Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

"I can't! Go home, there's no way I can afford to accept fifty people at a time like this!

"That's right. This is an elf village!

When I go back to the village, I run into the scene where the elves are surrounding the Firefox women and spewing cursing gossip.

The Firefoxes are all young women with about fifty people, like forties up there and early teens down there. They all look uniformly tired and weary of their outfits.

The Firefoxes, generally human in appearance, have big ears on their heads and fluffy tails.

"Listen to me. We can only rely on this village!

In the meantime, a firefox of such age as to say one girl speaks up.

She is about 160cm tall and just a little lower than me, she is soothing, has a big chest, and has a feminine figure.

The face itself feels calm, but the light of intelligence and strong will in the eyes erases the weak impression and reflects it forcefully.

And the good hairy tail was good for out of step with the other fire foxes.

That's a familiar face. This is Ku, the daughter of my former pardoned wife, the village chief of the Firefox.

"You know what! We can't afford to feed fifty people in this village!

From now on, it is Loreau, the most powerful man in the village, who is raising his voice. When I'm not around, he'll represent me.

I have the skill, and I've been the leader of the city's militias for a long time, so I have the desire.

Besides, I chose to say that my parents were one of the few elves who could read and write letters because they were in a good position in the village of elves.

To be honest, if I were to make it conditional only on popularity and reading and writing, I'd just like to choose Lucier, who is a witch and combines popularity and upbringing, but if I choose Lucier, I would certainly pinch my personal affair.

Whatever mistake she makes, I forgive her, and I can't get out tough. So I won't give Lucier a clear position. That's my responsibility as village chief.

"I just don't even think about the Firefox clan to feed them. I'll work properly, and I'm bringing some souvenirs. I don't say luxury. I just want you to prepare a meal that doesn't go hungry and a place that raises the cold."

"No. No. Get out now, you guys have been running away losing to the Empire in the first place! Can you hide those guys?

Reacting to Loreu's words, a cute little girl from the early teens fire fox hiding behind Kuw turned up and opened her mouth to stare at Loreu.

"If only the elves weren't ruled by the Empire. This is it!

Though young, Loreau is frightened for a moment by too many swordscreens.

"Shut up. Chemin."

"But Master Ku! Because of the elves."

I told him to shut up.

In a tone that doesn't make me say yes or no, Ku says off, and the girl called Chemin shuts up. In doing so, Loreau regains the momentum he has gained earlier.

"Whatever you say, I'll definitely get rid of you!

There's no point in Loreau letting them go either.

First of all, the time sucks. Soon it will start snowing. That makes it harder to get food.

If we had time by winter, we could have allocated jobs to the Firefoxes and given them food production, but in winter, even the elves would lose their jobs. The increase in personnel at this time of year is just enough.

To add to that, there is some leeway for food, in addition to the amount of personnel in this village going beyond winter. But so far there is not enough stockpile to feed fifty people, which is a quarter of the village's population.

The other day, I just finished distributing winter food to each household, and accepting a fire fox leads me to share that food.

That would not leave enough food.

In addition, the situation of the Firefoxes is problematic. I can only think of one situation where only a young woman would escape.

That's the kind of situation where losing is confirmed in the battle against the Empire.

What the Empire wants is an elf or fire fox demon stone.

In order to secure them in the long term, we must continue to increase the number of that species. All you have to do is leave a woman behind for that. Since the same race as the mother is born, women caught by the empire are treated less than livestock.

To avoid that, I try to let the women alone get away with it if it sucks.

Yes, like the Firefoxes now.

They'll be nowhere to go if they abandon us here.

Other than the race that houses demonic stones, it's more of a good bait. Kill him and sell the Demon Stone to the Empire, and you'll get a lot of money. Except for us in the same situation, we'd better consider ourselves enemies to the Firefox.

Emotionally, and in Elsier's interest, I cannot leave you alone any longer.

"Loreau, I thought I told you to put Elsier's future on hold until I got back without making an arbitrary decision. From here on out, I'll talk."

"But, Mayor Cyril"

"Trust me, I'll take care of it."

"Well, if you say so."

I took a deep breath and smiled and opened my mouth. Firefox and, elves. Both of those gazes gather on me.

