Legend

After it was established that Seymour's purchased magic items were made by an alchemist who was causing disturbances around the Guild this time, as Ray expected, the Rays were breaking up with Seymour and coming to the dining room a little further away.

Only in the evening, the dining room had quite a few guests in it, but it still didn't mean it was full, so I succeeded in taking a seat.

... Seto is eating the dishes Ray ordered outside.

"You're getting a lot of attention, you guys."

To Azimov, who tells him as he pours in the dried meat on the table with ale, Ray turns his gaze to Vihera and Vihera to Ray.

You want to say that each other is getting noticed because of the other.

In fact, that's not wrong.

Because Ray is famous for his guilds in many ways, and Vihera naturally attracts people's attention from its beauty and outfit.

Ray without Seto is usually not that noticeable, but now the face that deserves to be described as a female face by lowering the hood is peeled out, and it really stands out.

Not as good as the two of them, Beaune also has a proper appearance and deserves to be called a pretty girl enough.

Ningro, the least conspicuous of these was the alchemist Azimov.

It doesn't mean that the face is neat, it shows a slightly but crude atmosphere, but still less prominent elements than the other three.

If the conversation doesn't continue as it is, Ray opens his mouth to Ajmov after listening to the stories.

"Attention is fine, tell me more. You're sure the magic item Seymour was using was a substitute made by the alchemist in the example?

"That's right. You can almost say for sure."

"Is it not possible that someone is making it look that way?

Azimov replies after laughing with his nose to Vihera, who asks as he reaches for the bean dish that he just fry and waved salt.

"Huh, some idiots would be deluded by such a sham, but you can't possibly delude me into that. Even if I look like this, I'm an alchemist."

He was Azimov, who said he was handsome himself, but Ray, who actually knows that skill is pretty high, didn't say anything in particular, but watched him interact with Vihera.

"There seems to be no objection from Ray's mouth, and let me believe it for now. So you're saying that's definitely the same person's work?

Only in a full dining room, Azimov nods at Vihera's inquiry, which deludes the key words.

"As I said earlier, I'm pretty sure. You can't erase things like the habit you use to make magic items."

"You can trust me because Azimov says so far. Then again, the biggest problem is who came to that store to sell..."

"I don't think you can do it first, even if you're about to get information from that shopkeeper? He seemed stubborn to see. Besides, I don't think I can teach you how to connect as a merchant."

"I guess.... then the possibility is to catch them directly where they came to sell..."

"You're not gonna come back to that store for sale, are you?

"Mmm."

I agree with Vihera's words, while Büne eats skewers.

I have to agree with that word, too, Ray.

Because even if the alchemist in this case sells magic items for any reason, he doesn't have to sell them in the same store again and again.

"But it's also true that we don't have any other clues. Then we'll just have to head somewhere with a clue, won't we?

"That's right... no, that's right. Ray is right. So, do you still want to go?

"Oh.... Azimov, sorry but hang out with me a little more"

"Huh!?

For Azimov, I guess the words out of Ray's mouth were totally unexpected.

He opens his mouth saying it wasn't a joke as he slaps a glass of ale on the table.

"I still have a lot to do. And so is your spear, and there's all sorts of other experiments."

"... I'm sorry, but I really need the help of an alchemist more than the alchemist involved in this one. And the most skilled alchemist I know is Azimov."

Azimov opens his eyes for a moment to the murderous complains he is told in grandeur.

I hadn't been with Ray for that long, Azimov, but I still didn't think Ray would lie to hold me back.

This means that what Ray has just said is indisputably true.

That's not wrong.... but it is also true that Ray only knows about Azimov as an alchemist in the Guild.

Of course it is an unmistakable perception for Ray that Azimov is an alchemist standing on his arm.

Pamidor is confident...... that is the alchemist who has introduced him as having some difficulty with his personality, but still has an arm standing, so there is no reason why he can't.

"Well, if that's what you're going to say, I'm not going out with you, either."

"Sorry."

"Huh, I just don't want to imitate you saying so much and pulling back. Besides, you also get rare materials like hammers, ceto hair and wings."

Ray gets up without putting it in his mouth, even though he has the thought of being tuned out by a man......

... By the way, the dishes that were prepared at the table were almost eaten up by Ray and Büne while we were talking, and there was very little food left.

On the contrary, even the accompanying vegetables are disappearing from the top of the plate beautifully refreshed.

The sauce used for cooking is also disappearing beautifully in bread, so if the cook in the dining room sees this plate, he'll even be impressed with the amount of food he eats until he's stunning.

He said he was eating lightly even before heading to Azimov's house, but it was an appetite that didn't make him feel it at all.

"I barely ate it. And I've only had one ale."

It was Azimov who complains in disgruntlement, but Ray smiles and returns words to Azimov like that.

"We're going to go stakeout, wasn't that good? If the stick fails because of the smell of alcohol, it won't spill."

"Shit, wow. Damn."

I guess you thought Ray's words made sense. Azimov rises up the table as he drinks up all the ales that were still in the cup just a little at once.

The Rays were hiding somewhere where they could see the magic item store that came a while ago.

Sometimes having a magic item store is the back alley, and fortunately I don't have any trouble hiding.

Most importantly, because Seto's size makes it impossible to hide without being found by the store's people, I'm a little far away.

"Nevertheless..."

I guess there was not much movement in the store at the end of my gaze and I was free. And then Ray squeaks.

It seems that the same was true of Vihera, who felt free to turn her gaze toward Ray without paying any particular attention.

... an extraordinary beauty like Vihella, right near Ray with only her usual thin clothes around her... that's what I have to be aware of because I'm not even a few centimeters away.

