Legend

The innkeeper returned to the inn as soon as he led the Rays to where the carriage was parked.

Even if it's just the Precious room, the guards will look into it, which means you need to calm down and explain the circumstances to the other guests staying at the inn.

I guess that's what happens when you can't afford to stay with the Rays in a situation where you don't have enough hands.

Most importantly, if Ray and the others weren't good at it, they wouldn't have done anything to imitate leaving the carriage alone until they were done checking it out.

The only reason employees allowed it was because some of the Rays looked like Marinas who had been guild masters until the other day, and Ray also had a certain amount of credibility as an alias adventurer.

Either way, Ray calls Seto looking around with interest after making sure the employee is gone.

"Seto, it's this carriage. Can you smell Precious?

"Grrrrrrrr...... Grrrr!

Face the carriage and try to check its smell before Seto rattles his throat.

What's there is the sentiment that it's okay.

Seeing such a ceto, Ray exhales in relief.

"Right, can we go after him? … so let's go after Precious soon."

"Ray, don't you have to tell the guards?

That's what Vihera asks, who was watching Ray and Seto interact, but Ray shakes his neck sideways.

"It's moving over there, and you should move over here. Besides, if you move with the rest of them, you're likely to get stuck."

If it's the face of the Red Lotus Wings, we've been amazing together during the winter, we've been training battles, and we can interact with each other somehow, even if it's not complete.

But I don't know anything about it like a guard there - in a combative sense - and when the opponent got in, there was a chance that the reaction would be delayed when it came to having trouble.

I guess Vihera understands that, too. It was only for once that I heard it, and there was nothing more to say.

"Then go.... Seto, don't ask me"

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto buzzes happily at Ray's words, leaving a place that can also be called a hangar.

There are several carriages around, each subtly different.

Ray found something interesting around there, but now it was better to catch up with Precious than that.

(Can I see it later in the hangar at the wheat pavilion at dusk?)

The wheat pavilion at dusk at the luxury inn, where the Rays are staying, naturally has more hangars to store the carriage than many merchants and adventurers use.

In the first place, the stables where Seto is usually located are also stables for horses carrying their carriages.

... Recently, thanks to Ray, who has settled the wheat pavilion at dusk, Seto has been treated like the Lord of the stables.

Together, if you're concerned about the carriage, you decide you should look at the wheat pavilion stuff at dusk later, and the Rays keep moving on to tracking Precious.

Seto, who was smelling the smell near the inn's entrance, would eventually have smelled Precious apart because of the smell drifting in the air. I don't see anything to get lost in, I walk out.

And the Rays follow Seto.

The guards were staring at the Rays like that with a complicated gaze, but the Rays were recieving that gaze without looking particularly concerned.

Note that the first guards scattered around the Inn have already been gathered inside the Inn to examine the rooms used by Precious and to ask other guests for information.

Some were checking the carriage to make sure the Rays came out.

(Good luck with that. We're free to move in that gap.)

Ray follows Seto as he looks at the inn behind him.

And walk for a while...

"Oh, I knew this was Slam Street."

The first thing I realized about it was, naturally, the marina with the longest life in Gilm in this.

That's how you understood it was Slam Street in the direction Seto was headed.

Except it's not the same way the Rays used to go to Slam Street.

I guess that's what Precious is thinking around here, trying to stir up the chaser at all.

"If it's Slam Street, even if it's outside Gilm, we can't get out of Seto's nose first."

As for Seto's sense of smell, Ray, who has a great deal of trust, whines proudly.

I stretched out my hand to stroke Seto's body, but I can pull my hand in if I shouldn't interfere with Seto chasing the smell.

In fact, it's a big deal that Ray can trust Ceto so far because Ceto has achieved so far in tracking using his sense of smell.

The level of olfactory ascension is still four and has not reached level five, where skills are greatly enhanced.

But still, thanks to his sharp sense of smell as the original griffon, he was performing adequately.

"Well, I wonder how far Precious is going to run. We can't escape any more than Giffnan has been captured. Because I'm done when I get caught..."

"Really? Seeing Ray take Giffnan, leaving the inn right away means you cut Giffnan off, right? Then maybe Giffnan's gonna decide for herself and insist she did it herself?

That's what Vihera tells Marina to say, but Marina, who was listening to it, shakes her neck to the side.

"Vihera would know if she was a former princess, too, wouldn't she? My boss is also coming to me for my men's failures. Not to mention, Giffnan's not an adventurer affiliated with the Spiel Chamber of Commerce, he's an adventurer that Precious privately hired, right? Then there's no escaping that responsibility."

"... hmm. You're in a lot of trouble."

Seto follows the smell of Precious well while we have that conversation, and eventually the Rays line into the slums.

"Well, it should be time to catch up... so you guys came out, huh?

Into the slums, about enough...... Ray takes Death Size and Dusk Spears out of Mystering and sets them up, Marina puts an arrow on the bow, Vihera takes up the fighting setup, and Büne sets up a white cloud.

Appearing before such a line were familiar faces to the Rays as well... yes, the Precious escorts.

"... I didn't expect to get here so soon. I'm glad you're going home like this, but you're not supposed to say that and ask. But there's no way we're going through this."

I guess he's a leader among the escorts. A man in his thirties squeals with a long sword.

