Legend

"Welcome"

Once inside the inn, the Rays are greeted by such a voice.

As a matter of course, Seto is unable to enter the inn, so he is falling asleep outside the inn as usual.

However, it also helps to keep an eye out for Precious and the others who found out Rays was here.

"... you're not here"

Ray glances inside the inn as he listens to the clerk.

The first floor was typically made of a dining room and the second and third floors were inns, but as far as the place inside the store is concerned, there is nowhere for Ray to find the person he is looking for.

On the couch provided for the rendezvous, in the slightly visible dining room, and on the stairs leading up... nowhere is Ray looking for him.

"Sir, I hope you don't mind if I don't stay"

That's what the clerk calls Ray looking around the inn.

You naturally know who you're talking to.

Only the upscale lodging clerk hasn't imitated his failure to gather information about the Guild.

Even if you look at Ray wearing a dragon robe hood, of course, few people realize it's Ray.

However, if Ray and I are worn thin clothes like dancers and hookers, and are worn with armor and toenails, there is no way we can identify Ray.

... Note that Bühne is quite neat on the outside, but still has an inferior impression compared to a beautiful woman like Vihera.

Knowing myself to be Ray and still not changing my attitude like this was enough to make Ray like me.

"Precious, there's a merchant staying. I want you to keep in touch."

The clerk wonders for a moment what to do with Ray's words telling him so.

What if this is what you're staying for? If you had asked me how things were going, I would have replied that I would not be able to answer such a thing as an innkeeper.

This inn focuses on security and is often accommodated by a variety of translators.

That's why the clerk would have answered that if he had questioned it.

But Ray is different now.

Obviously, I've been asking after I realized that Precious is here.

I mean, I was originally making a promise, so I thought this is how you've been asking.

If naturally someone asks in advance only about the inn selling security, the rule is to tell the inn that.

But, naturally, everyone can't follow the rules, and it's not so unusual to have unheard of guests in advance.

Not to mention, if it was a celebrity like Ray, it was a possible story that the inn would not be informed that the trouble of explaining it with knowledge.

... In fact, it's not natural that Ray made a promise to Precious.

However, it was true that because Seto had guided us here, Precious here... was convinced that there should be someone who gave Kana a white gold coin to be exact.

And... when the innkeeper quickly sums up his thoughts in his head, he eventually gives a deep salute.

"Excuse me, but I'm going to ask Master Precious. Could you please wait here for a while?

"... I'd like you to come through as soon as you can."

The clerk once again gives thanks for Ray's slightly dissatisfied appearance.

"Sorry, it's the rules of this inn"

"Can't help it, huh? Oh, okay. Do that."

When he squeals like that, the clerk goes upstairs when he exchanges words briefly with another clerk who was nearby.

Having dropped it off, Ray sits on the couch, a short distance from the counter, with both Vihera and Büne.

"Are you sure? If you find out we're here, you might get away with it, right?

"I don't know. I don't think we're involved in the attack on Tris' escort. Then I don't think you need to worry about that area. And even if you run away..."

Once the word was cut, Ray's gaze was directed at the door leading outside.

Precisely, it was Seto, who would be ahead of him.

For Seto, whose five senses are very sharp, including his sense of smell, it's not a hard story to find, even if someone sneaks out of the inn.

If that happens, it means I ran away because there's something guilty about Precious, and that's even deadly.

If Precious had known that the Rays had come here, he wouldn't have bothered to do such an imitation.

'Cause Seto's here.

With complete trust, Ray puts it in his mouth.

Vihera and Bühne, who had heard it, felt once again how much Ray trusted Seto, and could not speak out of disagreement.

And the surroundings are surrounded by silence.

Of course, the Rays are the only ones who are silent, and from then on I hear a lot of voices.

Some people are eating in the dining room, you can hear some noise from there, and from outside the inn you can hear people like the passers-by talking.

There is also the appearance of two caution sticks on the side of the counter that exceed two m and cover the body with muscle.

(It just looks like it, right)

That was Ray's feeling when he saw the baton.

So-called muscles to show off to your opponent, not the muscles you have acquired in battle.

In Ray's opinion, something like bodybuilder muscles.

I guess they have more power than ordinary people who normally live in the city, but they are not enemies to their opponents with more than some strength.

It also means, on the contrary, that it is sufficiently effective as a deterrent against an opponent who has only a certain ability or less.

I guess both of those caution sticks understand that we can't win no matter how we scratch ourselves in front of the Rays.

I was terribly nervous the first time Ray said he wanted to see Precious.

Beyond being a caution stick, if your employer's innkeeper told you to get rid of the Rays, you can't get away with it first.

That's why it was very gratifying that the Inn employees listened to the Rays so dearly.

... The two caution sticks, gazed at by such a ray, keep silence in a way that doesn't put them to words but doesn't calm them down.

It didn't feel good to be watched closely by our own unwinning opponents no matter how we scratched them.

