Legend

Days after the rank-up exam pass announcement. Ray's figure was still at the wheat pavilion at dusk.

He takes off his dragon robes and Slapenil shoes in the room he rents, rolls over to bed with an easygoing look and looks at the book he bought at the bookstore.

What's written there is the main caveat about the dungeon.

Gran told me that the location of the nomination request was a dungeon, so I went to a store where I bought a book on how to dismantle a monster before and bought it.

"After all, bandits are a must for dungeons."

The book says the dungeons are mostly trapped.

And that trap, some of the monsters that live in the dungeon were planted by wise people, and some were made naturally when the dungeon was formed.

"You can assume that General Princess and I don't have enough bandit skills to fight on the battlefield first. Same goes for me. Then I'll have to hire a bandit in this city of Gilm, or pray for a bandit in the service of the princess general..."

While I think so, I give up half the look.

Anyway, Grand tells me that only Ray will act with the Duke's Lady as a nomination request. Then you may first assume that there is no possibility of hiring new bandits in the city of Gilm. Then the only hope is that someone with bandit skills will be at the mercy of the Duke's Lady.

"Why don't you just study so I can untie you if I'm a simple trap?

That's what I thought, Ray, but there are a few days left to start the request. Not very much, but it was obvious that it would be impossible to fix bandit technology from now on.

"Can't you just keep thinking about it here, huh? Can you move your body a little bit?"

That said, I just have to move my body to the point where I'm not blunt at the Alliance's training center than I'm told not to take on the crusade request.

Still, it's better than not doing it, and I just get up and get ready to go out and leave the inn.

And when I show my face to the stables...

"Yes, Seto. Eat this too."

For some reason, there was a Mireine feeding to Seto with a swinging look.

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto also approaches one and one as he smiles bitterly at the way it is being fed with joy.

"Ah, Ray. Sorry to bother you."

"No, I did say you could come see Seto anytime... no requests today?

Mireine nods small as she strokes Seto's back to such a ray question.

"Yeah. Because you worked a little hard against Forrest Crawler yesterday. Take the day off."

"... well. Well done."

Forest Crawler. It is a giant potato-like monster living in the woods, as its name suggests. Its size is 2m long even for smaller objects. It's not so uncommon to go over 3m in length if you get bigger. Combat power itself is not as high as rank D monsters, and the hazards are considerably lower than those of Trent, etc. of the same rank. But sometimes it looks like a giant potato worm, and for the adventurers of women, it's a monster that hates them like a snake scorpion. There are also times when that buoyant body doesn't want to attack as much as possible for the avant-garde people, which would have been the worst opponent if they had tried Mileine playing swordsman with a woman.

"Right? That's why I'm playing with Seto today to relieve stress.... What business is Ray on?

"No, I was hoping to get to the guild training ground to move my body a little bit. I thought Seto would go anyway...... what do we do?

Ray calls out to Seto, who is being stroked by Mileine. I don't mind staying here with Mileyne for anything... I also asked because Seto tinkles his throat when he goes with him too.

I guess that's what Mileyne figured out, too. He looked sorry for himself, but he sighed.

"So what about Mileyne?

"Uh... right. Then I'll come with you. Sometimes he wanted to try a mock fight with Ray once.... How's it going?

Even for Mileyne, I was interested in Ray's combat ability to defeat Oak King, a monster more in character than I am, so I snort lightly after a little worrying.

"And Seto and I wanted to be together a little bit more."

However, I guess that's why Mileyne wants Mileyne.

Then get Seto out of the stables and head to the guild as usual.

Are you saying that it's not one person and one, but two and one?

"Seto, Seto. Yes, this."

And usually Ray buys food in the street and gives it to Ceto, but that role had changed to Mileyne.

Watching how it goes, Ray calls out to Mileyne as she buys something like a hot dog stuck in a bread like Coppepan for herself and transports it to her mouth.

"Until a while ago, we were even making noise about the lack of money, and now we can afford it?

