the bottom right, you’ll leave this place as is.”

In other words, if I didn’t call him Honey, I’d have to leave. Geez.

Looking down, I saw buttons that weren’t visible before.

「Open」 and 「Close」.

I pressed the 「Open」 button and walked out of the elevator-like room to the Guild Master.

“Do you also ask male customers to call you ‘Honey’?”

“What a disgusting thought… I like women, customer.”

“……”

“So, are you going to make a request, or are you going to leave?”

I lost. I was the one who urgently needed information.

To the Guild Master, I was just a passing customer1… no, Honey1.

I wonder how many Honeys he has. It was an irrelevant curiosity.

I took a deep breath and answered.

“I’ll make a request, Ho…ney.”

Ugh, creepy!

“Then shall we sit and talk?”

“Yes.”

I sat in the empty chair in front of the desk.

“Customer, what kind of request did you come to make?”

“There’s an ability I need you to look into.”

“Not ‘you’, but ‘Honey’.”

Ah, geez. He’s really obsessed with the title.

I twisted my lips and called him as he wished.

“Ho.ney.”

“Yes, what ability is it?”

The Guild Master’s voice had a faint smile in it.

“I wonder if I could learn more about the ‘Tamer ability’ that can tame animals?”

But the smile was short-lived, as soon as I mentioned ‘Tamer ability’, the Guild Master made a “Hmm.” sound.

He then remained silent for a few seconds. He seemed taken aback that I asked about that ability.

‘Well, Tamer ability users didn’t appear in the novel either.’

The Tamer ability was something I learned about by chance while studying various abilities after becoming Yerena. It was that unknown of an ability.

“Is this the ability you possess, customer?”

“I can’t tell you that.”

The Guild Master tilted his head as if to say, what do you mean?

I leaned my upper body towards the desk and stared intently at the Guild Master’s hood.

Then I said meaningfully.

“Telling you who has the Tamer ability is the information value for the request I’m making this time.”

Yerena is poor, you know.

The salary that came in little by little from the guide work was being saved every month to fill the money taken by Yerena’s parents.

The reason I could come to the guild to make a request despite this was that there was something called ‘information value’.

The ‘Honey Butter Guild’ was closer to an information guild.

This place valued information more than goods.

Learning about the possessor of the Tamer ability, which was almost non-existent in the empire.

It was information the guild had no reason to refuse.

If I played my cards right, I could even receive money as information value.

But I didn’t want to go that far.

I couldn’t predict how Honey, no, the Guild Master whose identity I didn’t know, would react if I demanded money.

The reason I could confidently make this proposal was because there was a similar incident in the novel.