Legend

Since he has come to the Lords' Hall many times before, Seto breaks up with the Rays and heads to the garden, as he is already accustomed to.

And the Rays were being guided to the office by a maid serving Dusker.

"There's a lot of people here too."

The number of people walking down the hall is very different from when Ray came before.

(Maybe try not to put too many people in the building and replace them when they come out and there are other merchants in there)

Somehow walking down the hallway watching the surroundings, a maid looks back at Ray like that and opens her mouth with a grin.

"Now, as every day, merchants are coming. That's what the Chamber of Commerce like you've never even heard of a name in the Guild, or vice versa, like anyone has ever heard of a name... those merchants."

"I guess."

With so many people gathered, it was only natural that all sorts of people were coming, from large chambers of commerce to merchants working individually.

(Still, I'm guessing it's the ones who weren't originally chosen to do this addition...)

At the end of Ray's gaze thinking that way, several merchants looked at the Rays and opened their eyes to surprise.

If Seto was there, he'd be able to point his gaze at you, but only now were Marina and Vihera the two people collecting his gaze.

Though Ray and the child Beaune, wearing a dragon robe hood, can be gazed at... Again, they don't draw that much attention.

(Ma, given what these two look like, I'm sure it's natural)

A person dressed in thin clothes who looks like a whore or dancer in a dark elf that is not quite as numerous, even if it is a guild gathered by one or many.

Not to mention the beauty of seeing both of them once in a lifetime, so there was no reason not to draw attention.

Most importantly, such a gaze is the usual for Marina and Vihera, so I don't see how I particularly cared.

The maid guiding the Rays is only a little surprised and admired to see how those two are doing and leads them toward the office.

There were also several merchants who tried to speak up towards the marina and Vihera, all of whom were unable to speak out of the atmosphere emanating from them.

That's how the Rays arrived in Dusker's office without anyone being able to speak to them after all...

"Don't be ridiculous, you idiot! I wonder if you really think such a plan would be acceptable!

The moment the maid reaches out to knock on the door she deserves to be judged a work of art, I hear such a yell from inside the office.

Something's wrong.

Ray and Marina, Vihera exchanges her gaze with that thought.

... Although Bühne was still looking at the door in silence without changing his expression.

And less than ten seconds after I heard the yelling, a mid twenties man merchant came out of the office.

No, you'd be right to describe it as either running away.

He opens the door ramblingly and runs away straight in front of the Rays.

That look is exactly what you should call desperate, and if you stay in the clerk's office for the most part like this, you'll be killed... even that thought came to your face.

But the maid doesn't seem to have noticed anything about such a man, and calls out into the office.

"Excuse me, sir. We've brought Ray and the others."

"... oh, come in"

To that voice I heard, the maid puts the Rays through the office.

That's how the Rays who went inside the office saw Dusker with a grumpy look on his face.

I'm pretty sure the cause of the grump has something to do with the yelling I heard earlier.

(I thought you were an eye-catching merchant here... apparently some guys say things that piss them off even if you're eye-catching.... naturally if you think about it)

Looking at Dusker, Ray thinks so, being careful not to put it on his face.

"Dear Dusker, I heard you were calling in your guild?

"Oh, yeah.... Sit down anyway. I can't even talk to him if he stays standing. Hey, get me something to pick up properly."

"Yes."

The maid praises Dusker's words and leaves the room.

As such, Dusker also moves from a desk with several piles of paperwork to a sofa for visitors.

"You've been angry a long time, haven't you?

Predicting everyone sat on the couch, Marina asks Dusker.

If you were a Dusker's man, you wouldn't want to speak up to an angry Dusker like you are now.

But for Marina, the Dusker is like a handful of disciples.

Or something like that I used to play with you when you were little......

That's why even if the tough-faced Dusker looks grumpy, he can thus speak up lightly.

Dusker also opens his mouth still in a grumpy manner, without being particularly angry at how the marina is doing.

"Oh, come up with a suggestion to reduce the quality of the materials used for the construction by one step… or two."

"... that would make me angry"

If this were not the border, the proposal would have been open to consideration.

Of course, in places like ordinary villages and cities, you don't get out of hand with materials when building more.

Because there are monsters, not even around the guilds, and most importantly, people, not monsters... to prepare for banditry is unacceptable.

Because of this situation, I was naturally quite concerned about the quality of the materials used in the construction of the additions in the Guild.

Even so, the merchant who jumped out of this office earlier said why not reduce the quality of the material without looking like he cared about it at all.

It's not very much, but it can't be acceptable to Dusker... and the result was the anger Ray and the others heard.

"Well, I don't know. But I don't. The material used in this addition is a first-class item… it is also a particularly good quality item among the first-class items. Normally, it's of such quality that it's rarely used in Wangdu, right? No wonder the merchant laid eyes on it."

"I need it, so I'm putting all that stuff together.... If you get out of hand poorly here, that's the one you'll see crying about later. And..."

That was the Dusker I told you about, but a knock sounds in the room to block it.