"Sort of. Anyway, I did it with Seto when Ray was going to the rank up test, because I could defeat a rare species on Trent's crusade request. The material sold for a lot of money.... I didn't get the Demon Stone though"

Expect that it was that rare species that Seto got poisonous claws for that word of Mileine.

"Plus yesterday's Forrest Crawler sold legs, yarn and demon stones for a good price. I can afford a little money now."

It is also a sight of the ordinary when it comes to bringing together the inhabitants of the city of Gilm and the adventurers who know Ceto under such Mileine and Ceto.

Then he arrives at the guild and Seto travels to the waiting area of the carriage or squire without Ray having to say anything to him to fall asleep.

The warm spot in the sun was already half-set space.

"Seto, say goodbye for a while then. I'll fight your husband."

"Gru."

Seto also rang short in the back of his throat to drop off the two, and Ray and Mileyne head straight into the training ground without going inside the guild.

"There's no one else today."

Miraine squeaks so when she looks around the training ground.

In fact, there's just a group of about five people in the training ground, and I don't see anyone else doing the training.

Even for those five, it's easy to imagine that they're more partying or acquainted with each other than solidifying and training in the same place.

"Well, it's daytime and I think this is it"

Some people may still move their bodies lightly in the early morning for future requests, but it's daylight now. Being on the training ground at this time of year would mean only those who, like Ray or Mileyne, are on holiday or on a training day.

"So is that. Okay, so shall we warm each other up a little before we do each other? Fine, right?

"Oh, no problem"

Ray nods at Mileyne's words and takes the Death Size out of Mystering.

Surprising voices come from the group of five who watched how it went, but it's a sight Ray is already used to seeing that those who are surprised to see Mystering. Start the preparatory movement regardless of how it goes.

Slowly shake down the death size, slash it up, and turn it into a horizontal giraffe with the flow as it is. Not only those with blades at the same time, but they poke through the air by turning the pattern around to treat it like a stick.

Even Mileine, not just the five of us who were at the training ground earlier, accidentally fell in love with that move as if it were a dance.

"'Cause that's why I'm not."

With a bitter smile, Mileyne also begins her prep movement by pulling her longsword out of her sheath.

Then for a few minutes, we nodded small at each other's bodies as they unraveled and set up their own weapons to face back.

And no! At that time, I can hear my voice as if I had been gauging the timing.

"I'm sorry, do you have a minute?

It was one of the five people who was in this training ground before the Rays who spoke up. The appearance is somewhere with a soft face that seems to be popular, and the age is in the late teens and early 20s and older than Ray and the same age as Mileyne. If you try it on Ray, it was a reminder of two people, Alogan and Spelvia, who had taken the rank-up exam together until a few days before.

"What could it be?

"You guys are going to do a mock fight, right? I was wondering if you could give us a tour, too?

"... at least I want them to name themselves before I ask them to."

"Hey, I'm sorry. If you think we're both pretty good users, you follow me. Uh, I'm Beamter. They're letting me be the leader of a rank e party called the bond of the earth that's working with the four people over there."

Pecori, and Mileyne also opens her mouth with a slight grin to Beamter, who introduces herself with her head down and apologizes for her indignation.

"Mileyne, he's the leader of the scorching wind."

"A scorching wind is definitely rank C's...... wow. That sword arm makes sense..."

Faced by an impressive beamter, Ray can't help but introduce herself.

"It's Ray. Rank D Adventurer. I work solo."

"Ray......? I think I heard it somewhere... but at that age, it's also amazing that it's Rank D. Hey, can I take a tour of the mock fight anyway for that story? I'm rank D myself, but most of the kids over there are rank E and F, so I want to show them how to fight each other for once."

"High rank... I don't think it's as good as they say it is yet that rank C"

Beamter shook his head all the time saying that he was talking facts rather than being such a humble one.

"It would be amazing enough for us to just say that we are leading a Rank C party at that young age.... So, what do you think?

"Um, I don't mind... but what about Ray?

Perhaps even the city of Gilm is accustomed to the events of this hand as the expected stock of a young man. Mileyne nods and asks Ray if she has any particular problems.

