Dream Life

July 8.

The day was more and more empty, but according to the old man in the village, he was on his way to recovery.

Today we head to Kilnarek, 30 km away - a fortified city close to the village of Rasmore.

Kilnarek is a city close to its home village of Rasmore and is likely to be able to return home the day after tomorrow, July 10.

It is difficult to say that it is safe between Bowden village and Kirnalek, but still quite safe compared to Karsh.

We decided to act separately from the merchant squad, took twenty-seven horses and three bandits, and headed to Kilnarek.

As predicted by the old man in the village of Bowden, the weather has gradually recovered and the thick clouds have become visible by the way the gaps.

The bandits who were resisting yesterday are also utterly grown up, losing their unhealed wounds and the power of Beatrice.

I was worried about when the bandits would take action, but neither Beatrice nor Liddy cared much.

When I asked the two of you about it, Liddy answered on behalf of me.

"Those three won't be a problem. If you want to escape in this situation, the only thing you can do is take someone hostage. We wouldn't have a problem with Sharon. Besides, we don't have to keep those bandits alive. I know that, so if this one doesn't even show alarm, I won't try to escape."

Liddy's right, the bandits' eyes are completely dead and they don't seem in the mood to run away.

Having defeated only four of our twenty-four companions, and unharmed, we are only a nightmare to them. It was a compelling enough explanation for us not to take action.

Especially against Beatrice, who is pretty frightened. The sight of her spears and the relentless stabbing of a stop seemed to have caused her to lose her mind to defy them.

(If you become a criminal slave, you probably shouldn't be able to have a normal life for the rest of your life. I'd try risking my life on this occasion... well, not all criminal slaves die a tragic way, so maybe it's a bet over there... and you don't know that bandits don't deserve it though...)

He made several breaks and arrived in the city of Kilnarek around 3 p.m.

We go through the city entrance process at the castle gate, but one of the soldiers guarding the gate is surprised to hear my name, and one runs into the city.

"These guys were defeated by Master Zacharias? No, it's amazing."

Here in the city of Kilnarek, the popularity of grandfather Govan Lockhart is unusually high. The reason is because I keep the security around here in one hand, but I heard that one of its grandchildren, me, destroyed the Bandits, and I seem to have run a preaching to the head of the defense.

When we say we're going to the defensive squad crawl, we can stop because the superiors will be here any minute. Well, sometimes you care about that because when you walk more than twenty horses without a rider, you also get pedestrian contact, etc.

About twenty minutes later, a man and several of his men came running like a defensive squad officer.

Greeting with a rough breath, he offered to pick up "The horse and the bandit will be deposited with us, may I?"

I'll send Liddy and Beatrice an eye to see if that's okay. They also gave me an O.K. signal, so I said, "Please," and handed it over.

About the bandit crusade, he said he needed a report, so he checked into the inn and then headed to the defensive squad stuffing.

Along the way, I asked Beatrice about the bounty placed on the bandit.

"By the way, how much do you get paid for defeating a bandit?

Beatrice laughs, "Too bad, I hardly have one," she said.

"Some of the guys are asking and the bounty is hanging, but usually they can't hang that..."

For those whose names are obviously known in Beatrice's story, the bounty can sometimes be hung, but usually the bounty rarely is.

This can be ascertained in the orb whether or not a crime has been committed, but not even which one. I mean, I can't be sure who dyed their hands on which crime until I catch them, so I won't hang the bounty. They say that on rare occasions, survivors hang bounty money on those who commit murder and escape.

The bounty is not multiplied, but the bounty is paid by the level of the bandit. It's roughly approximate, but they say it's 2C (Krona) (= 2,000 yen) for level one.

It's incredible to say it's only 60,000 yen against a level thirty swordsman.

"If it's that cheap, nobody's going to take down a bandit, is it?

"Not really. The Bandit's Crusade is taken as a request by Adventurer and Mercenary guilds. So bandits like you live in one place are subject to crusade. Bandits like this one don't have it..."

In other words, bandits such as those with bases are subject to crusades, and rewards are paid during crusades by adventurer and mercenary guilds receiving requests from commercial guilds, etc. Meanwhile, bandits who keep moving are not subject to crusade. They say this is the idea that the bandits would rather move me than be settled in one place and set up a base.

