＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

The third form of testing was first shelved.

As for the typed skills, Nemesis said, "Don't do anything extra because I will analyze them on my own!" and they pushed me just in case.

I have no choice, so let's leave it to Nemesis.

Now, where the problems concerning the evolution of the nemesis that arose at first light in the morning have been put on hold, we enter the main purpose for which we came to this village of Torne.

The main purpose, of course, is to interview Mr. Farica and gather information from the goods he leaves behind in order to find Mr. Sizima in real life.

That's why I wanted to talk to Mr. Farica...

"Excuse me... I actually have to finish this fix by noon"

Anything. He hasn't finished his job as a [seamstress] with a due date today.

I was supposed to be able to get it done within yesterday, but they were late for something about Louis.

I can't help it.

"The work will be up around lunch...... Can we talk about this afterwards?

"Ah, yes. We'll be fine."

Three or four hours here until lunch.

Given the search for people in real life, there is no problem with the range of errors.

"Until then, make sure you enjoy the Wind Star Festival. The production is an event that starts with fireworks at night, but stalls and stage performances have already begun."

"Ho."

Oh, my big eater (Nemesis) is staring at me when I hear it's a stall.

I'm sure some of them were upset about dinner yesterday... but the money will fly at the cost of food again, this.

... Nevertheless, nemesis is too bulimic.

"Do you know the Nemesis or the Seven Big Sins?"

"Mm-hmm. Something I have no connection to."

"Really?"

"Why hear it back in English!?"

As we sandwiched those interactions, we headed for the street-lined village avenue.

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When it comes to festival stalls, I recall what I saw at local shrine festivals and spring flower shopping.

In fact, this festival in the village of Torne was similar.

There are so many stalls lined up as to be oddly large for villages with about four hundred houses and a population of about two thousand.

Ask the store owner while Nemesis buys a crepe for him to eat, and he says that some people are coming from the Wang capital only during this festival for anything.

I'm sure it's time to make some money, but it's hard to be a merchant because monsters also come down the road.

However, from what I've heard, they're going to be a bunch of storekeepers leaving the stall, and they're going to hire an armed escort in a joint venture to come first thing in the morning.

There are only some monsters in the vicinity of the village a step above the beginner's map.

Extremely rarely occurs a herd like the one encountered by Lewis and others, but whether it is also once every few years.

Even if it's an escort, it's less than half a day's detention time on one way. But I can serve, and if the herd occurs, I'll have no problem standing on my arm.

There was escort work to the village of Torne at this time, including not just for the stall owners but also for the tourists, and now I think I saw a lot of escort requests in the catalogue I was looking at in the guild.

If you look at it, there were many tourists who were with the escort.

Now, the people who walk pleasantly through the festival have what is uniform.

It's a five-feather windmill called that wind star that was decorated on the road leading up to the village of Torne yesterday.

The people on the road have wind stars in their hands or put them on their clothes.

Nemesis also gave it yesterday from Lewis. Do you like the wind star too much, or is it on your chest?

By the way, I have one crepe at a time, not a wind star, in both hands.

"Mm-hmm. Evolutionary meals are extraordinary."

"Soudesne"

"What to eat next. It's the first minute of your stomach, so we can still go."

I feel a little blue for a nemesis that is eating faster than usual and has a bigger capacity.

... you won't tell me that you've also eaten more because you've evolved?

"Let's use this momentum to dominate the stall."

…………

"Are you kidding me?

The shard didn't even sound like a joke.

I would have done it if I said I would...

"Eh, usually there's an ice cream store over there, and there's got to be waffles over there. And if you're at the Windstar Festival on a small stage, you do a lot of plays a day telling me about me."

"Really? I'd love to watch that."

"Yeah, I'll show you around. Ah....................."

Louis leads us through the stalls, but sometimes he sees the landscape and shuts up like this.

When I look at his expression, he has a slightly lonely eye. Perhaps he remembers the festival until last year, when he had spent time with his father-in-law.

"Mm, the lem fruit is for sale"

When Nemesis prompted me to look at that stall, the fruit of the lem cooled with ice was sold in the stall. Is it like frozen minkan or fruit sorbet?

