Card collector from different worlds
140 Irene's thoughts
Self-propelled wheels with Eileen on them were able to pass through the ethnic territory and enter the Elf territory without any obstacles.
The journey so far has been extremely smooth.
"Well, this is Elf Town... but it doesn't really look the same."
Eileen is discouraged because the view does not change dramatically with the towns of the people.
Kinosuke also thought that people and elves have very similar architectural styles of houses.
"In the meantime, I have to move some of the town, right? Then I went to the town of Dader and hired a dedicated guide..."
What was said by Lyudmila is simple.
"I wish I could meet Kinosuke and give him this letter."
If Eileen rendezvous with Kim Noisuke, it can also be said that the purpose could have been achieved almost with that.
It was Lyudmila's idea that Kim Noisuke would do the rest alone, and the focus of this trip to Eileen was also on how quickly and safely to get inside the Great Junction.
The journey through the Elves has been smooth.
The former Kingsguards of the escort were also those who lived in the martial arts, and took extraordinary care of Eileen, from the Ente family.
And on the sixth day after entering Elf territory, Eileen finally arrived in the town of Dader, the destination.
Not as big a town as this, but this is one of the important towns.
It is said that when crossed from the national territory, it is easiest to cross the Great Boundary from this town of Dader.
"You should find a dedicated guide to the people here."
When the kings of the people and the elves try to interact with each other, the great juncture really gets in the way.
For this reason, the town of Deder was given permission to have a dedicated guide stationed in order to make travel as easy as possible.
"... here it is. Though!"
When she glanced at the map and the location, making sure there was no doubt about it, Eileen called out loud from the outside.
"Hey, what's up?
It is the old elf woman who came out.
"Um... this"
Eileen gives out the bills she had prepared in advance.
The elf woman took it seriously and then saw Eileen.
"Oh well... I don't know, you're quite a messenger"
Unlike elves, the woman laughed, not to mention understaffed.
"I am Eileen. This is still an official messenger, right?
"Right. I'm Miranda. I've been here for the last thirty years to contract a conductor. I've never seen such a young messenger before."
"Really?... So, it's quick, can I get a guide?
"I can't do that."
Eileen's eyes dot the lightly said words.
And I thought.
First of all, this is a stuffing place for dedicated guides set up by the people on the Elves' territory.
All the guides, including Miranda in front of them, should be employed by the people.
In other words, Miranda will be saying that she cannot guide the official messenger from the King.
"... why not?
"Didn't you hear anything?
"Yeah...... I've only heard lately that I can't get in touch with the Elf Territory. Or that's all I know."
"Hmm.... that means you didn't go home before... All right, let's just go inside."
Miranda let Irene and the others into the house.
Though the house that mediates the exclusive informant, it was a simple one, where the office and the space in which it resided were shared.
"I hope it's bright near the window there. Sit over there and wait."
"... Yes"
After a while, Miranda showed up with a bunch of paper.
"I've returned two people in the last month, and they don't seem to be back."
"Yes... the king said that none of the messengers out of the people had returned."
"Then let's talk from the beginning, even if it's a hassle."
"Talk...?
"Yes, we're talking.... more than a month ago, but all of a sudden the interaction between this town of Dader and the Great Junction is broken. At first, the Seven Families who came from the other side stopped coming."
"Is it the beginning?
"Yes, there are all kinds of things you can do to get to and from the market, deliver mail, and communicate information. I couldn't help it, so the merchant hired a bunch of handlers to get into the junction."
It was thought that the hired ones would return in ten days at the latest, as they live in this town, although they possess the skill to cross the Great Junction.
But he said he didn't come back to live long enough.
"I thought you still had the disease over there, but still, someone or so would come back. Something's wrong, so I sent out some money to other towns, but things haven't changed. I cut the paralysis and a few of my handlers went into the great juncture, but it didn't come back either."
"What happened inside?
"It wasn't until a while before I figured that out, but a few cardi hunters came back to flee. Say you've been attacked by a ton of warcraft, halve the party. When we were all laughing that there was no such thing as a warcraft in the Great Junction, you people came to me."
Miranda said she should stop going inside for a while, but that she left because it was an important investigation and had as many guides as she could call.
"They didn't come back either. So after that, the people's messenger came twice, and I told him that there was no guide, and he wanted to go home. At that time, I also passed on rumors about the Warcraft. As far as you're concerned... the messenger may have gone into the Great Junction himself."
