Legend

"I wonder where Anthelm is."

Saying dissatisfied, Vihera carries a cup with fruit water into her mouth.

Ray opens his mouth as he sees his white throat move lustrously from it.

"If you know that, me and Seto are just going in. After all, even the Vihelas couldn't find it today, could they?

"That's... unfortunately, that's what's gonna happen"

Ha, and.

Looking melancholy, Vihera reaches for a sandwich with dried fish for dinner.

It looks completely different, but that sandwich, which tastes somewhat closer to a tuna sandwich, is something that many people have come to gather in the gilm so that dishes that have never been in the gilm can be sold in stalls and cafeterias, something they have bought in one of those stalls.

"At least the salvation is that Anthelm couldn't find Nielsen."

Tasting the summer vegetable soup, the marina gazes at Nielsen, who is delightfully eating the dish.

If Nielsen had been found in Anterm, that would be what the hell was going on.

In fact, everyone seemed to agree with such marina's words, and no one disputed them.

Given the current situation, the presence of Nielsen as a source of disturbance is as much to Anterm as possible... no, I don't want anyone else to find out about one of the fairies.

That is why, if the information that fairies are in the Guild spreads... or if the story is that they live in the Trento Forest, that is the whole of the Kingdom of Mireana... no, on the contrary, a large number of them will come from the surrounding countries in search of fairies as well.

Even though there are more people for the additions, if many gather for fairy information, the gilm will be completely saturated.

Think so...... Huh, Ray has his doubts.

(Is that it? So, maybe after the construction of the Gilm is finished, can we just spill some fairy info and bring people in?

Naturally, the guilds will be wider once the construction of the additions is completed.

That's more than I can compare to the present.

And when the construction work is finished, it's natural, but the work will be lost, so people who were gathered will also go looking for other work, and go back to their homeland, etc.

Of course, in the case of rootless grass with no place to return, some would settle in the Guild as it were.

In fact, Dusker encourages settlement.

But still, there are not so many people in Gilm who want to stay on the border.

Because it's a place where you can make money, but it also means it's dangerous.

Gilms on the border are just places like High Risk High Returns.

Regardless of temporarily, many people don't feel comfortable settling in.

When that happens, fewer people will live there, even in the gilm, which has grown wider with additional construction.

... I think that as a ray, people and nature get together because there are other kinds of unthinkable jobs like cultivating spices and researching, developing and manufacturing ground ships...

"Ray? What's going on?

Ray, obsessed with his thoughts, returns to me in Marina's words.

"No, I was wondering if maybe Master Dusker would greatly spread the fairy presence after the construction of the addition was completed."

"That's... I don't think it would be strange for Dusker to think about that"

Marina, too, has known Dusker a long time.

And yet, I fully understand that I am competent as a lord.

Just such a dusker, it didn't seem strange to do things like roughly publicizing the fairy's existence and attracting people to the guilds of the border.

"Huh? What? Are you gonna sell us? Because we have an idea, don't we?

He was a Nielsen obsessed with cooking, but I guess he still cared about us. That's what I'm going to say.

"Don't worry, I don't mean to. Nor would Dusker bother to imitate such things and resent them from fairies."

"... So, what are you going to do?

"Like the coexistence of fairies and guilds...... etc. Of course, this is only what I came up with, and I don't know if Master Dusker really thinks that way. That's probably why I've been keeping secrets about fairies for so long."

"Just tell me."

"... right, people chase because they run away. I mean, I wouldn't be so desperate to chase if I didn't run away. So you think someone in the fairy tells you what a fairy is like in a guild? Of course, some people try to capture fairies, so guards need to be prepared."

That's what I told you, Ray, but in fact, fairies have the ability to metastasize using fairy rings.

Given that, it would have been easy to escape if the fairy had been caught.

It was possible that some fairies were troublesome and remained caught.

"If that's what it feels like, the fairies can come and visit the guilds, and the guilds gather people together with their counterparts looking for the fairies. For both sides, I don't think it's ever a bad thing...... what do you say?

To Ray's words, Nielsen thinks a little...... eventually makes him happy.

If you try Nielsen, a place called Gilm is a very interesting place.

Even so, I have to be in a dragon robe because I'm a fairy, and I can't look around all I want.

If you try Nielsen, you can say this is close to the worst.

I know that, given the current situation, there is no choice.

I know, but if you can still look around the city and jump around and stuff like that on your own, that was the best result for Nielsen.

"I see there are some things Ray's opinion is convincing, and it won't be bad. But... in that case, what do you do about fairy pranks? That's the possibility of a dead man if you end up playing a prank around the city badly, right?

Originally fairies prefer pranks.... No, you can say it's an act that's half-intuitive.

