Legend

"Uh... yeah. I knew it."

In the morning, Ray comes out of the magic tent and heads to the place where the Centaurs and the others gathered, and he speaks out like that.

What was there was how many Centaurs did not return to their tents as Ray expected and slept on the spot.

Only Centaur, who originally lived in the meadows, is also stronger in body than a normal human being.

Not to mention that there's no cold like meadows withering now, and it's not hard to be awesome overnight even outside.

With that in mind, the sight currently spreading ahead of Ray's gaze was in a way convincing.

"Nevertheless, how can you drink so much without one of the dishes"

It must be natural for Ray to have a slightly frivolous look out of his mouth.

The only thing Ray gave the Centaurs and the others last night was the liquor in the barrel.

I don't serve anything of the kind of food I eat when I drink.

Because it was originally offered in the sense of sleeping alcohol to stifle excitement after the battle.

... but the Centaurs entered the banquet to exude previous stress, even with such liquor.

Still, it really should have been a booze only banquet than Ray, who manages food, served only booze...

At the end of Ray's gaze I wondered so much, I didn't know what meat it was, but I find dried meat.

When I saw it, I understood for granted what I had cooked and drank.

Basically the food kind is managed in bulk using Ray's mystering, but that's just the whole food.

For example, if Centaur and the others brought dried meat for personal use when they left the settlement, Ray would not say anything in particular about it.

More than just personal belongings, I'm just convinced that even if I use that dried meat as a feast dish, that's what it is.

"The question is, are these people not hungover?"

For once, I told Ray yesterday not to get hungover before he goes to bed, and if he gets hungover, he won't take the job off, that's what I'm telling him.

Above all, it was necessary to collect and burn the bodies of Dragonias that were spreading in the woods.

It could be undead if left alone, so it would be natural for Ray to think so.

I think so, and Ray thinks about how to wake up the sleeping guys...

"Hey, Ray!

Such a voice can be heard from the forest.

Vihera's call is clearly a highly urgent call, not something like Ray and I want to slow down a bit...

Is something wrong again? With that in mind, for now, Ray decides that Vihella's voice will take precedence over the Centaurs, who are down with a hangover, and tells Seto to stay here before heading over there. And...

"This is..."

The woods not that far from the settlement...... Specifically, it was the voice of amazement that came out of Ray's mouth in that place where Ray and Vihera defeated the herd of Dragonias last night.

That's all, the sight that's currently spreading in front of Ray was something to say.

Originally, it was the bodies of a large number of Dragonias that were spreading there.

That is the corpse that was cut off at death size, crushed in the head with a spear of dusk, and destroyed the interior of the body by immersion palms, a beautiful corpse if seen on the outside, or slashed and torn with magic claws or blades... or a corpse that was beaten and kicked to death.

It would be strange if there were not such a large number of Dragonias bodies present.

No, the body itself is still in the woods today.

Such a large number of bodies, as if to bury them among the trees.

But... the problem is the situation of the body.

Originally, it would be weird if the words weren't bad but fresh corpses than they were just created last night.

However, the corpse currently present at the end of Ray's gaze is clearly beginning to weather.

Nor does it smell like blood or guts drifting from the body for any reason.

It's not completely odorless, but it's not as deadly as frowning.

Such an odor anomaly can also be convinced if one sees a body that is rapidly starting to weather.

"What do you think?

"Even if they say so.... Is it possible that something buried in the basement of the settlement has something to do with it? I can only say."

"Like some animal or monster ate Dragonias' body this luckily?

"Where Dragonias is, do you think other animals and monsters survive? Except for the birds."

As an opponent on the ground, Dragonias will try to eat and kill him as a delight.

But Dragonias is only one who lives on earth.

In addition, its means of attack are only those at close range, such as nails and fangs, and there is no effective means of attack for flying birds.

... In fact, Dragonius also has his hands, so he has such means of attack as throwing stones that are falling on the ground, but if he tried to make it a dragonius dominated by hunger, he couldn't think of such an attack, etc.

"When that happens... I guess the basement is the problem. But then why were we in the settlement safe?

"Until yesterday, Centaur lived a normal life in that settlement. If you think about it, it's not weird that we're safe."

"Then this is... the difference between alive or dead?

"I guess. I thought we were safe, except for Centaur."

If something in this land had done us harm, it would have done us some harm.

Vihera is also convinced by Ray's words like that.

"In the meantime... you don't have to clean up Dragonias' body, even for the Centaurs... Hmm? Is that it?"

"What's going on?

Vihera looks at me wondering if I doubted Ray for stopping the words inadvertently.

In contrast to that gaze, Ray thinks a little...... decides we should check directly and go back to the settlement.

Vihera follows Ray like that with doubts.

In the settlement, it finally looked like some were about to wake up, but Ray moving forward in Vihera didn't look like he cared about those Centaurs, heading in a certain direction...... eventually, stopping his legs.

