Legend

The party begins with Liberté's greeting and everyone moves on to each one.

For a nobleman, this party is a party, not a party.

To be precise, it is a party, but also a political arena.

Talk to people you rarely meet and purchase information from.

In some cases, it is not uncommon for some commercial transaction to take place.

So there were not so many who were purely enjoying the party, and Ning Luo was all moving to make their own profits as great as possible.

But mostly nobles are the only ones moving that way, and Ray, who is not noble in that sense, doesn't have to worry about the area in particular...

"Hey, Ray. As always, the food here is delicious."

When I'm cooking with Elaine, I can inadvertently call her that.

Whose voice it is, that's what's so obvious to Ray without thinking about it.

In the first place, he was with me until a few hours ago.

"Right. But given Bruit's physique, shouldn't you be eating too much food?

That's what Ray returns the word as he looks at the Bruit giant.

A little further away, they crossed the line! Many aristocrats have the expression.

Naturally, there were a large number of people who tried to make it the Duke of Keller and talk to Elaine with the alias of General Princess or Ray with the alias of Deep Red.

Because of the large number of them, we couldn't tow each other and talk to each other... As a result, Ray and Elaine were enjoying the flavor of Georgima's cooking... but it was Bruit that broke it lightly.

If it was meant to be, Bruit also needed to be attached to the nobles' restraint.

for titles, profits, and previous borrowings.

But Bruit normally told Ray that it had nothing to do with that.

Around here, Bruit's out-of-standard as an aristocrat probably appears.

Most commonly, if we ignore the classes of custom in this way, it will be a hassle later.

Still, I guess I told Ray that Bruit had nothing to do with that.

Several nobles turn an abominable glance at Bluit, but he didn't seem to care about it and continued to talk about Ray and cooking.

"Nevertheless... as far as I can tell, you guys look good, you don't look good... that sounds subtle"

"No, which one is it?"

I am slightly dissatisfied with Bruit's words and Ray tells me so.

But to Ray like that, Elaine smiles and opens her mouth.

"Heh heh, Ray. It doesn't matter if we look good or not. That's only from someone else's eyes. What matters is what we think ourselves."

"... when they say that, it feels kind of convincing, impossible, subtle"

That being said, Ray carries some kind of roast meat into his mouth.

In terms of meat, Ray, who usually eats high-ranking monster meat, but even for such a ray, the taste of the meat carried in his mouth was exceptional.

Try Ray, who's not good at cooking, and you don't know exactly what procedure you used to make this dish. I don't know... but still it was obvious that I didn't just cook it normally if I tried to make it a ray enjoying the taste of meat.

It was obvious that meat itself also uses very high quality things, but I guess I care more about cooking methods than that.

"Delicious, this meat"

"Oh."

Bruit nodded as he agreed to Ray's grunt, watching those two, Elaine with an intriguing gaze.

One of our nobles, who was inadvertently watching what was going on around him, approaches in the midst of all those three enjoying themselves.

That is the nobility that prevailed to the end in the restraint that had been carried out silently.

"Dear Elaine, Best wishes for another year. No, and when you see how Lady Elaine is dressed, you're accidentally blinded."

To the aristocrats who have said so, Elaine smiles small.

Given that I can't see anything I don't like about it, Ray, who was watching next door, decided that this nobleman is not a bad opponent from Elaine's point of view.

In fact, the nobleman also talks to Ray, who was on Elaine's side, with a grin.

"You're Lord Ray of Deep Red. My territory is quite far away, so unfortunately it was after the mock battle that I arrived, so I have heard from my men who were watching the mock battle that it is quite strong. And you think you're making that Griffon obedient?"

"If you say so, it was worth the effort."

"Oh, you can break the tone. I am also accustomed to dealing with adventurers because adventurers are active in the territory."

To Ray's words, the nobleman says so with a grin.

Neither does Ray, if he's usually someone who's clearly in a high position - and that's not hostile - then anyway, he doesn't do that much polite language if he's someone else.

But not this time.

Elaine's father, Liberté, the Duke of Kelevel, hosted more than a party, and if we make a commotion here, we will crush Elaine's father, Liberté's face.

I wanted to avoid that, as Ray, if I could.

I know Liberté is just as good a person as Dusker, and most importantly, Elaine's father.

I naturally didn't want to imitate the mud on such a person's face.

Not to mention that Liberté is grateful in that he acknowledges Ray's relationship with Elaine, albeit in the form of acquiescence.

Of course, Ray also understands that Liberté has no idea... and that's not just why Elaine admitted to dating because she wanted to.

Elaine has the alias of the Princess General, but at the same time she is a courtier of the Duke of Keller, and it was not surprising, naturally, that marriages were made to make the Duke of Keller more prosperous, independently of her own will.

Despite this situation, Liberté acknowledged Elaine's relationship with Ray.

Naturally, there will also be a damage account there that means better relations between the aristocrats and the neutrals, or that Ray will be asked to cooperate through Elaine when something happens.

