Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
Episode X: A compromise
Dinner was over and I was enjoying my tea after dinner.
I was relieved that I didn't have to buy the misfortune at dinner.
"You surprised me. I had no idea you could eat anything like this in the middle of nowhere."
"Exactly, ma'am. It's about as good as the mansion's food. It is too painful to eat. I should have stopped the bread in two."
For dinner seats, Elsier to me, Lucier and Kuw. There is a woman out of Erin called Asur.
Other Erin members have declined this occasion, and the Elsier side is pathetic, but Yukino hasn't called.
I really suspect something called manners for the outside world compared to Lucier, who is clinging to me as an elf witch, and Ku, who was raised as the daughter of the head of the Firefox.
I have lunch for today's treat for Yukino and handed it to him, so he should enjoy it later.
"I'm glad you like it, too. It was worth the effort."
"Did Mr. Cyril make this dish?
"Yeah, I put more on my arm."
Today's menu features plenty of goat butter and yeast, soft-baked bread, sautéed boned goat meat with potato potage, and turnip salad.
The goat used a male child goat born this year. Goats have a strong taste of habit as they grow and the smell becomes stiff, but the meat near emulsion is very soft and tastes good on top of no odor.
If it's true, even if the flavor drops, it grows a little bit bigger and then eats it, but I quickly prepared it to entertain the customer. I am thoroughly committed to baking and sauce to make the best use of meat.
"Mr. Cyril, you're clever enough."
"Yeah, Cyril is amazing. My proud husband."
Lucier is delighted with the compliments of the blue-haired lady Asur as if she were about herself.
When I heard the word sir, the mouth of Ghanna Asur moved perfectly.
"We also have desserts for you after dinner, so be sure to go ahead."
I took out a large metal cylinder. It is filled with ice and salt water and contains a small metal cylinder a turn.
When I opened the small barrel in it, a white mass snapped on the outside of the barrel. Yes, this is ice cream.
Easy to make, goat's milk in a metal cylinder, and Elsier syrup and egg yolk in a raw cream made from milk. All you have to do is roll even thirty minutes in a large cylinder with salt and the ice you asked Yukino to make.
Then it freezes as it takes in a lot of air, resulting in a soft mouthfeel ice cream.
I didn't even see the ice cream, Erin, so it should surprise me.
"You've never seen it. I wonder what this is?
"It's a cold, sweet treat called ice cream. Eat with a spoon."
That's what I'm going to say. I'm going to split the contents of the cylinder and distribute them on a plate.
Asur stabbed the spoon into the white ice cream roughly the way he said it would. He seemed interested in the feeling of softening and sinking, and immediately puts it in his mouth.
"This is amazing. It's cold, it's sweet, it melts in my mouth. I've never seen anything like it."
"It's my favorite treat too. Lucier and Ku, look, don't hesitate."
The two people who were paying more attention to me and Asur finally started to get their hands on the ice cream prepared in front of them after hearing my words.
"Cyril, this is amazing. Maybe I like it."
"It's going to be a limp and a habit. You could have made it sooner."
"It's a treat that needs an egg yolk, so I've never been able to get my hands on it."
It's only recently that the chickens are available.
With eggs, the culinary repertoire increases a lot.
I just don't feel comfortable using it because now I give priority to hatching hiyoko and increasing the number of chickens rather than eating eggs. It's a situation where it's hard to behave without a place like this.
"Actually, this is the simplest ice cream and there are other variations. One is sweet, sour and refreshing ice cream with cranberry juice. The other is adult ice cream with Elsier wine that leaves alcohol bitter. Talk to me about your hunger and eat."
Cranberries were easier to make, but the alcohol content is ingenious. Even if you mix in alcohol if you make it normally, the alcohol doesn't freeze because the ice point is much lower than the water. For this reason, it takes time to stiffen and mix with gelatin taken from the bones of the sea lion.
"Of course, I'll take it all! In a lot of both of them!
