Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
Episode XI: Secrecy
I was staying at the village chief's house.
The purpose is surveillance and intelligence.
As a guest, the woman known as Asur stays in her room, while the rest stays in the carriage.
The room where the soldiers were staying assumed to be for more than one person, but there was not enough room because Asur and Jiri wanted a private room.
As for this one, I said that I would have a room besides the village chief's house, but he refuses.
I lay down in my bedroom, closed my eyes, and became aware of the wind. [Perceptual dilation], my specialty in magic. Visual and audio information can be obtained in spaces with air within a radius of 300 m.
Peeping a woman is a violation of manners, but now I want some information.
Asur and Jiji both seem to be relaxing in their own rooms.
"How much authority and information does that lady have?
Normally, I just think Asur's behavior today is that his head screws are falling out in dozens.
Firstly, a unilateral suspension of commercial transactions.
This is good. It is only the domain of Erin's autonomy. However, all those who subsequently made deals with the elves shall be prohibited from engaging in commercial activities in Erin. This is totally overdone and economic sanctions themselves.
Plus, if you don't like it, Elsier went under Erin's protection and demanded that the technology be provided and that I, Elsier's head, be a subordinate. After that, he's bothered to ask me if I intend to attack him by force. It is not strange to be taken as a declaration of war.
If this is arbitrary, Erin's mayor, who is just a city in the Kingdom of Corinne, will have waged war on Elsier on his own, and he could normally be sanctioned by his own country.
Most importantly, if Elsier itself is considered a settlement that does not belong anywhere, it cannot be argued that it is a sphere of autonomy.
"Still, it's not about making it an opponent with enough fighting power. Imperial soldiers, you know you beat 5,000 opponents."
In the first place, don't you spare your life? It is believed that the Elsier side will not return Asur safely. It is also possible to kill them all on this occasion as an option on the Elsier side and say that Asur and the others did not come. Later he dumps his body in the mountains to make it look like the work of bandits and beasts.
This time, it just so happens that I didn't move on to action because I had the prospect of being able to negotiate a positive for Elsier.
There are other means of brainwashing. But that is only accompanied by certain guiding principles, magic that gives pleasure and pain, and is ineffective for those who can act separately from their emotions and actions.
The people of Bel Elsier and Iraqsa naturally accepted that sorcery because of their original benevolence and fondness for me, but it is possible that anyone who doesn't will notice abnormally.
"Humph, that was good hot water"
He looked at himself in his room. Seems pleasant to wipe your body with a bucket and cloth with plenty of hot water brought to you by Khu. Now I'm dressed in a relaxed sleeping roll prepared by Elsier.
Her eyes were all over her outfit, but she's a beautiful woman inside. He is in his late twenties and has a tight body, although not as big as his chest. The brown hair was stretched around the scapula with creased hair.
"Cyril, Elsier's head, was cute. I want such a brother. Yeah, but I don't. Whatever you look like, you don't have that personality. I don't want to be involved with each other in Prybait."
You seem to have a terrible impression of me for a long time.
"You want to meditate on your personality and be called your sister with that face. But you were just a lot of young kids around that kid. Just about half a dozen kids. Could it be Loricon? Mm-hmm, but he's the same age, and that's nature? You might not be able to tell that kid to understand the charm of an adult like me. No, I can do it. 'Cause even I'm still young, and, oh, the mirror!
I noticed the mirror provided in the room.
That's a prototype of what I made for Lucier and Ku. The workshop was also cramped, so I kept it in a room where no one was using it.
Most of those things are carried out by Yukino during cleaning, but they seem to have been mistaken for the original prep and left there.
"Wow, that's amazing. The smooth glass version with the irregularities totally zero is covered with thin silver with a completely uniform thickness. How can I make one of these? I can't even imagine how to make it. Well, just report it and let the lady think about it. than that."
The burning surface hit the front of the mirror.
"Because of this, I have a mirror and I have to try everything."
And most importantly, I took my hair stopper out of my luggage.
"Silyl-kun is a Lolicon, so I have to take that route, too"
Start putting your hair together with a hair stopper. The hair you can do is called twin tail. Twin tails in the late twenties. That was too painful.
