Legend

Ray's life changed subtly from the day after he told him he was taking a promotion exam to Rank A.

Of course, what needs to be done is not so different: go to the Trento Forest and carry the trees that the Trento felled to the Gilm, to the fairy's residence, to see how Anastasia is doing her research in the underground space of the Trento Forest.

Especially since Nielsen was basically sleeping at the marina's house about the fairy's residence, instead of actually picking up Nielsen, Nielsen had acted to return to make various reports to the chief.

Ray also carries most of the trees that Ray harvests, but he also imitates things like carrying them manually to try several times a day to avoid confusion when Ray takes the promotion exam.

Previously, the adventurers who worked in the Trento Forest carried logged trees to the Guild, but now such adventurers carry them outside the Trento Forest, from which they imitate that other adventurers carry trees separately.

Ray also did work such as transporting materials to the construction site where the additional construction work was being carried out, but this one has quite established the means to do something about it while Ray is not happy or unhappy.

Anyway, we're just carrying building materials.

There is no need to go outside the Gilm, which is a periphery, or anything like thinking hard.

That's the job anyone can do, though they'll need the right kind of help.

For that matter, the pay is lower than for other jobs.

But still being able to work safely in working at Gilm was a popular reason.

A good number of people were working on the job.

As a result, unless you are too busy or have something urgent, Ray will be released from your job.

Perhaps a job like carrying building materials after the promotion exam would be better without Ray having to do it.

If it means leaving the work Ray has been doing to the others, time is, naturally, free.

Speaking of what Ray is doing in such free time...

"No. You raise your head after the Chancellor says you can raise your head."

Elaine's reprimanding voice echoes inside the room.

This is the living room of the marina's house.

I usually eat in the courtyard, so Ray rarely uses the living room, but Elaine is quite used to it because she talks to the person she came to see in the living room.

In such a living room, Ray was currently teaching courtesy from Elaine.

"If the Chancellor says you can raise your head. Okay."

Ray, who was bowing his head in the form of a poke knee, nodded at Elaine's words.

There are so many fine ways for Ray to move his body in such a position as poking one knee, why is it so fine if you try it on Ray? So much so that I doubt it.

But the kingdom of Mireana is a great power.

It's not a country that has expanded rapidly, it's a country that has grown over time.

That's why there are so many details of courtesy when meeting with royalty.

For Ray, I still thought I'd stop taking the promotion exam, an exchange that stinks enough to make it seem that way.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't imitate anything like stopping it immediately even as Ray than I decided to do it once.

I find it quite cumbersome, and even as I stress, I follow Elaine's instructions and learn how to be polite.

That's how an hour goes by...

"Hmm, that's about as good as today for now"

When such words leak out of Elaine's mouth, Ray falls into the couch that was nearby.

"Tired..."

Of course, that's mental tiredness, not physical tiredness.

If I lay it down, it would seem a lot easier to be fighting monsters than practicing this kind of courtesy.

That's what made fighting Dragonias hundreds of times easier.

"Phew, is Ray still not good at this act of hand"

"That's right. From what I can tell, I think the aristocrats often do such a tricky imitation."

"I guess it's because I'm noble. That's normal...... if you try to be noble like you don't take part in the fight, I'm pretty sure a lot of people think you'd be more sorry to fight monsters like Ray, huh?

"Really? When it comes to the image of the nobility in me, I feel like I'm going out to fight, but I fight."

"That's... pretty biased. Of course there are many such nobles, but it's not uncommon for nobles like you not to take part in any battle?

"I know by reason that the majority of the nobles I meet are nobles like that."

Of course, Ray has met with nobles like him who are absolutely sorry for the battle.

But in the ratio, he joins the battle from himself - even if he merely commands from the rear - the aristocrats were better off, and Ray had met a large number.

So, if you try to lay it, you still have the image that nobility is only about fighting.

"Dear Elaine, if Lord Ray were to be the kind of aristocrat we meet, we would often meet on the battlefield, so wouldn't nature have more opportunity to meet such aristocrats?

What I said was that I had finished training in etiquette, and Arla prepared tea for Ray and Elaine to take a break.

Normally, summer… I don't really like warm tea when it's like summer.

Not all of them say so, but in Ray's case at least he was drinking a cold drink in the summer.

I had asked Ray if he had seen or heard that drinking warm drinks was good for his health when it was hot.

But still, when it's hot enough to scratch a sweat, you'll naturally want to have a cold drink.

... but Ray wears a dragon robe with a simple air conditioning feature, and most importantly, this house is made comfortable by the spiritual magic of the marina.

Even in this mid-summer, it's like I don't feel like drinking warm tea...... such a place.

So Ray drinks Ara's prepared tea without hesitation.

"Yeah, yummy"

Now if you are familiar with black tea, what kind of tea leaves are you using...... on the contrary, I guess you can also hit things like when it was made, but in Ray's case, I like black tea but I'm not that familiar with it.

