Legend

"Grrrrrrrr......"

Outside the woods where the Rays went in, Seto was wary, as Ray put it, of whether the enemy would not come.

Though, Seto now looks less alert from the side, as he falls asleep and meditates his eyes on the enemies around him, as he did during the camp.

Still, this was definitely the easiest alert for Seto.

If there was a situation where the enemy was already in sight, there would have been another way to be more vigilant.

But when it came to vigilance in situations like this one where we didn't know when our enemies were coming, this posture was still definitely the easiest.

Now, this posture is by no means bad.

Even in the current situation where you are sleeping, if your enemies come close, you can quickly grasp them with hearing and smell.

... That's why Seto was able to quickly grasp someone approaching him from the woods by accident, and at the same time quickly realized that the person approaching him was someone he knew well.

"Gru!"

Seto, who seemed asleep at first glance, but rose right up the moment he felt the person approaching him and looked happily at the woods.

The way your tail is shaking so hard, it also looks like a dog.

In fact, Seto is a griffon with a lion's lower body and an eagle's upper body, a feline family if you are forced to classify it.

When Seto looks at the woods with such joy...... eventually one figure emerges from the woods.

Seto already understood who it was at this point.

I mean... it's Ray.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto approaching Ray as he sounds happily.

It's not that long since Seto and Ray were apart... but as for Seto, who still wants to be sweet, I guess he was happy to be reunited with Ray.

Ray also takes Ceto approaching that way.

... Even if Seto doesn't feel like it, it's actually quite a shock.

Still, Ray takes Seto firmly.

It would also be huge in this case that the shock itself wasn't that big because I wasn't going to blow Ray to Seto and I just wanted to sweeten him to Ray.

"I'm sorry to leave you alone, Seto.... Apparently, there were no enemies."

Ray checks his surroundings as he strokes Seto rubbing his head on.

There wasn't a single body of monsters there, starting with Dragonias, and Seto definitely stood still here, which seemed like it.

If Dragonias or any other monster were here, it wouldn't be strange if that body remained here.

... Or maybe a little monster like a squirrel would have done something like swallow it whole in some cases.

Just stroking Seto all the way down, Ray explains to Seto why he's here.

He needs to dig the ground in the settlement, and he wants Seto to help him with that.

And Seto takes on with a happy throat, not saying no to such a request from Ray, etc.

If you try Ceto, Ray's request is basically nothing like saying no.

Not to mention that when you go to a settlement in the woods, that's where you're going to act with Ray.

For Seto, turning down such favorable conditions was unlikely.

"Right. Some of the settlements are quite large, so you can get there as soon as you fly. Then let's go."

"Gru!"

Hearing Ray's words, Seto gives himself up happy.

When Ray crosses the back of such a ceto, he runs up into the air winged with a few steps of help.

And if you come all the way over the forest, it's not hard to find the settlement of Centaur that exists in the middle of the forest... or its site.

"Looking at it this way, I knew the woods were pretty big,"

From the sky, settlements exist just near the center of the forest.

That means that no matter where you go into the woods from, your time to reach the settlement will remain the same.

The forest itself is quite large, and once again I doubt that Dragonias has even come to a place with a settlement in this forest.

It is more than likely that there is something underground in the settlement, and it is likely that Dragonias will come again in search of it.

"Grrrrrrrr?"

Can I come down now? and a ceto to get used to the throat.

It's fun to be flying in the sky forever, but that's what I thought if there's something to do, we should clear that up quickly.

Neither does Ray say no to such Seto's words, but asks him to come down to the settlement.

As Seto slides down towards the settlement, naturally, he realizes Seto's face, which is also in the settlement, descended from above.

At first, I was surprised and convinced by another Centaur in the immediate vicinity who told me that it was Ray and Ceto, even though some of the Centaurs made noise that could not be judged to be Ceto.

For Centaur, flying is half instinctively unacceptable.

Of course, there are exceptions like Dolphina in there, but there were more people who were disgusted by the fact that basically they fly in the sky like Zai.

In that, Seto suddenly came down from the sky, so it would be more impossible not to be surprised by that.

Though Seto, who is actually flying in the sky... and Ray on Seto's back, didn't seem to care at all about that either.

Either way, that's how Seto went down to the ground, looking around intriguingly.

I could see how this settlement was coming from the sky, but I guess it's different to see it down on the ground like this.

"Grrrrrr...... grrr"

I smell the smell drifting around me, somehow understanding what happened here and ringing my throat.

And when Ray gets off Seto's back like that, he realizes what Zai looks like coming in a hurry.

"Ray, of this settlement... that, I lined up the bodies. It's over there. Purify it."

"Okay."

Ray was initially thinking of using the 'flame of mourning' to burn all the bodies, present in this settlement, the bodies of Dragonias and Centaur......