When Dusker orders him to come in, the earlier maid and several others bring tea and sandwiches for the number of people.

The sandwich seems to have been made, and the smell of freshly baked meat drifts around from some ingredients.

Basically a sandwich is something to eat cold, leaving the bread pinched to tame the ingredients for a little while to calm… it is normal to age.

But the sandwich on the table now is a warm sandwich that pinches freshly made dishes.

That's the sandwich that was made to eat freshly made.

Delicious, but when the utensils inside get cold, they taste bad...... so to speak, should I describe it as a sandwich with a short duration of delicacy?

The maids leave, Dusker tells them to eat for now, and Ray and Buune reach for the sandwich.

A little late, Marina, Vihera and Dusker also reached for the sandwich.

What Ray took was baking some kind of meat and then pinching it in the bread with vegetables... the dish he deserved to call a steak sandwich.

Every sandwich is the size of a bite, thanks to Dusker's instructions to pick the most easily.

Dusker opens his mouth again, eating such a sandwich.

"Well, whatever the case is. I called you... Ray, to be exact, because I wanted to ask you for a job."

I guess eating a sandwich and changing my mood calmed me down to some extent.

Dusker puts his anger aside and opens his mouth.

"To me, is it?

"Oh.... Ray was the only one I would have called... well, I expected the marinas to come with me"

Turn your gaze toward the marina for a moment, but the marina with your gaze just gives you a glossy grin.

That's what you said when you came here for granted.

Vihera had a similar grin to the marina, and Buune was obsessed with eating sandwiches.

Looking at the faces of such red lotus wings, Dusker opens his mouth when he sighs like he gave up.

"Actually, I called Ray because it had something to do with this previous material robbery"

"Oh, you know"

Retrieval of materials taken by bandits - some kind of private soldier who made them look like them - and securing the culprit.

Other than that, the quantity of material taken was greater than that carried by the merchant bistol with the intense personality who had requested Ray.

That material is because in the end it doesn't make any particular sense for Ray to have it, through the guild to the guild...... I'm selling it off to Dusker to be exact.

As Dusker was saying earlier, all the materials used in this addition are first-class.

But when Ray gets paid for the construction work, it's definitely a lot of money.

"That's right. Ray and the others brought almost all of them here as prisoners. It's easier to interrogate."

Ray doesn't even know what kind of interrogation took place there.

However, it can be expected that many of those questioned will be in a tragic situation.

(I don't think a little information would be that bad of a treatment.)

The neighborhood is nothing to do with the captured Rays, and most importantly, they're not interested.

No, I'm interested in the information we got from the prisoners.

"So, which hand were you after all? It's a pretty big chamber of commerce to have that many private soldiers… I think that's the only thing noble about it."

"Noble."

Marina distorts her expression reluctantly to the words she lightly told her.

I have spoken with the Grand Chamber of Commerce, but I guess I could have predicted it in the marina.

I wonder if the Kings are in a hurry.

"No."

To Marina's words, Dusker instantly shook his head to the side.

"Huh? No... then maybe"

"Oh. In this one case, it's the aristocrats pulling the thread behind it"

"... Really? I thought maybe the prisoner was manipulating the information that way?

Could it be a manoeuvre to hit the neutrals and the aristocrats and drain them of power, money, supplies, etc.?

To the marina who tells him so, Dusker shakes his head sideways again.

"No, I naturally got suspicious around there, too. But I interrogated everyone one by one from a different angle. So if we can all answer without contradiction... that's why we didn't do a private service, and I think we could have worked in a better place."

"Yes, but what did you think to imitate that? To be honest, I don't understand it at all... but it just seems like a suicide bomber."

"I agree, but it's not uncommon for some aristocrats not to be able to control their emotions with reason. There's a chance of a bounce like that."

The words were also convincing to Ray.

No, Ning Lo. I guess it's only because Ray has seen such aristocrats many times before that he can be convinced.

"I see. I get the story... so what do you want me to do?

"Please retaliate"

"... what? Is that okay?

Clear evidence is secured in the form of prisoners.

But still, a faction different from the Neutral Dusker… bigger than the Neutral and, on top of that, a faction that is now trying to forge friendly relations.

Also for Ray, nobility is not another human resource because of the faction to which Elaine belongs.

But Dusker nods back lightly at such a ray inquiry.

"I don't mind. Tell me who I should retaliate against if they take requests. I'll leave the method to Ray's liking, but whatever the injured, I want him not to kill as much as he can."

"If you're a raided merchant, there are dead people out there, but still?

"Still."

Neither does Ray believe in the beauty of people's lives being equal.

Even so, it's not funny if they say so grandiose.

I guess Dusker could have imagined how Ray would look like that. Keep the words coming, with a man-smelling grin.

"All I'm trying to say is don't let dead people out. Conversely, you can do anything else.... I have trouble overdoing it."

To the words of Dusker, who tells him so, Ray nods back with a bad grin of people along with a convincing look.

At this point, Ray had already halfway decided to take a request from Dusker.