Legend

The New Year's party is coming to an end.

It's already time enough for the date to change, and usually many will be asleep already at this hour.

Still, not many people put up with drowsiness because it's an annual party today because they're excited or in a high mood.

"So I'll take care of your water treatment."

"Um, please. I want you to rest assured that I will pay you well."

"Thank you. Luckily, we have a lot of wizards of earthliness, so we're good at what we do."

I thought someone was having such a conversation...

"Damn! Can't Master Elaine do anything anymore!? Corner... Corner I'm getting so strong..."

"Tell him to give up. Where you've grown stronger, you can't have an alias like deep red, can you?

"It's..."

"More than that, see. Look at that. Daughters over there. I've been watching you so many times.

"What!? Is that true!?

A nobleman who was after Elaine, try to find a new love.

Together, many of the nobles are free to do so.

Those who have had good negotiations at this party are in a good mood for wine and tasting the dishes made by Georgima and his disciples.

The noblemen, whose negotiations did not come together, were carrying wine and dishes in their mouths to contain frustration.

In the meantime, several nobles were gathered around the corner of the party venue to talk about each of them.

"Still, today's party was all about surprise. I didn't think that Elaine would do such a great dance."

"Right. I was blinded when I saw that dance. It wasn't worth the age, and I got excited."

"If you're gonna say that, so am I. That dance was really great.... and Elaine's opponent's adventurer. You have an alias, Deep Red, and you think it's pretty strong?"

When one of the aristocrats says so, several aristocrats, who were watching Ray's mock battle previously waged, open their mouths immediately.

"I saw the mock fight Ray did, but that strength was real.... and because they use Griffon as their obedience."

"That's right. To be honest, when I first heard the story, I wondered what the Duke of Kelevel had recognized the adventurer style as Elaine's opponent... seeing Griffon as an obedient demon would only convince me."

"... well, that's not it. The strength of that man..."

Two, one nobleman who's ever listened in silence, squeals like that.

In that tone lies the indisputable sentiment of fear.

Only that nobleman, who is usually grand, sees such a thing and the noblemen around him question it.

"Baron Chilmuno, what the hell is wrong with you? Not even you."

To that word of a friend from before he succeeded to the title, the man called Baron Chilmuno carries wine into his mouth to calm himself.

Baron Chilmuno exhales, as if it were a wine of quite a few degrees or his mouth gets hot...... exhales its heat.

"I've been on the battlefield with Ray before. Look, that's it. war against the Bestian Empire, which took place a few years ago"

"Yeah, you said you'd join if you said so."

Even though they are aristocrats, they are not the only aristocrats who can afford it financially.

Especially if we try to make it a low-ranking nobleman like the Baron House, it is not uncommon to join the war and bring up the handles, thereby expecting a grace award or hoping to put it on a higher title.

Baron Chilmuno also did not leak into the example and took part in the war against the Bestian Empire.

I was confident in my strength just because I was working out from day to day, and the soldiers I led were rigorously trained, and I just had the strength to judge them as soldiers.

But...... what Baron Chilmuno saw on the battlefield was the figure of Ray causing so much damage to the avant-garde units of the Vestian Imperial Army with a giant tornado of flames.

And done right after, Ray's figure of using the Great Sickle to kill his enemies one after the other.

I only use the Great Sickle, and the behavior even seemed to Baron Chilmuno to be mowing people's lives as if they were mowing weeds somewhere with a sickle.

That's what it would have been like to have a sickle and mow the lives of your enemies like you dance, it wouldn't have been strange to be called Reaper.

Baron Chilmuno, who explained how the battle was going, slowly continues to talk about whether he had settled down some of it by talking.

"To be honest, I think the judgment of the Duke of Kelp, who established friendship with the Neutralists, was no more of an English break. If you're going to fight the Dusker Borderline uncle with Ray as his katana..."

Bullshit.

You imagined when you were hostile to Ray, Baron Chilmuno's body trembles.

Seeing as that happens, those who were listening to Baron Chilmuno know that their perception was sweet.

It was that that the aristocrats and others who were concerned to have seen the simulated battle and understood the strength of Ray highly valued the judgment of the Duke of Kelevel, who, as Baron Chilmuno said, had established friendship with the neutrals.

It would be like running into Ray on the battlefield, hostile to the neutrals, because he absolutely wanted to avoid it.

"So much so that a man like Baron Chilmuno would want to say that?... As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem that way."

One of the nobles who was listening to Baron Chilmuno tells him as he looks at Ray, who is colluding with several nobles.

That gaze turned into a slightly peeking gaze, probably because when Ray had that much power, he understood that.

"That's right. I'll tell you what. Though, you really shouldn't imitate Ray hostilely. If you antagonize Ray, all you're waiting for ahead is ruin. Either way, Ray doesn't imitate you because you're noble."

Baron Chilmuno knows the fact that in the war in which Ray was to get an alias, he waved that great sickle with no mercy whatsoever towards the nobility of the Kingdom of Mireana.

Normally, you can't imitate a nobleman by attacking him so lightly.

But Ray, who does it fine, was also exactly like a natural enemy to the aristocracy.

