The night he received the jewelry from Lemuria... Ray couldn't sleep strangely and lay reading on his bed.
　This book was borrowed from the library at the Duke of Quelevel, as Miranda had previously said.
　We did not lend books to servants, but in Ray's case he was specially permitted to lend because he was treated as a guest of the Duke of Quevel.
　Naturally, if you defile or tear this book, you've been contracted to pay for it.
　At any rate, it was a book he had borrowed, but it was an excellent tool for Ray to kill time today.
　...however, the contents of the book were not comic books or novels, but practical books, like he was in Japan, but practical books.
　In the meantime, Ray borrowed a guide to dismantling monsters.
　I've seen similar things and bought them before, but the ones in this library are different from the books Ray has ever seen.
　That means it depicts how to dismantle a monster that Ray doesn't know yet.
　That alone was a blessing to Ray.
　It's been a few years since I came to this world, and I can't say that I'm good at disassembling monsters, which I couldn't have done better at first, but I can do it to a certain extent.
　But that's only to some extent, and it's inferior to Marina, who was an adventurer before she became a guildmaster, and Bune, who had challenged dungeon alone since she was a child.
　Ray knew that, so he was studying at this leisure to improve his dismantling skills even a little.

"I see, I'm going to cut my bones as smoothly as I can say, but... will it work out as I say so well?"

　While convinced, I have some doubts about how to dismantle the huge wild boar monster that only exists deep in the mountains.
　However, as long as it's written in the book, it's not that it's wrong.
　That's what I'm going to do... suddenly stop turning the pages of a book.
　But that's just a moment.
　I immediately turn the page again and read on.

"Scorpion monsters? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

　Still reading, Ray tells her.
　Even though Ray is alone in this room.
　Miranda, who was in charge of Ray, is now out for another job.
　Even though I was in charge of Ray, it doesn't mean that he's a maid exclusively made by Ray.
　That being the case, if you have any other busy business to do, you were right to be called there.
　Since Ray was the only one in the room, no one would respond to Ray's question. ...Yes, it's just a matter of course.

「……」

　The man in the room looks at Ray in silence.
　Ray also closed the book he had been reading in response to the other person's gaze and turned to it.
　My hair is silver in color.
　It was a different color of hair than the first time I saw the person, but that shouldn't surprise me.
　Because when I met him the second time, his hair color was already silver.

"You still have silver hair, don't you?"

　Ray suddenly had such a question, but the silver hair of the black wolf in front of his eyes was not unnatural.
　...when Ray lived in Japan, there were some high school students who dyed their hair.
　I've seen a lot of people being warned about by their lifestyle instructors, but there was still something wrong with their hair color.
　That may have been because Ray remembers when the dyed person's hair was black.
　In addition, Ray didn't like to be told many things by his life guidance teacher, and considering the time and effort required to dye his hair again when it grew, he didn't bother to do anything in that directionally.
　At any rate, Ray was not very knowledgeable about dyeing his hair, but he still did not seem to have dyed the black wolf's silver hair.
　Ray isn't familiar with it, so maybe he's dyed it so cleverly that he doesn't understand it, or maybe he didn't know it existed in Japan -- at least he didn't know it -- magic and magic items are used.

"Why don't you say something? You didn't say anything last time either... It's not that you can't say anything, is it?"

　Ray asks, but as always the black wolf is just staring at Ray without saying nothing.

(He's really an assassin, isn't he? He doesn't look like that.)

　In the first place, Ray's known assassins come right up to the target... but they don't have to attack him.
　No, if his identity was unknown to the other person, he could do so... but now Ray knows that the black wolf is a good assassin.

(Oh, but the last time I was on the veranda, did you attack me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

　That much thought struck Ray.

"Perhaps you don't attack me because... there was something wrong with the Marquis of Seysore?"

　I heard from Leodanis that the Marquis of Seysore was suspicious.
　I didn't know why, after all, but Ray's information suggests he's looking for something.
　I suspect it has something to do with the black wolf.
　It should never have been a wild prediction to think so.
　In the first place, in the Marquis Seysall family, the only thing that comes to Ray's mind about is the case of Geiska, who must have hired a black wolf.
　...the Marquis Seysore family is one of the most influential and influential members of the aristocracy, and there is no denying the possibility of any trouble which Ray did not know.
　At any rate, there is no doubt that the black wolf in front of us is the most suspicious.

