Legend

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"Ray? You're early today."

Look at Ray, who came to the courtyard, and Elaine sounds surprised.

I guess I didn't expect Ray back at this hour.

... although Ray came back early, which also made him look happy because of his long time with Ray.

"Oh. Actually..."

"Oops. I'll play too!

Before Ray could say it to the end, Nielsen, who jumped out of the dragon robe, quickly storms toward Seto and Yellow running around in the courtyard the courtyard.

"... Lord Ray? Is Nielsen still here today?

Arla, who prepared Ray's share of tea, raises such questions in her mouth.

The word has a strong color of surprise.

I guess I never thought Nielsen would continue to come here yesterday.

"Apparently so. Well, this is a marina's house, and I don't think it would be a problem if the marina allowed it.... With Marina, Nielsen wouldn't be a strange imitator."

"For some reason, Lord Marina can't lift his head."

"Is that because Marina is a world tree witch?... although I don't know exactly what the relationship between the world tree and the fairy is. Besides, I don't think it's such a bad idea for Nielsen to be here now."

To Ray and Arla's conversation, yes, Elaine tells me.

In fact, given the current situation, there is no doubt that Nielsen's presence in this House is not such a bad story.

Regardless of the other fairies in Trent's Forest, Nielsen already knows a city called Gilm.

So if Nielsen cares about it, he can usually get out of the Trent Forest and come all the way to Gilm.

… of course, there are many dangers in doing so.

Given the potential for Nielsen's presence to run the risk of being known to those around him, as Ray, it still seems easier to have him in his sight.

"As for Nielsen, you can leave it to the marina for now.... than that, did you hear about the Count Zorgela family?

"... oh"

To Ray's words, Elaine nods in a slightly melancholy way.

It was also easy for Ray to predict that Elaine and Arla did not even go to the mansion of the Count Zorgela family on their own, but that perhaps those who came to visit Elaine brought information about the Count Zorgela family.

In the first place, it is very rare for an incident like the Count Zorgela family to occur in the aristocratic district.

Of course, relations between nobles are dangerous or violent due to home disturbances.

But in this Guild, the city is ruled by Dusker.

If you make such a scene in such a place, that would definitely be a huge nuisance to your faction.

I guess that's why this one was a big topic among the aristocratic neighborhoods.

Unexpected behavior that makes nobility a nobleman.

That would be the worst opponent for a nobleman.

There's no way the nobles cared about the authority they have, because they're coming to kill themselves.

If you mean raise your hand not to think of nobility as nobility, that's what Ray does, too.

Still, Ray has never had a case like this.

... Most importantly, in the war against the Bestian Empire, that's what the opponent killed noble but regardless of what, although Ray's alias Deep Red was to spread as fear, fear, and hatred within the Bestian Empire.

Nevertheless, Ray has played a major role in fighting competitions and the civil unrest that followed, and some of them have come out as respecting Ray.

There were many of them in front of the guerrillas, and I wanted to be near Ray... and most importantly, I decided I didn't want to be hostile to Ray and came all the way to Gilm, starting with Johanna.

"Anyway, if you know it, it's quick to talk. It's no stranger to attack here whenever Anthelm's purpose is more than Ceto, so be careful."

"... in that case, isn't it me who pays attention, Ray?

To that word of Elaine, Ray gets stuck in words.

And seeing Ray stuck in words, Elaine opens her mouth in a serious way.

"Is something wrong?

"Uh... yeah"

After seeing how Elaine was doing, I didn't think she could hide it through, so Ray honestly tells me about one incident where she was attacked by a brainwashed child.

To that explanation, Elaine and Arla all looked unpleasant.

If this were still an adventurer, a guard or, in some cases, a knight, the story would be a little different.

But it was the child that Anthelm brainwashed.

It was also more impossible to tell Elaine and Arla not to be offended by it than it seemed to have the negative effects of brainwashing to see it.

"The problem is that you can be attacked again by the same brainwashed opponent than you know by what means you're brainwashing. I don't care who you are around here, but if you are someone who pokes at you like this one, you may be delayed."

"At least if I know how, it can be somewhat of a deal... don't you see that either?

"Unfortunately. In the first place, I met with Anterm yesterday... and for about a few minutes. I don't know who they are."

"So much resentment means Ray ran into a nasty guy, too."

"Absolutely."

I fully agree with Elaine's words, Ray.

In the first place, it's only a coincidence that Ray and Anterm ran into each other.

That's why Ray was quick or slow enough to enter the aristocratic district for a few more minutes. If he did, he would never encounter Anterm... and perhaps one of the counts of Zorgela would never have happened.

In many ways, I would only say that this was a bad time.

(I don't know if I'm the reason, but that's the only thing that killed all the people in the Count Zorguela mansion. Because if I hadn't been in contact, it would likely have happened the same way in the end)

For, in the end, a matter like Count Zorgela's could have happened sooner or later.

