Legend

"... so what was causing the dispute?

Ray asks the adventurers for the luxury of cooking the right dishes in a liquor store set up with his guild, whilst tongue-in-cheek drumming at a dish fried with shellfish and vegetables in butter or a giant shrimp that boiled over 50 cm in length.

A pair of three adventurers with one man and two women who look resentfully at such a ray somewhere. The woman in the bikini, who is also the culprit of Ray's involvement, has a dazed gaze at Ray, unlike the adventurers.

Or maybe that's not impossible either. Whatever shellfish stir-fry Ray is pounding on his tongue, because boiled shrimp is a pretty expensive category of dish among the menus in this tavern.

It's usually beaten to pieces with a hammer or something, but a woman in a swimsuit opens her mouth to Ray, who urges her ahead while stripping her shell with a forceful force of it.

"I'm Rosha. I'm a fisherman in this city of emotions. That said, we're fishing near the harbor, not like we're going offshore on a boat."

"I see. So, why is that fisherman arguing with the adventurer?

"It's..."

A man adventurer tried to open his mouth, but Rosha opens her mouth trying to block it.

"These guys took a crusade request and attacked me diving into the ocean! You can't just forgive me for that, but you even broke me a net with fish and shellfish that I caught from this morning... thanks to you, it's a huge loss!

"That's why you're apologizing! I didn't even like this one and attack you!?

"If you're going to apologize, you don't need the Knights or the Guards. Anyway, I'm saying I forgive you if you pay for the fishing tools you destroyed and the harvest you had inside."

"Don't be silly! Seven pieces of silver or something, right?

This exchange alone made Ray understand the two sets of statements.

But most of all, what surprised Ray was the fact that he imitated like a seawoman when he said there were monsters in the ocean.

This Elgin has a presence called a monster. That, as Ray saw off the coast yesterday, is no exception, even in the sea. That said, the woman in front of you doesn't even wear armor - it's natural if you're diving into the ocean - but you're diving into the ocean alone. If I tried it on Ray, I just thought I didn't know what to do.

"So, did you say Rosha or something? I see what you're saying. What do you guys have to say?

"... I have no words to give back. Overall, I was wondering if we were wrong."

"Hey! I admit it's bad this way, but that's why seven silver coins are too greedy! Even the storage is diminishing!?

To the accusations from the adventurer's side, the woman in swimsuit just said that that wasn't what she found out... No, the fisherman's woman laughs with her nose.

"This one's ready to fish for danger. That's how he almost got killed, isn't it? That, too, goes out of his way to the adventurers who are coming from other cities to this city of Emosion.... Shouldn't you do something about it before I talk to the Alliance and the city greats? Or do you want me to reluctantly pay you here to accept a situation where you might no longer be able to stay in this city? Naturally, in that case, other adventurers who are coming to this city besides you will have narrow shoulders. Especially these days, outside adventurers like you have been causing a lot of disturbances."

"Oh, that's..."

Ray brings the last shrimp to his mouth as he watches the caged adventurer woman.

Wipe dirty hands as they are, check the surroundings and open the tease mouth.

"You've made up your mind. Pay 5 pieces of silver with a nuisance fee. Even though the accumulation is diminishing, it's not enough to pay that much, is it?

Now the last adventurer woman to ever shut up speaks to Ray, who tries to take a seat just because her role is over.

"For once, we have the luxury here. Wouldn't it be nice if you could help us out here a little bit more?

"When it comes to this dish, think of it as the price that made me take my time. Besides... take a good look around. You know better than to pay for it."

'Huh?'

All three of Ray's words raise their voices of doubt and look around.

So what I saw were the customers of the tavern who were looking at themselves somewhere to blame. It was clear that most of the owners of that gaze were adventurers, beyond being taverns co-located in guilds.

And some adventurers have been working in this city of emotions since the beginning, and some adventurers have come to the prize neck, just like Ray and the threesome. A threesome of barometric pressure at the gaze being directed from those two types of adventurers.

