Legend

A few days after Elaine and Ray attacked us in the streets to exterminate the bandits in reverse. After that, we will continue to safely continue on the streets without any particular disturbance, and eventually we will see the exterior of the city even from within the carriage and far away...... no, as its name suggests.

The Guild on which Ray is based is also a city with a population of over 100,000, but the labyrinth city now visible through the window of the carriage looked several times larger than the Guild.

"Is that... a labyrinth city"

"Mm-hmm. There are also a few labyrinth cities in the Kingdom of Mireana, so I guess we should call them the labyrinth city Exil to be exact. The exact population is unknown because of the very intense movement of people in and out, but they still say there are 200,000 or 300,000"

"... That's a lot"

"Just in terms of the number of people, sure."

To Ray's words, Elaine shakes her head as she sees Eggzil.

"Just the numbers? If you think there's at least twice as many guilds, isn't the quality of adventurers pretty high?

"Not really. Apparently the only dungeons in the labyrinth city are fairly weak monsters when it's a safe hierarchy. Even those who have just become adventurers seem to be able to ensure some safety.... Conversely, there are quite a few adventurers who are coming for it. Purely in the quality of the adventurer, it is said to be overwhelmingly inferior compared to the guilds on the periphery. If, for example, adventurers of the same rank compete in simulated warfare, it will almost certainly be the adventurers of the Guild who will win."

"... I see"

Ray nodding at Elaine's words.

It was, in a way, Ray and Elaine, who were amiable, but outside the carriage there were no other carriages or travelers around them at all.

Of course the power of Warhorse itself, but the biggest cause would still be Ceto, a griffon.

He was Seto walking next to the carriage for the most part, but he still seemed lonely to get the look he threatened to see himself, and he kept walking down the street with the carriage emitting a soggy atmosphere.

That appearance was very unlikely to be a monster who unilaterally kicked nearly 30 bandits when he fought the bandits.

Many merchants, adventurers, or those wishing to migrate there naturally go beyond being exzils in labyrinth cities that boast a population several times that of the Guild. But those who are after them are naturally distancing themselves from Seto.

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto sounds lonely throat.

Even though he may not have noticed Seto's voice, Ray interrupts his conversation with Elaine and opens the window to speak to Seto.

"Seto, labyrinth city...... it's almost to Egzil so good luck. If you find out about Seto's character, you'll be just as scared and adorable as all the residents of Gilm."

"Gru."

To Ray's words, Seto regains some energy and rings his throat.

The carriages on which the Rays were still riding continued down the street while being kept at a distance from the surrounding carriages, and in about 30 minutes they finally arrived at Exil, which was their destination.

At the main entrance there is a waiting line for those who are proceeding to enter the city.

"Ma'am, what do you want to do? With your privilege as a nobleman, you will be given priority."

"Right... right"

See what's going on around you through the window as you figure out what to do.

I don't see any other carriages around Elaine or Ray's carriage, even though a significant number of them are lined up as waiting for the order of the procedure.

Needless to say why, Seto is near the carriage.

Fear, fear, fear from around. And Seto is viewed with just a few curious glances.

The reason for the curiosity gaze would be the presence of a yellow man who jumped out of the carriage a while ago and landed on Seto's back.

Yellow slept or played on the couch in the carriage, but he jumped out of the carriage to comfort his friend, Seto, when he noticed that he was being pointed at a feared gaze from the carriage around him.

Watch how it goes, for a few seconds. Eventually you made up your mind. Elaine calls out to Tufal.

"We can only threaten those around us if we stay here like this. Then you should go inside the city a little faster and hang your obedient devil's necklace on Ceto. I can't help but be scared more than being a griffon, but I wouldn't be scared more than I am now if the devil's necklace were hung at least."

If it was meant to be, I don't really like to use aristocratic privileges, even as Elaine. No, I'm not hesitant to use it if it's necessary as a task, but this time it's just a personal errand, a private one. That's why I didn't mean to use the Duke's title, but given this current situation, I decide that I should just get inside Eggzil.

"Sorry, that helps"

Even as Ray, I know that, but for that reason I say a brief word of thanks.

"You don't have to worry about it. If it stayed that way, there might have been a lot of bad things going on in the confusion."

We are subtly observing our own carriage, and Tufal speaks to the guards who are about to take action even as soon as something happens, showing us the kind of ID.

Most of the guards who were shown it had a frigid look on their eyes, but a few of them stretched their faces and ran under their captain.

And after a few minutes, a man in his 40s arrived, and the carriage door was knocked after a few minutes of interaction, even though he cared about Seto.

"Excuse me, lady, Master Ray. Mr. Valet, who is also in charge of this occasion, wants me to show Ray his guild card."

"Oh, okay. Ray."

Ray nods at Elaine's words, opens the door and goes out to the surface.

There is no way that you can rub with the Duke of Keller's house if you try to valet him as the only Squad Leader of the Guard, so it would be in a sense, but it was decided, that there would be no unconditional putting Elaine in the city.... Of course there's no way I wouldn't report it to my boss if I thought the famous Elaine Kelevel had arrived as a princess general.

And I had a conversation with the man of my lord and heard that there was a man in the carriage who did not belong to the House of the Duke of Kelp, and there was no reason for him not to check his identity in his professional business more than he found out.

Who is with the Princess General and follows the Griffon. Valet, who is quite close to an adventurer belonging to Exil, was only able to predict the identity of half the adventurer.