"Anterm was a nobleman, too, wasn't he? Yet you kill mercilessly, even in the same aristocracy. That was a little... no, it was pretty unexpected"

Isn't it friendly or strange to have more pride and pride as a nobleman - dust from Ray's point of view - than to have an adventurer, regardless, if he is the same nobleman as himself?

That's how it seemed to Ray...

"Even when it comes to nobility, it's a lot. That's what I heard, and I guess a man named Anterm has extreme self-esteem.... Normally, such a person would stumble somewhere, but it was unfortunate to anyone that Anterm was just talented to be a Rank A adventurer"

Those killed in this case were unhappy, of course, but there was no doubt that Anterm, who had come this far, was unhappy as well, without anything like snorting along the way.

"Anyway, if that's the kind of guy you're dealing with, you'd better let me just take him down.... It would be easier for me if you came from the front. It doesn't look like it."

Ha, and.

Ray squeaks unfortunately from the bottom of his heart as he sips Ara's brewed tea.

Given the current situation, I still don't know how the anterm works, but it's very troublesome.

"Can't you get any information from the guild?

"I don't know. If Anterm belongs to the Guild of Guilds, he might be able to get information, but according to the information, it's different. Ning Lo, you mean the same nobility, so Elaine and Ara can't use handouts to get information?

"Please don't say I can't, I can't"

"You're right about Ara. If Anterm's home is an aristocratic nobleman, we can also get information here, but when we become kings..."

"Can't you?"

"Mm-hmm. It's true that it has something to do with the Count Zorguela family hired this time..."

Ray is disappointed that Elaine doesn't have a legend with the Kings.

I know a few royal nobles to be exact, but there is nothing more they can do than not currently in the Guild.

"Hmm? Well, why don't you get some information from the royalist nobles in the Guild? Normally, the royalist nobles wouldn't circulate information about their faction either, but things are going on now. Wouldn't it be strange to spill information about that area?

Usually, if you imitate such things as circulating information in the sense of the same Kingship, that would be treachery.

That's not strange to be treated as a traitor.

But... even the royal nobility of the Kings who are currently in the Guild would like the Anthelms to be captured and defeated as soon as possible, just to imitate the ease of killing those who belong to the same Kings.

More than that, isn't it strange to do enough to circulate information?

It's natural for Ray to think so.

"Hmm, if it's possible or not, it will be. But... the question is, is there any useful information in that information?"

"If you're the same Kings, don't you have any useful information? That might help, for example, a hobby or something."

For example, Ray's hobby is to eat delicious food and collect magic items.

So if you want to get in touch with Ray, you can stick it in a store that sells magic items, an alchemist, or serves delicious food.

Regardless of the former two, the latter is a vague range of restaurants serving delicious dishes.

That's what countless stores exist in Gilm if they serve delicious food.

More than that, it's very tricky to look around for all of those stores... but still, given the fact that they move around without any clue, the search will definitely be narrower.

That's why I thought Ray could be foolish with information such as hobbies...

"I don't know."

For some reason, Elaine shook her head sideways at Ray's words.

"No?

"It would be a subtle place. In the first place, Anterm expects his information to flow. More than that, naturally, it's no surprise you're acting in anticipation of it."

"Still, I think you'll unconsciously behave in accordance with previous guidelines."

"If you're a Rank A adventurer, I don't think it's strange to think about that much?

If you say so, Ray can only be convinced too.

Actually, the Rank A Adventurer was because few people seemed to imitate such a far-fetched...

Nevertheless, given Anterm's character, I could not deny the possibility that he would not change his behavior at all, just because he had a verse that contemplated things like the world revolving around him.

"Well, I don't know what kind of place Anterm's hiding, but I think he'll come here eventually for Ceto. If we're just gonna catch him, that's fine."

What Ray thinks of is the body that was in the mansion of Count Zorgela's house.

Ray is not particularly surprised by the very fact that he kills all those people...

Ray is also taking people's lives.

... Though what Ray took was only a story of being a bandit or a hostile opponent, which is very different from one like the Count Zorgela family.

"Do we need to find something before the extra damage spreads?"

Given Anterm's character, it's not strange to imitate such things as killing Gilm's innocent inhabitants because that's what gets in the way of his actions.

Ray, too, naturally wanted to avoid that if he could.

"There's something about Nielsen, so I didn't really want to make a stand right now."

"That won't be possible"

To Ray's words, Elaine reacts that way immediately.

Is that the kind of form in which words were uttered in reflexes before thinking about something…?

Arla nods again to such Elaine's words as she agrees.

Neither Elaine nor Ara thought Ray could do such an imitation.

... Ray himself won't admit it, but he started acting with Ray, and these two are pretty long.

So it's easy to imagine what the hell Ray would do.

And when Ray acted like that, it was certain that it would undoubtedly be a major disturbance... and if that were explained, Ray couldn't argue either.