Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
Lesson XIII: Threats
Late at night, I was out of the inn alone and running down the night lane.
It's dark and my vision is close to zero, but I don't have a problem with the wind feeling the terrain.
I left the inn in the middle of the night to secure the capacity of the [item box].
Today, there are 100 goats housed in the item box, each weighing 30 kg slightly, with a total weight exceeding 3000 kg. I only have about 1000kg left.
Tomorrow, I need to go back to Elsier and leave the goats alone because I don't have the capacity to store the food and clothes I'm buying.
"That's the commercial city of Erin, nevertheless. You've got all the good stuff."
Dinner was wonderful today. Bread full of butter on beef stew made with tomato-based demiglass sauce. And I even followed him to a fresh salad with bacon and eggs.
Again, cows are good. Meat, as well as milk, is better than goats. I'd also like to grow it in Elsier, but that one is too cost effective. Not half the amount of bait you need in a day, and grains that just feed your cattle cannot be secured in Elsier. Moreover, it is quite handy because it is vulnerable to stress and cold and is also susceptible to illness. Very, we won't be able to do it.
The bread is also more delicious than that which is baked in Elsier thanks to the careful and good quality of wheat grain removal and the use of butter and eggs.
Fresh salads are also the first luxury not to be eaten in Elsier.
The best thing about this dinner, with the dishes, was that it came with seedles (alcohol made from apples). Both the elves and the fire fox were exuberant for the three of us because they are a breed who likes alcohol on a genetic level.
A little more and you'll be able to make booze out of Elsier. That would enrich your daily life.
"I need to refill my personal purse. I don't really care, but I guess I'll even sell it with a knife. Looks like iron processing can only be done by the Empire, and it's going to sell at a high price."
This time, all non-inn food and entertainment expenses are put out of my wallet.
I can't say it's official business, but I try not to get it out of Elsier's purse thoroughly due to emotional issues. That kind of thing gets deeper and deeper when you allow yourself a little.
I tried to tell you, I don't want to sell iron weapons. Without the hassle of developing and making Elsier specialties, if I could use the iron I have at hand as a weapon and mass produce it, and sell it off in the commercial city of Erin, I would have the money for decades for everyone in Elsier to play and live.
But if you do that, at the end of the day, Elsier falls back into a fragile existence where everything ends when I die.
With that in mind, running led me to the woods near Elsier.
This is a place that we don't usually use to hunt elves with tight slopes.
"Well, the fence works."
The trees around me are strewn with barbed wire. Covering a radius of 100 m makes the forest look like a giant cage with ease.
To some extent, intelligent creatures make it easy to get in, but simple creatures like goats, sea lions, and boars cannot escape from the inside or get in from the outside.
In advance, I'm hunting animals that hurt the goats that were inside the barbed wire, so I can safely release the goats.
And there are two big brick huts built inside that I surround, and I go into one of them.
"[Roundabout Regression], Deet. [Item Box]"
Get inside the cabin, quickly [circle regression] to Deet, and by using the [item box], remove the goat from one end of the pseudo-mortem state.
As soon as that work is done, we return from Deet to Cyril.
Anyway, we have to get back to the commercial city of Erin right away. It's hard later if you don't spend less time being Deet and less recoil.
And then he pours an electrical signal into his heart, forcing him to resuscitate.
"Mae."
"Meyeye"
One goat after another rises, bewildered and rattles and storms. But you can't get away from the cabin with the door closed.
When you're done waking up the goat, enter the cabin next door.
There were caede leaves in there that were heavenly sun-dried in large quantities to keep them from rotting.
I had Elsier women and children gathering leaves in parallel with cranberries, not only to make fat, but also to secure goat food.
Indeed, if the goats leave them in the mountains, they rarely starve to death, as they dig through the roots of the trees or peel off the bark, even after winter has run out of what they eat.
However, it is possible that the tree will be damaged and withered. We have some food in hand to keep us from doing so.
"I need to get back to the cabin. I need to get the habit."
I plunge the dried kaede leaves into the bait box prepared for the goat's cabin. Then the goats began to eat munchkins and caede leaves.
The goat, oh, I think I can see. Remember where the food is.
If you remember that this cabin is warm and suitable for sleeping, and yet the food is readily available, it becomes easy to come back even if you let it go outside.
