Legend

"Hahahahahahaha! Cheers, cheers, kampa!

"Oh, here's to the world tree!

"To our settlement, cheers!

With the moon rising in the night sky and the stars blinking, many dark elves were gathered at the training ground in the Dark Elves settlement for a feast.

Many incendiaries illuminate their surroundings brightly, with dark elves drinking and making noise everywhere.

Even when the world tree temporarily recovered, everyone was feasting and making noise, but this feast is far larger than that.

I could also say that many of the dishes served are lavish compared to previous feasts.

... Most of the ingredients for that extravagant dish are the meat of the monsters that hit the settlement today.

Oak meat, which can also be called a natural enemy, especially for dark elves, was popular, and when alive the oak, which is persistently attacked by dark elves, was in the odd state of being welcomed by dark elves when they die.

Normally, it's where dark elves conduct combat training, but only today, it's turned into a happier place for many.

Its happiness has a dish of monster meat, starting with oak meat, and mouth happiness...... brings mouth blessing.

"Nevertheless, I didn't know that light sphere was the will of the world tree...... Grandpa, has this ever happened?

One of the dark elf men asks his own grandfather while eating oak skewers... to a dark elf who is younger than Optis but doesn't seem to have that age difference on the outside.

"Ainya. I've lived in this settlement for a long time, but I've never seen it before."

"... Then why are you like that?

"I don't know... maybe because of that guy named Ray..."

To his grandfather's words, Dark Elf is convinced.

We already know why there was a series of events and a world tree commotion that seems to be caused by giant cicadas. Because...

"He's like defeating a giant cicada like that..."

I groan with my gaze toward the corpse of a giant cicada placed in the corner of the ballroom.

It was the corpse of a giant cicada that was in Ray's mysteries, but he was asked to show everyone exactly what he was dealing with at the marina, and he took out the corpse of a giant cicada.

Some of the dark elves even slipped their hips at the immensity, yet most sent a gaze of respect to Ray and Seto, who defeated their enormous opponents.

That I was here, and I can say that my gaze of fear over Ray almost disappeared.

Some still seemed to think about the magic, but still, pride did not allow me to behave like that as a dark elf more than they helped the settlement.

It should also be noted that the corpse of the giant cicada, which, if normal, was a factor in this disturbance of the world tree, was not strange to be present in the middle at the feast seat.

Why is it off the ballroom because of its enormity?

If the cadaver of giant cicadas is in the middle of the ballroom, each of the banqueting people needs to avoid the cadaver of giant cicadas to move through.

If it's a monster about a few meters in size, it doesn't stink that much, but it's 20 meters long... even if it's cut with a torso, there are two things about 10 meters.

It might be nice to watch, but I decided it was out of the way to have a banquet and ended up being put away.

"Son-in-law, thank you so much this time"

"No, that's why he's not my son-in-law."

That means I'm not good at liquor, so I give it back to Optis while he drinks the fruit water that Dark Elves used his spiritual magic to cool me down.

Optis doesn't mean it either, I guess he's making fun of Ray half the time.

Because there was a funny grin on Optis' face in the evidence.

I totally enjoyed how Ray hated to call me Son-in-law.

Ray, who knows it, decides that even if he disagrees with something, it just pleases Optis, and gently shifts his gaze from Optis to Seto, who is eating oak stuffs next to him.

It's a dish that removes guts from the torso of oak, fills them with things like vanilla, nuts, fruits and vegetables, then ties them with thread, and slowly takes the time to bake them.

I didn't have time this time, and I used spiritual magic to imitate cooking, so the taste really drops compared to what I tried to cook with.

But...... Still, it was delicious enough for Seto or he was happily eating oak stuffs.

"It looks a little harsh, but the smell looks delicious"

It also has oak faces, hands and feet, and even if it is treated so that it can be eaten properly, it still feels like a lot of grotesque.

(I hear a lot about being as delicious as Getestuff... is that what this looks like too)

Exhale and the moment Optis, still trying to make fun of something, tries to talk to me...

"Elder...... no, Grandpa. Sounds like a lot of fun. Seems like he's been annoying Ray a lot since earlier."

Yes, I can speak to Optis.

Optis stops moving for a moment in that voice, but in the next moment he grins... and opens his mouth with a grin that deludes the story, not a teasing grin until earlier.

"No, no, it's not like I'm bothering Ray. I was just talking. Ugh?"

Optis' gaze was directed at Ray, who was talking.

Ray opens his mouth to Optis complaining with his gaze that he wants me to deceive him...

"Really?

I can turn my attention to the marina with a gaze that includes a grin.

"You've been getting all tangled up, yeah"

At first it was Ray who thought for a moment that he might be able to shelter Optis, but when he could turn his gaze to the marina, he immediately shifted his policy and offered Optis as a sacrifice.

"Behold! Ray, are you going to abandon Non!?

"Even if they say so. It's true that I've been annoyed."

"Grandpa. Can I talk to you for a second?"

I guess I felt something dangerous about that word. When Optis puts the glass of wine he had on the ground, he immediately tries to escape his favorite wand...

"Oh, Grandpa. Where are you going? Grandpa's going this way, isn't he?

An instantly packed marina grabs Optis' collar.

"Become!?

It was Optis who raised his surprise.

Even though it was half a joke, it wasn't because I didn't think it would be easy to get caught.

"Marina...... Lord, what happened?

