I'm told that the granddaughter of elder Dohar will be my wife if I stay, so I promise Zajir-san who glares at me when he hears that to part away, thus we leave Bollhart city behind.The nearest city is four days away.Since the path there is a mountain trail, it'll probably be five days.There are several carriages going in the same direction as us, but since our speeds are different, we're not moving in the caravan. It seems that normally, even if the moving speeds are different, many carriages join together to evade thieves, monsters and beasts.Since we wouldn't be able to craft, experiment, and do training if we were together with other merchants, I try not to intrude on each other's turf as much as possible.Even so, there are times when we meet them during the break, so I've put dummy barrels, boxes, and various luggage around.Currently, the coachman is Lulu. Kagari installed a cushion on the driver's seat during our stay in Bollhart City, so it looks comfortable now. It seems
"Master, it seems that the road is split at the foot of the mountain ahead. Which way should we go?"Having been called by Lulu from the coachman's seat, I stopped the experiment."Nice, Lulu! Now now, you must go quickly!""Flirting, end."Kagari pushes my back to hurry me to the coachman's seat. I leave Tama who's sleeping on my lap to Mia. Pochi is sleeping on Nana's lap. Very enviable, I wonder if she'd let me take her place if I gave her meat during the meal.I thought Mia's line was a false accusation, Nana and I were only facing each other for the experiment, and we were not flirting.I was only trying to check the limit of [Signal] magic; whether we could receive a signal from [Signal] magic if there was no receiver, so Nana and I were sitting face-to-face with each other.In addition, since I wasn't allowed to stare at Nana's breasts, I looked at her face, but they were still saying bad things."Really, on top of gazing at each other, you two were even locking hands, really!"
God is mean.Even though the unpleasant male soldiers have disappeared, and it'd finally be comfortable, I have to accompany the young lady on a journey...I dream of wearing that cute maid uniform again, but I endure it for now."Pina-san, Pina-san, Karina-sama has gone off, is it alright not to stop her?"The subordinates are calling me who's deep in thought. As it turns out, the other maids who accompany the young lady with me are the problem children, Taruna and Erina, god is really mean.I put off the grieving for later, and see in the direction Erina's finger points to, my face turns pale.The young lady has been peeking on the cliff below since a while ago, but then she jumps down it without hesitation."Young lady."I rush up to the edge of the cliff in a hurry, but it's probably too late now. Ah, how incompetent of me to not even be able to stop the young lady's suicide. I'll be fired from my precious workplace too. I might be downgraded to be a slave. Considering the pamperi
A large river is flowing 100 meters away from the highway our wagon is running on. It can't be seen now since there's a hill obstructing it, but it'll be visible in about 10 minutes. A large ship is currently going in the same direction, we might be able to see it.There's an 800-kilometer-long great river in this territory. From the Daregan city that we ignored yesterday, the river connects to four cities starting from the capital.If the traveler's journal is to be believed, the canal is made by a large empire that precedes the Shiga kingdom. It was made with magic, right? I think the figures of giants and golems doing public construction works are great.Calculating for a bit, if they use soil magic like I used the other day, they could make 2-3 kilometers long canal in a day, so the whole canal would probably be completed if they worked hard for a year. As expected of fantasy. A large construction works sounds quite easy.I understand that the Oyugock dukedom is vast after seeing
"No, you can't, master."Lulu looks at me with an anxious face."It's alright. Now, relax yourself.""Y, yes."I put my hands on the waist of Lulu who's frightened while inching back, leaning her body on me."Let's go, Lulu.""I, I can't. It's too big.""You don't need to worry. Believe what I say."While calming Lulu who's still anxious, I put my hands on top of Lulu's delicate hands.And--Lulu's finger pulls the magic gun.At the waterfall basin that spreads before our eyes below, there are six giant monsters resembling newts that exceed 10 meters acting as they please. The monster's name is Hard Newt, and their special ability is acid breath it seems.Every one of them is in upper level 20s, they're relatively strong.There's a reason why I take Lulu along for monster hunting despite frightening her.During the Muno incident, Pochi's level had become lower than the others, so I took her on a monster-hunting date when there were monsters on the highway near our camping ground. Kaga
"When you get to Gururian city, don't miss out on eating the round red bean paste! However since it's one big copper coin for one, it's not easy to have one. For a merchant like Brother, you'd get laughed at by your business partners if you've never eaten one.""What kind of sweets is it?""Umm~ you make this white lump and put the sweet black lump as the main part around it."The sisters who are with us at the campground before Gururian city is talking about the established sweet in the city. It's somehow an imaginable, yet misleading explanation."You've never eaten one either have you? This girl becomes interested in the sweet after a merchant boasts about it in the village.""Fuhn. When I get my wages at the apprenticeship, then. I'll eat it first and foremost~.""Wages you say, it'll be years before that."As I understand, these sisters come from a village nearby to be apprentices in a merchant store at Gururian city. "Master, the merchants seem to be departing.""Then, we shoul
