＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

The sound of knocking on the door echoed in the room where me and Nemesis were silent.

"Dear Sterling, are you awake? What do you do for dinner?

It's the voice of a young man who doesn't sound familiar, but from the content of the words, he looks like an employee of the inn.

"Oh. You were here once about an hour ago while your lord was passing out."

Looking at the clock, it's seven o'clock now.

Speaking of which, he said dinner was between six and eight.

Then it's time to go eat.

"Oh, I'll be right there"

I leave the room with only the item box.

"Thank you for waiting"

"Now let me show you to the dining room."

"Yes, please,...?

Beyond the door was an employee of a man.

I'm just not sure how old I am.

Because his face was fitted with wooden carved faces (...).

That's also the type of guy who hides all his face as well as the top half, like Azrite.

In addition, his right hand was... a prosthetic hand. Same as my left arm until yesterday.

But from his voice and stature, he's losing one arm, even though he seems younger than me.

I remember the question "what happened" to that.

He noticed my gaze, too.

"Sorry to show you something ugly"

"Oh, this is the one. Sorry for the indiscretion. Well, I was a ship until yesterday, so I was wondering."

"Huh...? But Master Sterling... Oh, did you possibly cure the rumored [female pope]?

"Yeah, well..."

Apparently, he linked the story that my arm had healed that it was my ship's arm to the only possible feminized senior in this kingdom.

Feminized seniors seem to be famous among Tian as well.

But “rumors," huh?

I'm afraid to hear any rumors.

"What's going on?

"No, it's nothing...... But, uh, if it's not rude, can I ask you about your hands and your face?

"Yeah, they ask me a lot, so it's okay. Even so, I don't know."

"Don't you see?

"Yes. 'Cause they had a war with the Empire first, but in the middle of it, they said your husband in this inn helped them."

Even though what he talks about is about his own history, there are many uncertainties such as "it seems" and "it is".

No way......,

"When I woke up in a room in this inn, I didn't know who I was. Apparently, he lost his memory, his right hand, and most of his facial skin on the battlefield."

Amnesia...?

If you get so badly wounded that you lose your arm and face, that could happen.

"Besides, there was nothing like proving my identity. Your husband did his best in eight directions, and he hit the houses of those who marched around here about my age, but he couldn't find them. I don't even know your face..."

"It's..."

I have also heard that even skills like seeing a name can sometimes not be read correctly without the memory of the person.

As a result, there is no way of knowing where it came from, and I guess its identity is unknown.

"But your husband gave me no place to go to work and live in this inn. I can't thank you enough. So I'm moving on to my job."

That's what he said, he put his chest up, and he started leading us.

◇

While the face-to-face employees are being guided to the main building's cafeteria, they are not like other guests who have already finished their meals in the hallway.

Guests also have many. Probably the people who came to explore the < ruins >.

Some of them wore kimonos just like me.

When I made a few mistakes, I saw a certain person.

"Ah."

"Ooh?

Most accurately, it may not be "eye to eye".

The person has his forehead stretched out to cover both eyes, so his eyes don't fit.

I looked over his head with a fat cat (...).

I knew that strange style of man, the blindfolded young man with the cat on his head, who wouldn't even look inside in this dendro...

"Ooh? Ray, isn't it you and Nemesis? It's a strange place to be."

"Uhm."

"Mr. Tom (...) is the reason why you're in this city?

This man's name is Tom Cat.

It's Tom Cat, [Cat God] the number two dueling ranking with two names: "Converted Cat Mansion”.

He is the previous dueling king of Mr. Figaro and also the fierce among the fierce who are still leaving Cashmere in third place.

Although he is always a loose person with a cat on his head.

"I'm an explorer. Looks like you're back, Cashmere, and you're making money working yourself out."

"Oh, I see"

When playing a ranked duel, you don't have the right to challenge unless you are in one lower ranking within the top three rankers.

