Relieu remained a little dissatisfied, but he must still be concerned about those who had acted to move through the forest rather than through the highways.
　With Ray in the woods... a carriage comes over.
　But Rellieu deeply regrets his actions.
　I should have waited outside the forest anyway.
　to the extent that I genuinely think so
　It wasn't just Relieu, but so were Ray and Sett, who had come back here with him.
　...the sight of Yero coming here with Elena is no longer here.
　Marina looked displeased by the carriage, and it was only natural.
　And the nearly ten women near the carriage will tell you why Marina is so grumpy.
　It is obvious for what reason he was in the carriage when he saw that he was shackled, shackled, and unable to move freely.
　No, that's all Marina would have been in a bad mood, but she wouldn't have been in such a bad mood.
　The main reason for this is... the Dark Elf woman who, like any other woman, has been put in fetters, and has apparently been struck with marks on her face, hands and feet, and is unconscious.
　Marina should think nothing of seeing her family member Dark Elf go through this.
　Of course, Marina could not have left the injured family alone, and she was recovering them using the magic of water spirits.
　When Ray sees such a marina, he gets a reasonably high ranking from Mistiling... that is, a highly resilient portion.
　This part was given to me by a magic item store as a reward for a special part I brought back from Somis yesterday.
　As a token of gratitude for bringing a special portion, I promised to give it away if it wasn't too expensive... but none of the magic items stores in Goltz wanted Ray in particular.
　As a result, I was given some relatively high-ranked portions that wouldn't be a loss if I had them with me for the time being, but that was the quick result.
　However, Ray has secured a certain amount of portions in case of emergency, so he wouldn't have been particularly troubled if it wasn't for Saumis's portion.

"Marina, use this."
"...thank you,"

　When you receive the portion with a look of anger that is different from the usual marina, you use it for dark elves.

"And yet..."

　Watching such a marina, Ray looks at her with words spoken by her neighbor, Lerie.
　He went on, looking at the carriage, whether he knew he was looking at him or not.

"It's clear now why this carriage was moving from place to place in the woods, not in the highways. It was wonderfully the latter, as Ray said, either for some reason or for some reason."
"Oh... well, I'm sure he's an illegal slave trader."

　Ray tells her to agree, though he didn't fall for Reilly's idea.
　Slave traders are those who buy and sell slaves as a matter of course.
　However, there are many kinds of slaves.
　a slave sold for money, a slave sold for debt... and a criminal slave most familiar to Ray.
　Being the most familiar doesn't mean Ray is buying criminal slaves, but rather defeats them like this... no, he's familiar in the sense that he sells the bandits who are still alive as slaves.
　Anyway, there are several other kinds of slaves, but... it is naturally illegal to enslave someone who has been taken away by force.
　and the marinas were crammed into open cabs by such unlawful means.
　Slave traders are also subject to considerable punishment if they are found doing so.
　That's probably why this slave trader was moving through the woods rather than through the highways.
　The result was self‐inflicted, because the thief was the result.

"For the time being, I'll take care of the people here. I'll ask them what's going on."

　Not wanting to be on the side of a grumpy marina, Ray turns to the roped bandits.
　When they see Ray like that, the robbers try to be strong, but... when they see Sett next to him, they can't do that.
　The robbers, in particular, were beaten down by Ray, so it is only natural to look at him in horror.

"Well, first of all, what should I ask... well, I'll name myself. I'm Ray, as some of you may already know, because I've got Sett with me. It's called crimson, but is it easier for you to know about robbing people?"
'What!'

　Ray's words, accompanied by Seto, make all the robbers except for their imagination.
　And when Ray sees his surprise turn to despair, he asks the question as usual.

"And where is your hideout, and how many remain there?"
"... what are you going to do if you don't say that? Are you going to kill me?"
"Well, can I?"

　The man who asked Ray probably meant to negotiate.
　If we kill ourselves, we won't be able to sell ourselves as slaves. Is that all right?
　In fact, if you catch a thief and sell him as a slave, there is no doubt that he will make a decent amount of money.
　It was because I knew it... I never thought that the word "kill" would come out so easily, neither the thief nor the bandits around me.
　If the word "kill" is used by thieves, it's common practice.
　But it's usually a threat, although quite a few of them don't hesitate to do so.
　Anyway, Ray's word of killing was not a threat or anything. It was really a literal word.
　What's more, Ray doesn't seem to hesitate to kill them at all. That's the attitude that makes them think their lives will be cut as if they were cutting grass.

"Oh, okay! I'll tell you! I'll tell me.

