The next morning I stayed at Marina's house... fortunately or unfortunately, Ray could sleep soundly in his assigned room, rather than on a night of something special.
　The room assigned by Ray is one of the rooms facing the courtyard.
　The main reason is that Zozo is in the courtyard.
　I didn't mind being in the hallway, but Zozo insisted--with gestures, of course--that he wanted to do so.
　Anyway, that's Ray, but... he wakes up to hear some noise in the courtyard.
　Ray usually gets up very badly.
　That's one of the reasons why Ray can't go to the busiest hours of the morning when he gets a request in the guild.
　Perhaps there's a reason why they simply don't want to go to crowded places.

"What's that sound?"

　Did Zozo cause any problems?
　He was half asleep, but when he realized it, he quickly became conscious.
　So I got out of bed and looked out of the window, where Vihela was playing mock battles with Bune, not Zozo...
　However, since the difference in ability between Vihela and Bune was clear, it was rather appropriate to call it training.
　And not far from Ray's window, Zozo watches such a mock battle.
　He didn't seem to speak, but there was still a look of surprise in Zozo's eyes... and at the same time, Ray understood that he wanted to fight.

"Do you want to fight?"
"What!"

　I heard Ray's voice, and it was probably there that Zozo first realized that Ray had been awake.
　Ray bowed politely, speaking words he didn't understand.
　Ray didn't know what to say, but I could still predict what Zozo said.
　I thought it would be morning greetings.

(Or did you apologize for not realizing what happened to me? Well, it doesn't matter.)

　After a brief wave of his hand not to worry, Ray tells Zozo to wait there for a moment, gets dressed, and then goes out into the courtyard.
　It's too early to see Elena, Arra or Marina.
　Still, it must have been a great help to Zozo, who spent the night in the garden, that the Marina spirit magic keeps the temperature at a comfortable level.

(I wish I could get in touch with Grimm today.)

　I feel that way when I touch the warm air.
　As for Zozo and Lorornola, Ray thought it might have been caused by Grimm's experiment with eye-catching material, but he tried to contact Grimm using a pair of oaves, but they didn't show up on the pair of oves last night.
　I wonder if that's because I'm too absorbed in experiments using the most eye-catching materials, and I doubt that this incident has something to do with Grimm's experiment.
　I'll try to use pairs of oves again tonight.
　Just as he thought so, Ray was standing in front of Zozo.

「●●●？」

　The sound of questioning Ray's appearance is chilling.
　For this reason, Ray pulls a long sword out of the mistling.
　...and Ray's Mistilling contained a considerable number of weapons, including long swords.
　It wasn't bought separately, it was a robbery of the weapons the thieves had when they hunted for them.
　They sell to some extent, but there are many other uses, so many of them are stored in mistling.
　Ray took out one of them.
　hand it over to Zozo
　Zozo, who is handed over, does not understand why Ray imitates it, and turns a doubtful glance at Ray.
　But Ray doesn't care about Zozo's appearance and takes a spear out of the mistling.
　This spear is not a twilight spear, much less a disposable one used for throwing, but one of the spears stolen from thieves.
　With a spear in his hand, Ray takes some distance from Zozo.
　If that had been done, Zozo would have understood what Ray was thinking about and imitating.
　hold one's sword silently
　However, he is over two meters tall.
　The dagger Ray handed over to us was designed for the use of ordinary people, and when Zozo holds it, it feels kind of small.
　Even so, Zozo doesn't show any signs of difficulty with handling his long sword... he just holds on.
　It's not fair to describe it as a battle in the forest of Trent -- sometimes because he completely despised Ray, the blow was not very much, but not entirely.
　But not now.
　He knew full well how strong Ray was and understood that he was no match for Zozo now.
　That's why I thought I needed to do my best in this exercise and show Ray my strength.

"Oh!"

　Zozo comes forward at once, making a snakesque, close to a shattering sound of a shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
　Since Ray's weapon was a spear, he had to make time to fight with a long sword in his long sword.
　It is also understood by Zozo that long-handled weapons, such as spears, are disadvantageous if they are kept in place.
　However, when it comes to Ray's skill, he's sure to understand how to deal with the situation when he's tied up.
　I don't expect too much about it, and I'm only hoping that if I'm lucky, Ray's attack might slow down.
　Ray wields his spear with some force and yet with enough force to train Zozo.
　It's a slap on the side.
　Originally, thrusting is the main way to attack spears, but there is also an option to expel them.
　Ray's blow was that, but for Zozo, it was a blow that reminded him of the time he got a cross-mowing blow with a death-size handle.
　Still, Zozo forces his body to move forward to overcome yesterday's blow and show Ray his strength.
　Perhaps it worked, Zozo managed to force himself down by using his tail.
　A giant body of more than two meters sank in an instant.
　Ray is simply surprised... but the movement of his wrist alone forces him to change the trajectory of his spear.
　It's just a tricky technology, but if Ray does it, he'll get a different result from the adventurers around him.
　Although it was a blow at the handle, Zozo leaped his giant body by striking his tail to the ground again.
　It's an impossible sight if you think about it normally.
　In fact, it's an impossible move for any other lizard.
　Having avoided the falling spear blow, Zozo wields his long sword... but for some reason the blow is stopped halfway.
　No, not for some reason, but because Ray took Zozo's blow with his spear.

