A Chronicle of Life in a Different World

CARDEVA - There are two large states with vast territories on the continent called Caldeba.

Unlike the actual shape, if the Caldivian continent were to be square, the country with the best land on the continent, La Paris, existed in the south-east, followed by the country with the second largest land, Mataroi, in the north-west.

In Cardiva, these two countries alone account for nearly half of the continent. But, of course, there were other countries.

Although inferior to the first two countries, the country of Berlid exists in the north-east of the continent, which would be classified as a major country if it were "other continents”. Two countries existed in the southwestern part of the remaining continent: Kharisto and Polasha.

These five countries are famous in the continent of Caldeba, and there are many others, but their names are rarely mentioned because of their small size, lack of specialties, weakness of the troops they hold, and low magic skills.

Small countries have joined hands with each other or are under the protection of large countries in the name of alliances. Medium-sized countries, which could not be called small countries, were aiming at expanding their territory with a tight eye, and the big countries were also stupid to expand their territory.

Hundreds of people in small countries, thousands in medium-sized countries, and tens of thousands in large countries will collide fiercely.

Of course, there is no single rock in any country, and there is a dispute in one country.

It can be said that the privileged class called the aristocrats plotted to expand their territory even slightly, sometimes bumped into each other, sometimes joined hands, and that it was only on a small scale that a struggle with strength and power arose.

There have been no major inter-state wars in the last few years on the Caldeba continent.

Still, underwater skirmishes persist, small countries resist swallowing, large countries act against the backdrop of forces commensurate with the size of their land, and medium-sized countries overcome rough waves in a balanced manner.

No world, no country, no matter what, the struggle will never end. Even if the monsters were to trek and manipulate the extraordinary power of magic, man could not stop the struggle.

Land expansion, politics, religion, commerce, industry, magic technology. There are many reasons to fight, especially those in power who have only a handful are keen to increase their power.

But the story begins with a place called Laval Waste City in Mataroi, a town where people from far away from such power gather.

A season where you can feel the intensity of the sun and experience the summer.

In the morning and evening, a group of men and women stood in front of a house in the joy of sweating at noon.

"It's done...."

One of the men and the woman, who can be called a man rather than a boy - Reurus murmured with all his thoughts.

Reurus was a man characterized by a messy cut of red and brown hair and eyes of the same color.

They wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers made of durable hemp and are equipped with protective equipment such as leather armor, nails and toenails. He had a dagger on his waist and a large single-bladed sword slightly longer than his height on his back.

Reurus is an adventurer in the abandoned city of Laval, a junior medium adventurer who is frequently responsible for the extermination of dangerous creatures, monsters.

"It's not finished...."

Eliza, the girl beside her, murmured as if she had reacted to Reurus's murmur.

Eliza was a small girl with one or more short heads compared to Reurus, who was nearly 170cm tall.

The peachy blonde hair stretches all the way to the back, characterized by red eyes and a lovely look.

Wearing hemp clothes like Reurus, it is equipped with leather armor, nails, toenails, and a 1 meter cane to protect your heart and other acute ailments.

Normally, wearing a thick coat from above strengthens the defense, but I didn't wear it because I hated the summer heat.

Behind those two eyes was a house. It is a small house made of wooden pillars and earthen walls.

"It's my dream" Magoo "!

Reurus, who taught Eliza words that did not exist in this world to reveal her joy, smiled little bitterly.

Reurus is a former Japanese who reincarnated into this world - a “different world” where magic and monsters exist. He had a past in which overwork, illness, and malnutrition tripled and lost his life while living in a harsh working environment.

Even after he was reborn, he lived 15 years under the same treatment as a slave. He engaged in harsh and dangerous agricultural work and was sold out as a mine slave at the age of fifteen.

On the way to being transported as a merchandise under the name of slavery, I managed to escape under the attack of a powerful monster named Kimira, but it was this abandoned city of Laval that arrived just before the unexpected Reurus died.

After an after-turn, he became an adventurer, and Kimira, who was accepted by the abandoned city of Laval, in a sense saved his life, attacked him. I was able to defeat it and was accepted as a member of the abandoned city of Laval in a real sense.

And it was Eliza that I met during my time as an adventurer.

Eliza is not a human being, but a species called a bloodsucker. Reurus attacked by mistaking him for a vampire he had known in his previous life, but he was “almost” the same as human beings, not immortal or blood-sucking.

But Eliza was attacked by a group called the Gregorians. In the abandoned city of Laval, Reurus was stabbed without a trace.

Eliza will be seized and Reurus will suffer from the poison that was applied when she was stabbed. Still, Reus managed to rescue Eliza as a result of the "cause and effect of the previous life” working in the right direction.

Both Reus and Eliza were lonely, and on top of that, they had a special bond called a "contract."

The two of them got close to the abandoned town of Laval, but they lived in a restaurant owned by a man named Dominic. A room about three tatami mats in size, with no windows, was too narrow for two people to live in, so we built the house.

Compared to the house where Reurus lived in his previous life, he would be much poorer. There is no concrete, and not everything in the house is made of wood.

--Still, our own home is special.

Reurus came to the abandoned city of Laval four months early. Three months after meeting Eliza, it was indescribably touching to find a place to live.

Reus stepped into the house with Eliza, opening the newly made wooden door.

