Legend

"Tutu!"

The Centaur woman Vihera brought in is a Centaur child falling to the ground on Ray's side...... look at the girl and speak like that.

I can't believe he was alive. Glad you're alive. Other than that, a voice with all sorts of emotions.

As he hurries to come near the girl he called Tutu, he reaches out and sees if he has breath.

And when I understand I'm just passing out, I relieve myself from the bottom of my heart.

"Apparently, the tent that was there had collapsed and had been caught up in it and passed out. You must have been lucky not to notice the groan Dragonias was coming out of that child's mouth"

Precisely, it would have meant that it was a priority to tuck Centaur's body, which he had killed in the settlement from hunger, in his belly, and that he did not care for the groans heard from the remains of the tent.

Though it was quite possible to have reacted to a slightly audible groan if all of the corpses had been contained in the belly and the corpse of the food Centaur had disappeared completely.

In that sense, I guess that means there was plenty of time for the Rays to return to this settlement......

While understanding that, Ray turns his gaze around.

A short distance from the wreckage of the tent is the body of Centaur for two.

(Maybe that corpse is my parents)

I'm pretty sure the girl in front of you is lucky that she survived the raid on Dragonias.

But at the same time, when people ask me if I'm really lucky that a girl survived in this situation where the settlement becomes like this... and survival is really a small number, I can't honestly nod as Ray.

At least not very much, given the current state of this settlement, but it would be impossible to live here again.

Are you lucky or bad?

Ray couldn't even make the decision around there, but he was still able to survive being raided by nearly a hundred dragonias, so I guess it's never bad luck.

That's the decision...... Ray looks at the woman watching the girl and asks.

"So, what about this kid? I didn't know if you were hurt or not, because I'm not familiar with Centaur."

"It's... it's okay. He seems to have bruises, but still not serious injuries like fractures. But I'm not that familiar with the treatment, so I don't know exactly."

"Right. Then you'd better bring someone with the knowledge of that hand."

Some Centaurs, waiting outside the settlement, are naturally familiar with their medical knowledge.

I didn't study medicine properly and systematically, but only someone who knows the medical technology that is being passed down to the Centaurs.

Still, years of wisdom in life are not what fools can do.

Because many people are actually helped by it.

That's how he came. Centaur checks on the girl falling on the ground.

"... yeah, I don't think there's a problem with that for now. I'm guessing it was successfully caught in the gap between the pillars."

By the time I was brought here, I guess the circumstances had been heard.

Centaur shrugs so much as he was impressed.

If I was unlucky, that could have been something like crushing my body by a pillar and rupturing my guts or breaking my bones.

But still, I might say I was lucky, rather than being eaten to death by Dragonias.

"Yes. Good.... Nevertheless..."

The woman who has fled this settlement has an indescribably subtle look on her face.

I'm glad you survived, but I didn't really think that the rest of my life would make me happy for this girl.

In the meantime...... from Ray's mouth, shocking content is told for the woman.

"So I'd like to dig back into this settlement... do you mind?

"... Huh?

I guess the words out of Ray's mouth were totally unexpected to the woman.

Unexpectedly, the missing voice leaks.

Naturally. Normally, it's not the first time they ask me if I can dig back where I lived.

Not to mention that this is close to total annihilation by the raids in Dragonias, and it's not that long since we moved the settlement here, but it's still a place to call home.

"Is that a joke?

"No, I mean it.... Hundreds of dragonias have come here, no matter what you think. Because there's got to be some reason here. And since the trees in the woods aren't eaten by Dragonias, I was just wondering if maybe that's why they're buried on the ground."

"It's..."

The woman can't argue with Ray's words.

In fact, if you think about it somewhat calmly, this is crazy.

Ray's right that nearly a hundred dragonias are coming here is not something that would normally be very convincing.

And... then we're shocked to see if we lived in a place that was easily attacked by dragonias from ourselves on purpose.

Nevertheless, if that's why you're immediately convinced of the word, that's another story.

"That, in fact, wouldn't there be any other reason?

"I don't know. The possibility is that there are actually special trees growing here or something?

Ray remembered the world tree that existed in the Marina settlement.

It is also conceivable that if such a world tree were here, Dragonias would ask for it for some reason, but from what I have seen thus it is not very much, but such a tree does not exist.

Alternatively, similar things are likely to happen with giant rocks of some power, but such rocks naturally do not exist.

That being the case, it was natural in a way to conclude that there was still something underground.

"That's... but this is for us..."

"I know how that feels, but if it turns out what's buried in the basement here, it could be a fatal blow to Dragonias. Don't you want to take your people's revenge? Besides... Originally, Centaur is moving the settlement around for a certain period of time, right?

Then don't you even have to worry about it that much?

