Legend

"Is that the front line of neutralism? Well, that wouldn't be weird if Ray had the strength."

Luno whines as he takes care of his sword.

Ray, who was listening to it, looks at the care of Luno's sword as he deposits his weight to Seto, who is falling asleep on the ground.

"Where have you been assigned?

"Me? I'm mostly around Chung-gei. Unlike you and the Elks who specialize in combat, they're instrumentally poor, so it's not the right place to bump into each other from the front."

"He was entrusted with my escort, who is also an important person, so there's no shortage of combat power, is there?

I was entrusted with it. Yes, more than he had already arrived on the battlefield. Luno was here as one adventurer when Ray's escort was unravelled.

Still, I guess I'm on Ray's side, not on the other adventurers' side, because I still know that much in my previous relationship.

"Ha, even when I say escort, do I need to protect you? Now that I think about it, I think it was probably accurate that I was appointed as your escort. Why are the escorts stronger than the escorts, and there's even Seto? That's not how important I am as an escort."

Even as I say things that are going to make me despise myself, what comes to mind in that eye is that it's easier said than done and I'm lucky.

"Talking to you...... hey. That may be an undeniable fact."

I look up at the sky with the spring sun falling and sigh as I look up at the sky with little clouds.

"What's the matter, exhale like that? There's no way a man like you realized he was scared of the war.

"Right. It's not like there's anxiety about the war itself. But I don't know what to say more like this..."

I try to put my current feelings in my mouth, but I don't see the right words. While doing so, I still open my mouth.

"It was yesterday that we laid the line here, wasn't it?

"Right. I arrived here yesterday afternoon."

"... how long do I have to wait here? The war hasn't started yet?

"What, you weren't afraid of the war, you weren't unhappy it didn't start yet"

"It's not like that. But I don't like the atmosphere before the war started. Until now, I've been able to decide to start a fight, but this time it's a war between a country and a country, so you don't know when the fight will start, do you?

"That's right. No matter how often the war is waged, it is between the country and the country. I guess we won't be able to start a war until we've finished the liturgical one. If we ignore that liturgical thing and wage war, even if we win, we'll be poked from the surrounding countries."

"... I see"

Ray leans his neck inside, feeling Seto's body temperature, even as he nods at Luno's words.

(Those are the ones who have caused the commotion inside the scattered kingdom of Mireana before the war. Does that bother you with such a liturgical thing?

While I thought of it that way, I was still looking at Luno taking care of his sword, but I guess there's something that bothers me that he's just staring at. Luno turns his gaze to Ray as he looks disgusted.

"That's how it bothers me to be seen. You don't have to take care of your weapon?

"Death size is used through magic, so there is little need to take care of it. Other than that, they take care of Mithrill knives, stripping knives, spears, in the blacksmiths before they leave the city of Gilm."

Whimpering, I remember Pamidor's face at the blacksmith who asked me to take care of his weapon.

From what I can tell from the edge, even though he looks so vicious that he is definitely mistaken for a bandit or something, a person named his real family thoughts. He was such a person, but his arm as a blacksmith was quite considerable, and he was extremely unbalanced, having come all the way from Wang Du to the city of Gilm to wave his own arm for those on the periphery.

Pamidor refused to work against Ray, who initially visited the store to ask him to take care of his weapons because he would participate in the war. He said his technology wasn't meant for the same people, it was meant to protect the people on the border from the monsters. But he reluctantly took care of his weapons to Ray's word that if he allowed the invasion of the Bestian Empire, the people would be the ones to suffer the most. Most reluctantly, there is no way to get out of work, and weapons other than death sizes - misrill knives, tsu spears, and fire-attribute-specific rays cannot be used as weapons, but running water daggers - came back beautifully cared for and rays in hand.

I didn't ask for care of the throwing spears that I use as disposables, but I still spent quite a lot of money on a few pieces of silver coins to take care of magic items.

"Shit, the rich aren't good. Anyway..."

When Luno hung up saying something, several soldiers came in screaming at the Larks Army position.

