After fighting the Black Wolf, Ray and Elena went straight back to the Duke of Kelebel's residence.
　The men who were gatekeepers at the Duke of Kelebel's house, seeing Elena look grave as she leaves, decide that she may have made some mistake on her date.
　The reason I still didn't say anything about the matter was probably because I didn't want to be scolded by my superiors for being funny.
　Elena Kerebel is extremely popular in the Duke of Kerebel family.
　That's why Elena's fans could have had a hard time of it if she said something thoughtless.
　... in fact, it was a pressing situation as long as I saw someone who had done such a thing before being harassed by their bosses, being criticized behind their backs, and being ignored by their maids.
　For this reason, the gatekeeper, who remains quiet, continues to work quietly.
　Meanwhile, Ray was in his room in the Duke of Kelevel, unaware of the gatekeeper's experience.
　I'm not with Elena because I'm going to see intelligence officers to get information about the black wolf case.
　In Ray's case, even though he was on good terms with Elena, he could not have known what could be described as a confidentiality of the Duke of Quevel, so he waited in his room until Elena came back.
　Usually I can kill time without any problems waiting for people, but now I don't feel like it.
　Naturally, Ray understood why he was like that.

(There is no doubt that the case of the Black Wolf is behind him.)

　I didn't hate him enough to kill him.
　I'd like to believe that Ray wasn't the only one who seemed to be close by feeding.
　Still, Ray didn't have the option of being killed quietly by someone like that since he attacked her to kill her seriously.
　...but, to be honest, that would not have been the last thing to follow.
　The problem is that the black wolf seems to come from the same country as me.
　At least he uttered the phrase Yokohama Chinatown, which Ray had probably never spoken of since he came to Elgin.
　And she wants to eat the pork Kakuni bun that she had with her mother again.
　Having said that, it seemed to Ray that the black wolf was from Japan.
　Ray suddenly heard a knock on the door as he remembered the black wolf.
　For a moment I wondered if Elena had returned, but the feeling outside the door was not hers.
　though it was not Elena's, though, that he knew.

"Come in, Miranda,"
"...well, you recognized me."

　Miranda, in charge of Ray, opens the door and says in a slightly surprised voice.
　You never thought you'd be able to guess who you were even before you called yourself.

"It was Miranda's. ... Did you bring me some tea?"

　Ray smiles happily when he sees Miranda's cup of tea, dried fruit and a bite-sized sandwich.

"I envy you for that ability."
"Is that so? Well, if you're an adventurer and you keep fighting for your life, you'll naturally acquire the skill."
"...I don't want to learn that much."

　I think it's a convenient ability to have, but if you're told to fight for it, Miranda will immediately say no.
　That's not the kind of ability you want.
　Ray knows it, so he doesn't seem particularly offended, and mutters briefly that he is.
　Soldiers and knights would certainly not need to learn anything from a maid.
　No, it was true that it was better to have it, but it was only natural that you didn't want to risk your life to get it.

"And did Miranda come here with any message from Elena?"
"Yes, it's going to take some time."
"I see,"

　What Miranda said was in a way predictable for Ray.
　The information that only the Duke and Duchess of Quelebel would have, let alone overthrown the Black Wolf, is not so easy to pass on.
　Whether the intelligence officers don't give information honestly, or whether it's a procedural problem... or whether it's a problem other than that.
　Ray, who originally didn't expect to get information immediately, doesn't get particularly irritated by Miranda's message.
　In the first place, Miranda was the one who brought the message from Elena, and Ray recognized that it was disgraceful to take it out on Miranda.

"So please eat these,"
"Oh, that's no problem. ... Well, I don't think it's enough."

　Miranda brought a decent amount of food for an average person, but for a glutton, it's just a snack.
　That being the case, Miranda's food won't fill you up.

(Well, if you brought it with tea, I thought it was a confectionery, so that's fine.)

　With that in mind, Miranda leaves the tea and food on the table in the room.

"Then, if anything happens, please call me."

　Miranda bowed and left the room.
　Ray, who was left in the room alone and told to drink tea and eat whatever he wanted, could have eaten and drank with Miranda instead of alone.
　Though Miranda was in charge of Ray, she decided that she had a lot more work to do than that, and when she sat on the sofa, she brought tea to her mouth.
　After drinking tea, Ray learns for the first time that his throat was dry.
　I don't think this would have happened normally, but I guess that's the case of the black wolf, and he was not aware of it, but he had a lot of things to think about.

"Did Elena, by any chance, think of that and prepare tea and such?"

　muttering, somehow feeling that it was the right answer, Ray takes another sip of tea.

