Lifting Lugudos unconscious, he leaves the bushes.
　Seeing Ray like that, Seto runs straight up to him.

"Set, will you put this on my back?"
"Glu".

　Seto turns his back to Ray's words with a croak.
　It's hard to fly with anyone but Ray, but it's still okay if you're alone with a child, and above all if you're moving on the ground rather than flying.

"Nicha, nicha,"

　Pulling Ray's dragon robe, Dark Elf's child looks anxiously.
　Pressed on the head of such a child, Ray took a whistle from Mistyling that had been handed to him before he went out to look for the Lugudos.

"You don't have to worry, either," I can protect you by myself, but I will also invite your acquaintances."
"Really? Everyone is coming!"
"Oh, a lot of adults in the village are out in the woods looking for you. Be prepared, I'm sure you'll get scolded if you go back to the village."

　The three children close their eyes strongly at the remark.
　You must have imagined how much he would get in trouble.
　Ray pats them on the head with a small smile.
　I remember when I was in Japan, my parents scolded me for doing something crazy when I was a child.

"But you didn't run away in confusion, and you kept Lugudos in good stead. This is something to be praised for."
"No, because..."

　One of the children looks at the youngest child... ...who calls Ray "Nicha."

"How could I be the only one to run away when Mulles was there?"
"Yes, if you do that, she'll definitely die."
"What?"

　The youngest child, called Murs, looks at him with a slight tilt of his head.

(Lugudos, who had been injured protecting themselves, and this child... Mullus, who was the one to protect, did they not panic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

　I'm convinced that he's a dark elf and he's older than he looks.

"Well done to you, anyway. Come to think of it, I haven't introduced myself properly yet. As I said earlier, I'm Ray, who came to Japan at the request of Marina about the world tree. This is Seto."

　Each of the Dark Elf children opens their mouths to Ray's words.

"I am Ian,"
"I'm Karooja."
"Huh? Mullus!"

　After hearing their self-introduction, Ray opens his mouth again.

"From now on until I return to the village, I think I will have a lot of scary experiences. I won't tell you to trust me. We've only just met. But...
"I believe you!"

　Mulls says so before Ray finishes.
　Ray looks surprised for a moment because he didn't expect to be told that way.
　If anyone had any knowledge of Ray, he would have looked surprised at what he is like now.
　It's a little too much to say that normally you're calm and calm, but there's not much to be surprised about.

"Yes, I believe in Ray, too. That's how he came to help us."
"I believe it, too.
"...they are fond of things." Well, that's all."

　Scratching his slightly red cheeks with embarrassment, Ray continues to mislead.

"I'm a little confident in my arms, but if you ask me if I can protect you all perfectly, I can't say that."

　Originally, Ray is not fit to be a bodyguard.
　Because of his personality and presence as Seto, he has the ability to attack, make short attacks and surprise attacks. ...however, given the extensive fire whirlwind, it is not necessarily suited to defending the base.
　...if anything, a base attack would be better suited.
　What happens if Ray and Sett suddenly break into the fortresses in the twilight and create a fire whirlwind?
　The fortress will be badly damaged before anything can be done.
　Of course, it is not uncommon for Ray and Seto to become large fortresses and have boundaries like cities and towns, but it is not difficult to break through forcefully.

"Well... there are things that even Ray can't do."

　Ray, who came to help us, seemed to me to be unable to do anything.
　Kaluja also looks anxiously at Ray and Seto.
　They must have been influenced by the two above them. Mullus looks around uneasily.
　They pat their heads lightly and put them on their backs in turn.
　With the presence of Lugudos, it is very small for three other children to ride.
　But there was also a critical reason for keeping Lugudos in check and, above all, not being able to keep up with Ray and Sett's speed of movement.

"See? I'm going to whistle for the dark elves in the woods. But of course it stands out when you play the whistle, so there's a good chance that monsters will attack you. If something happens, I'll move quickly, so don't get off Seto's back. and hold it tight so that the Lugudos won't fall off."

　Each of them nods back to Ray's insinuating words and holds back Lugudos.
　After confirming this, Ray takes a whistle in his hand to his mouth and puts his mouth on a whistle that breathes heavily and exudes magical powers... beeps and shrieks around him.
　Ray's whistle is more than just a whistle. It's a kind of magic item called a magic flute.
　It was one of the magic items available everywhere, but in this case it was enough.
　From where Ray is, the whistle rings high around.
　In response to the sound, whistles come back from several parts of the forest.

(All right. I hope monsters come here as much as possible...)

　There's no doubt that monsters will approach the whistle, but Ray's honest desire is to be drawn to the sound of the whistle somewhere else instead of Ray's.
　With four children on his back to protect, Seto cannot act freely.
　Even so, there are many skills that can play a fixed battery role, so it is not impotent at all, but it is certain that the fighting style is different from the original one, and there are some people who are not used to it.
　That's why Ray hopes to get together in the dark elves who heard the whistle as soon as possible...