They find no value in that power, even as they silence them with power.

No, maybe I'm finding value, but that's just as much value as I can ignore.

Even if you hire an escort, you can't have someone to beat Ray or... not to mention Griffon's Ceto.

And it's harder to chase if you can escape into the sky, even if you hire someone that Ray really can't beat than there is Seto.

Besides, if you let them get away, you don't know when or where they'll attack you next.

If you are strong enough to defeat Ray, you will naturally need the right amount to hire him, and it is difficult to keep hiring him unless he is too rich.

Those who were listening to Baron Chilmuno swallowed the spit in his mouth without my knowledge.

"Ha ha. You know what I'm talking about."

"No, no, that's not true. I think you'd understand better."

In front of Ray, there was a slightly unexpected sight.

Because there, Bruit and Lanigs were laughing at each other.

If we are nobles to each other, and Bruit is not staying in Anesis separately, then factions are different, like the Kings' Lanigus and the nobles' Bruit.

Even so, I guess these two were somewhat compatible. We quickly became friends.

In such a short distance from Lanigs and Bruit, Therese compliments Elaine on her dress and her earlier dance.

Further away from there, I look with envy at Therese, whom Arla is talking to Elaine, but I need to deal with the aristocracy she talks to, and I can't leave the spot right away.

Elaine's belly is Ara's superficial reputation.... That's not actually what's wrong.

For an aristocratic nobleman, such an Ara was quite attractive as a marriage partner.

That's why so many young men are trying to dictate Ara.

... Most importantly, he is not interested in men at all, and as much as he talks to these men, that is what makes him want to go under Elaine.

If this had been a forceful imitation of the men who were leaning on Ara, Ara would have been able to show her pride in her rigidity and stop beating the men.

But do the men know that, or do they simply think it's lame to imitate complaining about violence, and they usually dictate Ara.

"I don't know, Mr. Ara. The snowfields are spreading this time of year near my house. It's a bland snowfield, with no trace of anyone walking. I'd love to see it with Ara."

"I'm sorry, I'm Elaine's head of the Knights Escort, so it's not that easy to vacate Anesis."

In fact, I've always been in the guild with Elaine, but I refuse to invite her while keeping that out of the table.

"Well, why don't you come around and watch Anesis with me? I've just come to Anesis, so it would help if you could show me around."

"I'm too busy working right now to afford that. I'm sorry."

Besides such exchanges......

"Ara, your eyes are residing in a strong will, very nice. As much as I'd love to watch it forever if I could."

"I want to celebrate meeting a jewel named you."

"Your atmosphere, Rin. You're gonna want to watch this forever."

As such, even one compliment after another is thrown.

(Wow... that's tragic)

Ray carries to his mouth the dishes he brings from a table nearby, watching how Arla is doing like that.

It was a dish that had already been made for more than a few hours, but only one made by Georgima and his disciples, usually delicious.

The dish served at the party means that I probably made it around a dish that won't lose its flavor even if it cools down.

Some dishes, while warm, are very tasty, but when cooled, the flavor drops all at once… there is something to be said about the duration of the delicacy.

A dish that deserves serving in a restaurant, but is not suitable for eating at parties like this.

Georgima naturally knew that, so she made the kind of dish that Ray was eating right now.

While you're at it, you can eat a lot of different dishes even if it's cold, like Georgima's dramatic.

"Hey, dude. Ray, what do you think?

Ray, who was enjoying the dish, accidentally gets spoken to by Bruit and returns to me.

But what do you think, more than not listening at all? I can't possibly answer that when asked.

"Bad, I ate the food and I wasn't listening. What are you talking about?

So I honestly apologize and ask you what you wanted to say.

It was a blue-it that showed a slight glimpse of how Ray was doing, but still does not imitate dissatisfaction in his mouth, explaining the circumstances.

"I'm talking about a good hunting ground at Lanigs' house. They don't come out with monsters or anything, so they can hunt safely. Not interested?

"Interested...... sorry but not that much"

Hunting, so called hunting, is basically a wild animal.

Especially since Lanigs says there aren't any monsters right now, of course.

But... apart from the pleasure of hunting in hunting, if you think purely of the taste of meat, it really tastes inferior to the meat of monsters in wildlife.

Some people say that its wild flavored flavor is the good one, and Ray doesn't deny that either... but nevertheless, it was Ray's honest desire to eat delicious meat if he was going to eat it anyway.

Among the monsters, there are unsavory monsters, starting with goblins.

But the meat of a high-ranking monster like Ray fights for sure tastes better than wildlife meat in relation to having magic power.

In some cases, even such meat exists, which is not surprising when it comes to being on the table of nobility and royalty.

"Really? Hunting is pretty funny.... Uh, no. Are you used to hunting like that in Ray's case?"

"Right. I don't know about hunting like nobles do, but if you live with Seto, don't really hunt monsters a lot. For meat."

In fact, the unknown demon stone was also greedy, but there is no reason to teach about warcraft, and it is properly misleading.

That's how the Rays, along with Arla, who managed to shake off the men who were coming, amazed each other until Liberté spoke of the closing of the party.