Legend

Let's go see what's going on in the woods today, just like yesterday.

That's what I thought, Ray, but the merging marina reveals her surprise by mouthing unexpected things.

"Uh, is that for real?

"Yes. Please take me with you. As a dark elf, I'm a little concerned about the state of the forest."

"... I see. Is that why you're dressed like that today"

Ray, smudged and gazed, is convinced why Marina, who is usually wearing a party dress, is rarely wearing pants.

Moving with Ray is… more precisely, we cannot travel on Ceto.

I don't know why, but Seto couldn't fly with anyone else on board besides Ray.

No, it's not exactly impossible, but that way you can barely fly.

I can imitate grabbing a bear's corpse with a ray on my forefoot and flying.

Taking advantage of such Ceto's properties, Vihera had previously grabbed onto Ceto's forefoot when there was an incident with Ambris to travel at high speeds with the Rays.

I guess the marina that found out about it thought of moving in a similar way.

However, the usual marina outfit...... if you imitate like that in a party dress, you will naturally see its inside from the ground.

As a marina, I can't imitate that I can show my underwear and grab it on Seto's feet with a party dress, beyond the idea that the person at the end of my gaze is the person.

As a result, the choice was to change the outfit from a party dress to something that was easy to move, including pants.

Of course, the garment is a kind of magic item made from the same magical fabric as a party dress.

For Ray, who is used to seeing his usual glossy party dress, the marina dressed in an easy-to-move outfit called trousers had a strange charm.

My upper body is not a dress either, so I dress close to a man, but I am thriving without being able to hide those huge double hills altogether.

I should say it's because I'm a man, I was emitting an unusual marina charm around me.

Marina must have noticed that from how Ray was doing, too. Open your mouth with a grin.

"What do you say? Don't you think these outfits would suit you, too?

"Oh. If you say it looks good or not, don't look good for sure"

When Ray honestly speaks his thoughts, Marina smiles happily.

Such a marina smile blinds passers-by who were walking around... but he doesn't look like he cared at all.

"Whatever the marina is, is Vihera good?

"Yeah. Even when we went yesterday, there wasn't a monster, was there? Then you'd better wait in the guild."

Ray is also convinced by the words of Vihera, who says so and snorts.

Now if there were many monsters in the woods, the story would have been different, but from what I saw yesterday, the monster figure did not exist.

There were stories of Trent being there, but there's quite little chance that even Seto could fight today if he went, than he couldn't even find what Trent looked like.

It's not strange to think you should have been amazing with Bühne rather than going to a place like that.

"Besides, it's not always possible for me and Marina to imitate what's going to happen to Seto's forefoot."

"No, I don't think that's gonna be a problem."

That's what I'm gonna say back Ray, but still, if you two are heavier than a bear, it's not a story... or anything like that.

Because Ray is as courteous as that, and most importantly, even the moment I thought about that, my spine got cold.

That's how I tried to finish the story, that's when...

"Mr. Ray, Mr. Ray! Wait a minute, please!

I hear voices like that.

Ray, who turned his gaze to those who heard him, saw Lenora running shaking her ponytail.

"Lenora?"

"Ha, ha, ha... good, you made it. Actually, it's an additional request from the Alliance Master. If you go to see how the forest is today, please cut down one tree that is… some thickness. Of course, there's an extra reward for this."

"... the tree? Why again?"

"No, I don't think so either..."

Answering that far, take a breath and Lenora opens her mouth again.

"I don't know the details because I was off yesterday, but I think maybe that forest anomaly has something to do with it.... What do you think? If you can... No, the Alliance Master wants you to take it whenever possible."

Please, can't you? Ray nods without any particular hesitation to Lenora, who asks.

"Oh, okay. One tree, right? If that's all right with you, I'll take care of it."

"... the only one who can say that is Ray"

Without mystering, one tree...... it would also be quite difficult to harvest trees with some thickness and bring them to the gilm.

Ray makes it easy for me to take this on.

(Besides, if that forest tree really was Trent... I don't think it's possible, but even if Seto's sensing abilities are deluded, he'd show himself if he were in a situation where he'd be cut down)

Ray believes in Seto's senses.

Even if it were a smaller, higher-ranked monster, it would still not be possible for a monster like Trent to slip through Seto's sensing abilities.

"In the meantime, I know about the tree. Don't worry, I'll hold on to it.... Bye, Seto, Marina. Let's go."

"Huh? Is Master Marina going too!?

Lenora gives a surprise look to Ray's words, which she also called to the marina.

But Marina nods back that there's nothing wrong with Lenora like that.

"Yeah, I still have a lot of questions about this one.... Well, I'm strong on that side"

If you say so, Lenora can't say anything more than Marina is a dark elf.

Also, as a guild, we still know very little about this one.

If a marina familiar with the woods says she can move on from herself and investigate, I don't even wish Ning Ro.

It will also be true that you have such thoughts.

At the same time, it's true that Lenora is worried about the Marina she respects.

"Really?... be careful."

All Lenora could do against the marina in the end was say so.

I guess I understood Lenora's thoughts like that. Marina strokes Lenora's head softly, not to worry.

That's about ten seconds later, and the marina opens her mouth towards Ray when she takes her hand off Lenora.

