Legend

"Okay, lady, Lady Ray. You're not going. We hope you return safely today."

Hearing voices from Tufal, Ray and Elaine leave the inn. On our way is the stables where Seto and Yellow are located.

Day 3 after arriving in Exil, also a labyrinth city. Today's purpose is naturally a dungeon offense.

Fortunately, there was no danger like this, although there were incidents like meeting Bühne regarding Day 1 of the Dungeon Challenge. That's why Elaine and Ray were discussing going on the second basement floor today to the third basement floor.

(Most likely, there was more commotion after I left the dungeon.)

Elaine looks sideways at Ray walking next door, whining inside.

Past that back of the brain was Vihera dressed in what could only be described as suspicious to see, such as wearing multiple layers of thin cloth that seemed transparent on the other side from above an outfit like underwear, with armor and toenails on both hands and feet.

(Totally, whatever Ray is forced to do by a woman like that, you just have to be resolute.... but maybe Ray likes to dress like that? But I don't know what that outfit looks like... wait, I do feel like Ara used to say that guys like women's fancy looks or something. So... I have to wear clothes that can't even be called clothes!?

Elaine, who leaves her expression barely unchanged, is nevertheless internally confused.

I guess I didn't even feel how Elaine looked like that, but Ray, who was walking next door, turns his gaze to Chillari and opens his mouth,

"Elaine, my goal today is once to be the third basement floor, but the trap says... Elaine?

"No, but... but then where... but the Duke's Lady is like that..."

There's nothing like Ray's voice being heard, Elaine whining about something in her mouth.

While questioning such Elaine, she calls out as she reaches for her shoulder wrapped in white metal armor.

"Hey, Elaine. Were you listening to me?

"Huh!? Oh, oh. Of course. Are we going for the third basement floor today? There's nothing wrong with me."

I was so confused that I could even say distressed inside, but still listened properly in the corner of my head because of my experience working as a princess general? Or was it simply a product of coincidence?

Anyway, while they manage to return word to Ray, the two stop by the stables and pick up Seto and Yellow and roll them out all over the city.

Are the sights that can be directed from the surroundings, such as fear 70% and curiosity 20%? As far as the remaining 10% are concerned, they look as if they love Seto.

(I didn't expect the type of sight to change so far in just one day. That's exactly what you're supposed to say Seto? Well, in the sense of adorability, I haven't lost a yellow one either... because the first time I saw it, Seto had a bigger body than a yellow one)

Stop on your left shoulder and gaze at the yellow looking around you, stroking its back down the road.

I buy Lizardman skewers at the stall, just like yesterday, but the look on the store owner's face changed from yesterday and I never got scared of Seto.

Of course not all fears could have been completely dispelled. But still, I guess I understood that there was nothing like Seto coming at me without meaning. I can clearly see it from Elaine's eyes that she just can afford not to put it on her expression.

"Are you still going to the dungeon today? You must have just been there yesterday, right?

"Oh, I'm going to."

The skewer shop owner seemed impressed with Ray telling him so... and nodded with a worrying look on his face.

"Is there something wrong with that too?

"No, if you're selling skewers near a dungeon like this, you hear a lot from adventurers, but most normal adventurers take a day off if they dive into a dungeon, or a few more days off."

"That would be the right thing to do if you think physically...... so can you do it? Especially if it's a shallow hierarchy where beginners dive, you don't get a busy income, do you?

"I don't know much about that area. Are you doing whatever you say, or are you earning money by doing other jobs when you're not diving into a dungeon"

To the words of the head shaking shopkeeper, Ray also leans his neck for a few seconds to think.

But soon we decided that we should proceed at our own pace, pay for the skewers, say thank you, and then leave.

"I'm just opening a store near the dungeon, it's delicious."

Ray takes his last bite and whines as he stores the skewers inside the mistering.

Elaine snorts at the words of that Ray, but she already has nothing in her hand. Elaine also ate the skewers, but only one, so the skewers were processed on the spot.

"Grrrrrrrr"

Seto also rang as he nodded again, continuing straight through the dungeon and the gate to the square near the entrance......

"Wait! Why don't you party with us!?

"No, that's with us, please!

"This way first!

"Wait, wait, wait! You know I'm the first one to decide! I was the first one to speak up."

"You can't win early. This place should be decided purely by ability!

"It's a little long when those people are around, so let's talk about me first..."

"Hey there, there. I'm not running away from you."

"Yes, it's a habit of scratching people from the side before we asked them out."

Three people talked to me the minute I walked into the square. Two men and one woman keep talking without a gap to pinch the words as they are.

Ray was suddenly watching that interaction for a moment, but I knew immediately what was happening.

I guess I've been trying to target the spill knowing that Seto is a lot more important than I thought, and that Ray, who follows that Seto, isn't as violent as the rumors that he's become on tails and even breasts.

……

Did Elaine come to a similar conclusion again, sighing small as she turned her gaze toward Ray?

