The sound of insects echoed in the forest at night.There were some who were moving on in the midst of it.

"You're persistent!"

　A flash of a magical sword flashed into the darkness, clapping his tongue as he led the way.The goblin, who was about to attack him, was beheaded and fell to the spot without a scream.

"Isn't there something wrong with going through the woods at night?"
"...you did not give any particular opinion at the midday meeting of operations.Is it now?"

　Spelvia, who thrust his sword into a huge bat, wondered if it could be 1 meter from the air, was dumbfounded.

"Oh, I don't understand why you're so perverse to these monsters,"
"Well, if you have any complaints, tell them not us.If you don't appear in front of Ray, you'll have a quiet habit, and if you don't, you'll have a big attitude."
"Ah!?"

　Allogan glared at Culotte's ridiculous remark, but soon he knew it was not the time to do so, and he turned forward and went through the woods.

"Isn't the party unbalanced? Like two warriors and one thief?There's obviously not enough rear guard."

　though he was complaining.
　Yes. Right now, the three of us, Allogan, Spellpia and Culotte, are going through the night forest alone.Of course, Ray, Schola and Filma are not resting in the background.The other three are on their way to snip from a position not found by the watchmen, as we told them during the day.These three are acting separately so that if a long-range sniper fails, they can quickly narrow their distance and arrest the watch...

"I mean, if the sniper fails, the watch will tell the man inside at that point.Even if we ask you to do something about it.You could have sniped at us first."
"So Ray said it was just in case.Look, let's get through the woods.If we were to be found by the lookout before the lookout informed us, we wouldn't be able to look.Besides, it is inevitable that the sniper group will act separately from us.Regardless of the ranger's feeling and all sorts of mysterious Rey's, Scola is a natural wizard and can't imitate moving beyond the pretentiousness of the bandits."

　Spervia told Alogan that, but when she heard that, Culotte continued with a smile that she could hardly describe as "Nimmari."

"Well, I wonder what will happen to the Alogans that are already under Ray's scrutiny if we are found.I might like to see it for a moment."
"Why, don't you say such an ominous thing even if you're joking? Well, I see, you can be serious."

　Listening to the strange speciality of shouting in the voice of Allogan, Culotte peeps gently out of the woods leading to the cliffs where the robbers come and go.
　There were two guards there, as Culotte had expected.But I could see that he was blatantly absent-minded and careless.

(Are you so confident that you can't find this hiding place...or are you just stupid?)

　Culotte glanced at him for a moment.

(...maybe he's a fool.

　It would be nice to have a torch.It is because robbers are not robbers in the professional sense of adventurers, but robbers as rogue robbers, and they are not as effective at night as those of Currotto.
　But the way he sat on the watchstool's stand and talked to him with a laugh of folly, even though he was a watchstool, he could neither call it a watchstool nor call it a watchstool.They say they're trying not to make any noise or disappear, but they don't notice themselves at all, at all.

(It would have been all right to come with him as he told me, without thinking that he could not get rid of any signs of it.)

　I will confirm the situation of the two people who have acted together so far, muttering privately.
　Alogan and Spelvia have already unarmed themselves and are ready to attack them at all times.Confirming this, Culotte waits for something to happen, leaving a dagger cut off the head of a goblin in the woods.

"...not yet?"

　After a few minutes of hiding near the forest exit, Culotte waited patiently for the attack from Scola and Fielma to begin, listening to Alogan muttering, perhaps he was in a hurry when the attack had not yet begun."I'm dumbfounded,"

　At a sniper's point away from the culottes, Filma muttered in utter amazement as she looked at the watchmen of the band of thieves in the distance.
　It is no wonder that the watchman in front of us sat down and laughed, talking and not acting as a watchman.

"But don't you have to blame us for it?"
"I know that, but... "

　Listening to their conversation, Ray turns to the forest.
　It would be impossible for a thief like Culotto to grasp the state of the forest in the dark.However, Ray's body, made by the Zepyle family, is clearly visible in the forest as if it had nothing to do with such common sense.
　From Ray's perspective, I could see the three of them hiding near the exit of the forest.

"The three men in the avant-garde group are safely deployed, too.Are you ready?"

　They nod silently to Ray's words.
　When Ray confirms this, he also nods and announces the start of the night attack.

"Well, Schola, start singing magic.Fierma attacks Schola with a bow at the same time as he releases magic."
"All right,"
"Leave it to me."

　Schola nods and begins to chant the spell, and the fierma also puts an arrow on the bow to match the timing.

"The wind turns into an invisible arrow, and thrusts it into a person who stands in front of you."

　The spell of the scola, which was used in mock battles, lied the world and created an unseen arrow in front of it.The invisible wind arrow, which is difficult to see even when the sun is used at some point, has become more secretive when used at night.
　After the spell is over, he stops and turns to the fierma, and when he sees the fierma nodding, he releases the spell.

"Wind Arrow!"

　Along with the words, about five invisible arrows of the wind are fired.At the same time, Firma unleashes the arrow she was also shooting directly above the watchmen.
　The moment after their attack was fired, Wind Arrow rushed to the neck and face of one of the watchmen who were sitting and talking, while the other, unsure of what had happened across the street, was pierced through his head by an arrow falling straight from above.





"Here it is!"

