Legend

Vihera lying in bed with her eyes closed.

The sight, which Ray has seen every day here lately, doesn't look very unconscious.

As far as this goes, I'm just asleep... that's all I see.

But such a vihella never wakes up.

No matter how much Ray used the potion kind, no matter how hard he tried to get those who could use healing magic to wake up at all.

"Vihera......"

Elaine, who was next to Ray, calls Vihera's name.

Still no way to wake up at all.

"You just look asleep, don't you?... but Vihella never wakes up"

"... yeah, right"

Elaine also knew that Vihera would not regain consciousness.

But...... in my own eyes, I have to convince myself once again of how Vihera looks like that.

"Absolutely. Do you honestly think you're sleeping all the time at a time like this?

A little sad...... then it was Elaine telling her to provoke, but Vihera, who was unconscious, didn't even know if she was hearing it.

If you're just asleep, it's not a rare story to have your eyelids moving small from time to time, to say a bedtime word, or to hit a turnaround and move your body.

But now Vihera doesn't act like that, she doesn't make it faint.

"You really don't wake up."

Elaine shrugs as she gently strokes Vihera's face.

"Oh. Now I'm just trying to find a way to regain Vihera's consciousness. Not just me, but the marina."

Guildmaster Marina is looking for a way to use that position and the profound wisdom she possesses thanks to her long life as a dark elf, as well as the connections she has cultivated so far, and somehow regain the consciousness of Vihera.

Not only is Elaine worried about Vihera this way, but Vihera is also an important opponent for Marina.

That is what it is, as a woman who loves Ray together and as someone who is bound to Ray together.

"I've been using a lot of house handouts to find out too..."

It was obvious that Elaine shrugged as she gently let go of her hand, which was stroking Vihella's cheek, but seeing that attitude would never have a good result.

"Sorry."

"There's nothing Elaine needs to apologize for, is there? I've been looking all over for you, and I can't find a way to regain Vihella's consciousness."

Ray turns his gaze out the window as he returns his words to Elaine, who seems sorry.

What's there is still the view before noon.

Defeated Ambris… Compared to when he escaped into Vihera's body without being defeated precisely, the temperature has already dropped considerably in the fall.

But still, I'm in the wheat pavilion at dusk, so I don't feel the cold.

So it also seemed like a completely different world outside and inside the inn.

Still...... as far as the blue sky in autumn sunshine is concerned, I still wonder if it's still summer, and not so much since Vihella lost consciousness, as well.

(No, is it my weakness to think so?... maybe my heart is coming to me a long time)

If you are being attacked by someone, you can fight back.

But there is little that Ray can do for Vihera now, beyond being attacked by himself.

"If this is just sleeping, I think I'm getting a good night's sleep,"

"Pfft, right. But Vihera is also a woman. I don't think Ray likes to see me sleep like this."

That's what Elaine tells Ray to say in the same tone she joked about.

Ray also knew that women didn't like to show their sleeping faces.

But I only know that, and I don't really understand why I think so.

So I just wonder if that's what Elaine is saying...

That's how time flows for just three people: Ray, Elaine, and Vihera.

Time for silence, not talking about anything in particular.

Such a slow time, with the sound of the autumn wind shaking the windows from time to time sounding slightly inside the room.

The three of them had such a quiet time...... eventually, Ray accidentally turns his gaze towards the door.

Because someone sensed signs of approaching someone in this room.

Of course there are other rooms near this room.

Maybe someone with errands there approached me.

That's what I thought, but when I realized that the signs coming up were something I knew very well, I just had a few doubts.

It's not strange to come to this room, but it was rare to come to this room at this hour of the day.

Next to such a ray, this one also had Elaine's gaze toward the door.

A few seconds more than Ray, but I guess I felt the signs late.

And while the two gazes are pointed at the door, eventually the owner of the sign knocks on the door when he stops in front of the room.

A light sound that echoes inside the room.

"You can come in, Marina"

Ray speaks the name of the Lord of those signs.

I guess Elaine also understood that it was the marina that was outside the room. He looked toward the door without looking particularly surprised.

And when the door opened, what was there was the look of the marina as Ray had spoken.

It's usual to be wearing a blue party dress, but I can see just a little tired color on that face.

But that was natural, too.

We gather scattered information about Ambris, and when it's over, we're moving around wondering if there's any way to regain Vihera's consciousness somehow.

Even in the marina, where I worked as an adventurer, there was a limit to my health.

Still won't rest, I guess, because that's all Marina strongly hopes Vihera will regain consciousness.

And when I found a little time, I was thus showing my face to the wheat pavilion at dusk to see how Vihera was doing.

Rest. Many times Ray cautioned, but he insisted that he was okay and he didn't get much rest.

With a grin on its tired face, the marina opens her mouth.

"I didn't hear Elaine was coming, but I knew you were here.... Long time no see"

"Um, it's been a while.... the marina looks fine and most importantly, she seems a little tired."

