Legend

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"... hmm?

The feeling of the wind flowing through the woods and the fact that I was on guard of Anterm yesterday sometimes I couldn't sleep enough, Ray was asleep at some point.

I slept near the fairies' residence, so it wasn't strange to be pranked by the fairies... Ray was asleep when Nielsen said something when he moved, nothing in particular to be pranked.

Try Nielsen, the marina of the world tree witch tells me not to bother Ray.

The existence of a world tree witch for a fairy is a very important one, and at the same time one to be afraid of.

... Even without it, the character of a woman named Marina was something to be afraid of for Nielsen.

Also, Seto understood that Ray was asleep, so there was no reason to imitate him like he would wake up to let him sleep slowly.

Ray was asleep in that way, but he sensed signs that someone was approaching him and woke up immediately.

If this was an inn or a marina's house, I might have fallen asleep a little... but fortunately, sometimes it's outside now, or I don't particularly imitate falling asleep.

That's how Ray opened his eyes and noticed the presence slowly approaching him...

"Huh?"

Raise your voice of surprise at the sight in front of you.

Naturally. Nearing toward where I was, Nielsen... is fine, but that Nielsen was sitting on the head of a wolf.

And the wolf Nielsen sits on was also a familiar wolf to Ray.

That's the wolf Ray was thinking about before he went to bed.

Because as a wildlife he was strangely smart and a wolf trying to keep his own people alive.

"What's wrong with you..."

"Waw."

As if to react to Ray's words, the wolf squeals.

And Nielsen, over the wolf's head, opens his mouth in a way he's good at.

"Huh, you're surprised, aren't you?... I was surprised at first, too"

Apparently Nielsen didn't even know that this wolf was at the fairies' residence.

"So, what happened and that happened?

Simply put, they hired him as an escort.

"... as an escort?

Whatever the monster, the wolf in front of you is very high in intelligence, but not that far when it comes to pure strength.

At least, it seemed that way from Ray's eyes.

"That's right. I know what Ray's worried about. But the chief decided I could hire him as an escort. These wolves are welcome because they don't have to worry about food."

"... is that what it is?

Ray has a lot of doubts, but for now, if the head of the fairy living here decides so, he thinks there won't be a problem.

Besides, given the high intelligence of this wolf, I didn't think I'd be doing any strange imitations here.

It was a wolf that was starving and only bones and skins, but now it can be fed properly, too.

(I don't know how fairies procure food...... yeah, let's just not think about it)

With fairy magic, that would also do things like capture animals.

Also, fruits and nuts should be easy to collect if you are a fairy.

I hope so far...... in this case the problem was the food collected in other ways.

Specifically, you want to take away the lunch boxes of the crocodiles and adventurers who work in the Trent Forest?

Of course that's in the form of a magical prank.

It is about the size of a palm and can be transferred using a fairy ring.

If it's anything like what adventurers and crooks wear, it's still not going to be that hard to steal out if it's a substitute that's somewhere in the way of work.

... If the adventurers had magic items like Ray's Mystering, it would have been different again.

(Oh, but being assigned here means he's recognized by the Alliance as a trustworthy, arms-up adventurer. Well, I can't get an item box, but wouldn't it be strange to get a simplified version like Elaine uses?

I think so, but the simplified version also has a limited amount to store.

Speaking of whether you can afford to store lunches there...... that would be the hard part.

"Well... what is it? If you're not unhappy, that's fine. Guards of the fairies...... can I be a keeper wolf in a way?

"... waw..."

What I've returned to Ray's words is a subtle... really subtle squeal.

They also don't want to do things like being kept by fairies if they're supposed to.

Still accepting to be kept this way, I guess, because you can't starve your own flock.

"If you're convinced, that's fine. Good luck with the escort here, then.... So, Nielsen. What about the promised stuff?

Ray decides that the wolf is not forced to do such a thing, but that there is no problem if he is convinced by himself, and turns his gaze to Nielsen.

Originally Ray brought Nielsen here today, sometimes sending Nielsen safely, but more than that, he craves magic items made by the fairies.

"I know.... Yes, this"

That said, Nielsen takes a green stone about half his size out of the wolf's back.

Emerald was famous as a green gem, but what Nielsen has is not a gem, it's just a stone.

"... is this the magic item?

"Yes."

"Are you sure this is it?

"You're persistent. This is the magic item that I'm going to give to the Witch of the World Tree."

To Ray's words, the suspected Nielsen says dissatisfied.

But as for Ray, who's hooked on a couple of fairy pranks, he'll naturally wonder if this is really such a magic item.

It doesn't seem like a magic item that matters that much from Ray's point of view.

The story Ray is hearing in advance was that there are many very powerful substitutes for the magic items that fairies make.