"I already thought this hair was tough, but I can go! Hey, Frederica, you're too cute. Totally young, I don't feel uncomfortable getting inside Cyril's wife!
Desperately suppress the desire to stay in the penetration.
"Even my hair is totally glossy and I can't beat those kids... no, you can't compare it to that one, can you? If the race is different in the first place than the age, and the skin tension! Well, a woman doesn't look like she's in there, Nah... Mi!
Then I want to tell you not to try to make it young. I agree with the emphasis placed on the contents. Personally, I think the appearance and content ratio is about four to six.
After deciding to pose several times by himself for a while, Jiji suddenly quieted down, loosened his twin tails and became familiar.
I heard a knock on the door of the room.
"Lady, I've been waiting for you."
And suddenly he makes a serious voice. It's a lie like the previous shake.
You must have sensed the lady was coming. It's a tremendous ability to detect signs.
"Sorry to bother you."
Asur's expression is hard. You look pretty nervous.
"Shit, is everything okay here?
"Probably. I tested for soundproofing, but you don't leak your voice unless you sound so loud. There's no tricks to make a bug, and there's no sign of people nearby. If you get closer later, I'll know for sure if you get closer within a 5m radius."
"Well, then you can talk in peace."
Asur's words were surprising now.
Asur made his own decision and didn't think he would talk to them.
"Hey, what's that today? Sure, I told you to keep your guard down, but it's too much. On the contrary, it's suspicious."
"Ma'am, I'm sorry. No, in my case, if you distract me, I try to be as usual because I soften things up, and that's what happened. Now I'm reflecting."
"Starting tomorrow, keep your mind a little tight. And about that knife, what's that supposed to mean? Anyway, that's all I'm really mad about."
"There's a reason. The lady kept the knife at the blacksmith's association, but there's only one thing I can look into."
With that said, Jiji takes a handful of knives I've made out of his baggage.
"What the pros don't know and you know...... could it be a magic tangle?
"Your answer. This knife showed signs of the use of extremely advanced fire and earth magic. Smells like quality fire and soil mana"
I almost raised my voice unexpectedly. The presumption of witchcraft used from the substance you created? I can't do that either. I can guess the process by looking at the finish, but I can't pick up the remnants of the magic like I said.
"I know fire is because there are fire foxes, but dirt? Elves don't like earthly magic, and the Firefox are either human or less appropriate at best, right?
"Yeah, that's why I thought people who were good at dirt magic were in the collaborators, right? But neither the grass we're unleashing on Bel Elsier, nor the double espionage of the Empire, were on the ground today, and the investigation hasn't picked up any closer signs of soil magic."
"Then it's not weird, I can't believe there's something like this"
"I didn't think it was possible either. So I thought my nose was dull and I've been silent. Trying to keep your mouth shut until you get solid evidence."
"So you found out what we just talked about."
"Affirmative. We found a workshop on the outskirts of this village with extremely frequent and massive indications of soil magic being used."
Probably talking about the workshop I built.
Sure, I hear you couldn't get inside the workshop from Klao, who let you guide the village, but you headed there.
"It's massively frequent. In that situation, can you pick up the remnants of the Magic Odd eaten by Mana?
"Even I couldn't do it with one of these knives, but with all that stuff, I can grab the rest"
"Then if you follow the smell of that odor, you'll find an Elf collaborator."
Even though traces of attribute witchcraft are unusual, they trace the smell of odds used to call water for mana when using attribute witchcraft? Who the hell are you? Such a race, there is no such thing as even in my knowledge.
"Actually, I've already found it."
"There you go, nigga. Mr. Cyril isn't really producing iron, and if that collaborator is making it, we can negotiate more easily. Rather, that fact is the weapon that pokes Mr. Cyril!
"Unfortunately, ma'am, that seems difficult"
"Why not?
"Without a doubt, it was Cyril's in-body magic, Odd, that soil mana ate. Even fire, wind and water, Mr. Cyril uses massive and powerful sorcery of all earths, fire, wind and water attributes, right? The soil has no nome, the fire has no fox, and the wind and water have an elf-compatible. I doubted myself at first, too, no doubt about it."
"It can't be! Magic of all attributes, it's not such an elf to be able to use something extremely powerful too!