Ray's opening of his mouth probably also meant to do something about such an awkward vibe with Vihera.

Ray was the only one who felt that awkward vibe.

Bühne is still young, and he also grew up with little interest in heterosexual relationships, and Azimov is an extreme freak named Magic Item over a woman, and Vihera can only be glad that Ning Lo Ray will be aware of herself.

"What? What's wrong?

"No, didn't the whole city make some strange noise until we got here? I know it always gets noisy in the evening, but it seemed more noisy than that..."

It was Ray, who groaned half-hearted, but that is also true.

Only Gilm, where the adventurers are numerous, in the evening the noise is sometimes tense among the adventurers who have finished their requests, and the banquet at the liquor store is accompanied by noise, but the noise felt as they passed through the city between leaving the dining room and coming here made them feel more than usual.

"Didn't some idiot cause another problem? That's what Ray said about the magic item. There was some commotion."

"... I felt it wasn't that noisy."

It was Ray felt by some joyful noise, but the moment he tried to mouth it, he stops the movement.

After a moment of delay, Vihera, and facial movements such as Bühne, Azimov, stopped… Eventually, the door of the magic item store opens.

The person who comes out of it walks out of the way without even showing how particularly alert he was to his surroundings.

"How long has it been since we got here?

"I don't think it's been that long, though?

Vihera answers Ray's whining.

Nodding at the words, Ray was not convinced.

I didn't give out the clock that was in the mistering to make sure it was time, but still, it's been over thirty minutes.

This would mean that the person at the end of Ray's gaze was inside the store during that time.

(thirty minutes. It's not that long as it's time, and I feel like I've seen it. I look like an adventurer, so if you think I was negotiating to sell or buy the magic items I got, it's not weird after all that time. It's not weird...)

Still, the person from Ray's eyes had something that touched Ray's senses somewhere.

I don't know exactly what that is, but Ray still jumps out of hiding according to the feeling inside him.

The person who just came out of the store was sometimes walking towards Ray and the others and was set to face Ray from the front.

"Oh, what's wrong? What can I do for you?

The person who asked so to Ray standing in front of him revealed a slightly surprising look when he saw Ray, but at the next moment he asked so to Ray with a funny grin on his mouth.

"I need to talk to you for a second."

"Hmm... from the voice, man? Could you be dictating to me? I'm sorry, but I don't like the smaller ones, do I? Sorry."

I open my mouth, bewildered by the surprise that the person I thought was a man was actually a woman, although he was apparently mistaken for a numb.

"No, that's not what I'm going to do. Actually, I need to ask you something."

"Oh, are you lost? But I don't know much about this neighborhood, either."

"... it looked like you just came out of that store there?

"Yeah? Oh, I have a little business. Look, I know you can tell, but I'm an adventurer. Sometimes I stop by to sell magic items. I just don't know about the neighborhood because I only come to this store."

For some reason, the suspicion in Ray is further inflated by the appearance of a small, shoulder-clapping woman.

There's nothing particularly suspicious about a woman's words, even though there's nothing suspicious about her talking.

(What? What am I hooked on? Something......)

Ray was leaning his neck inside like that, but I guess he decided he was done with the business. The woman waved gently at Ray to try to put the spot behind her...

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Such a ringing noise echoes around me.

That voice, which cannot be misheard, is what we should also call Ray's half body.

Seto, who appeared with that ringing voice, stands in front of the woman if she doesn't let him through this way.

"... hey, I need you to do something about it. Did I do something?

"Grrrrrrrr"

Hearing the woman's words, Ray's gaze was directed toward Seto.

As soon as Seto sees his face pointed toward the woman, the discomfort in the ray immediately represents the shape.

That's something Ray didn't recognize himself.

While you are there, something that must exist if you are a creature.

That is...

(Body odor!?

Not exactly the female body odor itself, but the stench of rot and iron rust that was staining the female body.

Even Ceto just screamed at the stench so bad that it wouldn't go away so easily.

No, the human nose would not have been able to smell the smell, but Ray, who had five senses sharper than the human, smelled the rotten odor that remained in the woman's body somewhere, even if he did not understand it, teaching Ray that as discomfort.

And most importantly, I couldn't delude Seto's nose, which is even sharper than Ray's, and has the skill of rising olfactory sense on it.

"I see you're one of the people involved in this case. Then let's talk..."

Let me ask you something. The moment she tries to say that, the woman rushes out without saying anything.

That, too, goes in the opposite direction, not if you have Ray or Seto.

Naturally Ray and Seto can't miss it in silence either, but we'll follow...

"Fast!?

A woman who is narrowing the difference slightly but still runs so fast that Seto and Ray can't catch up right away...... Adria.

I have high physical abilities, but still not at a rate that Ray or Seto can't catch up with either.

It is naturally not Adria's own power that is still able to speed up to this point, but only if there is a magic item made by the pants.

Still, the difference was gradually narrowing due to the speed of Ray and Seto, and should have caught up eventually if they had kept running like this.

... but if it's on the back street.

But what Adria is running on is the road that leads to Boulevard.

It gets harder to catch up if you get lost in the crowd.

At the same time that such impatience arises in Ray, Adria goes out onto the boulevard...

"Yikes!

At that moment, he falls to the ground screaming.

What happened!? That's what I thought. I heard that voice in Ray's ear.

"Hmm, it's been a long time since I've seen Ray in person, but he's been caught up in a lot of commotion again."

That's what I told him: a woman with golden hair as if she had shaped the sunlight itself, a neat face that attracts all the beholders and a prestigious atmosphere.

Ray didn't have to think about who he deserved to call even with the goddess of war.

Ray mouths the name of the person in front of him as he sees the person touching a golden vertical roll.

"Elaine......"