Since there are no lights, the sun's light is the main source of light, and in the evenings it is only possible to get a faint light with a candle. The house was dark because there was no window glass for lighting, but the eyes of Reurus still looked dazzling.

The first thing that pops into your eyes when you open the door to the entrance is the elongated soil next to it. It's about two meters wide, and there's about five meters of ground between the doors.

There is nothing civilized in the earth, such as a stove, nor is there a toilet. There are only two jars and wooden barrels for storing water from the well.

And there were three doors in the earth. One is Reus' room, one is Eliza's room, and the other is a warehouse for storing Reus and Eliza's equipment.

Neither Reurus's room nor Eliza's room is furnished yet. In a room of about six tatami mats with a board on the floor, there is only a straw bed with straw on the wooden box as the bed for the time being. From now on, it will be necessary to make and enrich the furniture.

The warehouse is as narrow as a four-tatami mat, and there are no shelves on it, it's just a killing scene. It was a realuse that I checked inside, but the light that plunged through the wooden window just illuminated the warehouse.

There is no toilet or bath. Without little furniture, houses made of wooden pillars and earthen walls are likely to collapse easily if Reurus “seriously” breaks out.

--Still, it was our own house.

"Reurus....."

Eliza, who checked inside the house, called out the name of Reurus. It would have been touching to have been caught in that voice. As Reurus turned to look, Eliza shook her shoulders with tears in her eyes.

"I still need a lot of stuff, but I'll collect it from now on. Today, I brought some clothes from my shop... and then a banquet."

"... uhm!

Oh-oh - Dominic's restaurant, the man Reurus has taken care of most since he came to the abandoned city of Laval, is just around the corner from Reurus' house.

Reurus' house was built off the side of the biggest road in the abandoned city of Laval, called Boulevard. Dominic's restaurants, on the other hand, face the boulevard, and it takes less than ten seconds to walk from Reurus' house to the boulevard.

Both Dominic's daughters, Corona, are taken care of, but Reurus thought he would continue to take care of the food.

"In the meantime, take off your gear and wear it as usual... but there's no place to put it because there's no shelf. I don't know what to do...."

Why don't we just leave it in our room? Not on the dirt, on the wooden planks. Let's not get dirty. "

"I'm afraid your big sword is going to pierce the wooden floor."

The Great Sword carried by Reurus was a concession from Dominic, who was once an adventurer. The magic of "strengthening" that increases strength was engraved, but there was a weight and sharpness that would sink into the wooden floor if it succeeded.

In order to solve those problems, we will need to move on to a monetary policy for the time being. And instead of buying furniture with the money we get, we buy wood and make furniture.

(I didn't think about furniture in my previous life, but it's exciting just to think about what I would buy if I had my own house.)

Thinking about the future ahead, the mouth of Reurus was naturally relaxed.

You can earn rewards for defeating Gregorianism and have worked as a civil engineer and adventurer to build a house for the past three months, but you don't have enough money to build a house.

The current situation was that the house was being used as collateral to borrow money, and it was necessary to earn living expenses while paying back the money.

Three large gold coins - about 3 million yen in Japanese yen - are owed to an organization that oversees adventurers called the Adventurers Association.

It's a cheap price to build a house, but Reurus also helped transport the wood and soil that will be used as building materials. Besides, it is a price because it is a "family member”, and I want to avoid it as a reuse, but in case I lose my life in the fight against monsters, I also have a contract to let go of the house.

(While paying off the loan, I'm getting sad because I'm familiar with my family.)

I want to pay off my debts as soon as possible and enjoy my new home life without hesitation.

It was a realuse trying to enter my room with that in mind, but I looked at the door of the house about three times.

"Hmm? A guest?

"Isn't it corona?

Eliza, who looked at the door just like Reurus, said so in anticipation of her visiting partner. Reurus opened the door as soon as he thought it was possible - he opened his eyes unexpectedly.

"... Mr...?

The woman standing there was Natalia, a receptionist at the Adventurers' Union.

It would be in my mid-twenties if I were to judge by appearance alone. The purple hair with a little habit is stretched to the waist, and purple eyes that closely resemble the hair are pointed at the rearvoir.

The outfit is a black dress with a large chest opening, but has a slit on the thighs and a ruffled detail around the collar. Rather than hosting an adventurers' union, she looked more like a playgirl or a whore.

Normally, he never goes outside the Adventurers Association, and Reurus has never seen Natalia go outside the Adventurers Association.

Why did Natalia come all the way to Reurus? I thought it was Reurus who came to celebrate the new building, but when I saw Natalia's expression, the idea would blow up.

Natalia, who usually has plenty of room and a glossy smile, looks somehow sorry.

"Unusual... I've never seen you outside the union. Maybe you came to celebrate the new building... How can I help you?"

Though I tried to slap my mouth lightly, the atmosphere of Natalia was unusual and ended in underdevelopment. When Reurus asked what happened, Natalia took her expression seriously after she exhaled a little.

"I'm calling from the Adventurers Association in the Waste City of Laval to Reurus, a junior medium adventurer, and Eliza, an adventurer apprentice."

Natalia, who is usually called "the boy," is seriously calling Reurus his name. I felt that that alone would increase my tension.

"I need you to do one thing."

― ― It is the word that marks the beginning of “adventure.”

It was the beginning of the adventure of Reurus, reincarnated in a world of nostalgia, when the curtain would fall.