355 Episode 0355



The day after listening to the ranking exam in the guild's conference room, Ray and Sett were walking down the city's main street to the main gate, while there was still some room for the 9 a.m. bell to ring.
 Unlike usual, that hand has no food to eat while walking, such as skewers or sandwiches. It's the day of the rank-up exam and you're getting a little more serious, but the biggest reason is probably the time zone. Breakfast was long overdue, but before 9 a.m., so many stalls were still open in the morning.
 After nine o'clock, there will be some stalls open.
 Of course, not all stalls are out of business. Some stalls have already opened, but Ray and Sett are still on important days... and, above all, they head to the main gate, saying no to the owner of the stall, for fear of being too absorbed in eating to make it in time for the appointment.
 That's how Ray moved in front of the main gate. What he saw.

"Is this insane?"

 It was rather a car-drawn carriage decorated to the point of being rather than brilliant. Its appearance is garishly decorated with gold and silver, and in places it is furnished with jewels and magical stones.
 The viewer will see the impressions of gorgeousness and brilliance, but the impressions from Ray's eyes...

"It's bad taste,"

 That was all.
 In fact, there are many adventurers, merchants, travelers, and so on, coming in and out of the main gate at the request of the guild, almost all of whom are surprised, dumbfounded, and eventually leave with a wry smile.
 Ray thinks it's no wonder, but when he sees a man emerging from the carriage at the right time, he gasps.
 The brown-haired, languid-eyed man was the man I met in the guild's conference room yesterday.
 Orchide Daphni He is the man who will accompany Rey and his colleagues in the latest round of bicorns or rank-up tests.
 The orchide came out of the carriage not by chance... but by Ray's arrival, and hence by calling out to Ray.
 Yes, with the curious gaze of those walking around.

"Well, it was Ray, I'm sure." Well, it's a little early, but it's not the first one, is it just the right time?"
"Somebody before me?"
"Huh? Ah, oh. though he had asked me out of the carriage, and I refused it out of the blue."

 Unlike Arnicht, he seems to have no particular thoughts about Ray's language. Just telling him annoyingly, Orchide turns his gaze to Onz, who is a little further away.
 Looking over there, Ray felt satisfied with his expressionless appearance, as if it were wood and stone.

(It is quite inconceivable that a man as taciturn as Onz should like to ride in such a gaudy carriage.)

 Though Ray thought so privately, Orchide opens his mouth as if he had read such a thought.

"Well, I know you don't want to ride in such a carriage,"
"Why, then, do you go out of your way to such a conspicuous carriage?"

 Asking, looking at the stunned expression of almost everyone passing by towards the carriage.
 Fortunately, Ray and Orchide are talking a short distance away from the carriage and are not considered by the people who come into town now, but they frown at the thought of riding in a carriage that can only be described as bad taste.
 But Sett, in a way, looked somewhat interesting at the carriage, perhaps the opposite of Ray.

"Glu".

 Ray smiles bitterly at Seto, who bends his head and asks if he's going to ride.
 I don't know what hit Sett's chord about that bad horse-drawn carriage, but Ray would like to be honest with me.

"Well, there are a lot of things on this side," --but I think your company is here."

 On the other side of Orchide's gaze are Lovre with a large backpack and Stee with two smaller bags hanging over her shoulders.

"Go over here, go over there." for I am slow in the carriage."
"Ah, oh,"

 Orchide heading back to the bad horse-drawn carriage without hearing Ray's answer.
 After seeing him back, Ray approaches Lovre and Stee, who are approaching the main gate.

"Oh, Ray. That's early. I thought we were the first to come."
"Some of them are faster than I am,"

 Ray, turning his eyes towards Ons, shrugs his shoulders.
 Following Ray's gaze, Lovre immediately offers his backpack to Ray, feeling something nodding.

"You can leave it up to me to carry your luggage?"
"Oh, no problem."

 Take the backpack and put it straight into the mistling. Suddenly, Lovre's mouth was filled with astonishment, and Stee looked equally surprised.

"Why? You must have known that I have an item box, right?"
"No, it's a big difference between knowing and actually seeing it. That's great, seriously."
"Oh, yes. I'm sure. Well, can I ask you to do this?"
"No problem,"

 I put the two bags I had been given into a mistling as well... ...when I found myself on the side of the three Lays.
 He was as silent as ever and said nothing in particular, but his gaze was still fixed on Ray.
 Then, suddenly, he offers the bag he was carrying him.

"...please,"

 Ray nodded a little to Onz, who asked him briefly, and put him straight into the mistling.

"And if it's in the box, you can't take it out without me, but is that all right?"
"Oh, that's all right. for most of them are for food and for night-time use."
"I feel the same way. and I have some things on my side-by-side.

 a pat on the waist pochette

「……」

 Onds nods silently, not specifically.

"By the way, why don't you go through the process of getting out of town? I don't like it a little because I'm near that bad-looking carriage."

 Lovre glances at the carriage in which Orchide is riding, but when he is at a loss whether to tell him that he is really involved, he eventually finds out and approaches the guards in front of the main gate without saying anything.
 Of course, with Sett, who stared at the horse-drawn carriage that Lovre described as bad taste.

"Grull?"

