Legend

"Uh... you screwed up"

Ray whines unexpectedly as he walks around the city. Next to it is Seto's appearance, as usual.

After sending Elaine out, she was dusked by Dusker, who is also the lord of this city of Guild, and still managed to escape the mansion by getting paperwork to accomplish the request, Ray was walking around the city with Seto.

I'd like to get paid for handing over paperwork in my guild if I were you, but it's just past 9: 00 in the morning. Whether you're on your way to the Alliance now, it's going to be hard to get paid for getting caught up in the crowd of other adventurers who have gathered for the Alliance in search of a request. Then I decided it would be easier to go to the guild after the crowd had subsided for a little while... but I was worried about how I would use my free time halfway through it.

"Hmm, what do we do, Seto? I don't have enough time to strip the material, and I thought I'd take a break at the inn."

"Grrrrrrrr"

I agree, but as I said, I saw a couple of figures in Ray's eyes walking around the city watching Seto snort.

If it was just a few humans, it would have passed as it were. But four boys around the age of 15, about the same age as Ray, surround one child about the age of 10, and I unwittingly close my eyes when I see them taking them to the one with no one.

In the city of Gilm, which has a large number of adventurers who are rough people, few act like power is everything in a way. And it's natural for a child to be influenced by the behavior more than they grow up watching adults say and do. Those were the boys, but the biggest misfortune for them would have been that Ray was out of time. Usually it was through to see the kid being brought into the alley, but it just seemed like a leisure break in the outfit for Ray now that he had half the time.

"Seto, let's take a peek"

"Gru."

Was Seto equally free, rattling in the back of his throat as he cleverly eats meat with a couch from Ray's offered Big Boa skewer grill?

"Well, well, it's a good pattern in a no difficulty place... now that that kid was actually a nobleman or a big merchant concealer, or something like that unfolding... I guess not"

Four boys and one child at the end of their gaze. Each outfit felt like everyone was the general public around it and didn't look like something translated.

No, maybe it's a lot of translation if we try it in person, but if we try it to Ray, who just experienced something as onerous as the Viscount Sails family who betrayed the Bestian Empire, it would have just seemed like a kid-to-kid play.... Ray himself is no different in appearance from those who are about 15 years old and ahead of him.

Follow a little further away so that the 5 moving forward can't find you. Because even if you're that far apart, it's not that hard to steal and listen to conversations if you use Ray's physical abilities and five senses.

"Fiss, did you bring what you were told?

……

"Hey, if you ask me, give me a reply."

"... None"

"What?"

"I said I didn't bring it! Who's gonna listen to you guys?

"Gu!"

A child surrounded by four boys suddenly stuck a 20cm iron bar out of the way to the pigeon tail of the boy he was talking to earlier, swinging it around the side of the boy who was next to him when he quickly put the iron bar back on hand...

"Whoa, that's dangerous."

Hold your child's hand down before he hits you with an iron bar on the flank to stop that movement.

The first blow to the pigeon tail was accidental, so I succeeded safely, but it seems that there is no way to exchange it on a child as young as 10 years old when my arm is just pressed into it.

(Even so, don't stand weird with those guys)

Ray whines inside as he follows the current series of events with his eyes.

Of course, when I say I will stand up, I'm not saying I can do it as an adventurer. However, compared to those who have grown up in a normal general household, the body is clearly different and accustomed to the place.

(Well, think about it without difficulty. You know the adventurer, or maybe you've got some training from your family.)

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Can we just leave it like that? and Seto tilting his little neck and asking.

Nod small at the appearance and set up skewer-roasted skewers that Seto ate earlier.

"Damn, what a dirty imitation to strike! I'll teach you where you stand!

A boy with a dovetail poked at him stood up and tried to kick the face of a child being held in...

Humph!

At that moment, a skewer quickly thrown by Ray rushed straight into the boy's cheek, poking deep into the walls of a house made of bricks behind him.

"... Huh?

A boy who doesn't know what happened and softly hands to his cheek. Then the cheeks are scratched about a few centimeters and the blood sticks to the palms.

"Yes, who is it!

It wasn't the boy who was trying to kick the kid, or the boy who was holding that kid back. It was one of the two remaining.

"Hmm? Oh, it's me... was there a problem?

That said, it was Ray who showed up from the shadows. However, there is no sign of Seto. Just when he decided that Griffon would make a big scene if he showed up on this occasion, Seto told him to wait in the shadows of a little further away before showing up.

"Oh, you bet. What the hell are you doing all of a sudden?

As much as we showed up. Or a boy who thinks because of his tall height and decides he'll be younger and screams like that with strength. But the last boy next to him is suddenly looking at a skewer poking at a brick.

It's impossible for a tree skewer to just pierce a brick if it's meant to be. I guess you don't know what happened because you understand that.

(... you did well)

Ray whining inside. I threw magic on the tree skewer somehow. Unless it was inherently a special metal that would pass through magic, magic would be scattered immediately, but somehow the result of throwing magic with a force push on only rays with substandard magic was an inherently improbable result: a tree skewer piercing a brick.

"Hmm, what did you say at times like this? Oh, yeah, yeah. Did you say that you had to see righteousness without courage?"

"Huh? I don't know why. I didn't say it. What, are you selling us fights?

"No, I'm simply free"

I say so lightly for saying that it is not courageous not to see righteousness, that is, it is not courageous to do it, knowing that it is righteousness...

I guess you thought I was being made fun of by how Ray was doing. A boy who was holding the child back frees the child on the spot and moves forward.

"Um, come on, we're busy, as you can see. Look, I'm sorry to interrupt, but could you just disappear? You don't want to get hurt, either, do you?

