2080 twenty-eightieth episode



"Oh, there was such a huge deer out there? ... There used to be some animals and monsters in the forest of Trent, but when I think about it, I feel like it has become dangerous all at once."

 Marina says in surprise as she eats a dish made from deer meat given as a souvenir.
 It's only a dark elf, and it's a marina who knows a lot about nature.
 That's why you'll be surprised to hear that a deer as big as Seto has appeared.
 But no matter how big it is, it's not a monster after all, it's just an animal.
 It was only natural that they would be edible like this when they encountered Seto.

"Deer".

 Gaga mutters as she grips the ribs, so-called spare ribs, with salt and spices, and grills them in a magic pot.
 As soon as I said deer, I thought for a moment I would mention Tan, but fortunately, he was busy eating spare ribs and couldn't afford it.

"If it were true, the deer's ribs were greasy."
"Is that so?"
"Yes. So, once you boil it and remove the fat before grilling it, you can enjoy it. ... But this deer has fat, but it's only a moderate fat. So it was grilled with spices and salt."
"Yes!"

 Marina explains that Bune, who was eating spare ribs to keep up with Gaga, shouts briefly.

"It's a waste to throw away such delicious fat,"

 Vihela interprets as usual, but the content was a little unexpected to Ray.

(Normally, I'd like to eat as healthy a dish as possible... well, is there any woman here who looks good with the word normal?)

 With that in mind, Ray also reaches out to spareribs.
 How did you pretreat? If you grab the bone and bite the meat, the meat will come off the bone easily.
 That may make it easier for the meat to get away from the bones once preboiled, but this spare rib does not have that kind of pretreatment.
 Then it would be something else... Ray didn't know about it.

"Yes, this is delicious. The fact that Seto caught it may be one of the reasons why it tastes good. ... I prefer this to the food served at the parties and dinners of the poor nobles."

 It is very strange that Elena, nicknamed General Hime, grabs spare ribs directly with her hands and eats them.
 However, he enjoyed the taste of spare ribs to the full, regardless of that.

"And there was nothing else today? I knew there was a deer coming out, but ... there was a lizard as strong as Gaga."
"I'm sorry to say that Vihela didn't have a metastasis, but I don't know if it's magic to metastasize the tower of birth, but I think she's recovered from using it too much."

 Ray returns it to Vihela, enjoying spareribs.
 Gaga turns her gaze to Vihela for a moment when her name comes out, but soon returns to spareribs.

(You seem to like spare ribs a lot. ... It's true that they taste good. Zozo liked fish, but not all lizard men like fish. ... People like different foods, too. It's only natural to think about that.)

 That's what Ray thought, but the amount of meat he brought as a souvenir is not too much.
 No, normally this number of people is somewhat satisfactory, but there are more people eating here than usual.
 As a result, the deer meat that Ray brought disappears in no time.

"Yes!"

 Bune complained about the loss of deer meat.
 For Bune, Ray, Sett, and Gaga have had enough deer meat this afternoon, so at dinner they should have given themselves more meat...or better.
 Hearing it through Vihela's interpreter, Ray gently looks away.
 There is no denying that Gaga was caught by it, partly because she was eating well.
 If so, I think that next time Seto catches prey, I'll make sure that Bune eats well.
 However, the Rays are not hunting separately, they are just guards.
 If we were to catch deer, it would be only if Sett met by chance.
 But again this afternoon, Sett had been walking around in the woods of Trent with the Lizard's child on his back, and he never encountered prey as he had in the morning.
 With such a huge deer, other animals can't live in the forest of Trent so easily, and even if they do, they usually run away if they sense Sett's presence.
 When I met Seto, he didn't run away, and on the contrary, the deer that had thrust into him in front of him was abnormal.
 The deer is the size of a set three meters long.
 It wasn't a carnivore, but with its huge body and fine horns, it wouldn't have been so hard to beat the animals and monsters around it.
 So he thought he had no enemies, and when he found Seto, he didn't run away, but attacked him for ravaging his territory, and was fought back to death.

"First of all, I'll bring you a souvenir again when Seto meets me, so wait patiently. ... Is that all right?"
"...huh,"

 Although Ray's words did not seem completely convinced, Bune nods slightly.
 Seeing it, Ray wonders if he should ask Sett to pick up some prey tomorrow.

"Look, Bune. We don't have much deer meat left, but we still have other dishes. I didn't make them, but Ray bought them for me, and I'm sure they're all delicious."

 Marina says so to distract Bune from the deer's flesh, but she's actually right about the word.
 Ray basically buys things at stalls and restaurants and puts them in a mistling.
 People's tastes vary widely, and while not everyone praises the food Ray thinks is delicious, most people find it delicious.
 In that sense, people here -- except Gaga -- don't like what Ray serves.

