499 Episode 0499



Ray and Sett have gone around behind the slum's target building.
 The place was just a place, and the road was quite complicated. However, Ray's gaze, which arrived at the back of the building before the attack took place, was, as might be expected, the back door.

"Well, if we're aware that we're doing something dangerous, we'll have a route ready for escape in case something happens."
"Glu".

 Seto agrees with the muttering to himself.
 While patting Seto on the head and waiting for a disturbance to break out in the building... all of a sudden, Ray and Sett heard the noise in the building.
 Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to perform, but if you think of one person and one person who have five senses sharper than normal, you can't possibly misunderstand.

"Well, then we'll go, too. I don't think there are any other underground passages, but be careful, for there may be other hidden passages."
"Slurrurling.

 At Ray's words, he gave me a brief voice of approval.
 Since he started using the building recently, he had no time to dig for something like an underground passage, but Ray's mind is that if he uses magic for a moment, he may be able to dig the underground passage without much trouble.
 But there are only a few people in this world who can use magic. Rey, who privately rejects the possibility, goes straight to the building with Seto.
 Fortunately, there are no windows near this back door. Still, they were wary of some means like magic items, but nothing in particular led them to the back door.
 The sound of destruction comes from inside the building.
 If anyone was wary of the back door, it would be determined that the crowd who had entered the front door without doubt... especially the bloodshot Esetus and the fighting Vihela.

「……」

 When Ray glances at Sett in silence to confirm, Sett also faintly shrieks.
 Check it out, take a dagger out of the misty ring, rather than an uncomfortable death-size one, then measure the timing and gently open the door.
 Or there was a way to kick it through and make the enemy think it was a pinch attack, but in that case, the enemy who was cornered thought it was possible to take hostages.
 And as soon as they hear the voices, hoping to be a clue to gathering even a little information, Seto and Ray use their resizing skills to shrink into the building and hide in a nearby aisle.

"d*mn, why is this place under attack! Didn't you guys go straight here when you ran away?"
"Do you act like such an amateur?" 
"Then why are they there! Ogle, that Esetus is the one you attacked!"
"You know, d*mn it! If it's only those two, it's too much of a joke that the mad beasts who came to the rescue at that time are with them!"
"The least we could save was that we had time to run away."
"It's time to calm down! We're going to retire as soon as those abandoned pieces are making time." We can't give our information to them... through which they can't give it to the Silwa family!"

 Ray and Sett feel several people approaching the back door while talking like that.
 In the meantime, the house echoes what seemed to be battle noises.
 I could easily imagine who was making the noise, but I was about to appear before the other person who was approaching the back door...

"What will you do with the man who caught you? As long as you look at our faces, you will know his background."
"...what? You must have carried him over there by now, when he and I were threatened by that abominable doll."
"That's a woman they're looking for called Tivia, isn't it? I caught him after that."
"Wait, I haven't heard of that, if you really are still there..."

 Suddenly I hear a voice like that and stop for a moment.

(Oh, after all, there's no more tea here.) If that happens, should we gather as much information as possible from them. and I should like to see proof that they are connected to the Maaschel family.)

 They gather their thoughts quickly inside, pat their heads lightly with a signal that they are going to go to Seto, who is beside them, and then appear before the men.

"I'm afraid we're at a dead end here. If you want to go by, I'll have you quietly tell me before you do it."

 The sudden appearance of Ray and, more importantly, Seto stopped the men's movements for a moment... the next moment, without hesitation.
 We didn't exchange words or give any signals. But the actions of the men on the spot were beautifully coordinated.
 Two of the six men each attack Ray and Seto for a little time, and the other two try to escape through the back door.
 We had a lot of discussions before we came here, but there was no hesitation whatsoever about the action.
 But... still, in this case, we have no choice but to say that the other party was to blame.
 The two men, desperate to stop Ray from moving, are easily averted by the attack by thrusting out a dagger or swinging down a club, quickly burying the tip of the dagger in their pigeon tails and falling straight to the floor.
 Determined that the dagger itself would not die because it remained in its sheath, Ray turns to Sett for a moment.
 There, two men who had been hit sideways by Seto's front paws had been hit by two men trying to escape through the back door, entangled and blown to the floor.

(Well, of course, there is no need to worry.)

 Relieved to win, he approaches the men struggling under the body of the man blown away by Seto and turns them off like the first two attackers.

"Well, since they were trying to escape from here, there is no doubt that these six know more about it than the others. Then, it would be enough to have them as a source of information..."

 What passed Ray's mind, muttering, was what the men had just said.
 It is said that someone was captured after Tivia.