"What!"

　Zozo gasps in disbelief.
　Sure enough, the spear which I had avoided a moment ago was in front of me again, for some reason, receiving a blow from my long sword.
　For a moment I thought that he had produced a new spear with his strange skill -- Mistilling -- but when he had received a blow from the long sword, he suddenly lost his strength, and soon concentrated on the mock battle... unfortunately, rather than Zozo taking a new action, it was almost the same time that Ray, who had passed the long sword with his spear, thrusts the tip of his spear into Zoz with his wrist.

「●●……」

　an incredulous look
　However, he probably decided that he could not win by any means from this situation.
　Drop your dagger to the ground, take a few steps back and bow to Ray, indicating that you lost.
　Even if they don't understand each other's language, they know Zozo admits defeat, so Ray pulls down his spear and the mock battle ends.

"You use your tail very well,"

　Ray says admiringly, pointing to his tail.
　Zozo didn't understand Ray's words, but he probably still understood that Ray was praising him.
　shake one's body happily and bow again

"You're doing something interesting. Can you give me a mock fight?"

　It was Vihela who suddenly spoke to me like that.
　He had been training against Beune until recently, but after seeing a mock battle between Ray and Zozo, he must have wanted to fight against it.
　Given Vihela's personality, it's not funny.
　Ray decides that Vihela won't stop at this rate, so he sees Zozo and then looks at Vihela and takes it easy.
　At first, Zozo didn't know what Ray was doing, but after doing the same thing several times, he nods whether he understood what Vichela wanted.
　He would not normally have acted as if he had been mocked by Vihela, but fortunately Zozo had watched a mock battle between Vihela and Bune before Ray got up.
　If you look at it, you can easily imagine that Vihela is stronger than you are.

"All right, there seems to be no problem,"
"I've seen it since yesterday, but it's very inconvenient that we can't communicate."

　Vichela muttering deeply while watching Ray and Zozo.
　Ray agreed, but it's true that he's gotten used to it, perhaps because he's communicating with gestures many times.It's true that communication takes time, and I don't know if I've fully conveyed my intentions, so I honestly wanted Zozo to learn the language as soon as possible.
　At any rate, when a mock battle is established, Zozo picks up the dagger he just dropped to the ground.
　Vihela takes the usual posture to face her.
　Without a start, each other starts to move almost at the same time.
　Unlike the previous mock battle between Ray and Zozo, Zozo with a long sword has the advantage.
　If Vihela creates a magical claw on the back of his hand, the story is different, but there is no sign of him imitating it in this battle, and Vihela moves forward without showing any signs of nervousness.
　Vichela's behavior may have been unexpected to Zozo.
　No way, Vichela, who is coming straight to his place, pauses like she's being knocked out of the blue for a moment... but the next moment she wields a long sword at him.
　The long sword, wielded by Zozo's strength, would be difficult to avoid under normal circumstances.
　But that's just normal, and it's impossible to put Vihela within the framework of normal.
　Vihela avoids Zozo's blow as if she had completely given up on it with her foot movements.
　No, Vichela must have seen the mock battle between Ray and Zozo with her eyes and seen Zozo's swordplay.
　If Zozo's skill is as good as Vichela's... or as close as it is, it is difficult to give up Zozo's skill.
　However, Vihela's skill is much better than Zozo's, and the fact that Zozo is using a thief's sword rather than a long sword that he is used to is influenced by this, so it is not a perfect situation.
　That's why Vichela easily passes through Zozo's blow... the next moment her fist sinks into Zozo's body.
　However, the skin of a zozo is covered with scales, and it is sufficiently effective without armor.
　Zozo might have thought so because he was so confident in his defense that he was going to take a blow from Vihela and add a counter to it... the next moment a dull scream came out of his mouth.
　The blow caused damage as if the scales of the zozo were nonexistent.
　Vichela's specialty is not a kind of immersion palm that directly impacts the opponent's body by magic, but a real blow with a normal fist.
　At first glance, it doesn't look like training, but it doesn't look like a white fish, and Vichela's hand has come out.
　The blow blew Zozo several meters away and rolled over the ground... thus ending the mock battle more easily than expected.