"Yes,"

 That's probably why Bune nodded honestly to Marina's words.
 Marina pats Bune on the head, and Vichela suddenly wonders.

"Not all the time, but there were quite a few marina dishes, too. What's wrong with you today?"
"I'm a little busy today. I came home late."

 Marina told me so, but she was already in the house when Vihela came back.
 Vichela didn't care because it was the usual thing, but she didn't look as tired as the usual marina.

"I see. But what happened when you were busy? I don't think there were any fights... but there weren't many."

 The requests Vichela and Bune receive are a tour of the city.
 Many people have a lot of blood because of the large number of construction projects, and as a matter of course, there will be a lot of brawl.
 It was Vichela's main job to stop it.
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 Vihela's main job, however, was mediating fights.
 Vichela, dressed like a prostitute or dancer, is often the cause of trouble, but she doesn't care at all.
 At any rate, having been on a tour of the city like that, I would have heard of any disturbance that would make Marina's treatment busy.
 But even though Vihela hasn't heard of it, Marina says she's busy for some reason.

"Then there was an accident at the site of the extension work?"
"If you're looking around the city, wouldn't you hear of such a big accident?"
"Not really. In some places, I can't hear you at all."

 Vichela readily answers Ray's questions.
 Ray couldn't tell if it was true or not.
 I didn't even feel the need to pursue it, so I didn't say anything more.
 Instead, she asks why Marina was busy.

"And was there an accident or something?"
"Well... I think it's an accident, but I think it's better to describe it as a brawl.""Brawl?"

 The first person to react to the words was Vihela.
 However, Elena, who had been listening in silence until now, opened her mouth to such violas.

"The brawl is a brawl, not a brawl as Vichela would have expected, though, in the sense that the artisans beat each other."
"Oh, how does Elena know?"
"When I met with the nobles, it was the forest of Trent that was the cause."

 If it were called the Forest of Trent, there would be no doubt that Ray, who was escorting him in the Tower of Birth, which is adjacent to the Forest of Trent, would not mind.

"Well, what do you mean?"
"Simply put, it'
"Oh... yes. I see."

 Originally, wood from the Trent forest is a large-scale building material used in the building of the guillem.
 That was one of the birth towers, and logging was called off yesterday.
 Even though there were several construction projects underway at the same time and there was a slight shortage of wood, each of them tried to secure as much wood as possible, and as a result, if there were other people who were thinking the same thing, it could be a brawl.
 And if you fight, you'll get injured again, and you'll come to the treatment center where Marina is...

"It's only today that logging has been stopped, isn't it?"
"I understand Ray's point, but in this case, the lack of construction materials was probably the main reason."
"I know it's going to be short, but it's not going to be hopelessly short of building materials, is it?"
"Yes, but I've heard that there's only a little room to spare, so I guess that's why we want to make sure we have enough money for ourselves."
"...I wish I had cut down the trees today."

 In Elena's words Ray muttered:
 The place where the tower of birth has moved is next to the forest of Trent.
 In other words, it was not difficult for Ray to cut down trees if he wanted to.
 Trees, however, are one-way only, but they also serve as a barrier against monsters, animals, and, above all, mercenaries who attacked them before.

(No, considering that the enemy approaches the tower in hiding rather than the wall, is it better to cut down the trees around the tower in order to keep them clean?)

 Trees make it impossible to see the enemy approaching.
 It was true that it was a very difficult situation for the guards of the tower of birth.
 If so, wouldn't it be easier as a bodyguard to cut down all the trees around the tower of birth and have a good view.
 If you give the felled trees to the alchemists, they will magically dispose of them, and the shortage of construction materials will be solved.
 Originally, Ray was left to the woodcutter, not Ray, to cut down the trees in the Trent forest because he had a lot of other work to do.
 That's why Ray, who has Seto's mobility and mystery ring, can be a force in many places in additional construction.
 That's why it was up to a woodcutter to cut down trees because it was a job that could be done without a layman.
 But Ray is basically free now that he is in charge of guarding the tower of his birth.
 If so, why don't you use your spare time to cut down the trees?

(Well, why don't you ask me at the guild tomorrow? I don't think it'll be a good idea for the guild to delay the extension work, though it will take away the work of a woodcutter.)

 If it doesn't work, let's think about something again.
 After deciding so, Ray continues the conversation.

"A brawl between artisans? It must have been worth seeing."
"Well, Ray. I'll tell you, it's not that interesting, is it? Artisans may be more physically trained than usual, but there are so many people who are used to fighting... ...but it's a problem that they tend to be so short of building materials that they fight with."

 When Ray saw Marina exhale melancholy, he handed over the cold fruit he had taken out of the mistling.