The time that forced tension for the two caution sticks lasted until the innkeeper, who had just gone upstairs, returned.

That's why the two caution sticks who heard the footsteps coming down the stairs don't put it on their expressions but reassure them from the bottom of their minds.

"Thank you for waiting. Master Precious will see you, please come here."

Ray still shows how convinced he was that he didn't get away with the words coming out of the employee's mouth.

Maybe...... I really didn't know you might get away with it, but I guess that's how you decided that staying here and running would only be negative for you.

"Oh, well... let's go"

"Right."

"Mmm."

Vihera and Buune nod at Ray's words and follow the innkeeper up the stairs.

There was only a luxury inn among the guilds, the interior of which was quite calm...... a worthy substitute to describe as elegant.

At first it was Ray who also thought he was senselessly luxurious decorating, but I should say that that was unexpected in a good way there.

Besides, the evening wheat pavilion where Ray is staying is also known among the guilds as a luxury inn.

Neither the wheat pavilion at that evening nor the interior feels calm or flashy.

Of course not all of the luxury inns are like that, and some of them are flashy.

I guess the neighborhood is tailored to the tastes of the users.

That's how the Rays, who went upstairs, were guided in a room some distance from the stairs.

"Excuse me. Dear Precious, We have brought you."

"Oh, come in, please"

To the words, the innkeeper opens the door… and waits in the hallway.

My role is only to this end. I guess that's what this is about.

The Rays who perceived it also enter the room without saying anything more.

Compared to the room Ray uses at the wheat pavilion at dusk, a room nearly triple the size of...... no.

(But that doesn't extend to the wheat pavilion at dusk when it means the adequacy of the magic items)

Spacious rooms, but not so many magic items.

It would be different from the evening wheat pavilion where guests are looking to make it a little more comfortable around here.

"You know exactly where I live."

"There's a lot of handouts over here."

Ray looks around the room as he answers Precious.

Rooms are large, but what's there is nothing like a bed, a tan, or a simple kitchen, especially a regular inn.

The only difference between a large desk that might also be used for Precious's sitting executive desk and an evening wheat pavilion where Ray is staying around where there are several couches?

And there's about five escorts on Precious's side.

One of them is the guy I've seen in Slam Street before... who supposedly hired Kana to make him attack Tris.

(I didn't know you were really running away)

I was thinking about it a lot, but it was only a little unexpected that I was here without running away.

"Well, I definitely want you to tell me that handover. Anyway, I don't have that many handouts in the Guild... and I'm having a lot of trouble. Well, let's just say that. What can I do for you today? I was a little surprised that he came all of a sudden without a promise."

Ray nods back to Precious's words as he quickly gets to the point and asks.

"Right. I'm busy too. Then let me get to the point.... Do you know that today, a branch of the Spiel Chamber of Commerce was attacked and Tris was targeted by an assassin?

"Yeah. I was worried about the matter because I look like this too and I'm from the Spiel Chamber of Commerce. To be honest, you really wonder if I can leave it to him."

"I see."

Ray is convinced by the words coming out of Precious's mouth.

It was probably some kind of restraint against Tris that caused him to attack Tris' escort.

But at the same time, being raided by the store is a huge damage to Tris... no, if he's a merchant.

I wonder if it was this raid aimed at that as well.

"What do you think of Mr. Ray? Think normally, if the store you are using is being attacked by someone… etc. Would you like to continue using the store?

"I don't know. Doesn't it depend on his convenience around here? If you only have products that are handled in that store, you have to use that store."

I understood what Precious was trying to say, Ray, but he doesn't actually speak any more.

Vihera next to Ray and Büne behind that Vihera will also understand that this is Ray's turn. I don't see any particular way to say anything.

"Really? Only a high-ranking adventurer, and Mr. Ray is rigid.... Well, there's no reason to stay on the couch to talk about it."

"No, you can stay like this. There are so many troublesome circumstances between me and you. If you think about it, there's no reason to sit on the couch and talk slowly."

"No, I don't think there's anything very troublesome going on between me and Ray."

"Hmm? If that's what you think, I'm glad to hear it this way. Then it would be helpful if you would listen to my request at that rate."

"Please, sir?... To be honest, I don't think Ray has a product that would satisfy me right now."

Is it because Precious is still a merchant?

A little sharp dwells in Ray's eyes.

The current situation in Precious is not very good.

The person he was working with in the back society was also cut off from Precious as soon as he heard about his hostility with Ray.

In other words, Precious today has very little freedom to fight.

There was nothing more I could do to manipulate the information than a few people to be pawns.

It would be natural to have slight hope because in such circumstances Ray comes and does himself a favor.

At the same time, there is a decision that one thing in the slam definitely makes me hostile to myself.

Precious with all sorts of complicated thoughts, but when Ray doesn't have anything to do with that, he slips his gaze...... he sees the person escorting him near Precious and opens his mouth.

I was hoping you could lend me that escort guy for a second.

Yes, I told you.