If you try to be an adventurer in this city of emotions from the beginning, you don't want your adventurers to discredit you for continuing to work in this city, and even if you are an adventurer who came for a prize neck, it was a gaze directed at you for the reason that it would be difficult for you to work in this city because of others.

The fisherman's woman turns her gaze to Ray when she complains that she has less than what she asked for, but when she can stare with those blue eyes, she will silence herself without being able to put any more into words.

Confirming that, Ray opens his mouth toward the troika of adventurers.

"You get it? I feel the same way. I don't know why you guys made a mistake, but I don't know why you're bothering me."

That's all I tell you, Ray just leaves the spot.

Three adventurers and a fisherwoman would shut up and drop off Ray's back like that.

Note that this later discussion concludes that the adventurers end up paying three pieces of silver coins and returning the missing pieces by working under the fishermen.

"Seto, did you make me wait?

"Grrrrrrrr?"

When Ray, who went out of the guild, calls out, Seto, who was facing a monster of birds about 1 m in size next door, turns around and joyfully throats.

But Ray is more blinded by the bird monster next to him than Seto.

"... Icebird?

Yes, that monster was Icebird, a monster Ray had also fought before.

It's a Rank D monster, and it's not that powerful, but what Ray paid more attention to was the necklace hanging from its neck. An obedient devil's necklace, which is exactly the same necklace as Ceto's. That would mean that the icebird in front of Ray is someone's summoner or a thamed monster.

"... but Icebird is good this season... oh, I see"

Judging from the discomfort I receive from the ring nestled in Icebird's right foot, it's probably like some kind of magic item.

"You've never seen a tamed monster other than Seto.... No, there was a dragon knight flying dragon"

The dragon knights who fought in the war were on the flying dragon. Having said it was raised from eggs, it wouldn't make any difference that it's a type of monster that's been tamed.

(I'd like to talk to the person who taemed it, but now it's the ocean before that)

"Gru?"

You're not going? Encouraged by Seto leaning his neck in the wind, Ray leans after the guild towards the harbor.

Naturally, at that time, Ray and Seto eventually arrive at the harbor, where they bought seafood from the stalls and proceeded to taste it, putting so much in their bellies that they would not need lunch.

The first thing that came to my attention were a number of moored ships. Some huge offshore vessels, such as vessels that transmit and travel the continent, or vessels used by fishermen, docked in large numbers in ports. Of course I don't like mooring, but I do because if I go offshore, I could get attacked by a lem race.

But it's not free to say you're docked in the harbor. There's a mooring charge, and most importantly, it only damages the shipowner for the delay in carrying the luggage. Naturally, as the Emotion side, there is no reason to impose parking fees under the current circumstances, so it is cheap. However, the payment will still be saved so that the captains will have to do some work because of the dust.

And what came into Ray's eyes after the ship was a massive amount of people wandering in the harbor. Husbands for the purpose of loading luggage, sailors looking abominably offshore, and even adventurers trying to defeat and win prizes when the Rem Race lands in port.

Especially if I tried being adventurers, I basically had to take the tactic of waiting at the harbor because I didn't have the means to get out to sea. Of course, some people let the ship out in anticipation of getting rid of it when the Rem Race showed up. However, since almost all of them were unilaterally attacked in circumstances where they could not even see the rem race and turned into sea algae chips for all the ships, or wasted time without even being able to find the rem race in the first place before that, or were attacked by other monsters, now no shipowner was imitating the ship in such a way as to lend it easily.

Out to sea now are a handful of wealthy adventurer parties that have magic item ships, or adventurer parties that they bought instead of paying to rent ships.

Especially with regard to the latter party, depending on the size of the ship but paying a considerable amount of money, he was looking for a rem race with a very rugged eye and holding back the rivals around him.

