252 Episode 0252



"...don't move,"

 It was Ray who muttered. He thrusts a death-size blade at the neck of a black man beside Minn, and at the same time holds a new dagger from Mistyling in the other hand, pointing to the man who was looking for a gap in Ray while falling to the floor on Rodos' side so that he could throw it at any time.
 If a man tries to take Rodos hostage, it's because he's ready to prevent it.
 They take hostages and use Elk as a hand and assassinate Ray, who has been in their way so far. a life-or-death plan to recover from the mistakes inflicted on them by the spies who were sneaking into the kingdom of Milliana, but who were free to move outside of their important duties. It was the moment it collapsed.

"You scythe... you! You lay! Because of you! Without you, we wouldn't have been so miserable, and... that!"

 A man who glares at Ray with a hateful, murky eye, with a death-size blade in his throat. Ray slashes the skin of his neck with a blade, as if to teach such a man his position.
 A man who stops raging, perhaps because he understands the feeling of blood dripping in his throat, but turns a strong gaze at Ray that he can surely kill with hatred.
 Lei turns to the two hostages, ignoring the man's gaze.

"Geez!"
"Well..."

 Rodos, who was lying on the ground, cries in surprise at Ray, and Min moans convincingly.
 While listening to his voice, he throws his dagger into the floor, and at the same time takes a new one out of the mistling.

"Min, Rodos. I'm sorry, but I'm tied up now. Use the dagger to get out of the rope."
「……」

 After listening to Ray's words, Rodos takes action first. Move as if crawling to the point where the dagger is thrusting, and cut the rope that holds you in a ganji. And once the rope was cut, the rest was fast. Unravel the rope that tied your body many times, unravel the cloth that covered your mouth, and then unravel Min's rope.

「……レイ、何でここに. 父さんはどうしたんだ?」
「安心しろ. エルクの命に別状はない. 多少は怪我をさせたかもしれないが、それにしたってポーションや回復魔法を使えばすぐに回復する程度の怪我だ」
「……やっぱりエルクと戦いになったんだね」

 溜息と共にミンが苦い声で呟き、それにレイが頷く.

「とにかく、こいつらを捕らえて情報を……っ!?」

 情報を聞き出す. そう言おうとしたレイだったが、次の瞬間には夜の空気を斬り裂くようにして聞こえてきた音に反応し、男の首元へと突きつけていたデスサイズの刃を外して振るう.
 キキキンッ、という金属音が幾つも周囲に響く. 同時に弾かれた何かが床へとぶつかる音. レイが寸前までデスサイズの刃を突きつけていた男は無事だった. だが、それでも広範囲に放たれた20を越える何かをレイだけで、あるいは装備の一切を奪われているミンやロドスが防げる筈も無く.

"f*ck!"

 The man watching Rodos eats his blackened dagger between his throat and eyebrows and falls to the floor with a suffocating voice. the odor of thick blood spreading simultaneously around

"Phew!"

 With a sharp tongue, Ray beats the surviving man in the dove with a death-size stonghold and blows him towards Min and Rodos.
 Min immediately learns what to do for him when he receives a man who immediately loses consciousness after being stoned in the dove. We can never kill these men to extract information about themselves.

"Please give it said.

 Tell Minn and Rodos that and head to the wall that was just destroyed by Ray's attack with his death size in place.
 a dagger painted black as if under cover of darkness Ray was familiar with it. It was the same as it was used when fighting against a spy from the Westian Empire who had previously infiltrated the city of Gilm.
 Of course, as long as it's a weapon used by shadowy beings, it's only natural in a way to reach conclusions similar to those used by them without being inconspicuous. However, Ray had only one person in mind who was hostile to Ray and could send four more skilled spies who could take advantage of Elk.

(Is it decided by the Bestian Empire?)

 There was no proof, but I went across the wall, listening to what I had expected."

「……?」

 frown involuntarily at the absence of any attack
 Having learned firsthand what Ray's strength was when he was blown away, Ray knew that something unexpected was going on...

"... oh my gosh."

 At the end of the wall, I hit my tongue at the figure falling on the floor.

「戦力の差を理解していただけに、自分から口封じをした訳か. 潔いというか、見上げた忠誠心と言うべきか」

 うつ伏せに倒れ込んでいる男をデスサイズの石突きの部分を使って引っ繰り返そうとして……その動きを止めるレイ.
 スパイである男が、情報を渡さない為に自ら息の根を絶つという場面. 日本で見た映画や漫画、小説ではある意味でお馴染みのシーンであった為だ. そして、当然そんな時にどのようなことになるのかも半ば予想がつき……

「マジックシールド」

 デスサイズのスキルである、1度だけの絶対防御の盾を展開. 次の瞬間にはレイの周囲に光の盾が作り出される.

「……よし」

 その光の盾を見て小さく頷くと、そのまま改めてデスサイズの石突きを使って地面に倒れ込んでいる身体を引っ繰り返し……

"Nothing, sir.

 He breathed a sigh of relief at the absence of any particular explosion.
 I checked if they had any strange items, but most of them were dark instruments such as blackened daggers or needles over 30cm long, and there were no clues or transition stones to this time around.

"Well, it's quite obvious that you don't leave any evidence,"

 Ray slaps his tongue, but puts the dark instruments in the mistling as little reward.

(Usually, my sword was covered with poison... or was it my imagination? If you think about it carefully, daggers and needles aren't just for the enemy. Or, on closer examination, we may have some poisons. I suppose he used poison or something to kill himself, as long as the corpse was not injured...)

"Oh, what the hell are you all!?"

 As Ray thinks like that, suddenly Rodos' voice rings.

