Legend

Ray and Seto were in front of the main gate of the city of Gilm while the sun had not yet fully appeared and dimmed, even though the 6: 00 in the morning bell had already rang.

No matter how much winter it is, it will still be dim at this hour because of the clouds that are spreading more and more as if they had a lid on the sky. Temperatures are also lower than in the last few days, and the exhaling breath of those around Ray is white.

Without weaving coats, etc. in such a way, Ray, just the robe, was terribly noticeable. Anyway, those around them are wearing robes and coats over the cold. Even though he didn't wear anything other than a robe, I guess Ray, who doesn't feel cold at all, had no choice but to stand out badly. Besides, on that side of the ray, Griffon's ceto over 2m is rubbing his face as he grunts his throat to sweeten, so he couldn't help but gather his surrounding gaze.

Still, there is not so much disgust or fear in the eyes of the merchants around us. Somehow we know we were saved when the Icebird herd attacked us a few days ago. And that's just as true for adventurers...

"You're Ray, right? Thank God you came to rescue me before this. Thanks."

To such a ray, a woman adventurer with a halvard approaches and speaks up.

He had a halvard in his hand, and the breeze of how he was used to handling it created quite a veteran atmosphere.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

To the familiar female adventurers, Seto leans her little neck as she throats. A woman adventurer, who had a bow behind the woman who had Halvard, approached her with a flirtatious trick that was so lovable that she didn't think it was that giant.

"Oh, she's so cute."

Whimpering so, the woman gently reaches out her hand if she doesn't have a bow.

"Hey, Louid! I know you like cute things, but at least say hello properly before you do!

"But, Taenier"

"Don't stretch the end of the story! My name is Taenia, not Taenia. Totally......"

"Hey, hey. Taenia, the vegetables are out, the vegetables."

Taenia yells at party member Louid as usual. And the swordsman, who had a sword and a shield to Taenia like that, shrugged. And as a Taenia, I guess I finally realized that. Try to fix it in a hurry and cough.

"Mm, Cohon. Looks like my party members have made a scene. I'm sorry. So I'll be quick, but I'd like to talk to you about introducing myself and escorting you... Do you mind?

"Oh, that would help. Seems like you already know, but I'm Ray. I think I saw him in the Icebird fight last time, but he's a magic warrior. This Griffon over here is Seto."

Ray introduces himself with his gaze toward Seto, who is being stroked by Louid.

Taenia takes it, nods small and opens her tease mouth.

"I am Taenia, leader of the Rank D Party, Shizukuishi Reiki. As you can see, he's a warrior who uses Halvard, basically, mostly Zhongwei. Or he's in the vanguard. And this one..."

Taenia turns her gaze to the woman with the sword and shield beside her.

"I'm Favel. As you can see, swords and shields on orthodox when it comes to basic weapons. However, if you look at the gear, you'll see, basically, the wall is the main part, and the sword is only an aid."

Point your gaze at the half-plate armor you are wearing. The shield is carried on its back so that it can be removed at any time, and its hips are lowered with a sheath containing a sword.

As an adventurer warrior who values the lightness of his movements, he can say that it is rarely heavily equipped. That said, it can be said that the area without wearing something that also has some power to move around like a full plate armor still seems like an adventurer.

"And finally..."

Taenia turns her gaze to Luid, who is playing with Seto for the last time, but she had a blissful look on her face as she stroked Seto with no notices of such gaze at all.

Picri. Taenia's cheek moves uncomfortably watching such a party member. Fabel looked at it and accidentally covered her face with her hands, but Rueed was stroking Seto without even realizing it. And just reached the limit of patience, Taenia breathes heavily...

"Louid! Don't play with Griffon, introduce yourself thoroughly!

"Wow!?

The fury raised a voice of surprise.

"Taenia, don't shout like that all of a sudden."

It was Louid protesting the prolonged voice, but Taenia is sharpening her eyes and turning her gaze to Louid.

As for Taenia herself, I intend to indulge in the majesty of the party leader, but from the edge, the look only seemed like an angry mother and a deafening daughter.... Age itself is two people of the same age, but still it still seems like that is derived from each other's personality... or the years we've walked together will make it so.

"Then introduce yourself properly. Look, Griffon...... hands off Ceto!

"Uh, I'd like to play more with Seto."

Forced to pull up Luid reaching for Seto and make him stand in front of Ray.

(... you look like a guy that goes well with Mileyne)

Seeing as he was adorable to Seto, he was an unexpected ray whining so inside.

(No, it means similar people to each other. Or maybe the kind you'll never get along with.)

I think so, too.

Luid, who doesn't even think he's being treated like that in Ray, bows his head so that Taenia can urge him.

"I say Luid -. The weapon, as you can see, is a bow, an archer. Thank you for your help. Let's work together on this escort."

"Ah, oh. Regards."

Looking at Ray, who introduces himself in a unique tone that stretches the end of the story and returns it confused by that tone, he probably decided he was done for it. Walking toward Seto again.

"I'm sorry. Yeah, even if you can see it, the bow arm stands up pretty good. … but I don't think that's very true."

I guess I was embarrassed by how the party members were doing. Taenia explains as she follows with her cheeks red.

"I guess. You let go of your arrows quite accurately in the battle then. Rest assured, I fully understand that personality and arm as an adventurer are not equal."

Tell Taenia to reassure him so, and the figure of Elk, also leader of the thundergod's axe, passes in the back of his brain.

