Legend

Leave the captured bandit man to Set, and Ray returns to the village chief's house.

And the chief of the village, and his wife, and his daughter, and his wife, and Marina, and Vihella, were waiting in the living room.

The children don't seem to wake up asleep.

If you think about what we're going to talk about, maybe it was lucky in a way.

They looked at Ray, who had entered the house, and looked at him with a serious expression.

"Ray-san... how was it?" Are you sure the bandits are after this village? "

The village chief's daughter asked Ray with a serious expression.

I've lived in this small village, but I've never been attacked by a bandit before.

If it turns out that our village will actually be attacked by bandits, we'll be worried.

Other than the marina and Vihera, Ray looked at her with an uneasy look on her face.

Ray nodded frankly to all of them.

"Yeah, I was sure it was the bandits."

"Why... is this a small village...?"

"Or maybe it's because it's a small village."... anyway, it's true that this village is being attacked by bandits. As a matter of fact, as I said earlier, I'm used to fighting bandits. "

"It's called bandit-seeding."

Instead of my daughter, the village chief asks Ray so.

That said, there are some colors that I can't understand because I heard from Marina and Vihella that Ray has a hobby of bandit hunting while Ray is interrogating them.

In Ray's case, the bandit was a weak opponent with a few exceptions, and for that reason, he was storing treasure.

You can definitely win if you fight, but if you defeat them, you can use the treasure stored by the bandits as your own property, and you can imitate the survival of the defeated bandits or the sale of the defeated bandits as criminal slaves.

In that sense, for Ray, a bandit was even a delicious opponent.

... some people wouldn't find it interesting to hear Ray's thoughts if they were attacked by those bandits.

In addition, some people like it like the village chief and can't understand the existence of Ray who hunts bandits from him.

Even though he noticed the village chief's appearance, Ray didn't imitate him to poke into the matter.

Objectively speaking, I knew full well that I didn't understand that I was halfway into bandit hunting.

"Anyway, according to the information I've received, the bandits are based in a forest not far from this village."

What is it?

Ray's words must have been completely unexpected.

The village chief shouted in surprise.

No, it wasn't just the village chief who was surprised, but the others as well.

The forest Ray spoke of was familiar to the villagers.

From spring to autumn, they hang out and pick wild vegetables and mushrooms.

However, the forest is by no means vast, and it would have been completely unexpected for the bandits to turn such a place into a jungle.

"By the way, it seems that they arrived in the forest yesterday."

"Oh, then we... I mean, didn't you see Set come to this village?"

Vihella suddenly said that, but Ray shook his head to the side.

"Even if you look at the Seto cage from the ground, you can't tell by the surrounding scenery, and the sound and shock when you lowered the Seto cage, I don't think it can be transmitted because there is a distance to the forest in the village."

Although it is described as a forest on the side of the village, it still takes about 30 minutes to walk from the village.

A child's legs will take longer.

Beyond that distance, it was not strange that the shock and sound of lowering the cage to the ground did not reach the forest.

"Anyway, I just set up a forest, and it's not that big as a scale." Then I'd like to take them down as soon as I can. That's why.... "

I'll go hunting for bandits tomorrow morning.

Ray tried to say that, but changed his mind when he saw that the village chief's family was anxious.

"I'm going to go hunt for bandits." I don't know what to do with the guy I caught... After all, it's easy to get rid of it.

The village chiefs had a complicated expression on Ray's face.

Given the extra space in the village, I can't afford to accept wasted rice.

In the sense that they ate, so did Ray, but in the case of Ray, they paid the appropriate amount for the accommodation fee, and they also gave Gameron's meat blocks, so it was positive overall.

... On the contrary, it's obviously a plus to catch one of the bandits targeting the village and crush the bandit's headquarters.

I couldn't possibly join the bandits captured by Ray and the others.

That's why it was so hard to kill a bandit.

If this village had been attacked and damaged by bandits, it might have been a different story, but since Seto was captured before there was any damage in the village, there is no harm like that.

Even though the captured man came to scout this village, why did he come to the mayor's house near the center of the village?

I checked the situation in the village, and if I went back to the forest, I wouldn't be caught.

In that sense, I may have thought that I could understand the importance of reconnaissance only at the bottom, and that if it worked well, I might be able to take something tasty before my people attacked this village.

I don't know if Ray felt that way, but Set got caught in the end.

"You have until I come back to decide what to do with the man you captured." Of course, you don't have to kill me or let me go before I come back. "

Bandits are the enemy of the village, but this time, they are not suffering the kind of damage they have suffered.

That said, as a resident of the village, I didn't care if I chose to liberate... or expel them.

If it's the decision of the village, I'll say it.

Got it.

The village chief nodded to Ray's words, and although Ray was about to go bandit hunting.....

"Oh, Ray, are you going to go alone?"

That's what Marina says to Ray.

The mayor's family and Ray were surprised at the behavior.

But for a different reason.

