Legend

Surah and the others came to the Guild, naturally spread throughout the Guild in the course of the day.

We moved as if we were going to parade down the boulevard too, so that would make it more impossible not to be rumored.

In the meantime, Ray was enjoying dinner in the garden of the marina's house, as usual.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto sounds his throat joyfully at the meat of Gamelion cooked using a kiln of magic items.

Since it is this year's Gamelion, I can say it's the first one.

Most importantly, Ray and Seto ate at the baked udon in the stall, so it's not really the first thing.

"Hmm, I knew Gamelion's meat was delicious. I mean, it's been captured all year, but there are a lot of people, so the price is really higher for it."

Smudging and squeaking marina.

In fact, the current Guild has a large number of people in no ordinary year.

And, naturally, it's not strange that everyone wants to eat delicious food anyway, and then, naturally, the price of Gamellion meat increases.

In addition, Gamelion may show up a few times outside of the Guild, but it will need some strength to defeat it.

For that reason, Gamelion meat is also a big commodity for Guild this season, and many merchants try to buy it.

Most of all, meat naturally rots even during the autumn and winter seasons.

Of course, it rots slower than in summer, but it's still not Ray's mistering, so it can't stay fresh forever.

In order not to do so, the merchant who bought the meat of the Gamelion asks a specialist craftsman to make it dried meat or, if he has the skill, to make it himself dried meat to increase its value as a commodity.

... However, whatever dry meat is professionally made by a full-time professional, even though he has that skill, in the end, he's an amateur.

The meat of the gamelion bought at the corner was also often wasted by it.

(Well, say it's because you scratched too much greed, until then)

Ray thinks of that as he thinly slices the meat of the gamelion cooked in the kiln and carries it into his mouth with a sauce made of fruit that resembles sour lemons.

"If you say so..."

and Ara accidentally opens her mouth in the middle of a meal.

"Dear Elaine, I was wondering if it was time to make a move home. When you get ready suddenly, you have a clue."

"Mm-hmm. I still have to go home once."

To Ara's words, Elaine groans slightly disgustingly.

For Elaine, life in the Guild was very comfortable.

It's also big to have a man you love on your side, but I'm glad you don't have to be distracted by the lack of aristocratic nobility around you.

Essentially, even when in the territory of the Duke of Kelp, Elaine's life as a soldier is the main thing, and she doesn't associate so much with nobility.

... some nobles have managed to enlist their sons and relatives into the Duke of Kelp Army in an effort to make contact with Elaine, but the Duke of Kelp Army is famous as a strong army and naturally the training is very demanding just that.

As a result, those hands will soon flee.

That was the situation, but as the only daughter of the Duke of Keller family, as a matter of course, it was necessary, at a minimum, to participate in an aristocratic relationship, starting with a party.

But if you're in the Guild, you don't have to do that.

Nobles of the aristocracy in Gilm and other nobles who want to get an acquaintance with Elaine come to me quite often, but most of them have been rejected by Ara.

I'm only seeing the person I really need to meet, but still it's overwhelmingly easier than when I'm at home.

So if I could, I'd like to be awesome in the Guild this year, and that's what I thought...

"I don't care what you think about the absence of the nobleman's iconic Elaine at the New Year's party."

If you make it a trusted subordinate and your best friend Arla tells you that, Elaine can't say no more.

In fact, every New Year's Eve there is a party at the Duke of Keller's residence.

Naturally, I wouldn't travel in the snow if it were normal, but it's aristocratic nobility there.

Let people and financial resources say things and gather at the Duke of Kelp's residence.

That is also when the power of the wizard is exerted to melt the snow or force the snow to move.

The kingdom of Mireana is vast.

That is why it was undoubtedly like applying mud to the face of the Duke of Kelevel that Elaine, arguably a symbol of the aristocracy, would not take part in a party that would gather except for the aristocracy that would have a territory on the edge of the country.

Of course, for reasons like illness, you won't have to go out to the party.

But Elaine is not naturally ill or anything, she is very well.

There is no alternative to not attending a party than to be.

I know what Arla said, Elaine, but if I could still do that, I'd want to stop it because of the comfort of being with Ray.

Such Elaine's thoughts naturally understand Ara as well.

And if it's for Elaine, that's what Arla says she doesn't have to be at the party.

But if I say so here, it's going to make Elaine's position worse.

Above and beyond that, I can only say that, though it is painful for Ara.

Elaine also nodded in her heart as she was unhappy because she knew it.

But... there's someone waiting for Elaine to say something like that.

"Hey, Elaine. Elaine doesn't want to go back over there because... Ray... no, Gilm's cozy, right?

You don't want to go back because Ray's here, do you?

That was the marina I tried to say, but when I said it, I decided that there would be nothing that Elaine would honestly admit, and I changed the way I said it.

Naturally that was understandable to Elaine... and other faces, but there was no one to stick around.

"Right. I won't deny that. As I have said many times, Gilm is a very easy place for me."

