Legend

"Mr. Ray, are you there!

Ray, who was enjoying a slightly earlier dinner in the wheat pavilion dining room at dusk, turns his gaze to the entrance and exit of the dining room.

It's still a little early… Sometimes it's about 4: 00, and there are very few guests in the dining room.

If this were after another hour or two, many would come to this dining room for dinner.

… It is a guild where many people are not always gathered due to the massive increase in the city, but the number of people staying at the wheat pavilion this evening has not changed as much as before.

Naturally. This is an inn known among the guilds as a luxury lodging, because it is not very much for those who have to live that day, but they cannot stay.

In addition, the cafeteria is slightly more expensive than other shops, even more so because it is the policy of the inn to serve only the amount of alcohol necessary to enjoy the meal, and most of the people who work mainly in manual labor head to the noisy taverns where they drink.

Not everyone does, of course, and some people sometimes come to this dining room.

Either way, basically the wheat pavilion at dusk for such reasons was basically not the same as usual, even though it is now a period to be called an additional rush.

"Lenora? What's wrong?

The person who showed up in the dining room...... Marina, who was trying to reach for pizza, speaks to the receptionist of the guild familiar to Ray.

The pizza spread in the gilm is served in the dining room, even in the wheat pavilion at dusk, naturally.

I just don't have a choice in the location of the guilds, but the seafood pizza kind isn't on the menu.

If you provide the seafood in Ray's Mystering, you can make it.

"Oh, Master Marina came here, too.... Actually, I have an urgent request for Ray."

"I guess."

There have been several times before when people came from the guild to this inn to find Ray.

I've taken on urgent requests every time, so I can tell you this is already a patterned action for Ray.

Sometimes, the rewards of accepting the request are delicious, and I don't hate urgent requests at all.

"So, what's the request?

"Yes. Actually, they attacked the merchant squad that was carrying the materials used for the construction of the additions, and they took all of that material. The merchants and the survivors of the escort came to Gilm earlier and found out."

"... the materials? No, I'm surprised some guys are bandits at the border in the first place."

The border means that, naturally, various monsters… it also reveals itself in such a way that it does not appear in a normal place.

For a monster like that, bandits and merchants are only the same people.

It is the target of an attack and at the same time food. That's the subject.

More than that, it is not so easy for bandits to operate on the border.

Not to mention the fact that it's near a city where an armed adventurer named Gilm gathers, I didn't think a bandit could operate, although not very much.

However, there is no mistake that it is so fruitful.

"That bandit sniped the merchant squad... isn't it?

"I think so"

Lenora answers the marina's question.

That probably only meant confirmation for once.

In the first place, you don't have to raid near the guilds if you're going to target certain merchants.

If you attack Abu Ero away from Gilm, near Subrusta, you won't have to deal with Gilm's adventurers.

"... and then, after all, the bandits who were operating around Gilm? I don't get it."

"Well, either way now you can't help talking about that area. So, you're asking us to crusade the bandits?

"Yes, but only this time, he wants the main thing to be the recapture of the material that the bandits took from him"

"I see. Well, I guess so"

Basically, when a bandit is defeated, it is common for crusaders to take ownership of all treasures owned by that bandit.

It is left to the adventurer, of course, that the bandit has some kind of family heirloom, and that the house that had the family heirloom after it was reclaimed has negotiated to be bought, and does not respond accordingly.

But this request is to secure the material.

I would normally say that just the materials that are supposed to be my stuff...... but in Ray's case there is no particular problem.

In the first place, what do you want me to do if I make a large amount of material my own? That was the honest feeling.

Nothing makes Ray want to build a house more than staying at the wheat pavilion at dusk.

I'm not in trouble with the money, so I don't even want to sell the material to make it gold.

The capacity that Mystering can accommodate is nearly half infinite, so if you can get it, let's just get it...

"Ma, I know what's going on. I'm not too happy about the delay in the construction of the Gilm."

Ray is also moving a lot about this addition, but if there are so many people, there will naturally be people involved in Ray.

The deep red aliases are so widespread that no one is involved if Seto is there... although we mostly act together, it doesn't mean that Ray and Seto are together all four or six times.

On top of that, it was only natural that if we brought more beauties such as Marina and Vihera, whether we could see them once in a lifetime, there would often be people involved who just came to the Guild and didn't know what was going on.

Of course, if the inhabitants of Gilm saw it, they would try to stop it, but not all of them would stop with it.

Ningro, being sheltered often exposes frustration.

In order to solve that situation as quickly as possible, it would still be better to end the construction of the gilm as soon as possible.

… Most of all, the construction of making Guild 50% more spacious from its current situation is not going to end in days, dozens of days, or months. It is almost certainly expected to take several years.

No, some people even publicly stated that it would take more than a decade.

So even if Ray works a little hard here, it doesn't affect him that way... but it was lucky for Ray to still be able to shorten the period, even a little.

"Then can you please!?

"Oh, I don't mind that. But... no clue or anything? Honestly, it's hard to find a bandit without a clue."

Unless you're walking in a place where there's nothing to swallow, and you're camping there, there's no way those who are bandits around the Guild are going to act out of the way.