The demon that has appeared in Gugurian city is of the same grade as the one from Muno city. The species is of the same Short Horn demon too, level 30, and it also has the same skills, [Strength], [Hard Body], [Transformation], [Flame Palm]; it has no magic skills. It's a demon totally suited to become a vanguard.Nevertheless, I was certain that there was no demon before we entered this city. Or rather, I could affirm that there's no demon in the whole dukedom. It doesn't seem like the demon can teleport, so it's probably sent or summoned by someone.I leave the horses and the wagon to Lulu and Nana, and we go to the street against the escaping crowds. When we're moving, I tell everyone that the one ahead is not a monster but a demon, its level, skills, and things to be careful about during the fight.Occasionally, there are people jumping in the air as if playing trampoline from the direction of the crowds. Even though the demon can't use magic, it doesn't seem to be weak. When the
"In praise of defeating the demon who had attacked the city. The viceroy of Gururian city awards you this medal."The bald civil official who's standing next to the young viceroy reads the award aloud. This is the audience room inside Gururian City Castle. It's only about a quarter as wide as the one in Muno city, but there are twenty heavy soldiers equipped with halberds lined up on both sides.At this time, I had a carefree impression, "It's nice when it really feels like a castle~", but in truth, later Kagari told me that the viceroy guards were reinforced as a precaution against me.The only one inside the audience room is me. The other members are waiting in another room. I'm unarmed since I've given the fairy sword and the short cane to Kagari.Then, the meeting with the viceroy ended without any problem and I withdrew.In the end, the viceroy only said, "It was arduous."After leaving the audience room, I'm guided by a maid to a different room than the one Kagari and the others
Both of the masks have been broken, so I put on a white mask that Kagari made for cosplay at her request. I feel like I know where the inspiration for it comes from, but it seems like it'd fall off easily, scary. I put on cheap clothes and a mantle, and head toward the hall's exit.The hall looks disastrous to the point that I admire it for not collapsing.The floors are turned upside down, several pillars are destroyed, and many places have become craters. Some of the craters have glasses formed from Furnace Flame (Forge). There isn't any trace of the altar.I should say as expected of a demon lord. I've just barely won even though my level is three times as high and fully loaded with items.It's unfortunate that I won't get a rematch--I don't have even the slightest bit of such thought.Fortunately, the opponent was a type weak with magic, but if it was strong in both points, I might have lost.I'll go watch the tournament at the capital and study sword techniques and battle forms.
It's probably the effect of the demon's unique skill. The demon has revived as an undead. The demon's upper body which should have been lost has also regenerated in the blink of an eye. There's no worth in defeating this guy.The two liuyedao were lost somewhere when I destroyed the upper body earlier, thankfully.I do have several trump cards, but since I don't know how many times the demon can revive, I won't recklessly use them. It's painful that one MP recovery potion only recovers 20% of my MP with one bottle.From now on, I'll charge magic swords and the holy swords whenever I'm free."It has been since Yamato that I have to resort to using Banpufutou's effect. O Nanashi, perchance you can beat me? Yamato took the heavenly dragon's lot along to attack my castle. You alone intend to be the equivalent of a hero and heavenly dragon."Fumu, since my name is blank, it's [Nanashi]. I guess I'll call myself Nanashi from now on.Thanks to the HP potion and self-healing skill, my wounds
"What's wrong, are you so scared you can't talk?"Moreover, she's swinging her arms matching her speaking rhythm, so her exposed breasts are shaking and swaying. I can't help but become interested in it since a while ago. Yup, they're big relative to her age."O black-haired hero. I do not care why you're hiding your appearance, but can you entertain me like Yamato? I won't forgive you if you bore me."I wonder if she has see-through skills, the girl's eyes are shining red.I'm sorry for the possessing demon who's trying to set up the mood, but at this time, I'm not thinking, "How do I defeat the enemy", but, "How do I get this fellow out of the girl's body", instead.I wonder if I could do something with Saint's title and magic healing somehow?It might be good to learn ways to exorcise demons. It'd be terrible if someone I know got possessed.Let's use persuasion skills here--I've also thought of such thing. Before I could open my mouth, the girl's time was up."Thanks for making my
