Looking at the many doors on the walls of his room, Ray recalls the shape of the Maaschel estate.
　It was a large U-shape, and from the end they crept into the house, examining an empty room, and found the stairs down to the basement.

"I mean... did every room have stairs down to the basement?"
"... I suppose,"

　Nacht agrees with Ray's muttering.
　If so, it was understandable to discover the stairs leading to the basement in the room.
　If you didn't happen to find it in a room with hidden stairs, and every room has stairs, then the Rey's actions are not particularly lucky or anything. It's quite natural.
　And...

"Yes,"

　Bune's voice casts its gaze across the street.
　There is only a wall there, no door like the Reyes came in it.
　In other words, the walls of this 40-mat room are furnished with many doors.
　It was not difficult to make out what it meant.

"Do you mean there is another room the size of which is the same as ours?" ...and,"

　We look to the wall on the right, not to the wall on the other side of it's the wall we've come in.
　the only door there
　It was clear what the door here meant.

"Is that the only place to go from this cellar?" Then there is a good chance that Tivia will be at the end of the door."
"Yes,"

　By muttering a word from Ray's mouth, Bune nods, and Nact's expression becomes firm.

"I wish I had a strong opponent."

　As for Vihela, she mumbled, shrugging her shoulders, imagining, as usual, a battle against a strong enemy.

"Then shall we proceed to the end of that door, or..."

　muttered Ray's gaze to several tables and chairs in a large corner of the 40-mat room. It's uncomfortable to say that it's so plumped in this large space.
　But from a distance, there's nothing in particular. It was used in the Marcher family, and although it seemed to be rather high-class, it still didn't seem that there was any device.
　After a few seconds of agonizing over Ray's question, Nact nods softly and opens her mouth.

"Well, let's look into it." If you go ahead without looking it up here, you may be worried about it later. Even if it's useless, we should solve those questions."

　Eventually, Naqt's opinion is adopted, and Ray and his colleagues begin to walk towards tables and chairs in the corner of the room.
　Vihela seemed to be boring because she could judge that there would be little fighting against a strong enemy.
　Nuigurumi and vases are arranged on the table, and flowers are arranged in the vases.

"The flowers are still fresh. Then you may think that this room is used quite a lot."

　Nacht gently examines the flowers and tells them so, and when he hears them, Ray's expression becomes slightly tense and he looks around carefully.
　Of course there was someone doing some work here, so this place would never be safe.
　Of course it could not have been safe as it was a hidden room in the enemy's stronghold of the Maaschel family, but it's only natural that the danger level differs depending on the frequency of use.
　Lei and Viehra remain vigilant, and Nact and Bune search the desk and surroundings for anything.
　However, it takes less than a minute to complete the investigation, as nothing in particular can be found and there is little place to investigate.

"...I can't do it." I have no particular information. I think we'd better go through that door quietly."
"Yes,"

　Nact murmurs regretfully, and Bune nods in agreement.
　Since the investigation was done only in case from the beginning, there was nothing to be disappointed about... no, with a nodding expression on his face, he turned his eyes to the door which seemed to be the only one connected to the back.
　At that moment, the doll on the desk twitches and kicks at the table where he was sitting until a moment ago, pulling out a long thin needle hidden in his body and attacking Ray's head.

"Ugh!"

　Ray's realization of it was quite coincidental.
　Since it is a doll, there is no sign of it, and moreover, there is no such thing as murder.
　For Ray, who perceives and deals with the signs of his opponent's presence and bloodshed, you can even call him a natural enemy.
　But fortunately, by chance... by chance, Ray was turning to the doll on the table, and it made him realize that something was going straight and quickly towards his head.
　The doll flies right next to Ray's face, turning around and landing on the ceiling.
　Ray didn't know what technology the doll was using, but as soon as he recognized it as a kind of magic item, he took the death size out of the mystery ring.
　Fortunately, there are about 40 tatami mats in the room where Ray and his colleagues are now located, and unlike the room that had stairs to the basement, there is plenty of space to swing the floor.
　a momentary deadlock
　It was the doll that broke it.
　Like before, he kicks the ceiling without any signs of life or bloodshed, and leaps towards Ray with a needle in his hand.

"There's no problem if you see it!"

　Shake your death size to match the timing of the doll that comes straight into your face.
　a momentary intersection
　Then the next moment the doll hits the floor, and the impact divides it into upper and lower bodies.

"... a doll?"

　Already dead in Ray's attack... no, nacts gently approaching the crippled doll.
　Nact, who had seen many unusual objects as a bandit at a well-known party, was unexpected to see dolls attacking them.
　Of course, monsters called puppets sometimes appear in dungeons as a kind of Golem. But they are not as small as this doll.
　The doll, which was about 20 cm in size, has been cut into about 10 cm by a flash of death size.
　He tried to reach out to the upper part of his body, but...

"Yes!"
"Cinet!"

　A needle released from the veneer stitched the doll to the ground to stop it from moving.
　That's right. The movement of the doll that was about to be thrown at the target of a knuckle just by the movement of the upper body's hands.