In the case of the village chiefs, they are surprised that Marina is going to go with Ray, and in the case of Ray they are surprised that Marina said something like that, not the militant Vihella.

Ray looked at Vihera from the marina with such a surprise gaze.....

"I'm not going, am I?" It's a weak opponent, isn't it? I don't think it's the kind of person I can enjoy. "

That's what they say.

Ray was convinced enough that Vihella would say that.

Vihera is a combat fanatic, but that battle must only be for her own pleasure.

There's nothing interesting about a Vihera such as a battle to ravage the enemy unilaterally.

If the bandits had any arms now, Vihera would have been happy to join the fight.

However, it is not strange for Vihella to judge that there is no small band of bandits with such an armed man, and that there is only a small fish.

"All right. All right. I'll go to the marina with me." Maybe... maybe, but it's not like the bandits are going to attack the village when we're gone. "

That's what Ray said, but in fact, I thought it was unlikely that it would be anywhere near.

Thinking that the bandits wouldn't have such a head.

"That's right. I'll deal with you if anything comes up." If you're a bandit who can outrun Ray, maybe some of you can stand up to him. "

I don't think there's a chance that this will really happen when we both repeat the words "just in case".

Still, what I'm saying is to calm down the village chief's family.

And even without it, as I'm telling you, I'm going to escort you in case something like that really happens.

"Wait a minute, please. Is Marina going with Ray? Isn't that dangerous?"

The village chief's daughter says in a panic.

In any case, I didn't think that Ray the little man would be able to fight a marina in a party dress or a Vihera in a thin coat like a hooker or a dancer.

In that area, it is significant that the two did not claim to be active combatants in the meal and subsequent conversation.

“Don't worry about it. I'm an adventurer who's throwing a party with Ray. If you're a bandit, you can easily defeat him even if it's not as bad as Rae."

That's what the marina said, but the village chiefs can't honestly believe it.

From the look of the marina, it seemed that the adventurer was invisible.

"Don't worry. The marina is really strong. That's why I have the strength to defeat bandits at the marina alone, even if I don't go."

Although Ray will follow, the village chiefs still can't honestly believe it.

Eventually, the village chief's family could not stop Marina from going to the bandit crusade with Ray because they could not oppose Marina's intentions.

"... eh?"

With Marina, Ray heads to Set's place near the village chief's house, where a man captured by Set looks at Marina and leaks his voice.

The appearance of the marina floating in the moonlight seemed fantastic to the man.

I can't help but notice the presence of a marina in front of me when I'm being captured.

I was just confused as to what happened.....

Sleep for now.

Ray's kick was unleashed on the pigeon's tail, making him unconscious.

(Did you add or subtract a bit of force wrongly?)

When he kicked a man's pigeon tail, he learned that Ray had misplaced his strength when he felt his ribs broken in his leg, but he was a bandit and it was difficult to sell it as a slave, so he didn't heal a man who had fainted because he didn't care if he died the worst, and he tied it with a rope he took out of his mistiling.

Marina doesn't seem to say anything when she sees a bandit like that.

Only Marina, who was an adventurer before the Guildmaster, outperformed Ray in her purely adventurer experience.

That's all, I wouldn't say anything about the treatment of the bandits.

I thought I was lucky not to be killed here.

"Set, I'll go hunt for bandits, please." Marina, get behind me. "

"Huh? You don't have to grab my leg?"

I guess that's because Marina knew that putting anything other than Ray on her back when Set was flying would be quite burdensome.

Ray shakes his head at Marina's words.

"That's fine." I'm not flying....... In the first place, flying in the shape of a marina is a lot less tasty, isn't it? "

Even though no one is out at night, it's a problem for a marina in a party dress to hang on to Set's legs.

Not only is it a matter of appearance, but the flying set can also be affected by the party dress flickering in the wind.

However, from now on, ambush... no, it was also a problem to use Seto's cage to attack at night.

If this was the only place where people could walk for half a day, I would have been able to imitate the use of a set cage.

If an adult is about 30 minutes away on foot, it would be enough for Set to run with Ray and Marina on board... no, it wouldn't be strange to arrive in a few minutes.

Then it was Ray's decision not to go out of his way to fly the set, but to run and move without any problem.

"If that's what Ray says, I can do that." Besides... if you think about it as a night date with Ray Set, it's not that bad. "

Marina tells with a smile.

In fact, I was going bandit hunting, and it was by no means a date at night, as Marina said... but I guess that's how it feels when I go to the marina.

"From now on, we're going to go to the forest."...... if that's all right, I'll make it a date. "

Grrrrr?

Set's throat twitched in confusion at the word date.

If you go to Seto, you probably think you can go on a date with him.

"I don't care, I don't mind going with you for that long."... there's no point in staying here forever, let's get rid of the bandits. I can't expect any treasures.

Thinking of it as a small band of bandits, I couldn't expect the treasure I had.

Unfortunately, Ray went out with Marina and Set to hunt bandits.