Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

I managed to reach Erin, the commercial city of the Kingdom of Corinne, in the morning while pinching a break along the way. He was eating cookies like chunks of calories cooking through lard and sugar, which he had cooked as a preserved food while running.

Muscle fatigue and fractures are likely to die from lack of gas if they are not replenished with the calories consumed even if they are deluded by enhanced recovery capacity.

Erin has commodities gathered and traded from all over East, West and North.

Cheap tariffs and a location where people could easily gather, plus the culture of accepting a wide variety of races, had made that possible.

"That's a great queue of carriages."

Lucier, who is held by the princess, gives an exclamation. The city of Erin covers the entire city with an outer wall of about 10 meters in preparation for the outer enemy, so that it cannot enter from any other than the huge gate on all sides, but a carriage queue was formed at that gate. There will be about fifty units lined up.

"Tariff takeover, huh? If it's a big city, check the shipment when you get inside and take the corresponding taxes. That check takes time."

"You take money when you go into the city?

"That's the most convenient thing. It can be a countermeasure not to bring dangerous goods in, or higher taxes so that cheap products come in from the outside and people in the city can't sell what they make anymore"

This kind of mechanism goes hand in hand with every world and every era.

I guess this happens naturally as we optimize.

"Are we going to line up on that one too... that's going to end the day"

The coo on his back raises an unpleasant voice.

Me neither, I don't like that.

"It's okay, people who don't have loads don't have tariff checks, so as long as you have a pass, I'll put it in easily. Look, a pass."

I take my own passport out of my jacket pocket, pointing to people walking by one after the other, showing me a tree passport hanging around my neck.

"Cyril, I had that"

"Back in the day, my dads used to come and buy me out. However, I have to pay a renewal fee because it has expired. I need an update every two years."

If my memory is certain, I will spend quite a bit on five pieces of gold coins (worth 300,000 yen), but today's budget is 300 pieces of gold (18 million yen), so I can pay without any problems.

"Amazing. Bring your stuff in, take your money, even if people just come in, and you don't have to do anything in this city anymore to save more and more money."

"That's right. But I think it's necessary to run a big city because it costs a lot of money. Besides, I don't think you'd envy me because it's hard to run."

In the past, millions of people have been lords of the cities in which they live, but at that time, stress combined circular alopecia with insomnia and anorexia.

At the time I tried to do anything on my own with Superman temper. No, I didn't have the courage to leave it to others. Because of that, the responsibilities and the work kept piling up, more and more, the distortions came out, and at the end of the day, the city and I both broke down. Bitter memories.

"Is that what it is"

"That's what it is. Come on, let's get into the city."

I grate Lucier and Ku gently.

Combining the two and the gold coins would have exceeded 100 kg, making my body lighter all at once.

I picked up a sack of gold from Lucier and walked out.

"Yes, I have a few precautions before I go into the city. As a big premise, I want you to realize that the city is dangerous."

"Okay, Cyril."

"Yes."

A good answer for both of us.

"Never be alone. If you go into the city, you'll leave me and you'll have the two of us look after your clothes, but then you'll definitely act together. Never go anywhere unpopular when you're alone."

"That's good, but how could you do that?

"I told you this city deals in all kinds of products, but people also treat them as products. As for the workforce, healthy and powerful men are preferred, but when they are for fun, young and cute women are preferred"

Lucier and Koo are beautiful girls. And to Lucier, a virgin.

"When you can sing well, dance well, read and write letters, the price increases. In the first place, elves and fire foxes can easily come with high prices."

Elves and fire foxes, beyond a certain age, are less likely to age. Not for a long life, but because of the long period of time spent in a beautiful figure, it is preferred by slaves for love.

Besides, a born child can also be money, and if you get tired of it, you can kill it, take out the demon stone and make one money, so you don't know much about its value. Because of their nature, they could not trust their neighbors, and elves and fire foxes gave up symbiosis with other races and created their own villages.

"So if you're alarmed, be careful because you're attacked from behind, you're fitted with a sorcery-killer collar, and you're caught as you are, and you're sold off"

From my voice, you figured out how serious I was, and Lucier and Kuw stiffened themselves.

"Now let's hide our ears"

Lucier wears an ear and a hat and erases the character of the race. Kuw hid his tail in his skirt.

