Legend

The merchant who was watching the sight did not know what had happened in the beginning.

No, I understand. I guess the awareness is stronger that I don't want to know exactly.

Two women hired as carriage escorts: Vihera and Bühne...... one woman and one girl to be exact.

Büne is a rare person who barely speaks and communicates willingly with only one word, but he was still normally able to communicate willingly, and most importantly, he stood up.

And the other...... Vihera, who is acting like a guardian of Büne, is dressed to provoke that flashy beauty and man, and the merchant is really blinded.

A man who has seen so many beauties so far as a merchant, it was nevertheless an undeniable fact that he was the most beautiful woman in his life.

He's the one who treats himself and the others with that cheap attitude, so it's natural to favor him.

It was also a natural story that the favor changed from the beauty of Vihella to the favor between men and women… to romance.

This merchant is not the only one who has a fondness for Vihera. The same applies to the merchants of their partners travelling together in this carriage, and it is not uncommon for them to get excited about each other's stories when sleeping at night.

I'm somewhat quick, but I was also going to ask myself to be hired directly, not in the form of a request, when I arrived at Gilm like this.

The decision was never made solely by the beauty of Vihella. We've been attacked several times by monsters, bandits, and so on, but the skill of knocking it all down in one piece was too much to rely on as an escort.

And in the future, I want you to be my own wife and live your life together.

I even had that thought, but when I saw the sight in front of me, I had to realize that it was a dreamy dream.

I've seen Vihera smile more than once as she was escorting me, but I've never seen a smile like the one that's floating at the end of my gaze right now.

I don't even think I can be an enemy in love if I know who that grin is directed against.

This is the first time I've seen it in person, but I naturally knew more than I was a merchant who was on a griffon and who was the kind of person with a sickle the size of which exceeded his height.

A person who has become famous once and for all in the last year or two, and who is also said to have halved the Bestian Imperial Army in last year's war with the Bestian Empire alone.

Ray, a rank B adventurer with a deep red alias.

(Goodbye, my first love...)

The merchant slips away gently from the two overlapping lips and realizes that his first love is lightly over.

That's how the merchant who looked next door saw his partner there with a sad look on his face, and this evening the two of us decided to give up drinking.

With those pathetic merchants intact, Vihera rejoices with Beaune with a delightful grin.

"So, Ray. Why are you here? I'm glad you picked me up."

Once satisfied with the mouthing, Vihera asks why Ray is here.

That would be natural, too. I told you in advance that I was going to the Guild in the spring, but still it was unthinkable from the eyes of Vihella that I showed up in good time.

(If you really came here knowing I was coming, it might be fate.... Elaine's going to piss me off)

He was a visionary Vihera such as the Prince of the White Horse, who came to help himself attacked by bandits, but only a fantasy.

It is true that the bandits attacked me in the first place, but I was doing the act of stopping that leg by provoking the bandits who attacked me back and showing me the bare gesture of the other side escaping, so I was somewhat incapable of serving Vihela as a princess.

Given what Ray says and does and what he has is a giant sickle called Death Size, it will be difficult to be the Prince of the White Horse again.

"I don't care how you say it. You're right it just happened."

"By chance?... Were you going somewhere?

"Oh, I got a little help during the winter, and I was a teacher at a cadet school called Graciar."

"... and unforeseen developments."

Did you do something again? What Ray gave back to Vihera, who was turning a gaze like that, was an obscure grin.

In fact, I don't think this would have happened without the duel riots that took place in Gilm, but still, I can't help but think that it has already happened.

I think about it so much, and I think about Holy Light.

If you were targeted as a great enemy, it wouldn't be strange to be targeted again for faces like Vihera and Bühne, who acted together.

Realizing that, Ray tried to open his mouth, it was almost at the same time that Büne, who was nearby, pulled Ray's dragon robe hem.

"Mmm!"

Büne, who told us as briefly as usual, pointed to the bandits falling to the ground.

Several people are dead, but most of them are unconscious and fall, or they are unable to move even if they are conscious.

Leave the bandits alone. Don't flirt! I suppose you want to say that Beaune's words were also true.

Those who cannot move because of pain will be able to move again after time.

There's more to it than the likes of Ray, Seto, Vihera, and Bühne. There's no way you can move your body or anything, but there's no way you won't think about the possibility.

"Well, shall we keep the bandits tied up for now?... Oh, yeah. We were gonna escort those merchants all the way to Gilm, but what about Ray?

"... I don't care what they say. I'm not particularly busy, and I'll come with you if you like."

Requests for cadet instructors take the form of requests for nominations through the guild at once.

But political circumstances also exist there, and it is not difficult to accommodate a variety of things.

It would take Ray and Seto some time to get back to the guild, for example.

"Really? Then I'm gonna ask you a favor, will you just give me a minute?

I guess I was happy that Ray would accompany me. Vihera runs towards the carriage.

In doing so, Vihella's thin clothes swayed in the spring breeze to show off her fleshy limbs to Ray, who decided not to look away softly.

"Mmm!"

