Legend

This mansion, inhabited by Galahat, who meets with the Azotto Chamber of Commerce, offers a room where the merchants of the Chamber can freely use it.

Of course, documents, business transactions, etc. take place at the Azot Chamber of Commerce's headquarters, or at their own stores, houses, etc.

Still, it is also true that there are various conveniences to having each room in this mansion with Galahat.

When Bornter lived in this mansion, this mansion did not imitate such in its own.

Ever since Galahat met, I've been trying to see if there's any room left... but its reputation was good.

It is now considered very honorable among the Azotto Chamber of Commerce to be allowed to have a room in this mansion.

In that, the Rays, who came to Corliss' room, look around the room.

"Well, there are some important paperwork, so it would be helpful if you didn't look around too much."

"That being said, that document might say something about this case, right? You can't miss that."

When Vihella returns that to Corliss' words, Corliss, who understands the weakness of his position, can't speak any more.

"Don't worry. Just because I saw something here doesn't mean I'm not going to tell anyone else."

"... thank you"

All Corliss could do was bow his head to Vihera, who at least tells him how warm he is.

That's how as he searches the room, Ray opens the window and opens his mouth.

"Seto! Come here!

All of a sudden those who were in the room turn a surprise gaze at Ray, who shouted.

But Vihera and Büne quickly convinced him that it was because he was Ray, and began to look inside the room again.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

And Ray called out the window, and less than a minute later he heard such a noise, and Seto's figure appeared outside the window.

I may have been hostile to Ray...... Corliss, who thinks that way, makes his face cramp when he sees Seto.

Regardless of how Corliss looks like, Ray opens his mouth as he strokes Seto's head.

"Hey, Seto. Do you have any idea if there's a pair of Slapenil shoes in this room? Or the smell of the guy who attacked Azimov."

"Grrrrrr...... Grrrrrr"

Seto, who stuck only his face through the window into the room and smelled the smell using his olfactory lifting skills, shakes his neck sideways a few seconds later.

It smells thin from Corliss' body, but it wasn't the smell if he touched the killer directly, it was just an indirect migratory incense.

I didn't know what Seto was trying to say that far, but still, Ray clearly understands that there are no Slapenil shoes in this room.

"Well, is there any Slapenil shoes in this room?"

"Grrrrrrrr"

To Ray's words, Seto growls his throat just a little sorry.

"Seto said he would never apologize. It's good enough to know you're not in this room."

The words he tells as he strokes Seto's head will please Corliss more than Ning Lo Seto.

The lack of Slapenil shoes in my room means that I have only slightly reduced the suspicion that I attacked Ray and a close alchemist.

"... I see. Then you are. I'm pretty sure the smell lasted all the way to the grounds of this mansion, huh? Then why don't you check with the carriage?

To Galahat's words, Ray nods.

Naturally Seto has no objection to such Galahat's words either, and he rattles his throat trying to get there quickly.

I agree because the others have no objection to the word, and Corliss wants to make it clear quickly that he is irrelevant.

And Galahat and Corliss, Mult, Ray, Vihera, and Buune leave Corliss' room.

Naturally, a keen olfactory ceto also returns from outside Corliss' room to the main entrance to act with such rays.

That's how the Rays rendezvous near the main entrance, so they can be led straight to the back of the garden by three people: Galahat, Mult and Corliss... head to the warehouse where the carriage is located.

Eventually, when you see the warehouse, you gaze at the warehouse and squeal your throat as Seto noticed something going on as he peered around at Ray's side.

"Gru!"

The colour of joy sounds stronger, not the sound of vigilance.

Ray wasn't the only one who felt something in the squeal.

"... Phew"

A breath of relief is exhaled from Ray's mouth as he looks at the warehouse.

Given Seto's ringing voice, what we were looking for in the warehouse... because we were certain there were Slapenil shoes.

You must have noticed that Ray's atmosphere had softened. Galahat and Mult felt their bodies lose strength so much that they could not even understand themselves.

But... unlike other faces like that, it's Corliss who gets nervous to see how Ray is doing.

If Ray had a stolen magic item before we were on our way... that would mean more suspicion about ourselves.

While I think about it that way, the line keeps going, and eventually I arrive at the warehouse.

Inside the warehouse was Corliss' carriage.

You're in the stables to rest your body. There's no horse figure, but that's not the problem right now.

"Seto"

"Grrrrrrrr"

To Ray's words, you immediately figured out what you wanted to say. Seto approaches the carriage with his throat rattling.

In a warehouse with no one...... outside the spring sun is warm and pouring, but inside the warehouse it cools slightly.

Seto approached the carriage in such a way... as he walked around it, smelling the smell of the carriage by sharpening his originally sharp sense of smell more sharply due to his increased olfactory skills.

The Rays, who entered the warehouse, just take a good look at Ceto like that.

that Seto walks around the carriage, for a few minutes...... eventually Seto's movement stops on the left side of the carriage.

Finally. As everyone, including Ray, watched with that thought, the next action Seto took was unexpected for the Rays who watched.

Because Seto thought he was going to stick his face in the carrier or somewhere... he just stuck his face in the vicinity where there was an axle.

Naturally, there is not as much clearance under the carriage… one side is lifted due to Seto sticking his neck in.