... That's why the carriage door opens and the eyes open wide to surprise to see the adventurer emerge from it.

Says he who follows the griffon.

Says that the magic of the flames caused enormous damage by just one person by burning down the advance troops of the Bestian Imperial Army.

Says he has a giant sickle and literally prunes the lives of his enemies as easily as a reaper.

Said, its power is so unlikely to be human.

Says the alias given from its flaming magic and overwhelming fighting power is deep red.

A few of those stories were told by adventurers back from the war with the Bestian Empire.

At first I heard that it would be a joke, an exaggerated rumor, but there was actually a lot of people who saw it in their eyes, and there was no reason why they wouldn't believe me if I were told to speak with a different tone.

If you wondered what that alias was, you wouldn't have to be distracted because it was the boy in his mid-teens who showed up from the carriage.

"Uh... uh... oh, I'm sorry, can I see your guild card?

"Okay, here it is."

The guild card I managed to give to the man who returned it to me. Seeing what is shown there, Valet will open his eyes again.

Because the rank indicated there was B.

"Rank, b!?

The small, but surely resounding, surrounding voice brings consternation to the guards who were around.

No, this stunner would have been even bigger than Valet. Anyway, Valet had suspected it from the look of it, but still understood the possibility that Ray was an adventurer with a deep red alias.

The common guards, unaware of it, all turn their stunned gaze toward Ray.

Ray receives the guild card that Valet has returned in horror just because he's already used to it, even though he receives that gaze.

"Do you mind if I do this?

"Ah, oh. I don't mind going through."

"… before doing so, ask for the obedient devil's necklace"

"Oh, yeah. Hey, obedient devil's necklace."

"Yes!"

The valet who returns me speaks to his men, who give Ray the obedient necklace.

Seto, hung around his neck with the obedient devil's neck, rubbed his face against Ray as he throated.

See how it goes. Valet notices the little dragon on Seto's back.

"... dragon?

"Oh, that's the lady's demon. Please decorate the devil's neck for the sake of porn."

Whatever happens when you're in the Duke of Kelp, this is a labyrinth city. Then, naturally, the obedient demon's necklace needs to be decorated against the user demon.

In the words of Tufal, prepare and hand over to Tufal the necklace of a small submissive - cat or bird.

Having determined that all the proceedings have now been completed, Tufal asks towards the Valley.

"So are you sure you want to come inside now?

"I don't mind. However, you will inform those above that you have used your privileges as an aristocrat…"

"No problem. Especially since there's no dark spot behind it. Okay, excuse me. Sorry to bother you."

Gracefully bow back to your seat, Tufal.

Ray also strokes Seto's head and then strokes Yellow's back before returning to the carriage.

And away from the line that was waiting in turn, the Rays went into the Eggzil.

"... it's been a long time since I've been Squad Leader of the Guard... but it's been a long time since I've been surprised so far"

To a grunting valet, the guard who gave Ray the obedient devil's necklace agrees with a bitter smile.

"Since the mad blade thing?

"Unlike then, there aren't any dead people out there, so I think it's a lot better.... Well, anyway, the seeds of disturbance have left. I'll report this to you upstairs, so you guys get back to work."

Copy that, sir.

Valet exhales as he looks at his men hurrying back to the beginning of the line.

"I hope there's no extra commotion..."

It would be useless somehow, whining as I thought.

"... this is certainly what I looked into before..."

Nodding Ray as he looks out the window of the carriage.

At the end of that line of sight is the wall covering the eggzil.

... except that the fence is not a fence to prevent the enemies outside, but rather to trap the threat inside the Exil.

That would be natural, too. In fact, when something unexpected happened to this fence and the monster overflowed from the dungeon, the fence prepared to keep the monster out of the Exil... or a kind of cage.

In the first place, this labyrinth city called Exil is not as peripheral as Gilm.

Of course, there are monsters everywhere like goblins, and sometimes monsters like oaks show up. And not on the border, so the number of bandits is high.

But still, it's a monster in the dungeon when it comes to the biggest threat in Exil, which is also a labyrinth city.

It's the type of dungeon that dives underground, and although there are no monsters that powerful in the upper hierarchy, there have been times in the past when Rank A monsters have appeared in the lower tier. If such a powerful and extreme monster came out of the dungeon, it was a barrier against unleashing monsters outside the city that could be described as catastrophic.

I had looked it up and heard it beforehand at Gilm, but it's actually quite a shock when Ray sees it with his own eyes.

Elaine smiles slightly at Ray, who looked out with a half-hearted look from the carriage window.

Sometimes I wear a dragon robe hood from time to time, because Ray himself had no surprise look in it.

(Considering you were able to see Ray's surprise face in person, you were quite fortunate)

Elaine opens her mouth trying not to put it on her face, even though she thinks that way in her heart.

"You know this labyrinth city of Exil is handled close to a half-autonomous city?

"Oh. According to the information I gathered in the Guild, once ruled by the nobles... that's almost exclusively nominal."

"That's right. There is no way that the country would have admitted that, but there are a number of circumstances that make it a labyrinth city. This Exil is not the only one. Even with regard to several labyrinth cities within the Kingdom of Mireana, they are basically treated close to autonomous cities.... I pay taxes most of the time to the country, and like in the war with the Bestian Empire, I send my strength if I have to. And there are four that essentially rule the labyrinth city of Exil...... no, now it's going to be three houses already"

Elaine's description continued as the carriage went down the street.