When Elena and Vihela see Ray kick on the floor, they all look convinced.
　While Azimov was concerned about these two, he looked around to see if he was interested in the various magic items in the store.
　Bune then begins examining the floor even before Ray says something, perhaps frustrating that he was outdone as a thief.

"Well, there are no escape routes on the walls or ceilings, so there is only one left underground."
"Yes, but... where are you going if you get out of here? Judging from what Ray told the guards earlier, there are quite a few guards working in this case, then I think it's hard to escape and hide in the guillem."

　Elena tells Vihela in wonder.
　That's what Ray agreed with Ray.

(You dig underground so that you can move out of the guillem? Well, there's a possibility... but guillem would also do something about monsters digging underground.)

　There are not as many monsters as there are flying monsters, but not all of them dig through the ground.
　That being the case, Ray could hardly imagine that the remote Gilm had failed to cope with such monsters.

"Yes!"

　Suddenly, Bune's voice reverberates in the store.
　Bune casts her magical powers into a pot near the wall, as others stare at her.
　Then, with the sound of something opening, the floor near the jar moves, and the staircase appears large enough for two adults to easily pass through.

"Well, that's how we escaped from the shop. I don't know why you made such an elaborate device. Perhaps this was originally a shop of the hands of the Vestian Empire? I thought that the people who were linked to the Vestian Empire in the previous case had been thoroughly hunted down."

　Vihela mumbled to Ray, wondering if he could not hunt everything out.

"So what are you going to do? Follow me like this, or wait for someone to come?"
"...you can't let me go like this, can you?" It may be too late to follow now, but maybe we can make it. Then you should follow."
"I suppose so. Who's going?"

　That remark worries Ray.
　The bandit's veneer could not be removed, as they would proceed in such a way as this. Alchemist Azimov will also be needed, as long as he pursues alchemists and magic shopkeepers. Also, as long as you are the target, you can't stay here.
　And as long as we didn't know what was ahead of this escape, Vihela and Elena were the most reliable men to fight against.
　She would take her if she could, but the stairs leading to the basement would make it difficult for her to act.

"Well..."

　Did you feel Ray hesitating in his tone, and Elena tried to say something...

"Are you safe, Elena?"

　All of a sudden, a voice like that echoes around me.
　A woman with an axe suddenly entered the shop.
　Ray soon recognized who the woman was.
　And of course Elena also speaks without hesitation about who the person is.

"Are you here, Arra?" I told you to wait at the inn, didn't I?"
"I waited for him, but he didn't come back at all, and after hearing of Mr. Elena from the people who came to the inn, I came in a hurry!"

　Everyone in the store, including Ray, looks satisfied with the words.
　"When I heard that Elena, who was supposed to just stroll around the city, got into trouble, I couldn't help but leave the inn."
　Arra's loyalty to Elena was probably maximized.

"Yes, sir, and Mr. Ray and Mr. Elena were not in great straitjacket ... and they were talking about everything as if they were very crafty, so perhaps they would run away and cause another disturbance."

　Arra says she was worried, but Elena doesn't look particularly disappointed when she hears the story.
　On the contrary, he even has a faint smile.

"Don't worry. She's making Yero follow her, just in case. If he runs away, he won't lose sight of it."

　Words from Elena's mouth remind him that Yero, who was in the capture of Adriatic, had disappeared from the back of Seto.

(I thought I was interested in something and went somewhere to hang out, but I wonder if it wasn't.)

　In Ray's eyes, Yero was still a child, and he seemed to have the character to jump at what he was interested in.
　That's not a mistake, in part because it hasn't been long since Elena created it with dragon language magic.
　...but if I were to say so, Seto was only a few years after he was born into this world by magic.

(That's probably why Seto and Yero get along well.)

　In front of Ray, who thinks he's close to each other because of his close mental age and because he's been created by special characters such as Ray and Elena, Elena opens her mouth with a smile.

"More importantly, he came to the right moment. From now on, we will use these stairs to pursue the person we escaped. You tell me when the guard comes."
"What? Elena, what are you doing?"

　Arra heard that Elena had caused a commotion when she was worried about going out into the city, and when she was searching for her whereabouts, Elena was somehow in a magic shop, where she was about to go down the stairs leading to the basement, so it was only natural that she didn't understand the situation.
　It's nice to have Ray here. It's no wonder that Elena originally went out into the city looking for Ray.
　But if there was someone there who looked as good as Elena, it would have been a different story.
　Arra was born into a noble family, but she never saw anyone as beautiful as Elena.
　I have seen many noble ladies and women proud of their beauty, but what was before me now was literally no less beautiful than Elena.
　This is the first time I've ever seen such a person, so it's no use wondering why such a beautiful woman is here.
　The same was true of Vihela in the sense that she was concerned about the other person.
　Vichela was most concerned about Arra because she saw through her strength, not her appearance.
　It was Ray who opened his mouth in such a complex relationship in so many ways.

