Legend

When the winter cold was soothing and the amount of snow coming down was dwindling...... Ray was walking along Gilm's Boulevard with Vihera.

If it's always the case, here comes Beaune or Seto with us, but today it's just Ray and Vihera.

Note that Marina seems to be at the end of his takeover as an Alliance Master, and was working with a worker today.

Speaking of why Ray and Vihera are only going out like this today...

"Look, Ray. I'm out on my own around the corner, so why don't you make yourself a little happier?

Vihera, who is holding hands with Ray, tells him so with a full grin.

... Yes, this time the two of us are going out because of a date.

From now on, I have little chance of being alone than throwing a party.

For that reason, today with Vihera... and a few days later when the takeover was complete, Marina and Ray were supposed to have a date.

The first time that proposal came up from Vihera was when everyone was talking in Ray's room at the wheat pavilion at dusk.

Naturally Elaine was also in the opposite orb for the story, so I disagreed...... for some reason Ray and eventually even Büne were thrown out of the room and as a result of discussions between the three women, Elaine acknowledged the words of Vihera and thus became a date.

"I'm going to be happy for once."

Tell him so, and take off the hood of the dragon robe he was wearing.

The sky is a blue sky with no clouds, as if to mark the end of winter and inform the coming of spring.

The sun floating in its blue sky shines so vibrantly that I don't think it's still winter.

"Really? Well, if you think Ray's happy, that's okay...... oh, look. There's a lot of stalls today because of the weather. Shall I buy you something?"

"Right. Well, a lot of guys have plenty of stalls in their spare time."

Many adventurers also really want to do something else if they are self-depraved every day.

Of course it comes to people, but I guess that's the type of people who are out of the street in their spare time.

Most of all, it does not extend to the incumbents as a matter of course, beyond the fact that they are running stalls in their spare time.

Still selling to some extent because passers-by are relaxed due to the non-wintery weather?

However, some of them cook dishes with an adventurer but talented talent, so Ray looks around a lot of stalls to find out if there aren't any stalls like that.

"Oh, hey, Ray. It's not a stall, but that looks kind of funny, huh?

I was just looking around to see if there was any food that looked delicious, and Vihella accidentally pulls Ray's hand.

As the word seemed interesting, Vihera was blinking her eyes with curiosity.

Ray, who turned his gaze to such a Vieira watcher, I see, this convinces me that Vieira is going to be happy.

What was there was not the kind of stall Ray was looking at...... but close to the street art so to speak.

Several adventurers are there and look around with a confident grin.

"Yes, yes, the challenge fee is two silver coins! Two! Then we pick one of these faces and pull strings from each other so they don't get out of the circle that's on the ground. And if the opponent lets the string out of his hand or lets it out of the circle, it's a win! The prize money depends on who you're dealing with!

It seemed to Ray that the competition… or play was a substitute for a combination of drama and sumo.

Due to various limitations, it is also necessary to imitate not only simple arm strength but also reading the other person's thoughts.

Around there, Vihera must have attracted some interest, too.

"Do you want to do it?

"Right. It's a corner, let's give it a try."

Vihera smiles funny at Ray's words and approaches those looking for challengers.

Then naturally Ray follows Vihera like that too... and whoever is calling in notices the two of them and pulls their cheeks apart.

Ray's face knew more than this call was also an adventurer.

In addition, I know about Vihera, who is acting with Ray.

And most importantly, I understood that these two were in many ways out of standard.

(Shit...... what do we do?

We were certain to challenge ourselves more than just coming straight at us.

A man who doesn't think he can beat those two with purely physical abilities gently turns his gaze to his people.

But all those whose gaze is turned turn back to the man.

If this was pure arm bragging...... like a mock fight, the guys wouldn't have snorted honestly either.

But this play was quite widely known in the men's homeland.

So I guess that's what you thought if it was this game called Circle String, maybe you could beat Vihera or Ray.

In fact, the men have always won this circle with the top adventurer.

I don't think it's easy to beat Ray or Vihera against them, but maybe... I had that thought.

"Well, please be the strongest person"

And what Vihera challenges is the strongest opponent of the men.

That is the one who always achieved the highest grades in the circle strings that took place in the village.

"Okay. Then let's deal with them fully. Is there anything normal about that? I almost ask, but I don't think I need to ask you that..."

"Yeah. I'll do everything I can."

To the man's words, Vihera tells him so with a full grin.

I guess I liked the man's attitude.

Paying the challenge fee, Vihera and the man each hold a string and stand on the circle.

And a man who was recruiting challengers screams to stir up reactions around him.

"So, Reishi's Battle Maiden can beat the bad guys! You can't miss this good fight."

"Hey, here."

He mutters unhappily with a string in his hands at a man who lightly trumpeted himself, who should be one of them, and tailored Vihera to a righteous heroine.

But the man who was told doesn't look particularly concerned, and declares the game to start.

"Begin!"

With that word, the first person to react was not the man used to the game...... but a vihella with purely high reflex nerves.

Now I pull strings all at once to tell you to decide the battle, but the men are also the strongest of these.

Remove the power of the hand grasping the string and take it to a development where Vihela suddenly hits behind her back with a recoil of her powerless opponent.

But as Vihera was reading such a man's behavior, he never moves out of the circle with all his strength in his legs.