I buy the lem fruit for the number of people and distribute it to everyone.

"Thank you, Brother Ray. Rem's fruit...... you liked Gringham too"

"Mm-hmm? Wasn't Gringham a lion monster?

"Yeah, I like meat. But we also eat fruit. I especially love the lem fruit. But Gringham needs to be skinned and cut."

[Ariez Leo] is a lion but a monster of omnivores, plus some classy monster, apparently.

"Oh, but so did my stepfather. I can peel every peel, take all the citrus is white, and peel the seeds."

Apparently, the way Mr. Sijima was raised had an impact on Gringham as well.

... Nervous?

"I don't know, he used to say," I know it's okay over here, but I'm still scared, "

"Scared?"

What do you say you're afraid of eating fruit?

Allergies, then you shouldn't even eat fruit in the first place......

"And then Yuno won't eat until he's" ahem. "

"I don't know. It's a food habit."

... I haven't even lost the Nemesis stomach capacity to an extent I don't know.

"Ah. There's a stone stage over there, right? I do a fairy tale play every year over there."

As I was discussing Mr. Sijima, Louis pointed to the end of the road.

There's a crowd around the small stage, and at the center, they do what Louis calls theatre.

Me and the seniors can watch it, but they won't be able to watch it on the shorter Louis or Nemesis.

"Okay. It's Ray, it's the shoulder car. Want a shoulder car."

"Well, that's fine. Come on, Louis."

"Yeah, but the two of us..."

"No, I can afford it"

I held them both at the same time, with Louis on my right shoulder and Nemesis on my left shoulder. Keep your thighs held down with your hands to avoid falling.

Now I have more than 1000 STRs with various corrections, such as nemesis, [claw armor], and accessories that increase the STRs hit by chatter by 20%.

Seriously, it's a hundred manpower, so the extent to which you put two kids on your shoulders is nothing.

But with that said, if my brother's STR is over 100,000 gracious, he's going to be in elementary school classroom... no, he's going to be able to grab every school building. The human separation of high status holders is awesome when you think about it again.

"By the way, Ray, I'm not a kid, I'm a lady"

Be quiet during the show.

"Guru."

Well, that's why you two shoulder cars (?) decide to watch the theatre in the condition that

Fortunately, this performance seems to start now.

The contents were as follows:

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□ Dear Kokten's Theatre

Instead, this village of Torne was a smaller and more serene countryside than it is now.

It was a village with pleasant winds, always turning circles, circles and agricultural windmills.

But suddenly “Makura” comes to such a peaceful and serene village of Torne.

It was a flying monster coming from the east sky.

The light of the day, the light of the stars, the monster swallows everything bright and makes the area "makura”.

When I saw the sky, which had become “Makura", people feared that it was "Black Heaven" and "Master Coctene".

Master Kokten swallows something bright, looks down on the ground from the sky high, laughs, and rumbles all he cares about.

Anything found by Master Cocten, be it a man or a beast, will be "baked” and swallowed.

That's how everyone and he were all frightened, locked inside a Kurakuri house with windows and doors closed.

Occasionally, some knights and hunters tried to crusade Master Cocten with "I'm the one".

But the knight's sword does not reach Master Cocten, and even the hunter's bow and arrow is not enough.

Sometimes some tried to get on a flying dragon, but it doesn't even reach the dragon's wings.

As such, knights, hunters, and even dragons were swallowed by being "sparkled”.

Yes, even the dragons were no match for Master Cocten.

Everyone and he all lose, and everyone and he all live in fright. It's under Master Cocten's heavens.

Even if you try to escape, you will soon be noticed and made a "spark”.

People live hungry and hidden in their houses.

Even the sound of the wind that was blowing in this village is howling like death.

All I could hear was the laughter of Master Cocten on the sky.

Oh, keep it up here, will it all be over?

It's when everyone in the village of Torne mourned and grieved that way.

A drop of heaven pitied the people, spilled tears.

