Legend

It was Galahat trying to get the guards inside the mansion for an explanation, but one carriage comes when we try to decide to talk.

It was a carriage that came at considerable speeds, but I guess it was unexpected that nothing particularly disturbed in front of the mansion in Galahat. The guards come down from the carriage, trying to be a little confused.

And the last time I saw Marina coming down, the Rays were surprised and convinced.

It was Ray who originally asked me to inform the guards about Azimov.

"Looks like you're safe."

Such a marina squeaks like relieved as she looks at Ray's face...... and all the other faces.

I thought Ray would have no problem, but maybe it wasn't surprising that Galahat's mansion and the surrounding area were burned.

Ray asks Marina how calm she is, without even noticing how worried she is about the marina.

"So, what about Azimov?

"It's no problem. Originally, the injury was recovered from Ray's potion, right? I left it at the clinic, and then the guards picked it up and slept in the jar."

"... right"

Ray exhales in relief while trying not to put it on his expression.

Most of all, since he is wearing a hood, few people would have been able to see Ray's expression like that.

Seeing how Ray is like that, Marina finds out.

That Ray's shoes are not what I saw this morning.

"Ray, you got Slapenil's shoes back, didn't you?

"Oh.... I don't know who it is, but there's this guy who imitated me for a joke"

"Let's talk about it in the mansion for now. There are things that people don't want to hear."

Each of the Rays nods at the words of Galahat, who tells him so.

The aristocratic private soldiers and adventurers who came here to find out what was going on wanted to hear the story too... but in fact they couldn't get it through any more than they had nothing to do with this one.

Still, the guard finally returns to adulthood when he tells me he will explain the general circumstances later.

"This is a good place. You guys go back to the jar."

When one of the guards tells him so, the guards who came in the carriage nod honestly.

It wasn't strange to complain about the haste to get here, but the aristocratic neighborhood... and the fact that Gilm didn't have to be devastated made me feel safe for now.

That's how the Rays and the Galahats, one of the guards, enter the mansion.

Each of the others who stayed there also leaves.

"In the meantime, let's just say we talk at the mansion.... Corliss, that's fine with you, too?

Corliss snorted at the words he said to confirm... that everyone but Seto would enter the mansion.

"First, drink slowly. Unlike Ray just now, would you drink it?

Ray nods back to Galahat, who recommends tea, unlike earlier.

"Oh, let me have a drink."

Saying so, I carry the tea that Galahat's men prepared for me into my mouth.

When I first came to this mansion today, for Ray, Galahat was... and the Azot Chamber of Commerce was viewed as an alarming enemy.

In fact, however, it was clear that Corliss had been used by someone, and more than that, Ray also decided to see Corliss as the victim involved, not the enemy.

That's why I was drinking tea like this now.

"Nevertheless... I heard about Master Marina quitting Guildmaster, but it was true"

Galahat is also a former Rank B Adventurer.

He was Galahat, who also had experience meeting marinas as a high-ranking adventurer, but still acted as an adventurer dedicated to the Azot Chamber of Commerce, and the relationship was not always good.

The Azotto Chamber of Commerce in the time when Bornter was meeting, he was all sorts of imposing and tyrannical against the Alliance, so that would be natural, too.

That's why, as a burdened galahat, I'm really in a low position.

Well, that's only a private matter.

In public, the Marina must also cross in dignity as a meeting of the Azotto Chamber of Commerce.

"Heh heh, I'm not an Alliance Master anymore, and I don't need to be like you. I'm just an adventurer now. I partied with these three."

I was surprised to hear that Ray and I had a party, three of them: Galahat, Corliss and Mult.

The most surprising of these would still be Mult, an active adventurer.

"Whew, Ray said he threw a party... is that true!?

"No, is that so surprising?

"'Cause when you say Ray, you're famous for working solos without partying with anyone.... and with such beauty..."

I figured out what Mult wanted to say with that word. It was Ray, but I knew it would be pointless to say anything with the word, so I only return a bitter laugh.

I know what I think of my surroundings, and it's also true that it's never wrong.

Favor the two Marinas and Vihera...... no, they are loving me because Ray is also aware of it.

It's just that I have a little trouble getting Beaune into it.

For Ray, Beaune is close to treating her as a sister, not a woman.

"... Galahat doesn't look too surprised"

"Oh. Ray would have been with that Vihera for a while, wouldn't he? Looks like Beaune over there hasn't been around for a while, but he ended up rendezvous last year.... it was unexpected that Mr. Marina was joining the party."

To Ray's words, Galahat turns his gaze to the marina with a grin.

"Heh heh, the Alliance Master originally planned to give way to backwards in the near future. Thanks to Ray, it's just a little quicker."

"Really?

"Yeah. Now it's Rank B Party, part of the Red Lotus Wings. Tell Ray if you need anything. The party leader is Ray."

Mult is surprised again by that word.

It's true that Ray is most famous for having aliases and the presence of Seto.

But as far as Mult knows, Ray is not very much of a party leader personality.