Beaune pulling such a ray of dragon robes.

When I saw you pointing to the bandits, I knew immediately what you wanted to say.

"Seto, I'll tie up the bandits, so don't ask me to keep an eye on the surroundings for once."

"Gru!"

Seto rings in Ray's words, and while Büne sees it barely changing his expression, he loosens his eyes just a little.

Büne also has an attachment to Ceto after his experience with Egzil, and I guess there's also joy that Ceto hasn't changed.

"Bye, Beaune. We're gonna tie up the living bandits for now."

"Mmm!"

Beaune nods back to me immediately, too, to Ray, who takes the rope out of the mystering and tells him.

That's how he faints, or choosing a bandit who can't move because of the damage, he ropes it up.

Some of the bandits managed to poke a gap and thought of escaping.

But Seto, who asked me to keep an eye on him, couldn't move much because of the damage and ended up tied up by Ray and Büne.

While we were doing that, I guess we talked. Vihera comes closer to Ray with a happy grin.

"How'd it go? … and don't you have to ask me how it goes"

"Yeah, they're basically fine. Looks like he knew about Ray over there. He just wants to talk to me for a second, so can you go? I'll take care of this one."

"Okay."

In response to Vihera's words, Ray nods without any hesitation of dimension.

If it's normal, it's not strange to have words to worry about Vihela, because in Ray's and Vihela's case, we know each other's personalities and abilities well enough.

Ray, who gave Vihera the rope he had, heads to the carriage, which is a short distance away.

What I was waiting for there were two men in their mid-twenties or so.

One has a good looking look at people, the other has a slightly grumpy look.

"You told me you were running errands?

"Yes, we're talking about joining our escort for anything… in which case we'll be traveling together for a short time to the Guild. I thought I needed to know more about your character than I do."

When a man who seems to be a good person tells him so, he opens his mouth more to a man who seems displeased to block it.

"Let me be honest with you, your reputation is never just good. Well, it's true that there are quite a few good ones. Considering the neighborhood, we can't put our full trust like Mr. Vihella and the others."

I can't deny that.

In the first place, Ray has eliminated the imitation of favoring and attacking bandits many times, he has been hostile to nobles, and even rubbed with the Azot Chamber of Commerce, which had the finest strength in the Guild.

(... that? Thinking about it, I'm actually quite... No, is it pretty dangerous? From the side, it seems we can't help but think that we never want to get involved...)

Wouldn't it be natural for Ray to be alert like this when he thought back on the actions he had taken so far? And Ning Ro convinces me.

"Right. You seem to understand. Above all.... Considering that we, the merchants in charge, don't use violence like this, it's probably a big rumor."

"That's why I told you. I know Mr. Vihera, so he doesn't need to be so vigilant. Besides, there's no way we can hire an adventurer with an alias."

"... if that's what you say."

When the grumpy merchant tells him so, he speaks no more of his dissatisfaction.

To be honest, I didn't want to act with Ray.

Because I thought the period from here to Gilm would only be painful, given the gaze that Vihella was pointing at Ray close to love at first sight.

I can see in front of me the sight of my favorite person flirting with that lover. That's because it's an act that's half as close to mental torture.

At the very least, the salvation would have been that neither of the two merchants had yet conveyed their thoughts about Vihera.

If I had conveyed my thoughts, I would have definitely felt uncomfortable without any help.

"Right. Well, for a short time, but don't ask me to."

Ray, who seemed completely unaware of the thoughts of two such merchants, turns his back on the merchant as he goes to Vihera, who is interrogating the bandits.

"... okay?

"Oh. Of course. It wouldn't make any sense to say anything now, would it? Then his adventurer with the alias Deep Red would still be able to take some of the original."

"What do you care?"

"Really? My first love won't come true. Wouldn't this be nice?

The two merchants told each other to tear each other's hearts apart, while sealing their thoughts on Vihera into themselves.

"What do you say? Did you throw up at Ajito's place or something?

"Yeah, he told me as soon as I asked him nicely."

It was Vihera who smiles and tells her, but it's not hard to imagine what it was like to be gentle, as Vihera calls it, when you see the ground perched in the form of hands and feet near the bandits who are tied up.

But I'm not going to blame Ray for anything.

Given the acts that the bandits tied up at the end of their gaze would have done so far, Vihella is right sweet...... no, because I think it was an overly gentle interrogation.

(Most of all, I guess if they turn me over to the guard, they'll interrogate me again, and I just feel sorry for them, considering how harsh they'll be interrogating me at that time. After that, you'll be a slave.... I know you deserve it)

I guess we know what treatment we're waiting for in our own future. A glance at the bandits leaning over in a depressed manner opens their mouths towards Vihera.

"So where's Ajito? Well, it was the Vihelas who attacked me this time, and I'm not telling you to give me your share.... Oh, but the spear I used the first time I attacked broke, so it would help if you let me refill that."

"If it's a spear, the bandits used it, right?

At the end of Vihera's gaze, the spears used by the bandits fell to the ground, as they said.