"Probably, that guy, it's not an elf. Something like an elf. Think of me, the brave, and the golden devil, their kind."
That's pretty close to my nature. I'm definitely a normal elf myself, but [circle regression] calls me all sorts of things.
"Whatever it is, then why was it ruled by the Empire in the first place? If you have the strength to fight like a jerk, start earlier!
"I don't know that. I'm just advising the lady. Don't leave me more than 2m if you don't want to die. I'm not sure I can protect you any further away."
I said pale as a casual thing without changing my tone.
"Hey, dude, can Mr. Cyril kill me?
"That's a difficult question. First of all, emotionally, he's someone who can kill him. It's my most hated race, by the way."
"Shut up and stop whispering."
"Normal people treat murder as special, don't they? You hate unconditionally, you like to kill people the other way around, you grind with the last resort, you get drunk on yourself making other decisions to kill, but you seem to need someone like Mr. Cyril, then it feels light to do it, doesn't it?
I think the lady can suddenly point the blade if the balance of damage tilts. "
"That's a lot to elaborate on."
"It's rare, but it's the type you see for it, isn't it? And extreme secrecy. I asked my men about Cyril today. And then I didn't get any information."
"Don't you just have a hard mouth?
"No, I'm not. I have no idea how you're hiding it, and I don't know it in the first place. Who are you talking to about Mr. Cyril? Even the girl who says she's your daughter-in-law or sister.
Doesn't anybody believe that guy? Getting here is creepy. I like your face, so it's good for the long run, but it's bad for my sisters' education, and I don't want to be near you. "
All the words pierce my chest. I haven't told anyone about the [circle regression], the knowledge of my previous life, the point where Elsier is heading, the important thing.
I'm sure Lucier and Kuwe will accept it if we talk. But I didn't like it. Being accepted as heterogeneous by speaking.
"I will refer to that information. But I came here today to see for sure that Mr. Cyril actually made the Elsier. We need his skill. Even in the cold, there are glass houses where crops grow, well suction pumps, incredible performance carriages, and all sorts of wonderful things. It's all a wonderful invention to enrich this village."
"That's why I'm being more vigilant."
"I don't think I can complain."
"Technology and invention aren't things that pop up all of a sudden. We have to build on existing technologies. If it's true, there must be countless developing products, failures, and all that stuff in front of the finished product. But I don't have that. All that has been refined in finished form since the beginning is overflowing this Elsier. This can't happen."
"But Elsier is actually doing it."
"I'm sure Mr. Cyril didn't invent anything. I'm just making something I know. But I don't know where that knowledge came from. Elves shouldn't have interacted with other races in over a decade. One day, an elf boy named Cyril was murdered and replaced with someone who was knowledgeable."
My vigilance against the scratches is getting stronger and stronger. What the fuck is this? That dumb woman has put so much on my nature.
"Shit, I know enough to be suspicious. Still, I want him. If it's poison or anything to make Erin stronger, I'll use it. Not to let your stupid brothers take away the Erin you raised because of. That's why I'm here at risk."
"Ma'am, that's a good amount of equipment. But keep it in mind. The lady will not be killed if she comes to Elsier because I am here. They think you can win in case of war because I'm here. That is why I think we have negotiated today's vigour. But that's a mistake."
"No way, but you say you can't win?
"I have ten times more magic in my possession, thirty times more instantaneous emancipation, you can't think normally and lose. But still, I feel like there's something. It's possible to get away with the lady, but we can't promise to fight and win."
That's where Asur breathes. I see you trusted him in battle.
With all the conversations we've had, we should at least have something comparable to the brave ones.
"I carved that word in my chest."
"So, what do you do? Will you put up with just iron?
"I'm gonna stick there a little bit more. Tariffs, at the very least, change in the five-year cycle, around which is the limit of compromise. But you might want to give up welcoming Mr. Cyril."
It's a reasonable decision. In the case of maple syrup, there is no guarantee that this will not be the case in the future, even if it is not in line with existing commerce. If we start making iron out of Erin, we can also think of a situation in which better performing iron is imported in large quantities from Elsier.
"I suggest you pluck it to the point that it won't be a war. I was wondering if you could compromise for me because I probably don't want a fight over there either. Fortunately, Erin has a lot of things Elsier would love, and more to offer should do something about."
