2013 Episode 2013



"Ray,"

 Two horse‐drawn carts came.
 One of them, a guard who stepped down, approaches Ray to say so.
 Ray also knew who the guard was.
 for he had met several times in the winter affair of Cobold, and he had been a frequent visitor ever since then.

"I'd like to say that you've come to see me well, but I'm afraid of them."

 Ray responds to the guards, looking at the green Asians who are getting distant.
 However, even as a guard who was told that, I would be in trouble if I didn't do anything in particular.

"But what did we do?"
"I don't think I did anything special... ...simply because we all wear the same clothes.
"No, don't be silly. It doesn't taste good that the guards don't wear uniforms."
"I can understand what they say, but they... perhaps uniformed like guards... set?"
"Gurling!"

 Speaking to the security guard, Ray wonders when he sees Set suddenly rise to his feet and make a wry cry.
 But when he realizes where Sett is looking, he immediately pulls out the death-size and twilight spear in the mistling.

"Oh, hey, Ray?"
「●●? ●●●●●●? ●●●●●●!」

 Ray's sudden behavior is accompanied by a security guard who had been talking for a moment, and a green Asian man who was negotiating with Ray.
 The green Asians, in particular, were wary of being attacked by Ray's sudden behavior, but when Ray and Sett realized that they were not looking at themselves... they immediately screamed at their companions.
 The meaning of the word was unknown to Ray, to the adventurers, to the guards, but when you see all the green Asians running away from where they were, you can understand that they are telling you to get away from them.

"You're here. Watch out."

 There are many ripples in the space... ...that's Ray's cry when there are more ripples than before, and as if such ripples were triggered...maybe visitors from other worlds appear.
 However, the visitor this time was different from the one I mentioned earlier.
 Because it wasn't just one species.
 One of them is a green subhuman who first metastasized here.
 But the other is what we call a lizard.
 However, unlike ordinary lizard men, the lizard man is clearly dressed in metal armor and armed.
 There are lizard men in this world, but they are still not intelligent enough to build a civilization on their own.
 They often use weapons and armor, such as long swords and shields, but they are basically like robbing adventurers.
 However, Lizzardman, who emerged from the ripples of space, is dressed in matching armor and armed with matching weapons, just as the guards wear the same uniform.
 It was not apparently taking it from anyone, but rather showing that it belonged to a group of troops or troops.
 And above all, he surprised Ray because he was attacking the green Asians who came out with what he thought were lizards.
 Many of the green Asians are injured.
 That's why quite a few green Asians are more injured than Ray had just treated them with potions.

「●●! ●●●●!」

 One of the lizard men in the most luxurious armor screams sharply.
 Hearing it, the other lizard men stop attacking the green subhuman in front of them and go back under the lizard who screamed quickly.
 The mere sight of it showed that the lizards were highly intelligent and disciplined enough to obey orders from above.

"...what do you think?"

 In this case, Ray asks the guards, wondering how to make a decision to make.
 But even for the guards, they suddenly see the lizard men spreading from somewhere, and then they see the green Asians attacked by the lizard men, and they are at a loss as to how to react to Ray's words.
 What is happening now in front of the guards is completely incomprehensible.
 I've heard a little about the situation, but it's a sight far beyond my expectations.

"No, I don't know what to do... honestly, I don't know what to do."

 The bewildered guard approaches them, perhaps the greatest lizard here, who has just given orders to see them.

「●●●●●●●●、●●●? ●●●●●●●●●●●●」

 As ever, I don't understand what the word says, just like the green Asians.
 Still, from the atmosphere, I could tell that they were asking something... or maybe they were asking a lot.
 What should I do? Ray looks at the guard, who asks him to leave it to Ray.
 If it had been a soldier from another country, the guards would have been in front of course.
 But here's a lizard man... not just a lizard man, but a man who clearly has the same level of intelligence as a human being.
 It's really unknown to the guards, and that's probably why he left it up to Ray, who is used to dealing with the unknown as an adventurer.
 Leaving the guard to guard, Ray stands in front of Lizardman with his blade down, without holding the spear of Death Size and twilight.
 The Lizardman glanced at Ray, and when he found out that he had two weapons that were clearly too long for Ray, he glanced at him with a clear derision.
 If the Lizardman had been Gillum's man... no, even a man in this world might have known him as an adventurer with two scythe and two spears each, and a set of Gryphons.
 However, if Ray were to be in a different world as he had expected, it would not be a threat to see a small man like Ray with two such stature.
 Or if he had a chance to see how Ray moved, he might have felt the strength of Ray... he didn't have the leeway to see how Ray moved, as Lizardman approached where Ray and the guards were originally.
 That's probably why to the lizard, Ray seemed to have a weapon that he couldn't speak for, and couldn't use, and on top of that, he seemed to get in the way of himself.
 The Lizardman, with a look of mockery and irritation, swung his long sword down at Ray. . . .

