Legend

"... it's getting a lot noisy. Could it have something to do with the Anthelm thing?

Ray returns to Gilm from the Trento Forest and finds the whole city noisy as he carries his felled trees.

It is only natural that there are those who are searching for that culprit more than the likely culprit of one of the counts of Zorgela.

(The question, though, is that there are not so many opponents who can capture you even if you find an anterm?... Vihera would gladly challenge Anterm to fight)

That was all I could be absolutely sure of, even for Ray.

It's Vihera who wants to fight the strong.

If you are a Rank A Adventurer and you are targeting the man you love, there is no way that Vihella won't get her hands on you.

"What? What's wrong?

From how Ray was doing, I guess I had some doubts. In a dragon robe, like what happened to Nielsen, he asks.

At first Ray thought it would be easier not to tell us about Anterm, but as far as Nielsen was concerned, he would ask Ray again and again as many times as he wanted until he knew what was going on.

That's so much so that the voices you hear from inside the dragon robe don't sound strange around you.

"You know Anterm got tangled up by adventurers, right?

"I know you do. So you needed a magic item, right?

"That's right. So, apparently, that anterm killed all the people who were hiring him and dazzled his whereabouts. I guess that's why the guards and stuff are moving around."

Nevertheless, many have not noticed the presence of such guards.

Sometimes there are more people in the Guild than usual, and if you try them, you think it would be normal in the Guild for the guards to be moving around doing so.

This is due in large part to the fact that the guards are acting in such a way.

Still, some people with more than a certain amount of skill, others with sharp observation eyes, or those who have lived in the Guild for some time have noticed how such guards look.

"Did that happen? I don't know, do I?

"Someone was asleep with a hangover."

"Gu..."

To Ray's words, Nielsen will be unable to say anything.

Hangover must have been a big mistake for Nielsen too.

"Anyway, I guess the guards are looking for him because he's gone dangerous.... No, not just the guards, but the meadow wolves are moving too"

Ray, who looked familiar to a man walking a little further away, squeaks so.

I guess the guy also noticed that Ray was looking at himself.

When he looks just a little surprised, he bows his head and walks away from the spot.

"What's a meadow wolf?

"Behind the guilds... operatives, spy hunting, that's what they do"

"Hmm."

Did you understand Ray's words, or didn't you?

As far as Nielsen was concerned, Ray didn't know the area either... but as Ray, I didn't think it would taste good to talk about meadow wolves all over the city, so I didn't talk about going in any further.

"Anyway, there's something about the Count Zorgela house... and if Elaine's here, you won't have to worry about it first, but still, if anything happens, it's tough. We're headed to the marina's house early."

Ray has the anticipation that if Elaine's strength, that's what she'll be able to deal with without any problems with Anterm.

But at the same time, that's why I didn't want to put Elaine in front of the anterm.

Given Anterm's character, it is easy to predict what action to take if she is as beautiful as Elaine.

Because I have serious strength, it's not strange to think about it when I'm allowed to do anything.

...... I still didn't think I could beat Elaine though.

"What? You're not going to buy a lot of stuff?

Nielsen said dissatisfied, but when the word marina comes out of Ray's mouth, he grows up as soon as possible.

I guess that's all a bad opponent for Nielsen to be named Marina.

(Still, you end up following me to the marina's house, so you're not any better than you thought?... well, I don't even have to think about that area)

We should now head to the marina's house a little sooner than Nielsen shut up.

I decided that and headed to the aristocratic district...

"Ah, it's Seto! Hey, Seto. Let's play!"

Several children find Ceto, and so they call out.

If this were an adult, you'd understand that I'm at work now, but I don't understand saying that to the haters and the kids.

If Ray was the kind of person who would beat him down relentlessly, even if he was a child, the kids wouldn't have imitated things like talking to Seto scared of Ray.

But Hate and Ray basically don't imitate things like getting their hands on kids.

I guess this is how easy it is for the kids to talk to Seto because they know that too.

"Sorry, I'm at work now. Play with Seto again in your spare time."

That's what I told Ray, but for some reason the kids don't seem to honestly listen to Ray only today.

"Eh! I don't like it! I want to play with Seto right now!

I don't know what to do about the kid...

"Huh!?

At the next moment, Ray was squeezing that child's wrist half-reflexively.

Yes, the hand of a child with a dagger in his hand.

"Huh?"

To sudden behavior, leak the surprise of the other children who were with the child.

Naturally. I had no idea what the hell that kid was doing... and why Ray did such an imitation.

"Who?

"Huh? What? I just want to play with Seto, okay?

To Ray's words, the child who returns it that way.

Many of the guards are out of town looking for Anterm.

Naturally, I approached the Rays wondering what would have happened to the guards if they had acted like this in that.

That's how the guards saw the kid with Ray grabbing his wrist.

If it were normal, you would recognize Ray as the perpetrator if you saw such a sight.

Still, the guards didn't try to capture Ray instantly because Ray was quite close to the guards.

