Legend

Ray emerges from the bush watching as he stood on his shoulder with Death Size in front of the Bandits' Wolves of the Meadows.

About half of the bandits who saw the appearance turn their gaze to Ray as if they had been poked at the impression, and the other half have a startling look on their face.

The former were the ones who didn't know Ray existed and wondered why such a weak child was in such a place. And the other half, including Egg, were the opponents we tried to raid a while ago, and even more so those who were forced into a situation where we could say we were unilaterally defeated and retreated.

"Hey, he..."

"Oh. Definitely. Why are you here?"

"Wait a minute. Does that mean he's here... and that Griffon is nearby too!?

"Come on, with your griffon opponent in the woods at night? You have no chance of winning."

Those who know Ray's face exchange information in a low voice.

Ray's hearing was still not listening to the conversation, although he had a low voice to such an extent that he barely spoke.

(Sure, with Seto, I guess I could have done something about this situation with one shot... because my client's safety is paramount over being hired as an escort. I can't help it)

"... why are you here?

In the meantime, Egg asks Ray as he bears the Battleax on his shoulder.

Its face, with countless scars, was coloured with some confusion, and it was more a question of pure doubt or other appearance than suspicion.

Even for eggs, I know how powerful Ray himself is. Somehow, they are enough to follow Griffon. I was not willing to be alarmed at all, even if I only looked like a little kid with a short appearance...... or an apprenticeship wizard.

And at the same time, if the men in front of us have the strength, we don't need to act with the bandits we defeated earlier. Above all...

"There are two signs I felt. There was no sign of you in it. In fact, there are still two signs in the bush there. What are you out here for?

"Dude, that's oddly a lot of questions.... Well, I don't want a useless fight even for me, and let's just be honest with you. I... the reason we're here is simple. Simply because the merchants they're escorting have been attacked by bandits here. So I've been trying to get rid of it for the rest of my misfortune... because you guys got ahead of me."

"... I see. I didn't expect these guys to deal with monsters like you without giving up their strengths. They're the ones who didn't follow. If it had, we wouldn't have killed him."

The moment Egg's words get in his ear, the bandits around him squirm.

As someone who leads a meadow wolf in any way, he is an egg with absolute trust. Many have gathered attracted by its character, but it is also true that it is entrusted with the leader because he is the strongest man of the meadow wolves. Yet he turns a startling gaze to a man whom the meadow wolf's strongest man credits as a monster, except for those he met with Ray before.

"You guys cleaned it up before we got here. From what I've heard of your interaction with the other side, it seems like you've been a lot of personally dangerous opponents?

"... oh. He's like he publicly stated that he was more than happy to learn to kill and kill the weak. That's why they let us get ahead of ourselves so we wouldn't get stuck.... So what do we do? Your goal has already been wiped out, but are you going to do it with us? Fighting you won't win, but at least one arrow pays off, huh?

Never just lose. Try eating a thousand slices of that whistle even if it's just your neck. Ray smiles at the words of such a temperamental egg.

"Hey, Ray. What do you care? If you want me to miss it, I'm leaving!

From the bushes behind Ray comes the whispers of Taenia.

"... okay? I guess the burglars' hoarded treasure was what they were looking for, too?

"Sure, but that's a prerequisite if you can get it safely! I don't think anything's gonna last me long enough to fight a meadow werewolf."

"Oh yeah. I don't think I agree with Taenia."

"I don't care if you're okay with it."

That being said, it was Ray's true desire to try the user-friendliness of the newly acquired rusty spear a little more this time.

(Well, don't get in the way of your request for an escort if you get mean here and involve Taenia or something in the fight, and even make it even more injurious. That said, it's a good idea to go back to nothing like this... right)

He groans inside and waves loudly the death size he was bearing on his shoulders.

Its speed and death-size weight make the sound of slashing and tearing the air sound to the members of the meadow wolves.

A blow. Just seeing that blow wielded like nothing, those who didn't know Ray existed were instinctively engraved that Ray himself was not the opponent of any enemies.

"Like I said earlier, I don't like futile strife even with me.... However, no matter what your attitude toward bandits is, bandits are bandits. You can hunt all the wolves here..."

As soon as Ray utters that word, a pinned tension runs around him. Fighting doesn't win, running away probably kills more than half of them for sure. Then, as Egg, our own boss, said, at least pay off an arrow. With such determination, the surrounding atmosphere leans towards battle. But.

"But, well, we owe it to you to defeat the bandits we need to defeat first. You can miss this place."

It was only a gaze from the top, and if you mean it, it was the word and deed that seeped you guys that you could kill anytime.

If it was the adventurers around there who spoke the same thing... if that was what Taenia, hiding in the bushes, had said in her mouth, the dialogue that would have killed her on the spot.

But since it was Ray, the greatest force in the field, who drew a line with the other adventurers, who spoke of it, there was no way to disprove it to the wolves of the meadows.

Because if you argue, if a small person wearing a robe in front of you really cares about it, you can be sure that there will be so much damage that you can't even see it.

"... the terms?

Eggs that exhale squeezing voices.

Even for an egg, he was quite combative, as he showed in his earlier battle with the bandits' leaders. Still decides he is no match for Ray himself and asks Ray to avoid a fight.

And Ray waited for the word, and just smiled and opened his mouth.

