When Ray and Sett headed to the dining room where they were meeting, Vihela and Bune were already waiting.
　Basically it was the Vichelas' job to gather information from people, so Ray wasn't surprised... but instead he breathed when he saw four men lying unconscious near the table where Vichela and Bune were sitting.
　"Furthermore, the waitresses and other guests in the dining room were looking at the viehera and the viehera in a grateful way, so it would be no use if they didn't understand the situation."

"Oh, Ray. You're late."
"I'm sorry, there's a lot going on. ... oh, there's Seto on the outside, so please serve him something to eat. And something simple for me, too."

　Ray tells the waitress, who approaches him to show him around, by giving him a silver coin of silver.
　As we head straight to the table where Vihela is sitting, we find envious, envious eyes from the guests around us.

"And? What kind of trouble did you have this time? I think the four people on the floor are the ones who caused the trouble."
"Oh, these people? They got drunk and got involved with other people. And he got me involved, so I asked him to sleep quietly."
"...be quiet?"

　Hearing Vihela's words, Ray looks suspiciously at the four men lying on the floor.
　He had a well-trained body, and it was easy to predict that he was an adventurer or a mercenary.
　These four trained men lay completely unconscious on the floor.
　Nevertheless, there was no blood in the mouth or nose, and there was no sign of injury in sight of the face or body.

"Yes. Be quiet. Do you have any objection?"

　Vihela smiled at the mouth, but her eyes never smiled.
　Determined that he will definitely have a hard time if he continues, Ray gently diverts his gaze from the four people on the floor and sits face-to-face with Vihela.
　The waitress then brings bread, soup, skewers, boiled food and leaves them on the table.

"Thank you. I'm sorry, but I have something important to say. Can you keep people away?"
"Yes, yes. All right!"

　The waitress looks at the viola with respect and admiration and forces the guests around her to move to another seat.
　However, the forced guests do not look bitterly at Vihela -- though Ray looks with jealousy.

"You've become very popular,"

　When Ray mutters a wry smile at his gaze, Vihela returns a silent smile with just a small shrug of her shoulders.

"... well, that's it." There have been many harvests here and there, but how have you been there?"
"I'm not sure, but there was something that looked like a harvest." But can you tell me the story from Ray at first?"

　Ray nods to Vihela carrying green fruit to her mouth with a spoon.
　I wondered if it was avocado that Vihela was eating.

"When I caught and listened to the robbers who were active around Gilm, I was informed that there were two suspicious people going up the river in the forest that fought against the Cyclops."

　Based on the information, Ray continued to go upstream of the river, but what he eventually found was a place full of monsters' bodies, full of odors and blood.
　So he obtained magic items for the incense burner and went back up the river to the cave where the set had been transferred.
　However, deep in the cave were magic items of wizards and jars that seemed to be intended to bring down the cave.
　He managed to escape from it, but then Golem emerged from the cave's ruins, knocked it down, and on his way back to Gilm, discovered a magic item thought to have been made by an alchemist of the Vestian Empire...

"Oh, we ended up in the same place,"
"What? What do you mean?"

　Ray listens back to Vichela's words, which he interrupts in the middle, but comes back to them with a meaningful smile and carries Yale straight to his mouth.
　Next to such a Vihela, Bune was also smirking at a dish with cheese between tomato-like vegetables.

"As we know, we had a hearing inside and outside the guillem. In the midst of this, I've heard that there are some magic items that are more powerful than those made of guillem. these days. I was able to talk to some of the people who had the magic items."
"...and it was the Alchemists of the Bestian Empire who made the magic?"
"Correct. It doesn't seem to be flashy... but it's selling magic items in guillem that don't stand out."
"But why do you do that? No matter how much you say you don't stand out, if you sell magic items that are more powerful than usual, you'll end up standing out, right? Is that a prospect?"

　Vichela shakes her head at Ray's suggestion that it's a diversion.

"I don't know," In fact, even if it's a magic item created by an alchemist in the Vestian Empire, it's hard to tell if it's the same person who really caused this uproar."
"In the end, you have to go to the store where you sell it and gather information."
"Huh?"

　Bune, who had been silent until now, muttered briefly, "Are you going now?"
　Most of the food Ray had ordered had already disappeared, and it had settled in Bune's stomach.
　Of course Ray was eating while talking to Vihela, but it is true that Bune still ate most of the food.

"... well, I don't mind. It's the best time to eat it."

　Ray leaves his seat half-sadly.

"Well, let's go to a shop that sells magic items to satisfy our stomachs. Ray, do you know where it is?"
"I heard from the owner of the stall. However, it's a bit hard to find because it's like a back alley or something like that. It's decorated with the skull of a goblin, so you can't go to the wrong shop."
"That's what I've collected." Shall we go now?"

　Thus Ray and Vichela, Bune and Sett and one of them leave the cafeteria and head to a shop selling magic items.





