Legend

Alliance in a guild on the periphery. On the ground floor, one woman was processing the documents with a look on her face that she was in a bad mood because she saw them.

"The paperwork over here... no problem. This one's a little faded, so we need to make sure this one's okay."

Even if she's in a bad mood, there's probably no precipitation in processing the paperwork because that's all women are used to the job of guild receptionist.

However, no matter how many problems you have with your work, please refrain from being in a bad mood as someone who works in the immediate vicinity.

"Hey, Kenny. I don't know what Ray's gonna do to the Alliance Master, so you don't have to be in a bad mood."

Kenny listens to Lenora's takeover words and stops picking and moving.

The cat ear attached above his head moves and points its gaze towards Lenora.

……

In silent protest, Lenora spins her words as she slips away from her gaze.

"Look, even Kenny is so colorful that he hasn't lost to the Alliance Master. My chest is bigger than mine."

I tell him to look at his chest, which is also his own complex, but from that tone he gradually loses his energy.

Did you feel sorry for Lenora like that, or that you couldn't grow up to keep putting her in a bad mood on the table? Anyway, Kenny takes a small sigh and then bows his head to Lenora.

"Sorry, I do wonder how that went as a receptionist.... but hey"

Chirali, and to the ceiling… more precisely Kenny turning his gaze to those with the office of Marina, the Alliance Master.

"Lenora tells me she can't beat the Alliance Master, but she's not even underfoot, actually. Including its beauty and ability to be an Alliance Master..."

"Hmm, so you're giving up Mr. Ray?

Kenny shakes his neck sideways to Lenora, who tells her as she finally feels the ambiance around her is lightening.

... At that time, Lenora's cheeks cramped with pimples as her chest swayed, but more than that, she pushes the irritation to death without putting it to her expression.

"Sure, Ray, you could be a flower in the high ridge. But I'm definitely the one who put my eyes on you... so you can't give up. There's only an offense here."

"... well, yes. On the way."

You're not punishing me more than I thought.

Lenora, who imagined Kenny being more aggressive than ever while thinking that way, expected Ray to work hard.

(Good luck, Mr. Ray. Because if you do it badly, it will be pacli)

With Ray's support on the inside.

"Wow!

Ray, who was in conversation with Marina, screams unexpectedly at the cold feeling of running his spine suddenly for some reason.

To such a ray, Marina turns her surprise gaze and opens her mouth.

"What's wrong, all of a sudden"

"... No, there's some sudden chills"

"Hey, we only have a few days before we leave the guild, right? Take care of yourself, okay?

"It's supposed to be okay around here..."

It did not seem to Ray to lose to the kind of half-breed disease than it was the flesh created by Zepail and his companions, who were called demons.

That would not be the first thing to catch a cold.

"Would you like me to warm it up?

As I lean my neck towards the cold feeling earlier, Marina inadvertently tells me so.

What's on Marina's face is an inviting grin.

If you're a person about the age of a normal Ray, you're so intensely colored that you'll follow him as flirtatious and inviting.

Ray was drank by it for a moment, but soon he shook his neck to the side and opened his mouth.

"I'm sorry, but let's not. I have a lot of things to prepare for."

"Oh, too bad."

Erasing a light glossy atmosphere just to say what the inviting grin was a few seconds ago, Marina smiles with a crisp, colourless grin.

"I hope you don't make too much of a tease of me."

"I'm not making fun of anything else.... that's fine. How far have you heard about the martial arts competition?

He was Ray with a bewildered look for a moment on a topic that abruptly changed, but opens his mouth remembering what was explained to Theorem and Vihera.

"Certainly the largest of the openings in the Bestian Empire, it is not possible to fight with the submissive demons. If it comes to the finals, the upper echelons of the country, including the royal family, will come to see... or so."

"... that's all you've heard?

Ray leans his neck strangely at the marina as she asks with a frightened look on her face somewhere.

Because I had no idea what I was so frightened of.

Eventually, I guess I found out that Ray really only had that degree of knowledge. The marina exhales small and open her teasing mouth.

"Okay? Fighting tournament. It's called the Bestia Fighting Games, to be exact, but there's something different about that tournament from all the other fighting competitions that are happening. First of all, let me put it as a formality, because it is such a big tournament, the number of participants is very high. I mean, it takes too long to qualify one game at a time."

"... Well, I guess so"

Ray nodding at the marina's words.

The Bestian Empire is one of the greatest powers in this world. Beyond that, if it is also a martial arts tournament to name the country, it is that which brings together the massive arrogance of arms.

If we go through all those numbers in a tournament way, we will definitely be running out of time.

"So what do you think we're gonna do?

To the inquiry, Ray thinks.

One game at a time is not enough time. Then we need to narrow down the large numbers at once. That is, a format in which a large number of people fight at the same time. That's...

"Battle Royal"

"Correct"

Marina grins as if she were a teacher to a well-made student.

So while you're at it, you're unconsciously exhibiting colors to the point of being awesome, so if you're dealing with someone, you won't get over it.

However, he continues to speak without noticing anything like that.

"When I say Battle Royal, I'm exempt if I win other martial arts competitions, if I'm a noble seed player, if I'm a high-ranking adventurer."

"A high-ranking adventurer?

My rank is also B, a rank I call a high enough rank adventurer. If so, don't I have to go to Battle Royale?