"Yes, it's delicious... ...and sandwiches are better than the usual ones in the store."

　The sandwiches, perhaps made by Georgima, have stewed meat and vegetables between them, and, in some rare cases, dried fish.
　Although the ingredients themselves are not so unusual, they still delight Ray's tongue to a strange degree.
　I don't know exactly what they're up to. I don't know... but there's no doubt that they're just delicious.
　It's not just sandwiches.
　Dried fruit tastes much better than what you normally buy at a store, either when you dry it or when you finish drying it.

(Well, dried fruits... in the case of dried fruits, the taste of the ingredients comes out directly, so perhaps the quality of the fruits themselves is better.)

　With that in mind, Ray recalls dried fruit he had made while in Japan.

(Huh? Are dried persimmons categorized as dried fruits? I'm drying them anyway.)

　Ray's house had persimmon trees, which are astringent persimmon trees, not sweet persimmon trees.
　In order to eat, astringency had to be removed, and one of the methods was dried persimmons.
　Another method is to soak the stem of persimmon in shochu, put it in a bag to keep it out of the air, and let it go for a certain period of time to remove astringency.
　Regardless of the latter, the former dried persimmons are dried, so it's safe to say that they are dried fruits.
　As Ray, who doesn't know the formal definition of dried fruit, decided that it's okay to put it in dried fruit because it's dried for the time being... I suddenly wanted to eat dried persimmons made at home.
　Dried persimmons have a strong sweetness.
　Ray liked to eat with astringent tea.

"But there are no persimmons in this world,"

　I'm not saying that it's a substitute for dried persimmons, but I enjoy the taste of dried fruits brought by Miranda.
　I'm looking forward to it... I think the reason why I wanted to eat dried persimmons when I was in Japan is because of the incident of black wolves.
　I wonder if he misses his hometown by meeting someone who knows Japan.

(Well, it's too late now... Huh?)

　Ray, who had been thinking about black wolves and Japan, noticed a sign of approaching the room.
　But it was neither Elena nor Miranda."I didn't know why I was here.
　Then the man stands in front of Ray's room and knocks violently at the door.

"Oh, Ray. Are you there? Are you? I've heard you are you there?
"Oh, yes. Don't hit me too hard. You can come in, Blue It."

　When Ray says this, the door opens without thinking, and a man with strong muscles appears.
　It was one of the nobles Ray met when he came to Annesis, and it was rare for an aristocrat to get along with Ray... he was really rare.He is, however, an unconventional man who, in his capacity as the next head of the Counts of Exoris, goes about town without a bodyguard.
　That's probably why I got along with Ray.

"Oh, there was one,"
"How did you know I was in the room?"
"Well, I met a maid called Miranda. She didn't seem very well, so I was asked to cheer her up."
"... Miranda?"

　Miranda is just a maid.
　At least I should have known the details of this case.
　What's more, you wouldn't know that Ray killed a black wolf.
　Still in charge of Ray's service, Miranda is probably the one who has the longest contact with Ray in the Duke of Quelevel except Elena.
　And Miranda is by no means incompetent, as she is in charge of Ray, who is treated as a guest by the Duke of Quevel.
　No, it is right that he was entrusted with Ray's care because he was so competent.
　That's why Miranda understood Ray was depressed and told Blue It about him by chance to encourage him.
　However, it is likely that Blueit came to the Duke of Kelevel to see Ray, and in that sense Miranda or not, the result would have been the same.

"Why isn't Ray doing well? He's not like you at all."
"You say so. It doesn't mean anything else happened."

　Blueit is caught up in it when the black wolf used medicine to attack Ray.
　That being the case, I thought for a moment it would be all right to tell Blueit about the Black Wolf, but it didn't feel like it.
　If this had happened a few days later, Ray might have told Blueit about the situation.

"Oh, really? As far as Ray is concerned, he doesn't look that way."

　Ray is a little surprised by what Blueit says.
　It was true that I had a lot of thoughts about the black wolf, but I had no intention of revealing it.
　Miranda saw through the area probably because of her high skills as a maid and her long stay with Ray, albeit for a short time, since he came to Anesis.
　But Blueit hasn't had much time with Ray and spent very little time with him.
　Ray's honest feeling is that he never expected such a bluit to see through his heart.

"Well, there's been a lot of things. There's a lot of things."

　In Ray's words, Blueit doesn't seem to hear anything more.
　I guess he judged that it was enough to say something happened without concealing it.

"What do you think? Doing something in a room like this won't change your mind. Why don't you try a mock game with me? I'll show you that I'm not that strong."

　That's what Blueit said, and he invited Ray to do a mock fight.