Legend

"Well, now you can almost understand each strength."

Gran tells that in front of the rank-up exam participants at the training ground.

The recipients of it, some moaned small, and others laughed, or listened to the words of Gran with a remorseful face.

"As I have said many times, this mock fight is only to know each other's strengths in making a bandit crusade request. It's like not being too restrained. So, the next decision is who's going to lead this extraordinary party..."

Growling and staring in turn at the six faces, Gran. Each one of them is breathtaking waiting to see who will be named leader aside from what they want to be and don't want to be. In the meantime, Gran's gaze was fixed on one person.

"Ray, you're the leader"

And I tell you so.

"What? Me?

Ray brings surprise to Gran's words to his face. But Gran nods to the question without any hesitation.

"Oh. Honestly, I understand that your fighting power itself isn't already rank D or anything like that. Somehow you have the strength to defeat Oak King. But in your case, that high combat power presupposes acting solely individually and solo. Perhaps even the E-rank would be fine, but if it were more than the D-rank, it could be temporary or fixed, but naturally it would have to come out to party with the others. That's why I don't like dealing with people. I have to do something about it for you to get to the top rank. so that we can communicate at a minimum, even with less."

Ray had no choice but to observe silence in Gran's words, which he would point out in good faith. Essentially because I was aware that I wasn't that good with people. And if they told me that was a condition for getting to the top rank, there was no option left for Ray not to take on the leader.

"Okay. Let me take on the leader."

"I like the rest of them. Until the bandit crusade is over, the leader of this extraordinary party will be Ray."

Everyone snorts at Gran's words.

... although each one of them had their own expression.

"All right, so be quick, but here's the details of this request for a bandit crusade. First of all, you explained that the bandit Ajito is two days from the city of this guild. I'll guide you that far. I mean, I'm an examiner, so how long do I have to go with you guys? The departure is tomorrow morning, before the 9 o'clock bell rings, gather in front of the main entrance. The guild puts out the carriage as a leg. Any questions?

To Gran's words, Cullot opens his mouth.

"The carriage preparation means the guild will do it, but other supplies. Especially the food and potion kind?

I've often noticed that question of Cullot, but as I said, Gran has a niggling grin.

"Only carriages are offered by the Alliance. Make sure that each of the other supplies has what it needs for itself. Naturally, we'll let the supplies we've prepared go into the assessment, so be careful."

The next person to open his mouth was Spelvia.

"When it comes to bandits, do you know exactly how many people they are?

"There are at least 20 of them."

"... I see. Or at least."

Spelvia nods understanding behind Gran's words. The area was with the Oak Crusade, so Ray could immediately guess.

"At the very least, why are you so confined to that word?

Alogan, who does not understand the back of the words, asks Spelvia. Scola was similarly leaning her neck and gazing toward the culot next door.

"Apparently there are a few people who don't understand. Ray, this is my first job as a leader."

Gran prompts me and Ray opens his mouth with a sigh.

"At least 20 people means more than that, and that could be 40 or 100."

Alogan and Scola gnawing at the words.

But Firma keeps the word to reassure those two.

"That said, this is only a task chosen for the Alliance's Rank Up exam, so you can assume there's not that many unscrupulous"

To that word, two openly exhaling breaths of relief. But Gran opens his mouth again with a mean grin.

"Sure, this is an Alliance exam, but that doesn't mean it's absolutely safe. Relax and you'll die.... Well, any other questions?

No one opens their mouth to that word of Gran. Gran, who confirmed it, turns his gaze to Ray.

"Ray, subtract one. You should hear more about rewards as a leader than this is a request."

"... oh, I see"

Pointed out, Ray nodding small.

The request for Ray was a means to obtain the Demon Stone, and the reward itself didn't seem to bother me with that because I didn't care so much.

"It seems small, but if you don't confirm the reward, it is possible that you can rub it with the client after the request is accomplished.... Well, you don't have to worry about this neighborhood if you're going to take a request that's affixed to the Alliance's Request Board, but it's rare when you get above Rank D, but sometimes they ask you not to go through the Alliance. In that case, as I just said, don't forget to listen carefully to the rewards and requests. Incidentally, in relation to the Rank Up Exam, the reward is one silver coin each."

Everyone nods at Gran's words.

"Okay, so today we're going to dissolve. As I said earlier, I'm leaving tomorrow morning at 9: 00, so I'll pack my bags and meet you in front of the main gate. And this will be repeated, but Ray forbids bringing Griffon"

Everyone scatters the word as a signal.

Unexpectedly sighs Ray as he sees the back of the extraordinary party members.

Sometimes I didn't think I'd be the wingman to be entrusted with a party leader, but more problematic than that...

(What do we do with Seto, right? Two days to go, two days to go home. And probably five days in a day over there. And this is assuming there's no trouble whatsoever. One week as looking at it for about two days at once.... you can't keep Seto locked up in a stables for exactly a week... then you just have to leave it with someone... no, wait)

At that moment, it was what Mileyne looked like floating behind Ray's brain. A rare person who knows some of their anomalies and still treats them with familiarity. Then you don't have to worry in case you're embedding the seeds of the pledge. Also, I can tell from watching that Mileyne herself has quite an attachment to Seto.