I guess I noticed that mult's gaze. Ray exhales and opens his teasing mouth.

"I know what you think. Even I don't think I deserve a party leader. But for various reasons, I was the only one who could be a party leader."

Marina, a former guild master and current advisor, Vihera, a former Empress of the Bestia Empire, and Beaune, who has decided to leave the party in the near future.

When that happened, there was no other way for Ray to play party leader.

(With that said, you should tell Elaine as well.... I'm a little sorry to hear that in a pair of orbs)

There was a lot going on about Azimov's raid, but as a result, Azimov recovered from the wound in the potion and had no particular problem, and the stolen Slapenil shoes could be recovered in this way.

Thanks to this, the anger I initially had is much faded.

Most importantly, that's only the situation right now, and if you're bad... that's what I thought you needed to properly thank Azimov, who would have died if you were a little slower to use the potion, and who stole Slapenil's shoes, which are also important to Ray.

(Even so, I'm wearing Slapenil shoes as-is, and I don't have any particular problems with them... they're really complete with the improvements, are they? When Azimov's consciousness returns, should we listen to it properly later)

It is true that Ray was called to Azimov because the improvements are over.

I don't know if that would be a problem given, but I can't deny the possibility that Azimov was making the final adjustment to Slapenil's shoes when they were raided.

I would also normally consider the possibility that he was strangely crafted by Slapenil's shoes, but Ray wasn't worried about that one.

Originally Slapenil shoes are a substitute made by Esta Knoll and not like how amateurs can give a little bit.

No, I didn't think even a full-time alchemist could manage that in that short time.

Still, just in case Azimov sees it properly.

"... well, let's get the public discourse around here and get down to business"

The words of the marina change the expression of those who were there.... Although only Büne still didn't look particularly different and enjoyed the flavour of the fruit served with tea on the table.

"Right. So, which way do you want to start?

To Ray's words to say so, Marina opens her mouth with a little thought.

"Can you do me a favor from the Rays? I have a few things to share with you, but I'd like to hear them first."

"We followed Seto after the smell, and so we arrived at this mansion. So, when I called Galahat, I heard that Corliss was here just before we arrived, and Mult called me."

The gaze of those who were in the room at the words is directed at Corliss.

The person who was gazed at had a slightly sorry look on his face.

As a merchant, I suppose you find it all kinds of impudent that you were imitated so that you could hide what was stolen from your carriage.

You cared about Corliss like that, Ray quickly opens his mouth again.

"Corliss himself seemed to know absolutely nothing, so I thought something was wrong and got Seto to follow the smell... it was Corliss' carriage that had that smell. On the underside of the carriage, too, there was a pair of Slapenil shoes to be hidden. I don't know what means I used, but I couldn't keep up with the smell any more."

"... I see"

In Ray's explanation, Marina was convinced of the words of those who had come into contact with her.

Trying to get Ray and the Azotto Chamber of Commerce to fight each other took the form that the words he was saying proved to be.

It's obviously too suspicious to follow the smell afterwards, especially when he didn't look like he obviously cared about the smell until he hid Slapenil's shoes in Corliss' carriage.

(Most likely it's one of those consciousness manipulations that directs our consciousness the way we think it is when we think about the person who has communicated that information)

If it had always been, I would have trusted their words more.

But what I couldn't do is still have the creeps of the person I've been in contact with.

Person as if he had shaped the word mediocre as it was.

So while you're at it, someone who obviously doesn't have the discomfort of a normal human being.

"How'd it go with the marina?

To Ray's words, the Azotto Chamber of Commerce, starting with Galahat, also turn an interesting gaze to the marina.

What Ray was saying was what the people at the Azot Chamber of Commerce actually went through.

In contrast, the information Marina had was completely unknown.

This is why an interesting gaze is now directed at the marina.

With such a gaze on her, the marina opens her mouth.

"First of all, Azimov has Ray recovered from the potion, and now he's in the guard's quarters, so you can assume he's safe as long as you don't have to."

It was the Rays who had heard the story from the marina in advance, but I still feel relieved when they say it again like this.

"So, the key piece of information... after I told the guards about the situation, I was also looking for some information on my own. Then a strange opponent comes into contact."

That's how Marina talks about what the person told her.

It was done by hitting the Azot Chamber of Commerce and the Rays, he said.

In itself, Ray and Galahat naturally understood as well.

But the question is, who set it up?

Asked so, Marina shook her head to the side.

"Unfortunately, I couldn't go after him. Just as I was talking to them, I heard about Rays entering the aristocracy. I disappeared into the crowd while I was receiving the news."

"When the guards come..."

Couldn't you get him?

To Galahat's words asking so, Marina shakes her neck to the side.

"The guards didn't come directly to inform me, they asked me to let them know if anything happened with spiritual magic."

"... Spirit magic is convenient."

It was a stingy, grunting galahat, but I was informed that only a handful of the spiritual magicians could actually imitate it, and once again, the Rays...... sighed at the substandard ability of the face of the Red Lotus Wings.