But such adventurers are only a handful of adventurers gathered in the city of Emosion after all. Most adventurers either wait for a rem race in the harbor or make a request in the guild to earn money first.

In the meantime, Ray crosses into Seto's back in the midst of numerous gazes of jealousy, envy, hope, hatred and plea from those around him.

"Okay, Seto. Then please."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

He kicks a few steps on the ground, honking high at Ray's request, and keeps his wings winged and up as if he were kicking in the air.

As it is, Seto goes towards the sea and to the scene where the ship was attacked by a lem race the day before.

Just around there were a few ships of those who had a glimmer of hope that there might be some clue, just like Ray, but those on that ship also looked up, noticing the shadow flying over them, and when they discovered Seto's appearance, they turned their envious gaze.

Around the neighborhood where no one is surprised by Seto for having rescued with him the day before, it can be considered a gathering of high-ranking adventurers.

Ray finds a familiar face on one of those magic item ships and descends Seto.

"Did you get anything that might be a clue to the lem race?

"No, there's nothing there."

Ray's question was answered by the leader of an adventurer party who had several conversations yesterday while on a rescue mission.

Even those at that party will reply amicably without forgetting Ray, who is just following Griffon in one day.

That said, the adventurers aboard other magic item ships and ships bought at the harbor were turning a somewhat negligible gaze to Ray.

For other adventurers who can only travel by boat, Ray, who can travel through the sky aboard Seto, can be a powerful competitor in targeting the prize neck. So...

"Hey kid, I'm late, so watch out for a little bit over here."

I bet you bought it at the harbor. I can speak out like that from an adventurer on a boat.

"Say your bedtime words after bed."

Ray returns the word with a similar response again, just because it's a fight waist response from the beginning.

Naturally, there's no room for people to listen to it, and I stare at Ray with a swordswallowing eye.

"Hey, in front. Because I'm on a griffon..."

That's when the adventurer said so. Suddenly Seto wings wide apart and leaves the position he was in now. And the next moment......

"Become!?

The stunned voices of the adventurers who were there echoed around.

Yes, because a spear made of sea water pierced the space where Seto existed until just a moment ago.

"Shit, are you out! Seto, let's get the hell out of here."

"Grrrrrrrr!"

I turn my gaze to Chirali and the surroundings and give instructions to Seto, deciding that I will just get involved in vain as it is.

Seto, who heard it, also travels the scene with wings winged as he rattles high.

"Hey, wait a minute! You want me to do the bounty neck just in front of you!?

The voice of the man arguing with Ray until earlier echoes around, but Ray ignores it and moves Seto.

Several sea water spears penetrate the air as if following Seto's flying trajectory, as he then follows.

"Damn it, you guys, we're going after him too! We can't just let them have the prize neck. Eh!

Tell that to your own people and point the ship toward Ray and Seto's departure, but there was too much difference in velocity to catch up with by the decisive time on the flying Seto and the ship travelling through the sea.

"Within sight of the bottom of the ocean...... after all, is there not"

As Seto obliques his body again and dodges the sea water spear, he gazes into the sea as he firmly grabs onto Seto's body to avoid falling.

Since it is a transparent sea, it is not possible to reach the bottom of the sea, but it is possible to look at a considerable part of the sea. However, it is still not possible to ascertain the appearance of a monster that appears to be a lem race within Ray's sight.

"The sea...... the sea!?

Ray looking up at the sky like he noticed something, but what was in sight was about clouds and seabirds and nothing suspicious existed.

"Shit, I thought you were an enemy flying in the air by making you look like a sea monster... all the time"

Seto obliques his body again and dodges a sea water spear.

Rem racing means of attack is water magic, which means you don't necessarily have to be in the ocean. So Ray was expecting for a moment that there might be a monster flying in the sky, but he finds out it was apparently off and exhales small.

It was Seto who kept dodging the sea water spear for about five minutes, but suddenly the attack of the sea water spear was interrupted, as he said he was no longer interested.