Legend

"... is that really all you need?

A knight asks that to Ray.

Under Ray's feet are about 50 spears.

Some of them have missing tips or have cracks in the patterned area, but most of them are normally usable spears, not the kind Ray likes to buy and collect at blacksmiths and weapons stores.

It's a spear that was in this Ajito where the bloody blade weapon was being punished.

Although it is a cavalry-centric mercenary regiment, the infantry class is also normal. It was the spear that was available as a weapon for such infantry.

This time the bandit... No, Ray wanted the spear in addition to the pocket watch, which is a magic item, as a reward for his request to crusade the bloody blade.

"Oh, I didn't have any other magic items that seemed to work, and I already have enough money and stuff. Usually used as a weapon is sufficient for death size, and there are a number of knives, including spare ones, for material stripping. I also have some stock of spears, but I would use them as a weapon for basic throwing, so I just had to have a spare. And..."

Ray smiles small with a glance at Chirali, and the spear beneath his feet.

"This spear is not the broken spear I collect, it's mostly a normal spear to use. In addition to throwing, you can also give it to your allies for use in times of need."

"If Ray's convinced, that's fine... he's greedless"

A knight groaning somewhere and a langa smiling bitterly at it. Covering his shoulders small toward those two, he stores all the spears that were rolling on the ground in the misting, and Ray turns his gaze once again into the tent.

The soldiers of the Crusaders were able to gather as much as possible regarding the treasures that Goblin had brought out.

Even so, Evelogi, who is also the head of the bloody blade, seems to be about half gone.

Ray, thinking that way, stops looking at the jewels in his tent.

Illuminated by a sunset stretching from among the trees are large grains of green gems.

It is a large emerald about 5 cm in size.

I take that emerald that caught my eye with wonder, and I remember Fufu and Traydia.

I didn't ask why, but it still looked like I was having trouble with the money.

That's enough to refrain from hiring escort adventurers.

(... right. Tell me something. I took care of them.)

He whines inside and opens his mouth to Langa and the knight.

"I knew I'd get this emerald too. So I just wanted to ask you, how was the merchant squad I used as a...

"Yeah? They'll be waiting for you outside the woods for once. This is how the people who were making a scene here recently got caught, but there are monsters."

"Okay. Then I'd like to show my face over there once, would you mind?

To Ray's inquiry, Langa and the knight look up into the sky.

The summer sun was already setting, and the sunset was pouring down through the trees to places where the bloody blades were aside.

Looking at those two, Ray takes out his pocket watch quickly and just opens the lid.

The time is after 6pm. Usually, it's time for dinner.

"Well, what do we do? I will now take my captives to Abu Ero, and even if I return to the Guild, it is difficult to think of time first. Then I guess I'd better not move around and reveal the night here and get out early tomorrow morning."

To the knight's words, he nods in the wind that Langa agrees, and opens his mouth.

"When that happens, Ray, I just want you and Seto to definitely help me... what do you think?

"Okay. So what do you say we meet with Traydia and run some errands and she'll be back here?

To the words that came out of Ray's mouth, Langa and the knight had a conversation with their eyes and eventually nodded small.

"Right, so let's ask for it. I'll strain you a lot, thank you very much."

"Never mind. As far as I'm concerned, I've been rewarded with absolutely no problem."

Wrap a pocket watch made of misrills in your palm and store it in a misting before leaving the scene.

After seeing Ray off like that, Langa and the knights started giving instructions to their men so they could spend the night in the land anyway.

"Seto, will you fly out of the woods for a second?

"Grrrrrrrr?"

To Ray's words, Seto turns his gaze toward the bloody blade tied with a rope and squeals his throat.

Understanding what that means, Ray opens his mouth as he strokes Seto's neck saying he has no problem.

"I've pretty much finished cleaning up here, and I've got a lot of room for crusader soldiers. You won't have to worry because they'll just kill you lightly trying to escape."

The gaze toward the bloody blade where the rays are tied is surprisingly cold.

One of the reasons for this is what the woman, who is the survivor of the attacked merchant corps, was treated like. It would be even greater because we had heard the crusaders' soldiers knight with Langa about the beatings they had received by Goblin and, ultimately, the reports that it had taken their breath away because of it.

"Besides, if you run... in that case, me and you could always find it, right? Then they'll have enough experience to regret what they were born to do."

Feeling the anger and killing in that word, those bound by the rope stop moving almost reflexively.

No, that's not all. The crusaders who were watching the bloody blades nearby were also unable to move.

"... ah"

A word leaking out of the mouth of a crusader soldier vanishes with swordswallowing signs emanating from Ray's body.

"Bad, I got a little too emotional"

"Yes, no. It's alright, considering what these guys have done, I can't help it if it does"

A soldier next to the one who leaked his voice shook his head and told him not to care, slapping lightly on the shoulder of a colleague who was still unable to move.

I guess that signaled it. The soldier who was unable to move also finally returns to me with a disgraceful look on his own displayed ugliness.

"Well, take this place for now, please."

Tell that briefly, and Ray takes Seto's back and runs up to the sky with a few steps of help.