For a long time, we had half expected this to happen if our strengths were revealed. There was still some uncertainty about what personality this group had, including Ray, regarding yesterday, and only one person had spoken directly, but I guess that's to say it was only yesterday. The fact that Ray and Elaine bought and ate all over the city conveyed their character is probably what accelerated the noise this time around.

……

We push each other as we gaze at each other, but it was Ray who eventually lost. I gently stroke Seto's head before approaching the three people who are arguing.

In the gap that I kept my eyes off for a little while, what would have been an argument between leaders if it had been, has somehow turned into an argument that includes party members.

Your place grabbed a promising member from the side the last time, if you say so, I took a lot of material from when I defeated the monster in the dungeon before. The ones who tricked the ore found in the dungeon with their mouths and took it.

If you try to be the leaders, Ray and Elaine, and pull Seto into their own party, you'll definitely gain a lot of power. As a result, I was arguing aloud that I would never be able to retreat... which in turn leads to a result that reduces Ray and Elaine's motivation.

"Sorry, party members are on time so far. I'm not going to work with anyone, not just you."

"It's dangerous to dive into a dungeon just the two of us, no matter how strong you say you are. Let the porter in, 'cause at least about five people are average."

To Ray's words, a woman adventurer proclaims. Exhaled, Ray nodded small as if he had come up with something after looking at Elaine next door, making the mistering nestled in his right arm appear to the woman... and then to everyone on the spot.

"You know what this bracelet is?

"... some kind of magic item or something?

That's what I answered, leaving some boy shadow, not a woman - still thought to be older than Ray - an adventurer man.

Nodding to the man, he takes the Death Size, also his favorite weapon, out of the mysteries.

Suddenly appearing in Ray's hands, the hustle and noise around him momentarily but surely quiets down. That was also true of St. Light, which is also the largest group on this occasion.

"You know there are magic items, created by researching item boxes...? There's not that much to store, it's a simple item box, but this is one of them."

That's what Ray tells him, waves Death Size.

If it was meant to be, you could have said it was a real item box. But then Ray decided it would be a hassle to turn a blind eye to Elaine's hip pouch next door, a magic pouch created using space magic, and decided to borrow that setting.

Apart from the fact that space magic itself is a very difficult magic, the magic pouch that utilizes it is equally valuable. But still, I decided it was still better than the item box they said only a few existed in the world.

"And I'm not the only one. The porch on Elaine's waist is a similar magic item. I mean, we don't need porters. Do you understand me?

"Then how's the power! Our party focuses on combat. No matter how much power you have!

The next person to open his mouth like that was a man in his 20s, the first of three men to call Ray.

Dressed in half-plate armor, the one in hand is Paul Axe.

(Not my brother-in-law I could have told you, isn't it hard to use that long patterned weapon in a dungeon?

Lay aside and whine inside Ray that the death size you have is a weapon even harder to handle than its Paul Axe.

Keep glancing at the man and then slowly shake his neck to the left and right.

"Unfortunately, I have absolutely no problems with the power of the war. Not as long as there's me and Elaine and Seto. That would be a different story if we came out around Rank A Monster, but we're still upstairs in the basement. If you really need strength, I can count on you when the Rank A Monster comes out. That's all right, right?

"... no, that's exactly what we're dealing with a Rank A monster..."

A man who listens to Ray's queries and gets stuck in words.

This man is also quite confident in the fighting power of his party. That's why I said no matter how much power I had against Ray. But I understood that it was only combat power compared to being equal to ourselves, and that even if Rank A instead of Rank B monsters were opponents, we would have no hands or feet on our own.

Also, I guess that's why he was aiming to bring in people with broken fighting skills like Ray and Seto.

If Elaine had realized that she was a princess general, her enthusiasm for solicitation might have increased even further.

(No, just don't have the guts to let the Duke's Lady into the party?

While I think so in my heart, I utter a decisive word.

"What we really need now is a bandit. … but with the proviso that he's not too smart to pull our legs in battle."

Hope floats in a man's face for a moment in Ray's words that a bandit is needed, but he sighs sadly when he is told in battle that he will not pull his leg. That was also true of the other two who were putting bandits into the party, not just men, or those who were watching a series of interactions around them.

Some exhale, while others turn their gaze to their fellow bandits to blame them for not being so handsome, and the bandits whose gaze is pointed at them stare at each other sending their gaze to them without even hiding their unpleasant expressions.

With that kind of interaction on his ass, Ray shrugs his shoulders small toward the three people who have been talking to him.

"You know what I mean? Well, I'm sorry, but it's time for us to go into the dungeon."

"Oh, oh..."

"Yeah."

"... I can't help it."

There's no way three people can say anything more to Ray's words, and he goes straight through the side.

In the meantime, a few bandits who were in the Holy Light religion watching how it went said something. I did so, but I didn't end up putting it in my mouth.

If I tried to be a holy light bandit, I guess I'd have wanted to sell in because I've decided I'm quite handsome. However, we could not speak from ourselves more than in the position of giving salvation to the other for the first time when we were asked to do so.

While somehow feeling the state of Holy Light, Ray and Elaine, Seto and Yellow, two and two touch the transfer device and disappear to the second basement floor.