Legend

Even as he heard Ruchard, the gentle expression in front of him, Ray somehow guessed why.

I guess there are rarely any visitors in this goto, which is not a periphery of meaning like Gilm, but a peripheral village purely as a countryside, unless it is also like the war that took place in the spring.

I've been visiting you in that, Ray.

If this wasn't someone as famous as Ray, and if he was a regular traveler, he wouldn't have been so vigilant.

But I guess I had to be vigilant, even as Luchard, only Ray, who was active in the spring war.

Alerted as that, I still invited Ray to my house...

"I see you're from the Bestian Empire… more precisely the hand of Theorem,"

Ruchard's body stiffens for a moment to that word that came out of Ray's mouth.

And that was enough for Ray to get the answer.

"I knew it."

Hearing Ray whine like that, Ruchard's gaze is directed at the knife that was nearby...... but ends up taking no action.

Because I didn't think I could do this to someone named Ray.

Even if it strikes me like a knife, I don't see a future I can manage. I thought we'd just be caught lightly.

No, Ning Lo. Will he be slaughtered with the sickle I saw earlier?

Ruchard, who decided he couldn't fight it no matter what, turns his gaze to Ray with a small sigh of sigh.

He was Ray, who had his gaze almost half-way up, but opened his mouth without looking particularly concerned.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to do this to you. Besides, you know what I mean by that? It's Theorem I'm meeting here."

I guess you're right about Vihera, who led Theorem precisely, but you couldn't possibly put that in your mouth.

I guess the man in front of you is indeed the hand of Theorem. But it was because it was obvious that it didn't mean anything about belly-hearted men.

Either way, Ruchard exhales in relief at Ray's words.

"Really, I knew it.... Honestly, I can't imagine what Ray and Theorem have to do with each other."

That would be so. Given that we were hostile to each other in the spring war, it's weirder to think that Ray and Theorem have a good relationship.

Ruchard turns his gaze to ask for an explanation, but Ray answers only by clapping his shoulders small against it.

"There's been a lot going on. So, can I ask you about you?

"It's not that funny, is it? It's just that I'm Theorem-like."

Ruchard didn't say what exactly he was doing.

Just as Ray doesn't completely trust Ruchard, neither does Ruchard completely trust Ray again.

As for Luchard's position, I guess the neighborhood is a natural decision.

Do you understand that, and Ray didn't imitate forcing me to dig into the conversation any further either.

Off-topic instead.

"So, have you heard how long the Theorems will be here?

Maybe you haven't heard. While I think so, I will visit you, just in case, but as Ray expected, Luchard shakes his neck sideways.

"Unfortunately, all I'm asking is that Master Theorem might bring someone to this village. Nevertheless, when Theorem entered the kingdom of Mireana, he just snuck up on this village and told me."

"... I see. Then I guess I'll have to wait here for a while already. Sorry, but it's going to be a pain in the ass for a while, so thank you."

"Yeah, I don't mind because I'm not in a position to say this to anyone connected to Master Theorem. But there's really no place to play in this village, is there? If you dare to mention it, it's about a tavern."

"A tavern? Whatever the alcohol, can there be any kind of delicious food?

To Ray's words like that, Luchard tilts his neck.

"What do you think? There are many irreplaceable dishes in this village… if you ask me if that fits Ray's mouth, I only ask you to actually try them"

Talk that far and turn your gaze toward Ray as you notice something.

"That being said, we'll be in the wheat harvest in a few days. Then you'll have more free time than you have now."

"... will you go to the Seremouth Plains and defeat even the undead"

Regardless of the normal undead, if you have a rare species undead, you can also absorb demonic stones to increase your power.

There was nothing worse about keeping a little more power than being a complete enemy.

"Well, once in a while... really once in a while, but sometimes the undead get out of the Seremouth Plains and come to this village, so if they do, the villagers might be happy."

Sometimes the likes of skeletons and zombies came this far, albeit about once every few years, in relation to being near the Seremus Plains.

Most of all, the people of this village live here, knowing that. Naturally, if it's a monster to that extent, I can handle it.

Still, there are injured people out there, and I guess that would be delightful if you think about it and say that Ray will hunt the undead who are voluntarily on the Seremouth Plains.

"You're going to have a lot of free time until Theorem gets here"

Ray shrugged unintentionally, but Luchard opened his mouth with a small shake of his neck to the side.

"I was riding a pretty fine horse when I got here, so I don't think that's going to take long. He also took a horse for someone who said he was picking him up, but he looked like a pretty good horse there, too."

"... I see"

Ray is unwittingly convinced that he will need a horse who is capable, because he does have to return to Bestia as soon as possible, as well, than to pick up the second princess.

(That said, it makes no sense that the Duskers won't come when Theorem and the others come. Sounds like we're going to be waiting here for a while after all.... Well, we need to talk ahead of time about what we're going to do with Theorem and Elk)

Thinking of it that way, I guess I thought I'd explained enough already. Luchard gets up and opens his mouth.

"Well, I'm going back to field work.... For once, my case..."

That's all I know what I'm trying to say. Ray nods back unconstitutionally.

"Oh, I won't tell the villagers."

"Please. I really just want to talk more about a lot of things, but I can't throw out my job either...... please talk more tonight. Oh, please use that room when it comes to rooms."

