Legend

Night after night, surrounded by the cold of winter and the sound of the woods shaking in the wind, which the merchants have defined as places of night camp. And only a bunch of ibiki and sleeping remarks that the merchants hear from inside their sleeping tents.

In the meantime, Taenia, Fabel and Louid, who had taken care of the cold just wondering if this was still the case in their robes and coats, were watching at night while they were on fire. In addition to the incendiary fire, Seto is sleeping on the immediate side of the three of them, and Luid, who should be watching, is gazing at you more than once with a seemingly lucrative eye. And even as Taenia and Fabel stopped trying to hold him to Fluffy and Seto, he continued the conversation to forget his drowsiness.

Of course I keep my weapons where I can reach them, and as soon as bandits and monsters attack, they can still fight back.

"This is how we've been acting together for two days... what do you think of Ray?

Unexpectedly, Favel asks that as she carries a cup of somnolent tea into her mouth.

"I don't know... well, your arms will stand. That was proven during the fight against Icebird, wasn't it?

"Yeah, I know that. But isn't it weird? That little kid has the strength to be a Rank C Adventurer."

"He said he was small... and he wouldn't be that tall as you."

Taenia grunts like she was stunned sipping tea with one remaining hand as she single-handedly presses Luid, who was about to head toward Seto.

"Oh, no, you're not. I'm taller! Taka-yi's!

Favel was about 166 cm tall, just a little higher than Ray's. Even 1 cm is above. Apparently this was a line that could never be conceded for Fabel. That's what I claim while imitating the dexterity of screaming in a low voice.

By the way, Taenia is 172 cm tall, and surprisingly, Luid is the tallest of the Shizukuishi with a height of 175 cm.

"Yes, sir. Surely Favel is bigger.... So, what's wrong with Ray?

"Mmm, something feels like my treatment is coarse.... not at that age, don't you think rank C or something a little unusual? Besides, I have this extraordinary presence."

"Gru?"

I guess I felt Favel's gaze. Seto opens the eyes he was meditating on and tilts his little neck as he rings in the back of his throat.

In this situation where Ray would not have been there if it had been, putting Griffon on the side would have brought only fear. But Luid was different, and Taenia and Fabel had little fear of Seto, who helped them from Icebird. The same was true of the merchants in the merchant corps, which is why, unlike the inhabitants of the city of Gilm, they were able to deal with it normally, even though they were not accustomed to its existence over time.

"Sure, it may be, but you hear me say that sometimes there's something outrageous about that, right? And..."

It was when Taenia tried to say something more. Seto, sleeping on the ground, accidentally turns his gaze towards the back of the woods and gets used to his throat.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

The voice could also be perceived as a sounding of alarm to Taenia, who has not been with Seto that long. And I can easily imagine why such a vigilance sounds in this situation, which is already out of the perimeter. At any rate, Ray is checking with his eyes that he looks like a bandit scout during the day.

"... Favel, wake up Ray. Luid will be ready for interception without ever seeing Seto!

"Okay."

Copy that, too.

Set up Halvard, his favorite weapon, with a fabel on his ass hurrying to Ray's sleeping tent. Luid also hung his hand on the bow so that he could release an arrow at any time. And...

"Grr!"

Seto, who should have slept on the ground until a moment earlier, used his incredible flash power to jump off the ground and instantly move forward in Taenia. Shake the hook nail on your front foot loudly as it is.

Giggy, giggy, giggy!

A continuous metal sound emitted and the sound of something falling to the ground. When Taenia turned her gaze reflexively to the ground, there were about five knives and intermediate, broken arrows.

(I'm seriously coming to kill you!?

Breathtaking Taenia in the heart.

Taenia is aware that her appearance is quite neat. That was the same whether it was a favel or a ruid. I'm not going to be complacent that all of them are worldly beauties who turn around unexpectedly when they rub off with a man. Still, I was confident in my appearance to the extent that about 1 or 2 out of 10 people would think I was beautiful. And we also know that people like bandits are after money or loads on 1 and women on 2. I understood that if I got caught, as a woman, I would suffer the greatest humiliation, but if I lived, I would also have the opportunity to avenge it. Even so, it was just unexpected that they would come and kill themselves, the woman, without even speaking up.