With Cashmere back in third place, Tom might take the challenge as well. Is it natural to prepare?

... or maybe there wasn't a challenger and I never saw Tom's game.

After the Franklin incident, this man was not involved in the frequent mock wars.

Getting to know each other was a perfect way to get to know each other during a meal with the other rankers.

"Ray, are you looking for me, too?

"Yes, with a view to a career change"

"Oh, they found the Lost Job"

This guy is also only a ranker and ears fast on boulders.

"Then we might see each other tomorrow. Nice to meet you then. Good night, then."

"Yes, good night"

"Grimalkin, too, with a breath disaster."

That's what Tom said, waving his hand at the leech, leaving Tom's cat over his head - Tom's Grimalkin - ringing "Bunya".

"It was an unexpected encounter."

Totally.

Even the Ranker in Gideon was a particularly low encounter, but I didn't know I was going to meet him here.

And it looks like your employees were waiting for us while we were standing up.

Let's get to the cafeteria.

◇

Because it was dinner time, the dining room was crowded.

"Ah, Mr. Ray! I'll show you to your seat right away! Thank you, Lefty!

Shirley, who found me in the dining room, leads us well.

The face-to-face employee who guided me - Lefty seems to give Shirley a hand and move on to another job.

"Is Lefty his name?

"Yeah! Lefties are lefties because they taught me in your words that you mean" left "!

I see. Names that positively captured "I have a left hand" instead of "I don't have a right hand," or something like that.

Well, it was the round table that led us to Shirley. If you look around, the other tables are square.

Perhaps the original table would suffice if only the guests in the main building, but it's not enough for the annex so it's a table I pulled out of somewhere.

One of the chairs around the table already had Azrite sitting.

…………

Azrite looks at this one silently, jizzily over the mask.

It's awkward, or I'm about to remember the sight before I passed out when I was looking straight at it.

But I can't even do something that wasn't out of sight.

"Azrite. Earlier, I'm sorry. I should have been more careful too...... sorry"

In fact, you should have noticed the situation when you sensed someone was in there.

Besides, even though it was moving inside, it wasn't a good idea to bathe just as it was.

"... Fine"

To my words, Azrite keeps staring at me silently...,

"I was forgiven for slashing him by mistake, too. I forgive you."

That's what he said, he flushed it down to the water.

"Thanks."

"So that's enough. More like a corner dinner, let's make it delicious."

"Uhm!"

Nemesis responded to Azrite's words with an amazing and good voice.

◇

The food was very tasty.

Local consumers or delicious ingredients picked locally are carefully handled. Numerous dishes will never satisfy your tongue. Especially the quiche of mountain vegetables and chicken was excellent.

I've had all those dinners, and now I'm tongue-in-cheek on dessert fruit.

It should be noted that dinner was a fixed amount per serving, so there are indications that nemesis, which does not yet seem to be even the third full stomach, is likely to expect a night meal later.

"... it's only about my brother's popcorn"

"It's also delicious to add to your belly."

"Then why don't you buy me something because I might still have a store nearby?

"Let's do that."

When I let him hold 10,000 lil from his wallet, Nemesis went straight out to buy it out.

... Now that I've given it away, 10,000 lil is 100,000 yen in Japanese yen.

So is daytime shopping, but dont come in money and the influence of my brother beside me, or my sense of money seems paralyzed.

"Well, and"

Azrite's already out of her seat, so I'm all alone.

She is out of the dining room, taking her seat as if she had found something earlier, saying "dessert gives way". It should be noted that the dessert, of course, subsided in the belly of the nemesis.

It's done for dinner, and I don't know what I'm going to do.

This is the Hot Springs Inn at the corner, so you might want to soak it back up slowly this time.

Speaking of hot springs, naturally the hot springs go to the main building as well as the annex.

Many things also wear yukata for dining room guests. It seems popular because it is a heavenly and earth-style garment that I don't normally wear inside.