The structure of this house is present in one large room with a front door and a living room or kitchen, and in three private rooms leading there.

What Luchard showed was one of them.

"Helpful"

That's all I ask, I just leave the house and go back to work.

For a moment, I was Ray wondering if I could just leave someone else's self at home, but convince myself that I was trusted by the fact that I knew Theorem.

I was worried about what I was going to do with my leisure time crushing in the house where no one was there that way...... eventually, I got up.

Wait for Vihela or Theorem, wait for Dusker or Elk, or you'll have to spend some time in this village. More than that, it was decided that it would be better to make sure with your own eyes what was going on in the village for when something happened.

(It's been a while since I've played slowly with Seto.)

It was early since I thought of it.

Sure, I've been with Seto ever since I left Gilm, but that's only a journey to this village.

I spent most of my time with Seto when I went down to the ground for a meal, a break, or a camp, but I didn't have the time to play purely.

When I left Luchard's house, the first thing I noticed was the gaze being directed at me.

However, it is not as alarming as it was directed at the villagers when they came to this village, but rather a curious gaze.

It's pointed at me as if I'm not even willing to hide such a gaze.

When I turned my gaze toward the person staring at me, it was the boy who was there.

Speaking of age, it would be something like around 5.

I hid my body where the crates placed on the side of Luchard's house overlapped, only my face out and my gaze toward Ray, but when my gaze crossed, I breathed for a moment.

"Huh!?

Stay put for a few seconds. We stare at each other and a strange space of silence can be created around us.

While staring at each other that way, Ray understood why the boy in front of him was here.

I guess it's because they're still too small to help their parents.

I guess I can do some help if this is over 10 years old, but just at about 5 years old, even if I help, I just pull my parents' legs.

Then you can let them play as they please in the village. I guess that's the kind of decision you made.

……

Keep each other quiet and stare at each other, about a minute. Eventually it was the boy who cut the paralysis first and moved into action.

He comes out of a hidden crate and walks toward Ray.

"... me, Epica. What about your brother?"

"It's Ray."

"Hey, I've never seen your brother, but he's from the village?

It's a small village like not a hundred people, but still I guess I don't remember the faces of all the villagers if I try to be a child these days.

The boy who comes to visit with his neck tilted...... To Epica's inquiry, Ray shakes his neck to the side and denies it.

"Huh? Really? Bye, bye. Let me ask you something outside the village!

"... right..."

For a moment I thought that might be good too Ray, but at the end of my gaze... I find a familiar shadow over the sky.

Quite advanced, but Seto is flying through it.

I was hoping maybe Ray would take care of himself so I could find him a little sooner.

But Ray, who also noticed leaving the child staring at himself with a glittering eye like this, remembers the children who were flocking to Seto at Fujirum.

Even for those children, I didn't miss Seto right away. But now that I... think I have Seto's partner, or maybe I'll be fine.

The only thing that scared me about it was the first, and there was also a decision that if I stayed with Seto for 10 minutes, I would miss him right away.

"It's good to be outside, but why don't you actually go anyway? I have a partner now."

"Huh? But you said you couldn't when your mom and dad went outside, right?

"Sure, not if you're alone, but you got me with you."

"Er... hmm..."

Is it okay to trust yourself so soon, looking at troubled children? and think inside Ray.

The inhabitants of this village were certainly closed, but they said the children were completely different.

But soon I can think of a reason why.

Yes. I guess it's because it's closed that travelers don't lean on this village, and the result is that kids don't grow up too alert to people they don't know about.

Naturally, parents probably say exactly what's going on around there, but there's no way a 5-year-old can fully understand that.

As a result…

"Yeah, okay!

He snorted lightly.

"All right, then we need to get out of here somewhere that the grownups in the field won't find us. Don't you know a good place?

"Er... oh, yeah. Over here!

Tell him so, and Epika pulls Ray's hand toward the less popular of the village.

It's just a small village, and we get to that place in less than half an hour's walk with kids like Epica.

It is only near the Seremus plain, and this village called Goto is surrounded by plates.

Preventing things like undead - skeletons and zombies - that are not as splendid as they are called walls, but still sometimes come from the Seremus plains, was a sufficiently possible substitute to keep them out of the village.

But beyond the fact that not all the boards surrounding the village are new, there are naturally some places there that are getting old.

That's where Epica took Ray.

The lower part of the plate, up to the height of Ray's knee, was broken and was a gap.

If it's a periphery like Gilm, there's never going to be an event because you don't know what kind of monsters are going to break in.

But the villagers have decided that there is no problem, especially as it is, that this is only near the Seremus plain and that it is the undead who have no intelligence or presence in Loch who get lost.

"Look, I think we can get out of here. Go?"

"Oh, let's go"

Returning so to Epica's words, he slips out of the clearance of the plate so that he can crawl forward.

Sometimes Ray was small in height and not as muscular as he could tell from his physical fitness, and he was somewhat cramped but succeeded in getting out safely.

Fortunately, the ground would have been grassy. Because I didn't have to get so dirty.

That's how Epica also went outside the village after Ray...

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

It was Seto coming down to the ground with a delightful throat whilst being careful not to sound all around him.