"You owe me one. If anything happens to you, you'll have to pay me back what I owe you. I hope you give it back to me then."

……

Borrowings against Ray. I don't know what that would cause, but it was obvious which was the better option than dealing with Ray here. Besides, we were just after the first battle. Even though no harm has been done to ourselves, there are quite a few who are injured, and there is a great drain on their health.

After a few seconds of silence, Egg's mouth opens.

"Okay. We, the wolves of the meadow, declare that we have benefited from Ray."

Yes, he proclaimed it in front of a cave where the bodies of the bandits were rolling high.

"... the word, I did receive"

I nod to Egg and ask him what he cared about as it was.

"You seemed to know my name...?

"Well, we have our own information network. Most importantly, you would have been called by the guy hiding in the bush there."

"Well, that sounds like a lot of ears."

"Damn, I'm not glad you complimented me. Instead, I wonder if there's something there."

Egg tells me as he frowns, but Ray goes on with his words without even looking like he cared about it.

"Don't take it with a twist like that. I just praised him purely.... Now, you've cleaned up the target bandits, and we're going back under escort."

"Do that. Totally, it was a bad day with them and you."

"You wouldn't, would you? The treasure that those bandits were accumulating belonged to you who killed them. Of course I know that's not the point, but I still don't think you got anything at all?

"Well, it's not like the money they've been accumulating is going under us. I have a lot of people to give to."

"... ho"

Ray grunts as slightly impressed by Egg's words.

Because I understand from what I have said and done, that you are going to spend money on those who are in the hands of those bandits.

(I almost didn't lend it to these guys... was this unexpectedly profitable?

"Then it's time for us to walk away. I'll see you when I get a chance."

"As far as I'm concerned, I never want to see anyone like you again. Just go."

Ray walks away from the spot with such a voice on his back.

As he passes beside the bush, Taenia rushes to rendezvous as he pulls Luid's hand.

He had shown several times how he cared behind his back, but there was nothing like the wolves in the meadows coming up with strange little bits.

"Totally, I doubted my eyes when I suddenly walked out in front of a meadow wolf. You don't have to tell me, but you don't have to imitate me."

He was grumbling bumps for Ray as Taenia walked next door, going down a path that he couldn't even call the darkened path of the night.

The movement of the three leads as did the bandits when they headed to Azito, with Luid and two of Ray and Taenia lined up behind them.

What's different from going is that you don't have to dive in and talk because you don't have to worry about being detected by bandits anymore. For this reason, neither Taenia nor Taenia has any particular fear of the dark, so they are foolish.

"That being said, I went that far around the corner. You should have at least had something to gain, right? If that's a loan to a bunch of rogue bandits, as far as I'm concerned, I've had enough for tonight."

"... yeah, yeah. You must be. But in the end, there's nothing here."

"But - because I survived encountering that meadow wolf - And someone like Egg missed it."

Luid moving forward between the two of them tells him that without even looking behind him.

In fact, if there were only two people on that spot, Taenia and Rueed, and Ray wasn't there, I don't know what kind of eyes they would have seen.

Even though it was the prairie wolf who said it was not harmful to the hardest man, his temperament and strength were exactly what he deserved to call a wolf. That's what they showed us in the fight against the bandits they were planning to raid. Of course I think I'm better up there in pure combat. But the other side had nearly 20 people, plus a self-invincible existence called Egg. Given that, I would certainly have been helpless to be told that I was ungrateful to overflow any more stupidity towards Ray.

"I get it, at all.... than that, don't talk to me. Let's hurry up a bit. If they were attacking us, we wouldn't even be in the wind."

"Me and Ray have a good night's eye."

Who is to blame for the slow progress? Taenia, who had been told otherwise, was going through the woods at night with her nose rattling.

"Mr. Ray? Mr. Taenia, and Mr. Rueed. That was fast enough. Have you already defeated the bandits?

Alektor finds the three Rays and squeals unexpectedly.

At the end of his gaze, Seto, who is sweet to Ray, and Luid, who is stroking such a Seto. There were sights such as Taenia, who looked at his own people as if they were frightened.

Taenia then approached Alector, shaking her head as she sighed small at how Louis was doing.

"I couldn't. When we arrived in Azito, the bandits were fighting the wolves of the meadows and losing unilaterally. We couldn't afford anything like this."

"... a meadow wolf, is it? Surely it was the bandits who are said to be different around here."

"Yep. This is how Ray came back because he managed to sum up the story and it didn't end up as a battle, but those bandits were wiped out, and he couldn't possibly have taken the treasure in that situation. Any more anomalies over here...?

Taenia looking around.

At the end of that gaze, Favel, who had been entrusted here with escorts, waved lightly to show that there was no particular problem.

And I guess the earlier raids and the handling of the body moved my body and caught my eye. Most merchants say it's not even dawn yet, but they're still awake, drinking something like soup as they burn through the winter chills.

"As you can see, I haven't had any particular problems since then. As I was told, we've finished processing the bodies of the bandits.... but is it? I wasn't expecting a meadow wolf."

"Apparently, what attacked us was a bunch of bandits who enjoyed killing. Seems right that even if I tried to make it stop, I couldn't let it stop me in the end and ended up exercising my strengths"

Taenia waited for dawn to leave for the city of Subrusta, explaining to Alektor about the meadow wolves she had seen.