Turn such a caged gaze of anticipation to the marina, but the person directed bends his glossy lips to the shape of a grin and shakes his head small.

"When I say high rank adventurer, in this case, rank A or rank S.... but I don't think Rank S in the Empire is interested in this tournament, so I rarely get out."

"Then maybe I should have given you an elk."

That was Ray who shrugged, but immediately rejects it himself.

But even with Theorem, I'm pretty sure I'd be angry about last winter.

Furthermore, if I told you to go to a martial arts tournament for Theorem or Vihella, it was because I decided that if you were bad, you might be killed before Theorem.

I guess I read the general idea of how Ray was denying Elk's participation on the inside. Marina continues her words with a small grin.

"Well, that's what Ray needs to get out of qualifying for the fight."

"... but hey"

Speaking of Ray.

That's because I have pride in my abilities.

I don't think I'd beat the monsters and adventurers or the soldiers and knights around there myself. But basically all of its abilities are highly lethal... No, most of them were too expensive.

For example, if Ray beats his opponent with the part of the Death Size Pattern, as he often does when doing so, two attacks combine Ray's own strength with a Death Size weight of more than 100 kg.

(You'd be the owner of the right arm more than you'd be in a martial arts tournament, but you still don't really like killing people in a spectacular way)

You figured out what you were thinking with that look on Ray's face. Marina gently shakes her fingers to draw Ray's attention.

"Don't worry, there won't be any dead in this tournament"

"What do you mean?

"It's easy. Ancient artifacts that have been excavated are used in the Imperial Arena. … No, it would be more right to create an arena where ancient relics of Ningro could be unearthed"

Ancient artifacts. Passing the back of Ray's brain when he heard the word was a transfer device installed near the dungeon entrance in the labyrinth city of Exil.

"What effect does that ancient artifact have?

He said, "We need to deploy a special field, and the injuries in it will never have left the field."

"... what?

Ray listens back to the words that leaked out of Marina's mouth.

I was wondering if what my ear had just heard was some mistake.

But I guess Marina expected such a reaction. Shake your head sideways with a bitter smile.

If it's not a mistake to hear, put extra meaning into it.

"Again, there was a tremendous amount of ancient artifacts."

"Most of all, the only thing I can do that wasn't in the field is get hurt, and if I die, there's nothing I can do. That's why imitations that deliberately take the other person's life are considered irregular. And..."

There's a grin in the mouth of the marina I told you so much about.

However, it is a laugh that should be described as a nymphomari rather than an earlier bitter laugh.

"You think ancient artifacts with all that performance can be used without any consideration?

"... consideration?

"Yes, they need a significant amount of demon stones to activate the device. That's as much as you need a Rank B or Rank A Monster Demon Stone."

It was Ray who remembered Seto in a place called Rank A Monster, but he immediately shook his neck to the side.

"I guess it would be natural if it did work all that well. If you can use whatever you want, that's what you can use in army training."

Fighting until the time of death is not a problem at all if you get out of the field. As an army training place such as a soldier or knight, there is no more place.

(If that was the opponent who fought in the Spring War, winning or losing might have covered it)

It was Ray thinking that way on the inside, but no matter how sharp the alignment was, there would have been nothing I could do if I'd been swallowed up by a tornado of flames enough to look up. In addition, there are massive pieces of metal thrown by Ray in the tornado, which can be released at a bullet-like rate around it. Even if they were somewhat more sophisticated than the rest of the country, there was nothing they could do.

"Anyway, it seems that's why quite a few people die in combat competitions. … but even if you say it's somewhat every time, you can't help but die."

Smaller and flattered, Marina continues to explain as she grins at Ray's somewhere dazed expression.

"So, whoever wins the Battle Royal moves on to the main battle... from this main battle will be the tournament format. I don't know how many mainstream contestants will come out because of the different numbers each time, but I'm sure there will be quite a few arm holders out there. … but not as many opponents as Ray struggles with."

Even if things weren't going so well, Ray has beaten the Elk of Rank A Adventurers as well.

More than that, it didn't seem to Marina that Ray had so many struggling opponents.

"Well, I hope so. It's true that it would be easier if it were this way."

"Pfft, yeah.... Then maybe it's time. It's going to make a lot of noise down there."

"... noise?

Ray leans his neck small and searches for a marina that tells him so with a glossy grin.

But he didn't say anything in particular, and stood up from the couch where he was sitting.

"Go and you'll see.... More than that, many people in the Bestian Empire will have resentment against Ray. Be careful and go."

To the words sent with a grin, Ray also nods back small again and rises off the couch.

"For once there's a connection between the guilds, but I can't help the guilds of the Bestian Empire because they don't have much face. However, if anything happens to the Alliance than Ray being an adventurer, you can't get in the way. Remember that area."

"Well, if anything happens, I'll count on you."

"... but be careful. You're a big rookie in the corner, and I want you to stay active in the guild."

"No problem. There's Elk, and most importantly, there's my partner Seto. It doesn't matter if something happens."

"I hope so..."

Even as she turns her gaze to Ray a little worried, the marina eventually smiles.

I don't want to send it out with a worried look on my face, I want to send it out with a smile on my face.

It was a smile that came to me from that thought, but I never felt the intense hue that was always exuded from wonder and such a marina smile.