Legend

Going down the path entrenched by giants, about enough.

In that amount of time, the Rays were able to find out where the Titans were.

"Uh... I see. You wouldn't know this if you scouted from the sky. It's surrounded by woods, covered with trees."

At the end of Ray's gaze telling him so was a place to call a cave.

In fact, the entrance is about five meters high and the size the giant can afford to enter.

The width was of such a magnitude that if there were two giants lined up, they could manage... but still one could definitely get in without any problems at all.

There were numerous trees growing around such a cave, which, as Ray put it, were covered and hidden so that the presence of this cave could not be found even as those trees were flying over it.

But it wasn't just a coincidence that the Jayans had deliberately planted trees or anything like that.

Still, it was true that the entrance to the cave was hidden, and Ray didn't realize it at all when he rode Seto and scouted Mejougo from the sky.

Whatever it was by chance, it was definitely an uninteresting event for Ray.

"But are we really following this? 'Cause this cave... it doesn't look that big, does it?

Vihera is right, the rocky mountain itself, with its cave entrance, doesn't look that big.

I can predict from the outside that there would be a size that would hide if there were a few or a dozen people of human size.

But if there were only a few hundred giants about three meters tall... or more than a thousand, and all of them could hide themselves, the answer was no.

Ray tries to say something to such Vihella's words... and stop that move.

No, Ray wasn't the only one who stopped the move. We lagged a little behind from Ray, but all the others stopped moving and were in the cave... concentrating on the signs that we were approaching this way from inside the cave, to be precise.

"The explanation around here... if you ask this guy, you know what I mean?

Ray's words, whining as he looked at the cave, naturally sounded firm to those inside.

While I hesitate for a moment to be seen through my existence, I still immediately emerge from the cave.

"Hey, I didn't know you'd find it so light. It was totally unexpected."

Hearing the person who tells him so, Ray wonders for a moment.

Because he was a familiar voice somewhere.

Where it was...... sooner than I can recall that, the person emerges from the cave.

Looks like you're growing up somewhere, such a man.

Seeing the man's face, Ray finally remembers the person's name.

"Lutus...... was it?

"Do you know him?"

Based on the feel of Ray, Marina asks him in such a way that he decides he probably knows him, but still can't think of more allies than coming out in a place like this.

"Oh, unfortunately... I don't know how to say it, but I'm pretty sure you know him. You talked about helping a merchant being attacked by a bandit when he came to scout Mejougo with Seto before, didn't you?

"You said it."

Murmuring, as Elaine recalls Ray's words.

"But from what I've heard, the person Ray helped was a merchant? I'm pretty sure he wasn't the kind of person who would come out of Jaya's facility like this, even if it wasn't for the least."

"Ha, thanks for your hard opinions. But, well, wouldn't you blame him too much? I used to lay low."

"Were you lying down, or what? Well, there were a bunch of escorts on it... no, considering it's on, I expected it wasn't just a pedestrian."

Lutus makes a lightly surprising look at Ray, who tells him as he turns his gaze behind the cave.

... Yes, I'll make it, not float.

I guess the presence of the escorts is a conceited event for Lutus.

"If I were as powerful as you, my escort would be shameless. I'm sure he's quite capable."

The atmosphere is subtly different from when I encountered Ray before, Lutus.

Most of all, I encountered Ray by chance before, and he definitely made character even in the sense of falsifying his identity, and it was easy for Ray to imagine that the character of Lutus today is the real character.

"Right. Looks like you have a lot of arms in the Labourina country."

Even if you're an expert, in the end that's just a small country called the Labourina Nation, and it doesn't mean you're that strong in a big country like the Kingdom of Mireana.

Ray tells him otherwise, making him smell that way, against which he releases his killer from the escort.

(Were you unhappy that they insulted your strength, or did you want to prevent damage to your escorted lutus due to the influence of insulting yourself... I don't know about that, but you're immature, right)

Of course the Rays are aware that there are hidden escorts.

I know you understand that over there, but nevertheless exposing it here was an action to be called shallow.

Do you understand such an exchange or are you not there?

Lutus opens his mouth without looking particularly concerned.

"Quite, huh? I'm the owner of the highest arm of the jar, though. Still, for adventurers with aliases, is that quite it?"

It was a lutus of how I was a little shocked, but then again, were you really shocked, or are you simply pretending to be like that?

Ray didn't even know that.

I just know...

"No way, I didn't think you'd lightly admit you were a Jaya person. I thought it would be a little more delusional."

If you hear the word peak among the jars, you can tell in one shot where they belong.

It was also a surprise to Ray that the word would come out of Lutus' mouth.

"Really? But I don't think I can be more deluded than I've encountered in this place."

"I won't deny that"

There was a Lutus figure in this cave, seen as the destination of a giant shipment.

So even though they say it has nothing to do with Jaya, it's not very much, but it can't be believed.