It was a woman in a man's clothes who put her hands first on my words and embarked on her.
"Don't embarrass me too much."
"No, well, this is a guy called Poison Watch. Like it's okay for the lady to eat any of them! All clear."
"Well, can't you imagine how rude it would be to look at the poison before they were here?
"Ha, no, that, I don't know, that happens. Don't worry about it!
For some reason, a woman in men's clothes smiles at me and thumbs up.
"You didn't get your hands on turnip salad in the first place, did you?"
"I really don't like turnips, they didn't work from childhood."
"Well, I was eating normally, but was I willing to see it poisoned?
"Hahaha, I believed in all of you elves, so he said he would never serve poison"
In many ways, it was too bad.
I don't know where to go from digging too many graves anymore.
Asur smiled gently, and slowly opened his mouth.
"Well, that's six months' pay cut."
"Oh, no."
And then the jitter collapses. Eat ice cream nagging as you collapse and weep, sighing happily.
"It makes me see something ugly about my jitters. Sorry, sir."
"No, never mind"
Each other's bitter laughter intersects.
"Elf village...... excuse me, is all the villagers eating something so delicious in Elsier every day?
Asur has a grin on his mouth but a serious light began to dwell in his eyes.
"Today's is for entertaining guests. I can't give you all this every day, about a few festivals a year."
"Yeah, that's good."
Is that good? There are not so many patterns in which Elsier's standard of living is low and pleasing.
"Speaking of which, here's the story."
I decide to be able to explore while pretending to chat.
"A long time ago, there was a poor village. The village has always defended its ancestral antiques. Something of great historical value, visited by many from the big city next door to try to buy it out, but the villagers kept saying no no no matter how much money or wonderful they were offered. Tell me you can't sell what your ancestors left you."
I'm talking about the village I once stopped by.
"One day a merchant from the big town next door arrived. The merchant didn't touch anything about the antiques, he just started spreading the same, soft bread, booze, cute, comfortable clothes."
At first the villagers rejoiced. Because the hard and poor life that has gone before has turned and enriched. About once a week merchant visits continued for two months.
"And when they gain credit, all of a sudden the merchants start demanding the consideration of the goods, instead of the precious antiques that are in the village. If you had made such a demand from day one, the villagers would have poked at you with pride.
But the villagers, who had remembered the luxury, couldn't bear to go back to their old lives. I want white bread, I want beautiful clothes, I want good liquor. After the village representative said no, the villagers snuck into the village barn and stole the village's antiques and sold them out. "
I can put up with it because I don't know what entertainment is. I can't stand it if I remember the taste and get used to it.
"After that, it's a predetermined pattern. After selling all the antiques, the villagers ran out of what they would pay for the consideration and, nevertheless, after seeking what the merchants would bring, they sold off the land they had always inherited in a bundle of three sentences and became dwarfs who followed the humans of the wealthy city that the merchants had brought.
The young man left the village as he was floated by fever or began selling himself under slave-like conditions. That's how the village was effectively ruled without ever having to resort to force. "
"Mr. Cyril is an expert. Interesting story."
Exactly, why don't you show me your panicked face in such public discourse?
Most of all, the look on the face of the woman in the men's clothes next door is amazing. I think I can even hear my heart.
"Hawa, ma'am, come on. Spread out."
I really don't know why you keep a kid like this next door.
Are you expecting me to be an escort? He did tail me. His arm was brilliant. Probably wouldn't have noticed the tail if it wasn't for me.
"This story is a lesson to leaders, and we must not underestimate culture. We have to know that it will be invaded in culture. And not only do we have to gather troops and food reserves to prepare for the foreign enemy, but we have to raise the bottom of the people's lives."
"I agree with you about that. Culture is what Erin developed. If you come to Erin, people come together because there's everything. Those gathered bring a great culture, and that new culture calls for further people. That virtuous cycle is what drives Erin's development."
