Legend
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"Hmm. The first person I went to see was Elaine."
A small dining room, a short distance from the clinic.
Ray was having a conversation with Marina at a store that I think should be described as a coffee shop to be exact.
I used this store when I came to see the marina before, but today the number of guests is not that high.
... Although it may be natural that this is usually the time to work.
If this had been a little longer, it would have been more likely that guests would have gathered in this store for lunch.
In a store like that, Ray was wondering what to say back to the marina in front of him.
(I went to the marina's house, but the marina wasn't there?... no, that's no excuse or anything)
I also know that Marina works at the clinic, because, naturally, she wouldn't be home at this hour, and she definitely works at the clinic.
Just knowing that, it was natural to assume that Ray went straight to the marina's house to see Elaine.
To the marina in front of me, what can I say?
That's how you get lost...
"Ha-ha-ha, that's enough."
That's what they say, with Marina smiling unexpectedly.
I was laughing earlier, but now I'm laughing differently than before.
Seeing such a marina grin, Ray realizes that he was being made fun of.
I mean, he said the marina wasn't really mad until now.
"Don't be surprised."
"Oh, but I forgive you today, but if the same thing happens again, it doesn't necessarily mean I forgive you properly, does it?
"Gu, that's..."
Ray won't be able to say anything to such marina words.
In fact, the last time I came to see the marina was because it's an unmistakable fact.
... Nevertheless, it is not the last thing in the true sense than I have not yet met with Bühne.
However, it is an unmistakable fact that Elaine and I came to see each other after Vihera.
Most of all, Elaine came from the other world in the case of Vihera, so I wondered if she would join Elaine and Marina.
"Anyway, I'm glad you're okay. I thought it was okay because I was talking about Ray, but I couldn't say for sure."
In Marina's words, Ray opens his mouth knowing he was worried.
"Sorry to worry about you."
"Alas, if it's enough to apologize, I'd be more than happy for you to say thank you for your concern?
"Right. I'm glad you're worried. Thanks."
"... good"
You honestly didn't think it would be returned that way, Marina tells you so, showing a little illumination.
As for Ray, I didn't know why the marina was lit.
(I say women's hearts and autumn skies or something, but I guess that's exactly how it is. It's summer now though)
Drinking the fruit water on the table, think so.
A slightly calm marina opens her mouth to see how Ray is doing like that.
"So, what do we do now? Still over there for a while?
"Oh. Dragonias needs to do something... and we need to find Anastasia and Fana"
"Yes."
To Ray's words, Marina whines briefly.
If you try marina, Anastasia is one of a kind.
It's not exactly the same with elves and dark elves, but it's definitely a nearby species nonetheless.
So I guess I had the desire to save Anastasia if I could also do it as a marina.
"Well, it's going to be busy without Ray if you're working on the additions until one of the other cases is cleared."
"Don't be. Nevertheless, there's nothing more to be done even if you're over there than to eventually have to find your home in the true sense of Dragonias, and I'm sure you'll be able to come back here quite a bit."
In fact, Ray is in the settlement of Centaur in the other world, and not so much can be done.
That would be where some of the Centaurs actually go to battle with the warriors, or go with Seto to get some kind of food animal or monster.
... In fact, both of them would be greatly appreciated by the Centaurs.
Doing a mock fight with Ray, the owner of a strength that can overwhelm Dragonias, naturally also works in his favor when fighting Dragonias.
Nevertheless, since Ray and Dragonias are naturally of different stature and fighting methods, it's not like the fight with Ray works in his favor in the fight with Dragonias as it is.
Food also helps in a more direct sense than mock warfare.
Under the influence of Dragonias, more food will naturally be needed in relation to the Centaurs coming together from other settlements one after the other.
... In that sense, it must have been an early act to banquet the Rays when they came back and crush the livestock.
At that time, I had decided that there would be no more Dragonias raids.
I guess it never occurred to me that the place Rays crushed wasn't home.
In that sense, it was very gratifying that Ray and Seto would be getting food if we tried it on the Centaurs.
The circumstances around it weren't entirely known to Marina either, but I still nod at Ray's explanation.
"Yes. If it's true, I'd like to go over there too... it's hard considering what's going on at the clinic right now"
"Are there a lot of injured people after all?
"Is it right that it's really summer and it's getting more..."
"In the summer?
"Yep. Sometimes it gets hot, the effects make me distracted, and there's some kind of accident... and other times, there's more fighting because of the heat."
To that word in the marina, Ray remembers a TV show he saw when he was in Japan.
In the summer, a special edition of the police is often shown.
Just because it gets hot doesn't mean there will be more crime.
No, maybe it is, but as a Ray, I don't really recognize that.
It was summer vacation and time was available, so there were some thoughts that people involved in crime would come out.
... Happy or unhappy, it was a rural town in the northeast when Ray lived in Japan, so there was no such thing as being involved in such a crime.