"You've come a lot. O People of Firefox! I'm sorry for the hassle twice, but can you tell me what you guys came to this village for?

"Cyril?

Ku looks a little surprised when he sees my face.

"Ku, it's been a while."

When I say that, after Ku softens his expression just a little, he instantly returns to his original tenacious face.

The look was filled with a sense of responsibility and sadness. It comes to pass that I bear the lives of the Firefoxes of Qu, just as I bear the lives of the people of Elf.

"Are you negotiating?

"As you can see, now this village... no, I'm the head of this country, Elsier"

"Is it a country?

"That's right. More than selling fights to the Empire, at least we think we're an independent country, not a village belonging to the Empire."

That said, I'm still just calling myself that. To be a country in the true sense, it needs to be recognized by a country other than the Empire. From other countries, it is only the village that caused the uprising within the Empire.

Still, we need to keep saying we're Elsiers.

"Okay. Okay, I have a favor to ask. Let fifty-three of the Firefox live in this country. Minimum food and warm beds. That's all I need. We also have a consideration."

"Consideration? I'll check before you do, Ku, but in what position are you talking to me? As the representative of this country, we cannot negotiate without hearing it"

"Cyril kun...... no, Master Cyril. I, Ku, am the chief of the Firefox. Please accept that my words are the word of the Firefox clan."

With readiness and strong will in his voice, Khu ran out of words that he was a chief.

"Right. Got it. Instead of surrogating, the fact that Qu is the chief means that the chief is dead... the Firefox have lost."

When I ask, the face of the Firefox clan, including Ku, becomes a sinking face.

"Exactly. The man who could fight resisted to the end, buying us time to escape, what we could not fight and could not withstand the journey, gave us eternal sleep at our hands before the Empire took advantage of the Demon Stone. I'm bringing up that soul, the Demon Stone. That's one of the things that we're offering Elsier."

Qu's squeezing voice.

It would have been a bitter choice for the Firefox.

First, let the woman who can have the child get away with it, and the man fights. That's good. But there are too young children and old men not included.

The village of Elf is about 80 km away, and you have to go through the pretty mountains and woods along the way. There is little food and you cannot hold your luggage to escape the chase of the Empire.

For example, it would be a choice between staying in the village and being captured by imperial soldiers and being used with a heart dictated, or dying before that happens. I'm sure he chose the latter to help his people at all.

"Well, I'm sorry."

"Why would Master Cyril apologize?

"If the Empire could unilaterally crush the Firefox tribe, it would be inconceivable other than an overwhelming number of soldiers or a tactic using the demonic stones of the wind. There was a raid of 500 soldiers in this village the other day. Given the number of personnel at that supply base, there shouldn't have been time to lose five hundred men and gather troops capable of overwhelming the Firefox clan in numbers. Then it inevitably becomes the latter. Then it is also the responsibility of the elves deprived of the demonic stones of the wind"

"Dear Cyril, could you tell us a little more about this?

Ku listens as he stiffens his voice slightly.

"If I command the soldiers of the Empire, fire foxes fight in a thorough outrage. You'll leave unnecessary and excessive archers and wizard soldiers behind when you blame Elsier.

The Longbow of the Imperial Archer has an effective range of 100m and can be targeted about 50m, but a Firefox opponent would suffice. Flames are difficult, compatible but at best, they can attack unilaterally from the outside because they are the limit that 30-40m can control. Besides, fire foxes who don't like to burn the woods will try to fight in the sunny spot, so don't let the bow live more. "

Kuw grips his fist hard.

"Still, the Firefox can feed their Imperial soldiers on fire if they pack a distance of dozens of meters. If you are prepared to sacrifice, you will reach a distance that will deliver the attack.

Then, as a precaution, you can place the sorcerer next to the archers. Reinforce it with the demon stone of the wind and you can manipulate the wind quite strong. Sure, flames are amazing at the energy they hold, but they don't have the mass. Easy to blow with the wind. And if you peel off the flames and slowly target the defenseless fire fox with a bow, that's it. "

Fire is not compatible with the wind.

Still, we can ignore the wind if we draw on the complex surgical formula and turn the force into an explosion, or even raise the heat to the point where it causes the plasmatization phenomenon, but it would be cruel to ask the Firefoxes for it.