What's on that look is a bitter look.

We don't think we can fight and beat the Rays.

But still, we need to buy ourselves some time here to help Precious.

(Well, even if we buy time here, I don't know how much distance Mr. Precious can get away with that.)

After Giffnan was taken to Ray, Precious decided to leave the inn after being a little lost.

That's how it came, Slam Street, but I didn't expect Ray to come after us so soon.

It was in the form of a tribute that some of the lay people in Slam City promised to tell me when the one who brought the Griffon arrived.

Still, the escorts who thus stood in front of Ray are close to the situation where they are finally standing by managing to push and kill the fear that lies within them.

"He's aware that standing in front of us like that means Precious is guilty, too. … the more you get in the way of capturing him, the more serious Precious's sins will be."

"... that's what they say, and you can't say yes. Unfortunately."

A man screams as he firmly focuses on his arm so that the long sword in his hand does not tremble.

"Right. … then let me deal with it accordingly."

With that said, Ray had no intention of killing those in front of him.

No, Ning Lo, I know you're definitely my unwinnable opponent, and on top of that, I'm trying to fight myself for Sang Precious.

That loyalty was preferable even from Ray's eyes.

... but that's why Ray wasn't nice enough to go along with it.

I have a fondness for the presence of those in front of me, but the option of missing Precious here does not exist.

"Well... go"

The word signals the opening of the war, and the Red Lotus Wings launch an attack.

Ray leaves the Death Size and Dusk Spear standing, out front.

That's how the distance between them and the leader man of the escorts shrinks, and the moment they wave the long sword over there, they jump and dodge that blow.

At the same time activate Slapenil's shoes and land behind the man as he kicks in the air.

He wields a death-size pattern as he turns around, snapping away a man's legs.

I didn't change the movement of turning around, striking a man with a twilight spear pattern who was about to be swept under his feet and rolled to the ground.

That's it, the man blows up about a few meters directly beside him and hits the building, collapsing to the ground.

The shock of hitting the wall from my back had completely deprived me of consciousness, but I guess that was natural given Ray and the man's difference in strength.

Having taken consciousness, but confirmed that he had not taken his life, Ray turns his gaze to other fights.

Vihera knocks down about three escorts as she dances, and Marina uses spiritual magic to take consciousness as she tows with her bow.

Only Büne was somewhat struggling, even with white clouds, over there and in some cases with quite an arm, but still eventually throws a clear long needle to create a gap, where he buries a blow from the pattern of white clouds in his opponent's dovetail to take consciousness away.

When I was in Seto, I was waving a blow while doing the hands-down to avoid killing my opponent, lightly depriving him of consciousness.

… it has not taken three minutes for all fights to be over.

The longest battle was still the weakest of Red Lotus wings, Bhune.

"Yeah, you didn't kill them all.... Well, then Ceto. Follow Precious again? You don't think they can do anything about us. Because maybe he's already on the run."

"Given the battle time, I doubt how far you can get away with that in that short time. Except if it's a horse, the carriage stayed in the inn."

Biune nods at the words of Vihera.

Ray and Marina also agreed with that opinion, but we can't deny the possibility that they still have some means of escape.

Then it would be better to just catch him before he goes into bad behavior.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Well, I'll be there! and Seto goes on through Slam Street with his throat rattling.

And then the Rays disappeared... eventually they decided this place was safe. Residents of Slam Street show up to take weapons, armor, clothes... and things like gold and jewels if they have them from their unconscious escorts.

And I'm getting closer to the unconscious guys...

"Hey."

Losing consciousness... No, the man who should have been there opens his mouth and the slum city dwellers stop moving in that voice.

What the residents of Slam Street were mistaken about was that the Precious escorts originally stood on their arms, even though they were kicked in the wings of the Red Lotus.

I can only say that this time I'm seeing this because they were purely bad.

In addition, there were not as many injuries as there were in such a way of losing, and there were still enough physically… there were only a few left to fight against those in front of them.

The inhabitants of Slam Street stopped moving unexpectedly to the voices of such men, and when they understood my differences in strength, they left as they were.

While I dropped that off, the man was going to figure out what to do... what to do after Precious was captured.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Run through the slums as Seto throats.

That speed is clearly faster than when you're outside Slam Street.

I guess that's all the distance you're getting from Precious is proof that you're getting closer.

That was how the Rays proceeded to be led by Seto... whose movement stops in front of one building - but rather old - unexpectedly.

"Right here?

"Gru."

To Ray's short word, Seto leaks a similarly short squeal.

If you saw Ceto squeaking for sure, neither did the Rays imitate it suspiciously.

"Let's go."

"Yes."

Ray and Vihera exchanged words briefly and the marina and Bühne nodded silently as well.

Seto can't go inside, so he's naturally watching if Precious won't escape outside the building.

That's how the Rays enter the building... unexpectedly, Precious greets them somewhere calm.

Given how he escaped from the inn, the couch where Precious is sitting is not something he brought in, but something that would have been here from the beginning.

"You surprise me. I thought you were already on the run when you dropped the escorts over here."

"... unfortunately, I don't think I can get away from Mr. Ray alone."

Thus, when he realized that he could not escape, Precious was finally caught without resistance.