"I'm sorry, Arra," I have something to do over here now. I think there are many things I should introduce and talk about, but please put it off. Elena, Vihela, Bune, Azimov, here we go."

　At Ray's word, he decides that he should follow the owner of this shop now and heads up the stairs.

"Hey, Elena!"
"I'm sorry, Arra," I'll let you know the details only after the matter is settled."

　Elena tells it all and leaves Arra there to go down the stairs.
　Eventually, Arra is left alone in the shop and moves close to the shop door, completely unaware of what is going on.
　But I still didn't get out of the door because I knew something might happen in this store and I would have to do something about it.
　After all, I couldn't say no to Arra, who had a deep affection for Elena, if she asked me to.

"And yet... I wonder who that disgraceful man was." Is it by any chance Ray's second love? But he didn't look bad with Elena. What do you think?"

　Arla's gaze was on Seto, who was watching her just outside the shop.

"Glu?"

　As Seto leaned his head slightly with round eyes, Arra stretched out her hand with a smile.





　Down the stairs was a room.However, the room is far from ordinary.

"I suppose you've got a great deal of alchemy, too."

　Azimov murmured admiringly, glancing at the room.
　The room is littered with experimental instruments and materials.
　Some of them are very rare and highly skilled monsters to handle, and Azimov was able to understand how skilled the alchemists were in this room.
　Some people use expensive materials without technology, but if you look in this room, it is clear that the alchemist here is not such a person.

"Is that so?"

　I can see that what is spreading in the room is related to alchemy, but Ray is not so familiar with alchemy as to know the skill of the user just by looking at the tool.
　It's not just Ray, it's Elena and Vihela, and they're looking at Azimov in question.
　Azimov nods back in a groaning tone.

"Oh, if you think purely of your alchemist skills, you're probably better than me. And look at the materials that I left here."

　Azimov told us that a number of materials were placed in different parts of the room.

"Probably, when we escaped from here, we should have brought with us the very rare materials. That is to say, the material left here is of paramount importance to the alchemist. ...and, if you think about it normally, there are definitely a lot of first-class materials."
"Do you mean that the alchemist who would have escaped from here brought more rare materials?"

　Azimov nods in response to Ray's question with a disgusting on his face.

"But isn't it possible that there wasn't an alchemist here? For example, it was just a room where we worked, and we didn't happen to be there today?"
"No, look over there,"

　In Vihela's words, Azimov indicated: a glass bottle on the table
　There's a green liquid in there.

"That green liquid is Pagna's dream, and unless you stir it with magic at a constant rate, it turns brown in less than an hour and becomes useless."
"...it'said he.

　As Elena said, the liquid, dubbed Pagna's dream, remains green, with no brown element anywhere.
　That means someone was here not too long ago, and given the current situation, it was definitely likely that it was the alchemist who was causing it.

"That's what happens. Moreover, Pagna's dream is quite difficult to adjust with magical powers."
"Yes!"

　As Azimov says admiringly, Bune draws attention with a short but clear voice.
　What Bune showed was a part of the wall.
　When you beat the wall regularly and regularly with everyone's attention, a portion of the wall will eventually deviate with the sound of something coming off, creating a passageway to the back.

"Hidden aisle?" A hidden passageway on top of the hidden stairs... very carefully prepared."

　Elena muttered in admiration, but she felt right that they would do more for her.

"Bune, can you ask for the lead?"
"Yes!"

　He nods quickly to Ray's words and goes straight to the other side of the hidden door.
　Naturally, Ray and others follow suit.
　The other side of the hidden door was a road.
　This neighborhood could not have been like a maze, even if it were to build an escape route underground maze.
　and when I was running straight down the dirt-stomped underpass."

"Yes!"

　Suddenly Bune, who was leading the way, screams sharply and stops.
　The Ray's running behind them also hastily stop.
　And when they all stopped, Bune turned sharply to a nearby wall and reached out carefully.
　Since the underground passageway was constructed by digging soil, the walls are naturally solidified.
　Having touched the clay wall firmly, but carefully, Bune eventually finds the object he wants or does some work towards the wall.
　The only work to be done, though, was to take out the long hand that Bune was armed with and stick it into the wall over and over again.

"...what are you doing, huh?"
"Probably arrows, needles, or poisons were coming out of the wall." I've seen him do the same thing in the dungeon of Egzil before."

　When Bune finishes his work, Viehna nods softly, perhaps as Viehla says.
　Then he ran again down the underpass... until he reached a place where there was no particular trap, and where the ladder stretched upward.