2186 twenty-eighth episode



Marina was drinking fruit water with Ray in the clinic when the treatment was over.
 For the time being, Ray took it out of the mystery ring.
 Ray was poisoned by the fruit water sold at the stall, but the fruit water taken from the mistling doesn't have to worry about it.

"So? What do you want to ask me? I'm glad that you came to see me normally."

 She tells him so, and turns a glamorous smile on Ray.
 Marina dresses as usual as a party dress.
 The chest is wide open, and you can see a deep valley formed by brown dwarfs.
 Looking away from such a valley, Ray opens his mouth.

"Marina has been a guildmaster for a long time, right? Then don't you know about the organization behind Gillum?"
"... the organization behind the scenes? Why suddenly?"
"Actually, since I came to Gilm today, I have started to be targeted by assassins in a row."

 Tell him so, Ray explains what he's been through since he came to Gilm today.
 Also, there is a story that he has a strong sense of strangeness since coming to Gilmoo.

"... I see. But Ray has fought against the organizations behind him a few times before, hasn't he?"

 As a former guildmaster, Marina knows that Ray has run into organizations behind the scenes in the slum.
 Also, after leaving the guildmaster, we are having a party with Ray, so it's easy to get more information about Ray.

"Oh, but that's not exactly how we decided. It's more like an implicit understanding or a natural... that's what it is."
"Right? I mean, if you don't do that, you're going to hit Ray, you're going to hit him, you're going to hit him, you're going to hit him, you're going to hit him, you're going to hit him, you know -- you know, the guy behind the guillem, and he's going to beat him."
"Well... what about the guy who's in the leadership position in the organization, and the guy who's become the new boss and president, and he's been poking his nose at me to show his strength.

 Ray tells us, enjoying the sweet and sour taste of cold fruit water, but Marina bends her head questioning it.

"It's a possibility... but if you just show your ability, there are many other ways, aren't there? Even if you go out of your way to interfere with Ray, it's just suicide."
"Simply, you don't understand that. Is it possible that you're drunk with that almighty feeling that you can do anything because of a change in position?"
"Well... that's it, and I won't say it's impossible, but I wonder if it's still going to interfere with Ray."
"But you've actually been interrupted,"

 In this case, it's probably because Ray means he's about to be assassinated.
 If it had been an ordinary person, he would never have been able to express such a trifle.

"But the assassin didn't even know the guards, did he? Of course, I don't think the guards knew all about the organizations behind the scenes, but when you think about this incident... it's rather unnatural."
"...what do you think is the reason? To be honest, I always thought that if I go to the back organization in the slum, I can manage."

 do something about the ex‐officer who sent the assassins
 It would certainly be an effective way to manage the assassins.
 But... that's only if the organization behind Ray's knowledge is interfering.
 If the assassin being sent to you has no connection with the backstop, there is no point in Ray attacking the backstop.
 ...or, on the contrary, the organizations behind the scenes may even struggle to attack them knowing that they have no chance of winning.
 In fact, there is a better chance of escaping from the guillem, saying that fighting Ray would do a lot of damage.
 That's how hard it is to fight Ray head on.

"There's nothing we can do about the organization behind the scenes. If possible, we can go to the slums and wait for them to poke our nose at us. ... I don't know if they'll be honest enough to tell us where they'
"Well, you should stop that. Ray told me that it's not one organization that's attacking Ray, is it?" So if they confess, they might tell you where the opposing organization is.
"Well, it's possible,"

 Destroy an opposing organization, and if you're lucky... in some cases, you may be able to kill Ray in the attack of the organization.
 There is no reason not to try it if there is such a way to do it, because it could be a double success or two birds with one stone.

"Right? Let's leave the matter to the guards for now... or ask the organization that Ray knows to do something about it."
"Well... I've already left it to the guards, and in the end I'll have to go to the slums."
"I'm sure that's the case, but for a different reason. Are you going to be hostile from the beginning or to build a friendly relationship?"

 At Marina's words Ray nods.
 I thought for a moment that this wouldn't have happened without slums, but slums are a necessary evil.
 If there were no slums, everyone in the slums would be scattered all over the guillem, including those who were no longer able to make it as adventurers.
 The deterioration of security would have undoubtedly been worse than it is now.
 In order to avoid it, we still need slum-like saucers.
 And because the slums are run by the organizations behind them, some order is maintained in the slums.

"Well, that's what it is, but if you don't know anything about the marina, should you ask the slum organization?"
"I'll tell you, but avoid the trouble as much as you can. ... Well, in Ray's case, it's a waste of course."

