a man who, leaning back on an oak hut, seemed to rest, alarmed by the surprise attack of the enemy.Sunny was drawing his bow at the man.

(After all, even if I say I'm taming the Gryphon, I'm not sure that I can't even feel the murder of being aimed at by the bow.Al is really too worried.)

　Ready to let go of the bow at any time, he glints at Ceryl on the roof of the building opposite him.
　Ceryl nods in response to Sunny's gaze.It is a sign that Al and Mulgus are ready.

(Newcomer, you hate yourself for having such precious magic items.I'll sell out the item box and make it our life's bread... oh!)

　He held his breath, took his aim and let go of his hand, and in the next moment the arrow fired from the bow cut through the night air towards the target, which seemed to be resting, and then hit his torso and fell silently to the ground.

"All right, hang on!"

　At the same time, Ceryl's voice echoes around her.At the same time as the voice is uttered, Al and Mulgus jump out of the darkness, holding up their bastard and dagger.Ceryl also jumped off the roof with a long sword and shield.
　Sneez, checking the situation of his three friends, pulls the bow again in case of an unexpected situation.





　As soon as the arrow that was aimed at him was shot a little further away, Ray's eyes caught the shot accurately.
　If he had been shot at his head, he would have cut it off or avoided it with a death-size sword, but the arrow aimed at his torso.Judging that the target was probably aimed at a body that was easier to hit, he tried to prevent the arrow from being shot to the right side with a dragon lobe, but he seemed to fall to the ground.
　The next moment I heard Ceryl's voice from above the building opposite me, and at the same time I heard two of them approaching me, a total of three footsteps.

(According to information received from Bobbs and Elk, the number of stars at night was four.Two warriors had one bowman and one thief.In this case, the most troubling thing is the bowman who can carry out long-range attacks, but fortunately, he doesn't have the power to get through the dragon lobe, so it's okay to put it off later.Then the next trouble would be a light thief who was good at hiding in the dark.)

　While listening to the three kinds of footsteps approaching him, he explores the location of the thief.
　There is a slight difference in the sound of footsteps between warriors and robbers because their movements and the weight of their equipment are different.I'm listening to it differently.

(Left, or perhaps)

　The front is Ceryl.Judging from the sound of footsteps and the speed at which he runs, it is Al, another warrior in the twilight star, who is wearing heavy equipment, who holds his hand firmly on the ground.
　There was naturally a difference in the speed of movement between the warrior and the thief, and the first to reach Ray's place was the thief's Mulgus, who was a light arm in the dark star.

"How's Mulgus? Are you doing with your bow?"

　Ceryl's voice came from a distance.Ray could feel that it was gradually approaching with the sound of footsteps.

"Wait a minute, my dear.I'll check it out now."

　Ray smiles inwardly as he hears footsteps approaching him.
　Normally, it is best to check the reaction of the opponent by throwing a dagger or stone around the target instead of inadvertently approaching the target.In fact, he had no choice but to counterattack as soon as possible if he had been targeted in the head with a dagger or stone throw, but Mulgus approaches Ray with caution, wondering if he had spared any weapons or trouble.And...

(Now!)

　Ray's actions were swift, judging by the sound of footsteps that Mulgus had reached his range of attack.He crawled to the ground and flashed across his death-size grip.Since it was a blow without magic to prevent his attack, he cut off both ankles of Mulgus with the sharpness of the death size itself, while feeling the feeling of cutting the flesh and bones stronger than usual.

"...what? Oh, oh, oh, oh, my foot, my foot, my foot!"

　For a moment he could not believe that he had been attacked.Mulgus, whose ankles have been amputated, falls to the ground, and cries as he falls to the ground in a few seconds.

