Ray enters the station and sits on a chair recommended by Langa.Because Seto is not here, the death size can be used at any time by leaning against the chair.
　Langa draws water from a pitcher into a wooden cup and takes a sip himself to prove that nothing strange is in it before handing it to Ray.

"I'm sorry,"

　As expected, he didn't drink or eat on the set for hours, so he drank up the water in one gulp.
　"The temperature was not cold at all, but I felt it was delicious because I was thirsty."

"Would you like another drink?"
"Let's get it."

　Then Ranga finally sits across from Ray.

"Well, what should I ask first?"No, let's introduce ourselves before that.As I said earlier, I am Langa, the captain of the security force in the town of Gilm."
"It's Ray. The Gryphon out there is Seto,"

　After a short self-introduction, Langa finally speaks as if it were the main topic.

"Well, let's start with this question.What is the purpose of this town of Gilm?"
"I'd like to ask you one question before you answer it.It's like the town of Gilmoo.Is there an adventurer's guild here?"

　According to Zepyle's knowledge, the Adventurer's Guild had to be described as a metropolis.However, for Ray today, Zepail's knowledge was lost for reference only.And...

"That's natural, isn't it?It is common for small villages to have branches of the Adventurer's Guild, but how can it not be in the city of Guild?"

　Ranga nods, saying, "Of course."

(Yaharina, that's decisive.Zepyle's knowledge is... quite old.I'll have to find out how much of a margin of error.

　open one's mouth with a sigh in one'

"That's good, because I've lived in a deserted place since I was born.I don't know much about the world.It's easy for me.I came here to be an adventurer."
"... didn't you know from your earlier remark whether there was a branch of the Adventurer's Guild in this city?"

　Langa asks a soft question, but he doesn't miss the lie.
　In response, Ray only lightly shrugged his shoulders.

"I've been living with my master all my life in an obscure mountain.for even he was a magician and had no common sense in him."
"... magic? Not magic?"

　Langa asks mysteriously.In this respect, too, it was the moment Zepail's lack of knowledge became apparent.

"Magic? My teacher said magic... Do you call it magic here?"
"... I see.It's true that you don't know the general sense of the world.It was a few hundred years ago that we called magic.Nowadays, magic is rarely used, and it is called magic."

　Ray frowned slightly for hundreds of years, but soon recovered and continued to talk.

"If that's true, my master is certainly quite naive....well, spatial magic to come out for training... well, if it's a modern way of calling it, I think it's strange to use spatial magic to spread it to somewhere else.""Exercising?"
"Yes, I've mastered all kinds of magic, so I want you to train yourself and improve your strength."
"Well, that's why he's an adventurer.By the way, is the Gryphon out there by your magic?"

　Take a sip of water from a glass and shake your head.

"As for Seto, I'm not magically making him obey.Have you ever heard of the skill of being a tamer?"
"It's a skill of using monsters.So, then?"
"That's what happens,"
"Well, isn't it subpoena magic or something like that.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."

　Ranga thinks about what Ray says.
　Ray felt a slight displeasure at the scene, but he waited silently for Langa to open his mouth.

"There are some adventurers in this city who are also taming monsters.But still, there's no adventurer like the A-rated monster Gryphon.I'm still a monster up to D rank, so I wonder what's going on the other hand.

　Langa said that, but for Ray, who doesn't know the world's common sense in the first place, he doesn't understand the specific difference between rank A and rank D.It is predictable that they are ranked according to their fighting power and danger.

"And, by the way, I have to pay taxes to get into this city."

　In this world called Elgin, basically 10 copper coins and 1 silver coin.Ten silver coins and one gold coin.Ten gold coins make up one white gold coin, and ten white gold coins make up one light gold coin.
　If I were to give Ray an easy explanation, it would be one hundred yen for a piece of copper, one thousand yen for a piece of silver, ten thousand yen for a piece of gold, one hundred thousand yen for a piece of white, and one million yen for a piece of light.

"And basically people other than adventurers -- travelers and merchants."is basically a tax on a piece of silver every time it enters the city."

　It's simple that adventurers don't have to pay taxes when they enter a city, because they don't use it as their home town.It is quite natural, if you think about it, that a silver coin should be taken every time there were requests to go back and forth in and out of town.Therefore, the nobles governing the city are exempt from taxes on entering the city only if adventurers belonging to the adventurer's guild show guild cards.It is because they believe that having adventurers work at the request of them rather than taxes on a single piece of silver will result in a greater return to the city.
　Incidentally, at the beginning of the spread of this idea, a greedy feudal lord refused to grant tax exemptions to adventurers within his territory.As a result, adventurers ran away one after another from the territory of the greedy feudal lord, and new adventurers could not get around.As a result, there was a vicious circle in which no one was asked to subdue monsters, and merchants could not get close to them when they heard that… Finally, the lord of the manor, whose tax revenues had decreased surprisingly, forced them to collect taxes, provoked a rebellion among the people, and the lord of the manor was killed.Since the story spread, it has become unwritten to exempt adventurers from taxes on entering the city.
　When Ray hears such a story from Langa, he can't help but sigh.

"In other words, I am not yet an adventurer.That's why you need to pay taxes?"
"That's right. Didn't you get a farewell gift from your master?"

