Legend

A few days after the snowy barbecue party was over...... I had predicted that all those who attended that party and ate the meat of the silver lion were satisfied and the party was over.

But naturally, that night, the next day... some people won't be happy with their meals for longer than that.

I was living those days, but eventually the aftertaste of the silver lion's meat disappeared over time as well.

That's when everyone went back to everyday life...... Ray had been summoned by Maryo for some reason.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ray. Call me on purpose."

"No, I don't mind that. I was going to show my face once in a while.... but you've lost a little more weight than before?

"Ha.... Well, there was a little"

To Ray's words, Maryo deludes so with a dry laugh somewhere.

To a height of about one hundred and eighty cm, Maryo was a giant man weighing about one hundred kg, but from Ray's eyes, he felt that the width was slightly smaller than before, and at the same time, his face seemed to be just a little thinner than before.

"A lot of things... I didn't even show my face to this previous party, but are you sure you're okay?

"Right. To be honest, it's a little unexpected."

"... I think your Chamber of Commerce was pretty big. Still something you can't handle?

"Yeah, well. Well, it's also true that there's a lot going on because it's big."

Maryo, who looks hard to say, sighs as she wipes her sweat despite the snow outside.

I know it's some sweat scratches, but more than that, I can tell you Maryo is pretty much in on the Chamber of Commerce thing right now.

"So, is there any reason why some Maryo came to see me like that?

"... embarrassing that only Mr. Ray can save the crisis that our Chamber of Commerce is currently in."

"Me? Why is that where my name comes up?

It was true that Ray was trying so hard to eat goblin meat with Maryo, but nothing Maryo's Chamber of Commerce...... it's not exactly that he's cooperating in any way with the Chamber of Commerce run by Maryo's father.

Ray didn't know why his name came out here like that.

"Spiel Chamber of Commerce. Doesn't this name sound familiar?

"... Spiel Chamber of Commerce?

To the name that came out of Maryo's mouth, Ray tilts his neck.

Because it was the name of some familiar chamber of commerce.

"And also by the name of Viscount Linus Marnino"

"Yeah? That's..."

Ray remembers the person's face in the name he was asked at the guard's stuffing not long ago.

Someone who has been making an impossible request and resented Ray if he refused to do so and attacked the Rays who were in Elaine's carriage.

And the name Spiel Chamber of Commerce also sounded familiar.

A merchant named Tris came into contact with Ray to buy silver lion material.

The very number of merchants who have come into contact with Ray will be quite a few, but I guess that's because Tris was different from the rest of the merchants when I said why he remembered Tris'... and the name Spiel Chamber of Commerce.

The other merchants find out that Ray attacked the dungeon and came back to the guild. No, they came into immediate contact.

But in doing so, Tris came after the disturbances that many merchants had come into contact with had ended.

If you think about it for the purpose of buying silver lion materials, obvious inferior measures.

But...... if I thought in terms of impressing myself on Ray, I was obviously doing my job.

In fact, Ray barely remembered the face of the merchant who had been in massive contact, but he remembered it well when it came to Tris.

Most likely, that also affects that Tris is very different from other merchants.

Even if I was laughing with my mouth, my eyes weren't laughing. The merchant was also the one I had to pay attention to for Ray.

That's why some of the rays left a strong impression.

But I was wondering why those two came out here. Ray has such doubts.

"Where and how do those two connect? Until your chamber of commerce."

"First of all, the Viscount Marnino family and the Spiel Chamber of Commerce are simply the relationship between those who owe money and those who lend it"

"... Debt?

It reminds me of the house of the Viscount Marnino family, which I was previously called into, which should not be called a villa or a separate house, either, but it did not seem very much, but debtable.

"Viscount Marnino said he had carried out large-scale water remediation work on his territory. At that time, I owed a lot of money from the Speel Chamber of Commerce."

"I see. It seems the work of that hand will cost you money."

"Yes, but if we succeed, we will be able to farm even where we have never been suitable for farming, and our incomes will rise."

"That way."

When it comes to water curing, Ray was definitely thinking about doing something about where the river flood or something would happen, but that prediction seemed off.

"No, I think one of the purposes was to do something about the flood, right? They're mixed up with a lot of things around there, so they got pretty massive construction with that, too. But… including both will naturally increase the cost."

"... I see"

That's all Ray somehow understood what Maryo was trying to say.

I wonder if that inflated cost has further increased the amount of money we owe from the Spiel Chamber of Commerce.

(But then what was the request then after all? He said something about a request I would never turn down once I heard it. When there's not enough money, is that what attacked the bandit Ajito and gave him the treasure there?

I think that way, and I'm convinced.

Ray became known to the bandits as the Bandit Eaters.

Naturally, we can fight very favorably against bandits.

... Of course, Ray knocking down bandits is like a half hobby. Although it is mostly beneficial.

Many people frown on hunting for bandits, but for Ray, his nostalgia is warmer, and the damage caused by bandits is even less in the vicinity. This also depends on the case. By selling off the bandit to the slave trader, the slave trader purchases the slave of the goods… and is close to three birds a stone.

I was wondering if asking myself to defeat a bandit like that was missing a little while. That's what I think.