But in fact, that's what I was begged to do if I didn't want the bodies of Centaur and Dragonias together from these women from the settlement.

Given the fate traced to this settlement, Ray accepts it as well, as the woman's words are fully understandable.

That's how I understood that if we tried to survive the settlement, it would be more impossible to protect the settlement and keep it with those who died and those who attacked it.

He also had some thoughts that even if burned by the flames of purification, the bodies would remain scattered on the ground and burned, and the survivors of the settlement… and those who were not lucky enough to be involved in the training of Vihela collected the bodies in a square in the middle of the settlement.

That's how you're ready, so I guess you've been asking me to burn it.

Ray has no objection to that either, so he goes with Seto to the center of the settlement.

There, besides the surviving Centaur of this settlement, the scouts were gathered.

(Speaking of which, I don't know about Centaur's funeral, his outlook on death, that sort of thing... no well, I don't need to know anything else)

Ray thinks so, looking at exactly where the remains of the bodies eaten by Dragonias are collected.

I guess some people are showing a little unfamiliar because the kinds of funerals and death views vary from settlement to settlement.

Though I didn't think it would be that different than it was the same Centaur after all.

"Please"

That's what I'm saying, the Centaur woman who's going to bow her head.

Ray nodded at such a woman's words, taking out the death size and starting to cast a spell.

"Thank you. Now we won't all show up as undead."

Seeing the purified corpse - the majority of which had been eaten and chopped a thousand by Dragonias - disappear, the woman bows her head deeply toward Ray.

If you try to be a woman, you'll just be glad that the people you lived with don't become undead.

I know you would have liked to provide better sustenance... unfortunately, I can't imitate that in the present situation.

That's why I had to be satisfied that it was purified by Ray's magic.

"Oh, never mind. I fought to protect this settlement. I don't really want to see them go undead, either."

If you're an intelligent undead like Grimm, it's still pretty rare to say undead, which is basically that intelligent.

So it was only natural for Ray that the Centaurs would also burn well with purifying flames.

A woman who still turns her gratitude gaze.

Right on its side was also the figure of the girl Ray and Vihera had helped out earlier from under the tent.

"Um... thank you for finding me!

That's what I say, a girl who gives a deep tribute.

I find the trick somewhere adorable just for kids like if they're only going to be ten.

But at the same time, it was an unmistakable fact that he was not just adorable but seriously speaking out his thanks to Ray.

Ray wonders what to say to such a girl.

In this case, this girl lost many of her parents… and many other people she was close to.

That didn't just kill me, either, in the form of dragonias eating me to death.

Ray doesn't even know if the girl saw with her own eyes the sight of being actually eaten to death.

At the very least, I just wish the girl hadn't seen the end of her parents like that.

"Oh. I'm glad you're at least safe.... Well, let's just make a camp here and then decide how to dig it"

"Oh, well, then why don't you decide how to dig and then build a camp?

He was a ray who talked about creating a camp in the light of what the girl appreciated, but that's what Vihera tells me with a grin over such a ray.

"... right"

Even as Ray, I can't imitate against that opinion, and I just have to answer that.

In fact, if Ray was ready to dig a place with a settlement after he had built the camp according to his words, there was a good chance that the kind of tent in that camp would get in the way.

"It's about mining, but you can dig with my skills to a certain extent for now. Still, if nothing comes out, we're all gonna have to work together and dig it for real."

It was Ray who was half forced to return the topic to mining work, but the Centaurs, who were still listening, all think and consult with a serious look about what to do now.

The focus of all this is still Zai, who leads the scout team.

Also, if the survivors of this settlement are asked for various opinions beside Zai, they answer that.

I guess the opinions of those who lived in this settlement will do more than dig back into it.

"Well, you're lucky."

"You know..."

Ray wonders what to say to Vihera, who tells him to tease.

Whatever you say here, it just sounds like a kind of loser.

I guess that's how you understand it.

Even as Ray, I can't say anything because I understand that.

"Ray would've been thankful before, wouldn't he? Well, I don't think there's anything I can do about it."

Vihera's words were also an unmistakable fact.

In fact, Ray has been thanked by several opponents before, some of whom were children the same age as this one.

Still, Ray lit up this time... and I honestly didn't know why either.

"Come on, why not?"

To Ray, who shrugs so much, Vihera grins that she has no choice.

A grin directed at the man you love, not a fierce grin hungry for regular combat.

"Anyway, I hope we can look into this settlement and find something"

"Right.... but Ray's so sure there's something going on, right?

"I don't deny it. As a matter of fact, I don't think Dragonias is going to send us that many if we don't get something here."

"Right. … but then… I guess it came from the home of Dragonias"

"Near here... or I'm sure there's more to that than the home of Dragonias on this side. We can't deny the possibility that it's just a base."

While Zai and the others were talking, Ray and Vihera continued their conversation that way.