Legend

"Make sure everything's all right around you! I don't know when Dragonias is coming!

Zai's instructions echo around him, and the watchmen who heard it, Centaur and the others, respond as if they understood each other.

Currently, the Zays are located quite far from where the underground space was located, which was the home of Dragonias.

The journey time itself was not that long because the sun had not yet completely set, but the speed of travel around it was a form of merit because it was Centaur.

The Centaurs carrying the Spirit's eggs were also quite used to traveling, not even at full speed, but able to produce quite a bit of speed.

However, even in remote locations, the places you have laid down for the camp are not particularly places like forests or rocks, but in the middle of the meadows.

Naturally, they wanted to camp in places like forests and rocks.

But there is no such place within the limits of being able to arrive before nightfall... as a result, I guess I decided the current place was a camp.

"Zai, I know we're gonna make this a camp, but what are we gonna do with the tent?

"... worst, sleep without a tent if Ray doesn't wake up. I don't want to imitate that if I can, so I want Ray to wake up. I have food problems."

For once, before Ray went to the underground space, just in case, I left some food behind.

But that's only to some extent. Regardless of today's dinner, tomorrow's breakfast… not to mention even lunch, obviously not enough.

If Ray doesn't wake up tomorrow morning, we'll have to force him to wake up, even if he's somewhat forceful.

That's all, food is important in this situation.

The Centaurs need to be more vigilant than usual about their surroundings than they can even build walls and moats around the camp due to the terrain manipulations used by Ray.

Not to mention that there are still other possibilities for Dragonias called by the Queen to come, so naturally.

(Fortunately, there is Seto in terms of watching, so the burden itself is not much.... although many would be anxious in that Ray is not there)

Zai thinks so when he sees Ray leaning against Seto in the middle of the camp...... and sleeping Seto.

I'm pretty sure the queen was defeated more than Ray came back.

I understand how the Queen is, that many people, including Zai, have heard from Vihera and know the circumstances, and that she is a very troublesome opponent.

... Still, instead of losing and fleeing when Ray came back, he decided he had come back victorious, probably because he had absolute confidence in the strength of his being, Ray.

I don't just want Ray to let him sleep like he does now if he can, that's what I want him to sleep in a firmer place, like the tent the Zays are using.

But... unfortunately, everything in the tent is in the mysteries that exist on Ray's right hand side.

As with food, I can't take this out either.

The presence of Ray's mysteries made the scouts considerably easier to navigate, but in such a way that their shortcomings appeared as they were.

"Zai, it's time to eat? You should eat it when you can."

Zai gives a little thought and then nods at Anastasia's words as she approaches them and tells them so.

"Okay.... For once, can Anastasia build walls and moats like Ray?

Ray tells me Anastasia is a user of spiritual magic, and now there is the presence of spiritual eggs.

That's why I thought I could not imitate that instead of Ray... Anastasia opens her mouth to such Zai's words with a frightened gaze.

"Um... I am only a normal spiritual wizard. Don't be with an insane being like Ray."

Anastasia is also a spiritual wizard with enough skill to be called a handyman, if considered by common standards.

That's what you can do if you want to build a dirt wall.

However... the scale is naturally smaller when compared to what Ray does with his death-sized terrain manipulation skills.

And what Zays want is a dirt wall to protect the entire camp.

That was not very, but impossible for Anastasia.

"Can I use the Spirit Egg?

"... you know, I don't know what kind of perception you have of spirited eggs, but that's pretty hard to use, huh? It's not something you use because you want to use it so easily."

That's what Zai was told, but Ray couldn't fight... given the current situation where he couldn't even give me the kind of supplies, it was honest that he wanted me to do some imposing, and he opened his mouth to say so...

"Besides, the Queen is after the eggs of the Spirit, isn't she? I still don't know if he's dead, but if Dragonius himself uses the eggs of the Spirit, we can't deny the possibility that he'll come attracted to that power, can we?

"Gu..."

It was Zai, who tried to ask for it even after some impossibility, but I can't say anything more to that word that came out of Anastasia's mouth.

Because I couldn't take the words out of Anastasia's mouth lighter than the fact that the Queen of Dragonias was actually after the Spirit's eggs.

Because Anastasia's words were strongly persuasive, given that Dragonias had repeatedly raided the forests where the eggs of the Spirit were actually buried.

"Okay. I am not going to ask for any more on this matter.... Then I knew I just wanted Ray to wake up soon."

"I won't deny that. I want to know exactly how you defeated the Queen of Dragonias."

Anastasia squeaks so much at Zai's words.

Originally, Anastasia wanted to go directly to the underground space herself to satisfy her curiosity.

But under the influence of using Spirit's eggs... and also because Anastasia is the only one who can use Spirit's eggs when something happens, they are going to stay on the ground with the Fanas and Centaurs.