Looking up at it from the ground, the soldier tells it in a smudged tone.

"... To be honest, I thought I was going to die"

"Oh, so am I."

"Absolutely, you were angry enough not to be a little spiffy."

"... if you think about what these guys have done, you won't have to do it either."

I would have heard such a voice, but the bloody blades would not show their movements as one.

That's what even Evelogi, who leads the bloody blade, did.

What I held in my chest when I felt the killing and anger released from Ray earlier on was absolute death.

Move your fingertips at all... No, even if you didn't imitate that, you were reminded that your death would surely come, it was such an overwhelming fear.

(... It's not on. I can't believe I was hostile to that guy)

Evelogi remained unable to move his body, but still manages to whine that inside out and bite his own bad luck.

I had already completely disappeared from trying to escape.

If we find out we escaped, we can imagine Ray coming for sure.

About minutes after I get out over the woods on Ceto, I see three carriages stopping beside the street.

Soldiers were around it, wary of monsters and bandits.

Ray, who wanted to get down in there, was naturally initially pointing his weapon at the soldiers, but immediately said he was Ray... more precisely confirming Griffon Seto's appearance, he lowers his sword.

"Ray, don't be surprised. I thought it was a monster or something."

One of the soldiers who knew Ray's face holds the sword down to his sheath as he cleverly imitates a grin as he complains.

With the other soldiers similarly holding their swords in their sheaths, Ray turns to Traydia, who is somewhere out of place in front of the carriage.

"Mr. Ray, did you clean up that you came this way?

"Oh. That one's roughly over there now"

The soldiers who were left as escorts, not just merchants, starting with Traydia, exhale in relief at such Ray's words.

No matter how much you say you trust your boss and colleagues, and even if you understand that you have a substandard force called Ray, you still don't know what happens in action. It was also very gratifying for the soldiers to be kept informed of the results in this way.

"Really? Congratulations. To let you know?

"No, I have another errand to run.... Look, this. Your share."

Whimpering, I gave it to a large grain of... no, emerald like I could say Ning Ro HUGE.

Its jewels, reflecting the light of the sunset, were clearly a very expensive substitute.

Yes, it's so valuable that it's not easy to buy it in a merchant squad led by Traydia.

Never like Ray did, you can throw it at ease.

Treydia, who understands the value of the emerald, and his fellow merchants open their eyes wide.

"Huh? That, Mr. Ray. This..."

In response to Treydia asking as she blacks and whites her eyes at that emerald suddenly given to her, Ray answers as she gives Ceto the sandwich she took out of the mystering.

"That's why I told you. Your... your share, to be exact."

"No, so. Why are we supposed to get credit?

"You did what it took to find out who the bloody blades were, didn't you? Thanks to that, you're well qualified to get your share."

At that moment, Traydia's face is intricately distorted.

Happiness and the question of whether it is true, the suspicion that they will tell you to come by something else later.

He was Treydia with such a complicated look on his face, but after about 30 seconds he eventually clutches the emerald firmly and bows his head toward Ray.

"Thank you. With the horse that Ray gave away... the house can be managed..."

"Don't be so hard to think about. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to attract a bloody blade, and it would have taken longer for this case to be solved. Just think of it as a legitimate reward."

Ray doesn't know why Treydia's merchant squad is in so much trouble with the money.

Or maybe there was some grand story, but I wasn't even going to get involved with it in the current situation.

But I just thought that there should be a reward because there was someone who needed money and the person's work solved what had become a major problem.

"... thank you. I'm sure of it."

He bows his head again, and from his face a few drops of tears fall to the ground.

It was Ray watching such a traydia, but eventually when he gently clapped his shoulders, he turned his gaze toward the soldiers of the crusade.

"So what are these guys going to do now?

"Uh... right"

He was a soldier who was surprised to see a series of interactions, but eventually turns his gaze into the air to remember something.

But before the soldier remembers anything, another soldier opens his mouth.

"Anyway, I guess we cleared up this one, didn't we? Then we'll drive these guys to Abu Ero. That's what Captain Langa used to say."

"Really? Then, please."

"Oh, leave it to me. It's a crusader. Whatever it is, we've done very little after all. If you don't do that, you won't even be able to face Dasker."

Ray opens his mouth with a rare, tiny grin at the words of a soldier who exhales small and still does the least he can to do.

"Right, then, please.... oh, if you're hungry, you can still eat this"

What they gave me was a basket with a ton of sandwiches that were removed from the mysteries, that would have for about 10 people.

"Oh, thank God. But, okay? Your share... No, I don't even have to ask."

"Well, my share is in here."

Show mysteries that are fitted in your right hand.

I guess that trick alone passed it all along just because there were only Gilm soldiers and I knew Ray had an item box. The soldiers laughed happily and received the basket.

"Well, I'll be back around here, but be careful and get to Abu Ero."

"Yes, the...... thank you!

"I had a lot of questions, but I'm glad I believed you."

"I'll just keep thanking you for that for now.... Helpful."

"Tell Mr. Langa I'll take care of this one."

Hearing words from merchants and soldiers that way, Ray rode Seto's back to where Langa and the knights were waiting.