I'm just not used to wearing it, or it's falling apart and my chest and legs are exposed.

By the way, it's mostly men who are disfigured, and women don't wear them or show them and they seem to be wearing okay inners.

Apart from sexual interests, that combination reminds me of Visual's shame. It's a similar feeling when you see a woman in a jersey under her skirt......

When you leave the dining room thinking, for example,

"Hmm?"

I noticed guests gathering in the talking room adjacent to the dining room.

That doesn't seem like one group either, year fits and gender falls apart.

I was curious, so I approached him and there was one man at the center.

The person was not wearing yukata, but it was an easy outfit with his jacket off.

Also, although it is difficult to tell because I wear thick bin bottom glasses, my age seems to be around thirty.

"Doctor, this is the most amazing thing I've found in my exploration today, but how about it?

One of the guests...... a Tian man who would have dived into < ruins > due to his musculoskeletal appearance shows a huge diamond of fist magnitude to a man with bin bottom glasses called a scholar teacher.

"Ooh. This is a beautiful Death Ne. But this is a real jewel, Masain."

... kind of an intonation like a foreigner unfamiliar with Japanese, but is this the result of a Japanese translation?

"This is an artificial diamond ace made for laser lenses. It's beautiful and big, but the value is lower than the real thing, Mars."

"Really..."

The man who showed the diamond dropped his shoulder disappointingly.

But the man with the bin bottom glasses laughed and said:

"Desga, some favorites are collecting these things, so if it's an auction, the value around 200,000 lil is the market day"

"Something like that! Yay, now you can buy a good souvenir for your mother back home! Thanks for appraising me, Doctor!

Tian's man wrapped an artificial diamond in an item box with a delightful face.

"Who's next, Daiska?

"It's me! It's a metal plate."

"This is a steel plate desne for combat machinery that was used in civilization earlier in the period. Sturder Death Than A Shield Of Poor Magic Items Even Before Processing"

In that order, the guests showed the man with the bin bottom glasses that they had found in the ruins.

Now I know there's something going on that looks like an antique appraisal tournament, but who are those bin bottom glasses men?

Shirley went through just around the corner, so I asked.

"Who's that guy they call that teacher?

"He's an archaeological teacher named Mario, and he's been a guest since yesterday. He said he traveled around the world and was investigating the < ruins > of civilizations from earlier periods!

"I see."

It's a ruin, so will someone from the archaeological investigation come?

Nevertheless......

"It's kind of a name that's going to jump or twist the earthen pipe."

"Hahaha, it's only today that the < master > tells me that, 5th day"

And that's what Dr. Mario said about us.

"Oh, excuse me"

"No. It's okay, Masain, because apparently you're bringing familiarity to your name."

Intonation like an inch foreigner, but it doesn't seem like a bad person.

"By the way, is Dr. Mario's appraisal different from that of the Appraisal Eye?

"In the past, the legacy of civilization could be known only by using the Appraisal Eye, Sayne. If you haven't completed your expertise or skills, the description will say" Unknown "etc., Mars"

"... oh"

Speaking of which, Silver's description was short, and the second half said it was unknown.

"So instead of showing us what you found in < Ruins >, we're telling you the results of the appraisal, Dace."

Dr. Mario can investigate items found in, and anyone who discovers them can assess whether they are valuable. Win-Win, that's why.

That's right. Just give this guy a look at silver.

"Um, I have an item of civilization from earlier periods, too, so could you look at it? It doesn't belong here."

"Yeah, okay, Masain."

"I'm just going to show you outside after someone else's appraisal because it's a big one and you can't get it out here"

"I get it, Masita. I'll be waiting for you in a little while, Sayid."

"Yes."

Yeah, this is lucky.

It is a shame that Silver's origins, which I questioned today, could be approached by someone who seems to answer me quickly.

Let's try to kill time somewhere while we wait for Dr. Mario.

To be continued