"Tomorrow, because it's Firefox's job. I need to teach you right."
First of all, the milking of the goats who are inside the cabin first thing in the morning, when it's over, kicking the goats out and exercising outside, letting them eat, while cleaning the cabin and exchanging food and water. Then transfer the fungus to fattening, and in the evening collect the goats scattered outside in the cabin to close the door and avoid running away.
In addition, the goat's milk is heated and sterilized or bottled and distributed to each household. Processing excess milk into cheese and butter, aiding in goat delivery, seeding, strangling goats with poor milk production, mowing and collecting hair, and work is diverse.
"He seems motivated, and he'll be fine."
For today, I did some food and water refills, closed the door, and I walked away. Now the Firefox can be part of Elsier, from Neat.
Right now, the impression is faint because at best we only let them take mountain vegetables and mushrooms and make lard, sauces, and lard and sauces are not available in sufficient numbers to distribute to elf households.
But if we let them deliver goat's milk to the Elf family every day, the Elves will acknowledge their hard work as well.
That's how I got back to Erin after Elsier.
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"Morning, Cyril"
Rubbing my eyes, Lucier greets me as I woke up first and was in good hands.
"Morning, Lucier. Did you sleep well yesterday?
"Yeah, the bed was dandruff and I slept well. It's amazing. In the city, beds are totally different."
With that said, Lucier dived into bed, sinking into a soft bed, though because of her little one.
The still sleeping coo rose in its shock and opened his eyes in the air.
"Munya, hiss!? What is it!?
And then the girl sits down and looks around with Kyoro Kyoro.
"Oh, Ku, I'm sorry"
"Eh, ah, yes.... Oh, today, yes, come to Erin... good morning. Cyril, Lucier."
Sleeping so low that he even forgot he had come to Erin, Kuw rushes to fix it up and puts on his usual little sister's face.
"Ku, I don't mind you bluffing, but you're ruined by your sleeping habits."
"What, lie? Oh, really. Ha, embarrassing."
Kuw strokes his tail hair and desperately tries to put his hair to sleep.
"That way first."
"Anything?"
"No, it's nothing"
I'm convinced that's what I am, Ku, okay! I said and waited to take care of my tail until I was satisfied.
"Then get dressed, both of you. When I had breakfast, I bought out food. I have to finish my order in the morning because there is a lot of it and have it transported to this inn after lunch. I think I'll get yesterday's clothes by then, so I'll be back in Elsier when I get it."
"Yeah, okay, Cyril"
"Then let's get dressed and go downstairs right away.... Cyril, I'd like to change."
"Oh, get dressed quickly."
Both Lucier and Ku are thin cute pyjamas loaned to them by the innkeepers. Only the two gold coins (120,000 yen) inn is well serviced, and the clothes I left last night were washed and folded.
"What's the matter, Ku, aren't you going to change?
Lucier gets flat naked and dresses pale into his own clothes.
My brothers and sisters grow up together, so now I can't resist being seen dressed.
I'll get dressed the same way.
"Um, aren't you a little lit up or ashamed?
"You're just gonna change, aren't you?
"'Cause, Cyrillic"
Kuw started to get confused because me and Lucier take such a flat attitude.
"That's right. It's just a change of clothes."
And even though Ku is ashamed, he starts changing his clothes, so he can be in his sight.
Without focusing, the point is to put it at the edge of your vision. If you stare too much, it gives you vigilance, and most of all, you hate it.
So when I saw me on the surface, nothing changed, I felt safe and began to change.
Yeah, eye blessing. Morning time went by, burning Lucier and Kuw's skin to his eyes.
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"Wow, that's so lively."
"My eyes are turning"
The three of us, we go to the market. In doing so, I am overwhelmed by so much enthusiasm and the number of people that I cannot compare to yesterday.
We walk slowly picking sandwiches.
I didn't have time to take my breakfast slowly, so I asked the innkeeper to make it a sandwich.
The egg sandwich with mustard and tomato puree is excellent. I already want to settle here.
Early morning markets are more for shopping and other purchases than for individuals. People are overflowing trying to buy them in bulk for a little cheaper. I can't lose, either.
"From earlier on, I'm taking notes with great momentum, but what's Cyril writing?
