Legend

"Hmmm.... so, after all, the world tree thing wasn't solved yet, is it good to recognize?

Of the house Elaine and the others are renting, the garden.

Vihera squeaks as she eats breakfast on the table spread out there.

Everyone involved in this case was currently gathered in this garden.

There's also the look of Seto, Ray's partner, but he's probably shaking his tail like a little mess because Ray left Seto when he was headed to the world tree.

Naturally, Seto also sensed that Ragud was approaching their house, and he understood that Ray was talking to that Ragud.

But I didn't think I'd put myself down and move under the world tree.

I just thought it was exactly what was coming to pick me up, and Seto, who was left behind, expresses that dissatisfaction in his attitude.

Ray glances at Seto like that, and takes a few sandwiches from the plate on the table, he nods back to Vihera, who has spoken to him.

"Oh. I still don't know what caused it, but still. Oh, I did. More than the world tree has weakened again, you'll have to do what I was asked to do.... Well, if there's really nothing I can do, it could mean coming to this settlement once every few months at worst to restore the world tree."

With that said, that was an option I wanted to avoid if I could as a Ray.

Given Seto's speed of flight, it's not that hard to come from Gilm to this settlement.

Still, it was troublesome to come here on a regular basis once every few months, and above all the bondage that you have to be with a dark elf to get inside the world tree junction.

Basically, Ray is the only one who can ride Seto, and if he works hard, the kid manages to... and so on.

I mean, I couldn't even bring Ray and the minded dark elf marina, and I needed her to invite me to the dark elves in this settlement every time.

(No way, you're going to forcibly break the line)

It is only the fall in the main that the person who undertakes the treatment of the world tree does harm to that world tree.

(Best of all...)

Ray's worries, Marina puts them in her mouth.

"Right. If you're just going to heal the world tree, it's not going to be hard to heal if you put magic into Ray. But Ray's magic is too strong. You know how much it would be burdensome for a weak world tree to repeat full speed and depletion?

"... I see"

Elaine, who was drinking vegetable soup, nods convincingly.

Even that would definitely be like reducing Ningro's life span if you imitated it like that only on a weak world tree.

"Look, Seto. I'm sorry I left you, but you can still eat this and fix your mood."

Hearing him having a conversation at the table, Ray goes closer to Seto with his sandwich in his hand.

"Gru......"

But Seto turns away to sleep with such Ray's words.

So while I'm at it, my tail shows that I care how Ray is, and I'm moving around.

The sound of a gentle slap on the ground echoed around me, and it seemed to Ray as if it showed in his attitude that it was up to him.

Few people would want to approach their opponents with grumpy griffons if they were normal.

But Ray was different.

Ray approached Seto with no particular fear.

(Dude, are you serious? The other guy's a Griffon, right? No matter how many obedient demons, isn't it dangerous?

Ground, who has been eating electric shocks by polo from day to day, could only keep an eye on Ray.

What was surprising about Ground was that everyone didn't point their worrying gaze at Ray like that?

I doubt that maybe Ray will be attacked by Seto.

From the experience we've talked about so far, Elaine and Vihella were definitely supposed to have a crush on Ray.

Though Ground was not sure what Marina thought, neglecting the relationship between men and women.

Conversely, I wonder why the two of them, who are revealing their fondness for Ray even from such a ground, would leave Ceto intact, which could be dangerous.

Still, I didn't say it because I understood I was an outsider.

Originally, Earth only came to investigate forest anomalies, and is not involved in the treatment of world trees as they are now being talked about.

Even in a relationship, I had the anticipation that if I mouthed in a detour, it could be strange.

(But treating the world tree? If you're also a rank B adventurer with an alias, you're gonna do a big job.... I will one day too, I'm sure...)

Even though I envy Ray just a little bit for the distance he's traveling toward his goal, for now, I decide that if everyone else doesn't seem to be worried, there won't be a problem, and I listen to the marinas.

Ray, who doesn't even know it's thought that way, gently places the sandwich near Seto.

Pacine, and. The sound of the tail slamming the ground sounds.

Even if my attitude expressed dissatisfaction, I was definitely intrigued by the sandwich on the inside.

Ray knows that too, but I understood that Seto, my dear partner, was angry at me for leaving him, so I really can't leave him alone.

"Look, fix your mood. Huh?"

"Gru......"

To Ray's words, Seto goes round and out of sight like when the cat sleeps.

... Still, I keep beating the ground with my tail, so it was obvious that I couldn't do it.

"Look, I'm sorry."

Gently reach out and stroke Seto's back.

Pachin ', Seto's tail slaps Ray's hand, but the momentum is never strong.

If Seto was serious, he wouldn't even break a bone... but he would still have inflicted enough pain on Ray.

Is that not because you still want to make up with Ray?

"Grrrrrrrr......"

Seto gently honks his throat in a rounded state.

Ray was lightly slapped in the hand with his tail, but he keeps stroking it anyway.

As soon as it felt good to be stroked, Seto's body lost strength, and his frequently moving tail eventually weakened its momentum.

He then gently raised his face from a rounded state and turned his gaze toward Ray, and as soon as Ray and his gaze met, he looked down.