Lack of a base means that you often spend time in the wilderness in dangerous forests and mountains. Let the bandits deal with demons, and you can also say they're after a co-fall, but not too much of an interpretation.

(I guess the point is that I don't have to stay long at my place. I don't know. But it's far from a fundamental solution. Well, I don't know if I can make a place like Rasmore Village (of which) standard, but maybe there are places like this where the boss is respected...)

As I looked unconvinced, Beatrice spoke to me with her hand on my shoulder.

"Even if you do defeat a bandit, you don't get much money. But think about it. They have weapons, and they're taking treasures from the merchants they attacked. Their belongings can be monopolized by the crusaders. So, it still fits well enough. Well, except for the poor guys like this one."

Surely for the twenty-four bandits, they did not have a great deal of stuff. The cash was about 700C (= 700,000 yen), and all that was left was only about their weapons and horses redeemable.

Go to the defensive squad's stuffing and get a brief situational hearing.

They will briefly ask you where and when and how you defeated them, and at the end of the day, the hearing will be completed by confirming that you have not committed any illegal activity in the orb.

After that, give the demon crystal stone of the bandit you defeated to the defense team to complete.

"The bounty for the crusade will be finalised soon, but please wait until tomorrow morning to assess the weapons and horses"

I'm not in a hurry, and I'm not expecting this city's defense to make a false assessment of "Lockhart," so I'll snort, "please.

After about thirty minutes of waiting, the head of the defense team came with a small leather bag.

And he said, "This is the bounty for the crusade," and he handed it to me.

"It will be fifteen gold coins and one half gold coin (one thousand five hundred and fifty C = one hundred and fifty thousand yen). There was a bounty hanging on the head Gary. Looks like he committed a murder in the Kingdom of Lax before..."

With the head Gary multiplied by a bounty of three hundred and fifty C, the bounty for the twenty-four was only one hundred and two hundred C, or about one hundred and twenty thousand yen.

Average level twenty-five bandits, higher than I thought.

(The two of us who were watching the horses are clearly of low level. So I guess there were a couple of level thirty classes. If we had been attacked without alarm, we wouldn't have been intact...)

After the defensive squad stuffing, we headed to the inn.

When I arrived at the inn, a guest came to me. The guests were merchants of the merchants we accompanied in Karsh.

"I didn't know you were the son of the Lockhart family the other day and I apologize for your disrespect. Forgive me."

When the representative merchant says so, they all bow their heads deeply.

And then the delegate took the leather bag out of his nostalgia and said, "This is in our feelings, albeit slightly, that you protected from the bandits. Give it to me," he offered.

Apparently, I rushed in when I heard I was from the Lockhart family. Because of the popularity of the Lockhart family around here, people in the house helped me, but I guess I couldn't say I didn't even thank you.

I said, "Don't worry about it. 'Cause I didn't do it because I wanted to thank you,' he says, solidifying.

I could have gotten it, but my grandfather doesn't get any thanks from merchants or travelers who helped him. When I took it here, it would discredit the Lockhart family, so I didn't take it.

I've told him to get a few gratuities, but I keep on solidifying them.

(Well, I'm not a merchant who seems to be making that much money, and I already get a reward. Besides, there's still a share of horses and weapons, so you don't have to greed... you should buy the Lockhart family reputation here...)

"From my grandfather, Govan, and my father, Masaias, I hear that the spread of banditry is evidence of the Lord's neglect to serve. Then my Lockhart family will have neglected to serve. So you can't get a thank you."

I dare to speak hard and convince the merchants.

The merchants thanked him one last time and left the inn.

Liddy, who saw it, made fun of me for saying, "You don't look like a knight."

"I just bought the Lockhart family's reputation. If you find that your 11-year-old second son is well educated, you'll feel safe for the next generation, right?

"Really? When you get more popular, Rod - my brother Rodrick - is in trouble. Even if it isn't, you're famous for being a genius."

Liddy told me that with a serious face, and I lost the word to return it.

(That's true. My brother's a good guy, but he's not as well-known as me. No, he's already a Caerm Empire northern governor-general's office army under the command of the Raswell border uncle, and he's quite handy, so normally, he'll be popular. But I don't know, I'm not here. I should have thought about it a little more...... but I didn't think Liddy would point it out to me......)