"That's an enviable story"
People gather where people are. When the villages around you sell things, you naturally have to buy something to take back to the village. Given that, I have to consider Erin, who has a large market size, as my first option.
I'm actually spending all the money I've got on Erin myself. Erin will continue to develop.
"I have nothing to envy. Even Elsier will be put under Erin's protection at your discretion. As I said at lunch, I'll put out a proper man for the fort's defense, and I'll make sure Elsier runs it under my responsibility.
Make sure the pedestrians come too on a regular basis. I wouldn't do anything as nasty as you put it. You won't be able to do it, and I'll sell it at the right price. You can buy maple syrup and Elsier wine if you have something else that appeals to you. We'll buy what we want for it. We'll make each other happy. "
Thank you very much.
As a future Elsier specialty, I plan to make a large amount of paper inexpensively from excess narcotic leaves and stems after I make drugs. Hemp is a suitable ingredient for paper the more it has been used for fine Japanese paper since ancient times, and Elsier can be enriched even more with Erin. I also want to make other lightweight plastics from hemp.
Still...
"I said I would respond before you left, but I would like to respond on this occasion. Elsier is not going to go under Erin's asylum."
I decided to decline Erin's offer.
"Is that what you're saying when you know you won't be able to do business with Erin in any way in the future?"
"Yeah, then I'll do something about it"
If you don't mind the food issue, you decide to turn the potatoes and turnips you grew in Elsier to Belle Elsier.
Potatoes harvested during the winter when they were forced to grow faster by having their glasshouses warmed by fire foxes in tests were more surplus food than they were originally. I wanted to process this into preserved food as food from the time of the cage castle when I made a solid exterior wall and stockpile it, but give up.
Plan to increase food production in the time you earn that way. It will also be necessary to crush some of the fields of Bel Elsier, which have now begun to grow hemp, into potato fields.
In addition to the plan to increase the production of food, we are also considering attempts to make third parties pay to buy surrogates in Erin, as well as purchasing from the Empire after following the legend of those who are in Bel Elsier and giving money to villagers near the Empire.
"Surprise."
"Didn't you think I'd say no?
"No, I thought if I refused, I'd let you use force."
"No way, you're free to choose who you want to sell. We're not barbaric enough to beat you up for saying you don't want to sell to Elsier"
If it seemed to attack Elsier, there could have been that route.
But I'm just saying Erin won't sell it. Attacking for that reason is no different than an invader. Only Elsier's position is to stand up to an abusive empire.
Because of its pre-construction, there are refugees gathered in Bel Elsier and such. If you attack Erin here, you'll be the same invader as the Empire.
To add further, it's very difficult to attack from here, regardless of defense. Erin is a hundred thousand cities. Very large. I can't see the end of the battle. You can slaughter people in the city, or you can kill Erin's top. But that doesn't necessarily mean you surrender.
Elsier will end if the Empire attacks you while you are muddy. Dealing with both Empire and Erin is a nightmare in itself.
"Aren't you going to reconsider? You guys seem to be winding up gold coins from the Empire, but it wouldn't be like spending money on anything other than Erin's opponents, would it? Everything you've ever earned will be wasted."
What you are saying is correct, the villages around Elsier are dominated by barter and the currency is not functioning properly.
Right now, Elsier has a ton of gold coins, but that makes him just like a beautiful stone. If we go near the empire, money passes by the assumption that it can be used in the empire, but that's also difficult.
"If I borrow your word, 'now' it will. Me, Belle Elsier. You know they're gathering refugees on the site of the Empire's supply base, right? I'm going to make it look like Erin there. Collect specialties from villages everywhere to make them the center of commerce. By the time that happens, money will be worth it again."
Many villages were originally made to grow a single crop intensively from village to village under imperial policy, or intensively make what they said was alcohol or vinegar. It is not impossible if we go around each and every one of those villages and negotiate.
"That's a long story."
I'll show you that in five years.
"I'm sorry to hear that. You could have done a lot more with power and money under me."
