Legend

On the night of the end of the simulated battle, there was not necessarily a grand celebration of Ray's victory at the residence of the Duke of Kelp... but a more sumptuous meal than usual.

Most importantly, not grandiose was only a story for the face of the Duke of Keller's mansion, which was an indisputably luxurious meal for ordinary people.

Either way, with such a meal, Liberté opens his mouth.

"So you didn't know who the other guy was after all?

"Yes. I also talked to the Knights and the guards, but in the end, nothing"

That's what Ray says, he shakes his head to the side.

Um, the man who showed up and disappeared without even letting Seto sense him.

Undoubtedly strong, I couldn't get any information about the person that seemed like it after all.

(Well, just because you're strong doesn't mean you can't win. The question is how did you end up showing up or disappearing unnoticed over here......)

I have no idea what you're talking about at the moment.

Fighting that man, Ray is not going to lose.

But that was only a story if we could fight normally, and if we were to be imitated like today abruptly showing up and ambushing... it was a delicate matter whether even Ray could deal with it.

Even Seto, sharper than Ray, couldn't identify the man.

In that sense, he's definitely a very nasty opponent.

"... well. Probably, but behind it..."

Liberté clouds his words along the way, but he understood what he wanted to say ahead, whoever it was that was on this occasion.

That's why Ray moves on to another topic without letting him say anything beyond that.

"Anyway, I tried putting my face on various stalls with Seto after that. I'm surprised there are so many delicious dishes"

"... right"

Coming out of Liberté's mouth is the same word as a while ago.

But what's there isn't how you're worried, a happy grin.

I guess it's still a pleasure for Liberté to rule over this anesis to be praised for where he lives.

Neither is Ray complimenting you on the matter.

In fact, all the food from the stalls that we stopped by after that commotion was just as delicious.

… Of course, some stalls were unsavory, so not all stalls tasted the best.

"I rarely eat food served in a store like that with hatred... what kind of food do you have, exactly?

"I'd like to know about that area, too. If it's delicious, I'd love to try it."

Arcadia asks intrigued and so on.

Basically, unlike Liberté, who carries out his affairs in Anesis, Arcadia sometimes even takes a trip to small settlements that do not even make it into various villages, cities or, in some cases, villages.

So you wondered what the dish Ray said was delicious.

"Right. For example... Oh, it was delicious to pack the meat and beans in the bread and bake them."

There's meat and beans in the bread cut to a size that can't be called ground beef, but when you crust the bread, the gravy spreads all over your mouth.

Thanks to not being finely cut enough to be called ground beef, it has a firm meat bite, from which overflowing gravy lifts the flavour of the beans one step at a time.

There is quite a bit of bread to be called even the total vegetable bread of this hand, and Ray likes to eat it, of which the bread Ray ate today would have tasted pretty superior among all he has ever eaten.

When Ray explains how delicious it is, everyone accidentally swallows spit, even though they are eating.

I guess that means Ray was a good explainer.

Then for a while, the Dukes of Kelp and Ray discuss the food they ate at the stall.

The conversation about cooking continued long enough, and the story was just a paragraph away, and Liberté opens his mouth again.

"Well, leave the stall story around...... it was today, it's about a mock fight"

Elaine and Arcadia also gaze at Liberté, who tells her as she returns the bread she ate a bite.

Arcadia, in particular, is busy dealing with the aristocratic wives who are currently gathered in Anesis, and has not seen them until the end when it comes to mock warfare.

Still, I was able to get information from various people after the mock fight, and I know the story of Ray winning it all with overwhelming strength.

I was surprised, even though I knew it was Ray who fought when I heard, especially since he defeated only a few aliasers in Anesis.

... No, maybe it was Ray who fought, which is why I was surprised.

Arcadia also knows that Ray has the strength he deserves to have an alias.

But then you only know it as knowledge, and you've never actually seen Ray fight.

Ray, whom Arcadia knows, is Ray when we dine together like this, and if they say that Ray did all that work, I'd be surprised to know.

While slightly uncomfortable with Arcadia's impressed gaze, Ray turns his gaze to Liberté.

"Were the aristocrats satisfied that they had proposed a mock war?

With that said, I thought Ray probably wouldn't be that satisfied.

This case was originally made because the nobles could not trust Ray's strength.

It was a mock fight that I didn't need to take, but I took it for the reward of Wind Demon Ore.

Ray doesn't even know if everyone thinks so. I don't know... but I still didn't even think Ray would be really convinced to see all of today's mock fights beyond having a Geiska kind of presence.

(Well, if I'm satisfied with the mock fight, I'm satisfied, and now there's a chance I'll come in contact with you.... thats pretty cumbersome though)

If you try it on the nobles, you want to get a face-to-face with an adventurer with an alias like Ray... and if possible your own people, it was natural to think so.

Nevertheless, Ray does not consider that serving a nobleman, etc.

Ningro, I even think it's still easier to be suspicious in that such an opponent doesn't come close.