"...I'm sorry,"
"Yes,"

　With a small breathless expression of gratitude, Bune replies briefly, thinking that there is no problem, and reaches out to the doll that has really stopped working this time.
　It doesn't look like it has magical stones inside it, it's just an ordinary doll stuffed with cotton.
　At least I couldn't seem to have kicked on the table and jumped at the opponent at that speed, let alone stood on the ceiling.

"...what do you think?"
"Yes,"

　Bune shaking his head in response to Vihela's question.
　Still, to give a clue, he approaches Ray with a doll divided into two parts: the upper and the lower.

"Yes,"

　Detaining the Death Size, Ray looks at the wreckage of a doll that Bune has presented and turns to Vihela.

"I'm telling you to put it in the item box."
"Yes!"

　A doll is handed to a nodding Bune, who looks slightly displeased, but as long as he knows it will only get in the way, he reluctantly stores it in a mistling.
　For Ray, there was no murder or sign of murder... and at first glance there was nothing more troubling than a mere doll.

(Puri Maaschel, I heard from Elena that he was studying the art of putting magic into jewelry... that he was a raccoon dog.)

　mutter inwardly, turning one's eyes to the door in the room.
　The doors they came out of and the doors lined up at equal intervals would lead to the stairs leading to the buildings above the ground. Then the only door in the corner of the room was the way out of this cellar.

"... Here we go,"

　Everyone nods and walks forward to what Ray says.
　Eventually, when they arrive at the door, Beune and Nact check for traps.
　Fortunately, there are no traps, and Nact opens the door while each is on guard. And what I saw was..."Again,"

　a muttering nact
　It's no wonder. There was a passageway at the end of the door, and there were many doors in the passageway.
　An open door is the end of the aisle, just across from it.
　Given the U-shape of the building itself, it was obvious that the door in front of them was connected to the same place they had just entered.
　Still, if we can't wait and see, we'll go out into the aisle.
　It's a fairly long passageway, and if each door is a room or something, it's probably too long to fit on the Maaschel estate alone.

"Well, what shall we do? As long as we don't know where Tyvia is caught, we ought to examine all the doors."
"It's a pain in the neck, and it's taking too long,"

　Vichela shrugs at Ray's words as if she didn't like it.
　Fortunately, the aisles are equipped with magic items of light, so you might have been lucky not to be bothered by the darkness. No matter how bright you may be at night, it's better to be cheerful.

"But as long as I don't have a clue..."

　For Nact, it's OK if you can just open the door and find a tevia there. But I would never have liked it to be that Tivia was not aware of the room in which she was being held, and that she would go on and be irrevocable...

"Well, I've got to look for evidence that you've been involved in an unusual matter. Wouldn't it be better to adopt Nact's opinion here?"
"Yes!"

　Bune nods to Ray's words.
　For Bune, the Marscher family is the only cause, and I hope that this incident will bring back a little bit of interest.
　Besides, since they are the only blood of the Frouts, there is no doubt that they have a strong attachment to the place called Egzil. an aberrant species at risk of destroying Egzil Knowing that it was the Marceschells and the Holy Lights who had been manipulating the Levisor family, which had studied the abnormal species, I could not afford to overlook it.

`Well, I see,' ...the enemy won't come out, and even if they come out, Ray will easily defeat them. Honestly, I wonder why I'm here."

　a whispering Vihela, shrugging her shoulders and shaking her big chest.
　There's no way I can say I'm an interpreter for Bune, and I'm thinking about whether I'm going to open the door on the left or right, whether it's Ray or Nact.

"…is it any different?" Then shall we go from the right first?"
"All right,"

　Vichela, who had heard his remarks, seemed somewhat unhappy, but Rey and others opened the door without seeming to care about it... the next moment, they held their noses against the smell that came from the room.
　The smell coming out of the room is tantalizing.
　There are a number of potted plants in the room. The potted plants are decorated with various things, such as wizards drawn around them, or with what appears to be magic items, and in many ways, the plants in the potted plants are a group of suspicious plants, such as those with ivy like tentacles, those that emit green light around them, and those that emit a pungent odor that is spreading throughout the room.
　Seen from Zepyle's knowledge of some of the plants, or from his memories of reading them in books, Ray opens his mouth slightly.

"You use magic to turn certain plants into magical plants. I see."

　Ray mutters, urging the door to close, that there will be no particular clue here.

"Ray?"

　When Vichela looks at the situation and wonders, Ray opens his mouth to the next door... the door opposite the one he just closed.

"No, I suppose that was one of the reasons why the Maaschel family had collected as much magical stones as the Levisors did." Of course, I don't think that only that magical plant consumed all the magical stones, but if you turn that amount of plants into magical plants and maintain them, you'll need quite a few magical stones."
"There were certainly quite a few magical stones in that room,"
"Yes,"

　muttered Nact, who had been glancing swiftly around the room in a short time when the door was opened, and Bune nodded.
　This neighborhood should be called a thief.

"Anyway, there was nothing in that room that we needed. It's next."

　Everyone nods at the words and Nact gently reaches for the door where Ray's gaze was directed.