 In Ray's case, he approaches Ray from the uproar, even if he doesn't make a fuss himself.
 Knowing that, Marina also insists on not causing a disturbance, but she doesn't think it's going to be protected.
 The person who was told is unable to say anything back whether he is aware of the incident.
 Ray was like that, but he turned the subject around to mislead the uncomfortableness.
 For the person in question, I had no intention of diverting the subject at all, but I was originally going to ask him.

"As I said earlier, don't you know anything about the discomfort since you came to Gilmoo?"
"And yet... I don't have any particular discomfort, do you think?
"...what?"

 Ray replies to Marina's words.
 Marina thought she was aware of the discomfort because she and Seto had been feeling uncomfortable since they came to Gilm.
 But Marina says she doesn't feel uncomfortable.
 This is obviously strange.
 That's the way I could have thought what had happened.

"Is that true?"
"Yes. If I felt uncomfortable in the first place, I wouldn't have noticed it, right? No, if I didn't notice it, Elena and Vihela... and there are a lot of other talented people in Gilm, right? I don't think it's possible that all of them didn't notice it."
"That's..."

 Now that you mention it, it is.
 Ray and Sett noticed the discomfort when they came to Gilm, but it's strange that skilled people in Gilm don't notice the discomfort.

"In other words, is it only me and Seto who are suffering from this discomfort?"
"Maybe that's the case. ... I don't know how you're doing that, but that's the way I can think of course."Magic items, skills, magic. Is that the place?"

 Ray had anticipated what was causing this to happen.
 However, as I've always thought, there's a big difference between Gillum's feeling of strangeness and, as Marina said, Ray and Seto's feeling of strangeness.

(Are you only specifying me and Seto?)

 It's probably less difficult to make a particular person feel uncomfortable than the whole Gilm.
 But if you don't know who you're doing it with, you can't help it.
 On the contrary, it meant that if we knew who was doing this, we could do anything about it.

"Then the question is how do you find someone like that?"
"Well... can't you find it in Sett's senses?"
"I'm afraid it's impossible for now. If Sett had sensed the existence of the enemy, he would have told us right away. Honestly, I have no idea how the enemy was doing this to us."

 Ray, who told me so, looked genuinely troubled.
 By talking to Marina, I understood that the enemy was somehow making me feel uncomfortable.
 But knowing it would have been impossible to deal with unless we could find someone.

"Can't you manage it with spirit magic?"
"Well... Spirit magic is applicable, but that doesn't mean you can do anything?"
"...not at all right.

 mutter regretfully
 The only thing I could look forward to now is Marina's spiritual magic.
 As long as it's impossible, there's little way to find someone who's doing something about themselves.

"Then, after all, we have no choice but to destroy the Great Yuan."

 That's what we ended up with.
 At first I was thinking of gathering information in the slums, but now that I know that there is nothing I can do about it, Ray decides that even if the enemy is doing something to him, he should do something about it.

"Well, but if you do that under the present circumstances, you'll have a lot of bad things to do, won't you?"
"... I guess so. I know that, to be honest."

 I had heard of the reason for that from the guards.
 The current guillem is busy and, though not very much, the guards are understaffed.
 Ray understood that, but given the current situation where assassins continue to target him, he was honest that he wanted to manage the situation, even if the guards were in some trouble.

"Are you still going to do it?"
"Oh, this discomfort makes it harder to detect the kind of murder. Considering that, I think it's better to act quickly."

 It may be unsavory for the guards to get a little busy under the present circumstances.
 Ray knows that, but given the current situation, it was still paramount to find a way out of the situation.

"Yes. ... All right. Then can you wait a minute?"

 That's what Marina says, and she leaves without hearing Ray's answer.
 Ray had some doubts about Marina's appearance, but if Marina wanted to wait, he decided that there might be some reason and waited.
 Fortunately, the wait wasn't particularly long and Marina was back in less than ten minutes.
 That's the letter you hold it in your hand.

"Yes, this... ...when you go to the slums, you can reach out to the Black Dog organization and give it to them, and they'll do you a favor. But when Ray is there, you can give him a reasonable favor. ...I've written some circumstances about this, and he shouldn't be confused just because he's here."

 Ray is convinced that the latter is the real role of letters.
 To be honest with you, it's not impossible for Ray to think about this incident either.
 If that's the only way out, I don't mind taking another step as long as that's not the case.
 That's how he decided, and he said thank you to Marina.