"There is a possibility that we know some information we don't know, and it's too bad to abandon it here. ...Set, I'm sorry to ask you to keep watch on them. If you wake up, make me faint again."
"Grull?"

 While nodding to Ray's words, Seto's eyes are turned to the back door.
 Understanding what he meant, Ray nods back and opens his mouth.

"Oh, we'd better carry them out," It's not interesting to see anyone other than Elena's resizing skills."
"Gruly!"

 Seto, who sings briefly at Ray's words and carries his armor and clothes with a stick, and Ray, who is watching the six of them not to regain consciousness just in case.
 From Seto's point of view, carrying six big men is not going to be a big problem, and he will finish the work in a few minutes.
 When Ray sees a man lined up on the ground, he asks Seto for the spot and immediately enters the building, remembering the scene of tuna being lined up in Tsukiji, which he saw on TV while in Japan.
 The sound of destruction still coming from inside the building is that the storming Elena is still rampant.

(To be exact, Vihela)

 The seductive figure of a combat fan passes through my mind, and I laugh bitterly.
 However, his bitter smile soon disappears and he proceeds to search the building to find someone he says he is caught with.
 The building itself was not that large, so Ray thought he would soon find someone in captivity, but there was no room or prison where he could keep people locked up even after looking around the building for a few minutes.

"That's the one left, but..."

 I was looking in the direction where I was still hearing the noise of destructive sound.
 But the direction is near the entrance to the building. If you ask me to leave someone I have captured in such a place, I'm left in doubt.

"The possibilities are for a hidden room or cellar, but it's hard to find it by yourself. It's a rather thin flame... well, it's too conspicuous."

 It's for exploration, but it's too conspicuous as long as it actually sets fire. There was no doubt that it would cause a lot of trouble if it were used in a place like this, let alone in a dungeon.
 The inhabitants of the slums will turn a blind eye to some violence. But in case of fire, it's a different story. You know, if you don't do that, even your home could be burned down.
 I hesitated about what to do for about a minute, but in the meantime the fighting inside the building probably ended. Realizing that you can no longer hear the sounds of destruction and screams, if you don't understand it, you just have to ask yourself.
 The reason I didn't go towards the back door where Seto was was was that the one who was purely close to me was the rush team.
 Just to be sure, they move on with caution around them, and the scene eventually comes into Ray's view.The doors and walls had been destroyed, some of whom had been knocked unconscious by sticking their upper bodies into the walls.
 It's especially terrible around the front door. The fierce battle there...or rather the trampling of Vihela. It's almost out of its original form, and since it's a mansion in a slum, it looks like it could collapse at any time.
 The number of fallen men will also exceed ten. Considering that most of them were injured in what appeared to be more or less fractures, Vichela and Elena were unharmed, and Esetus and Nacto suffered minor cuts and bruises, it is not difficult to imagine how one-sided the fight was fought here.
 They look at the men who stood up to create hell themselves, perhaps for the sake of time.

"Oh, Ray. Are you done there yet?"

 In response to Vihela's sharp discovery of Ray's figure, she nods a little and then opens her mouth.

"There was a guy who was trying to escape through the back door as expected, so I caught him here. I think I have at least more detailed information than those who fainted here, as they seem to have been trying to get away with it."
"Any information about Tivia!"

 Esetus, who was listening to Ray's words, swings his head in silence.

"According to a story I overheard while trying to escape, Tivia has already been brought somewhere else."
"Well... d*mn it, now and then..."

 He knew that the chances were slim, but since this was the hideout of the attackers, he must have had a ray of hope. Nacht was patting his back soothingly as he kicked the ground impatiently.
 Seeing this situation, Elena suddenly asks Ray something that bothered her.

"And what did Ray go all the way into the building to tell you that he had captured those who tried to escape?"
"No, I came here to look for something still in captivity somewhere in this building."
"You couldn't find it after all,"

 Rey nods to Vichela's words as she listens to Elena and Ray.

"I've seen most of the buildings. Then I think there's a hidden room somewhere, and I thought I'd get them to tell me where it was."
"Wasn't it OK if Ray had not come all the way here?"
"There were times when it was close, and there was only me and Seto there, so if something happened, they would be scattered all at once, and they would run out of hands."

 He approaches the man, who was knocked unconscious by the wood that seemed to have made up the entrance, and dashes his face with water from a flowing dagger.
 Elena and Vihela, who knew the taste of it, put on facial expressions of great importance and waited for the man to regain consciousness, changing his facial expression slightly.