I repeated that several times...... during that time Ray kept stroking Seto and the interval between raising and lowering Seto's face became shorter.

A few minutes later...... Seto was totally keeping his head to Ray.

"Grrrrrrrr, grrrrr......"

Seto rattles his throat feeling comfortable with Ray's stroking sensation.

Look at that, how many people think it's dangerous because it's a Rank A monster?

Ray opens his mouth as he strokes such a ceto.

"I'm sorry I left you?

"Gru!"

I don't give a shit anymore! and a throat-beating ceto.

I wanted Ray to stroke me more now about where I was in a bad mood not long ago.

"Yes, yes, come back here when you make up. It's time to discuss what we're going to do today."

To Marina's voice, Ray and Seto rise from where they were sitting and move toward the table.

Ground, who was watching how it went, just had to be flabbergasted by Ray's relationship with Seto.

(I can't believe you took the griffon so far... Awesome. Is that that stroking technique?

I always had just an electric shock to Polo, and the sight of Ray quickly forgiving Seto was enviable.

I want the skill to stroke myself just like Ray would if I could.

I guess there's no choice if Earths thinks so.

(And if my stroking skills go up, Polo will be happy too)

Ground's eyes glance at the polo desperately eating the nuts a little further away from the table as he carries a sandwich across the boiled meat and vegetables to his mouth until tender in a soft white bread.

"Pollululululu"

"Cu? Cu!

Seeing a nearby yellow approaching, Polo offers the nuts he had.

Want to eat with me? That doesn't seem like what you're saying is because of Ground's mind.

"So, about the World Tree... honestly, you're in a good mood for where to go."

Look how well Polo and Yellow are getting along... and I can hear Marina like that on Earth watching Seto come to the table with Ray as he fell asleep in a good mood nearby.

"Right. … The first question I'd like to ask is, did anyone really hang from last night to this morning and come close to the World Tree?"

"But Master Elaine. We were having a banquet where we could see the world tree all night, so it's impossible for someone... or someone to get close to the world tree? Besides, there's a barrier line in this settlement, and there's a stray line."

Arla, who was eating a salad with plenty of cheese, asks Elaine that.

But Elaine opens her mouth by shaking her neck sideways to Ara's words.

"Where you can see the world tree...... even if you were having a banquet mostly near it, doesn't that mean all the time until Ragud notices the anomaly in the world tree? Besides, I can't trust the words of the drunk in the first place."

"That's well, right? It's just that even yesterday the world tree recovered, and everyone in the settlement was cheerfully noisy all day. If you think about it, it's not very, but it's not very discreet."

Vihella agrees with Elaine as she wipes Bune's cheek eating soup.

If you say so, Ara won't be able to say anything more.

Because if you ask me if I can carefully see what's going on around me even if I'm drunk, I have to lean my neck.

Also, if you're just starting to get drunk, it's natural that you're losing that attention because everyone was having a banquet all day.

"Because I wonder how anyone interfered with the world tree"

I can point it at the marina wondering if Elaine's gaze has any clue.

In contrast to such Elaine, all Marina could do was shake her neck to the side.

"Unfortunately, I have no idea either. In the first place, there's more to the barrier than just trying to break in. If you can think about it..."

Still, Marina keeps explaining without clouding her words, as she doesn't want to believe it.

"If someone in the settlement invites the killer in this case..."

"Is that most likely?... Marina, hard to hear but do you have any idea?

While caring for the marina, Elaine asks firmly.

From the experience I've had as a princess general, it's from the thought that if you don't listen closely on this occasion, Marina could eventually be driven into a painful position when something happens.

But...... against Elaine like that, Marina shakes her neck to the side.

"It's been about a hundred years since I've been back in this settlement, right? A hundred years for a dark elf doesn't mean that long, but still, the days are moving. Something happened during the centuries I was gone, and someone might have changed their mind."

So I don't know.

No one can say anything to a marina who says so.

Living a hundred years is something that no one here has ever experienced except the marina.

Ray and Elaine had no doubt that they were going to live any longer, but that was a future thing.

I can only say that Ray and Elaine are still young as human beings.

"So for now, the way we're going to act is we're going to look for a being who did something to the world tree...?

To the question out of Ray's mouth, Marina nods back.

"Right. At the same time, we have to do something about the forest monsters. Until yesterday, the world tree recovered, so we could assume that all the forest anomalies would fit, but we can't hope for that in the current state of the world tree."

"As of yesterday, they took me to the woods."

It was a vihella that tells you to tickle and prick, but the marina answers that with the thickness of the skin on the surface she has worked out as guild master.

"As I said yesterday, it was necessary to put an end to forest anomalies a little faster. So, this is what we're going to do today... I'm going to split this number in two. To find someone in the settlement who's been working for the world tree and to keep the forest strange."

That's what he tells them, and Marina haunts his head with who to divide it into.

Naturally, each work efficiency will be different depending on who you do it to, beyond all these competent people.

(I know it's a luxury concern.... Ray and Seto in particular will definitely be a force of war whichever way they turn it)

She turned her gaze toward Ray and Seto, and the marina bothered her head.