「●●!」

 Lizardman, who is swept away by a long sword blow with his twilight spear, blows a few meters straight to the side, hits the trunk of a growing tree hard, and falls unconscious to the ground.

"Hey, hey, Ray! What are you thinking all of a sudden?"

 The guard screams at Ray.
 However, Ray, who was shouted out, retorts to the guards in discontent.

"What? So you should have been slashed quietly?"
"I won't say so, but wouldn't you have managed to avoid it without fighting back?"

 What would have been surprising to Ray was that the lizard soldiers did not attack him during the conversation.
 Of course, it's hard to understand what you're thinking and what kind of expression you have on your face, since you're a lizard man whose face shape is very different from that of humans.
 Rather, I think for a moment that it would be easier to deal with it with a shout, like the monster lizard that Ray had encountered before.
 However, now that this has happened, it is difficult to treat Lizzardman as a friendly partner.

(No, that's from the beginning)

 Originally, the green Asians did not seem to be aggressive towards the Reys, so they were able to treat them in a friendly manner.
 But when the lizard spread here, there were many who were attacking the green Asians who had spread with them.
 That being the case, Ray, who has established a friendly relationship with the Green Asians, is right to choose to protect the Green Asians from the Lizardmen.

"And what are you going to do about this situation?"

 A guard asks Ray, somewhat dumbfounded.
 As a guard, I came here being told to go to the forest of Trent and protect the languageless sub-human, and this was the uproar.
 It was only natural for me to want to scream like that, "What the hell do you want me to do?"

"I don't care what you say. Green Asians are friendly to me, and if they are going to negotiate something with me, why don't they negotiate with me? ... I don't think they're going to negotiate with me with gestures because I can't communicate with them."
"Think it's you, it's somebody else's business... well, that's me, too."

 The guards are being ordered from above to protect the green Asians.
 Discussions and negotiations with the sub-persons are naturally at the top of the guillem, such as Dusker and his men.
 In that sense, the guards didn't have to think so hard.

"Well, then... what shall we do with the lizard-man over there, saying that the Green Asians are friendly to us?"

 muttering, Ray turns his eyes to the lizardmen, who retreat semi-reflectively.
 Seeing that the strongest lizard among us was literally dismissed, they seemed to understand that they couldn't beat Ray by any means.A guard watching such a lizard wonders if this could disarm him and suggests to Ray.

"Why, can't you disarm them?"
"Oh... disarmament? I know it's better to do that, but I can't communicate."

 Ray also wants to talk to the other person and get a good idea of what's going on.
 I'm thinking, but under the present circumstances, we can't communicate with them.
 That being the case, Ray thought, "No matter what I say here..." but I wonder if the lizard men could disarm themselves with fear in their eyes.

(However...)

 Despite the prospect of disarmament, it is the Green Asians who are worried about it now.
 Ray is a friendly green subhuman, but from the way he has spread here, he is clearly hostile to Lizardman... no, there is no doubt that he is being oppressed unilaterally.
 That being the case, there was concern that if the lizard men were disarmed in this situation, the Green Asians would consider it a good opportunity to attack the lizard men.

"I don't know if I can do it, but I'll give it a try. Just look at the green Asians. In some cases, I could attack the lizard."
"All right,"

 When the guard learns what Ray is worried about, he nods quickly.
 I also wonder if we should give instructions to capture what appears to be the leader of the lizard man who was overthrown by Ray.
 At a glance at such guards, Ray approaches the group of lizards.
 A group of lizardmen take a few steps back when they see Ray approaching with his death-size and twilight spear.
 The strongest lizard among us was knocked down at one blow.
 Maybe it's because we know we can't beat Ray now.

(Is it easy to disarm at this rate?)

 With that in mind, Ray turns his death-size... the seemingly viciously armed blade at the Lizardmen.
 That alone frightened the lizards further back.
 Ray sees these lizard men's weapons and uses simple gestures to tell them to throw them to the ground.
 But Lizzardman doesn't know what Ray is telling him to do when he sees his behavior.
 A bewildered lizard, yet with an awed and frightened stare at Ray.
 Suddenly, my voice echoes in such a nervous state.

「●●●●●●●●!」

 cried the green Asiatic, who was talking to Ray.
 Perhaps it was only because of the amount of time they had been dealing with him that they knew what Ray was asking for.
 At the word, the lizards dropped their weapons to the ground.