"I'm making a price list for this city."
"Is that to check the price per store and buy it a little cheaper?
"There's that, too. Rather than checking which stores are cheaper, I wonder if they value the average of what products are sold at what price"
Lucier and Kuw had their necks tilted in my reply.
I guess you can't imagine how my work will be involved in today's buyout.
"I'm on the buying side today, but the next time I come, I want to join on the selling side. So you need to know what kind of stuff you can sell and at what price to decide what to sell. I'd have a lot of trouble making it, but I'd have no choice but to have something that only sells at a cheaper price, wouldn't I? We have to get something to sell high."
That is the great principle of commerce. Without knowing the trends in the market, what awaits us if we start doing business is ruin. Most importantly, it would be quite dangerous to judge just the market for one day today, but it would be a reference.
"It's nice to bring something expensive, but you can't sell something expensive, can you?
"It depends on the stuff, but I want everyone, but there's something higher that's not numbered enough. So it's easy to sell because a lot of people want it the more expensive it comes with"
It's a rambling argument, but it hasn't come off.
"Look, look at that. That's the best example."
As I pointed out, there was a very wide merchant with a leather bag in his hands and his voice up.
"The eyeball of the day. Oh, my God, that's the sugar that came across the ocean! One bag, just one gold coin, no matter where you look, no one's going to sell it any cheaper. Come on, I bought it. I bought it!
"Give me three bags!
"This is five bags!
Even though it's priced like a joke, it sells sugar to fly.
It would be nice to have 500g in a bag at most. It's probably mixed, too, and it's watering up the amount.
"So if we can buy sugar too, we can make that kind of lame money. You can't have sugar, but it's important that you know what you can sell at a high price. On the contrary, knowing something you can buy cheap leads to the idea that you'll be buying it soon, even after you get back to Elsier."
I even run notes while I say so. Store the displayed items from one end and write down the average amount when the number of data reaches five.
Consider if there is anything that sells as expensive as sugar and yet is easy to prepare in Elsier.
So far, there's only one thing that applies, but I want to do it as widely as possible.
"Ah, Mr. Cyril, would you look at the salt or something? It's sold for 1 kg, a piece of silver coin (one thousand two hundred yen). You can buy the same amount of wheat in that store because the wheat is 1 kg silver coin"
He calls out as the coo shakes his tail patterned.
I'm saying with my eyes that praise and praise is a little distressing.
Indeed, the availability of salt was made easier in Elsier. But it's not going to be business.
"Ku, salt, right? Sure, it's valuable around Elsier, but it's not much worth it in Erin, a commercial city where supplies come from all kinds of cities. I've heard that you can take it in many places, and there's definitely a place near Erin that you can take it."
"But I'm wearing a silver coin."
"Tariffs are so high. Salt definitely sells, and it's easy to take as much as you can just dig a little where there's rock salt. So every country, aristocrat, and big merchant monopolizes the right to mine rock salt, selling it high and making it a financial resource. Salt coming in from the outside will be taxed so high that it can only be sold for the same price as that higher salt"
"Ugh, it's sloppy"
"You know, we need to do business knowing things are bad. But, Ku. Thanks for all your thoughts."
That's what I said and stroked his head, Kuw narrows his eyes and tangles his own arm in my arm. Plus, my tail snaps out of my skirt and rubs it around my ass. I've noticed lately that Ku seems to have a habit of rubbing his tail unconsciously when he's happy.
The fox on the animal, by the way, has a smell bag under his tail, claiming his territory or smelling a man he likes, claiming ownership and keeping other females away from him.... I'm sure that habit has nothing to do with Khu's behavior.
"Ku, he's tailing out. Hide it."
"Hiccup, ooh, sorry"
Kuw rushed his tail into his skirt and hid it.
Because of this, he hides his fox ears and hides that he's a fire fox, but when he has a fine tail out, it's ruined. Fortunately, there are no signs of obsessive attention to my shopping around.
"If tariffs are a problem, then Cyril's magic will deceive you."
"Sort of. Lucier's right, my magic would mislead the tariffs."
It is only when you enter the city that customs duties are collected. What is housed in the [item box] cannot be broken. It is possible to bring in salt and sell it high without being taxed high.