And the three of us go inside the city. One pass allows up to five people, so I just had to pay six gold coins (worth 360,000 yen) for the renewal fee.

Apparently, the renewal fee has increased slightly.

When you enter the city, there are people overflowing there, and Lucier and Ku are turning their eyes.

"Let's take the inn first, I think we'll be staying today."

When I said that, it sounded cute.

When I look that way, Ku is blushing and holding my stomach.

"Let's have lunch as soon as we get the inn"

"Um, yeah, sorry"

Kuw apologizes with his face turning bright red. Now he's hiding and he can't see, but I'm sure the ears in his hat will be falling petty.

"Me too, I'm hungry, so I guess I'd be glad to have you do that"

"Ku, it's okay. Actually, I'm pretty hungry, too. Let's find an inn soon."

As such, I took the best inn in the city where security was solid and I paid two gold coins (120,000 yen). Pretty expensive for an overnight stay, but I decided there because it would lend me dinner today and a warehouse with breakfast tomorrow and, more importantly, temporary storage of food to buy in bulk.

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After the inn was decided, the merchants were coming to the street where they gathered.

"I can't spend much time on it, so let's buy something at the stall."

In the city of Erin, there were many stalls out, each behaving proudly.

Various ingredients come together from all over the place, making it fun to just watch them in a variety of ways.

"It's just food I've never seen, and I don't even know if it's edible in the first place"

"Me too, maybe a little scared"

The two are conservative for the food for the price, and whatever it is made by someone you trust, they'll butt in on a place like this.

"Can I make the right choice?

"Yeah, I'll take care of it"

Lucier answers and Qu snorts, so let's make a proper look at the food.

I took out my chest pocket purse, bought barley milk porridge first, and had about three skewers of goats.

Milk porridge is one silver coin for three (equivalent to one thousand and two hundred yen), and goat meat skewers are priced conscientiously at eight copper coins (equivalent to three hundred and twenty yen) per skewer.

Unlike wheat, barley eats itself peeled without powder. It is close to rice in size and usage. What they sell in the stalls is the barley is boiled in goat's milk and seasoned with salt.

Goat skewers are a simple dish simply stabbed on a skewer, baked and shaken with salt.

"Cyril had nothing but gold."

He looked at me when I took my wallet off, and Lucier looked surprised.

"Well, my father brought me to the city. It's nothing but harassing people by offering them gold in stalls."

Whatever, a single piece of gold is worth fifty pieces of silver coin. Even if they give me that stuff, I can't get the change out over there.

By the way, this silver coin and copper coin was removed from the pocket of an Imperial soldier who died in the war.

Stripping the dead is fundamental to the war and collecting them in small pieces from hundreds of corpses, so that alone makes for a considerable amount of money.

Originally, both the Empire and the Kingdom of Corinne were divided by one country, so they are user-friendly in the common currency.

I don't intend to spend the money I earned for ransom other than for Elsier, but the money in my wallet I collected, as my whisker, I plan on letting it be used as I please.

"Look, eat while it's hot"

That's what I say, give Ku and Lucier a barley milk porridge and goat skewer in a wooden plate.

"Something, hey, smells bad, but it's delicious"

"It does taste good, but it smells like habit. I can't stand it, but maybe I'm a little bad."

Ku and Lucier put their faces to the unique smell of goat's milk, yet deliciously include wheat porridge in their mouths.

"I need you to get used to that smell. I think we'll be eating the same one for a while."

"What do you mean?

"Barley is cheap and I'm going to buy it in as food for the moment because it will be sunny, and this milk is goat's milk. When you buy a goat and go home, you'll drink it every day."

That's why I chose barley milk porridge and goat skewers. I just wanted you to know what we're getting out of today's buyout.

"Damn, this is what I can eat in Elsier every day. Nice. Smell, maybe, someday you'll get used to it, and it won't taste bad."

"Yes, the meat is a bit stiff, and it smells suzy and weird, but it tastes edible, and I'm looking forward to it"

Kuw and Lucier had a tough opinion of the goats because their tongues were so fat.

In fact, goats don't taste very good, neither does milk or meat. Sheep taste better both ways.

Still, choosing a goat is due to its tough vitality.

I can walk flat even under freezing and stay asleep. And even if you throw it out without feeding the midwinter forest, you don't dig out the roots of the tree on your own, peel off the bark and eat it and starve to death.