"Well, I don't mind if I stay out of your way."

"Thank you, because I will never let you get in the way"

Bearmutter running under his buddy since he lowered his head. Mileyne looks at Ray with a bitter smile as she drops him off behind that.

"That was a little surprising. I thought you said no to the mock tour because it's a lot of secrets."

"A lot of secrets, huh? You can't deny that."

"That's right. Put that thing in my body.... Well, as a result, we were able to increase our power unintentionally."

That reminds me of the seed of the commandment I used for the scorching wind.

Surely that magic is harmless unless you tell Ray's secret. On the contrary, it has the advantage of gaining resistance to flames and increasing the magical power of flame relations.

If you think of it that way, Beamter takes the four of them back under the Rays.

"Thank you for waiting. Look, everybody."

"Nice to meet you"

In line with Beamter's words, four bow their heads.

Those four were boys and girls around the same age as Ray when they looked good.

Some of them look like girls who seem obviously younger than Ray, and surprise not just Ray but even Mileyne at how it goes.

"You're a very young party."

"Yeah. They're all from the same orphanage as me. I'll take care of him."

"Uh, Brother Bear, it's lit up."

"After all, can Brother Bear also illuminate when dealing with beauties? I thought you weren't interested in women."

Beamter rebuts as he blushes in the wilderness, which cannot even be called such a wilderness.

"Fool, don't be rude to Mr. Mileyne for showing you a corner mock fight. … excuse me"

"Fine, never mind. It's more dangerous than that. Just stay away."

"Yes."

(You're used to treating children...)

Though impressed with the exchange between Mileyne and Beamter and the others, I regain my mind and build a death size.

"Okay, then you're ready. Oh, no magic."

"Okay. Weapons only."

"Well, then... well, Mr. Beamter, give me a signal to start."

"So... here we go!

With Beamter's signal, Mileyne approaches Ray kicking the ground with a long sword in place.

Ray dares to step forward while setting up a death size to intercept it.

"Huh!?

I guess I didn't think Ray, who has the long stuff, would dare crush the time. Mileine hesitates only for a moment... as a result, allowing Ray to approach inside between swords.

"Let's go!

It was a ray that poked at that momentary gap and fired a blow that snapped up Mileyne's leg with a Death Sickle pattern, but Mileyne quickly leaps backwards when she realized what Ray was after in the motion of the Sickle section.

A moment later, a death-size pattern sharply passes where Mileyne's leg was.

"... you do just fine. This is Rank D or something."

"I didn't think it would be easy to see past our intentions."

"This is still rank C, so they won't do it that easily. Even though you have the gallery's eyes, you've been hit lightly. Senior's eyes are crushed."

"Was that the kind of thing you cared about?

Whilst speaking lightly, feint with eye and body movements and explore each other's gaps.

(That said, will only time pass if it stays this way? then......)

Determined in the heart, continuing the conversation but gradually, gradually creating gaps will make it bigger.

Mileyne, who was watching, also reacts with a pickle every time she can make a gap, but she also understands that it's an invitation, so she can't set it up for a detour.

It was Ray who deliberately imitated creating a gap and inviting an attack there, but Mileyne begins to feel the pressure to prevent him from attacking anywhere in the act.

Can I attack you here? Or is this a gap, too? We need to attack here... that idea goes around my head...

"Ha!

Take a big step forward like you can no longer stand the pressure.

Ray takes the blow that was waved down with the mood of tearing and the death-sized blade is not attached, and he recieves it along the pattern... When he comes as close as he can to Ray, where Miraine's body is grasping the pattern, he jumps his sword over the sky, trying to tangle himself in the death-size.

And in the next moment, a death-sized blade was impacted perfectly on Mileyne's neck muscle, which had gone untouched.

"That's it, Winner Ray!

A voice of Beamter's battles echoed in the training field, and the adventurers of Beamter's companions watching it shouted surprise at the event that the Rank D adventurer beat the Rank C adventurer.