　One of the two watchmen at the end of his gaze was cut off in the neck and face, and his impact caused him to fall from the watchstool to the ground, and almost simultaneously at the same time, when he saw the arrow falling from above his head pierced his head, Culotte screamed short and sharply at Allogan and Spelvia.
　When they heard the words, they immediately rushed out of the forest exit and rapidly reduced their distance from the watchmen.
　and Spelvia struck one tongue, reducing the distance from the lookout.

"Well, I'm not done with him who has been attacked by the magic of the school.Arogan, you have fallen off the watchstool to the ground, and you have got the watchstool alive.I'll be wary of anyone coming out of the cave."
"Why, why me?"
"Shut up, I don't have time.I don't have time to talk leisurely from here.It's a game against time."
"Oh, I see, shit."

　As he spoke, he reached under the watch, and, as he told Arogan, Spelvia hid himself near the entrance of the cave with his longsword in his hand, and watched inside.
　Fortunately, most of the things that come from inside are laughter and cheers.Spervia, who thinks he's probably in the prime of drinking, breathes a sigh of relief, even though he doesn't seem to have noticed the matter.Near there, Alogan fell to the ground and aimed at the watch, which was raging with pain and confusion.

"d*mn it, I'm like this..."
"But, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

　The misfortune of the watchman was that Schola's magical skill was still immature.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
　In that sense, the man who was pierced through the head by the arrow of the fielma must have been happier.I ended my life in an instant without knowing what had happened.

"Arrogant, hurry up!"

　Spelvia quickly orders Alogan, hesitating at the act of killing people.
　But even Alogan would kill people... and his hands would shake and move at the act of cutting off the lives of his own race after he recognized them.He often wielded his partner's magical sword in mock battles or in duels like he had with Ray before, but fortunately he had never actually taken a human life.and thus the hand holding the magical sword trembled.

"Phew, Currot, you're a spy inside, as Ray told you,"
"Oh, I see!"

　Spelvia sees Culot's back as he goes into the cave in exchange for himself, approaches the watchman rolling around the ground in pain and breathlessness, and casually shakes the longsword down at the man's neck.

"Gosh!"

　With the blade of the long sword, the head of the watchman whose head has been cut off rolls on the ground leaving a mark of blood.

"Oh yeah yeah yeah!"

　Seeing the death of a creature of his own kind, not a monster, Allogan runs into the shade and expels things from his stomach.
　and, looking at him with a complex expression, Spelvia listened to the sounds which came from the interior of the cave.
　Fortunately, the watchman was still dead, or there was an intruder named Culotte, and I could still hear only cheers and laughter.
　Under such circumstances, the rear guard joins.

"What's wrong with culotte?"
"They broke into the area as planned."

　Spelvia answers Rey and checks on the situation of Schola and Filma.
　Fierma doesn't seem to feel particularly guilty about the act of killing people.Or perhaps they have the mental strength to hide it.but the color of his face was evidently drained of blood.

"Skola, too,"

　At Spelvia's words, Ray also looks at Arogan, who is still vomiting in the shade.

"Well, he seems to have endured suffering from the magic he used."
"Well, it was my first murder.I don't wonder if that's going to happen."
"Spellvia doesn't matter,"
"I'm used to everything.That won't change, will it?"
"Well, what do you think?"

　Rey notices Culotte coming back, killing the sound of footsteps, pausing the conversation for a moment, and even with a mystified look on his face, he becomes convinced when he comes out of the cave."How was it?"

　In response to Ray's question, Culotte can stand it with a small nod.

"It's only one road ahead for a while, but there's a three-way street ahead.On the right was the prison, and several men who seemed to be merchants were arrested.I don't know the exact number of people because there was a watch.The end of the road in the middle is wide, and the sound of banquets that we've been hearing is from there, so on the left is a warehouse or an arsenal."
"How many robbers?"
"A little less than thirty men,"
"I see. Are there any other entrances and exits connected to the outside?"
"I didn't have time to look it up,"
"Then, should we first get as many robbers as we can at first contact?"
"But it's not interesting to have a merchant taken hostage,"

　said Spelvia to Ray's muttering.

"Well, indeed, ... Currot, do you know if there is any way out of the way to prison from where the feast is being held?"
"I said it now, but I don't know what to do because I didn't have time. If I just wanted to give my personal opinion, I don't think they're thinking about what to do in case of an emergency because it's not strange for them to come at any time, given what they're doing."
"Then, Currot, you must go first to the prison and hold the hostages.After that... Gran, are you there?"

　When he calls out into the darkness, Gran appears with a wry smile.

"I didn't expect you to notice it.And what is your business?"
"Is it a rank-up test to let you do it after rescuing the hostages.
"No, it's none.My job is to see if you're capable of anything but rank D.We can't help without a good reason, so the situation is not worth a good reason."
"...I can't help it.It's a pity that we have less war potential, but, Currot, you must come back here and hide yourself after rescuing the prisoners."
"All right,"
"Well, then I'm going into the cave.As I said during the day, the avant-garde was Alogan and Spelvia.The middle guard was Schola and Filma.I'll be in charge of the rear guard... can't I?"

　When he calls out to Alogan, who is back on Ray's side, he nods bitterly.

"Oh, I'll do it,"
"What about you, Scola?"
"Yes, it's all right.I'll try."

　Maybe it was because I had a little time left on the score, but it was much better than before.

"All right, it's going in."

　With Ray's signal, they rush into the cave.