On the contrary, I pull this lucky string that the power has fallen out of a man's hand...

"Ah!"

A man who noticed that the string was missing from his own hand while he looked at it, can desperately put his strength into his hand holding the string in an attempt to stop it... but when he tried to do so, the string had already disappeared completely from his hand.

"Winner, the war maiden Vihera!

The MC man's voice echoes around him.

I guess the man who was fighting Vihera didn't think he was going to lose this light either.

All I could do, however, was glance at Vihera.

"No, you're brilliant. That's Ray and the adventurer who acts together. I didn't know you'd win this lightly..."

"Really? But this time it happened purely with my physical abilities, but I guess it's not going to be that easy to win next time either"

To the words that came out of Vihera's mouth, the man who was flabbergasted returned to me.

He then turns his gaze toward Vihera and nods back in dignity.

"Naturally! If you ever do a circle string again, you'll never lose!

"Pfft, yeah. I'm looking forward to it."

Vihera smiles at the man and receives two gold coins as a prize.

Vihera was surprised by the unexpected high prize money, but she was absolutely confident about the circle string, but I guess it was the late prize amount.

He also has a proven track record of actually challenging a man many times before, but kicking through all of it.

The idea that a circle string would not beat against Vihella was a completely backward form.

Most importantly, today's money is more than two gold coins, so it's not a deficit.

Ray thought I'd try, too, but if I could turn my moist gaze on the MC guy to quit because he was begging me... I couldn't even turn that down... I ended up giving up.

"Look, Ray. You don't look too sorry. You're with me at the corner, so why don't you make it look a little more fun?... but yeah. Want something to eat? You got your prize money, and you're gonna get paid for it, right?

"Hmmm...... right. Then why don't you have a sandwich for sale in that stall over there? It smells pretty good, and it looks delicious."

Ray turned his gaze to one stall.

It doesn't look like much of a customer in a regular stall.

But the scent drifting from that stall undoubtedly stimulated Ray's appetite.

To Ray's words, Vihera also focuses her consciousness on that stall.

Then, as Ray put it, there was a scent that stimulated my appetite.

It's not that it's exciting, it's like I'm going to miss it somewhere... such a grieving scent.

In Ray and Vihera, the environment in which they grew up...... on the contrary, the world itself is different, but the impression I still felt from the smell that has drifted was the same.

"Right, shall we eat then?... If it wasn't snowing, I'd have done it slower."

Vihera holds Ray's hand and walks out toward the stall.

Neither does Ray particularly defy it, opening his mouth with his hand in hand with Vihella.

"Right. It's just that it's almost spring. If that happens...... you wanna go play somewhere with the whole party? Picnic when you ask for a picking."

"Oh, that's good. Sometimes I want to take it slow on the shores of some lake or something.... maybe we can go to the ocean, but it'll take too long."

"Uh... right. If you travel in Ceto, it won't take that long to get to the sea, but if you party, will the area be a little problematic?"

That was the most negative thing about organizing a party.

Just Ray...... if it's just Ray and Ceto to to be exact, that's what Ray can always travel on Ceto.

Given Seto's speed of travel, there is a difference in speed between digits in the literal sense of walking normally.

But Ray is the only one who can fly on Seto's back... no, only Ray and Büne because Büne is also still a child and light.

That, too, makes Seto's flying distance limited when Ray and Beaune ride on Seto's back together.

Of course, like when I was looking for Ambris, if I grabbed it and moved it to Seto's ankle, there would be no problem, but leaving the movement in the air to Seto was all kinds of dangerous, and no one liked to use that method.

... Vihera was happy to grab hold of Seto and fly in the sky.

Either way, I really had no choice but to compromise around there than to act as a party.

"With that said, what happened to the carriage?

"You said Marina would hit the handover, didn't you?

Vihera answers as she finishes her sandwich order, giving half to Ray.

"Oh, with that said, that's what Marina said....... but what carriage do you think it will be?

Vihera shakes her neck to the side to Ray, who carries her sandwich to her mouth and asks as she walks down the road.

"I don't know what kind of carriage Ray expects, but I think it's probably a regular carriage, right?

"... I knew it would happen"

Ray would have liked a magic item carriage with an expanded interior, like Elaine on it if she could, but naturally such a carriage is very expensive, let alone something that you can buy with it if you have money.

That's what it takes: connections, materials, luck… all sorts of things.

Even if I knew that, if I had any experience riding Elaine's carriage, it would have been natural for me to really want to take a comfortable carriage.

Once you get used to luxury, it would be similar to how hard it is to get back into a life less than that.

"The carriage Elaine was in, I wish I could."

"... if we just had a carriage like that, I think that would get us into a lot of trouble?

"The problem over there is... in the first place, you've got too many troublesome things going on when we have a party."

Ray, alias Rank B Adventurer, Ceto the Griffon, Marina, a rare dark elf and spiritual magic user, and Vihera, a former Empress of the Bestia Empire.... and further to the latter two, a beauty who merely stimulates the desire of a man to even this.

The least noticeable is Bühne, but that Bühne is also a survivor of a lineage of great significance in labyrinth cities.

"... if you say so. Besides, today is a date in the corner, and now don't think about anything else and enjoy your time together."

Ray snorted at Vihera, who told her so with a smile... and enjoyed her alone time on this day when the end of winter was near.