"Pfft, it's okay. Look at Vihera's face like this, and if you stay with Ray, you'll be tired of everything. And Elaine's here today."

I know I mean it, but still, from Ray's eyes, the marina looks tired.

But I know I can't help it, so I take some fruit out of the mysteries so I can at least relieve my fatigue a little bit.

Spring, summer, autumn… If it was meant to be, it could not be imitated that fruits from separate seasons are eaten and compared at the same time.

Aside from the story if it is dried fruit, dried fruit really tastes and... especially has a different texture compared to raw ones.

It was a luxury to use the item box.

"That's delicious.... especially the fruit over here is very bright. And the sweetness isn't that excessive."

"The fruit over here is delicious, too. Smooth tongue and entertains intense sweetness in your mouth"

Ray relieves himself just a little when he sees Marina and Elaine delightfully eating the fruit they serve.

If this soothes the marina's fatigue at all......

That's how the marina, looking just a little relieved while eating the fruit, turns her gaze to the bed vihela with a soft look.

"Absolutely, I think it's time for Vihera to wake up."

"Right.... Anything like a clue?

Marina shakes her neck to the side, asking Elaine as she carries the fruit to her mouth.

"No, you can't. I've done a lot of research... but I've found a few ways to do something about someone who remains unconscious, but I don't know if it fits into this one... hey?

"Oh."

A little further away, Ray, who was eating skewers rather than fruit, nods back.

Over the past two months, I have tried the means found by Marina several times.

But all of that didn't work.

"I wish I could somehow ask someone more familiar"

"... What about the Dark Elf settlement?

"I sent you a letter. It's just gonna take a little longer to get back."

He sends letters to the Dark Elf settlement first and foremost.

But the Dark Elf settlement will be harder to get a response right away than it isn't right around the corner.

Ray's gonna go with Seto? and asked the marina, but she said no for various difficult reasons.

I didn't know what that difficult reason was, but I wanted to avoid leaving Vihella's side if Ray could too, so it's true that it helped.

"I wish there was something I could do to help..."

Elaine groaning unfortunately.

I've tried everything I can in my current position, but that's of little use either.

"I guess I should ask someone who's been alive longer."

"Like dark elves, for example?

Marina nods at Ray, who asks as he stores the finished skewered skewers inside the misting.

"Yeah. But if any of the elves or dark elves I know know know know anything about Ambris. It doesn't make sense that you simply live longer, does it? He said he had never actually been in contact with Ambris..."

The marina sighs in depression.

Those who live long and know at the same time the existence of Ambris.

I guess the former is not harder than being a dark elf, but the latter is sometimes the second time or the first time in three hundred years as long as this Ambris has been confirmed, and it will be very difficult.

"When you do, live longer than a dark elf..."

"Wait."

Two, I can think of something, Ray's mouth opens.

The voice that came out of it is not the kind of voice that would come out in a place where you would either... speak of stupidity.

Seriously...... yes, I'm serious from the bottom of my heart, such a voice.

Neither Elaine nor Marina can speak to Ray about how she's thinking of something.

That's how serious Ray looked right now.

Some time goes by as it is.

I don't know exactly how long it took me to remain silent.

Is it more than a dozen seconds, a few dozen seconds, a few minutes... or a dozen minutes?

Is it because Ray's condition was still so unusual that he showed an impossible appearance?

The occasional squeaking in front of the two of them thinking about something was just a little uncomfortable knowing the usual Ray.

But if that's what you're doing to help Vihera, neither Elaine nor Marina can talk to Ray like that.

And... eventually Ray sighs small.

With such a ray trick, I guess I decided I could talk to him anymore.

Marina opens her mouth towards Ray.

"Ray?"

"Oh, bad. Maybe... maybe I can do something to help Vihera regain consciousness."

"Is that true!?

Elaine shouts her surprise at Ray's words, which all of a sudden came out.

A clue to regaining the consciousness of Vihera, which could not be found even at the marina of the Alliance Master or Elaine with the alias of the Princess General.

That Ray has it is not that strange a story in itself.

Ray is a high-ranking adventurer with an alias, so it's not weird if there's something we don't know.

But still the question remains.

Nearly two months after the fall of Vihela... in the meantime Ray was desperately looking for a way to regain Vihela's consciousness.

If there was anything like a clue to regaining consciousness, it wouldn't have been strange to say it long ago.

"Oh. I just can't say for sure, though I've said it now. Maybe you know something..."

The question of Elaine and Marina is further reinforced by the caged ray.

"Anyway, I don't have any leads right now, so if it's any chance, do it."

To Marina's words, Ray nods.

That way, I take a small, deep breath and then open my mouth to check with the two people in front of me.

"What we're going to do could be an act that, to be honest, has a lot of problems. But I think it's the least I can do to help Vihella regain consciousness at the moment."

Still okay? and to Ray as he turns his gaze, Elaine and Marina nod.

"I'm going to rely on someone called Grimm..."

With a serious look, that's what Ray told him.