The tone of Optis, who asks so, doesn't make any sense of the joke a few seconds ago.

Just her own granddaughter, Optis had a good understanding of Marina's prowess.

Originally a marina with very high skill as an archer or spiritual wizard, its recoil or, as with the vast majority of dark elves, never very capable of melee combat.

But the move that stuffed me between now and myself was not a move that I could make into something I was very bad at melee combat.

That's why I wondered what Marina had gained and how she had gained such power.

But...... the marina opens her mouth with a glossy smile against Optis, who is turning a serious gaze at herself.

"Now there's something in me that's coming out of Ray's body. Thanks to that, I guess."

When Marina tells him so, he stops moving around for a moment.

It was too... it was too misleading a way of saying it, so I can't help it.

Did you imagine anything, or did you drink too much... the dark elves dye their cheeks red as they stood around listening regardless of the man or woman.

Naturally, the words out of the marina's mouth are also heard by Elaine and Vihera, and the two stand up loosely and walk out towards the marina.

Every, every.

The move, which is reminiscent of a ghost or something, showed that those attending the banquet also heard the marina earlier and the heart sounded dokun hard even as the movement stopped.

The way the two people walk along every step of the way gives a strong fear to the dark elves around them just because they are outrageously beautiful.

"Marina, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Right. If I may, I'd like to hear your explanation for what you just said and the kiss you just gave me."

"Oh, yeah? Well, if you want to hear it, I'll tell you as much as I can. We're not here, and we're going to need to talk to each other, so let's just get out of here."

The marina tells without any particular resistance and turns her gaze to Optis.

"That's why, Grandpa. I'll take my seat off a bit, but please don't take your wings off too much without being worthy of your age. I'll let the others hear it later."

With a smile on her mouth and a glossy smile, Marina stands up and leaves as she is.

Optis, who dropped off such a granddaughter's hindsight, turns his frightened gaze somewhere to Ray nearby.

To Ray, who enjoyed cooking with Seto without even showing how concerned she was during the exchange of the three women earlier.

"Lord... I struggle"

"Yes?"

Ray stuffed the stew of oak meat in his mouth returns that to Optis' words.

There is food in my mouth, so it made little sense.

"Ha, well, fine.... Everyone. The disaster has left. Now drink, eat and rejoice that you survived safely!

In an attempt to change the frozen air, Optis lifts a glass of wine and tells it out loud.

To signal that, those around him also raise a cup and each speaks verbally to forget the sight he has just seen.

"The world tree is back, so I have to drink and make a scene today or so."

"Oh.... but hey, could the disaster Master Optis has just spoken of..."

"Don't say it. Don't say it anyway. Don't say anything more. Never say it. All right? Disaster is a giant cicada with its upper and lower body in two over there. Must be. Nothing else.... you know what I mean?

The dark elf man nods back at the appearance of a friend who tells him he will never let him speak any more.

Everyone understands. He said that the disaster that came out of Optis' mouth showed not only the giant cicada but also the strife between the three beautiful women.

But if I put that in my mouth, I have a feeling that a new disaster is going to strike me, and I can't.

"And yet... what was that light bulb that Ray had with him? I was strangely intimate."

You didn't want to talk any more about the disaster, a dark elf guy who was nearby suddenly changes the subject.

Besides, I will teach you that the people around you are the will of the world tree as if they were frightened.

The topic was somewhat deliberate, but many people want to get off topic quickly. The topic shifts to you as if there is no particular objection.

Turn your gaze toward Ray, who is cooking with Seto, but there is no appearance of the optical sphere under discussion there.

He left Ray when he came back to the settlement after defeating the giant cicada.

That's why some people haven't seen the light bulb Ray had with them.

... In fact, before Ray was rampaging around the barrier's junction, he also took the light sphere when the settlement was headed for the world tree when it began to be attacked by monsters, so there were a lot of people watching at that time... at that time, most of them were not the same in monster raids.

Saw it, maybe? There are quite a few who think, but very few remember it firmly.

The Dark Elves, I saw it, I didn't see it, I touched it, I stroked it... and each mouth, but some of them will get stuck telling their buddies not to look good.

Naturally. Especially the dark elf man, who spoke of stroking the light sphere, even had his gaze pointed at him from around him.

Those who know that the light sphere cannot be touched.

"After all, is that light sphere really the will of the world tree?

"If you care, you can ask him in person, okay?

"Are you going to tell me? He's like taking down a giant cicada like that, isn't he?

"No, that doesn't matter. Given Ray's character, I think he'll tell you as soon as he thinks you don't mind telling me."

"... Then you listen to me."

"Yes, they do. Look, listen to me!

His mouth was well said to be the source of the disaster, and the dark elf, who spoke to Ray that he should ask, was turned to his gaze from the others, and eventually rose.

Does it also have to do with the fact that you weren't originally that scared of Ray, and you keep getting closer to Ray?

Still, all of a sudden, instead of asking about the light sphere, we talk about the dishes Ray is eating.

"Mr. Ray, is that dish tasty?

"Hmm? Oh, it's delicious. Dark Elves also eat dishes like simmering guts and beans."

"Haha. I wonder if the neighborhood varies from house to house.... So, I just want to ask, can I ask what that light bulb was?

"Is that the light sphere? That's like the will of a world tree..."

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The Dark Elves, who had heard Ray's words without even hiding them, accidentally lost them and thought to themselves,