To Ray, who goes on to say that, the woman gives a difficult look.

In the present circumstances, it is true that there is nothing we can do if they say so.

"I'm not telling you to respond right now. But still, tonight... or tomorrow, you'll get back to me."

It was Ray asking for a reply, but in fact only one choice exists.

As for Dragonias, we still don't know much about it.

If you can get any more information than that, you have no way to miss it.

As for Ray, I was gonna dig this place out no matter what.

(Well, if it really doesn't seem like a good idea... you don't have to dig somewhere else with a settlement, you also have the means to dig the side of the settlement. However, given that Dragonias has attacked me, it turns out it's the settlements that are suspicious...... that's a hard part)

Or there's no chance that Dragonias, who came all the way around here, found a settlement in Centaur and was attacked by starvation...

Among the dragonias that the Rays defeated were no dragonias of silver scales.

Naturally, there is no dragonias of gold scales, and then there is a good chance.

... If that was the case, try the Centaurs who were here and it definitely sucked.

"Okay."

Seeing the Centaur woman nod, Ray decides to leave for now.

"Well, let's get the hell out of here. When the kid wakes up, if there's a stranger around him, he'll be confused."

"Not to mention me and Ray aren't like Centaur from the outside... you'd find that extra odd"

Vihera's words were fully understandable to Ray as well.

There is something quite odd about the gaze the Centaurs put on themselves with two legs.

I guess the four legs show up pretty oddly for a regular Centaur, still at the point of the two legs.

I fully understood that, even as Ray, because that caused me several troubles.

... but this time it's the girl who's unconscious... she's just a child.

Though I didn't think such a small opponent would be a hassle to look at Ray or Vihera.

(Well, you get out of this settlement and then you rendezvous with us while Dragonias chases you, and then you come right back here... where you fight Dragonias again, and all that's left in the settlement is your buddy's body. That's left to eat, too. Because there was one survivor in that... I guess there's a lot to think about)

On top of that, Ray says he's going to dig up this settlement, so as a woman, it's no strange story if you can't think of anything.

"So shall we go?... the Zays who fought it would be time to recover, and you should do enough to collect the bodies."

"Let me tell you something, Centaur and Dragonias' bodies feel separate, please"

"I know. And..."

So stopped the words, Vihera turns her gaze to the corpse of Centaur, which was almost exclusively boned, present a little further away.

The way the meat is on by the way is hard to see.

What happened to such a body was obvious without even thinking about it.

"Oh, it's hard to collect corpses, isn't it?

Vihera whispers so that Ray alone can hear her.

In fact, a centaur's body eaten and scattered by dragonias, if you're not so lucky, is not five bodies satisfied.

Dragonias leaves it to hunger to eat and kill with Centaur alive.

Then, naturally, Centaur will also break out.

As a result, very few bodies were satisfied with the five bodies.

In this situation, it is impossible first of all to collect corpses to see which corpses are which and so on...

As far as Ray can see, there were also traces of Dragonias chewing up every bone in Centaur, making it extra difficult to collect the bodies.

… Besides, the animals that were kept in this settlement were naturally eaten and killed, and if the bodies were scattered everywhere, it would be even worse.

"In the meantime, let's go back. Dragonias' body is solidified near the entrance to the settlement."

Under the influence of all the dragonias who found the Rays attacked them, it was where the Rays came in, even in the settlement, that became a battle.

In fact, it was a broken fence, not an entrance or anything.

"Right."

Vihera nods at Ray's words, and the two head to the fenced one.

There was also the body of Dragonias that Ray killed along the way, but I thought I could carry it together later, and I wouldn't do anything to get my hands on it.

That's how you come back to where it was a war zone...

"This again..."

Surprising voices leak out of Ray's mouth.

Because, at the end of his gaze, Centaur, who had fought, had gathered even those who had left him a little further from the settlement because he was a non-combatant, and had gathered Dragonias' body in one place.

(Though...... it doesn't taste good to use magic here to burn, with Dragonias' home nearby, it's possible that something strange happened here after seeing the smoke)

Dragonias dominated by hunger, naturally, cannot intentionally do things like burn something.

If the smoke goes up in that...

(Oh, no. Doesn't it? This is a settlement in Centaur. When I've lived normal before, I don't know how I hid smoke or anything, but it's not strange that smoke went up because they raided me)

Even if you usually hide smoke by some means, it's not strange if Dragonias attacked you by destroying something that's hiding smoke and making it look normal.

With that in mind, there should have been nothing wrong with Ray using magic here to burn Dragonias' body.

"All right, do you want to burn Dragonias' body first? The body of Centaur... you just have to think about it later."

That's what Ray told him, and he started working with the others, including Vihella, to burn Dragonias' body.