　Ray shakes his head slightly at Langa's question.Since there was no master in the first place, he could not have received a farewell gift.

"Well, I don't know what to do.If possible, I'd like to lend you some money, but that's prohibited by the rules..."

　muttering Langa staring at Ray.
　From Langa's point of view, he cannot let a suspicious person into the city.But Ray, who is right in front of him, doesn't look like a bad person.He was, on the contrary, a man of remarkable skill, manipulating the A-rated demon of Gryphon, and manipulating an extraordinary scythe.Since the town of Gilm is located on the frontier, there are many requests to subdue evil spirits.I thought that the more skilled adventurers there were, the more they would help to keep the city safe, and that I could not miss it here.
　The town of Gillum, where Ray is now located, is located on the frontier of the Kingdom of Mileana, the great power of the Central Continent among the continents in Elgin.

"Well, is there anything you can sell? We can go to a store in town to sell it for you."
"It's something you can sell me... you know."

　When Langa asked me, I immediately thought of the items given to me by the Zepyle family in Mistiling.In addition to materials such as dragon scales and bones, there are also many magic items.However, he was reluctant to sell it.After all, Ray's current status is just an ordinary person who wants to be an adventurer.He is about 165cm tall and short.If such a person releases materials and items that can be said to be legendary, they will be completely suspicious.I also wanted to use these precious materials as equipment for myself and Seto.

(...no, wait?)That's how much I thought about it, and it suddenly occurred to me.It is true that the contents of the mystery ring I received from Zepyle cannot be sold carelessly, but it is different from the one I obtained myself.

"What about these things?"

　From the list I have in mind, I will list about 20 dead scallops and list the fur of water bears.

"Oh, this... you had an item box!? And this is the fur of Jarm and Water Bear nesting in the entrance of the Devil Forest!"

　Langa looks astonished at the fur of the blade musabi--jarm--and the water bear--that suddenly came out of the empty space.
　Ray didn't understand it at all, but there are few magic items called item boxes such as Mistilling, and among them, there are only a few items with extraordinary storage capacity that can be counted with one of one hand in the world.

"Is this, by any chance, what you have done?"
"Yeah. In the forest where the water bear was transferred, did you call it a water bear? It attacked me and I managed to knock it down with Seto.It was my first real fight, so it took more time than I expected."

　Ray nods with a wry smile at the name of the water bear, which seems to be a direct translation of the water bear.

"Then the place where you have been transferred is the Devil Forest.At least, as far as I know, the existence of water bears and jalms has been confirmed in this neighborhood only by the Devil Forest."
"The Devil Forest?"
"Yes, there are many lower-ranked monsters, but it's a forest that's considered dangerous as a habitat for higher-ranked monsters.For some reason, monsters rarely come out of the woods, so adventurers don't go there willingly.It seems that I sometimes go to get the material of a particular monster that comes out.Even so, it's kind of unbelievable to beat a C-rated water bear in the first team."
"Well, I don't mind imagining it as you like, and can you buy me this fur and jalm?"
"Oh, yes. I'll arrange it right away."

　Ranga, who has come to terms with Ray's words, calls in some of his men and runs into the city with fur and jalm.After seeing him off, Langa bowed to Ray with an expression of regret.

"I'm sorry, but I think it will take some time to evaluate the purchase, so please wait a little longer at this station."
"Don't worry, he came all of a sudden to me with a Gryphon, and welcomed me with no tax to pay.I don't have any regrets."
"It would be helpful if you could say so,"

　Langa smiled bitterly, but the right thing to do is to treat him politely, judging that he could hardly win even if he acted rough because he was originally with a Gryphon, a demon of A class.though it is also true that Langa himself does not like rough methods.
　This time, it happened to be a successful.
　After about an hour of information gathering in the camp called "Ray" and "Langa" , usually after lunch time, soldiers who had gone out to sell fur and jalm returned to work in the afternoon.

"Captain, I'm back now.This is the amount of your goods sold."

　Langa hands down a small bag that the soldier handed over to Ray.

"The water bear's fur seems to have failed in many ways to dispose of it, and it seems that it was originally seven gold coins, but it was five gold coins.As for the 20 jalms, we didn't even dismantle them, so the total amount of gold coins, including the dismantling cost, was seven."

　As the soldier said, there were seven coins in the bag that looked like gold coins.

(Seven gold coins... in other words, 70,000 yen.It was a little cheaper than I expected.)

　Ray smacks his tongue inside, but nobody can blame him for the mistake.
　He took a gold coin out of the bag and handed it to Langa.

"Yes, the tax is certainly more taxes.Here's your change for nine pieces of silver.Also, if you're taking a tamed monster or summoner around the city, put it where you can see the necklace.Please note that if you have a monster the size of a Gryphon, I would recommend a night-time Wheat-tei inn to the east of the city, which is the only place you can rest your Gryphon.""All right, by the way, what about the Adventurer's Guild?"
"If you go into the city and go straight down the main street, you'll see it."
"A lot of things have been saved."
"No, then, welcome to the town of Gilm. I wish you a good encounter."

　Langa sent him off, and Ray left the station.