"… it is possible"
Eileen also thought if we didn't have a guide, we'd go inside on our own.
I guess the other messengers did the same.
It means there will be cardies about level twelve or thirteen, so it's not surprising to think that if you hire as many as five or six hunters you can cross.
"That's why. There is no guide I can introduce here right now, and there is no one who has crossed the line at the moment. I think you should turn around, take a right and go back to your people's land."
Eileen asked herself.
I don't have a choice to go back to the King's Capital when he tells me to go home.
If I really went back to Wang Du like this and said, "I can't get inside, so I'm back," I'd be disappointed. Even if they don't say anything on the surface.
"Thank you. I'll think of something in a direction I can't."
You knew Irene would say that, Miranda sighed and then gave her a piece of paper.
"It's information on how to get inside the Great Junction and Cardy coming out on the way. The distances are more or less the same, but we don't know where we're going in the woods, so we can't go straight. I hope you don't use this."
"Thank you. Reference."
Eileen left Miranda's house.
"... Well, I don't know what to do"
In this minute, I've been looking for a guide in this town, and no one will ever find him.
Even if Miranda just knows, it seems like that's how some of us got people together independently and into the Great Junction, and it's no surprise that there were more merchants and people with errands inside.
I guess none of those people have come back because the information inside hasn't been communicated.
The quick thing is to get inside the Great Junction with the four of the escorts we have now, but that is tantamount to suicide.
"Hey, if you skip the Warcraft thing, can you get in here?
"It's all right for once"
"So, suppose there's an unidentified Warcraft besides Cardy?
"Of course the one or the two of us could work it out. However, I don't think it would be possible if it came out in large quantities. Warcraft does not have an area, so it is difficult to escape. They'll chase you everywhere, and you'll be caught up in the woods."
"Yes... I knew I couldn't force a breakthrough."
Irene was troubled.
This is a blockage.
There is something that can be described as a secret.
But I don't know if I can cut that here.
"But... this is where we use it, right? I'm sure."
If there was nothing I could do, I made up my mind to use what was brought to me as a last resort.
It is a means of secrecy that has not informed the Elves in any way.
How to communicate with people in secret for what if.
I decided to use that here.
(Then tomorrow morning would be better. Just write to me today......)
Eileen picked up the inn, where she spent the night writing a letter for Kinosuke.
Early the next morning, Eileen heads out to an unpopular place.
I wrote in my letter about the status quo here and the fact that I wanted you to come and pick me up to the town of Dader.
Rounding it up, Eileen creases onto the snow dove she secretly hid.
"Ugh, what an excuse for your sister."
In fact, in his covenant with the king of the Elves, he obtained permission to create a guided office dedicated to the people within and outside the Great Junction.
However, the constituents there were only allowed in the elves, and moreover the person nominated by the king of the elves was to be in charge.
In other words, Miranda would have been given a job directly by King Elf thirty years ago. Even if they were paying their salaries from the people, Miranda would mean that they were seconded by King Elf.
Likewise, there are similar establishments within the Great Junction, but they are also managed there by those who have obtained the permission of King Elf.
The king of the people was secretly building his own route beside drinking its terms.
That is the means of transmission by snow doves.
One of the tribes that inhabits the Great Junction has, in fact, long been under the orders of the king of men to train snow doves or act as a secret point of contact.
The snow dove trained in the place returns there with his return instinct.
This is true, for example, of the snow dove that Eileen now has.
That is a betrayal of the people against the elves and not something they can do to make a big deal of it.
If found, the messengers would be picked as spies, and all bases would be destroyed.
Lyudmila told Irene about it before she left, and only gave her a snow dove to use as a last resort if she could no longer enter the Great Junction and had no other means.
"Sister, I'm sorry. I decide to use it.... please, don't let the elves find out"
Eileen let go of the snow dove.
The snow dove, away from Eileen's hand, flapped its wings many times and flew straight into the great junction.
A snow dove with a letter on his leg enters the great junction.
It would be suspicious if it stopped in the eyes of the elf.
The risk is great, but this is not the way to go.
Irene decided to think so.
"... please. Please get there safely. And tell Mr. Kinosuke."
Eileen prayed that way until she couldn't see the snow dove.