"Come on! That's all you have to do! Oh, hurry up!"
"This man is concerned in this case. I can't give it to you if it's true."

 Continuing threatening rant and Min's calm reply to that voice.

"...huh,"

 Just by hearing the voice, Ray breathes a little sigh and enters the room where he just jumped out, leaving a spy who seems to have taken his own life by poisoning himself.
 There was one who had been knocked unconscious by Ray's blow and one who had been killed by a black dagger. And Rodos and Min, who stand in front of them. Finally, there were eight men.

"Of course,"
"Ah? What's this starvation? Where did you come in from? For now, just disappear. I'm busy here."Judging by appearance Ray is a child, a man in his twenties uses his hand to ward off insects.
 In that moment, Rodos and Minn show compassion towards the men, which would have been completely meaningless to them.

"The heart of an auger?" I can't believe that the likes of Rank E party are fighting with the members of Rank A party. He doesn't seem to know his place."
"...what?"

 The men's eyes turn to Ray for a moment, wondering what he's saying.
 Ray looks straight back at the gaze with his hooded face on.
 Then the limit of my patience must have come. One of the men burst into laughter.

"Duck. Hey, little boy. Aren't you cut out for clowns or something like this? Are these little boys and girls at the Rank A party? Then we can get along at the Rank S party."
"Huh. Didn't you get this job after being told by the guildmaster?"
"What? No way. Why should I be ordered by such a weak man?"
"... I see,"

 With that word, Ray understands that the men in front of him have no respect for the guildmaster.
 It seems that Tillage, who has become a guildmaster because of his perceived ability to manage the organization, is not considered to be superior to us.

"Power is everything,"

 The words he muttered involuntarily gave the heart of the auger a grin.

"Yes, you know very well even though you are a hungry man. Then you know what I mean, right? This is a scene where you wrap your tail and disappear quickly. I'll forget that he spoke impertinently to powerful adventurers like us. So go away."
"... chuckle."

 Ray laughs at the remark.
 I suppose you didn't like it. They are ridiculed by children who, at first glance, look like apprentices, are proud of themselves. The men glared at Ray's smile with blue streaks on their foreheads.
 And the impression couldn't have been more accurate. It was undoubtedly a mockery that Ray had directed at the men, and there was nothing but a mockery at the fact that he was trying to settle the case for their own convenience at the request of the guild.

"Oh, you're in front of me! If you think I'm going to be sweet forever even if I'm a hungry person, you're wrong!"

 The man closest to Ray among the men threatens to yell at him.
 The first person to react to the remark was Rodos, not Ray.

"Oh, hey. I'll tell you, who you're fighting with..."
"Shut up! Shut up the scum that was held hostage with all these little fish!"

 a pickle
 Rodos, who couldn't forgive being called a scum, has a blue streak in his comedy.
 For Rodos, it was no wonder that he, who is a rank C, was called a scum by a rank E opponent.
 But he was not immediately exasperated, probably because he was aware that he had caused trouble to his parents because of his capture.
 Taking Rodos' conflict elsewhere, Ray spins his words with a twist of ridicule.

"If you're good at it, why don't you go to the city of Gilm instead of the city of Abuero? If you're good at it, you'll find a lot of good adventurers."
Oh, this is the way to go, so hungry people who don't know common sense are in trouble. It is said that the city of Gilm is full of talented adventurers, but it's just a crowd of idiots who don't know the dangers properly. Competence refers to people who are as quick-witted as we are."
"...well, it's a bunch of cowards who don't have the ability to go to the streets of Gillum after all. The heart of an auger? Don't be too brave for your party name. Understand your share. You guys are as good as you can..."

 Tell them that much and think of the party name that is appropriate for the people in front of you.
 Passing Ray's mind then was a group of hawks entangled in the streets of Gilm. The hawk's claws represented the mouth of a goblin, so what is the proper name for the group in front of him. Speak out your thoughts and ideas.

"The gallstones of the goblin are appropriate,"
"...you know what's going to happen now, as long as you're making such a fool of us? It's too late to apologize. I'll show you our ability to make a fool of ourselves!"

 The man in front of us, red with anger, takes a step forward at the name that ridiculed us too much.
 At the same time, the other men also begin to encircle Ray as well.

"Oh, what a fool you are!"
"Well, I can't help but look at Ray's appearance." But I'm more worried about what happened to Elk when Ray came here."
"It's all right, Mother," I'm afraid he can't do anything so easily. He said he only injured Ray enough to heal him right away."
"I'm worried because it was Ray who said it."

 Rodos and Min worry about the family members who were used as spies to target Ray because they were taken hostage, looking aside at the heart of the auger creeping forward surrounding Ray.
 Spies kept abusing Ray while he was caught here. That is why in the Vestian Empire, people in charge of intelligence and maneuvering in this frontier area understood how much they had a grudge against Ray.
 Elk's being a Rank A adventurer was probably one of the defining reasons for his use. It is not uncommon for quality to exceed quantity in wars in this world. And an adventurer with the ability of a Rank A adventurer would certainly perform overwhelmingly by himself. If you're not good at it, you'll be able to reverse your tactics just by having that person.
 The approaching footsteps of the war between the kingdom of Miliana and the Empire of Bestia. For the start of the war, they kill Elk, and Ray, who is still low in rank, but will have the ability to approach the Elk, or hold the surviving Elk hostage Minn and Rodos. That was the full extent of the aim of the spies who took part in the disturbance.
 But even the spies didn't expect Ray to beat the Elk, and the attempt eventually collapsed easily.

"... oh, I think it's done."

 Rodos was thinking in his head like that, but before he knew it he muttered, seeing all the faces of the auger's heart lying on the floor.