While performing the succession ceremony, Ver suddenly took out a dagger and tried to destroy the magical stone of the Ensent Dragon.
　Seeing this, Ray immediately ran away, but just before entering Death Size's moment, a magical spear was thrust out from behind.
　Ver's words instinctively detected danger and forced him to shift, but the spear thrust out from behind still had a powerful impact on Ray's side.
　One of the blessings of his misfortunes was that Ray wore a magic item called Dragon Robes.At first glance it appears to be just a robe, but its true nature is an extremely high quality in both its magic and physical defense, and it is much more defensive than its surrounding plate mail.This prevented him from being penetrated in the ribs by a devil's spear.

"Gut, what!?"

　But even though he could not penetrate his side, he could not kill him until the shock.And for Ray, who was about to shake down his death size, the blow was powerful enough to upset his balance.
　But it must have been Ray's great physical ability that prevented him from falling to the ground.Reflectively, Ray came into view when Custe, whose eyes were red, tried to thrust out again with a magical spear in his hands.

"Set!"
"Ringling!"

　In answer to Ray's cry, Sett was about to flash his sharp eagle claws across the side...

"No, Mr. Ray! If you let Custe out of the wizardry now, it will harm Elena's ceremony!"
"Come on, set!"
"Grunt!"

　He probably understood what Ray wanted.Seto stops the flash he was trying to mow, smashes it from just above, hits Custe to the magic camp, and holds it back, unable to move.
　Confirming this, he kicked the ground again and approached Ver...

"It was a little late,"

　Ver, with a smile of derision at his mouth, without hesitation shook it down to the magical stone, which had already been weathered by about seventy percent with the dagger he held in his hand.

"Stop it!"

　He screamed, and even though he knew he wouldn't be able to make it in time, he shook down his death-size...

"Oh, it's dangerous."

　After destroying the magical stone by thrusting a dagger into it, Ver leaps back to distance himself from Ray.

"Ver!"
"Don't be so angry.I didn't do it because I liked it either. ... But it was a shame.It was my only hope to save the kingdom of Milliana.It would be almost impossible to fight against the Empire of Bestia."

　Ray bites Ver with his back teeth as he says so with a flaky smile.

"You know, I don't have to check the back?"

　Ray looked behind him for a moment at the words, and before that, Arra, Custe... and Elena fell unconscious and into the wizards, perhaps because the ceremony had been forcibly interrupted in the middle of the scene.
　Seeing the situation, he puts his strength into the right hand holding the death-size handle.

(Calm down. It's better to gather information now than to kill him.)

　muttering in his mind, and calming down his raging mind.

"...why?""Well, why about what?"

　Ray and Ver.Ver is superior in his ability as a thief, but Ver is no match for Ray if he thinks purely of his fighting power.Nevertheless, Ver is smiling as if he were watching an interesting play.
　While questioning the situation, they continue to talk to each other to gather information.

"You were a member of Elena's Guards Knights, but why do you come here and pretend to betray Elena?"
"Why do you think?"
"I don't want you to answer the question,"

　Ray threatens me with a buzzing death size.

"Oh, if there is a battle, I have no chance of winning.Well, let's go with the answer.Now, why do you think I betrayed Elena here?"
"If you think it safe, you have turned over to the Empire of Bestia."
"Well, that's 50 points.The answer was not just me, but my house itself turned over to the Bestian Empire."
"...the house itself? I have heard that your house was a peer, too, and that you have a close relationship with the Duke of Quelevel, the second most powerful peer after the King's faction in the kingdom of Milliana."
"That's the case, too.My father doesn't think that the kingdom of Milliana can compete with the Empire of Bestia.There are several reasons for that, but the biggest reason is technology.As you may have heard from Elena after arriving at the altar of succession, the ceremonies of succession have been established in the Vestian Empire in a simplified form, and a considerable number of people are present.Oh, by the way, soldiers who have endured the succession ceremony are called "magic animal soldiers."--I think it's cheap."
"Magician, you know, and that's why you got there because you don't have a chance of course.
"Well, that's my father's opinion, and I'm not."

　Ver continues to explain with a smile around his mouth.

"Then why did you betray her? Have you known Elena for a long time?"
"Well, since I joined the Knights of the Duke of Kelebel, about five years."
"If we live together that long, it's natural that we'll have a lot of love.What's more, you're a knighthood, guarding Elena?''s bodyguard?"
"Oh, that's for sure, but..."

　Ver, who told him that, suddenly changed the type of smile he had on his lips.
　If his previous smile had been a funny smile, he would be smiling like a madman now.

"I thought of it all of a sudden,It's OK to continue to fight against the Vestian Empire about the Kingdom of Milliana, and kill people, but I think we can kill more people if we take sides with the Vestian Empire."
"Are you a pleasure murderer?"
"Oh? That's a good name.Yes, let's call ourselves that from now on.the pleasure murderer, Ver Sails."
"...I can't tell you, but what's the fun of killing people?"

