Legend

"Hmm... it's a beautiful day. I mean, it's getting a lot hotter in the morning... but I wonder if summer's coming up."

If Anastasia looks out at the cloudless blue sky, stretch out loud and squeal.

Early morning...... a little late, but still enough time to call it morning.

In the meantime, Anastasia was enjoying the morning forest air in full with Fana.

Nevertheless, the temperature is already quite high, even though, as the saying goes, it is morning.

With the lake on its side, I guess it's more comfortable than the whole city of Gilm, but it was making me realize that rising temperatures, like every day, were gradually heading into summer for Anastasia.

"Really? Well, then you'll get used to it."

I said that lightly Ray, but in Ray's case I'm wearing a dragon robe with the function of simple air conditioning, so even if the ambient temperature is hot, it doesn't look like I cared at all.

"What do you think of Fana?

Anastasia, turning a frightened glance at Ray, asks toward Fana.

The spoken fana wonders how to deal with Anastasia's words.

... wearing a mask as usual, so I don't know what look the current fana has on her face, but I do know she's still confused by the atmosphere.

"Look, Fana should be clear to Anastasia, too, huh?

"Ugh..."

Even though I'm confused, when more words from Ray are uttered, Fana can't say anything.

A little, Anastasia and Ray understand that there is no point in imitating that in the present situation, and stop talking about it any further.

"So, naturally, you're still going today, right?

"Yeah, I don't know much about it yet, but I'd like to do a little research."

Where to go, what research to go on.

Ray and Anastasia exchange words without a clear representation of the area.

One case of Whisper is classified information.

That is why the number of people who know is quite small.

That's why we were having a conversation to the extent that there was no problem with those being asked by the guards of the Tower of Birth.

... although I envy some adventurers that Ray is talking to Anastasia, and in that sense he was turning his gaze.

The guard of the Tower of Birth is never a boring request.

From a nearby lake, an unknown monster… it also captures a monster of delicious fish, and the Lizardmans are definitely easy opponents, although they are not yet fully communicative.

I'm here as an escort for once, but not so much of what I actually did as an escort.

While I was there, I was sure it would be a very good job because I would get a good amount of pay.

Only one...... no, if there are two dissatisfactions, it would be booze and a woman.

Naturally more than you're asking for an escort, but it's obvious you shouldn't drink.

It's not that it's explicitly banned from the guild, but the adventurer turned from the guild by the escort here, I guess there's more than a certain amount of morality in there.

And another dissatisfaction, woman.

Maybe it's something else if you're a woman among the adventurers, but the only woman here is the Lizardman caretaker who came with the tower of birth.

The race was too different, and a woman was an opponent I couldn't think to dictate even if I could recognize her.

That's how Anastasia came.

In fact, there are fanas, but in the case of fanas, there are many who do not recognize women because they are wearing masks.

For that reason, Anastasia is the perception of being the only woman for many who are here… Ray, speaking to Anastasia like that, is naturally seen with a jealous gaze.

Most importantly, neither Anastasia nor Ray cares about such surrounding gaze at all.

Anastasia is used to the gaze of this hand because she is already in the mood for Whisp research and, in Ray's case, often acts with Elaine and the others.

Though only the familiar but therefore sensitive fana to others' gaze seemed to miss the subtle thoughts in their surrounding gaze.

"Well, then it's time to... go?

"Right. I had a good breakfast, and I don't have to eat anything until dinner anyway."

"No, eat about lunch."

Ray unexpectedly penetrates into Anastasia, who is willing to spare her lunch time and do Whisp research.

As for Ray, I would like you to proceed with your research on Whisp as soon as possible, which is why I don't expect Anastasia to do research until she skips lunch...

Talk in the first place, is the time you get to imitate like that sufficient or twenty minutes?

Dining times vary from person to person, so I can't say for sure this is the case, but I still don't think I can take that much time.

If so, it is Ray's honest feelings that he wants us to eat well for that amount of time and continue to study Whisp in full physical condition.

"Fana, I'm leaving the food behind, so let Anastasia have a good meal at noon"

That's what Ray said, but Fana looks a little troubled.

Hey, what's up? I say to Ray that I think Anastasia, who was listening, was spooked.

"You know, how do you know when you don't have an expensive magic item for a watch?

"... I see"

In Ray's case, he has a pocket watch for magic items.

Also, even without that pocket watch, Gilm regularly informed him of his time with the sound of a bell.

But Anastasia and Fana are underground spaces.

Not very much, but the sound of Gilm's bell does not reach, and it is underground but therefore cannot be imitated such as understanding time in the position of the sun.

Finding out more about time than being in an underground space... that's what I needed to know about time for things like hunger.

Such a lack of sense of time would have affected my understanding of the passage of time until Ray arrived, as he did last night.

Ray and Seto remembered that they had forgotten about the Anastasias when they had already finished preparing dinner and picked them up… naturally Anastasia, who had concentrated on research, but also the Fana, who was an Anastasian assistant, didn't realize anything about time.

"When you do, it doesn't just mean you have a lot of time, it means you eat when you're hungry."

"I guess that's the only way."