(And was it that Viscount Marnino? He even talked about kings. Then go out of your way...... does that even come to the Gilm on the edge that time of year when winter was near?

Just because Ray is called a bandit eater doesn't mean anything but Ray can't defeat a bandit.

On the contrary, for the average human being, a threat bandit is not such a struggling opponent for an adventurer either.

There are exceptions, of course, like the meadow wolves, but exceptions are only exceptions because they are small in number.

I really didn't think that a royalist nobleman would come all the way to Ray to ask him to hunt bandits... and that he himself would come to the home of the opposing neutrals.

(If there's anything else I can think of...)

Anything? And I questioned Ray, but I remember my abilities...... specifically death size skills, terrain manipulation.

I was wondering if its ability to manipulate the ground freely would be very useful in carrying out water remediation work.

Rays can only be manipulated by terrain manipulation for about a metre.

However, there was no doubt that being able to manipulate the ground freely, even if it was one m, in carrying out water remediation work would be a considerable reduction in effort.

It was certain that that would result in considerable progress in the water treatment works.

(But he said he couldn't say no if he asked about the request... but if it was water treatment, he wouldn't say that, would he?

There should have been nothing particularly troubling when I asked for water treatment work and then refused.

Of course, Ray answers no when asked if he received the request after asking.

At the time, I was desperate to find a way to regain Vihera's consciousness.

That is still the case if you are in detention for about two days a day, or a month or two if you take on a request for water remediation work...... On the contrary, it could even take six months, a year or two if you do poorly.

Not very much, but Ray couldn't afford to take such a request.

(Besides, the terrain operation allowed me to manipulate a m because I attacked the dungeon and destroyed the nucleus of the dungeon. If so, there was no reason why we could do anything about it at the time when we received the request for water treatment work)

I don't know how much understanding there was of Ray's topographical operations over there, but even if it was slight, it wasn't possible that he decided it would be useful for the water treatment work.

"... so anyway. I understand the relationship between the Viscount Marnino family and the Spiel Chamber of Commerce, but how does Maryo's Chamber of Commerce relate to that?

"Actually, it's somewhat too much to say that we're currently invading from the Spiel Chamber of Commerce, but it seems to be moving to absorb our Chamber of Commerce or put it under our umbrella."

"Why are you doing that again?

From Ray's point of view, it was questionable why he would do such an imitation.

"There are many reasons. I guess the biggest thing first is that our Chamber of Commerce is firmly rooted in the Guild. It's more advantageous in many ways to do something in the guild than it has been based in this guild for many years"

"... but even the Spiel Chamber of Commerce works in the Guild more than Tris came to see me, right? Then I don't think you have to do that."

To Ray, who shrugs, Maryo shakes her neck to the side.

At that time, Ray seemed to see the flesh trembling on his cheeks, but he must be tired of everything in this case. Compared to when we used to study goblin meat together, that tremor seemed less.

(Well, given your health, you should definitely lose weight)

Ray worries about his health as he looks at Maryo, who is a little overweight.

But Maryo goes on saying things without knowing what he thinks he is.

"Guilm-based us and the Spiel Chamber of Commerce coming to Guilm to purchase. It really makes a difference around here."

"Is that what it is?

Ray is naturally less familiar with the merchant world than he is with living as an adventurer.

I had rubbed it with the Azot Chamber of Commerce, but that was a dispute between merchants and adventurers, not between merchants.

I usually use it at the store, but that's all.

(No, you were hired as an escort only once before the war with the Bestian Empire. That was only a relationship as an escort after all, too)

Thinking like that reminds me of the women adventurers I escorted with then.

I was invited to a party, but in the end I said no... to the women adventurers I haven't seen at all since.

For Ray, who is completely unconscious, he was completely unaware that he was being put to the thoughts of one of the female adventurers.

"Mr. Ray is an adventurer, so I understand he doesn't know much about merchants. Whatever it is, it is currently my chamber of commerce… my father's chamber of commerce to be exact, but it is in the midst of a fierce dispute with the Spiel Chamber of Commerce. But it's not about violence, it's about business."

"Right. If violence means physical force, I could have helped."

"If so, this one would have helped,"

To Ray's words, Maryo smiles bitterly.

In fact, I guess the Spiel Chamber of Commerce understands that Maryo has a connection to Ray this time around.

As Maryo said, there is little use of physical force if it is also basically a dispute between the Chambers of Commerce.

But almost none of it means nothing.

No, it's not weird to do it normally, in the sense of hitting your hand so they don't know, and then hiring a chimp to take action...

But...... only for this disturbance, nothing about that hand has been done at all.

This must be a testament to the fact that the Spiel Chamber of Commerce side knows the connection between Ray and Maryo and doesn't want Ray to intervene... and doesn't want to be hostile.

Most likely Maryo is also very strong as a merchant around trying to make Ray's impression of the Spiel Chamber of Commerce worse by informing Ray that his chamber is thus being invaded by the Spiel Chamber of Commerce.

"Anyway, that's the circumstance and the study of goblin meat has barely progressed. … excuse me"

"No, never mind. If that's the case over there, I can't help it. I've been busy here for a while."

Do you understand Maryo's thoughts or not?

That's what Ray said.