Legend

The day after hearing about the rank-up exam in the guild's conference room, Ray and Seto were walking down the city's boulevard to the main entrance while there was still some room for the 9am bell to ring.

Unlike usual, there are no dishes in their hands that can be eaten while walking, such as skewers or sandwiches. Sometimes the rank-up exam day makes it somewhat more serious, but the biggest reason would be the question of time. The time for breakfast was long past, and since it was before 9: 00 a.m., there were also instances where I had not yet done so many of the stalls that I would open in the morning.

If this is after 9: 00, the stall will open somewhat.

Not all stalls do it, of course. Some stalls are already open, but even so, Ray and Seto are sometimes important days… and most importantly, they were headed to the main entrance with words of no, even if occasionally the stall owner called them in for fear that they would be obsessed with eating and not be able to make it to the promised time.

Ray, who moved in front of the main gate that way, saw...

"Are you insane, this?

It was more of a chariot decorated to the point that it could be called an evil hobby, rather than a brilliant... Its exterior is flashly decorated with gold and silver, and each is also equipped with objects like gems and demonic stones.

Perhaps the viewer will see a feeling of luxury, or brilliance, but what do you think from Ray's eyes...

"That's a bad taste."

This was all there was.

In fact, adventurers, merchants, travelers, etc. who are asked by the Alliance to head outside enter and exit the main entrance, but almost all of them stop the carriage in front of them by surprise, stunned, and eventually leave with a bitter smile.

That was Ray, who decided it wasn't impossible either, but he sighs unexpectedly when he sees the man who showed up from that carriage just in time.

The man with the careless eyes of brown hair, because he was the person I met yesterday in the guild's conference room.

Orchide Daphni. Request for this bicorn crusade, or someone to accompany the Rays on the rank-up exam.

It is no coincidence that the orchid came out of the carriage...... but because Ray came, and that is why he will speak to Ray.

Yes, with a curious gaze of those walking around.

"Uh, you sure were Ray. Well, it's a little early, but it's not the first ride, is it just the right time?

"Someone before me?

"Hmm? Uh, oh. I said I asked her to join the carriage around the corner, but she said no."

Unlike Arnicht, he doesn't even think of anything in particular about Ray's use of words. Orchide turns his gaze toward Ones a little further away as he just tells him it looks like a pain in the ass.

With his gaze toward you, Ray felt convinced by the way Ones was standing as if he were a stone.

(I do find it a bit inconceivable that an oligarchy man like Ones prefers to ride such a fancy carriage)

Ray thought so in his heart, but Orchide opens his mouth as if he had read Ray's thoughts like that.

"I know you don't want to ride in a carriage like this."

"... then why bother to be in such a conspicuous carriage?

Ask as you look at the frightened look almost all of the people passing by are turning to the carriage.

Fortunately, Ray and Orchide are having a conversation a little away from the carriage, so they are not seen as carriage officials by those who have come into the city now, but they frown without thinking that they would ride a carriage that can only be described as an evil hobby.

But Seto had some interesting gaze toward the carriage as to whether, in some ways, it was the opposite of Ray.

"Gru."

You're not riding? and Ray unwittingly smiles bitterly at Seto, who leans his little neck and asks.

I don't know where that evil hobby carriage sounded on Seto's harp line, but as far as Ray is concerned, I just want you to give me an honest break.

"There's a lot going on over here. Looks like your buddy's here."

For those with Orchide's gaze pointed at him, there is the figure of Roble carrying a larger backpack and the figure of Shty hanging two smaller bags from his shoulders.

"This way is fine, go over there. I'm taking my time in the carriage."

"Oh, oh."

Orchide returns to his evil hobby carriage without needing to hear Ray's reply.

After dropping him off, Ray approaches toward Roble and Shty, who are approaching the main entrance.

"Whoa, Ray. You're early. I thought we were on first."

"Some of them are faster than me."

Turn your gaze toward Ones, Ray with your shoulders clasped.

Feeling something snort somewhere following Ray's gaze like that, Roble quickly offers Ray the backpack he was carrying all the time.

"You can leave it to me when it comes to carrying luggage, can't you?

"Oh. No problem."

Receive the backpack and store it inside the misting. As soon as that happened, a startling voice leaked out of Roble's mouth, and Shty had an equally surprising look on his face.

"What's up? You knew I had an item box, didn't you?

"No, it's a big difference between what I know and what I actually see in this eye. Wow, seriously."

"Yeah, yeah. Sure. Uh, can I ask you for this, too?

"No problem."

Store the two bags handed over to Mystering as well... I noticed that there was an Ones appearance on the side of the three Rays.

As always, he's oligarchy and says nothing in particular, but that gaze is still directed toward Ray.

And inadvertently give him the bag he had.

"... please"

Ray also nodded smaller at the Ones asking for shorter words and kept them in Mystering.

"So, there's more to it than just keeping it in the item box. Sometimes you can't take it out without me, but still you don't mind?

"Oh, no problem. Most of it's food and night tools."

"Same goes for me. I have potions and stuff here."

Shty gently tapping his hip pochette.

……

Ones nods silently, not saying anything in particular.

"By the way, is it time to go through the process of leaving the city? When I'm near that evil hobby carriage, I don't like it when people think about me this way."

Chirali, and Roble, who tells Orchide as he turns his gaze toward the carriage he's riding, but wonders if it's something I can tell him that he's really involved in, eventually decides he'll find out and says nothing in particular, and all four of them get close to the guard in front of the main gate.