"I knew it."

What is it, after all? And when Vihera followed Ray's gaze, which I questioned, what lay ahead was... the body of Dragonias.

Yes, the body of Dragonias who entered the settlement from somewhere else last night while fighting in the woods and was killed by the Centaurs.

Vihera, who saw it, is naturally surprised, too.

The body of Dragonias, which we saw earlier in the woods, had even begun to weather.

That's tomorrow if it looks like this overnight...... on the contrary, it will be dust and disappear by the end of the day.

Because this is how Dragonias, who died the same way yesterday, still remains a corpse.

That's not something like slower weathering either, and it's obviously not affected in any way, unlike the bodies outside the settlement.

The body is still fresh because you can see it.

"This... what the hell is going on?

"I wonder why. I don't know why. But it must mean something to me that it feels like this.... Normally, because it's outside the settlement?

"But... this settlement was built by the Centaurs on their own, wasn't it? Because I don't think that makes any sense."

Vihera's words were also strongly convincing to Ray.

Nevertheless, I can do what I would expect if I tried to think of a reason.

"What do you think the Centaurs created a place like this one today when they built this settlement because it was influenced by something underground in this settlement...

"Is that... well, as a possibility, is it?

It was Vihera who almost convinced me of Ray's words, but that's why he doesn't look convinced in the real sense.

In fact, I'm somewhat convinced by Ray's theory given the current situation, but I wouldn't even say that it's still impossible to be fully convinced... but it definitely would be a pretty forceful explanation.

At least not least, Vihera doesn't feel anything in particular even if she's in the settlement this way.

If Ray's theory is correct, it's not surprising that they have any influence on themselves in this settlement.

But even after one night in this settlement, Vihella doesn't look like anything happened in particular.

If so, things like fully believing Ray's theory were difficult.

"Isn't that another element? I think Ray's theory is a little harsh."

"Even if they say so. Is there anything else like that?

"Then you can ask Larrier. You're from this settlement, so you know a lot about it.

Larrier? and Ray, who tilted his neck to the name that came out of Vihera's mouth, but soon remembers who that indicates.

That was the name of a Centaur woman who talked to Ray many times in her leadership, among the faces she encountered with the Rays fleeing this settlement.

Ray looks around, remembering that that was the name if you say so.

I was looking for Larrier, but there is no Larrier in Centaur, who sleeps like a raw hater and falls.

"You're not here."

"That's right. Assuming your hometown is destroyed? I can't help but feel like hanging out with a banquet. Aren't you taking your time in your own tent by now?

"Is that what this is all about?... I guess that's what it is. Because of Centaur's personality, I just thought Ning Luo would be aggressive in banqueting at times like this."

"I guess that's what makes people different around there."

"Anyway, you need to hear from Larrier.... Remember which tent it was?

"Come on? But it's not like there's a door, why don't we just take a proper look at it?

Suitably, Ray is convinced of what Vihera says so lightly.

Doesn't it piss you off when a woman moves to where she's sleeping? It wasn't that I didn't have the feeling that Centaur might be fine, though.

"Then go.... I wish Larrier knew something"

"I told you to ask, what am I supposed to say, but you shouldn't expect too much from me? From what I've heard, Larrier didn't seem to have been in a very important position in this settlement, and Larrier's parents didn't seem to have been in a particularly important position."

"I mean, you were just an ordinary person."

"Right. Still, he was admired by everyone, and he felt so responsible that he kept running away from Dragonias until he joined us."

"... is that what it is? That's amazing in a way."

Ray mouths honest thoughts.

Anyway, if he acted that way in any role, he took many of them out of the settlement of his own free will, through the woods where the trees would stand in the way, and then ran off through the meadows.

Even though I was lucky enough to rendezvous with the Rays, that luck is only because Larrier kept desperately running away, and that's why I grabbed it.

While convinced of that, Ray peeks into the tent of the camp with Vihera… and Seto, who came close with Ray's return.

Naturally, the majority of scouts drink and sleep.

As a result, there were never many who slept properly in tents

"This is... no way"

Make sure no one's there, we're heading to the next tent.

It was harder to find Larrier than most people were drinking and sleeping...

"There he is."

Vihera pulls the hit as she splits up and searches for a tent.

When Ray went to such a place with Vihera, there was certainly a Larrier figure there.

It's not just Larrier, it's also where Ray looked like the kid who helped him out of the tent that was crumbling.

"What is it?

Did you wake up in the voice of Vihera, or were you awake?

Ray didn't even know about the area, but it was helpful to be able to find that Larrier was there.

"I just wanted to talk to you about this settlement.... the dragonias that attacked me last night are already going to weather in the woods, you know why around there?

To Ray, who asks him that, Larrier gets a poked look that doesn't make sense.