"You think the spiritual magic of the marina lowers the temperature of the entire guild?... Hard?
"It's not hard, it's impossible. What does Ray think I am?
It was a marina that told her like she was scared, but from Ray's point of view, she had the impression that most things would be worked out using spiritual magic.
That's why you could possibly even imitate the whole guild to cool it down? And it was natural to think so.
If that were possible, that would be what would bring many together in the Guild.
Nor is it a resident of the area or anything, nobility...... nor is it strange that higher noble officials such as the Marquis or the Duke or, in some cases, the Lord will come.
Anyway, summer is cool... so if you can imitate it like that, it's not strange to be able to do something like warm in winter.
(Well, if that happens, I think that could be a huge disturbance around the marina)
Even now, few would want any means to be used if the spiritual magic prowess of the marina were known.
Still, I don't imitate it in a detour because Marina has long had interactions with Dusker and his clan, and even more so because he was an experienced guild master and an amazing adventurer before becoming one.
It would also be a great deterrent to be Ray's companion with a deep red alias.
It is widely known that Ray will not tolerate nobility either.
If you ask me if I want to turn a ray like that on my enemies...... normally, there would be nothing to snort at it.
"I thought I could do it because I know what marina's capable of."
"Not very much, but I can't. If I could, that would be a few seconds... maybe a few minutes if I tried, but I think it would be like that."
With a few more spiritual magic arms up, we might be able to do a few dozen things, though.
Yeah, last marina to add.
That's not what I wish it would be, it's a word with certainty that it will be.
"Is Spirit Magic Awesome or Marina Awesome..."
"Both."
With a confident look, Marina tells you so lightly.
Such a marina appearance was just as appealing to Ray's eyes as it was strange.
Nevertheless, I wonder if it would be a strange atmosphere in a place like this, and Ray goes off topic.
"Anyway, I think I can only come back here sometimes until that matter is resolved"
"Right. You should do that to help the Anastasians. I miss you a little bit, but I'll be patient."
Saying so, the smiling marina shows off the gloss of the woman until she is mighty.
In fact, of the two men and women in their twenties or so who seemed to be lovers a little further apart, the man was more blinded by the marina... the lover would not be amused if that happened as a matter of course, stomping his thoughtful lover's feet under the table and making him scream.
"What?"
"Come on?"
Ray and Marina give each other a strange look, not knowing they are causing such a quarrel disturbance between strange lovers.
Afterwards, I was just talking enough, and someone unexpectedly comes into the store.
Usually, the area would have continued the conversation without any particular concern.
But if it's someone who works at the clinic who came in, it's not the story.
Especially if the woman rushes to the one with the marina, even more so.
"What's wrong?
It wasn't like I had nowhere to think I'd been disturbed in my time with Ray, but if the face of the woman approaching me looked serious, I know it didn't just come with interest.
And in fact, is the woman in a hurry to open her mouth quickly?
"The injured person has been brought to the clinic....... that's pretty serious too. Building materials fell from above, and he said he hit it."
"Okay."
That said, Marina's face is already back from the woman who loves Ray to the face of those who use healing magic in the clinic.
"Ray, I'm sorry..."
"Oh, I don't mind. I was thinking of leaving the guild."
"Be careful."
Ray doesn't even know if it's because it's in public or if he had some other idea.
But the marina mouths lightly on her cheeks, not Ray's lips, and then leaves the store with the woman who picks her up.
In such a way, there was again a commotion in the lovers who had been fighting since earlier, but Ray stood up from Yoko without even showing how concerned he was with it to soften his accounting.
It's probably because it's the kind of store where lovers come to each other. Instead of paying for every order like a liquor store, it was in the form of collecting and paying the price at the end.
Then I buy some baked sweets for Seto.
Although... I left the baked treat that Ara received for Seto earlier, so this baked treat is not right now, but even this evening.
Baked confectionery made by the cook employed by the nobility and usually sold in the shop.
Naturally, there can be a big difference between those two flavors.
Even if I let Seto eat this baked sweet nowadays, even though it would otherwise feel delicious, the flavor of the previous baked sweet overshadows the original flavor of this baked sweet.
It was too much.
Leaving the store and going to the clinic... to be exact with Seto, many people gather in front of the clinic unlike when Ray arrived earlier.
However, they are not gathered to treat injuries, and those in the clinic will be gathered worried.
(Apparently, being injured doesn't mean the person is just a earned worker, it's like being admired by everyone)
I was slightly interested in the person, but I can't be in the guild as Ray or forever.
We need to go back to the other world and see what's going on with the search for Dragonias' home base.
If it's really dangerous, I think I can use Ray's potion, but I'll shake my neck to the side right away.
If you have Marina's Spirit Magic, you won't need the potion you have.
That's what I decided... Ray was headed to where Seto was.