When I was in Japan, I only liked tea to the extent that I drank it because I thought it was delicious even in a can of tea.

Ara, who can brew enough tea that even such a ray can feel delicious, is still very skilled in that regard.

That, too, is what Ara did when she wanted her esteemed Elaine to drink some delicious tea. And Elaine opens her mouth satisfied with Ara's brewed tea.

"Such aristocrats would have many aristocrats that would go well with Ray. Compared to that, nobles who do not like to fight are often finer in etiquette than such nobles"

"I don't think so. I've had quite a few rounds with nobles like that before."

Because of that experience, there is a strong perception that nobility is not the right person for Ray.

If many of the aristocrats Ray met were like Elaine or Dusker, Ray would have also become more friendly towards the aristocrats.

"Even if I say it goes with Ray, there's a limit there. Naturally, there are not many things like Lord Dusker that fit perfectly with Ray."

"When that happens, I figured after you get promoted to Rank A, you mean negotiators with nobility will matter. Who the hell will it be? He said he'd meet me before he made a formal decision."

I understand that if you try to lay it, your personality is far removed from what is common.

And I honestly wanted you to select someone to work for as your negotiator.

When you become a negotiator, you will primarily negotiate with the nobility.

In other words, you will be able to deposit full powers from Ray, as in what conditions you will work, and about the rewards.

If so, it could also be something like if the negotiator was incompetent, the reward wouldn't talk to Ray.

Alternatively, there is the possibility of asking the nobility for more rewards and giving the Rays less reward to pull out money… and so on.

I mean the person Dusker introduces, so maybe I don't really need to worry about that area.

But still, there are a lot of difficulties in becoming Ray's negotiator.

"Negotiators act with us, don't they? Then it's going to be mandatory to travel in a seto cage for now."

"In that sense, is it like having one more party member?"

The tone of Elaine, who tells her so, has a color that she seems envious of.

I'm aware that Elaine is one of Ray's people, and I don't think she's actually accepted by the Rays.

But still, after all, Elaine is not a party member, even if she's one of Ray's people, more than she is in the form of being seconded by a nobleman.

Rank B Party, Red Lotus Wings.

It was more impossible to tell Elaine not to have very complicated thoughts about someone who couldn't get into that Ray's party even though she couldn't get into that part of the party.

(If I were to be a negotiator...... you can't)

It was Elaine thinking about that for a moment, but she dismisses it immediately.

From what I've thought, there's no way that an aristocratic person could do such an imitation to Elaine, who is being sent to monitor whether or not she would do a strange imitation in the construction of the Guild.

There are people who can do what they can't do normally.

That's what makes Elaine so jealous.

"Elaine? What's wrong?

And Elaine, who was sorry for her situation that way, returns to me in Ray's words.

It was Elaine who shook her head in a hurry to say it was nothing, but if Ray was convinced of how Elaine looked like that, it would be another story.

Still, I didn't ask any more deeply because I saw how Elaine was doing.

And Elaine figured out how Ray feels like that, too, change the subject.

"From what I've seen today, Ray's courtesy won't be that problematic. … Of course, if I were to fix a lot of details, I would have a place to fix them. But that's if it was noble. If you're an adventurer, you won't have any problems at all"

"I'm glad you said that, as far as I'm concerned."

For some reason, Ray also attended high school in Japan.

Not that it was a perfect courtesy at that time, but there was still a basement where I knew more about courtesy than the adventurers who knew anything, although somewhat more than attending events that would take place at school like an entrance ceremony, a graduation ceremony, a starting ceremony, or a closing ceremony.

Other than that, I studied in subcultures such as comics and cartoons.

"Pfft, at this rate, the courtesy I teach isn't much either.... Most of all, what I remember in such a hurry is easy to forget immediately. I wish Ray had a promotion exam before he forgot about manners."

"Right. I would like you to have an exam as soon as possible. But it's the Alliance Master worker who decides that area, so you can't say anything about it from me."

Dusker would have told the workers to take the promotion exam as soon as possible.

But I can't imitate that the workers think about Ray all the time as guild masters either.

On the contrary, it is no surprise that workers are in some cases busier than Dusker than they are guild masters who lead guilds that directly exploit adventurers.

"Because all we can do is pray that we get back to you as soon as we can with the promotion exam."

"When it comes to politeness, it's also true that we can't take things very slowly."

"... why don't you let Lord Marina rush you?

To Ara's suggestion, Ray shakes his head sideways.

At first, it's not like Ray didn't think about it either.

Marina still has a lot of influence in the Alliance after quitting the Alliance Master and returning to the Adventurer.

Naturally. Because I've only been an Alliance Master for many years and a lot of people have taken care of the marina.

Such a marina, but I don't actively work for workers from myself any more than I quit Guildmaster.

Unless you really have a reason to do that, but you don't even have to do that this time.

... but if the promotion exam doesn't take place even in the fall, it might be different.