"The Bestian Imperial Army has arrived on the Seremouth Plains! They're already starting to put up a formation. Perhaps the war will begin tomorrow! Don't be unprepared for each one! I repeat, the Bestian Empire has arrived on the Seremouth Plains!

Fu Ray squeaks as he hears the words screaming like that.

"If you're in the middle of putting up a line right now, can you fight in your favor if you ambush us right now?

It was windy Ray's words such as coming out of his mouth by accident, but Luno smiles bitterly and shakes his neck sideways.

"That's why I told you. It's important to be polite. Win by such means. Perhaps the Bestian Empire is lucky enough to bring other nations into this."

"But is this country a big country? No matter what the small country says, I don't think we can handle it."

"Well, if it's just power, it will be. But if, for example, the magic city of Ozos, which is also the home of alchemy, takes on board the opinion of the Bestian Empire and reduces the export of magic items to the Kingdom of Mireana, it won't be a shabby thing."

"... I see"

"Besides, you've been entrusted with the lead as a neutral, haven't you? If you imitate that, even if you win, you'll be blamed all around the Kings. Something about hurting the country's prestige. But if you suck at it, it's the worst death penalty."

Stop the hand you were sharpening your sword and slap yourself in the neck several times with a handknife.

Exactly. You didn't like that, Ray frowns.

Of course, as Ray, I'm not going to lose even if I fought the army against him. I guess five people with 2 powers are more effective in war than one with 10 powers, because if it becomes a battle with anything, one with 10 powers can move at will and aim for each destruction.

And worst of all, some people hide in a lab in the Devil's Forest.

Ray whining inside.

There are some opponents in the Devil's Forest, like dragon breeds, who cannot be very fat in Ray and Seto today, but still think they will be able to return to the laboratory without finding them. And once you're caged in the Devil's Forest, I guess that's because you're about rank A adventurers with no hands or feet.

"Anyway, I get the story. You won't be able to reach it until the battlefield is officially opened."

"Right. However, if the end of the battle is opened, launching an attack on an enemy position will also be problem-free.... Well, we can break deep into enemy positions... if..."

Without saying it to the end, Luno's words disappear along the way. That gaze was not directed at Ray, but towards Seto, where Ray was leaning.

"Right, I see. So you ambushed the position."

I guess I figured out what Ray was after. Luno with a nibbly grin in his mouth.

"Don't be. … although it would be a bit difficult if a pre-emptive strike were impossible"

"Why?

"I plan to use wide area extermination magic as a front line. If I use it, I will be brought to the attention of the Bestian Empire. Then naturally Seto will also be noticed. No, it's more prominent than me on a race called Griffon."

"Wide-area extermination magic. Sounds awesome magic to ask, but I'm guessing there's no damage on this side?

"Basically, I don't think there's any damage because I plan to use it in the middle of my enemies, but if it protrudes as powerful as elk, it could get involved"

"Oh, come on, you're gonna be okay, right?

He turns to Luno, who looks suspiciously somewhere, and Ray shrugs his shoulders small and as if it's nothing.

"If you're an elk, don't you feel like eating my offense properly doesn't work at all?

……

I guess I've been silent on Ray's words because I thought for a moment that Elk would still be fine.

"Well, you're not. Whatever..."

"I know. It's a joke. I wouldn't do anything to get the elk involved. I'll tell Elk right before the fight starts."

"Wouldn't that be true? If it's you, I think you're going to get the elk involved in half the fun."

As we converse like that, we eventually notice one knight who looks familiar coming to where we are. A knight who was escorting Ray on the road.

Seeing it, Ray gets up from Seto, who was leaning against him, and proceeds to the knight.

From the fact that the knight came straight to himself, I assumed that I was the one who had business. And the judgment is right, and the knight calls out to Ray as he is.

"Ray, Master Dusker is here for you. Come with me as soon as you can."

"I guess. I was just touching that the soldiers are going to fight tomorrow. That has to do with it, right?

Probably an earlier meeting, including the elk. That's what I judged and asked Ray, but the knight shakes his head small.

"No, I'm not.... you know. I'm sorry, but I want you to come to the main tent."

"... the main tent?

