Legend

"Is this the lake of the other world…"

"That's amazing, Doctor. I can't believe there really is a different world that was thought to exist only in theory"

Looking at the lake, a man in his late twenties and a woman in his mid-teens are having a conversation.

A little further away, another group of scholars were examining the lake with their own interests in mind.

Some of them are still observing the burning slime.

If an opponent who doesn't know anyone is supposed to come, a knight who is in charge of stopping it, or if the opponent is a scholar seconded at the request of Dusker, he can't stop it.

"Though...... are you sure you're okay? There could still be that Amenbo or something on the lake, and there could be another monster."

We don't even know yet who the animal Ray saw with the hair that plays the water.

Above and beyond that, it was definitely dangerous to do whatever you wanted to move around.

… but the escort of such scholars was also added as Ray's job.

"Hey, adventurer there. I heard about eating fish caught in this lake. Is there anything wrong with your body? How was your texture?

There were some scholars asking a lot about the fish-eating adventurer who caught it at the lake, but Ray, who saw it, was glad he didn't eat the fish for now, and I feel smudged.

I guess the fish eaters don't have to worry about the area because they all normally said what they thought was delicious and no one seems particularly sick after a little bit of it.

"Yeah. Scholars who do it and don't get inside the lake, it's easy to play amulet.... That looks like a tough one."

Near scholars who are walking into the lake and checking out what's going on around them, adventurers are waiting to be able to deal with it as soon as something happens.

Not only were there adventurers, but some of the Lizardman and some of the free hands on instructions from Zozo and Gaga were turning to escort such scholars.

... although some scholars were more intrigued by the friendly Lizardman than the lake.

"Whoa! Look at this! I've never seen this shellfish before. It's a new breed!

One of the scholars screams, holding that shellfish with both hands.

Yes, as with both hands, the shellfish was quite huge.

That's the kind of shellfish that you can finally hold with both hands, that size.

In shape, it's a rolled shell that resembles Tanishi. Only its size was out of standard for a variety of things.

Even for Ray, a shellfish called Tanishi is familiar.

When I was in Japan, I had seen many times that I lived in a river flowing near my house.

Though I never saw that big Tanishi.

When it comes to Ray's known tanishi, it's about the size of a fingertip.

"Hey, old man. Such giant shellfish are dangerous..."

An adventurer who was an escort at the scholar's side told the scholar so with a giant shellfish...... the next moment the adventurer blows up a giant shellfish with a spear stone poke in his hand.

"What!?

A scholar who was suddenly blown away with shellfish he had stares at the adventurer who did it.

But the stared adventurer shows shellfish blown with a spear in his hand.

"Take a look. If I was too late to slap him down some more, what would have happened to your old man's hand... you know what I mean?

That's what they said, and when the scholar turned his gaze to the blown shellfish... a sharp needle was sticking out of the shellfish.

The length of the needle itself would be about 10 cm.

If the scholar had kept the shellfish as he had earlier, there was no doubt that the needle with the palms stretched from the shellfish had penetrated.

"This is..."

Suddenly a scholar stares at a needle-stretched shellfish.

"You know what I mean? Imitation like taking a detour from what's around..."

"Excellent. Is this how this shellfish gets its prey? Because this shellfish should be considered carnivorous."

Er... and.

Even though he was on the verge of getting hurt, the scholar takes an interesting look at the shellfish that stretched the needle without looking like he cared about it at all.

If you're a scholar, I guess that's all that's interesting about being unknown.

That's what it looks like, if it's to satisfy your intellectual curiosity, as if you don't care enough to give your own flesh.

Not only was Ray watching it, but the others were subtly pulling on such scholars again.

"This fish... no more raw ones?

And, the scholar with the giant shellfish doesn't look like he cared at all, and one of the scholars asks the baked fish eaten adventurer.

The adventurer, who had been asked what the fish tasted like by root digging leaves, opens his mouth, even though he was slightly fed up with the words.

"That fish is pretty easy to catch, so you can catch it as soon as you want to."

With that said, I get a slightly unpleasant look on the adventurer's face.

If it had been until earlier, that would have been the only reason I would have gone inside the lake and caught fish without paying any particular attention.

But if you look at the giant shellfish that scholars had earlier, it's more than certain that the same shellfish live in the lake, and I honestly don't want to go into the lake if I can.

But all the scholars say is that it doesn't matter how adventurers are doing or anything like that, they open their mouths.

"Then get me a fish. Stay alive if you can. I want to compare it to the fish in this world."

this world? and the adventurer tilts his neck.

Scholars have been informed by Dusker of the possibility that this lake has undergone a metastasis from a world different from this one, and that is why he was strongly interested in this investigation.

But the adventurer hasn't been informed about it, so I guess I didn't understand the meaning of the word.

Nevertheless, the problem for today's adventurers was that they had to go inside the lake and catch fish rather than what the world was like.

(I wish I had a fishing rod or something)

If it is a place like Harbor Street or nearby with a large river, the fishing rod will have quite a few.

For once there is also a river near the gilm, but it is a rather small river, besides being a periphery, therefore there are also many monsters, not so many who fish.