If you do the same thing with sheep and cows, you'll be dead in about two days.

A goat that won't die if left alone can be the best partner of the poor. Whatever the taste of the milk, the quantity and nourishment are above those of the sheep.

Besides, goat hair can be made into laborious but good quality yarn before it is made into fabric.

"So you're done for lunch, and you're a clothesman first. They told me about the biggest clothes store in the city for the masses, so let's go there."

We didn't have much time, so we moved quickly.

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The clothes store I reached was bigger than I imagined.

Shops the size of two villagers' houses are lined with clothes. I asked the innkeeper to introduce me to a store that prioritized cost performance and good quality, but I didn't think it would be this far.

"Welcome"

Lovingly, the clerk's face who replied distorted for a moment when he saw us, and he immediately smiled.

Lucier and Kuw look good, but from the clerk's point of view, the outfit is really wild. I don't care where you come from, she's a country girl who came out of the village.

The customers who said that don't drop much money, so they can't help but look sinister.

I first check a couple of clothes to make sure the sewing is sure and the quality of the fabric.

The store clerk looks disgusted by the fact that a customer who does not seem to have money has taken the product, but ignores it.

You can't buy weird clothes.

"All right, nice polite job. I also use good fabric. But the quality is too good..."

The fabric used for the clothes here is too well made, and sending this to the Firefoxes is going to cause some dissatisfaction from the elves. or so, buying clothes for all the elves is financially tough.

After a while of thinking, a good idea came to mind.

"Clerk, do you have a minute?

When I spoke, the clerk came to me reluctantly.

"What is it, sir?"

"Give me thirty pieces of gold (one million and eighty thousand yen). I want those two to see about fifty clothes, so I want you to accept them as the price, so I can just buy them for the extra minute, and can you sell me some clothes fabric? Ask those two what kind of fabric you have."

Thirty gold coins for fifty clothes is too much to pay.

In this day and age, all the clothes are handmade, so the price is 10 pieces of silver coin (12,000 yen) to 20 pieces of silver coin (24,000 yen). Twenty pieces of gold (one million two hundred thousand yen) will suffice.

To make you think the word is not a lie, open a hemp bag with tight gold coins to show.

"Um, if you were fifty, you'd have a pretty good budget, so you'd buy a pretty lot of fabric, wouldn't you?

"I don't mind. Also, let me ask you to make a request for machining, like drilling a hole through the tail. I'm leaving tomorrow, so I want you to do it in a hurry. The rent is also included. If you won't sell it to me, I'll hit another store, but what do we do?

I buy fabrics for the elves. If fabric, not clothes, the amount can be considerably reduced. Unlike the undressed Firefox, we have time to spare, so if we give them the dough as a souvenir, they will sew it themselves for the winter time crush.

"I'll be happy to take it on. There are no such good feathery customers inside. I hope you will continue to do so."

"Of course, he showed me some, but he's polite and does a good job. Now let's come personally. Then I'll let you buy it."

"Yes, in doing so, I suggest you make it custom-made. We are also able to respond to such requests."

"Please do it then. And... I want this to be a different accounting from earlier, but I want those two to look after their clothes and pick the clothes that will most professionally bring out their charm.

It's my personal present, so I ask them to keep it a secret. The budget is up to ten gold coins (600,000 yen). I want it completed tomorrow and delivered to the inn where I'm staying, along with the other fifty clothes. "

When I said that, the clerk smiled raw and warm.

Ten pieces of gold (600,000 yen) is the biggest piece of gold I can take out of my personal purse today.

"Of course, it's possible. When you get the size of me, you'll see. Until tomorrow, it will be semi-order because it is impossible to make a complete order, are you sure?

"So, please."

I finished talking to the clerk, so I gave him forty gold coins on the spot and I went back to the two of them.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, I've been paying you. After that, you just have to choose your clothes. Ku, all the holes you want to put your tail through and your hands on, you instructed the clerk, he promised you he'd do it by tomorrow."

"That's a great service. The clothes, they're nice, aren't they expensive?

"I'm not. Even if it all goes together, I won't spend a fifth of the money I get when I trade hostages."

"Mr. Cyril's face, you don't seem to be lying. Good, you're really cheap. Relieved."

I'm the only secret I know that 2,000 pieces of gold (120 million yen) were also plummeted in yesterday's deal. Everyone in Elsier would predict about two digits down, one digit at a time, if they were bad.