"Hit, jump!"

　Noticing several signs of approaching, he sees five Cobolts with spears emerging from the bushes, and shoots at the same time as his tongue hits.
　Whether it's because of a forest anomaly or simply because the nighttime forest is full of dark elves, their eyes are bloodshot, their mouths are drooling and bubbling, and the covolts run.
　If they knew that the Gryphon was in front of them, they would normally be the first to run away.
　But now the Cobolts were so excited that they seemed to attack the enemy without hesitation, even if the enemy was a dragon.

"Wow, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"
"Oh my gosh!"

　The five Cobolts tried to attack the Rey's with such a shout, but as if they were taking the initiative, they flew away.Hidaigiri, which has dramatically increased in strength to five levels, has the power to cut trees that even adults cannot hold... and even raw trees.
　Even if you have your own protective gear as strong as a dragon's scales, you can't prevent it from flying with only hair growing from all over your body.

'Gambling!'

　Cobold, who lost his arm and was able to scream, must still have been lucky.
　Several covolts are cut in half, unable to even scream, with their upper bodies falling to the ground and their lower bodies falling several steps later to the ground.
　Though viscera and blood spills from each amputation, it was fortunate for the three children that this was the night.
　It was a dark elf with night vision, but it was still less visible than in the daytime.
　Nevertheless, Ian and Karuja are breathtaking and unable to speak while holding onto Seto.
　The only thing Mullus was still small, and he even screamed with joy, perhaps because he didn't understand what had happened.

(You might be attacked by a monster, but you can't tell me to keep my eyes down.)

　With Death Size in his hand, Ray approaches Coboldt, who still screams after losing his arm, wields his huge blade and kills Coboldt easily.

"Is it all right now?"
"Gruly!"

　The set rings as if responding to Ray's words.

(Those five Cobolts seem to have been the closest to each other.) I was lucky. What we don't want to see in this situation is the goblins in numbers. if you don't mind burning the forest at all right.

　Ray who explores the surroundings with a death size in his hand.
　Suddenly Seth, with four children on her back, turned her head and looked towards the bushes.
　Ray, holding the death-size handle, breathes a sigh of relief when he sees his opponent emerge.
　Because there were two dark elves with bows in their hands.

"Did you find it?"

　As soon as he sees Ray's face, he nods back to the dark elf man and turns his eyes to Seto.
　Following Ray's gaze, the two Dark Elf men breathe a sigh of relief when they see four children behind Sett.
　It was only natural to be relieved to find the four missing people, but Ray talks to them sternly.

"Lugudos seems to have been sent to the Goblin. It's probably a club or something from the scratch. I've been hit on the head, so I don't think it's good to use the part carelessly. If possible, I think it's better to show him to be a well‐informed person before recovering. I don't have much blood either."
"Oh!? ...I see..."

　When one of the Dark Elves hears Ray's story, he looks a little harsh, but when he hears that the injury itself is not so bad, he immediately opens his mouth with a look of relief.

"And what do you do? Wait a little longer for the others to come together?"
"What do you think?" As I have just said, you should treat your injury as soon as possible. If you keep waiting for the crowd to gather, it will be late."
"Then shall we continue to head for the settlement? If we blow the whistle from time to time as we move, some people will join us." Why don't you head to the village while gathering so many people?"

　Ray thinks a little about Dark Elf's suggestion...

"If that's all right with me, then that's all right with me. You know more about the Dark Elves than I do."
"...are you going?"

　Kaluja, riding on Seto's back, asks with a little fear.
　But what's scared of is not being scolded after returning to the village, but the monsters in the forest.

"Oh, Carouja, Ian, and Mulls have been safe. It was a pity that Lugudos was injured, but what a relief he will be from this kind of wound soon. Perhaps the wound will get in trouble when I return to the village rather than heal it."

　It's probably to calm down frightened children like Ian and Karuja. One of the dark elves jokingly says so.
　Ian and Karuja both burst into laughter, perhaps because they were nervous enough to enjoy a story like this.
　Mulls, who was on their side, laughs because they are laughing, though he doesn't know what's going on.

(It seems that it is safe to leave the children to them.)

　Ray is not that good at handling children.
　No, you can even say that you don't like it.
　In fact, Seto was better at playing with his children, as he usually played with them.

(A grown-up came and settled down... and all I have to do is to get to the village safely.)

　Holding his death size, Ray calls out to a different man than he is talking to the children.

"And now we have to go straight to the village?"
"Oh, as he said earlier, other people should be gathering while we're on the move. The more we gather, the more advantage we gain. -- for a little while, please."

　Ray nodded back to the dark elf man who bowed deeply...

"Well, then, shall we take a walk in the woods at night?"

　I told him so, and he set out for the forest at night.