Until a few seconds ago, I was worried about my life, Corliss, but when I saw that if I did poorly, the carriage would be rolled over, it was the merchant who got upset, but the reason why?

Everyone, including Corliss, watches the sight with breath as to when the carriage will roll over.

But... fortunately, the carriage never rolled over when Seto showed his face from under the carriage.

He was shaking hard, but Corliss exhales in relief when he sees a carriage like that. And...

"Ray, that!

"... oh"

The direction indicated by Vihera...... in other words, Ray relieves himself from the bottom of his heart when he sees Seto's couché hanging on to something.

Because what Seto was wearing was a pair of Slapenil shoes that looked familiar to Ray.

Nothing in particular seems to have changed from a distance to the split that it was reinforced using silver lion material... nevertheless, it was an unmistakable fact that Seto's token was a Slapenil shoe.

"Hmm, it looks like Seto's got something on him."

"It will."

"But... isn't it strange to hide it under the carriage, anyway, if you're hiding it in the carriage? So safe now, but no wonder I dropped those shoes whenever the carriage was running"

Galahat's words were the unmistakable truth.

In fact, this is how Seto lightly - although the carriage was about to roll over due to the size of his body - although he could have taken it out, it's not strange when the Slapenil shoes that were hidden on the underside of the carriage would have fallen to the ground if he had normally traveled around the city and out of the city.

Do you commit the danger that you might be hostile to Ray and hide the magic items you get with it in such a place?

If you ask me that, I would say no if I were normal.

Of course it is possible that the magic item stolen from Azimov was not known to be Ray's possession.

(No, don't you)

Ray immediately dismissed the idea of a moment past the back of his brain.

There were several magic items in Azimov's lab besides the Slapenil shoes Ray kept.

That's the only magic item you could play and live with for a few years if you sold it, and it was rolling around appropriately.

In that, I imitated only Ray's Slaypnil shoes as I aimed, so I'm pretty sure that wasn't the proper robbery, but the robbery aimed at Ray's Slaypnil shoes from the beginning, he said.

"Because... is Corliss the average person involved in this case after all?

"Right.... but then there will be another new problem. Why did you purposefully steal Slapenil's shoes from Corliss' carriage? Is that under the carriage, too? No wonder he fell on his way to this mansion."

To Ray's words, Vihella speaks the question.

In fact, the question was true.

Slapenil shoes with ceto on them are quite expensive magic items.

Furthermore, Ray's Slapenil shoes were the work of the legendary alchemist Esta Knoll, and that was not a strange substitute for being traded in light gold coins if you put them where you put them.

Hiding such a substitute in a place where it doesn't matter when or where it disappears becomes a reaction that you don't have to think about Corliss' character.

"For once I ask, there was a place under the carriage where people would hide things that would be troubling if they saw something... or something, right?

"No!

To Ray's words, Corliss immediately denies it.

I definitely wanted to avoid another suspicious imitation here, even though my suspicions might finally clear up.

"If it's anything, you can check under the carriage."

That's what I'm saying, so I thought it was probably true Ray, but Galahat told me to check with Ray's eyes just in case, and I peek under the carriage.

Ray also understood that when this act happened later, there was actually a place to hide it… and that it was meant to prevent it from appearing so.

Still, I honestly followed Galahat's suggestion because Ray also decided that I should take a look at it myself for once.

In the end there was no such trick under the carriage, though it just turned out that it really wasn't surprising when Slapenil's shoes fell off.

"... when this happens, Corliss is likely to have been used by someone."

Galahat groans with a difficult look as he sees Seto give Ray the Slapenil shoes he was wearing.

It was also fortunate for Galahat that the magic items no longer needed to be hostile to Ray than they were back in Ray's hands.

At the same time, however, the question of who imitated this has not yet been resolved.

I tried to antagonize Ray and the Azot Chamber of Commerce.

Galahat also understood that that would be the aim of this time... and most of those present here understood that if it were to be where they did it, they would not immediately be able to say where.

Though more powerful than before, the Azotto Chamber of Commerce joins the larger Chamber of Commerce among the guilds.

Only such Azot Chambers of Commerce have a number of opponents who are in conflict, who are hostile, who are buying resentment or rebellion.

Especially now that it's just spring, there are many merchants coming to Gilm besides adventurers.

Few merchants ever faced the Azot Chamber of Commerce in an attempt to purchase products specific to the border, and some of them even tried to trick the Azot Chamber of Commerce into dealing with them.

With that in mind, Galahat cannot confidently shake his neck sideways if someone tells him if he has bought a grudge from a particular opponent.

"You've got a lot of interesting people to imitate."

With Sleipnil's shoes back, the anger and haste as initially did disappeared Ray, but I still haven't forgotten that he was hurt Azimov.

Not to mention, we got caught up in some merchant brawl that wouldn't have anything to do with us.

This can't be allowed to happen lightly.

"Ray, calm down. You can't help being angry here right now, can you? First of all, we need to find the person who set this up. If it's going to exude anger, then it's not too late, is it?

Vihera, who sees anger blow up from Ray's body at ease, calls out to calm him down.

Corliss, aside from Mult and... Ray, who was so angry that even Galahat, a former Rank B adventurer, accidentally stopped moving, once got angry with the words.