Legend

The day after Rays came back to Gilm... as usual, I finished breakfast at the wheat pavilion at dusk, and when I tried to go out and buy some souvenirs for Elaine and Arla that I would be home in a few days, the guards showed up.

"Sorry, Ray. It was yesterday. Can you hang out with me for a second?

"No, I'm fine..."

What do we do? And when we turn our gaze to the four people behind us, Elaine, Vihera, Ara and Bühne, all four of them nod back when they have no choice.

Bühne didn't have to go out with anything because he wasn't involved in yesterday's incident, but did he decide it was boring to stay alone, or did he have any other thoughts... and Bühne goes to the jar again with the Rays too.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

The only thing that seemed a little dissapointed was this one having a souvenir with Ray too... and despite the fact that I had just finished breakfast, Seto still wanted something to eat.

Also, is the yellow still sleepy or sleeping round on Seto's back?

"Look, when you're done talking, I'll feed you something right, so tell you to fix your mood."

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr?"

Really? and Ray grins and gently strokes Seto as he turns his circular eyes.

"Oh. This is how the guards take our time when we go out, so maybe they'll get us some food and gratuities over there, maybe.... I guess that's Gamelion."

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

To the word Gamelion, Seto squeaks with joy.

... but the guard's cheeks are slightly distracted from the back of such a ceto.

It's a lot of inconvenience not to give Seto anything to eat in this stream.

And Ray was right, it was also true that there were several skewers of Gamelion meat in the stuffing now.

To be precise, this is the substitute for the security guards who came to get Ray and the others for their meals.

(Why is Gamelion's meat here? Could it have even smelled on my body?

He was a guard who oddly got to the right answer, but immediately denies it.

And while Seto decided he could eat Gamelion's meat... he arrived at the guard's jar with a little depression.

"Yeah? No langa even today?

"Captain Langa has a little errand to run, and he's not in the guild right now. Well, there's no specifics.... So, what's up with this guy?

A person in quite a great position among the guards is a subtly depressed guard near the Rays... he turns his gaze to the man who was taken away by Ceto from the skewering of the gamelions he was looking forward to.

"Well, I wonder what's going on. I don't get it. I was just feeding Seto skewers when I got here."

"You... you can say that a lot..."

A depressed guard tells Ray so.

I guess you understood what happened to that condition. The first guard I was talking to Ray quickly gets to the point by deciding that any more involvement could be troublesome.

Is the speed of judgment around here because you work as a guard in a place called Gilm, or because you've been with Ray for quite a while too?

"It was about yesterday that I called everyone, starting with Lady Elaine."

"As for yesterday's incident... the missing raid during that time?

When Elaine, whose name was given, asks, the guard nods back.

"Yes, I would have liked to call the guild master Marina as well before explaining that I couldn't take the time to do anything busy or anything...... I'm going to turn the report over there"

"Oh."

To that explanation, not just Elaine, but Ray, Vihera, and Ara return that word to each of them.

Only Bühne didn't look like he was speaking, just watching.

Just a little more... or depending on how you look at it, it's already a winter season.

Winter for Gilm gets busy with a lot of things.

That's what makes this season so busy for Alliance Masters, just like the spring when adventurers make a full move.

The Alliance Master was away even a few days during those seasons.

I wouldn't be busy about the time I used to go to the Dark Elf settlement over the World Tree thing, but there was still a fair amount of paperwork to be processed by the marina.

Since yesterday, Marina has been processing it and other documents related to the takeover of the Alliance Master against the workers.

Being such a marina, Elaine and the others were also convinced that she was currently too busy to afford to come here.

The only thing is that Büne had hardly ever met Marina or had any particular reaction due to the fact that she was originally faceless.

"I see there's no marina. So, what's the explanation for yesterday?

To Ray's words, the guard nods and opens his tease.

"The first thing I want to say is that I successfully captured the person I've been setting up about yesterday."

"... Huh? Pretty soon."

Naturally Ray also knows that Gilm's guards are an excellent group.

The neighborhood was natural because it is policed by guilds with lots of confident adventurers in their arms.

But nevertheless, solving it yesterday today is nothing but a surprise.

"Uh, well, yeah. Unfortunately, we're not the ones who solved this, but the Knights."

"The Knights?

Ray has also been involved with the Knights of the Guild several times before.

Especially in the war against the Bestian Empire a few years ago, when we moved, we used to travel in carriages with the Knights, some of whom were quite close.

Still, compared to people like adventurers and guards, there is very little involvement.

There were circumstances around there, and now Ray couldn't understand what the guards were saying.

"What's with the Knights coming out?

"... are you serious? Whatever you are, adventurer, think of something else. Especially if something happens to Lady Elaine, your current friendship with the aristocracy will also be lightly broken. And..."

The guard, who stopped the words there, turns his gaze to Vihera.

That's all Ray understands what the guard man wants to say.

"Well, if you're bad, it's a diplomatic matter."

……

I guess Ray's words were a star. The guard man remains silent.