"Louid, shoot me!

Copy that.

Luid who follows Taenia's words and releases an arrow into the woods. But in the darkness... and Luid's eyes, which were on fire until earlier, were not used to the darkness, and the arrows unleashed flew toward the ungodly.

(But that's what I'm after. I certainly didn't hit the blow right now. But now you know there's a flying tool here, too. then......)

And as expected by Taenia like that, the momentum of the enemy attacking from the woods stops for a moment...

Fireball!

A fireball about 30 cm in size flies from behind with such words, illuminating the forest in an instant with flaming lights.

"Uh-oh!

"Magic, put out, put out the fire! We'll have a full view of this position!

Unluckily, the fireball must have hit it right now. A man who tries to hang soil on the ground that is wet with snow residue or night dew in an attempt to extinguish the man's fire by rolling over the ground in flames. And as one of the bandits uttered, its flames cause the darkness in the woods to be somewhat dispelled and illuminated by thin lights. At the same time, several spears fly and bury their tips into the bodies of the bandits.

"Ray!?

Ray shows up next door with a spear holding a death size in his left hand and one rusty tip in his right hand to Taenia's cry, who understood whose voice the earlier magic emitted.

"In the meantime, now you know where the enemy is. So what do we do? Fight or run. If we were to escape, that heavy carriage would be out of the way."

Taenia makes a quick decision with a bitter smile in her voice as if to provoke somewhere.

"You've decided to fight. That's why I'm hired as an escort. Given our personal strength, we are the escorts of the merchants! Ray and Seto go into the woods and attack the bandits!

Following Taenia's instructions, Luid goes back with a bow and arrow… more precisely down to the carriage. Still, he can shoot a bow from behind even more than it is a long-range weapon, so he releases one arrow after another to the figure he sees illuminated by Ray's magic.

Favel and Taenia will be on the side trying to protect Luid like that, and the merchants will gather near the carriage behind the two jumping from the tent.

"Seto, you turn around behind the enemy from above!

"Grrrrrr!"

With that cry, throw the last spear left again. The spear penetrates the bandit's abdomen, blowing it straight up and sewing it into the trunk of the tree that was growing behind him, and at the same time the fragile patterned part breaks in two in its impact.

And in the next moment, Seto rings in Ray's voice, kicking the ground and rushing up to the sky with a few steps of help as it were.

The bandits who saw it follow the movement reflexively with their gaze...

"You can't afford to look at me against them!

Ray's swinging death size, which has instantly stuffed him in time, puts several people together to separate his upper and lower body. At the same time, guts and blood are scattered all around us, blood evaporates by flames that have not yet disappeared, and there is an iron rust odor all around us.

(Thank you for Taenia's extraction. Even though there's a light, it's this thin light. If they had let someone other than me go into the woods with them poorly, they could have argued with each other)

Wave Death Size while admiring Taenia's aggressive judgment in the heart. Several people are slashed and torn with that huge blade, the opponent blown in the patterned part breaks the bone, or whoever is poked in the stone-piercing part suffers fatal injuries that penetrate the torso.

The number of bandits who had raided had also exceeded 30. But still, a giant sickle that doesn't even dull the slashing flavor, as opposed to missing a blade even if it is cut by putting together Ray's physical abilities and a few torso. I guess I had my fears about the accelerating number of fellows that were decreasing by a few every few seconds. I just flipped on the spot and tried to escape into the woods...

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Something comes down to the sight of a bandit man who tried to get off the spot first, with momentum as if slashing and tearing the night sky apart.

That was Seto, who, needless to say, was turning behind the bandits on Ray's instructions.

That giant could have described coming down from the night sky as exactly the reaper of the sky. The first bandit man to try to escape flew nearly 5m straight to the side, hitting the growing tree with a broken spine and holding his breath on the spot, with a slap in the foreleg that swung its momentum.

"Guru."