"Hmm... well, 20 points."

"Huh? Say what..."

Ray's fist was appearing in front of the boy when he tried to say something and noticed it. For the boy, just for a moment. No, my fist was appearing in front of me at a moment that seemed even long.

"With your strength, you know the difference in power from mine. Are you still willing?

"Huh!?

A boy who breathes and hesitates to hit Ray while holding his fist. I understood that the man in the robe standing in front of me was not a half-breed user because he would be the most armed of the four boys on this scene.

... Nevertheless, it is the result of deliberately allowing Ray to deduce the difference in power.

"... what do we do?

"Huh! Let's go!

"Oh, hey! Why not? I don't care if we have one of those guys!

"Come on, let's go!

When the boy tells him to throw it away, two boys, a boy who was thinly slashed and torn with a skewer on his cheek, and a boy who watched the skewer stab him in the brick, follow him, and the boy who stayed until the end just didn't think he had a win on his own. Spitting on the ground follows his buddies.

"Is this what it is?... Hey, you okay?

Drop off the four backwards who are leaving and gaze at the child who was being held to the ground.

……

But the child stood up silently, not particularly thanking him, and turned his gaze to Ray by paying the dirt and dust attached to his clothes.

"Brother, you're strong."

"Hmm? Oh, well. Even now, I'm an adventurer, so I have an unbeatable amount of power over them around here.... and"

Chirali and Ray looking behind her back. The child, who tried to follow that gaze and turned his gaze behind Ray, breathes unexpectedly when he sees Griffon, who at some point appeared there.

"What is that... Griffon?

"Oh. Haven't you heard? It's quite popular in the city of Gilm."

"No, it's only recently that I've been in this city.... won't bite?

"As long as you stay away from me in bad faith, I'll be fine."

"... can I stroke it?

He says he's just seen Seto for the first time, but suddenly he turns his gaze toward the child's face unexpectedly at that statement.

Many people asked me if I could stroke Seto after knowing that he had a mild temper after dealing with him a few times, but it was rarely said in person.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

That seems to have been the same for Seto, who sits on the spot looking at the kid so he can snarl and stroke happily in the back of his throat.

……

Gently, but surely reaching for Seto's head...

"Wow, soft"

He finally stroked his head. He was a child who stroked Ceto for a while as it was, but eventually Ray opens his mouth.

"So, what do we do? Should I ask why you were involved with them or something?

"... yeah. 'Cause this is something I have to work out."

"Right. Well, I just stuck my face in my spare time anyway, so if that's what you're gonna say, I'm not gonna ask you any more."

"Yeah, the... it's a little late. Thanks for your help."

"Never mind. Like I said, I had a little leisure time."

Smile at the child lowering his or her head and tell him or her so, then remove one freshly baked skewer from the mistering and give it to the child.

"Look, just eat this."

"Oh, yeah. Thanks."

Take out one skewer for yourself and one for Seto as well, and the two lower back to the empty box that was nearby, and Seto lays down on the ground near it and cheeks the skewer.

"Ha-ha-ha,... yummy... but this is freshly baked, right? Where did you get it out of?

"Hmm, I have a magic item that can handle that kind of thing."

Ray also answers to the child's words as he strikes his tongue drum on the skewer again, stopping his eyes at what is falling on the fudge cobblestone.

That's a substitute for this kid poking one of the boys' dovetails earlier.

A purely elongated iron stick, not a knife without a blade or something. It was a substitute such as a short stick, about 20cm long and not enough, but is it like a stick if you think about it in Ray's knowledge?

interest, picking it up off the ground and staring at it all the time.

"Ah..."

I guess a kid who was focused on eating skewers noticed that. He reaches out like he's in a panic.

"Or give it back!

To the words, Ray gives the short stick to the child without any particular hesitation, which he did not intend to take away.

"Hmm? Oh, look. And you have something very rare. Made for you?

"Oh, yeah. My dad made this for me just in case it's a messy city."

"Father made it? What, is your father a blacksmith or something?

"That's right. I've only recently come to this city, but I have a reputation for being smart. Have you ever heard of Pamidor?

A child who stares at Ray with his anticipating eyes, but Ray shakes his neck small, left and right.

"Sorry, it was yesterday that I came back to this city. After that, I was tired and I slept in the inn."

"Oh..."

"I'll drop by when I get a chance. By the way, where are you keeping the store open?

"Uh, there was a library nearby!

Hear more stories and make sure it's about a 10-minute walk from the library. If it is in that position, it is well understood because it is also within the scope of action for Ray.

(That said, my weapon is a Death Size made of Warcraft. If this is a normal magic item, I guess I need to get the blade sharpened...... oh no. But considering daggers for demolition and spears for throwing...)

"Well, I'll drop by next time I get a chance."

"Yeah. You can't beat them. Come on."

I can largely predict why this child was involved with the words. Perhaps those boys were threatening to bring this kid's father's made weapon or something. If you're a blacksmith's kid, you can bring it to your father without finding it, and if you're a kid at the same time, you can't go against yourself, who's older.

(It's only a prediction, but you're not so wrong)

Finish eating the last slice of the skewer and get up from the empty box where you were sitting.

"Well, I've had time to crush my purpose, and I'm about to go... what do you do? If I were here, I'd be tangled up with them again, wouldn't I?

"Maybe. I'm going home, too."

"You better do that"

I nodded small, and this one tried to leave the alley with Seto, who had finished a few skewers...

"Brother, let me know your name!

Yes, I can call from behind.

"It's Ray. This Griffon over here is Seto."

"Ray, brother, Seto, thank you for your help! I say cumito!

Waving gently at the voice, Ray and Seto walked out of the alley.