The present relationship between the Kingdom of Mireana and the Bestian Empire is by no means bad.

The Emperor of the Bestian Empire is an ambitious man, but still something like the war and the civil unrest that ensued, of the Kingdom of Mireana… more specifically, I know how powerful Ray is to be good at dealing with the army.

And if you're in the third prince of the heir to the throne, you can say that you worship your sister, Vihera.

If such a sister were attacked by someone... if she did poorly, the war could start again.

In fact, I don't know how to do this in my own private life, but I don't understand that in the information I hear from people.

(Well, if you're going to say that, if they find out you've been unconscious about Ambris for almost two months... if they find out that that happened when you were with me too, that's the next time they see you, I don't know what they're going to say)

Thinking that way, Ray gets off topic when he's accidentally struck by a bad feeling.

"So, who in the end imitated that? I don't have a problem with someone who's going to be targeted."

Ray asks the guard in a slightly ridiculous tone.

At that time, there were circumstances where it was just not strange for everyone in the carriage to be attacked for any reason.

That's not strange to be targeted, considering that even Ara, who was doing your thing, is noble.

It means a lot differently that it's not strange to be targeted the most and that it's actually targeted.

At that time, everyone in the carriage was more than constant... no, people with just the skill to call it first-rate.

I wondered who would be the fool to hang a raid where there were multiple people, starting with Ray, even though the success rate of the raid would drop even if there was just one such person.

To such a ray question, the guard mouths the name of the mastermind with a slightly more rugged look on his face.

Viscount Linus Marnino.

That's a name you know, right?

That was Ray, who was turned to look and asked in the dark, but Ray's answer to that was to tilt his neck.

I'm not deluding that either, a face I really don't think I can tell from the bottom of my heart.

The guard I was listening to from Ray is also just someone I could say veteran.

If the other person was trying to mislead something, I was confident I could see through it if I wasn't the other person.

I also understand that Ray is never good at such abdominal arts, especially since he has quite a few relationships with Ray.

That's why I couldn't hide my surprise in Ray's attitude.

"You know that, right?

"No, I don't think I've heard of it."

Ray spoken so naturally that the guards really don't even know for a moment? And I doubt it.

But according to the information coming down from the top, Linus was turned down to ask Ray for a nomination, which resulted in a lot of damage, which he resented and linked to yesterday's crime.

It would mean that it is Ray who is more deluded than that information is certain.

"Is that true? You really don't know that?

"Uh... right. Sounds familiar if you say so..."

I guess you decided that you weren't trying to hide anything from Ray's attitude like that. The guard man opens his mouth a little frightened.

"Looking into this, you've been seeing Viscount Marnino lately, haven't you?

"... when?

"It was before you left Gilm and went to the dungeon. You said no to any request for a nomination."

"Oh!"

If you say so much, it wasn't hard for Ray to remember Linus either.

Ray would not have imitated anything so far, but in this case, since there was progress on the Vihella case as soon as he met Linus, he must have completely forgotten about it due to the shock.

"You really forgot... they're nobles, aren't they?

"No, because there was a lot going on later. So, Linus hired them yesterday with the nobleman's refusal after all."

"It will. However, they turned their hands quite a bit so that they wouldn't find it. It's not the adventurers, it's the mercenaries who hired them."

"... I see"

Mercenaries and adventurers are similar.

It was the mercenaries who dealt with people and took part in such acts as war and… conflict without having to get that far.

Adventurers don't make a difference either in the sense of participating in a war, so maybe you can call it a subspecies of adventurers.

"But even mercenaries aren't adventurers, you've heard about Ray, right? Because there aren't so many people who stand out more than this."

Weirdly Vihera asks.

Ray's partner Seto, plus the death size that Ray uses as his favorite weapon. And recently it's becoming famous, a two-spear stream with a spear of dusk.

There is a lot of information to recognize Ray as Ray.

Death size and dusk spears are often not held throughout the city, but there is still no hiding the presence of Seto.

If I understood Ceto as Ceto, it was obvious how suicidal that was.

"Apparently, he collected a total neglect for information around there. Originally, I guess I didn't really think I could hurt Ray. That's enough if you can only harass me."

"... Also, what can I say"

To the words of the guards who answered Vihella's question, all Ray could do was be dismayed.

"I know how Ray feels, but for the rest of us, I'm sure we never thought they'd know we did it."

"That's it, why are you solving it within that day?

I had no doubt about the guards' abilities, Ray, but I still don't trust them excessively.

I didn't think I could solve that in just one day if it meant I pinched a bunch of people in between.

"... there's a lot going on here."

As a guard, it's not subtly funny because we were solved by the Knights, albeit with the help of a meadow wolf, a case that we would have to solve ourselves.

Ray tilts his neck at the words of such a guard, but I guess some of them guessed the situation, starting with Elaine. Smile small.

After that, I listened lightly… Thus, Ray felt indescribable at the end, but still this was how I solved one case.