He has the personality of a prank kid as he grew up, and, to put it better, he's luxurious. To put it badly, a huge mess. Extreme man. Even such a person can be a Rank A adventurer, so he was Ray who never thought the adventurer's arm and personality was equals from the beginning.

Even if it is the most ray of them, if there is any disturbance, they will not be at the center of that disturbance, or if they are entangled by other adventurers in the guild, they will be fine and beaten to pieces with force. I didn't realize that I would get a question mark if asked if I deserved to be a Rank C Adventurer in a way that I didn't know how to speak to the elderly.

"Ah, haha. hahaha. That would help if you said so.... than that, I used a big sickle then but don't you have it today? It wouldn't be the same size as going under a robe."

Taenia laughs as if to mislead something and asks what she was concerned about at the same time. Towards Taenia like that, Ray leans his neck unexpectedly and nods quickly. In Ray, monsters defeated like icebirds have become habits of storing them in mysteries first. But even after Basrello stopped crying, he just held onto the dragon robe and put it inside the mysteries when he finally settled down on his way to the city. For this reason, I am convinced that most of the people who were with me at that time probably did not know about Mystering.

"Oh, I have an item box. Here."

Whimpering, taking Death Size out of Mystering.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!?

"Hey, Favel. Louder!

Favel, who was listening to the conversation between the two in no way to eat, shouts out when she sees a death size that suddenly shows up from a place where there is nothing.

And Taenia, who ate the voice in her ear, naturally slapped Favel's head over her helmet while holding her ear.

"Ouch! Hey, Taenia. Even with the helmet on, the shock passes, so give me a few more moves... not! It's an item box, an item box! Why are you so calm?

- It was a favel that all along recruited him to Taenia, but Taenia opens her mouth with a sigh of sigh.

"Calm down, nothing. I didn't lose my chance to be surprised because you were surprised. Besides, take a look. I'm not even surprised at Louis."

At the end of Taenia's gaze was Luid stroking Seto just because this noise had nothing to do with it. Seto, too, doesn't hate being stroked...... he rather likes it, so he's letting Louid free as he rattles his throat.

"Luid hasn't been like that since he was a kid originally. I'm just used to it."

"Well, sure. But this is the first time I've actually seen an item box, so I'd be surprised if you asked me if I was surprised."

Ray opens his mouth towards Taenia, who was listening to those two and had something to worry about.

Around here, I don't ask Favel, and I can say that I know the difference between the different personalities even though the time I met him was short.

"We've been talking since we were kids... are all three of you from the same place?

"Huh? Yeah, I am. You must be familiar with spending time in the same village."

"It's unusual to party with a child."

"Really? It's not so uncommon to throw a party from your hometown, is it?

It was Taenia who tells Ray so in his words, but in this regard it was due to the difference between Ray, the city of Gilm, where each criterion is the border, and Taenia, the guild of the city that is not the border. Because adventurers on the periphery are on average of a high level, there are not so many people partying in the way that only the people in their hometown... In good or bad ways, meritocracy is coming through. Of course, there's no reason to be at all, and there's actually a certain number of parties organized in the city of Gilm with people from the same town, but Ray, who basically doesn't have much to do with other adventurers, was neglectful of that information.

"Well, that's about it for my introduction. It's about escorts... Ray, have you ever been escorted before?

There's no official escort.

Passing the back of my brain to that word was a request to the dungeon with Elaine and the others. But that request is for various political reasons, and even more so because of the noise that the Viscount Sails family is going into exile, it is not something that can be spoken of in a detour.

"You're in trouble.... Then I'm sorry, can I take command of this escort? I guess Ray, who is rank C, should take it, but without formal escort experience..."

Taenia spins her words as if it were hard to say where, and she turns her sorry gaze to Ray.

If I try Taenia, can I take command from a higher ranked ray than myself? It was a late suggestion that we had the pride of being in better command of ourselves, who had made quite a few requests for escorts.

What if Ray, who ranks higher than himself, insists on taking command of the escort? I had such anxiety. Taenia...

"Right. I'll take care of it."

Ray doesn't even hesitate, nodding flatly and acknowledging that Taenia will take command of the escort.

"... Huh?

My proposal was Taenia, who spoke up because it was so easily accepted, but if you put it to the lay, this proposal was a ship across the street in many ways. Anyway, Ray himself is basically not good at taking command because he often acts solo. Then leave command to those you are accustomed to, as long as you obey that command. That's how I judged it and acted, but wouldn't there be something behind it for a moment if I tried Taenia? And I wouldn't have been forced to suspect it either.

"Ray, it's really good..."

Are you sure? That's when I tried to ask you, I can call you abruptly from behind.

"Good morning, Mr. Ray, Mr. Taenia. If you're an escort from today, thank you."

The rattling, that voice heard with the sound of the cargo going, belonged to Allector. Looking back at the two voiced and those who were listening in and around them, there was the appearance of an alektor of the right width, as expected, and a luggage truck carried by several people and feet.

……

As soon as he saw the luggage, two of the merchants and Shizukuishi of Reishi, who were around him, shut up.

Incidentally, the last three people in Shizukuishi Reishi concentrated on stroking Seto the same phase and didn't even notice the appearance of Alektor.

And the reason why the people around them were surprised. That's because there were nearly 100 spears on the carrier. There are also tons of spears that, no matter how you look at it, are rusty and cannot be used in a busy manner without taking care of them in a blacksmith or weapons store.