Neither Lucier nor Ku would have dreamed of using forty gold coins (two million four hundred thousand yen) in this store.

"So you can pick it at will. The responsibility is great to please all the fire foxes waiting in Elsier."

"Yes!"

Ku replied gladly. I bet you'd be happy to bring home some good clothes for your fellow Firefox.

"Lucier, I want Lucier to help me with the cu, and then I want you to choose for a souvenir for everyone in the elf because I decided to buy the fabric of the clothes I use here. The fabric, too, pays upfront, but I bought clothes for too much money, so talk to the store people about how much you can buy."

"True! The fabric I use in this store is beautiful, so I thought it would be fun to make all kinds of clothes with this. We all make a lot of things during the winter."

Lucier also gives a pleasant voice imagining making clothes with all the elves.

You can leave this place to the two of us now.

"I'm going to go buy livestock and food. For once, I glanced at this store on my way home, but I don't mind if you go back to the inn first when I finish picking out the whole thing. And..."

I let Ku and Lucier hold ten (12,000 yen) pieces of silver in their hands.

"Cyril, what's this?

"A penny for both of us. This isn't Elsier's money, it's my pocket money, so use it as you please."

"That's bad."

"Fine, because I'm in the city, we both spend money on what we want, and we sell alcohol to this city, and we sell cow meat. If you don't enjoy it, it's a loss."

It will be safe while you walk down the boulevard with a lot of people. If you're not surprised, Lucier and Kuwe are highly combative. I want you to enjoy the city.

My only concern is getting lost, but I can definitely find it.

"You wouldn't take Cyril for saying you'd give it back, would you?

"Exactly, I know Lucier very well"

"Let me take care of this money. Yes, as I like it."

That's what Lucier laughed at as a prank.

Ku also nods with Lucier's eyes when he sees that Lucier's face and realizes something.

I left the store, tilting my neck to see how they were doing.

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Later, on the outskirts of the city, he was coming to a massive goat ranch.

When he asked me to sell the goat, the ranch lord nodded pleasantly and led me to where the goat was.

Exactly, there are thousands of goats in the great ranch that supports Erin, a hundred thousand cities.

"Still, you're different from buying a goat at a time like this."

"I'm here to buy it because this is the time of year"

Usually, goats who are not quite pregnant and have milk are not available for sale or expensive to buy. But in the season just before winter, goat thinning takes place, which makes it easy for me to let go.

We can't secure goat food in winter, so we feed it with stirred food, but there are limits to that. So, the goats you can't feed turn into meat and sell them.

In Elsier, the goat's food problem is solved if we let it go into the woods, but Erin has no woods nearby. And a hundred, maybe two hundred, but if you let a goat of this magnitude go into the woods, you can't do that either, because you eat the roots and the fishing forest dies until the trees die.

"I want one pregnant female goat for one gold coin and two male goats for one gold coin. How about 90 females, 10 males, and 95 gold coins?

"Yeah. Well, if that's the price, that would help."

I offered you less than half the price.

But at this time of year, it would be a pretty good deal for ranchers.

Goat meat is not very tasty, so you should sell it for five pieces of copper coin per 100g, even for meat. One goat costs about 30 kg, and the edible portion costs about 15 kg, so only about 20 pieces of silver coin (24,000 yen). I managed to match the hair and skins to see if it would arrive at thirty pieces of silver coin (36,000 yen).

It takes time to dismantle meat and process fur. Without that hassle, you buy me out for more than that, I'll look like a god.

"Pick the one you really like."

"Sweet for your words"

Having obtained the rancher's permission, I will touch each and every goat and use [analysis] to check their age, health and fleshliness.

Dividing the young and healthy goats, guiding them outside the fence, the fence is doubled, and the goat I bought moved outwards.

"You, do it pro. By the end of the day, I'm choosing between meat and troubled children."

"I'm not a professional, but you can tell if I'm healthy or not."

I proceeded with the work, saying what was appropriate.

"It's the price of the promise. Now this goat is mine."

"Yes, but how are those kids going to carry them?

From me, the rancher who received the price asked me strangely.

"Hey, I have some secret magic. Stay asleep for a little while, as you will have trouble being seen."

At the same time as that word, I shake my brain with a hook to gently blur my jaw.

