Legend

"I see the city of Abu Ero!

Except for a break at lunch, he even kept walking down the street and heard such a voice from the leading carriage when the sun was about to turn into dusk.

"All right! Don't let the monsters raid us. We can get to the city!

"... that's what I was going to do, but this is what I was going to do... to be honest, you're a little out of your mind"

"That's the one. Ray and Seto. Especially Seto. Like Ray said, a normal monster wouldn't imitate a griffon."

"Right. However, whatever the monster is, the bandits will attack the area without understanding. Especially from the city of Abu Ero to the city of Subrusta, there are many bandits."

"Uh, sure. We were attacked a few times when we walked through here. Whatever it is in winter, I guess it will be more often after spring."

"Don't worry. This is probably the first and last time our merchants come to the border. You don't have to worry about bandits after spring."

"So is that. Well, is it a night in the city of Abu Ero? Do you want to eat good food, drink alcohol, go to a whorehouse and feed your English for tomorrow?"

"Hey, don't be late for departure time. Sure. Something similar had happened before, and Mr. Alektor would have pissed me off, wouldn't he?

I guess I was relieved to see the city. In the carriage, the merchants were talking to each one with a bright voice.

"Has Ray ever been to the city of Abu Ero?

Unexpectedly, one of the merchants calls out to Ray from the carriage.

It's the city of Gilm and the city of Abu Ero adjacent to it, so I couldn't help but ask, but Ray shook his neck left and right.

"No, you've never been inside this city."

What is in Ray was enough to pass over this city in Ceto as we headed to the city of Bahr.

"Well, I would have liked to hear about a delicious store or something if I could... can't help it"

The merchants will continue to move on while we have that conversation and arrive in front of the main entrance of the city of Abu Ero.

"Oh, you guys went through here the other day... but I don't think there's a lot of carriages"

"You were attacked by a monster. One carriage, one of the merchants, and the escort adventurers..."

"... well. You've heard something weird. More than that, I need an ID."

"Yes, go ahead"

While Alektor has a conversation with the guards, he puts out the paperwork he had. At the same time, Ray and Shizukuishi Adventurers submitted guild cards to other guards...

"Ugh, wow! G., G., G., G., it's Griffon. Oh!

One of the guards sees Seto in his eyes and falls into a state of panic and screams in his full voice.

I guess I didn't mean that if I tried it in person, but the guards around me who heard that voice would also squeeze their faces and put up the weapons that each of them had immediately. What is on that look was that each person was different like those who were about to cry because of their readiness to die, their despair, or because they saw Griffon in their eyes, but there was still not one person with an optimistic look.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

I was used to dealing with people in the city of Gilm. I didn't quite understand that the guards were scared of me. So, what happened? Tilt your little neck like that and look around.

The lucky thing at this time would have been that the guards had no one to stand half-armed. Even though I'm used to people, it would be unpleasant for Seto if they just attacked me, and I guess they would have fought back. In that case, there was no mistake in being awkward in many ways.

"Wait a minute! This griffon is his obedience! There is no danger!

Alektor screams as he runs desperately, rocking his belly at the right width.

When the guards hear the words, they turn their gaze toward Ceto as if to ascertain the veracity of Allector's story, and at the same time toward Ray, who stands flat next to him.

"... is the word true now?

"Oh. Seto... if this griffon is my obedience or not, it's true"

When Ray responds to the words of the guard he has asked on behalf of, the blurring spreads instantly.

"Hey, you're lying. You think you're subjugating Griffon?"

"Besides, those kids... they don't look good in the hood of a robe, but kids, right? He's small, he's luxurious with his body."

"No, like a woman, not a child?

"That voice definitely belonged to a man."

"But turning Griffon into an obedient demon..."

"... ah. If you say so, you've heard of some adventurers in the city of Gilm who are subjugating Griffon."

"Besides, I'm sure some party used to be near this city or something like that..."

"Oh, if you say so, I do remember hearing you talk like that."

Ray, listening to the guards, opens his mouth as he strokes Seto's head.

"So, what do we do in the end?

"... sorry, just to confirm. I want you to show me your guild card."

To Ray's words, one of the guards moves forward to say so. As far as the other guards around you are concerned are turning their gaze of trust, they are probably like captainship, or leaders, among them.