Until now, only the pigeons and adventurers in the Trento Forest had been targeted, and there had been no such thing as a death toll because of it.

But... there were still such pranks that even adventurers in some cases could die, like replacing weapons.

What happens if those fairies prank all they want in their guilds.

That would be obvious without even thinking about it.

"Do you want Marina to do something about it?

"Ugh..."

It wasn't the marina that was named, Nielsen, who groaned at Ray's words.

If you try Nielsen, you'll have a strong impression when you first met Marina, and you're really bad at it.

"Oh, what's wrong?

Nielsen hurries and shakes his neck to the side to the marina asking with a full grin.

"Hey, it's nothing. It's nothing!

"Really? If you want to say something, can I just say it? Let me talk to you then."

That was the marina I would tell you, but Nielsen was concentrating on cooking, pretending he hadn't heard the marina.

"Well, like this... the fairies can't even imitate what Marina said, and given that, I don't think this is such a bad story"

"I don't know. But in the end, that's Ray's prediction, isn't it?... but Bühne seems a little happy."

Hearing Ray's words, happily...... and stroking Bühne's head showing what he expects, Vihella tells him.

(Bühne looks happy, but to be honest...... it will take a few more years until the construction of the Gilm is finished. Whether or not Bühne is still acting with us at that time would be honestly subtle)

Büne, who is now acting with the Rays, is inherently the only survivor of an important house among the labyrinth city of Exil.

There are a lot of problems with the various things that happened when Ray went to Exil, and there are considerably fewer survivors.

In that, Bühne is acting with the Rays because of the militant training implications, and the idea of keeping Bühne out of Gotagota, which would happen in Egzil.

And it's been a long time since Ray and Beaune acted together.

Bühne grows slowly and is much smaller than average.

Still growing well, no doubt, Ray's prediction was that he would be back in Exil in a few more years.

With that in mind, it would be subtle to know if I could stay with the Rays until the construction of the Gilm's addition was complete.

"Mmm!"

Seeing Büne happily return words to Vihella, Ray doesn't do anything to mouth the anxiety he feels on his own.

I think saying that now only puzzles and saddens Beaune, and above all because I think it's Vihera, not myself, who says it.

"Let's get back to it. The same goes for Nielsen, but it's about Anterm. We still don't know where he went after all. I want to find it as soon as possible and defeat it.... Any good ideas?

"Even if they say so... the guards and adventurers in Gilm searched for them, they couldn't find them, could they?

When they say that, it's hard to return words even as Ray.

Given the current situation, we definitely need to find an anterm somehow.

I'm pretty sure, but that's why what I'm gonna do with it was the problem.

"How's Seto's sense of smell?

"... with the tools Anterm uses or something, it would be possible. I don't know if that's what's left of Count Zorgela's mansion."

To Elaine's words, Ray turns his gaze to Seto, who is dining with Yellow.

"Oh, but Seto's with Ray, and you're seeing Anterm once, aren't you? So you're not gonna finish the smell from there?

"Don't say you can't. How long have you thought it's been since you met Anterm? Even Ceto is impossible to track with the smell from the current situation"

"Really?... That's a shame, isn't it? Can't you just turn around from the marina and look for the mansion of Count Zorguela's house?

"For once, you might be able to ask Dusker... but you can't expect that, can you?

"Well, I guess so"

It was Anterm who killed all those who were in the mansion of Count Zorgela's house.

Naturally, this will not be the first time such an act has been committed.

So, you would naturally consider things like not leaving evidence behind.

Alternatively, Anterm could have done something like not leaving his personal belongings in a room reserved for him.

Of course, it would be hard to assume that you took all your luggage completely.

However, the number of those who worked in the mansion of the Count Zorgela family is proportionately high.

So you wouldn't know which luggage belongs to Anterm.

"In the end, it's best to find a safe house after all... I don't know if I can do that."

"I know what Ray's trying to say, but this is how you need to look for an anterm because that's hard, right?

Ray can't argue with Marina's words either.

Because it's an unmistakable fact that it's the most certain.

Nevertheless, if you do that, there will almost certainly be many dead people out there.

Anthelm doesn't hesitate to kill people.

... No, in fact, there are many such people if they are adventurers.

In fact, Ray never hesitated to kill if he was also a hostile opponent.

Still the problem in this case would still be Anterm's character.

(Now anyway, we need to find the anterm somehow.... as long as I find it, I can go and defeat it directly. Oh, but is it troublesome when a brainwashed guy comes out like a kid today? No, Ning Ro, that's the hardest thing you can do as far as I'm concerned)

Brainwashed opponents are not after Ray of their own volition, they are after Ray by order of Anterm.

It's harder to deal with someone like that even as Ray than it is.

With that in mind, Ray talked to Elaine and the others about how to capture Anterm.