Make sure the rancher collapses, and then I'll start the magic.

"Liberation, my soul. The trajectory I left behind on the other side of time, here and now."

Long time no see [circle regression]. My soul burns hot.

"What I want is a knight who remained noble in the world of vanity, whose name is…"

Former name. I read you nostalgic names.

"Deet! [circle regression]!

And become the figure of a knight dressed in armor all over his body.

I called Deet to use the [item box], of course.

But the item box has two limitations. One is that it can only accommodate up to 4000 kg, the other is that nothing alive can be put in it.

Of course, the goat is alive, so I can't put it in the [item box].

But there is one way out.

"I'm sorry. [Intra-body current enhancement]"

I pour magic out of my hand that touches the goat and current into the heart of the goat.

"Meye!"

Then the goat fell with his white eyes peeled. My heart is completely stopped.

Accommodate the goat in the [item box].

"If you're in a state of provisional death, you're going in."

Yes, this is the way out of the [item box]. If my heart stops, I can accommodate it without any problems.

And the [item box] stays where it is when you put what you put inside.

If you take it out, apply resuscitation and move the heart, it will still live fine after removal. This method allows for the transport of creatures.

One after the other, I push the goats into a state of provisional death and put them in [item box].

One goat, about 30 kg, so even after putting in a hundred, I managed to leave an extra t of free space.

However, I have to have the capacity to put food and clothes in, so tonight, I have to sneak out of the inn, go back to Elsier once, and let the goats come.

I will disarm [Circle Regression] and return to Cyril from Deet.

"Uncle, wake up"

Loosely wake the rancher who stunned him.

"Oh, what am I doing?

"I was surprised when he suddenly fell."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

With a decent face, the rancher looks around.

"Goat, where was the goat you bought? Only the goats you bought are gone."

"It's okay. My people carried it."

"Oh well, then yes. Thank you for buying a goat today."

"Yeah, welcome. It was a good purchase."

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That's how I break up with the rancher and go back to Erin.

It took longer than I thought, so I decided to buy out the food tomorrow and pick you both up.

First of all, I peeked at the clothes store, but Lucier and Ku had already left the store, so I headed to the inn, and the clerk said thank you for letting me choose the clothes for those cute kids. That's my daughters.

When I walked into the room I was renting, I heard footsteps for two.

It's Lucier and Kuw. You two are safe and at ease.

"Welcome home, Cyril"

"It's late. I've been waiting a long time."

Two upbeat voices. Did something good happen to you?

"Bad, hey, take the time to find a good goat"

"Really? Good luck. Cyril."

Ku gave me words of hard work. I'm a little happy.

"So, Cyril. After I finished picking out my clothes, I went out of town and let Cyril spend the money she gave me."

"That was good. Have you made a good purchase?"

"I don't know"

"Don't know?

"Yes, I don't know"

Lucier and Kuw look at each other and laugh.

"That's right. Because if Cyril doesn't look at it, I don't know if it was a good purchase."

There are so many more questionmarks in my head.

"Cyril, take it and give it to me from both of you"

"The truth is, I tried to buy it separately, but Cyril said this was a good idea for both of us at the same time, but it wasn't enough money for one person at a time, and we decided to buy it together. Besides, I'm sure it's best to show you where we're getting along."

That's what Lucier gives me, a wrapped little box.

When I opened it, there was a clock inside.

A silver pocket watch with chains that are still rare in this day and age.

"Thanks for everything, Cyril"

"I really appreciate it, Cyril."

Two words of gratitude. That smudges my chest.

I was really anxious if they didn't hate me because I wore two strands in grandeur. I've always cared if I hadn't broken the friendship between Lucier and Kuw. But that inner anxiety disappears.

"... I'm glad you bought whatever you wanted"

"We wanted Cyril to be happy. So this is what I bought for us."

"That's right. This would make Cyril a good buy if she wasn't happy, and a bad buy if she wasn't. What do you say?

I got something hot in my chest.

My vision is sumptuous with tears.

"It's the best purchase I've ever made. That, what, I'm so happy. I don't know, you know, we both love it!!

Saying so, they both hugged and dived into bed at the same time.

"Shit, Cyril, all of a sudden"

"Uh, well, that's just, Cyril, too passionate."

The two speak out in protest, but not a serious rejection.

I hugged them and enjoyed their warmth.