Tears then slip through the sky as a tail-crawling meteor...... strikes down Master Cocten.

Dear Kokten struck by a meteor will crash into the mountains and sink straight into the bottom of the earth.

There's nothing Cockten-sama's favorite bright thing about the cold rocky mountain basement.

Dear Kokten, who has run out of food, has lost his power and has been unable to get out of the bottom of the earth.

That is how people are saved by the meteor of tears that heaven has dropped, and Master Coctene is still trapped at the bottom of the dark and cold earth.

As if to bless it, after the meteor descended, the village had wind again.

The sky also brightened, and Master Cocthen's fears left.

Then people thanked heaven for saving them, and once a year they festived with a small windmill mimicking a star named Windstar on the day Master Coctene was sealed, or a fireworks of light coloring the sky.

Congratulations.

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□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

"I see."

Thanks to an easy-to-understand play, we know exactly where the festival came from.

I mean, this...

"Senior, what we're talking about right now is…" There was a very strong monster, but the meteorite that happened to come down hit him directly and he died. "

"I guess so. Probably < UBM > … some individuals were astronomically unlucky."

"I hit it because I kept rambling in this village, so I'll also say I deserved it," the senior continues.

"Or maybe he's not dead and just locked up like he used to... from what we've talked about, he looks like an organism, and he'll be dead after hundreds of years without drinking or eating"

Well, I guess so.

By the way, there was a glimpse of him rushing to a nearby mountain after the play.

According to Louis, every year when I hear this story, some < master > go digging the mountain.

"Find and defeat the dying < UBM > and you may get rewards!" Apparently.

It should be noted that, of course, it has not been found yet... so it must still have vanished within hundreds of years.

I guess that's okay because a guy who doesn't drink and doesn't eat and lives after hundreds of years is definitely a pain in the ass.

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Now, after watching the play, we'll resume our walk through the stalls again.

By the way, Louis isn't accompanying me right now.

Why, because I stumbled upon a friend in the village who was here to watch the play and was invited there.

He seemed to care about this one, but he said, "Come on. I remember about the way home," he sent it off.

Louis remembered Mr. Sijima at this festival, and there was also a slight distraction. Then you should play with your friends and improve your mood.

That's why me and Nemesis, the three seniors, were working now...

"Ray, aren't you thirsty?

"Oh, speaking of which, a little"

I wanted a drink during the play, but I couldn't go buy it while I was watching it.

"Then I'll buy you a drink. It must have been over there."

"Then I'll buy something too. Do seniors want anything to eat?

"Popcorn, please"

"Accepted"

Seniors go back the way they came, and we line up in a popcorn stall that was nearby.

Speaking of popcorn, my brother Popcorn was in the MMO Journal Planter news before you logged in.

I ate the prototype too, but that's delicious. Delicious... I have a slight scare around not telling me what I use for ingredients other than corn.

And the CM song about working with Mr. Raleigh is also a mystery. What's with the taste and the Destroy, you're not breathing because of the lyrics with a good melody that you can waste.

"... hmm?

When I was shopping for popcorn with my brother's mystery song in mind, some of my business trips got noisy.

If you shift your gaze to see if something's going on,

"Oh!? Yan's?

"You must be the one who bumped into me. Ooh! Ahhh!?? only buy sold fights goraah!

There was some kind of bad collision as painted on the picture.

One group uniformly marked with red and black circles on their clothes, the other was all a group of Mohicans for some reason.

Both sides seem to have bad guts, skirmishes between chimps, etc.

Also, everyone holding the corner had a crest on the back of their left hand, so it seems to be all in place.

I don't think, "But it's like half a century ago bad or the end of the century," but it's weird because there would be a mix of people rolling.

If there are villain rolls, there will be bad ones too. We also have Mohican among the < MASTER > defeated in Gideon's case.

Now, the festivities may be tedious, but it's an annoying story for other tourists.

I was keeping an eye on the change in fights, hoping I wouldn't have any trouble if anything happened.

"Oh, what's up, Temeera?"

From behind the one-touch, immediate chimps, a single figure appeared.

It was a man over three metres long, dressed in enormous armor.