Mountains, forests, forests... or caves.

I'm pretty sure you have an aside in such a place.

"From the merchants who have reported it once, we confirm the direction in which the bandits have left. Can't you do something about it?

"... no, that's just it... it would be a little hard to follow the smell. No, if it's from the raid site, can we go after it?

"Mmm!"

Ray looked a little lost, but Beaune, who had never listened to Lenora talk about such a ray before and stuffed her mouth full of dishes, raised her voice to that effect.

"Look, swallow all the things in your mouth before you do."

And was immediately noted by Vihera.

"So? What's Bühne saying?

Only Vihera can communicate fully with Bühne.

That's why Ray asks Vihera that as usual.

"I don't have to tell you. I think you can mostly predict.... Bühne said he was looking for the bandits."

"I see. Was Beaune able to do that lately, too?"

During the winter, we continued to do only combat training extensively, and that fighting power had become a little something. … of course, not far from the other faces of the Red Lotus Wings.

But Bühne's real job is only a bandit.

More than that, skills such as exploration, trap discovery, and reconnaissance are inherently important.

(Think about it, now Beaune is actually close to a warrior, not a bandit.... Well, I hope it's because I've never been over combat)

Think about it a little bit, there's Seto, and I'll decide if Beaune makes a few mistakes, I can handle it.

"Okay, so I'll leave it to Büne at first, and Seto if there's nothing I can do about it"

It is significant that even if Ray is slightly this way, he can afford it because it was the material that was stolen.

If they stole the kind of food, it would be gone if they could eat it.

However, it is unlikely that the material will soon disappear.

Of course, after some time, it could be sold off somewhere, so it's not like I can afford that much.

(Even so, what are bandits after materials? Even for sale...... yeah)

Thought and wondered, Ray asks Lenora.

"What is the stolen material... exactly how much is it?

Five cars in a carriage.

"It's quite a lot, but it's not like it's a lot."

If that's all the material, if you want to sell it, you can sell it so that your legs don't stick.

Or you don't have to sell everything at once, even if you sell it.

All you have to do is split it it up little by little and sell it that way.

"It's going to take a lot of time to whichever way you go."

"Right. But the merchant asked me to get the materials back as soon as possible."

"... yeah? Not guilds or knights or that way, but a request from a merchant?

Marina, who was listening to Ray and Lenora, asks just a little strangely.

Lenora nods at such marina questions.

"Yes, because it was still before I handed over the materials..."

"Oh, I see. That's the deal."

Just Lenora's words, Marina nods as convinced.

Ray had a few doubts about how Lenora was doing like that, but decided he wouldn't have to say anything in particular and get ready to leave quickly... before quickly putting the dish on the table in his belly.

Marina and Vihera just smile small that it's the usual thing to do with Ray's attitude like that.

Thanks to Biune's help with Ray as well, everything that was on the table disappears after a few minutes.

I would have liked to have tasted and eaten more if I could, while finishing the payment.

The marina was in a party dress, as usual, so I finished dressing with the clothes that Ray kept in Vihera's room while she was making the payment.

"The place that was raided is fine where you just heard it, right?

"Yes."

While Ray and Büne were cleaning up the dishes, Marina asks Lenora if she was asking where she had been raided by bandits and if there was any mistake in that place.

Seeing Lenora nodding at it, the four take Seto from the stables straight out into the city.

It's already about 4: 00 in the afternoon, and it's about time some of the people who are done with their work leave.

Sometimes early summer, the day is still high... but still, there are many who look at the tiredness of working long hours on their faces.

Especially those who came to Gilm as manual workers, even though they sandwiched a break along the way, were torturing the flesh all day, so I guess there's quite a bit of fatigue in that too.

Of course, it's not just the tired who are in the city.

Those who come shopping to prepare dinner are also busily negotiating discounts.

"When you look at it like this, it's busy."

"Right."

Ray looks around with Seto as he hears Marina and Vihera exchanging words each.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

To the good smell of the dish that flows, Seto rings his throat when he's hungry.

The Rays ate at the wheat pavilion at dusk, but unfortunately Seto hadn't eaten yet.

With that in mind, it would also be natural for Seto to claim to be hungry.

"Uh... right. You want to buy that sandwich too? Once the bandit thing is solved, I'll feed you plenty, so be patient a little longer."

"Gru......"

To Ray's words, Seto sounds his throat sadly.

Besides, if I bought a sandwich and gave it to Seto, I'd be happy to squeal my throat right away.

After seeing Seto settle down a little that way, Ray heads towards the main gate again.

Sometimes it's only about 4: 00, and you don't have to worry about the main entrance closing.

There are also many who are now coming with the addition of guilds, which sometimes means that the time for the main entrance to close is significantly slower.

... Even as Ray and the others tried to get out of the guild, they could still see who was going through the process to get into the guild.

"Hmm? Oh, Ray. I'm listening. Bandits? Be careful."

Was it from the guild... or was it from the Lords' Hall because it had to do with the additions, and all the faces except Ray, who didn't need the procedure, left the guild quickly after the procedure.