"Dear Cyril. Exactly. But how did you get that in your mouth? Didn't you have to cut yourself out for Elf's fault in the negotiating arena?

"You're right, but you stopped the girl Ku just said it was the elves fault, right? So I just decided to go to the fair."

That's a superficial reason.

I want to bring the Firefox into this village at all costs.

To do that, I want the other elves to feel guilty.

"That's about the foreground, shall we go into negotiations? I heard the demands. Then what do you offer as consideration?"

"One is the demon stone of fire left by a dead companion. Unlike humans, neither fire foxes nor elves can water up the compatibility of attribute magic, but it should help when you say no. I'll give you that. If you can reward the Empire with one arrow, your dead companions will float."

Demon Stone has multiple uses.

Typical is the use of species with low attribute compatibility, like humans, as catalysts to increase compatibility.

Some use it to unlock all the magic cast on the Stone at once and activate the powerful magic of disposability.

The Demon Stone of Fire, or so powerful that the Firefoxes might have been able to beat the Empire if they had used this effectively.

"The other is the right to mine salt. I've had enough salt to hold. But not in such an apologetic quantity, I will tell you where the rock salt mining sites the Firefox tribe has protected for generations to come, and I will allow mining there."

It is a very attractive suggestion for the village of Elves.

It is a necessity called salt that cannot be obtained in this village. It's great to stabilize that and just get it.

"Finally, it's our lives. If you become a people of this country, you will labor, and you will be on the battlefield. but only on the condition that you can treat us humanely."

Firefox's ability to use fire attribute witchcraft, and what I consider to be the specialty of this village, is that people who can use fire witchcraft are a must, and a ship on the crossing, given the lack of manpower to start new things.

"Fine. If that's all there is to it, accept it."

"Wait, Mayor Cyril!

Because of this, I proclaimed myself Elsier's country, and as always, Loreau calls me village chief.

"What's up? What are you unhappy about?"

"There's no food, there's no place for fifty people to live. We don't like it, letting the Firefox guys in the house, or even sharing less food.

Besides, I don't need demon stones on the terms they put out, and salt is near the villages the Empire attacked down or anything. If you're still going to get salt, you can find it around their villages on your own.

We don't need a workforce because we're enough, and even the last battle was won by an elf. We're the only ones. "

Loreau desperately recruits.

Besides the theoretical part, I guess you don't want to live on the elves alone and be subjected to other races now.

He seems to think a lot because he looks like this and is smart. But you can't take that offer.

"The place to live is on the outskirts of the village. I will temporarily have the Firefoxes live together in my workshop, so I won't bother all the elves"

Large at 30mx30m, and warm because it is brick-made. It's a great place to live if you look at privacy issues.

Besides, if you have a cold suit that was originally made to exchange salt with the Firefoxes, the cold will rise.

I don't have the number of people, but it would be enough if I had one for two or three people.

"Even food doesn't tell everyone to give back what they handed out. I'll handle it."

Already, the distribution of food for the winter is over. If we don't retrieve that, in the meantime, there won't be any grievances from the elves.

"Oh my God, what are you going to do!

"A month's worth of food is fine because we're hunting boars in the mountains now and there's a crop Lucier and I were making together. In the course of that month, I'll buy an extra minute in the commercial city of Ellis."

900 kg of potatoes, plus boar meat, I'll manage to squeeze for a month. If I'm serious, I can't take a lot of boars by the time it snows.

"You're going to spend village money for the Firefox!

"That's right. But Elsier specialties that you'll be able to make at the end of winter. There is fire magic to make it. Ask everyone at Firefox about the job. That way, I'll make dozens of times as much money as I spent, so I can take it from you. Sure, I don't have a job in the winter. But I'll make a job of enriching this village."

Strongly put.

I was going to do it alone, but then I knew how much I could do. But with fifty fire foxes, we can prepare a considerable amount and make it into gold.

"Besides, I was originally going to buy a goat in a commercial city. That's when I bought the food. Let the Firefoxes take care of the goats. We're not the only ones who can make specialties or take care of goats."

Fifty gold coins in hand and if you get the ransom, you'll still have the money to buy food.