"Is this it?

Ray hands the guild card to the guards without any particular imitation to defy them. Watch carefully to confirm that card, and eventually nod small and return the guild card to Ray.

"I did confirm. Ray, rank C adventurer in the city of Gilm. There's nothing wrong with guild cards."

TM.When the word rank C comes out of the mouth of the guard who checked Ray's guild card, the other guards start blurring again.

"Hey, are you serious? Rank C at that age!?

"Wow, the guild of the city of Gilm is in peace too?

"No, no. You're following the Griffon, right? Wouldn't that be weird if it was a higher rank?

"Oh, I see. I mean, isn't a guy like that Ray that much of a fighter himself? Surely that's normal if you think of it as Tamer."

ID, so keep the conversation whispering so that the guards can only hear the neighbors as they look at Ray's face who was lowering his hood.

Most importantly, if the five senses were to lay abnormally sharp, they would be heard as a whole. I just didn't say anything in particular, thinking that I wouldn't even have to make any more noise.

"But... sorry. As the head of this place, I'm sorry, but I can't let you into the city."

"Hey, isn't that terrible? I think it's tyranny, even though I didn't do anything wrong."

Protest against the head of the guard, even in a line of merchants who were watching the story go, as Luid, who has an extraordinary attachment to Seto, blames him.

However, the tone was prolonged, and at the same time the way I was angry was swelling my cheeks would have seemed like a child being mean somewhere.

"... I'm sorry, but this is my decision as a guard. Obey."

"But..."

"Hey, Louid! You too. Come on!

I was Luid trying to recruit something more, but I can hold my mouth in Taenia's hand, which has been inadvertently stretched out from behind.

"Okay? I do feel unreasonable about what that guy is saying. But if there's a griffon all over the city, does a normal city panic? That could be the noise the Knights are going to make. So, I'm sorry, but be nice here."

"But... I thought I could play slowly with the corner seto."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Don't worry, Seto takes a step forward with his throat rattling all the time. The head of the guard also took a breath for a moment at that pointed gaze... but he manages to stay here just because he can't retreat.

"Gru."

Seeing someone like that, he tinkles down his throat and sets his sight on Ray. And that's all Ray understands what Seto wants to say and opens his mouth.

"Seto says he's spending the night outside today. And then I..."

"Grrrrrrrr"

I cross the night outside myself. That's what I tried to say, Ray, but I can be stopped by Ceto at the heart. The way he was rubbing his head against his throat was something that made Ray feel willing to get some rest, never mind about himself.

"... I get it. Seto's out of town, I'm in the city."

"Gru."

Ringing in the back of his throat satisfied with Ray's words, Seto leaves the city of Abu Ero intact.

"... sorry"

The person responsible bows his head to Ray, who was dropping off such a ceto.

Even for this person, I liked nothing and didn't take this kind of response. At any rate, few adventurers are known as Monster Tamers in the city of Abu Ero, but they do exist properly. But most of the monsters that these people were able to follow were often rank D.

The existence of a Rank A monster is the vast majority of people who have never even seen its existence, even if they are adventurers, to taste it, and even though such a monster wears an obedient devil's necklace, it was easy for a man who has worked as a guard for many years to imagine what kind of noise it would be if he were to enter the city. No, I'd rather say that the city of Gilm, which embraced Seto lightly, was a more substandard place. Or maybe it's because the depth of its nostalgia is also a periphery.

Ray, who understood it, shook his head small toward the man standing in front of him.

"Never mind. Seto and I both know that."

Ray's understanding of Seto's treatment exhales a relieved breath as he watched closely what was going on nearby.

Anyway, an adventurer of rank A's worth took it for cheap requests like spears and food on the verge of disposal. That's why I was worried if I bent my navel before crossing the streets of Abu Ero and Subrusta that there would be more bandits, what would I do to get rid of the request? Most importantly, considering what happened at lunch, it was not calculated that the cost of food was likely to be higher than expected.

No matter how many arms Ray himself stood around here, it affected his appearance to be about 15 years old, but it was a late event.

"Really? Then let's get inside the city quickly. The inn I stayed at the last time I went through here served delicious food. Prepare yourself for tomorrow."