That doesn't make the green stone in front of you look like such a big magic item.

"I'll tell you what, if this were fake... no doubt the marina would be pissed?

Bitter.

Nielsen, hearing the word Marina gets angry, stiffens for a moment.

In one case yesterday, I guess I have a thin understanding of what the hell happens when Marina gets angry.

Because Ray understands it too, I don't really think this magic item is fake.

"It's okay, 'cause it's real"

"... ok. So, how do you use it?

"I'll teach you that directly."

"... what? No, that's why you're teaching me, right?

"What are you talking about? The Witch of the World Tree... it's up to me to teach the marina directly."

"Wait a minute."

I don't understand what Nielsen means, Ray thinks a little... eventually opens his mouth.

"Maybe Nielsen is still going to stay at the Marina's today?

"Huh? Of course not."

Even as if that were a natural thing, Nielsen tells Ray in such a way that he doesn't know why he's being asked that.

But Ray wonders when the hell that was going to happen, more than he didn't hear that from Marina.

"Is that natural? Let me ask you something, you got permission from the marina, didn't you?

"Of course. There's no way you can do that, is there?

For Nielsen, Marina is definitely not the person to piss off.

... I also wondered why Ray wanted to stay in the other person's house for two days.

No, I know exactly why.

For Nielsen, a place called Gilm would have been more fun than this Trent forest.

Because I understand that, it seemed to Ray that Nielsen wanted to stay, even in a frightening existential house called Marina.

Do we need to get that far? Though the thought was an unmistakable fact.

"If you're getting permission from the marina, I have nothing to say..."

Anyway, it's only the marina's house that Ray is currently sleeping at.

If that landlord's marina is offering permission, how is Ray going to say this?

(Besides, if there's a marina, Nielsen won't be able to make weird pranks either)

If they don't play weird pranks, I don't mind having Nielsen as Ray either.

Difficulties include the difficulty of going to underground space from now on?

(But that's your biggest problem. I couldn't even get to the underground space yesterday, and it just doesn't taste good to not show your face for two days in a row.... or you can't take Nielsen)

He's a curious, moody fairy.

If you head to a place that connects you to another world, you don't have to hear Ray stop, you can head to another world.

And if Nielsen flying in the sky goes to that meadow world... that's what the hell will happen without even thinking about it.

It will be even harder to find than when you tried to help the Anastasias.

In that sense, Nielsen was more of a person than Anastasia should have taken to underground space.

(When you do, deposit Nielsen with someone? But then who do you keep it for?)

In the first place, there are very few people who know about Nielsen… i.e. fairies.

I guess Dusker was right in that he thought about leaking information.

But by leaving Nielsen with someone for that matter, Ray got lost.

(Elaine and Arla at home can't help it when they see Nielsen there because other nobles and all are coming to see him. Marina is...... that's what keeps me busy at the clinic. If there is to be pranked, many could die. Besides, Nielsen's scared of the marina. Vihera and Bühne are also more likely to be found than they are to be around the city)

Thinking this way, all Ray's people were wiped out.

In that case, the next thing I think of would be Dusker.

Or it's right that the rest only exists in Dusker.

It's a last resort for Ray... but if you take Nielsen, it'll definitely be a hassle.

Anastasia, who knows a lot about fairies... that's what Ray wanted to avoid the most than being in underground space.

Or if I can let Anastasia see me, I don't even have to think about something like depositing Nielsen with someone else.

(Thinking about it, can I end up in an underground space? If that happens, why don't we use a pair of orbs to get in touch tonight? That way, we can get the information from Grimm once and for all.... but it's also true that experimental results and such are easier to understand with your own eyes)

It meant a lot to me that if I tried it on Ray, I could see if Dragonias' body could be used as a material.

At any rate, there are currently a large number of mysteries... which is why there are countless bodies of Dragonias in there.

Given the circumstances around it, does Grimm's experiment make them useful material or totally pointless garbage... just like the division of destiny.

Not to mention the fact that a good number of bodies are also housed, starting with dragonias of seven-colored scales, which makes a lot of sense.

(Yeah, right. Should I stay out of Grimm's way? Instead of going directly to the underground space, let's ask in a pair of orbs)

If we took Nielsen to the underground space, if we did poorly, Nielsen could find Grimm... then perhaps if Grimm didn't hesitate to do the act of cleaning up Nielsen, it seemed so.

So Ray tries to get out of the Trent Forest while trying to force himself to say half the time.

"Wow."

... And for some reason there was such a Ray and Seto, Nielsen's side of the wolf leader.

"You, can you come with us? I think we should take care of the herd."

That's what I told Ray, but when the wolf said it was his job to send Ray, he traveled with Ray to the outside of the Trent Forest.