"But still, aren't you trying to delude me? Mostly, why did you come all the way out of the front? I think there are other hidden passageways if you want to run away."

"Oh, information-gathering? You don't have a clue.... Well, I'll tell you this because even if it's known, this is the only way in and out of this cave, unfortunately. No, of course there were a few others before... see, you know what I mean?

He didn't say it until the end, and then he was a lutus who would turn his gaze to you, but Ray also knew immediately what he wanted to say over there.

"Giant, huh?"

"Correct. The only place that followed outside was not one where the giants could pass, but even if it was large enough for people to pass, it could break light if the giants ravaged. So there's no other entrance or exit outside."

"... it would be important information, can I tell you so lightly?

The information leaked out of Lutus' mouth was quite unexpected to Ray.

Of course I can't peddle that information.

Still, it's an unmistakable fact to be important information.

Yet why do you give such important information? And it would be natural to wonder so.

Elaine and the others, who are taking a step back and watching the exchange between them, had the same thoughts.

But Lutus continues his words with even a laugh at Ray's words like that.

"In the first place, a handyman like the Rays has come this far. No matter what you try to hide any more, you'll soon find it. So you think you should give me a break after you get caught?

"Young!

One of the guards, hidden in the rock shadow of the cave, shows up saying that.

I guess we didn't expect Lutus to say the secrets of our organization so lightly.

A tough looking man in his forties or fifties embarrasses Lutus sideways as he stares at the Rays.

"What the hell do you say to these people! Young people are carrying the rest of Jaya! Hold on to your consciousness around there!

"That's what I say. I don't think I can do much more than the Rays have come this far. Do you think you can do something about the Rays if I manage to fight them here?

"It's..."

The man who spoke to Lutus is also better at reading the strength of his opponent than he is at escorting him.

From the eyes of such a man, it was clear that the Rays' strengths only far outweighed themselves and their men.

If Lutus does not divulge information on this occasion, it will undoubtedly be a fight.

In that case, we were certain we would lose.

Still, as you belong to Jaya, you can't follow Lutus' words lightly.

"Young, I know what young people want to say. But Noon grew up in Jaya. I can't accept that."

"I guess..."

In the man's words, Lutus gives a look of regret for a moment.

But soon the expression disappeared and became the usual slightly laughing expression.

"So, what do we do? You know there's nothing Ray and the others can do if you all hang up, right?

"I understand that, but... Still, Non..."

So the man who cut the words pulled the dagger out of the sheath of his hips as he was, and set it up.

It was a clear hostility, but it is Ray, not Lutus, whose blade is pointed at.

(Right)

Ray was relieved by that.

Lutus is going to follow us very closely, and he's the one who's going to let us know all the details.

I want to avoid such a person being targeted if I can.

If I were to be targeted, I was confident that I could handle that, so this development was where Ning Ro wanted me to be.

"So? What are we gonna do with the rest of them? With this guy... if that's what you mean, I'm not willing to stop you?

Show up with one person, another, to follow Ray's words that tell you so.

It's obvious from Ray's eyes that everyone has arms above Jaya's elite.

"That's a lot more guys to take along than I expected.... You don't have any prospects?

"Rude. … but unfortunately I can't deny it if I look at the current sight."

In fact, the number of signs Ray was feeling was about ten in all.

And it was the two of us who stayed on the side of the lutus.

I mean, the eight of us got stuck in front of Ray as far as Lutus was concerned.

It wasn't weird that Lutus lost confidence in his lack of people's expectations.

The sweat on Lutus' forehead was definitely not by any means due to the summer heat, but from his lack of hope.

Even less, it looks that way from Ray's eyes.

"Well, for now... if we do something about these guys, that means we can get information, right?

"Right. But there's a lot going on here, and it's not like they're gonna talk about anything."

To Lutus' words, Ray remembers a man who died the moment he tried to say something in an underground facility.

"Uh... I see. Do you have that cursed magic?"

……

Ray shrugged, but for some reason... yes, for some reason Lutus had a stunned look when he looked at Ray.

That is such a face, as if it were an incredible thing, or a sight of a man.

I've made expressions from time to time, and I'd say they look very rare for a lutus that doesn't show vegan expressions.

"What's up?

That's why Ray also questioned the appearance of such a lutus and had his gaze pointed at you.

"Let's not take a sweet look at Non!

Ray, who showed no more gaps in front of himself, must have scratched the man's pride.

Put the dagger in your hand and pack an intermission with Ray at once.

I have confidence in my skills.

That was also why I had the pride of being entrusted with the escort of Lutus.

But...... I could never forgive Ray's presence to put himself in front of me like that and take an attitude as if it were not there.

A step taken with such anger is undoubtedly a step in the synagogue for a man. That's for sure.

It's just... Ray being in front of me was the only thing that was the biggest miscalculation for a guy.