　The man who tries to negotiate tells Ray so instantly.
　That's because I understood that if the response were to be delayed even a little, Ray would kill me.
　Many other bandits, too, must have learned from Ray's attitude. They scream in a flustered manner, following Ray's words.
　...some were not so sharp, and wondered why others were so easily following Ray.
　However, I had enough brains to realize that there was no point in saying anything here, and if all the seniors who helped me would tell me to obey you, I would not be able to refuse it.

"Well, then, let me hear it at once."

　That's what Ray says, and he pulls information from the thieves about where the hideout is and who remains there.

"Well, I'm going to the hideout for a while, so may I leave it to you?"
"Are you going alone Ray? No, I don't think there's any problem."

　There is confidence in Ray's strength in his words.
　At the same time, however, there is no doubt that there is no telling what will happen in the robber's hideout.
　Ree understands how he feels, so he just says there's no problem and leaves the scene with Seto.
　Fortunately, the hideout we found out from the bandits is not far from here, so there is no doubt that it will arrive as soon as we travel on a set.

"I heard that there is a mountain across the forest, and there is a cave just off the mountain... where is it?"
"Grull? ...Grull.

　In Rey's words, Seto looks down on the earth, but he can't find a cave he heard from a thief because many places are hidden by leaves and evergreen trees.
　It was clear, however, that the robber had not told a lie in that state, and that the tree had simply covered the earth.

(You've been hiding very well. You came here a few days ago, but by chance you've found a pretty good hiding place.)

　I don't think the bandits around here will care so much about surveillance from above.
　In other words, it's probably a cave where accidental trees cover the entrance of the cave, or where it's hard to find them purely from above.

"I can't help it. Then I'll give up looking for it from above and walk through the mountains."
"Glu?"

　a set of voices asking if it's okayHe feared that it would take time to find the cave and that it would take him long to get back to where the carriage was rolling over.
　But Ray gently caresses Seto, who gazes at him with round eyes.

"I can't find it, so I can't help it. I also need to heal those women's wounds and ask them where they came from. And there's the dark elf."

　Ray doesn't know what the supposed slave trader thought of hurting the Dark Elf so far.
　I wondered if I could not use spirit magic, but just because I was hurt doesn't mean I couldn't use spirit magic.
　It is conceivable that the slave traders simply hated the Dark Elves...
　Regardless of the reason, there's no doubt it's not interesting for the same dark elf marina.
　Originally, neither the elves nor the dark elves are large.
　That's why there's such a strong sense of camaraderie among our fellow citizens.
　Thinking of Marina, Ray goes down to the ground with Sett and goes into the mountains.
　That's enough to look for.

"Gruly!"

　The smell of a person makes a short sound.
　finally find one's destination
　Of course, just sniffing people doesn't necessarily mean it's the destination.
　In some cases, there is no denying the possibility that he was just a hunter who came to the mountains.
　But... still, given the current possibilities, it is more likely that the thieves were the ones who caught the scent.
　and he followed him... until he arrived at the bandits' hideout, as expected.





"...hey, this is...hey, I expected it, but I can't believe it's going to happen like this."

　Most of the robbers had gone out to attack illegal slave traders they had just found, and a few of them remained here... and they were not that good enough robbers.
　He said that he would not kill if he surrendered quietly, but the robbers chose to resist... now he is exposing his corpse outside the cave.
　To be honest, Ray could have surrendered or resisted.
　Eventually, the robbers chose the latter, so it was not a bad story for Ray that he was able to test the effects of multiple slashes and corrosion that Desize had recently learned.
　So he had killed several robbers, and had gone into a cave, an hideout, to search for the robbers' treasure, and there was a familiar part of it.
　A special part that should have been delivered to the magic item store in Goltz.
　That it is here means that this band of thieves is what Ray was looking for yesterday.
　Ray feels indescribable that he could find such a coincidence today, even though he was struggling to find it yesterday.

(That's how you can't find it when you're looking for it, but you can find it suddenly a few days after you stop looking for it?)

　With that in mind, we store the treasures inside because it's just a special part.
　Fortunately, I don't think so, but there's no one in the hideout.
　Wasn't this band of thieves supposed to act like that, or was they not brought in when they got in the way because they were simply moving places to work?
　Ray didn't know the area either, but he was sure there was no one in the hideout.
　However, since there are few valuable items that can be said to be treasures, there were no magic items that Ray would be happy with.
　Still, there were some provisions, and there were signs that some dagger and spear had been used, but only a few.
　There were other boxes of cloth that seemed to have been taken from the merchant, various accessories, tableware, and so on, and jewels, gold coins, and silver coins... in the end it was a fairly satisfactory harvest.