Beatrice looked strangely at the interaction.

"You're my second son, aren't you? Besides, I don't want to get into a scene fight. You don't have to worry about it."

Liddy answers with a laugh before I answer.

"Tomorrow you'll find out. How this man is seen in the village of Rasmore... I'm sure you'll be surprised... hehe"

Sharon snorts at the words, but I don't really feel it.

(Well, I guess Mel and Dan, my squire, would welcome me enthusiastically, but that would be all... I don't know what Liddy's talking about...)

When I was having dinner that night in the inn cafeteria, I could speak one voice after the other. Of course, not a single one is as familiar as the Adventurer Guild of Doctus.

The local celebrities came when they heard about me using magic to exorcise the bandits and wanted to say a word of thanks.

Beatrice saw how it was and was whining about it.

In about an hour, I will finally be out of greetings and be able to eat slowly.

I wondered what Beatrice was whining about and said, "Did I say something earlier?" I asked.

She looked a little troubled,

"I didn't forget, but I thought you were noble. Tomorrow we'll face the lord and the real hero. So I was wondering what happened..."

If you listen to me, you don't know how to meet my father or my grandfather or anything, and you seem to care about me and Tammy Mouth.

"Our house has been knighted since my grandfather's age. It's a rise. There's no need to worry about manipulation at all. First of all, Liddy, they call me“ Govi ”about my grandfather. Besides, Beatrice is my guardian. I mean, it's like a master. As always, you just have to be grand."

You're still uncomfortable with me saying that, "Still..." and I can't boil it off.

(That's surprising. I thought you wouldn't mind that because you look fancy. If you don't think about it, I feel sorry for Beatrice......)

I didn't seem to understand much about a woman named Beatrice.

I certainly didn't think I was that good with deep relationships. But I didn't expect to care so much because I was taking care of the young guys.

After the meal, I talked to Liddy about it.

She says "it's okay" and laughs, but she doesn't say anything particularly specific.

"No, it won't be okay. Our house certainly doesn't have a format or a loud manipulation, but when you talk to me with a tame mouth, Walt - the head of the Lockhart family squire, Walt Vassel - or Guy - the squire Guy Jakes, Sharon's father - is going to say something around it. If that happens, Beatrice's uncomfortable all at once."

Liddy said, "Right. All you have to do then is declare. He says treat her like that because she's my woman... hehe," he laughs.

I just said "you know," and I lost my temper to say any more.

I still haven't come to the conclusion of a story about the beginning of the year, about whether or not to accept Beatrice's thoughts.

I think I'm indecisive. It's just a child's body that's delusional.

Beatrice doesn't take an active approach either, and there is a verse that assumes that there was no such thing as that story. I was behaving the same way, but I also understood that was just putting off the conclusion.

(If you go back to the village, there's Mel too. Not yet. But the last few years, no, we'll have to come to a conclusion next year or so...... but you're really bad at talking about this kind of unreasonable stuff. I don't know about rationality, but it's still easier to talk about it as rational...)

The next day, before we left, we went to the garrison's stall, and the captain was waiting for us.

"As for weapons and horses, we have heard that there is nothing we would like to keep. As a result of the assessment, five thousand two hundred for twenty-seven horses and nine thousand four hundred C (= 94 million yen) for four thousand two hundred weapons. Plus the cash they had was six hundred and eighty-three C. Originally, the assessment of weapons should be a little higher, but there are many burnt items at any rate... sorry"

I smiled and said, "It's our magic that burned me, and I don't care. That's enough," he replied.

In the end, there would have been a reward of eleven hundred and sixty three C, or more than ten million yen, for the crusade of twenty-four bandits.

(Considering the price of the horse, I think I know, but destroy the bandits for just over 10 million yen? Is it more or less? If you are the same number of mercenaries as a bandit, it is less than 500,000 yen per person. Good money for a day, but considering we're looking for a bunch of bandits to destroy, bounty hunters (bounty hunters) aren't that good of a business... for now, let's go back to the mansion and split the mountains)

We thanked the captain of the defense team and set out for the nostalgic home village of Rasmore.