"Okay, but why do you want so many firefoxes in the village? This is crazy, Cyril. The mayor is..."

Though reluctantly Loreau nodded, he is unhappy with his voice.

"Sure, I want the Firefox in this village. Loreu, Elves, we beat 500 soldiers in the last battle."

Everyone's eyes creep into my story, which all of a sudden began without swinging forward.

"Even a thousand opponents will win"

I keep my word.

"If you have 2,000 opponents, you can barely win while taking out casualties"

Yes, that's a pretty good prediction if you don't use [circle regression].

"But the moment three thousand men come, they are ravaged without skill to do so. If the Empire is serious, we can muster 10,000 soldiers. Elves alone have no future."

Elves skew their faces in my words.

The first negative word I said.

"But you don't have to fight anywhere with the elves alone. I want you to see something."

That's what I say, standing next to Ku.

And he whimpered in a small voice that only Khu could hear.

"You remember the play we used to do, right? Let's do that. Just do your best to get the fire out of my right hand."

"... Mr. Cyril. Yes, I get it. That's it."

Ku gave me an innocent childhood smile, just a little bit.

Ku closes his eyes and concentrates to call on the surrounding fire mana.

Then Mana came together with great momentum.

The Firefox fire compatibility value is 100 and is the best compatible.

"[Fox Fire]"

At the same time as that word, the firepillar rises from Ku's right hand.

I slowly pointed it in the direction of the road that leads to the Empire. There's no one over there, nothing to burn.

The flame reaches up to 40 m away.

I gently protrude my left hand forward and collect the wind mana.

And it caused the wind to engulf Khu's [fox fire].

"[Sudden wind]"

The air-wrapped flames have more of a burning momentum, reaching an even more windy ride of about 80m.

If this is a battlefield, a fierce flame roars enough to burn away the Imperial soldiers at once.

"This is the power that flames and winds have come together. The weakness of our elves is that they can pack the distance. And the weakness of the Firefox clan is that they have a short range.

If the Elves and Firefox work together, they can disable the enemy's long-range attack with the wind and unilaterally attack with a crossbow from 300 m away, burning it off from 80 m away at once, even if the distance is squeezed. Imperial soldiers are trying to sabotage us with the magic of the wind. We can do anything with the wind of the burning blade. "

When you're done saying that, send Khu a gaze to stop the flames.

The magic between me, the representative of the elves, and Ku, the representative of the Firefox, was worth just roaring everyone on the spot.

"Elves, we're stronger. But we can't do it alone. Besides, when I say emotional things, I don't want to abandon my people who are tormented by the Empire. If we don't reach out here, the Firefoxes will eventually die or the Empire will catch us.

Guys, I want you to think. If we get in real trouble, ask for help around. Who's gonna reach out to those people who abandon the Firefox here?

I will sooner or later give voice to other villages tormented by the Empire and enrich their fighting power.

I want a track record of helping people in trouble.

"All the Firefoxes. I'll accept you. But I hope you don't get me wrong. We don't entertain you as guests. Accept as one of us. I will accept the rules of this country, and I will follow the instructions properly."

I need you to accept that.

The Firefoxes will have customs and rules for the Firefoxes. But I only ask you to follow the rules of this country. I can't keep order if I don't.

"If you can accept it, Ku, the Firefox clan chief, will approve it."

"Okay. That's good for all the elves, okay?

Last check.

We need to keep it in the form of an agreement for everyone, even if it's a force push.

"If the food distributed is not reduced…"

"Well, if the village chief has a place to live,"

"I don't mind if the village chief monitors you closely."

The elves have just said passive yes.

Now, this will be good. But in the future, I want the Firefox to blend properly into this village.

Forced to push it, it causes rebellion, so let's let it live around the workshop outside the village, keep it out of too much contact with the elves, and get used to it one by one.

"Thanks everyone. Then this is the place to break up. Go back to your respective jobs."

When I slap my hands, the elves return to their respective fields.

"So, all the fire foxes. First things first."

Firefoxes stiffen their bodies with that word.

You seem to be on guard about me.

"You're tired on a long journey, and most importantly, you're hungry, aren't you? I'll show you to your house and prepare a warm meal."

That's what I said, I almost smiled.