"If so, the question is whether we can catch them by tomorrow..."

He shrugged, and the good rushed into the guild.

"Lenora, I'd like to get in touch with Mireine in the scorching wind, is there any good way?

Return to the guild and look around, but there was no sign of the scorching wind, including Mileyne. Since it was already daytime, it was unlikely that the adventurer would be in the guild, so he went to the counter without any particular loss and spoke to Lenora.

"Are you Mr. Mileyne in the scorching wind? If she were you, she'd be back in the guild this evening cleaning up her requests."

"Do you know the exact time?

"No, that's just... sorry"

"Oh, no. Never mind. I said impotent, too. So, when Mileyne gets back, can you ask for a message?

"I don't mind that."

To Lenora's words, Ray exhales with relief.

If you can't ask for a message, you'll have to wait in your guild until the scorching wind returns.

Some of the mysteries contain obvious things you need to go away, but they're still incomplete. I wanted to buy something useful if I took that refill or something else.

"Uh, Mr. Ray. Are you going to cheat on me while I exist?

Looking at Ray like that, Kenny sounds like he was listening to two interesting conversations next to Lenora.

Ray shakes his head with a bitter smile at the look of it.

"It's not a message in that sense. As you know, I'm taking a rank promotion exam, and they say I can't take Seto with me because I'm overpowered. I said, it's pathetic to keep Seto in the Inn stables for almost a week, so I thought I'd ask Mileine to look after him in the meantime. Fortunately, Mileyne is quite fond of Seto."

"I see. Surely if I took that kid to the D-rank rank-up exam, it would be a bit of a problem militarily, wouldn't it? Okay, I'll leave you a message."

"Then tell me to come to the wheat pavilion at dusk when you get back after the request. I need to talk to you about Seto."

"Yes, leave it to me"

"Huh. It's kind of a misguided vibe."

Lenora nodded at Ray's words, and next to him, Kenny looked to Ray slightly dissatisfied.

Finishing dinner at the wheat pavilion at dusk and being indulgent in the room knocks on the door.

"Ray, are you there? I got a message from my guild."

"Oh, wait a minute"

Weave the dragon robe you were taking off to relax, put on your Slapenil shoes, and open the door.

In addition to the promised Mileyne, there was the sulnin of the wizard, a party member of the scorching wind, and the figure of the bowman Ekril.

"Lenora told me the rough story. You mean you want to keep Seto with us for a while, right? For once, we're all here because it has to do with all the scorching winds."

"No problem. Come on in."

Nodding at Miraine's words, he moves from the front of the door and invites three people into the room.

Exactly. It's narrow when we have as many as four people in a room for one, each of them sitting down to a chair, floor, or bed.

The first person to open his mouth was, naturally, Mileyne.

"So, about Seto, are you serious about leaving it with us?

That's what you're asking, Mileyne, but that face had a grin full of expectations. If you try Mileine, who is obsessed with Ceto, depositing Ceto with ourselves would be exactly the boat across the street.

"Oh. Lenora may have told me at the guild that it is forbidden to take Seto to the rank-up exam I take. or so, as little as 5 days. If you can afford it, it's a little bit of an imitation to keep Seto locked up in the stables for a week."

"I'm wearing an obedient devil's necklace, so don't let him like it. Seto would be very welcome from everyone in the city, wouldn't he?

"Mileine, that's a little impossible"

It was the wizard's sulnin, also a wisdom bag of scorching wind, who hung the wait on Mileine's words.

"Even if you were wearing an obedient devil's necklace, if just as many high-ranking monsters as Griffon were walking around without the Lord's Adventurer, who lived in this city and knew about Seto, it could cause panic by people who just came to the city of Gilm or residents who didn't know Ray and Seto"

"Uh, you're such a cute Seto..."

"Sulnin is the best thing to say, so if someone is attached to Seto, he can feel safe and free. Of course I won't tell you to keep Seto for nothing. While I'm taking the rank-up exam, you can think of Seto as your squire force when you take requests. What do you say?"

Mileyne brightens her expression in such a way as welcome to see Ray's words, and Ekril also has another agreeable and small grin. Keep it up, Mileyne tries to open her mouth to take on Seto's case... and there Sulnin cracks in.

"I certainly wouldn't say it's a good idea to lend your obedience to someone else for a short period of time, or to have circumstances and take care of it... but that's quite a story to ask. But if something goes wrong before the submissive is deposited, then the Lord must take full responsibility... a suggestion based on understanding that?

"That's not a problem. Sometimes I trust you, and Seto is smart, so whatever happens, it doesn't matter."

Hearing Ray's words, Sulnin also nods small with his gaze toward Mileyne again.

"Okay. You can take it if you trust us that much. I get more power when I ask... and I don't have any complaints about that Griffon Ceto."

Thus all of the scorching winds understood Seto's acceptance, and Seto and Ray would act differently while Ray was heading out to crusade the bandits in the rank-up exam.

However, because Seto, who heard it, sounded tiny in the back of his throat and with his circular eyes turned his lonely gaze on Ray, a small guilt sprout appeared in the face of Ray and the scorching wind...