"Today's twitch is rare. I like the spinning of your head."
"Well, you'll be desperate too. Whatever a normal war is, it's a relief to fight someone who might be able to kill me. Until the Elsier side, in some circumstances, to avoid a killing with Mr. Cyril."
"That sounds like you in front of your employer."
"I don't think so. If that's the case, it's when you put your daughter out of your mind, and if you do, I'll make sure she doesn't die."
"Well, then I wouldn't kill the orphanage kid you run to show off if you betrayed him."
"Just a hostage declaration!? My pretty sister was shielded!?
"You sold the fight earlier, didn't you?
What you're saying is terrible, but your voice is laughing. Neither of them seem serious.
"Ma'am, it's terrible. I was just kidding."
"Hey, how did you get to me? I can't believe you're holding an orphan."
"No, well, it was just a thought, wasn't it? Beat and take what you ever wanted, because killing everyone with a blade was a rotten life.
Then nobody was around, and when I picked up an orphan in my mind to distract me from loneliness, I said that this was just bad for my education, but I couldn't live any other way, and that's why I had it for the lady if I thought I was going to hit her and get paid for the job. That's all. "
"For that reason"
"Don't you usually hear me say that before you hire me?
"At that time, I had to jump for whatever reason. My life is in the wind."
"Thanks a lot to me and lose my pay cut"
"That's not what I'm talking about. I'll send you to the orphanage for a toy or treat."
"Nooo, those kids learn luxury oooooo"
"Sometimes you're wasting it. And tomorrow, give me a little temper. Depending on your attitude tomorrow, I'll shorten your pay cuts."
"Copy that. Boss."
Then we had a chat for a while before Asur left the room.
Then he rang a loud sound and squealed his hand.
"Yes, Mr. Cyril, you've been listening to me, haven't you? For once, don't worry, the lady is not going to sue you for force. Or I'll stop, too.
So don't go out on too direct a means. If that's what you're going to do to my lady, you can go after her, too, except Mr. Cyril. You don't want your precious daughter-in-law or sister to be sad, do you? So let's go peacefully with each other. "
So, you noticed this one?
"Ha-ha-ha, I thought you weren't ripped off? The smell of Mr. Cyril has been mixed with the wind mana since just now. You were wondering how my tail got noticed in Erin. And then there was nothing but magic, so I've been watching Mana ever since I walked into this room."
And yet you said you showed off that twin tail!?
"That's right. Give me a break, too, because the purity of a maiden is pinch when she sees her sleeping face. Have a good night. You can peek at the lady."
I open up the wind mana around me.
Asur is on surveillance. Worst case scenario, the two of us could be secretly consulted after the surveillance comes off.
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The following day, as planned, the trade took place.
Luggage for two carriages can be spread all at once in the widest square of Elsier.
I have decided in advance what to buy, and I pay in advance for all the products.
All you have to do is pick up your bags in the order you made known yesterday.
All of the work was off, and almost all of the adult elves and fire foxes were gathered in a glimpse.
The budget would be quite luxurious as it would be one gold coin per person (60,000 yen).
Whatever the eyeballs are, a beautiful cloth that cannot be made in Elsier or a high degree of distilled liquor. Besides, it would be all kinds of seasonings and beef. Other accessories made with urban taste are popular.
I buy a lot of herbs. Oh, that's helpful because I didn't care about the time or sage inventory.
"Well, this is Erin's power. None of this can be made in Elsier."
When the delivery of the product began and the enthusiasm grew good, Asur said so with a tight chest.
"Right. It was the most appreciated event for less entertaining Elsier. Thank you."
I think so from the bottom of my heart. The best part of this time was that I chose it myself. I really could only buy what I needed as a buyout, but this time I'm getting what I like about each one.
"Well, I hope you don't forget that."
"I have trouble even if they think I have unilaterally sold my thanks. Instead, we sell maple syrup, and I don't know how to make ice cream that I taught you, I think if you go back and start doing business, it'll be gold soon, right?
"Damn, you don't lose your mouth. That's why I wanted it."
"Did you come to a conclusion?
"Yeah, I'm out. We leave tomorrow. Shall we begin the final negotiations before we do so?"
That's what Asur said with his possessed face falling off.