Legend

The music that resonated around me was not so lavish, but still definitely beyond the level of amateur.

With all that music ringing, Ray keeps dancing with Elaine...... eventually, the music ends.

It's only been a few days since Ray started learning to dance from Elaine. Despite all that time, Ray had mastered just the skill of dancing that he already deserved to call a skilled person in his prior motor nerves.

... Although Ray only remembered dancing, and at the very least, the kind of manners at other parties.

Had Ray been a nobleman, he would have also been pissed off by such an act.

But Ray is only an adventurer, and he doesn't get to see manners that fine.

Nevertheless, if it's too bad, the nobles will make fun of me.

"Hmm. There's nothing more to be said from me when it comes to dancing. Excellent."

Elaine smiles contentedly when she sees Ray's face.

Ray also snorts at Elaine's words like that.

For some reason, it was fun for Ray to practice the dance with Elaine.

"When the party was the day after tomorrow, it was critical that I got passed."

"Heh heh, you're dancing with me, so you have to be perfect."

She laughed happily at Elaine, but eventually opened her mouth just a little sorry.

"In the end, you got Ray into trouble."

"You mean that guy"?

What Ray remembered in Elaine's words was the man who showed up in a commotion during a mock war.

After all, from that commotion, that man hasn't taken any action.

Are you not going to take action yet, or is there another reason?

Ray didn't even know what was going on around there, but there was something creepy about not showing movement.

"Mm-hmm. I've been using the information network of the Duke of Kelp's house for a while..."

Ray shook his neck sideways to tell Elaine that he didn't care if the information was not gathered.

"For those of you gathering information, the situation is pretty busy right now. Then I can't help but get my hands around it"

Annesis, where noblemen come together one after the other, is a great place for those who, naturally, want to do something.

If so, it was only natural to attach importance to you.

If there is a major disturbance in this situation, it will be a form of facial crushing for the Duke of Kelevel.

That is why the presence behind serving the Duke of Kelp...... the meadow wolves like in the Gulm were moving around with considerable businessmanship.

Ray doesn't blame Elaine because he knows such circumstances.

... Also, given the creepy nature of the man Ray saw, it could be something like losing your life if the intelligence agents came into contact with the man poorly.

It was Ray's idea that the situation was never bad because he was a man of such creeps.

To Ray's words, Elaine just relaxes a little.

"It would help if you told Ray that. … but the fact that there is no information whatsoever to actually try to gather information means that there is probably…"

"Information because you can't gather information even if you try to gather it?

I don't know what Elaine is talking about, and I doubt it, Ray.

But in contrast to Ray like that, Elaine tries to say something... and stop that move.

Elaine's gaze was directed at those who had played the music of Ray and Elaine's dance until a short while ago.

The performers held by the Duke of Kelp, but that's why they can't imitate what they're going to talk about.

"Shall we move the place a little? It's better that way than talking here."

"I don't mind if Elaine says so."

Ray, who had no particular objection to Elaine's words, stays on Elaine's invitation to move the room.

The performers would drop off the Rays without saying anything in particular... but when the two disappear, they would exchange small words.

"Hey, those two... you think that's the relationship after all? To be honest, from what I saw dancing, it definitely looked that way."

"Right, I think I do, too. But... Master Elaine is the Duke's Lady, isn't she? Doesn't that make you in love with a different person? Yikes!"

"I don't care. That guy over there, he played a mock fight at the last festival and won it all, Ray? I think we're gonna end up apart."

That's what one of the performers says.

I guess he's slightly hostile to Ray because he lost a mock fight bet he talked about.

I wasn't betting a lot of money, but it was natural that it wasn't funny to lose money nonetheless.

Most of all, the others know that, so their gaze at men is cold.

Especially the woman who was imagining Ray and Elaine's romantic relationship - or delusional - is pointing her gaze at the man at a temperature lower than the outside temperature.

A man with such a gaze around him had a lot to say... but in the end he didn't say anything more and missed his gaze.

When the performers were talking about Ray and Elaine's relationship, those two were in a room a little further away from the room where they were practicing dance earlier.

Just in case hundreds of millions of people tell the performers what they're going to talk about... and third parties don't know about it.

As it were, we don't talk about each other in particular, and that's when the air that was flowing at the dance earlier fills the room with lies and silence.

Elaine seemed unsure how to talk for a few seconds, but eventually opens her mouth as if she had decided to.

"In fact, one assassin has been active in Anesis for several years. The man...... no, it may be a woman, but I have no idea where the assassin came from anyway. Maybe he didn't come from anywhere, maybe even from Anesis."

"... that's the guy I saw? Because I'm pretty sure you're not a woman. No, well, I can't say it at all, because there's a chance I'm forcibly adjusting my shape."

That being said, Ray was convinced that the person he saw was definitely a man.

Not that there's any particular conclusive evidence, but it seemed so.

"Oh, if Ray saw the assassin... the Black Wolf."

"Black Wolf. Is that his name?"

That's what Ray says when he sees someone, not necessarily a black wolf.

I guess Elaine also understood that it was useless to say any more about how Ray looked like that. Ray says nothing about the person he sees, and goes on to explain.