The bandits stop moving because the man who tried to escape first showed a joke-like death. And in the next moment, as the opponent who turned his back a few seconds ago shook down that huge sickle, he cut off the bandits' torso as if even the weed were going to prune it, and he blew it away.

The blade of the Shinigami to be wielded would be a man but a woman. Alternatively, young or old, they give death equally irrelevant.

If you try to escape behind your back, Griffon, a Rank A monster. Even in order to face it, Reaper mows without hesitation as if he thinks nothing of a person's life. Speaking of what the bandits could do, there were only two choices: the few who fled to the side that had not blocked their escape route, or how to drop their weapons to the ground and surrender, understanding that they had no chance of winning.

"Ko, ko, ko, I surrender! Please, don't kill me!

"Me too! Do anything. Don't kill me because I won't do anything wrong again!

"I'm surrendering, too! Here, here. He's got a pretty good body. You can hold me, so don't kill me!

Three bandit survivors. Considering the number of people fleeing from the side was about five, the lives of nearly 30 bandits had disappeared in just a few minutes.

"That's what I've been begging for my life for... have you guys missed it?

Ray asks as he wields his death size.

You must have decided that in that one word came the possibility of being helpful: two men and one woman snort desperately.

"Of course. We didn't imitate anything to kill the surrendered opponent. Oh, yeah, right?

"Yeah, naturally. The only person you can help is someone you can help."

"We're good bandits."

Bandits who tell them desperately to help. Hearing the words, Ray grins at his mouth.

This helps, when the three minds are filled with relief...... the bandits realize at some point the existence of a dead size that is shaken.

A guilty blade that is brilliant enough to even say glossy, without any cloudiness or blade spills, even though it has sucked the blood of nearly 30 humans and beasts.

It was already too late when I realized that what was floating in Ray's mouth was a sneer, not a grin of mercy, and the Great Sickle of Reaper swung down...

"Ray, wait!

At the same time that Taenia's voice is heard from behind, the death-sized blade stops perfectly. If it had been too late for the voice to be hung for a second later, the head of the bandit man who was definitely at the right end would have been severed with his neck. The blade was stopped at exactly one piece of skin.

"Why stop?

"I can certainly kill you at any time, but I can only get information now.... Hey, you guys. If you answer my question honestly, I'll miss you, but what do we do?

Of the three bandits, the man in the middle and the woman on the left edge nod without hesitation.

I was concerned that there was no reaction from the man who was at the right end. Taenia turns her eyes towards you, but there was only the appearance of a man peeling his white eyes and fainting with fear of death and blowing bubbles from his mouth. I guess my groin was wet couldn't stand the fear of impending death.

(... Is it impossible?)

Literally the blade of Reaper tried to mow its neck, so he nodded internally just that he couldn't help but faint because of the fear of death, and Taenia turned her gaze toward the two remaining.

"Why are you guys active at this time of year? Around here, merchants aren't usually active at this time, are they?

"That's... we don't know. Your head got your information and decided to attack you."

"How many of you are comprised?

"About 50 people? But I think he's already cut 20 people, considering what he killed today."

"Where's your Azito?

"Ahead through these woods, the cave"

Two bandits answering Taenian questions one after the other. I don't feel anything like backwardness toward my people because of the way they answer without hesitation toward Ajit's place. If we're going to help ourselves, we can sell our people. The act itself tells the low degree of the bandits, and at the same time Ray, who was listening to the conversation, frowns uncomfortably.

And eventually he continued interrogating for about five minutes, deciding that he had no longer even heard of it. Taenia nods small and returns her heel.

"That's enough. I'll set you free as promised. You can go now."

"... Hey?

Are you sure you want me to get away with this? He was Ray, who also asked with that meaning in mind, but Taenia winks lightly so that Ray only sees him and suppresses Ray from saying anything more.

"Ho, is that true! Sorry!"

"Thank you, I'll be grateful!

Survived. That alone seemed satisfying enough to be the two bandits who tried to escape the scene...

"Take the fainting guy there, too. 'Cause I'd be in trouble if they left me here."

He held up a man who panicked to Taenia's words and vanished into the back of the woods.