 Ray nods while patting Seto's back, asking, "Are you going now?"
 Stee looked a little envious at Ray, who was caressing Seto's back, but he still didn't say that he wanted me to caress him, so he probably didn't have the courage to touch him.
 As long as everyone here takes the Rank B exam, the process of leaving the city ended without any particular reason – and Langa was not on holiday – everyone leaving the city.
 Orchide seemed to be waiting for the rest of the group or moving the carriage, so Lovre's uncomfortableness was resolved, albeit briefly.





"Oh, isn't it that carriage... Huh? Huh?"

 a party waiting for the residence, the examiner at the front gate, and the nobles to act together. It is about time the nine o'clock bell rang, and Lovre exclaims at the sight of a few cabs heading down to the Reyes... at the next moment he looks suspicious, at the same time, disgusting.
 Three horse-drawn carts are at the end of the line of sight. The first carriage is an ordinary one, and I guess this is a guild carriage. The second carriage is not as simple as the first one, but it has the air of robustness as if it had given priority to function. And the last one... was a very bad one by the gate.
 In addition, Ray knew exactly which carriage belonged to him, as he had ridden the first carriage at the time of the Oak Conquest and the second one at the time of the Guild to the Marca's residence."Hey, man. Maybe that carriage..."

 Lovre, who sees a carriage that glitters rather than sparkles, looks at it and asks for it to be false, but Ray and Ons, who know the truth, shake their heads expressionless. as if to give up
 At the sight, Lovre looks deeply disgusted, but the three horse-drawn carriage stops beside Rey, receiving the gaze of adventurers, merchants, or travelers around the gate, as if it had nothing to do with it.
 That would naturally direct the attention of the people around him, so Lovre would not feel at ease, and Stee looked down shyly waiting for the attention to disappear.
 Ray was already used to being bad-looking with sets, item boxes, and death sizes, and Onds was basically taciturn and barely moved, so he didn't seem to have any patience.

"Well, we're all here,"

 The residence, who had descended from the first carriage, looked at the Ray's and said so, while Marka and Coan came from the middle carriage. Arnicht and Orchide emerge from the last carriage.
 Regardless of Orchide's troublesome appearance, Arnicht's exhausted face is probably because he has to travel to the bicorns in a gleaming, bad-tasting carriage.

(but if you are so tired just by moving from one gate to the next, what will happen from now on?)

 While I'm thinking like that inside, the people who come out of the carriage gather around the residence.

"First of all, there are four test participants and three horse-drawn carts. so that you may decide how to share it with us."
"... and which carriage do you ride in have to do with the rank-up examination?"
"Can you say that? I'll just tell you that what I see is all about action."

 Residence answers Stee's question, while Ray, Lovre and Stee's expressions are slightly distorted.
 Onds remained motionless and listened intently to the residence's explanation.

"Anyway, you decide how to divide it. I'm sorry for the aristocrats, but please watch me in silence."

 Ray frowns slightly at the remark.

(At the very least, we can decide by ourselves.) It would be troublesome to decide which horse-drawn carriage to ride in while the other party is watching.)

"I'd like to refrain from that bad horse-drawn carriage,"

 Although Lovre described his carriage as bad taste, Arnicht, who was otherwise willing to complain, kept his mouth shut his mouth.
 You probably understand the bad taste of the carriage you drive around here.

"It is true that Lovre and Arnicht are not compatible, let alone the appearance of the carriage."
"Hey, you there," You said Ray, didn't you? A little in the way of speaking..."
"Mr. Arnicht, I am sure you promise to leave everything to me. I beg your pardon, but I have told you in advance that I will do it in the adventurer's way in the course of this request."
"…that's all right." I'm sure I've accepted the matter on that condition. I'll leave you here."

 Ray opens his mouth again, glancing briefly at Arnicht, who nodded disapprovingly.

"And what shall we do?"
"...I'll get into the Guild's carriage."

 The first person to speak was surprisingly Ons.

"It can't be helped," Then I'll be there."

 Stee then opens his mouth, turning his eyes to the carriage in which Arnicht is riding.

"Wait a minute," Can you imitate putting only Stee in that bad car? Then I'll ride there, too."
"Do you like it? I don't think it's compatible with Lovre."
"I don't care. Besides, if you leave Stee alone, she might do something strange."

 Lovre's words make Arnicht twitch his eyebrows, but whether he remembers the words of the residence, he says nothing more and shuts down.
 Next to him, Orchide looked languid, complaining that it was still cool in the morning, but that it would be troublesome to be outside in this increasingly hot weather.

"Then you're going to have Ray in that carriage, but... you don't mind that?"
"Oh, luckily or unfortunately, Marka and Corean know each other."
"Well, I'm not acquainted with you. They're friends!"

 Perhaps Marka didn't like the expression of acquaintance, but he immediately took a serious look and continued.

"But don't worry, sir. I'll be fair in my evaluation of the rank-up exam. No, it's because we're friends that we should be harsh."

 Arnicht seemed to have a lot to say to Marka, but he could never have said anything to the Duchess, until the allotment of the carriage was decided upon as Ons to the Guild's carriage, Ray to the Duke of Quent's carriage, and Lovre and Stee to the carriage with Arnicht and Orchide.