Of course, Seto was staring at the carriage that Roble regarded as an evil hobby.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

You're leaving already? and Ray nodding as he tilts his little neck and asks, stroking Seto's back.

I guess I still can't have the courage to touch Ray, who is stroking Seto's back, around the corner where he stared a little enviably at me, but still wouldn't say he wanted me to stroke him.

The process of leaving the city is over for nothing more than everyone here taking a rank-up exam to Rank B - still, Langa wasn't on holiday - with leaving the city.

Orchide waited for the rest of the members or there was no way to move the carriage, so Roble's uncomfortable condition was resolved for a little while.

"Oh, not that carriage...? Huh? That?

A line waiting for the Residence, who is the examiner at the main entrance, and the nobles to act together. It will be time for the 9am bell to ring, and Roble will raise his voice when he sees several carriages coming under the Rays... but at the next moment he will have an amazing face and a disgusting look at the same time.

At the end of that gaze are three carriages. The leading carriage is normal, I guess that's the kind of carriage that is everywhere. This is the guild carriage. The second carriage is not about the first one qualitative, but it has an atmosphere such as a qualitative rigidity that made the function a priority. And the last one... was a very bad taste by the gate.

Note that the first carriage had experience riding during the oak crusade and the second carriage from the guild to Marka's mansion, so Ray had a good decision about whose carriage was.

"Hey, dude. Could that carriage be..."

Roble, who sees an evil conspicuous carriage in the wind, such as a glitter, rather than a sparkle, comes to his gaze wanting it to be a lie, but Ray and Ones, who know the truth, shake their heads sideways with no expression. It's as if you want me to give up.

It was Roble with a sincerely disgusting look on his face when he saw it, but the three carriages stop at Rays' side with a gaze from adventurers, merchants, or travelers around the gate just saying it had nothing to do with it.

That way, naturally, the surrounding gaze could also be directed at the Rays, and Roble waited for his surrounding gaze to disappear, shyly looking down so that he could not calm down somewhere.

Ray was already accustomed to being evil noticeable in cets, item boxes, and death sizes, and Ones was basically oligarchy and barely moved his expression, so he didn't look comfortable.

"Well, we're all here."

That's what the Residence told Rays as they saw him coming out of the leading carriage, and at the same time, from the carriage in the middle, Marka and Koan. From the last carriage Arnicht and Orchid show up.

Regardless of the fact that Orchid looks like a pain in the ass, Arnicht looks tired, probably because he has to travel to a place with bicorns in a carriage that shines with guilla and evil taste.

(But when you're tired of just moving from front of the gate to here, that's what's going to happen next)

Even while thinking that way in the heart, those who came out of the carriage gather around the residence.

"Firstly, for four study participants, there are three carriages. So that you can discuss and decide how to split this up."

"... that, which carriage do you ride also involves rank-up exams?

"You think you can say that? I'm just saying that what I see is everything I do."

The Residence answers Shty's question, while at the same time slightly distorting the expressions of the three Rays, Robles and Shty.

Ones still didn't move his expression and was still listening to the residency's explanation.

"Anyway, you guys decide how you're gonna split up. It's bad for the aristocrats, but keep your eyes shut."

To the words, Ray frowns slightly.

(At least let us decide for ourselves. Even if you decide which carriage to ride in this state, it would be a lot of hassle to decide in the state they are looking at)

"I'd rather not have that evil hobby carriage."

Arnicht kept his mouth shut, even though Roble was credited with his carriage as an evil hobby, but it wouldn't be strange to complain if he were supposed to.

I guess you understand the degree of bad taste in the carriage you're riding around here.

"Whatever the exterior of the carriage, it's true that Roble and Arnicht are not compatible"

"Hey, you there. You said Ray or something. A little bit on the mouth..."

"Mr. Arnicht, you promised to leave everything to this one. I'm sorry, but I thought you said in advance that you would let me do this with the adventurer's manners?

"... fine. You did take the case on that condition. I'll leave you here."

He glances at Arnicht, who nodded uncomfortably for only a moment, and Ray opens his mouth again.

"So, what do we do?

"... I'll ride the Alliance carriage"

The first person to open his mouth was, unexpectedly, Ones.

"You can't help it. Then I'll be in the carriage over there."

Then Shty opens his mouth as he turns his gaze to the carriage on which Arnicht is riding.

"Hey, wait a minute. Can you imitate putting only Shty on that evil hobby carriage? Then I'll ride that way too."

"Are you sure? It doesn't seem to go well with Roble, though."

"I don't mind. Besides, if I leave Shty alone, he might do something weird."

To Roble's words. Although Arnicht moves Pickle and his eyebrows, do you remember the earlier words of the Residence, saying nothing more but silence?

Orchide, who was next to him, had the look of being outside in this, even though the temperature was still rising gradually in the morning, even though it was troublesome.

"Then it would mean Ray would be in that carriage over there... doesn't that matter?

"Oh. Happy or unhappy, I know Marka and Koan."

"Mm-hmm. I don't know your face. Friends!"

You didn't care about the expression facial familiarity. Marca raises her voice of protest so much, but soon she gets a serious look and goes on with the words.

"But don't worry. Let me be fair in my assessment of the rank-up exam. No, should I hit it hard because I'm a friend"

Arnicht seemed to have a lot to say to Marka, but still, there was just no way he could say anything against the Duke's warrant, and in the end the carriage assignment was determined to be Ones on the guild carriage, Ray on the Duke of Quent's carriage, and Roble and Shty on the carriage Arnicht and Orchide.