Full plate armor and full face helm make it impossible to catch a glimpse of its face, but this much armor will not be worn without extra stature.

And I observed and realized that much.

The man in the armor was the one I saw while I was meeting my senior.

"Sub-owner!

"Hey, what the hell, Temee!

The round-mark group welcomes armor and the Mohican group is intimidated.

This is how armor responds to the voices of anyone on the intimidated side.

"Don't you know who I am when you look at this armor?

... I don't know.

"Oh, you can't be... Um!

"Even if you appraise it, it's real..."

but apparently the Mohicans figured it out.

... I think I'll take "Nursing" or "Appraisal Eye" too.

But nah, when I try to make it up to you with my gear, it's just my glasses...

Job... Speaking of which, it's time to kanst [Holy Knight] but what about the next Job?

'I think I noticed. Then you know what to do. So what? We're in Sol Crisis!

"Olah! If you don't want to be PK, you can't leave one gold coin alone!

Cuttlefish?

"Chi, motherfucker......!

"Hey, I'm going to retire today! If you can't enjoy the festival in Despena, you'll lose a lot of money on transportation!

The Mohican group was awesome by the figure of armor and fled with a crawling body that threw away money.

"Sub-owner, did you see that now!

"Kuhaha, I don't know. Let's go, Temeera!...... hmm?

Afterwards, the armor and the round-mark group - < Sol Crisis > also tries to leave the scene by cutting the wind with their shoulders.

It's just that when I left, that armor was looking at me with chills.

I was blind, but that slit was still watching over me.

But the armor didn't say anything and just left.

What the fuck?

"It's called a fountain, why are you looking at me?

"... that would catch my eye even if I didn't like it"

"You don't have a tag now, do you?

…………

Nemesis had somehow chewed shades and popcorn with tired eyes.

"What's wrong?

and the senior returns with three drinks on the basin there - a replacement shield.

"No, until just now there was a bunch of bad galas there, only called..."

"Oh, that's an emerging PK clan. I've never encountered them directly, but I hear their names."

"There was a big armor in it."

"Armor?"

"Yeah, over three meters. Oh, can you put that on properly?

"Yes, you can."

Seniors start explaining armor as they hand us drinks.

"The easiest way to start is with a giant avatar."

Oh, speaking of which, can you do anything but normal people?

Wolf cherry blossoms were also werewolf beasts.

"Well, even if your avatar is a giant, it doesn't change your status, so you're probably going to look down on it. And it's a huge hit, and the equipment is oversized, so it's expensive."

...... It's a downside to the advantages.

"And if you're a senior [armor giant], you can wear armor that doesn't fit your size, depending on the STR."

"You also have jobs like the armored version of your senior [shield giant]. That, but no matter how many STRs there are, if armor isn't the right size, it's like a lot of cavities and it's hard to move."

"There is something called Armor Adjuster in [Armor Giant] 's skills. This fills the armor cavity with a viscous air-like force field that allows you to move without worrying about the size. I was wondering if it would be something close to the powersuit we say in the SF movie."

"Heh."

Some of them have useful skills.

And the seniors seem familiar with [armored giants]. Now it's [shield giant], but was it [armor giant] before?

Well, if you're a senior who seems to be familiar with the data, you might be familiar with other jobs.

"Big armor is fine. It can be highly intimidating, and even if it penetrates the armor, it can be removed by the opponent for a cavity that accounts for most of the volume."

Oh, I'm kind of feeling it. I knew I might have taken [Armor Giant] back in the day too.

"... there's nothing we can do if we're split from the top of our heads."

My senior sighs and has a slightly distant eye.

Do you also have some bad memories?

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"When do we set it up?

"It'll be fine after the festival. It's going to get in the way now."

"If it wasn't for the K&R guys on the way out, it would have been decided there."

"But there are also positive elements. Not only that, but it didn't work."

"Kuhaha. The value of the prey has increased."

"That's right.... Best way home from this village after the festival, like I just said to set it up. However…"

"Oh, if there's a chance while I'm here, there it is."

To be continued