"All I know so far is that I'm strong. At least so far there are only a few who survived fighting the Black Wolf"

"No, if there were even a few of you, wouldn't you know what a black wolf is like? That's what it looks like, for example."

"He's an assassin, right? He hasn't revealed his face with hatred, and he hasn't exchanged words, so I don't know if he's a man or a woman."

"Uh... I see"

If you say so, Ray will be convinced too.

Because if the assassin had revealed his face, that would make it easier to spread the word.

Normally, you shouldn't imitate that.

(The guy I saw, he wasn't very, but he couldn't seem to be normal.)

The gaze of observation as if that emotion did not exist and the atmosphere of incompetence.

It wasn't very much, but it was the kind of person I couldn't call normal.

"But still, I think the man I met is the black wolf."

There's no proof of anything, but that's what Ray says.

Neither does Elaine understand that Ray's reckoning is a conjecture, nor does she disagree with the words.

Most importantly, that's not because I completely believe Ray's words... but because it's easier to move around recognizing that the person Ray actually met was a black wolf.

Whatever you do, it's hard to do things without knowing who the enemy is.

If so, you should assume that it is a black wolf, even if that is definitely a strong enemy.

Above all, it's also big to know that overestimation doesn't blunt behavior when it's better than underestimating it poorly.

"If that's what Ray says, I guess you should recognize it that way. In fact, Ray is the only one who saw that opponent...... no, the feeling of being dependable is more than just Ray and Seto, though. But be careful. If what Ray really saw was a black wolf..."

"I know. Though, a black wolf is an assassin, right? If you fight from the front, you're not gonna lose."

That's what Ray said, but it's basically impossible for an opponent to fight from the front at the point of being an assassin.

Because assassins are people who do things by poking at the gaps in their daily lives.

"You should abandon the idea of fighting the assassins decently. They're very troublesome."

"... that sounds like an experienced way of putting it"

"Uhm. This is what it looks like, and I've been paying back my assassins many times before"

Elaine told me with a slightly more confident look, but normally being targeted by an assassin is not something I can boast about.

(Most importantly, Elaine, known as the Princess General. For someone somewhere, it would have been someone to get in the way)

As if she had read such Ray's thoughts, Elaine goes on to say the words.

"Anyway, I've been targeted by several assassins before, but you never had anyone to do anything like attack me from the front."

"What exactly were the many means?

"Some of them attacked me when I was trying to poison my diet or taking a bath in the water, and some of them attacked me while I was sleeping. Somewhere a little unusual, some took part in the war as soldiers, poking my surprises and trying to fly poison needles"

"... Wow, that's all I can think of. You've been attacked by assassins a lot more than I thought."

Ray gives an unpleasant look from the bottom of his heart, even though the assassin tells him he was attacked, but didn't think that was it.

But behind what such a ray looks like, Elaine nods back without any particular care for the wind.

"In my position, I can't help it. Besides, I can't do what assassins do around here right now."

Elaine's words are strongly persuasive and I cannot help but be convinced.

Because Elaine, who inherited the demonic stone of the Enchanted Dragon, is now equal to being more than human, if you say so.

That's what you can call a first-rate assassin or a lack of strength.

Out of the top notch...... those who should also be called super top notch will be able to do decent things with Elaine, but there are naturally few such assassins.

... In that, it was felt by Elaine, like a kind of irony, that the assassin known as the Black Wolf has the strength to be called its superior.

"In my case, I don't really care about details like that... but if Seto's with me, most of them don't feel like I can handle it"

"With Seto, you don't have to worry about the area, no doubt."

Elaine, too, has had quite a long time with Seto.

So it was from the bottom of my heart that I understood how much Seto could rely on.

"Nevertheless, if it's time to be camping, there's still no reason to be with Seto all over the city, is there? That's why Seto's in the stables at the inn."

"Seto would have detected my crisis from the stables."

It was casually Ray's words whined about, but if you try to make it Elaine, who knows the connection between Ray and Seto, I don't think it's a joke.

In fact, Ray and Seto are connected by Warcraft.

If one of us is in a crisis, it's not strange for each other to feel it.

"Still. If anything happens to Ray, I'm not the only one. Marina and Vihera will grieve too."

"... I know. Even I wouldn't get killed that easily. Besides, it's the Black Wolf who's after me, isn't it? Then I think they're probably going to attack us from the front."

Ray was asked about various assassins, but when I thought about the black wolf and his opponent I encountered at that material depot, I had the anticipation that it would probably be a battle from the straight front when fighting.

Ray thinks it was an unfounded prediction, but it's probably for sure.

And I was also confident that if it actually became a battle from the front, I would undoubtedly not lose.

The fact is, Ray has just shown no problem saying that, so Elaine has to admit that too.

Most of all, that's why I couldn't have told you not to worry about Ray, who's likely to be targeted by a black wolf.

"Still, that black wolf and they're after me means someone came into contact with that black wolf, right? And you can't reach those people in the Dukes of Kelp?

"Unfortunately. Anyone who tried to make contact with the Black Wolf in an attempt to find out if that was also the power of the Black Wolf or what, eventually could not make contact with anyone.... what didn't kill me was at least salvation or something"

Elaine had a complicated look at the joy of not dying anyone serving the Duke of Kelp and the regret of not even being dealt with.