(Plus, I need to hurry up and collect Ceto's edible meat... I hope there's as much cheap and as much meat as I can get)

You can't change Ray's mind, Alektor just pulls Ray into the city. And as if to follow, the two carriages and the face of Shizuku Reishi also went into the city of Abu Ero.

A place that went about 20 minutes through the main entrance of the city of Abu Ero. There was an inn there where Alektor had stayed before. The sign out there depicts a picture of two swords crossing each other with their own bodies.

"Let's go in. This crossing sword pavilion is quite a famous inn for the merchants. Whoa, Clerona, you take care of the carriage."

"Yes, Mr. Alektor. Instead, please eat more."

"Okay, okay, okay."

He enters the inn with other merchants, Shizuku the Reishi, and Ray as he grins bitterly at the merchant's demands.

It was a middle-aged man who was as wide as he could beat Alector to welcome such a line. If it just makes a difference, is it a good place for Arectre to be fat, whereas it is the muscles around the body that have picked up the line at the counter?

"There you are. Oh, you guys..."

"Ya, store owner. I'll take care of you this time. As you can see, the number of people, is the room empty?

"Yeah, we don't have a problem this time of year because we don't have a lot of customers. … Nevertheless, the number of people is decreasing…"

To the words of the store owner, especially Alector, who shakes his neck from left to right without saying anything. And if you try to be a shopkeeper who owns a lodging in the city of Abu Ero, which can be said to be a boundary with the border, it wasn't hard to understand just what fit.

"Right. I'll be ready for the room in a minute, so just wait. The price is the same as before."

Alektor nodded and finished the inn process.

"Sa, everyone. It's rude today. I need you to take care of your English for tomorrow."

Alector's voice echoes in the dining room, which is co-located in the inn.

Guess the inn itself has few guests, but there were quite a few guests in the dining room because the meals served were delicious, as Alektor said. In the meantime, a line that was a day's walk through the streets soothes hunger by drinking alcohol or carrying a delicious meal to your mouth.

"No, Mr. Ray. I'm sorry. I would have liked to have let Seto in the city if I could."

Alector speaks up to Ray, who is steaming some sort of monster's bird meat and transporting dishes hung with sour sauce to his mouth. There was a cup of wine poured linearly in its hand, and the already red-dyed cheeks proved that the wine was not the first.

"Never mind, Seto will also want to take it slow outside once in a while. I think we'll be eating that meat by now with some monster."

"It would be helpful if you could say that. Anyway, I told you I was going to prepare Seto's meal here."

Keep the conversation going that way, keep it going for a few minutes. Fumi Ray asks what he cared about.

"With that said, what else did you buy in the city of Gilm besides what it was originally all about? I heard that one carriage is enough to cover the loss of each product to some extent. At this time of year, there's not much material for monsters, is there?

Anyway, the adventurers are closed in the winter. In that case, there will naturally be fewer monster materials, demon stones and other objects.

In such a ray inquiry, Alektor softly opens his mouth so as not to be heard around him with a nymphomaniacal grin on his mouth.

"As a matter of fact, what a... successful purchase of flame ore."

"... flame ore?

Unexpectedly picky ray on that word.

But because Alector was drunk, he kept saying things without realizing how they were.

"Yes. Did you know? It is an ore whose flaming magic is created trapped in demonic crystals. Moreover, it has become an elegant flame ore, quite enormous and pure, even for the enclosed flame magic."

"... well"

"Nevertheless, I never expected flame ore to be mined near the city of Gilm. This ore is an alchemy material or a medium for making magic items. Or it can be used as a weapon, and if you use it to make a sword, it can be a weapon of flame attributes."

"............... well"

Ray mouths the same correlation as a few seconds ago.

Anyway, I was too familiar with the existence of that flame ore for Ray. Perhaps Ray himself unleashed the magic of the flames on the place that had become the harpy nest. For this reason, I had to obscure the words of Alector without being able to penetrate them deeply.

"Grrrrrrrr!"

When Ray was dealing with Alector in the dining room and scratching a cold sweat, Seto was running through the woods near the city of Abu Ero, finding an oak that was similarly looking for prey, and attacking him to fill his belly.