"We don't need money or power. I can always get something like that if I want to. We can't lose anything more important than that."
Elsier is my dream. I'm not kidding leaving that to others. And here are Lucier and Ku.
"We still have time. Let me know if you change your mind."
"At that time, please. And one more thing. I'm not going to be protected, and I'm not going to be your subordinate myself. But it's not silly to convey the knowledge of iron."
Asur opened his eyes to my words.
"I can't mentor you locally, but you can do as much as wake up the iron making method and the workshop drawings. If you look at the Imperial armor, you can more or less see their iron making laws. I promise to have something more efficient than that."
Teaching countries that may be hostile to iron making is quite dangerous. Still, if there's a point where we can compromise, this is the only place.
"I gave you that condition because I felt it was worth a lot, but I can't give you that much if it's just the iron way to make it. What do you ask for in consideration?
"If Elsier were to do business in Erin, I would like to see the abolition of permanent tariffs and an embassy that could also be treated as a shop."
Asur put a tannic side to my words.
"Lady, isn't that a good story! In just one house, more steelmaking technology than empire comes in. I know what kind of tariffs the elves pay, and let's snort. It's useless to just go home mean to the elves like this! How many days do you think you spent all night cleaning up your job to leave Erin for a week!
"This is a very dangerous story. Especially if it's not weird what you make, Elsie. You're retarded, so I'm glad you shut up."
"Harder than usual!?
And Asur slowly opened his mouth after a while of long thought.
"Give me some time. Now let me think about it. Can I just ask you one thing? You think you're gonna have to cry and fall asleep if I ask you how to make iron and then rebel?
"The merchants who lie in contracts are third-rate. And you said. He said he needed to be the best merchant in Erin to be the head of Erin. … I don't believe Erin's best merchant can be a third-rate."
"Damn, I haven't had such a fun meal in a long time. My stomach's swollen, and I was wondering if you could show me to my room?
"Yeah, we'll get you some cloth and hot water later."
"That would be nice. Let's go."
"What, already!? Yes, ma'am."
Ma'am, and I left the room with a man clothed woman with a headache because she hurriedly threw all two types of ice cream into her mouth.
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I'll show you two around and then I'll go outside. I wanted to get some air outside because I used my head more than usual.
Then I saw Yukino's back with a bag with lunch in his hand.
She told Asur and the woman in men's clothes to bring her lunch home once she had finished cleaning the room she had rented, but I'm sure she worked hard to clean it up until the end of the day.
I tried to speak up, but the yellow fire fox Chemin and the black fire fox Krone, who were circling the house in the collection of empty milk bottles, rushed towards Yukino, so I hid in reflexion.
"Yukino, I'm so glad you're feeling better"
"I've been worried sick lately."
They were right, Yukino was Belle Elsier, depressed by what Voldek told them to do. I guess you still notice that when you're my best friend.
"I'm sorry we both bothered you. Yukino's fine now."
Yukino proudly unleashes words towards the two of us somehow.
Looks like I can't help but say something.
"Yukino, could something have happened with Brother Cyril?
When Krone said so, Yukino's ears moved tingly.
"That reaction, maybe, really maybe, but you and Brother Cyril fumble?
Chemin asks in the way he said roughly.
Yukino then turned his face slightly red and slowly shook his neck vertically.
"Today, I screwed Brother Cyril"
"" Ha, ha, ha ""
Klone and Chemin jump around with a yellow voice.
When I saw that, Yukino's face became even more red. Whoops? I've been wondering what that means, but you might find out here.
Yukino, you're an adult.
"That's silver, not like us."
"Both of you, exaggerate"
"I'm not exaggerating at all. Oh, I'm so jealous."
"Have you done it yet?
"Hello, not yet."
"" Ha, ha, ha ""
Despite what I said yet, the two of them make a scene.
Excitement culminated just now. Now this is good? The mystery against the Firefox deepens.
"Klone, we have to find someone good soon."
"Brother Cyril would be nice, too."