"Oh, are you still alive?"Al, I'm going. It's only my last struggle anyway.Sunny, save me with your bow!"Ceryl determined that Ray's biggest magic item was the item box, Mistilling.Therefore, if the dragon robes that he usually wears look all over the kingdom of Mileana... no, if he looks all over Elgin, he doesn't think they are the finest magic items of the kind, and he thinks that the blow he has received from Mulgus is the agony of death, fatally wounded by Snee's arrow.
　Or perhaps it was not unreasonable.Because Dragon Robe is a cover-up effect by the Zepyle family, or Esta Noor, the world's finest alchemist at the time, to prevent others from seeing its value.It would be impossible for a frontier, or C-rated adventurer to see through it.
　Ray leaps to his feet, thinking about it in a corner of his head, taking advantage of the reaction of a death-size blow that amputated both ankles of Mulgus.He approached Murgas, who was rolling around on the ground, and cut his torso into two with a death-size blade.

"What!"

　Murugas screams softly and wraps internal organs such as stomach and intestines around the body, losing light from the eyes.When I saw that the tip of my ankle was with my shoes, as if they were all there, I smiled bitterly for a moment.

(Don't you feel guilty when you kill someone?Well, as things stand, I'm grateful.)

"Murgus!? Phew, are you all right when the arrow hits you? Al, I'll set it up all at once!"
"Yo-go!? You should step back!"
"Don't be silly! I've already set it up.Now that this has happened, we can either kill the newcomer, or he can run away and give the guild a prize.Make up your mind!"
"... d*mn, I see!"

　The two of them are waving their swords forward and right at the right time.Ceryl, the leader of the nighttime stars, determines that he is stronger, and first sets his sights on Al in order to steadily reduce the number of opponents, and uses a death-size handle to shoot off the internal organs of Mulgus, which is scattered around him, toward Al.

"Phew!"

　A flash of lightning across the bastard-sword, avoiding the possibility of the internal organs of Murugas being taken in by his face and blinded.But...

"Stupid! You're careless!"

　Ceryl's voice echoes around her, but it's already too late.The bastard saw is powerful because of its weight.But at the same time, it also leads to difficulty in handling.Like when Ray gets into his pocket like he's doing now.
　Al, who had shaken off the bastard-sword, suddenly felt the wind and looked at it, and saw no small figure in a robe in Ray's place until now.

"Al, my pocket!"

　Ceryl, holding her long sword in her hand, screams towards Al, but it's already too late.It was just like the scythe of death that the giant scythe was about to shake down to reap Al's life.


(d*mn it, my son won't make it in time.My sword won't make it in time... this, that's where it ends!"

　Maybe it's because the death-causing presence is just around the corner.Al's mind spins faster than ever before, asking himself what his life meant and regretting attacking Ray in Ceryl's mouth...

"Stupid, don't give up!"

　The moment I heard the voice, I came back to myself.

"...what?"

　Strange, I should have just died.But then, wondering why he was alive, he came into view with a few arrows stuck in the ground, just in the middle of where Ray was trying to wield a scythe.
　As soon as I saw the arrow, I remember that the voice that shouted "Don't give up" belonged to Sunny."Are you all right?"

　Next to him is Ceryl holding a sword to check Ray.I finally realized that I was still alive after checking my surroundings.

"He's strong, my dear.I don't think he has a Gryphon on him."
"That's right. You're a new member of Rank G. Who thinks that's so strong?"

　While listening to their conversation, Ray's mouth was filled with smiles.

"How strong I am, yes.I'm proud that I'm strong enough to defeat C-ranked monsters at least."

　I don't forget to listen to Sunny, who is a bowman, while waving his death size and putting the two in front of me into view.
　The previous blow with the bow could not have been more timely.Ray's physical abilities were close to those of others, so he could avoid the attack, but an ordinary person would have received the arrow that had been shot.

(And what surprised me most was that he had clearly made a fool of himself, Al.He attacked me as if I were taking a moment to shake my death size, but he still said not to give up and responded... I see.Trust or not)

　After taking part in the mission, Ray believed that the party was like a gangster in the dark.It wasn't until this time that I realized that the principles of conduct were indeed the same as the gangsters themselves, but that the trust between parties was well-established.

(but I can't be killed in a quiet way.Your death has already been confirmed when you took me unawares.)