"Well, shall we go then"

"Oh. The logging of trees... well, with Death Size, you'll be able to do it fine, and I don't have anything in particular to prepare"

If you listen to the scum, you will undoubtedly turn your face bright red and angry.

What's the hardest part of the job of cutting a tree, because it's still not about cutting a tree, it's about carrying a cut tree.

It's not hard to imagine what you would think of it for Xu because you can store it in mysteries just by touching it with your hands and carry it with no weight or anything to do with it.

"Oh, yeah. Wait a minute, please."

On the back of Ray, Marina and Seto, who were about to head to the main entrance, Lenora calls out in a hurry.

That's how they and one...... and Lenora, who got the gaze of Vihera and Buune near Lenora, mouths what she forgot to talk about.

"It's the forest you're going to go to, but conveniently it's called the Trent Forest."

"Trent Forest?

Ray is the one who squeals strangely.

I guess this is how he speaks his doubts because he never actually went into the woods and found Trent, but Lenora nods back at Ray like that.

"Yes, we would need some kind of name for now, from the name so that it is easy to understand, to the forest of Trent where Mr. Sleisha was attacked. Of course I know Ray and the others weren't attacked in the woods yesterday... for now"

"Okay. Nothing. I'm not that far behind on names, either, and that's fine. Trent Forest."

Confirmed so, Ray heads to the main entrance with Marina and Seto.

Dropping off one with those two, Vihera returns to the inn with Büne, and Lenora returns to the guild as well.

Seto wings, Ray rides on its back, and a marina with a lifeline tied to his forefoot is grabbed.

Moving while grasping and hanging on Seto's forefoot required a high grip and strength, but the marina looked at the ground flying through the sky without looking particularly concerned.

"Marina, we're coming down."

"Yeah, all right."

Looking at the green carpet that spreads over the ground, the marina returns briefly to Ray's words heard from above Seto's back.

That's how Seto descends to the ground.

"... as far as I can tell, maybe the woods are spreading"

To Ray, who goes down from Seto and squeals to see what's going on around him, Seto rattles his throat and Marina looks right at the woods.

There's no point in having something of a standard, but it still looked like the forest was spreading from Ray's eyes.

The neighborhood will be clear if we head to where the Slesha and the others were camping.

"Marina, me and Seto are going into the woods, but what about the marina?

"... well, I'm coming too. I don't know exactly how to look from the outside."

"Don't you see?

"Yeah. I'm pretty sure this isn't a normal forest. But I don't think you'll know what happened to this forest until you get inside it."

Ray is also convinced that if that's what the dark elf marina says it is.

Most of all, even from Ray's eyes, the forest in front of him... the Trent forest is only uncomfortable.

The inability to hear anything like animals and insect ringing deserved to be called an anomaly as a forest.

"Seto, you... uh... what do we do?

"Grrrrrrrr? Grrrrrr!

Wouldn't it be difficult to move, given the size of the ceto, if you put it in the woods?

That's what I asked you, Ray, but Seto's fine! And, honking my throat.

In fact, I went into the woods yesterday as well, so I'm pretty sure it would be fine if I thought about it normally.

"Well, let's go."

This is how Ray enters the woods with Marina and Seto.

"... I knew you wouldn't hear an animal."

"Right. It's obviously unnatural.... and this tree..."

Nodding at Ray's words, Marina strokes the trunk of a tree growing gently nearby.

"It just seems like a regular tree trunk when I'm doing this, but it's definitely uncomfortable."

"In the first place, we talked about Sleisha being attacked by Trent, but this tree is a normal one, no matter where you look from. Not very much, but not Trent.... right?

"Gru."

To Ray's words, Seto rings his throat with that right.

In fact, even if Ray is touching it this way, it doesn't even look like he's attacking me at all... on the contrary, it doesn't even look like it moves slightly.

(What's going on? It's definitely Trent that Slasha and the others got attacked, right? So these growing trees aren't Trent or something? But... if it's not Trent and it's not a monster, does it grow so much?

Ray shrugs as he touches another tree trunk than Marina is touching, but you're only a normal tree, naturally.

"What do you think?

You could say I'm an expert in the woods. I was Ray asking Marina, but that Marina also gives me a difficult look and shakes her face to the side.

"I don't know. But it's true that less is not a normal Trent or anything like that."

To Marina's words, Ray once again sees the tree he's touching... and the trees around him.

The woods have just spread, but the trees that grow there are thin... not like the so-called young trees, but like a few adults holding hands and finally surrounding them.

A fine tree, even from the eyes of Ray, who grew up in the mountains, enough to know that he wouldn't grow this far in a few years or so.

(Well, there's magic and stuff here in Elgin... I guess this tree has something to do with monsters and stuff in the first place, so Japanese common sense doesn't work)

With that in mind, proceed to the site of the camp you saw the day before.

It should be taken for granted that Ray walks close to double the distance he walked yesterday and finally arrives at the camp.

"If you look at it like this, the woods are spreading."

Whimpering, Ray retrieves Death Size.

The marina had the arrow on her bow a little further away for when something happened.

Seto also makes sure that he can react as soon as something happens... and when he confirms it, Ray sheds magic on Death Size and wields it loudly.

"Ha!

A sharp flash ran to the trunk of the tree... at the next moment, the trunk was cut in the opposite direction from where the Rays were... No, the slashed tree fell.