"Brother Cyril, I think it's time for the limit. Sister Ku's son-in-law in the first place."
"Clo, I don't want to die. Yukino, you're amazing. Let's do a special attack."
The moment Krone said that, Yukino sweated cold. Calm down, I'm starting to get scared, too. If I took a wrong step, I could have crossed the line.
"I'm sure it's all right, Yukino just got fuzzy, fuzzy from Yukino. Yukino just became Brother Cyril's, and Yukino didn't get Brother Cyril. So I don't think Sister Ku would be mad either. I'm sure Ku is full of Sister Cyril."
As soon as he was relieved to say so, Yukino realized the disparity with Ku and was depressed in his own words. I got the feeling I liked Yukino, but I also told him I was watching him as my sister. I guess I remembered that.
"Yukino, it's cancer. Oh, you said that. At first, I say it's just a man, but he's a sad creature who gets to the end when he gets his hands on it a little. Brother Cyril will want to finish when he gets there."
"... that's what Klone's mother was like. But Yukino's cute, so she'll be fine."
Yukino nodded as he bit off the two words.
"Even if that day doesn't come, Yukino's feelings won't change. But still, I hope that one day you'll come.... but Brother Cyril is a loving wife and doesn't seem to increase her daughter-in-law any more"
Krone walks over here and pounds Yukino's shoulder.
"Don't worry about it. Oh, you said that. Really solid people never cheat. Brother Cyril accepted Sister Ku. People who cheat once do the same thing over and over again for a reason.
Especially smart people are easy to cheat on because they have good excuses for themselves. Brother Cyril is the type of person who cheats a lot. I know very well because I look like you. "
Of all my sister foxes, I had my heart choked by Krone's too awful words, which I thought were the most innocent.
What I don't like is because there's a part of me that's convinced of the word.
"... Klone, you can't say that in front of Brother Cyril or in front of Sister Ku."
"I won't tell you. Clo, I'm choosing the right place when I do or say dangerous things."
"Klone is a surprisingly black belly."
"Because Chro is a black fire fox"
That's how the three little fire foxes were sweeping around Yukino.
"Whoops, how was it when you did?
"Nothing mundane, just a little rambling, it hurt, but the pain was warm"
When Yukino says so in embarrassment, Krone and Chemin nod face-to-face.
"Krone, I'll reproduce it."
"It's a rager."
Then he walked up to the wall of the house, which was near him, and Krone turned his back on the wall.
"Yukino, my sweet little fox, I want everything about you"
"Shit, Brother Cyril, such an embarrassment, but Brother Cyril has Sister Ku"
And then Chemin starts covering himself with cronettes, and he beats the wall more and more with his right hand.
"It has nothing to do with Qu. Let me hear your honest feelings about Yukino. You want me to, don't you?
"Ha, yes, I want you to yukino"
"Look, tell me what you want me to do"
"Whoa, whoa."
"You don't know that. He's gone now, isn't he?
"FUCK YOU!! Brother Cyril."
"Good boy. Oh, I'm gonna tickle you."
That's how Chemin strokes Klone's tail and then crawls into the void.
Perhaps that's a gesture holding his tail. Playing doesn't grip my tail.
Finally figured it out. For a fire fox, gripping his tail is a dull thing.
"Cha Yukino, you're bold."
"I've become a tail goo too"
Chemin and Krone made fun of me. Yukino's face was bright red like this boiled.
"I won't let you. Brother Cyril gave me a treat. I won't treat you. I'll eat them all by myself."
And hold and dash the lunchbox I gave you.
"Yukino, I'm sorry. Cyril, I want to eat your cooking clo too."
"I'm sorry. I made a little too much fun of you."
Two people go after Yukino like that at all costs.
I saw it and reflected.
If Yukino gives it this way every time, they split it it between us.
Let's make sure we have a proper threesome next time.
"Damn, those kids"
I just felt a little lighter.
Two more days, a battle without weapons over Elsier's future. Let's focus on that.