　Al manages to escape from death and watches Ray's gap, sweating coldly on his forehead.At the same time, so is Ceryl, who is next to it.Sunny is pulling an arrow from behind so that Ray can shoot an arrow whenever he has a chance.
　He holds the middle of a death-size handle to check the enemy, wielding it as if he were playing with a club, and secretly plotting the strategy of his opponent in the dark.

(The most troubling thing in this case is not the two capable of close combat, but the woman named Snee, who is capable of long-range support.)

　Ray turns his eyes to Sneez, brandishing his death size around.It was on the roof of an oak house, and would not normally reach that far.Even if they use the magic of fire, there is no way that Ceryl and Al will give them a chance to chant a spell.Yes, there is no way to attack him.Normally... but Ray's existence was not normal.
　Using centrifugal force wielding a death size, he pours the ground with the handle, shoots away soil and stones as a blind eye to the two people in front of him, and jumps back from the spot.
　The next moment, he invokes Slapnil's shoes, making sure that several arrows stick in the center of where he was.
　Lei, who jumped, reached the highest point, stepped on the air with her slapnil shoes when she began to fall.
　At that moment, several arrows fly under Ray as if he were reading where he was starting to fall.If he hadn't used the sky as a foothold in Slapnil's shoes, some of the bows that had been released would probably have pierced him.But the magic item, Slapnil's shoes, overturns Sunny's calculations.
　When Sunny saw his attack off again, he hurriedly took the arrow out of the arrow barrel and tried to draw the bow...

"That's too bad,"

　Ray was already right in front of Snee and wielding his death-size.

"What!"

　Sunny tried to shout something, but before it came out, a magical death-size was shaken down, and the huge blade came in from the shoulder and slanted off Sunny's body... and the next moment, his body slipped off and splashed his internal organs and blood on the roof.

"Jackson!"

　Ceryl and Al, watching the scene, call Sunny's name at the same time, but the willful light had already vanished from Sunny's eyes.

"Soony! How dare you!"

　Al was angry, but Ray only stared at Al and Ceryl with cold, frozen eyes.

"What are you saying that you can kill me, that I can't kill you, that I'm going to kill you, that I'm going to kill you back, or that you're the only one who has the right to kill me?""Come down from there! I'll knock you down just as Snee and Mulgus were shot with my sword!"

　Al was angry, but Ray didn't seem to stay there and come down.

"What? Even if you can defeat a thief or an opponent armed with a bow, are you not good at fighting with each other in close combat? If you are a man, fight fair and square!"
"d*mn it, you know, fair enough.I wish you would surprise me and surprise me with four of you, and not make me laugh so fair and square, but, apart from my talent as an adventurer, I think you are a first-rate entertainer."
"Don't be silly!"
"Well, let's stop joking.And, as a joke, I'll correct it.I am not a warrior.If I dare say so, it's a "magic warrior."
"...what?"

　He ignored Al's words and uttered a magical spell.

'Flame, thyself only exists in the realm of my designation, and not in the other realm.feed on my magical powers in the realm, and sublimate thy life in an instant.'

　As Ray begins to chant a spell, a red line of magic is drawn to surround Al and Ceryl.

"Phew!"

　He must have sensed the danger of the line.Ceryl jumps backward quickly and escapes the magic line.But Al, who was ranked lower than Ceryl, did not have that much judgment.I mean, maybe I did, but I was bleeding from the murder of my comrades and my crisis-sensing ability was diminishing.
　If he had shown his usual prudence, he might have felt the overwhelming presence of death approaching him.But it's all a hypothetical story.Al had already been surrounded by red magic lines, and his fate was certain.

"Hoseiranmai" (Rambling Dance of Fire)

　The spell is completed and magic is invoked.As soon as Al finally realizes how dangerous he is when he is covered in a translucent red dome as if he had been cut off... countless lizards appear inside the red dome.The number was too much to count, and at the same time the lizards exploded and turned into flames.One exploded and turned into a flame, and the lizard that touched the blast turned into a flame, and the number of explosions and flames increased in a chain, and when the last one exploded and turned into a flame, a blazing flame raged through the dome, burning instantly without even letting Al say the last word.