Especially the latter...... it is very comforting to be asked to cooperate by Ray as Liberté, who knows the power of Ray well enough.

Seto and Ray. If this one and one really cares about it, that's because I'm so convinced that if it's about a small country, it has just the power to destroy it.

With that in mind, it would be of great benefit to the Duke of Keller and the aristocracy to acknowledge Ray's relationship with Elaine.

... Nevertheless, that's only a story if you think rationally, and many people are not convinced by emotion.

Especially that is common in the young nobles who were after Elaine, and such people remember their strong jealousy of Ray.

Naturally. Because Elaine makes herself a Duchess Warrant, has an alias for the Princess General, and is the beauty beauty bearer such as whether she will be seen once in her life on it.

Many aristocrats are accustomed to women, but it becomes difficult to be as usual if even such a person stands before Elaine.

If that were to be wearing a glossy party dress as it is now, the thought would not have been strange to be extra strong,

"Then let the words crumble. Still, what am I to say about adventurers, isn't it unusual that they are aristocratic and often deal with adventurers?

"I won't deny that. However, if our territory is not as peripheral as the Guild, there was a deep and vast forest inhabited by so many monsters. Because of that, I have a lot of opportunities to meet adventurers."

"Heh."

A deep and vast forest, inhabited by many monsters.

Ray has a strong interest in the word, seeking the demon stone of an unknown monster by Warcraft.

The aristocrat also opens his mouth with a slight curiosity as to whether he found out Ray was interested in his words.

"Interested? If there is, please come to my territory once. For adventurers, it must be an easy city to live in."

"Right, I'd love to go once I get the chance...... I'm so busy right now that I don't know when I'm going to go"

Ray's words to that effect have a color that seems somewhat unfortunate.

But Ray is actually very busy right now.

This is how we are now treated as guests of the House of the Duke of Kelevel, but that is only now.

A little after this party, I'm planning on going back to Gilm.

That's how we get back to Giganto Turtle.

As for the dismantling of Giganto Turtle, Ray would not have to accompany him, but the person in charge should have been there for when there was really something wrong, just to have a body like a mountain.

Because if you don't make an immediate decision when something happens, that's all you're wasting your time on.

In addition, in the spring, the construction work on the guilm will be revitalized again, and the face of the Red Lotus wings will be busy, including Ray, who has mysteries.

Still, the Rays will have a hard time in busy days, and they will get the rest of the day as they did when they went to the ocean in the summer.

I didn't explain anything, but I guess I still understood the general circumstances from Ray's expression. The aristocratic man does not imitate that he seems a little sorry but is forced to go further than that.

"Really? I'm sorry, but you have no choice. But I'm glad you'll come sometime when you can afford it."

"Oh. Let me do that."

Ray and I don't like anything and we're not going to this noble territory.

Unknown monster demon stones are also a very interesting substitute for Ray.

In the meantime, Ray was not the only one who showed interest in the story of that nobleman, but also Bruit, who was listening with him.

"Well, that's an interesting story. For once, I ask, can I go to Count Fanleil's territory, too?

"Huh? Lord Bruit, are you serious?

Nobility...... Count FanLyle turns his surprise gaze to Bruit.

Bruit is the next head of the Count Exolis family, although not very much so if you look at his personality alone.

Just knowing that, Count FanLyle can't be happy to hear that Bruit is coming to his city.

But Bruit nods with a fierce grin at such Count FanLyle.

"That's right. I will inherit the Count Exolis family eventually. More than that, as far as I'm concerned, I want to be as powerful as I can be. When that happens, it's still best to go through a real fight."

"Definitely... but I don't really recommend it as far as I'm concerned."

"Right. Bruit should also think about his position for a moment."

That said, it wasn't Ray, it wasn't Elaine, it was another person.

He was an unrecognizable figure to Ray, but I guess Elaine, Bruit and Count FanLyle were different.

"Baron Muta, is that you?"

The words of Count FanLyle, who tells him so, are familiar.

There's quite a difference in titles between the Count and the Baron, but in these two cases I guess we're dating regardless of titles.

"Erm..."

"Oh, excuse me. I heard Bruit say something unscrupulous about it, so I let him pinch my mouth. Dear Elaine, it's been a while. Lord Ray, it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Baron Azuel Muta. Count Fan Lyle and I are familiar. Thus, we still have a cheap relationship."

"It's Ray. I'm an adventurer in the Guild... well, there's a lot going on here"

"Heh heh, a lot. That sounds like a tough one."

Azuel, who laughs so much, looks as old as FanLyle...... in his mid-thirties.

Most of all, that's just what Ray sees and feels, and in this Elgin, where there are long-lived people, starting with elves, the age of appearance is not much to guess.

"So, Baron Muta. Why can't I go to Count Van Lyle's territory? Nothing. That's about all right, isn't it? I'm not going to tell you that if I get hurt, you can take responsibility for it."

Azuel sighed in disgruntled discontent at the blue-it.