Headquarters. That is, the position of the Kings. It was only natural that the King's own faction and the strongest Kings in power would become the main force, or the main force, than it was the Royal Mireana Army.

However, for Ray, the words heard by the knight are completely incomprehensible. I was wondering why I was summoned by the Kings, who are employed by the neutral Dusker.

I guess I guessed that Ray's confusion. The knight opens his mouth with some sorry look on his face.

"Generally speaking, there is no doubt that it is about the war. But a nobleman told me what a king general in command of this war would do to an unnamed adventurer, if only Elk."

……

Dear sadness, Luno turns his gaze to Ray with his said eyes.

Ray opens his mouth, even as he receives such a gaze from Luno.

"Are you insane?

"At least, are you serious there? I just want you to say... sane."

While you answer that, you know how Ray feels. A knight with a bitter smile.

"No, you'd be right to ask if this place is sane. In the first place, the Kings let the Neutralists and the aristocrats take the lead, didn't they? Then you wouldn't mind as much as having me in that front line. I mean, apart from me and Elk, there are other soldiers, knights and adventurers, right? Could all of them be famous?

"... no. This analogy is strange, but many soldiers have no ordinary name. Even the knights, of course, boast a high level of combat power compared to the soldiers, but not everyone is well known. You don't have to tell me to be an adventurer."

"Then why am I being sniped at?

"Do you know someone named Renozis Immerhen?

A sudden, unpleasant feeling swells in the ray at that name that comes out of the knight's mouth.

"Sure, you were an aristocratic knight or something. I got a little tangled up yesterday."

"I guess that's what caused it. As a leading man, I'm sorry to join Ray in the battlefield with such a completely unknown being."

"... are you insane?

The knight shakes his head, unfortunately, at that word, which is put out in his mouth again.

Seeing how it goes, Ray sighs when things get troublesome.

"Even if this were an aristocrat, I could have ignored it if it was someone from a slightly lower house... just like the Marquis."

"No, but you're a nobleman, aren't you? Then..."

Wouldn't Elaine, who is close to herself, embarrass someone who makes a scene with such a stupid imitation? It was a word in his mouth with such thoughts, but the knight shook his neck beside him in silence.

"I know you have an interaction with General Princess. Surely there would have been no problem if it had been just the aristocracy. But unluckily, it's gone into the ears of the Kings. So, when those two are together and they're making a scene, there's just nothing you can do about the existence of General Princess."

"Faction mechanics."

Ray mouths words I saw on TV news or something when I was in Japan.

In the words of that Ray, the knight gives a surprise look.

"Well, you know the hard word."

"What do you think I am?... So, what do I do after all?

"What, it's not a hard story. At last, Renojis isn't Ray's famous adventurer, which means he doesn't have the strength to reveal himself."

"... Elaine knows what I'm capable of?

He was a knight with a surprise look on Ray, who casually summoned up General Princess's name, but soon decides if Ray would not be surprised.

"The princess general's prestige is certainly amazing, but I guess the Kings weren't convinced that there was only one princess general who could still prove Ray's strength"

A knight who whines so with sighs, but in fact there were others on the spot who knew what Ray was capable of. It is Filma Dezier, who is the Knight Commander of the Knights of the Duke of Kelevel, whoever it is. But it was lost in the turmoil in the city of Gilm that confirmed its strength, so it could not be put to the mouth.

"... I get it. You want me to show you what I can do? Seto, let's go."

"Gru."

Seto follows Ray's voice and rises from the ground.

But it was the knight who hung on to it.

"We're going to a place where there's a lot of great people, so Seto wants you to be a little shy."

"... my strength, including Seto?

"I know that, but it's the other way around. … perhaps Renojis decided he couldn't beat his Griffon opponent and turned his hand around"

Exhale into the words and open your mouth as you stroke Seto's head.

"Apparently, cowards are afraid of you. I'm gonna go and shut you up for a little while, so you wait here."

"Grrrrrrrr"

Too bad, but Ray looks at Seto sleeping on the ground again before turning back on his heels.

"Celebrities are tough. Good luck with that. But don't kill me or anything."

He headed with the knight to the main unit's position in the wake of some interesting Luno voice.