"...you arrived unexpectedly without anyhow."

　It was Ray who muttered.
　There is now a shop in front of Ray selling magic items that Seymour told him.
　Decorating the skull of a goblin is such a bad taste that you can't make a mistake in the store.

"What, did you think there was something?"
"I thought something was going to happen... to be precisely, something was going to happen. I'm not proud of it, but for some reason I'm apt to get involved in a disturbance."
"... Come to think of it that way." I've had quite a few upsets with Ray before."
"Yes!"

　Viehla mutters to him recalling his actions with Ray, and Bune recalls the troubles he encountered while in Egzil.
　Both understood Ray's susceptibility to commotion, not knowledge.
　But Ray would say that Vichela's appearance attracts trouble in a man-inducing way, and that Bune gets into trouble because of her smallness.

"Glu".

　Seto purrs and rubs his face comfortingly.
　He caresses his head thinking that Seto's presence is one of the causes of trouble.

"I don't think I'm the only one to blame." More than that...

　He must have understood that if he kept on talking, he would be at a disadvantage. Ray forces the subject back."It's no use doing this, and we're about to get in." Please wait outside as usual for Seto as usual."

　Tell him so, and after seeing Sett purring and Vihela and Bune nod, he opens the door before him.
　At the moment, the sweet smell floated from the shop.
　It's not the sweetness of the fruit, but the unnatural sweetness.

"...what does it smell like?"
"Now? As far as you can see, it looks like a store that sells ordinary magic items."
"For security?"

　Vichela shakes his head at Ray, who thinks it's not strange to take some action, given that there are expensive items like Seymour's.

"I wonder. I don't think we can keep guard over something like this."

　The moment Vihela mutters, a man suddenly appears from the back of the shop.
　He's in his fifties, but he's obviously trained.
　She looked a little surprised to see Ray because she knew him because she lived in Gilm.

(A former adventurer or something?)

　Having met Seymour, who loves magic items, Ray has such doubts.

"What magic items are you looking for?"

　The gentle voice, combined with the arm muscles seen from the clothes, evokes the image of a quiet mountain.
　The fact that Vihela rarely reacts to her appearance may be a reason for the mountain's image.
　However, he immediately shook his head that it was not the time to think about it and said what he wanted to come to this restaurant.

"Actually, I heard from Seymour that I was able to buy magic items made by Bestian alchemists at a very low price here, and I came to see them. It looks like this, and my hobby is collecting magic items."
"Oh,"

　The man smiles happily when he says he has a hobby of collecting magic items.
　such a smile as if one had found someone one likes
　As long as magic items are expensive, not many people come to buy them.

Is it your hobby to collect magic items? It's definitely from this store that Seymour bought."
"Yes, indeed," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"It's usually hard to get." Fortunately, a merchant brought it together a little while ago. You know, there was a disturbance in the Empire of Bestia last year, didn't there? It seems to have come around then."
"... I see,"

　Ray feels a little out of his element, wondering if it was a magic item that had been leaked from the commotion he was involved in.
　But I'll immediately assume that I don't know if it's true or not.
　That's because even if the person who came to sell says so, it's still possible that they're saying so for camouflage.

"And who came to sell these magic items?"
"If I were to buy magic items, I'd have to buy them through the shop, just in case."

　The shopkeeper frowns and tells Ray whether Ray is trying to buy magic items directly from Ray after he asks for information about the person who came to sell them.
　Ray tried to deny the owner immediately, but when asked why he wanted to know about it, he couldn't answer well.

"I wanted to know exactly whose work it was because it was created by an alchemist in the Bestian Empire. I came from the Bestian Empire, and I was a little curious."

　Vichela tells her instead of Ray, who is at a word.
　Perhaps the shopkeeper distrusted them, but instead of looking a little too talkative, he opened his mouth with a look of suspiciousness.

"If you're collecting magic items, you know, alchemists are the ones who can create magic items. If what you want to hear is the information of an alchemist, I'm sorry, but I can't tell you it for business reasons."
"Can't you do something about it?"

　Usually, it's like a Vihela... but it's no wonder that a beautiful woman wearing light clothing, like a dancer or prostitute, nodded like this is why she nods.
　However, the shopkeeper shakes his head without showing any concern about the behavior of such as Vihela.

"If you say no, it's no good. You're doing business here, aren't you? It is impossible to give information to people. ...I'm sorry, but go home. I can't say anything more, for it's Seymour's introduction."

　The shopkeeper says so and turns his back to the Lays, perhaps because he thinks he won't listen any further.
　And no more words could be answered by the Ray's.
　Ray and his colleagues have been trying to get information from the owner for a few minutes, but when they find it useless to say anything, they leave the store.

"...hmm,"

　As they walked out of the shop, the shopkeeper muttered, turning to the magic items nearby... to which Ray would have been looking for an alchemist from the Westian Empire.