Anastasia also knows that, given the importance of the Spirit's eggs, there is no choice. I'm here... but I still wanted to head into the underground space to be driven by strong curiosity.

I put up with that somehow, so naturally I wanted to hear a lot from Ray about the Queen.

"I know how Anastasia feels, but you should let her sleep now.... what kind of eyes are you going to get when you try to wake up the current ray poorly"

Zai's words are by no means daunting.

Seto, who loves Ray, will be dissatisfied with it if he tries to wake up Ray, who, naturally, is tired and asleep, as will Vihera, who is on Ray's side.

Whatever the situation you can't help, if you try to wake Ray up because you want to listen to him to satisfy your curiosity, you don't know what the hell you're going to see.

Because I understand that, or Anastasia didn't want to do things like wake up Ray either.

Fortunately, Ray is just asleep.

If so, it is possible to wake up tomorrow...... or even tonight.

Then you can wait as long as you want.

... Although it took a lot of patience for the curious Anastasia to have someone asleep who wanted to ask but knew it and had to wait until it woke up.

"Let's eat for now.... I wish I could be an animal."

Centaur basically lived in livestock, but otherwise hunted and fleshed animals in the meadows.

But if it was also on the home side of Dragonias, the animals that were likely to be fed had almost been eaten and killed.

Not even the birds rarely exist in the sky...... it was Zai who thought so, but accidentally he finds something flying in the sky that is getting dark from dusk, keeping Anastasia intact, hands the bow that was quickly nearby and the arrow that was removed from the arrow barrel, aim... shoot.

The arrows that were fired flew straight towards the prey, eventually hitting it as if it were the truth.

That's how the prey falls right outside the camp.

Hurry up and head over there...... get out of the camp and pick up the pierced prey.

It's a bat the size of Zai's face, even if it's just the torso.

A bat that prefers fruit, its meat, unlike its appearance, is very tasty and a popular ingredient for the Centaurs.

However, fruit is not much more than grassland.

That is why this bat itself was quite rare.

"No way, near the home of Dragonias... but if there was one, it would be a problem"

The size of the bat is about the size of Zai's face and quite large.

But if all the scouts are asked if they can take the amount of meat they can eat, the answer is no, as a matter of course.

Even if Zai eats it all... and so on, the others endure it with a poor diet. Many are dissatisfied with Zai.

It was Zai who shot an arrow reflexively on it, but it was obviously an extra thing.

"Zai, what the hell is that... what? It's the first time I've seen it."

Anastasia, questioning Zai's condition, turns her gaze to the bat Zai has.

This is not the first time I've seen a bat, naturally, just for Elf's Anastasia.

But Zai's bat was the first bat of its kind to be seen.

There's no better reason not to inspire Anastasia's curiosity than being the bat you see for the first time.

At the same time, he reassures himself that Zai has found a good match for such an anastasia.

Even if we have a problem eating for ourselves, there won't be a problem if we use Spirit eggs to eat tired Anastasia.

"It's delicious. I didn't get it for you... but I'm still glad you ate it. Otherwise…"

"Huh?"

While talking to Anastasia, Zai diverts her gaze slightly.

At the end of that gaze was one of the Centaurs who was on guard around here.

The centaur looked like he was jealous... and that's how he wanted to eat if he could, and he was gazing at the bat Zai had.

"... so delicious, this?

Normally, I don't eat bats.

No, maybe it depends on people and places, but at least Anastasia has never done anything like eat bats.

Even the elves who lived in nature did not eat bats.

Although some of them were sometimes used as ingredients for medicines and magic items.

... I would have been surprised if Ray had been awake.

On Earth, bats are usually eaten in places like China and Southeast Asia, because I've seen them on TV before.

Unlike such a ray, Anastasia has never eaten bats. No... Fortunately or unluckily, Anastasia had a very curious personality.

If Zai is going to say this so far... and if he actually finds out that the other Centaurs look at him with envy, it would naturally hurt his curiosity as to what the hell the bat that gets that far tastes like.

Nevertheless, the kind of cooking equipment is in Ray's mysteries, as is the kind of spices.

Speaking of cooking methods that can be done in such a situation... that's the only thing you can do, like stick it in a tree branch or something and bake it.

"Thanks, but under the circumstances, it doesn't seem possible to eat delicious, so if Ray wakes up, I mean eat?

"No."

I was Zai, who just thought he'd snort at his words, but if I thought he'd been denied without a moment's hesitation, I'd rather not question that.

But such anastasian questions will soon be explained by Zai.

"This meat slows down quickly in freshness. By the end of the day, you'll no doubt be able to eat tomorrow."

"It's..."

I was satisfied with Zai's explanation.

In fact, many ingredients get worse quickly.

It's called "fast feet."

That's why we need to eat before it gets worse.

And... Anastasia, who lost her curiosity, asked the people in charge of cooking to bake bats and eat them with her fana... convinced her that Zai was delicious.