A person who looks to be a leader-type is scolding us with a rough voice in front of the door that leads to the ritual room. The scolding is over quickly, I slip in with the society members to go into the door.I've thought of this since I mixed in a while ago, but they're full of leaks.They don't look like a group that would do such outrageous things as summoning items from hell. There's something mismatched about this. I wonder if there's someone who's pulling the string from behind?Well, whatever.There are probably only a few places where they can hold the ritual, so if I destroy this place, people who are thinking of doing misconducts will lay low.The ritual room is wide. The width is 200 meters, the height is 20 meters, and the depth is nearly 1 kilometer long. Of course, there are a lot of standing pillars, but they sure are strong for supporting such enormous weight. Is it due to [Fixture Magic]?My thought had wandered off for a bit.The nearly 200 men and women inside the
The ship carrying us is anchored at a place where the capital's night view can be seen. The port is crowded due to the tournament season, so we're waiting our turn. It seems the duke has issued an order to prioritize ships that are carrying supplies, there are a lot of other anchored ships.Since the captain has gotten the right to enter the port first thing in the morning tomorrow, it looks like we could enter the port without waiting tomorrow.Everyone was watching the night view until just now, but since the youth trope began to doze off, I made them turn back to the room.I hear light footsteps, I look back, and there's Kagari."You're going after all?""Ah."I answer briefly to Kagari who's giving off a strange atmosphere."I can't imagine you'd fall off against opponents at the level of short horn, but absolutely don't let your guard down, okay?""Ah, I know. Or rather, I'm going for it before the short-horn demons could appear."We wouldn't be able to tour the capital relaxed i
A birdman who's flying near the water's surface as if gliding passes over the ship.Pochi and Tama are waving their hands to the point as if they'd get torn off. It seems the birdman is also giving a service, he makes several turns and does a full revolution before flying away.I'm afraid that the two will fall since they lean forward too much while waving their hands, but since Liza seizes the girdle, it's probably alright.Even if they fall, there's [Float] that I've learned recently so it's fine, but there's no need for them to fall in the first place.It's basically a leisure on the ship.Yesterday, the ship was attacked by two aquatic monsters, but before we could go out, the Gillman soldiers who were escorting the ship cleaned it up. There was also a pirate group, the river version, that was going to attack on the river branch, but I attacked them with Short Stun from afar, and their boat got capsized the end.Since it's generally peaceful like that, I continue practicing signal
I'm waving my hands on top of the departing ship. It's not only Princess Menea and her escorts that have come to see us off, but even the viceroy couple and Miss Ririna.There were imprudent young nobles and hooligans that they had hired aiming for Liza's spear waiting in the harbor, but the viceroy soldiers skilfully arrested them before they could cause harm to us. It seemed Miss Karina's maids had notified the viceroy beforehand after they heard about some disturbing rumors.The nobles had probably seen Liza's spear during the fight with the demon yesterday, but they were really confident if they thought they could go against her even after seeing that fight.I want to leave miss Karina too if possible, but my reputation would become bad if I do leave my employer's daughter, so I give up."Fufufuhn, you've raised and collected flags of the new character huh! She should just disappear after this."New character... Please don't like a person with characters."Are you still thinking a
"Well then, everyone, please enjoy the specialties of Gugurian."The viceroy says so signaling the start of the banquet.The people in this dining room are the viceroy, his wife and his retainers, gentlemen and ladies--who are of course nobles with peerages. The guests are Princess Menea, Poni-san who acts as her escort,and also lady Karina and me. The influential people in the city are only invited when it's a buffet party.By the way, only adults are allowed to participate in the banquet and party, their children aren't.The dining table is decorated with flowers, and two maids accompany each guest. The tableware is silver knives, spoons, and forks. Besides the knife that looks like an extremely common dagger, the spoon, and the fork are like the ones used in the previous world. There is only one set of the tableware for each plate, but it gets exchanged with new ones when you've finished your meal it seems.The room is lit with magic light. It's not with magic tools, but a magicia
The princess' entourages, Yui and Aoi pondered if I, who's called Rin and has black hair and black eyes, was a Japanese. It doesn't seem that they're aware of Kagari's name.The girl before me, Yui, is summoned from the Southern Japan Federation in a country separated to north and south. The kind of country's setting that's often found in fictitious military stories. It seems to be a real country from what she's said, I guess I shouldn't say 'setting' out loud.However, I've thought that I could easily go home if I just went to Saga empire, but if there are parallel worlds, I have to rethink my plan. Although from the start, I don't intend to go back until after the livelihood of Kagari, Liza, and the others are guaranteed here, so it's fine."By Japan, do you mean the illustrious country referred to by hero?""Rin isn't from one?""My house has always given the name of the eldest son, Rin, for generations long. It's said that our ancestor is a Saga Empire hero, but there's no hero ca