There may be some likes of such things in the guilds if you look, but unfortunately you can't possibly do that in the present situation.

No way, I'm going to go to the guild now and look for someone with a fishing rod to borrow, so I can't tell you to wait here to get the fish, etc., and if I did, the scholar would definitely dismiss that.

That's why...

"Shellfish are mostly immobile. Because if you see shellfish somewhere in the lake, you can handle it.... Please, please don't be here."

So as to encourage and comfort himself, the adventurer enters the lake to catch fish.

In its hands is a long sword.

A spear would be better than a long sword to catch fish if it were meant to be, but a raw hater man didn't have a spear.

... to Ray, that's what I might have been able to lend him.

Either way, the adventurer walks into the lake... waving a long sword.

Fish don't pull their long swords out of their sheaths any more than they hope to stay alive.

And he even handed it off to good health so he wouldn't crush the fish with his sheath and kill it.

Rather than beating him, the fish thrown out of the lake feeling like soaking with a sheath, falling straight to the waterfront ground, storms around fine.

That showed the viability of the fish.

"Wow, that's amazing. I'm sorry, but I need a few others."

The adventurer goes on and on to shake his sheath over and over again, thinking that he was already abandoning himself if this happened to the scholar's words.

Is that proof that you are still an armed adventurer to be able to acquire fish so lightly?

Two, three, four, five.

The fish, which was then thrown to the ground by the adventurer in sheath, naturally all of which is still alive, jumps around the ground vigorously.

Scholars happy to catch such multiple fish.

(Even if we capture him alive, there's no tank or bucket or anything like that, so it's impossible to take him to the gilm alive? Not to mention that the other scholars will still say they want to stay here even if I say I'm going home now)

Ray thinks that way, looking at scholars who are happy to catch fish.

At the end of Ray's gaze, there were other figures of scholars wielding adventurers.

Some people, walking around the lake, picking up stones falling on the ground, writing something and collecting it.

(Are you even investigating the ore?... I don't know if there's any ore in the lake)

To be precise, there would be various ores in terms of ore.

But if they say that's enough ore to sell, most of the time, no.

Nevertheless, it is not surprising that in some cases there are classes of ore that do not exist in this world, beyond the fact that this lake is a lake that has been transferred from another world.

"Gru?"

What's the matter with you? And, to Ray watching what's going on around him, Seto asks.

If you try Ceto, you won't know what makes you just shut up and watch what's going on around you like this.

... In fact, Ray doesn't imitate that for any clear reason either.

"No, it's nothing. I was just looking around. There were more scholars than I expected."

Ray was the one who wanted Dusker to drop in on the scholar.

Still, I never thought you'd send a bunch of scholars this far.

I'm happy with Dusker's quick behavior, but still looking at the scholars like this... it makes me feel kind of subtle because I can't help it.

The scholars examining the lake remind me of the alchemists somewhere.

Take the trees that have been felled in the Trento Forest, and they'll come together for it, or they'll tell Ray if he'll give up the material for the giant eyeball monster he knocked down in the winter, such alchemists.

(Compared to the alchemists, it still feels pretty important.)

At least you don't tell me to give myself some material.

In fact, I probably just didn't know how much material was in Ray's mysteries.

"Mr. Ray, do you have a minute?

Of those scholars, a woman in her late twenties talks to me like that.

He was checking the water in the lake.

"Oh, I don't mind. So, what's wrong with you? What do you got?

"Yes, but not yet in terms of a full investigation. … it's just that for now there's no problem with people drinking the water from this lake"

"Heh."

Raw water is basically a lot dangerous.

Even so, it was only natural for Ray to be surprised because there was no problem drinking the water from this lake.

"Is that for sure?

"Yes."

To Ray's question again, the woman affirms so.

I know that's all you're confident about, but can you still really find out everything in this short time? The thought occurred to Ray.

Nonetheless, if that's what you're going to say, nod.

"Okay. Once we use it, we boil it and then we use it, but that's okay, right?

"Right. I'm confident in my analysis, but I thought I'd do it just in case."

It was also surprising for Ray to say that he was not entirely trusted with his analysis results, but that he would never tolerate it.

I guess that thought came to my expression. The woman asks strangely.

"What's up?

"... no. I was told I didn't trust my test results completely, but I didn't think I'd say anything to affirm it."

"I did the investigation, but that is only an investigation to the best of my knowledge. I found that to be relatively simple, too, and not deadly poisonous, because I wouldn't know if I didn't do a more detailed investigation. That's why I thought I should boil it once if I use it as drinking water. … I don't think you have to bother using the lake water if you really care about safety"

The words were true.

The water packed in the barrel is also brought when the food is actually brought by carriage.

With that, there is no trouble with drinking water.

"Still, when you have a ton of water in front of you like this, you really don't think you can do it. If this water can be used as drinking water, it can be used for other things to carry in the carriage."

Originally, Ray has a running water dagger if only it were drinking water.

The water produced by Ray's magic has a delicacy that should also be called celestial sweet dew.

... Nevertheless, knowing the taste of that water prevents me from drinking other water... Not that I still feel unsavory for a while.

With that in mind, I was pretty sure the water should still drink regular water.

Ray had a little conversation with the woman about the water.