「……」

　But the Black Wolf wouldn't answer Ray's words at all. He would just watch Ray as if he were silent.
　At first I thought that he was watching in his own light, but as far as the black wolf was concerned, there was no such thing.
　Keep staring at each other for a few minutes.
　Ray opens his mouth, as if he had lost ground.

"What do you want to do after all? Didn't you come here to kill me? But he doesn't seem to take any action."
「……」
"What did Gaiska do? That's why she can't interfere with me. ... No?"

　Ray asked the black wolf just in case, but the black wolf never responded to him.
　Ray opens his mouth as if he had been defeated by such a black wolf.

"Well, let me tell you, I'm not free enough to keep you company forever. Can you make it clear whether you're willing to fight me? I'll be gone from Annesis in a little while. Do you know that you won't be able to attack me?"

　Ray didn't understand why he was doing such a thing to the black wolf... as if it were advice.
　Normally, the person in front of you should be the one who is aiming for your life.
　If that's the case, you don't have to go out of your way to give advice like this, but you can knock it down.
　Ray understands that black wolves are not half-hearted partners in the veranda incident.
　Still, I was confident that if I fought seriously, I would win.
　If that's the case, I don't have to go out of my way to give advice, but I just want to knock it down by myself... for some reason I didn't feel like doing that.
　Of course Ray doesn't think that the black wolf in front of him is a harmless person to humans and animals.
　In the first place, he was now a black wolf standing still in front of Ray, but he was not an innocent partner.
　On the day of the festival called "Mock War" ... Ray didn't know if it was to check his ability or if there was any other reason, but he manipulated more than 10 people with medicine to attack Ray.
　Ray has heard from Leodanis that many of those who were overthrown by Ray, Sett and Blueit died, and that the survivors are now suffering from the aftereffects of the drug.
　I don't know how Leodanis, who was dating Miranda when the incident happened, knew about the situation... as he belonged to the Knights, I guess the information came from there.

「……」

　Whatever Ray says, the black wolf only looks at Ray in silence.
　In the presence of such a black wolf, Ray feels more and more of a combative spirit disappearing from him.
　The assassin is definitely in front of us.I came to kill myself.
　Nevertheless, why do you behave so leniently?
　It is probably due to the attitude of the black wolf.
　I'm sure I've been attacking myself, but I can't be hostile for some reason.
　It's so much easier to antagonize the unsavory aristocracy than to antagonize the black wolf in front of you.

(Maybe that's the ability of a black wolf? He's hostile to me... No, he's trying not to make me feel hostile.)

　It wasn't surprising that Ray had never heard of such skills, magic items, or magic.
　...but Ray doesn't know all the magic, skills and magic items in this Elgin.
　No, I'm sure there are more things you don't know.
　In the first place, the black wolf is able to disappear without being noticed by Ray.
　Again, I didn't hear the door open, but I found the black wolf in Ray's room.
　Even so, I was able to sense the presence of black wolves because I met black wolves so many times that I became familiar with them.
　In any case, whether they fought or not, the way in which the black wolf appeared and disappeared was something that Ray wanted to expose.
　...and suddenly Ray says an idea when he sees the black wolf still staring at him.

"Well, black wolf. Is it the magic item that you can disappear or appear so that you don't notice me?"

　That's just an idea.
　Under normal circumstances, no assassin talks about his abilities.
　That's probably useless, but if you just want to try it, there's no problem with it.

「……」

　That's why I'm surprised to see the black wolf shake his head, even if it's silent.
　I never expected to get an answer like that to my question.

"Well, just in case... it's not because of the magic item. That's the kind of perception, is it?"

　When Ray asks, the black wolf nods back.
　The black wolf obviously answered Ray's question.
　Why do you answer your question here?
　That was Ray's pure question.
　Naturally, I know that the black wolf is after me.
　Why do you bother to teach such people your abilities?
　I don't know why, but if the black wolf still gives me information, there's no way not to use it.

"Is it magic? It didn't seem like I was reciting a spell."

　When Ray asks, the black wolf shakes his head again.
　It's not a magic item, it's not magic.
　Then there is only one possibility left. I mean...

"Is that your skill?"

　The black wolf nods to Ray's words without hesitation.

"...is that the skill?"

　Ray's words had a disappointing color because he thought that if it were a kind of magic item, he might be able to take it away from the black wolf.
　Looking at the black wolf today, I can't think of it that way.
　Still, it was only natural for Ray, who had a hobby of collecting magic items, to think like that.