"But if I sell a lot of salt, I really think I'm gonna catch you in the eye for tax evasion, and I don't want to be so sloppy in business"
"Sorry, Cyril. I didn't think enough."
"I have nothing to apologize for. As I said earlier, I'm glad Lucier and Ku think about it. Thanks, Lucier."
And now I stroke Lucier's head. Lucier's been snuggling up on my opposite arm too. Bolder than usual. Perhaps Lucier is jealous of Khu and has a sense of confrontation.
Hands in hand with beautiful girls with both arms. I'm sure there won't be such a happy man.
Thanks to you, I can no longer write notes, but if I memorize them all and wake them up later, it's enough. Now let's enjoy this time.
One thing, look from corner to corner of the market without buying. Consider what you buy while turning back the way you came.
"First, you want 2 t of barley. With this, potatoes, and friendly wheat, it's enough for the Firefoxes to go through the winter, and for village stockpiles, 1 t for an extra buy of wheat. Is this an iron plate too? From the market point of view, barley is 3 kg and two silver coins (two thousand and four hundred yen), so twenty-three gold coins (one hundred and three hundred and eighty thousand yen) and wheat is one kg silver coin (one thousand and two hundred yen), so seventeen gold coins (one hundred and two hundred yen). You can afford forty pieces even if you add them together."
Three hundred gold coins in total (18 million yen) I brought this time.
Six in the pass, three in the inn, thirty in the clothes store (forty if you put my pocket money in it), ninety-four at the ranch, and I've used one hundred and thirty-three.
I only use one hundred and seventy-three pieces of gold (one hundred and thirty-eight thousand yen) even if I add up cereals, so I can buy one hundred and twenty-seven more pieces (seven hundred and sixty-two thousand yen).
I can afford it heavily, take 100 kg of the clothes frame and use 900 kg freely.
"Lucier, Qu. You want vinegar, right?
"Right. I might be glad to have one."
"I want it too. I miss the table."
I want seasonings, vinegar is easy to buy here. 20 copper coins (800 yen) in a bottle containing one kilo. Four gold coins (240,000 yen). Eat about 360 kg capacity, even heavily, in bins.
"Vinegar is definite, don't worry, you want to buy herbs. Sage, rosemary, even thyme. With all this, you can enjoy all kinds of aromas and flavors."
"You mean the grass that Cyril was so excited about? Does that make you hungry?
"No, is fragrance the lord?
"Then, no, I can't afford to be so luxurious, it was so expensive, and I can't increase it because it's a dried leaf."
"Ugh, that's hard when they say it"
Certainly herbs don't accumulate in my stomach. It's totally my hobby. I can't afford to put that on Elsier right now, and I can't use that one well except for me, so I could eat total skan from all Elsiers. In that regard, vinegar can be used by everyone, well nourished, and sterilizable.
Keep it personal with pocket money you have no choice.
"If it's something that builds up in your stomach, let's go home for food, buy onions and carrots. Because it saves well. Or buy turnip seeds to grow in Elsier. If turnips sprinkle seeds now, they can grow in winter and harvest in spring."
I really want to grow tomatoes. Just having that makes food variations abundant all at once.
But it's very difficult to grow tomatoes, buying seedlings makes it all dry. I swear on my chest to come buy a ton of them when the harvest season comes.
Once the turnip has germinated, it is rather more difficult to wither away. I can say it's a beginner's vegetable alongside potatoes.
It seems easy to get because of the season of seed planting now or because there is a line of seeds in the store.
"Yeah, I think that's fine. If I had clothing fabrics and vinegar souvenirs, all the elves would be happy."
"So are all the Firefoxes. Thank you so much for those, good clothes. When I get home, I'll turn it into milk porridge and treat everyone."
They both smiled at the delightful faces of their companions they had left behind in Elsier.
You could have said more, selfishly, a few more demands of your own.
It's not weird how old I am to have that normal teenage look, like buying that one or this one.
"Let's hurry up and order around"
I went around ordering what I decided to buy, guessing what I might want from their perspective, and bought it and went back to the inn.
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I went back to the inn and received everything I ordered when the sunset began to set.
The garment store also brings me Kwe's designated tailoring overnight, as well as semi bespoke clothes that I had the two of them make in confidence.
He also brought me the change of money I was paying in advance, but the two clothes were so cute that I would give them as chips.