Just because I knew Ray's character, I didn't think Ray would be a strange imitation of the child, and above all because I saw that the dagger was in the hand of the child Ray was grasping.

Normally, the dagger the child has would be a toy... or a forged knife without a blade.

But to the extent that I have such a simulated knife, I don't think Ray would do such an imitation.

This meant that what the child had was a real dagger.

"Ray, what the hell happened?

"Hold this child down.... Be careful. I don't think it's a child's power."

"Hey, Seto, let me play with you, okay? I came here because I wanted to play with Seto."

I don't think Ray's got a wrist on him, that word.

When I heard that, I guess the guards also understood that what was happening in front of them was not normal.

Point your gaze at your fellow guards and hold the child Ray is catching.

One has a torso and the other has a wrist near Ray's grasp.

"Ready? Get your hands off me, will you?

Seeing how those two were, Ray asked, making sure he nodded, then let go of his hand...

"Whoa!

"Hey!?

We both raise our voices of surprise.

Naturally. Kids...... because two big adults working out their bodies as guards from day to day were about to be dragged together when they said they weren't even ten years old.

Still, I guess I managed to hold the kid in because I still work out from time to time.

If the average person around there was trying to hold the kid, they would definitely have dragged him down.

"Ray!?

What the hell is this kid? He was a guard screaming at Ray with such a question, but Ray thinks what the best thing to do about this place is to answer it.

"Hold him down first."

Saying so, he drops the dagger on the ground that was holding the child's palm half forcefully open.

"Phew.... and then there's this kid... but what's the problem?"

"Hey, I don't care, do something about it anyway! What the hell is this kid's power? Not very much, but not the power of a child!

What the hell is a guard? This! Scream like that.

If we try to be guards, it's natural to wonder what the hell makes us so overwhelmed that we usually train ourselves accordingly… At the same time, it's natural to wonder what the hell to do with this kid.

"You have no choice. I don't feel comfortable... sorry for you."

The last word is not addressed to you alone, but to the child in front of you.

A child in this situation but still innocently mouthing things like playing with Seto.

He turns behind such a child and releases a knife behind his neck to keep him out of the way of the guard he is holding back, unconscious.

Ku, he was a child falling to the ground after a blow from Ray, but the guards quickly take it.

"Ever! Ray, don't imitate too abusively!

"Even so. It's harder to keep him busted like this, isn't it? He's a normal kid from what I've seen. It's hard for both of you to contain a child like that. Keeping a child's consciousness free in such a situation is a lot to taste, isn't it?

"It's..."

You thought Ray's words made sense, and the guards who tried to complain to Ray shut up.

In fact, given the current situation, I knew immediately that if a child was raped with the same force as earlier, it would have an adverse effect on the child.

(What kind of idiot is that in a fire?... If you still can't use it because you don't normally have to, and when you're free to use it, you're going to lose a thousand muscles or something like that)

Ray looks at the stunned child and thinks that way.

Either way, stunning him made this place no longer a problem.

But... that's only a problem here.

"Maybe this kid will be brainwashed or something like that. The question is what's going on with that brainwashing when you're conscious... right. Fortunately, it was easy to tell if it was brainwashed or not"

Seeing as how it doesn't make sense, it will be easy to tell if you are brainwashed.

That was the only salvation.

"The question is who did this..."

One of the guards can be heard squealing so dissatisfied.

Ray pointed such a guard at a half-shaked gaze.

"Why are guards so desperate to move around this busy time? If you think about why, you can imagine."

"Huh!? So this is..."

Is it the work of Anthelm?

I was a guard who tried to say that, but you didn't think it tasted good to put that name in your mouth here, shut up.

At any rate, the current sequence of actions is well seen by the passers-by around.

More than that, I don't know how it would affect you if you gave me the name of Anterm here.

I'm basically an inactive adventurer in the guild, so visibility itself isn't that high.

But if you try to be adventurers who have been in contact in the aristocratic neighborhood, they are very unpleasant opponents.

Some people speak out of dissatisfaction from that experience in the tavern, and those who hear it naturally exist.

That's why my bosses tell me not to detour Anterm's name in this case.

"You hear about my relationship with him?

"Unique. But... do you want to imitate this?

Rank A adventurer and a wanderer.

That's what you said. The guards are still young.

I guess that's the rookie who just became a guard, to the point where I think so.

"I will. There's no doubt about this one, even if it's less. You know the commotion in the aristocracy."

"It's..."

Guards who won't be able to say anything to Ray's words.

It's not unbelievable, it's something you don't want to believe.

(The type you've been admiring adventurers for? But you said you were short of strength or otherwise couldn't be an adventurer for some other reason, and you became a guard.... you admire adventurers for some reason only because of that)

The lawn next door is often said to be blue, but if you try to be the one who couldn't be an adventurer, an adventurer is probably an admirable profession.

Even as Ray, that was not incomprehensible, but I still don't think it was Anterm's fault given the current situation.

"In the meantime, there's something about the other kids... why don't we go to the jar and talk about it?

That's what Ray tells his friends when he sees them surprised by their sudden behavior.