"Right. I think there were more satisfied. If only many had actually seen the strength of Ray in his eyes in the war against the Bestian Empire, he wouldn't have had to imitate it like that."

"Uh... I was wondering if I could help that. In the first place, there won't be a lot of people who like war as nobles."

Nevertheless, in fact, those like the nobleman's three or four men often came out on the battlefield wanting to be part of some knighthood by raising their hand in the war.... and if it works, it could even be welcomed as an adopted son by some aristocratic house.

Though noble, it is not a rare story to go out on the battlefield if you are one who understands your position well.

... Though it is only those who have a sense of crisis in their current position, and those like Geiska will not imitate it as such.

Most importantly, Gaiska draws the blood of the Marquis Seysor.

If it were to be the Marquis, it would be easy to find a job where the influence of the house alone wouldn't make it difficult to eat for now.

"You like things, huh?... I hear you and one of them were acting together today."

I hear the word object lover, and that's what they say, Liberté.

Whom it meant was obvious to Ray without having to think about it.

"Is it Bruit?... I've gotten into trouble, but I think we can get along"

Basically, I hated the presence of nobility, Ray, but still many of them feel like Blueit.

Even those who are not aristocrats are never few who do not like them.

At the end of the day, I guess it means that there are people who don't care, whether they are nobles or not.

... Although it was an undeniable fact that many people did not fit their character from the environment in which they grew up or from the aristocracy.

"The man, as a nobleman, is a little strange... but I guess that's why I felt comfortable with Ray"

"I think so. I've met so many nobles before, but I felt quite close to Dusker."

"Dusker, huh?... To be honest, I don't think there's a man who can do that much. No, I'm sure it's the Dusker that can bring the Neutralists up there."

Ray could also understand that the look on Liberté's face, whining so, spared Dusker's presence from the bottom of his mind.

In fact, it is an indisputable fact that neutralists are being summed up like that because there are Duskers, as Liberté says.

Ray's been dealing with Dusker, too, and I know that.

But that's why I can't imagine that Dusker would dissolve the Neutralists, or imitate them as they were under the aristocracy, as Liberté wanted.

"I think Master Dusker has a lot of ideas of his own, too. We may be able to work with the aristocracy as we do now, but I don't think it's possible to get under it."

"... I guess so. I've seen Dusker a few times too, but it seemed like he had a solid idea. That's why I feel so sorry for you."

"If you keep it around. I don't think Lord Dusker will ever come under you, no matter how much you spare."

To the words of his wife, who tells him so, Liberté regrets, but says nothing more.

(Liberté summoned Master Dusker, but Arcadia will follow him.... Well, isn't that so funny?

While thinking like that, Ray carries the soup to his mouth...

"Huh?"

I get a slightly surprising look at the flavour that has spread in my mouth.

Those who were at the table, including Elaine, gaze at how Ray looks... but Ray tastes the soup carefully again.

One, two, three bites...... Elaine and the others look strange when they see Ray savoring that soup that gives them a taste of the fish that spreads in their mouths.

It was impossible, but if there was poison or something in the soup and Ray drank it and noticed it was strange... then that would be the only way he would ever do something like taste the soup.

But even if three people, Elaine, Liberté and Arcadia, drink soup, there's nothing particularly like this there.

It tastes a little different than usual, but it's definitely a delicious soup.

"Ray, what's going on? I don't think this soup has anything in particular. No, I think it's delicious."

Ray, who was tasting the soup, opens his mouth as Elaine said to me back.

"Think this soup is delicious."

If it was meant to be, it would not be fooled by those words.

Because this soup that Ray drank tasted familiar to Ray.

Most of all, even if it's a flavor I remember, it doesn't mean it stays the same as it is in Ray's memory.

Subtle as the taste Ray knows...... no, quite different, but the direction it was headed should definitely have been the same.

That's a seasoning with an extract that came out salting the fish.

For Ray, the fish pot he always eats in the winter...... the so-called fish soy sauce that he uses in a soggy pot, made from hatahata, and soggy.

Worldwide - it's only a story on Earth - but fish soy is quite a major condiment.

In Japan, Ray's know-it-all but famous, and fish soy sauces such as Thai numplers, Vietnamese nukunam, and Lao numpers would be famous.

Of course, those fish soy sauces are just made in different places, as are things like how they are made, ingredients, and aging periods.

In fact, the soup Ray drinks like this tasted closer to Numpler than it did to stick... unfortunately, Ray has never eaten a dish with Numpler when he was in Japan.

For Ray, fish soy was always equals.

Yet, despite its subtle discomfort, Ray enjoys the taste of soup.

At the same time, I could probably imagine that this soup was made by Georgima for ramen soup.

That would be a prediction because Ray had eaten ramen that he used snuggly at a ramen store.

In any case, even fish soy must be more than a form of soy sauce, in some ways this can also be called soy sauce ramen.

Even so, Ray enjoyed the soup flavor and forgot what he didn't like during the day.