"Yes.... then how about this? Elaine needs to be at the New Year's party, and Ray needs to be at it."

'What?'

Arla, Elaine, Ray and Vihera, who were listening to it, speak up to Marina's, if not too many, suggestions.

Bühne never sounded like a surprise, but still he usually showed how shocked Bühne was when he saw his eyes wide open with a faceless face.

Naturally. Ray and nobility are incompatible.

That's not something a little incompatible either, but incompatible by the time it's deadly.

Many aristocratic nobles take pride in the fact that they are aristocrats.

... The problem is that there are many aristocrats whose pride is directly linked to meaningless pride.

If you are a nobleman in the upper echelons of the aristocracy, starting with the Duke of Kelp, many of you stand firm around it.... a lot means that there are meaninglessly prized nobles in the upper echelons as well, but they can nevertheless be firmly changed by their opponents.

But other than that... just because we are aristocratic nobles, we are the chosen beings among the nobles, and all but nobles follow the noble orders naturally.

The aristocracy with such thoughts becomes so many.

Not everything is, but what would happen if there were Ray in such a party of nobility. That was obvious without even thinking about it.

Especially from Ray's point of view, for a nobleman who tries to tell Elaine, nothing but disturbance.

If Ray had joined such a party, there would almost certainly have been a problem.

If it's a marina, you naturally know that, and everyone on the spot looks at why they say that.

... No, Seto and Yellow each taste the meat of Gamelion, so I guess not everyone.

Either way, the marina, gazed at from other faces, smiles and opens her mouth.

"Okay? Elaine's gonna have to make sure of that area, too, right? That's not going to be the way it is forever."

"It's..."

To Marina's words, Elaine gets stuck in words.

In fact, Elaine's feelings have already been decided.

That's to the point where I can't imagine myself loving anything but Ray.

But that's not just what Elaine thinks, and it's not what they think publicly.

No, if you're anybody near Ray, you know Elaine thinks so... but that's not how many of Elaine's aristocrats would have recognized Elaine's relationship with Ray.

I can do anything, when I'm allowed to do anything, if I try to be who I think I am, many recognize Elaine as the one who should be my wife.

For such a nobleman, a high ranking adventurer named Ray… even with an alias, it was not at all absolutely permissible for a non-noble being and Elaine to be the decided opponent.

That's why Marina says to take Ray to that party and show him exactly who he loves… and who he wants to be under.

Even if there's a commotion, if you seem to give up on it, tell me implicitly that Elaine's love toward Ray is only to that extent.

Marina's gaze at Elaine is something serious, not a joke, not a tease.

If you love Ray, make your attitude clear, that's what he tells you.

There are many people who love Ray, even if Marina currently just knows.

Most of them are those who can abandon their current position without hesitation if it is for Ray's sake.

... In fact, Marina returned to the Adventurer after lightly abandoning her leading position in the Kingdom of Mireana, Guildmaster of the Guild, in order to be with Ray.

In the case of Vihela, although in the position of former Empress Vestia, there is no particular problem because when she met Ray in the labyrinth city of Exil, it was after she had already abandoned that status.

Though it may have been a sign of readiness to throw away a place for Vihera, a labyrinth city, where she could enjoy fighting her strong opponents and come under the rays.

However, Ray is the Gilm of the Border.

It's not uncommon for a monster to come out more powerful than a monster in a dungeon.

It doesn't extend to those two, but Kenny, the guild's receptionist, also doesn't hide his fondness for Ray.

(Given Ray's personality, it seems like I've made a lot of noise out of things I don't know either)

That's what Marina thinks as she exchanges glances with Elaine.

In fact, Marina's imagination is correct.

For example, Rosha, the fisherman's daughter of Emosion.

Other than that, Ray was completely unconscious, but he had taken the hearts and minds of many women without my knowledge.

Ray's personality doesn't mean he's ever kind, not necessarily liked... but he's definitely strong enough to call it out of standard nonetheless.

So many people said that once they knew a person named Ray, that was what made it harder to recognize ordinary men around them as men... as heterosexuals.

Not everyone does.

"So, that's why... what do you do with Ray?

and Marina points the spearhead of the story at Ray.

Ray nods without hesitation without wondering what to do with the words…

"If I don't mind Elaine, you can go. I don't have anything to do during the winter."

To be precise, there will be a lot to do in the construction of the Gilm's additions.

However, during the winter months, we basically do not do logging in the Trento Forest, so there is little work that we can do without Rays with Mystering.

Although there may be a task of carrying materials starting with wood from a material storage area to another material storage area, it would not have been a problem if it had been left to those seeking work.

There's no danger of going outside the guild, so if Ray wants to do it, unless he's too busy, he's more likely to ask you to shy away from the guild.

"... okay?

You didn't think Ray would reply when he came with himself lightly to the Duke of Kelevel territory, Elaine asks Ray in such a way as to be terrified.

Ray nodded at Elaine's words, like the last confirmation, without looking particularly nervous.