　Ray himself killed all the members of the Night Star in the attack on the village of Oak, and he killed the bandits in subsequent rank-up tests.However, it was necessary, so I had only killed him, and I had never been pleased with the act of killing a person.Therefore, I could not understand the man in front of me."What? It's fun.The person's life ends with his or her own hands. And the feeling of cutting and cutting the skin.The screams that come out when you stab a living man with a knife and shave off his bones, and the expression of despair that comes out when you chop up his internal organs and show him your lungs! -- oh, I can't stand it."
"...wasn't I stupid enough to talk to a madman?"
"I hope you don't praise me so much, like a madman.Of course, that's not the only thing I thought of following the Vestian Empire. As I said before, there's a skill there to make the Mystery.It's not the kind of low-level technology that's supposed to fail, like in the Kingdom of Milliana. What kind of ability would you get if you became a demon soldier over there? Melt people with strong acid? There's the Emerald Wolf tentacles.I don't think it's very interesting to be able to change the size of your body like a spriggan, but maybe it's not that bad if you think you can pretend to be a child and get close to him and enjoy the expression of despair in front of him."
"A madman, indeed?"

　muttering, he turned to Custe, who was still pinned down by Custe just in case.

"And what did you do to Custe?"
"Now? Isn't that because Custet hated Ray?"
"... No, he didn't like me and he didn't know me.Or you could say that you hated him.Still, my feelings of respect and respect for Elena were stronger than my hatred.Do you think such a fellow would prevent you from blatantly attacking a possible harm to your boss, Elena?"

　Custe had a thorough condescending attitude and a disdainful glance at Ray, but Custe's favor with Elena, who was also his boss, was real.Ray could not tell if it was because of his love interest, because he was attracted to the size of a person called Hime Shogun, or simply because he was a child of a person who was the center of the aristocratic faction, but his kindness was definitely real.If it had not been, it is possible that Custe would have been slashed by death size by now.

"Well, I'm surprised we didn't like each other, but I'll give you a hint.What's this?"

　he said, and took out an ordinary water bottle from his waist pouch.
　But when he sees the water bottle, his memories of the past come back to life in Ray.
　Didn't you see Ver passing a water bottle to Custe many times after entering this dungeon?

"Did you use some kind of magic?"

　Ray muttered, but he turned his head inward.

(I remember seeing Ver giving him a bottle of water several times,but Ver himself must have brought his water bottle to his mouth by that time.)

"That's right! The magic medicine Ray said was the answer to Custe's madness, isn't it?
"But you must have put your mouth in the water bottle?"
"Oh, you watch it a lot.But don't you know that magic has an antidote?"
"And you manipulated Custe without the effect of the magic?"
"Yes, but the magic that Custe was given is not something that he himself could refuse from the bottom of his heart.You have a desire to do so unconsciously but deep down in your heart, and you listen to my orders for the first time.Well, Custe's hatred of Ray wasn't at the level of unconsciousness or anything."

　It's roaring!Ray shakes his death size in his hand, and the sound of air being cut by the speed echoes around him.

"That's enough, shut up.There is only one thing I have learned from listening to you."
"What? You're going to kill me before I run into the Vestian Empire because I'm dangerous?"

　It was Ver's question as if he were right, but Ray shook his head.

"No, I don't like you.I feel uncomfortable just looking at it.That's why I'm going to kill you here! I'm going to kill you!"

　Even among the skills housed in the death size, it is easy to use, and the skill with relatively high power is invoked.
　A death-size sledgehammer that had been shaken down made its way to Ver, cutting through the air.
　Still, as he watched the deadly attack upon him, Ver still smiled madly at his mouth...

"What!"

　It wasn't Ver... but Ray.
　In front of Ray's eyes, a kind of raw purple tentacles had been cut off in place of Ver.
　The tip of the tentacles that received the hibikiri was cut off as it was, and as soon as it fell to the ground, it collapsed, but immediately the next tentacles stretched out to protect Ver.The tentacles extend from the inside of Ver's pocket, leather armour.

"HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahIt seems that this is a magical creature made by an alchemist of the Vestian Empire to protect him.It would be difficult to do anything about him with a little gentle aggression."

　Ver looks at Ray with a smile on his lips.
　His gaze reflected the distorted joy of being able to capture the mighty fighting game that stood before him.
　But...

"And what's the matter?"

　I'm not confused at all, and I'm not in a hurry.Ver frowned uncomfortably at the reply of his words, which were extremely uncool

"What are you talking about?Why are you so relaxed when Ray's attack doesn't go through to me?"
"Well, how about that? Surely the blow I've just taken has not worked on you.But I hope you will not forget that you have prevented only one of my tricks.and... if my attack is ineffective, so will your attack.What are you going to do about me, who was not particularly damaged by Custe's surprise, and who is overwhelmingly inferior in offensive power to Custe?"
"That may be the case.But Ray was able to prevent Custe's attack because of his robe, so that he could only aim at the place where it was not covered, the face, the limbs.

　It was evident from the purple blade that the knife was not just a knife.

"Poison knives are just some high-level magic items.It has the wonderful effect of being paralyzed and unable to move for ten minutes or so if you get hurt by this knife... can you fight Ray?"
"Well, no matter how powerful a magic item it is, it's the same as my face, hands and feet.In the first place, do you think you can do something about me in close combat? All you can do is attack me with a bow or a knife from behind, but there is no such barrier.Are you going to leave it to that tentacle?"

　Ray provokes Verle while calmly poking at her weaknesses.But Ver heard Ray's words, and still smiled at his lips.

"Well, maybe Ray is right. Then we just need to build an avant-garde."

　Snap your fingers, Ver, and the next moment...

"Grunt!"

　I heard Seto's voice in confusion from behind, and he immediately kicked the ground and jumped sideways.
　Then, until just a moment ago, something protruding from behind passed through Ray's place, something that stood between Ray and Ver, passing through the space he had avoided.

"... Custe,"