"... I'll do my best"

That's what Fana adds to Anastasia's words, but do you know what time feels like by working hard? The question lay with Ray.

If it's about a few minutes, you might know to some extent.

But that would be difficult if they asked me if I could tell when there was nothing like the sun that would keep me informed of the passage of time and when I really had to look into it just because of my senses, like a few dozen minutes, a few hours.

"Anastasia doesn't have a watch? I'm a researcher, and I think it's okay to have a watch."

"Well, it's going to be the king's capital, but that doesn't make any sense."

"... don't you think you need a watch or something to travel?

"Normally, I don't give a damn about time."

That's what Ray said, he remembers when he was in Japan.

It's what I was doing on TV, but it's not uncommon for trains to be delayed for minutes to more than a dozen minutes in a foreign country or, in terrible cases, dozens of minutes for Japan to be driving without a minute's madness.

When you think about it, you're still getting a sense of Japanese, too. I think so.

(or even lend my pocket watch)

Ray's pocket watch is a very expensive substitute.... In Ray's case, I didn't buy it, but it was a substitute obtained in the bandit hunt.

Just a pocket watch made of Mithril, which is pretty expensive as well.

Even as Ray, it's not an easy substitute to lend.

"I can't help it, so I figured if you're hungry, as I suggested earlier, eat it. I'll pick you up in the evening."

After all, that's what I decided to talk about.

"Mr. Anastasia, I don't know what kind of research you're doing, but good luck with that."

A man who was desperate to appeal to Anastasia last night speaks that way to Anastasia across Seto's back.

The order in which we are riding Seto is similar to last night, in the order of Fana, Anastasia and Ray.

Fana seems to be used to this situation, too, because the three of us rode Seto yesterday.

Either way, the man turns his envious gaze to Ray, who looks like he's hugging Anastasia from behind.

Ray nods back at the man for what he mistook for that gaze.

"Anastasia will take you to where you want to be, so don't worry"

"Uh... yeah. Right. Good luck with that."

The man tells him so, as he clapped out, that a completely different answer was returned than he thought.

If you try to be a man, the closest thing you currently have to Anastasia is Ray.

That's why I was burning up against Ray like that... I don't know what it's like to be such a man if I try to be Ray, but I guess that's why I gave it back.

"Leave it to me."

That's what he said, and Ray sent Seto a signal to leave.

"Well.... Anastasia delivered safely, and what do we do now? I thought we were going to retrieve the trees from them?

"Grrrrrrrr?...... Grrrrrrrr"

To Ray's words, Seto rants either way.

Try Ceto, if you can stay with Ray, I'll be happy to do anything anywhere.

... If I could, I would like to go hunting monsters.

If Ray also understands how Seto is doing, he tells him to go to his place.

Hearing Ray's words, Seto runs right out.

The speed is higher than when I was carrying Anastasia or Fana.

Running for a few minutes, you will eventually see them.

The adventurers escorting him notice Ray and Seto running.

"Hey! What's up? Much earlier today."

"No, I have some business over here. The last tree I came here yesterday and the one I cut this morning seems to be a little too."

"Oh. They're still doing their best today.... Here."

An adventurer who says so and tells you to clear your ears.

Naturally, the sound was heard on Ray as well… The sound of the Xu waving his axe and about to cut down the tree was heard.

"With that said, what happened to not having enough people? Have we got more people?

"Hmm? Oh. Aside from what Ray has been trying to gather, it seems the upper levels of the guild have been hitting a lot of hands. That's a lot more than before.... but it's going to take a little longer to get used to Trent Forest, so it's going to take a little longer to really be able to use it."

"I see. With more fighting power over there, it's going to be easier for the guilders because they can take a ton of felled trees even this way"

That's how he gently exchanges words and breaks up with the adventurer, and Ray stores the felled trees in one mistering after another.

"Grrrrrr...... Grrrrrr!? Grrrrrrrrrr!

It was Seto who watched as he stored nearby felled trees in mysteries, but saw the rabbit come out of between the accidentally felled trees, and he starts chasing them.

Even rabbits, of course, are ordinary rabbits, unlike monsters like Gamelions.

The rabbit tries to get off the spot quickly the moment he sees Seto... but blows straight next to him with a blow to his forefoot waved by Seto, who quickly packs his time.

"Gru!"

If only the usual...... ceto in the city knew, some would see this sight and scream.

Because Seto killed my beloved rabbit with one blow.

The blown rabbit broke his neck bone by hitting a tree that had grown nearby and was already dead.

How about a rabbit like that? What do you say? Show Ray.

If you try to lay it, a rabbit is not a prey that doesn't have much place to eat.

I had eaten several times when I was in Japan, but I had the impression that there were many bones.

Nevertheless, it is also true that Seto is the prey he has captured, so he decides whether to make it even for dinner today and stores the rabbit's body in mystering.

(There are quite a few animals now.)

With that in mind, Ray stores the trees one after the other in mystering...... eventually, he rides Seto to the Gilm.

Just a flying ceto, that's what makes me get to the guild in no time, get through the process and get inside the guild...

"Hmm?"

There was a strange discomfort and Ray looked around.