I'll give you these clothes when I get back. They'll both be happy because they're the cutest.
I used [item box] in the partial opening of [circle regression] to accommodate all my luggage, after the commercial city of Ern.
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Just like when I came, I would princess Lucier and walk with Ku on my back.
I ran 40 km and the cu on my back suddenly gets restless.
"Ku, you're freaking out. That's what I did when I came, but what do you got?
Kuw trembles picklessly at my inquiry.
"Nothing, sir."
"Ku, lie is fine. Ku's anxious trick, I ignored it because I didn't have time to come, but now I can afford to ask too"
I really should have pointed it out when it came, but I dared ignore it because I was in a hurry. But I want to get rid of Ku's anxiety whenever possible.
"... that's not a big deal. There's a village near here where my brothers fled. There's a small village of different races living together."
I see, that would certainly bother you.
"Ku wants to make sure your brothers are safe."
"Yeah, that's right. But it's good because it's going to be a long way around"
I can't see Ku's face, but the experience I've had has made me imagine the smile I couldn't make.
If you put something like that in your head, you can't pretend not to look at it anymore.
"Ku, show me around. For once, I want to say hello. When it comes to war with the Empire, being on edge may help. I'd like to buy something else if I have a specialty. I decided I needed to show my face as Elsier's head."
"Are you sure?
"Sure. So point me in the direction you're going"
"Thank you, Cyril. This way, sir."
Guided by Qu, it goes from the main street into the woods more and more.
And as I went through the trees, I went out into an open space, and a settlement was formed.
"This is the village where my brothers were going to flee. I've known each other for a long time. And since Erin is close, my father and my brother decided that if I had the money I was accumulating in the village, I wouldn't be in trouble because I could buy food."
While listening to Khu explain, grate Khu and Lucier and observe around.
It's crazy, it's too quiet.
No sign of people. There is something.
Use [perceptual dilation] just in case, then...
"What is this?"
From here it is a dead end, but there was the body of a firefox woman who had her heart knocked out. And it's a new body. Not a day has passed. Extending the scope of [Perceptual Extension] shows that the number of corpses is one, not two.
Who the hell did this? If it's the work of the Empire, women should be caught without killing.
Thinking......, I sense an imminent being at a terrible rate.
Speed that even outweighs me when I use wind magic.
"Ha!"
Something looming from behind is wielding a great sword.
I know it's meant to be unintentional, but I see it.
I can't afford it. Re-acceleration after wielding the sword is too fast to dodge, no matter how you scratch. I just have to take it.
"Chip!"
I take a knife with my backhand diagonally and slide my opponent's slash.
Totally, I let the other guy's power flow. No more. Ideal take. The sword of the misguided opponent slams and roars on the ground, piercing deep into the ground.
Yet a cockroach sounded and my arm broke.
Even if it was perfectly flushed, it would take a few percent of the impact.
Incredibly, my opponent's slaughter snapped my arm with a few percent of it.
But I don't care about that, he showed a gap.
Target defenseless side heads with a high kick. A planting knife pops out of his boot. After exercising [physical strengthening], a blow with a perfect weight on it.
The kick hit me. The opponent's body shakes slightly. But the knife splashes without piercing the enemy, and a blunt pain runs down his ankle.
[Body Hardening] Sorcery? There is no response from Mana. Purely internal magic "Odd" -only walls.
I doubt my eyes. The in-vivo magic "Odd" has extremely weak ability to directly interfere with physics. With all my strength, you can't prevent the current kick and break the knife.
To be able to do that, I need at least thirty-two times my maximum magic release. No, there's only one kind of creature.
"Well, I almost killed him and he's still alive. Fight back to business."
The swordsman, the girl looked at me with an invincible grin, gently pulling out the sword that pierced the ground.
She was a luxurious girl. The height is not as high as 150cm. I am flushing my semi-long brunette unconstructively. I'm not wearing any armor, and even if they say village girl there, I'm going to believe the outfit.
On his neck, he was wrapped in a muffler that looked warm. I recognize you somewhere. Beautiful golden and blocky...
"Brother, it's your brother's tail. Oh, no, it's a lie. No!
With a quivering fingertip, the girl's wrapped muffler...... pointed to her brother's tail and screamed.