Free Life ~Record of the Struggle of a Different World General Merchant~

"Kaoru-chan, it looks like Takahiro's in trouble."? Uri, what are you going to do?

On day (d), when Takahiro was entrusted with the care of Bright Orphanage in the lower district, your mother mentioned something strange as she followed me.

"You're in trouble... what?

I know it's tough to take care of a child, but it also comes with Yummy the Firm One. Plus, Kuru, who lives in an orphanage, should be helping. Unless there's more to it than that, it shouldn't be a problem...?

"That's right, Mother, you just met Takahiro in the morning market with a big bag. Surprise already! Bright, it's an orphanage, and there are nineteen children!

"What!?

There you are!? I've only seen Kuru, so even if he's around 10 people... 19 people isn't the size of a big family!

"Takahiro, too, kind of relaxed... I was wondering if someone could help me."

"Takahiro..."

It's usual to be carefree, but when you take care of nineteen children, you must be really tired. I know exactly where I was at Grandpa's because I was taking care of my uncle's children. I don't think Takahiro and Yumi can handle it alone.

"Wow, me, I'm gonna have a look!

"Ha, ha, there you go."

I jumped out of the house, unable to stay or stand, leaving my grinning mother as she was.

(I'm sure you've done the right thing with the rice. I wonder if she does laundry. I even have to clean it...)

Honestly, I can't wait to see Takahiro taking care of as many as nineteen children as she can't help herself. I know it's okay because there's Yummy the Firm One, but even that kid is still a little kid. You won't be able to take care of yourself.

(I wonder why I would take such a request ~...)

This is all the big work. It would have been something Takahiro, the store owner, received straight away, not the employee Yumi. Yumi is the type of person who performs exactly the job she receives. You must have been unable to refuse the job Takahiro brought you. At times like this, you can honestly rely on me...

(Eh, as soon as you turn here, right?)

Bright Orphanage was apparently quite famous in the lower neighborhood and could be reached quickly just by listening to the street uncles and walking. If you take off the boulevard and turn the more inside the streets of the residential neighborhood you're in, the orphanage is right there, he said.

Nevertheless, I had the image that the lower districts were more garbage than the intermediate districts, but that's not true at all. Even now, my little fat uncle is cleaning up the dob. Because of the proximity of the fishing port, the smell of Iso and fish is a little stronger, but I am also a person in the lower town. I don't care that much.

(You're not as bad as I thought)

It's been less than a year since I've been in this city, so I didn't know much about it, but when I say junior district, it's not like the slums I listen to. I was wondering if Kuru and the others would be okay living there, but I wouldn't worry about this.

The children who live here run away laughing. My aunts are chatting and wandering. I hear a regular whistle from nowhere, pip, pip. I'm sure they're taking the fish that arrived at the harbor somewhere. This vibe, me, you like it.

I was kind of in a hurry. My mind calms down. Yes, a place like this would all be helping each other live. I'm sure Takahiro and the others will be fine.

That's what I thought, I turned the bend that led me to the orphanage. Then, in my eyes, the soothing orphanage landscape......

Pi, pi, pi, pi.

"... Kevin, your hands are stopping."

"Yes......" (rattling)

Pi, pi, pi, pi.

"... Nina, be more polite"

"Ha, ha!" "(Biku!

Pi, pi, pi, pi.

"... Tau, you're in trouble. Can I help you?

"So, it's okay!" (Bumboo)

Pi, pi, pi, pi. Pi, pi, pi, pi. Pi, pi, pi, pi......

"Oh, that?

The front yard of the orphanage, which stretched out in front of him, was lined with dried stalls suspended of fish and squid. In the back, the meat also seems to be dried. The sight of children lining up something dry with undisturbed movement can be described as spectacular.

So, but something, like the fish with the children's eyes dead...?

"... Hello, Mr. Caorle"

"Hih!? Oh, oh, hello, Yummy."

When did you come to the side...... Yummy, who lowered the whistle from her neck, stood with the same faceless expression.

"Uh, Yummy, what are you doing with this?

"... Yes, it's winter work preservation food making. In the Bright Orphanage, they say all children above 10 are set to work on this task."

"Really..."

I was wondering if it was a forced labor site... an orphanage with as many as nineteen people. It's not so wrong to buy meat and fish within cheap and let them dry in the winter. When Grandpa was at home, I helped make dried fruit, too. But...

"Aren't you going to have a little more fun making preserved food?

Saving food at home, not work, is supposed to be something you make as you chat... right? This isn't a factory or anything, is it? Yummy says this to me, who can't say confidently enough about the sight in front of me.

"... I guess that's ideal. But unfortunately I have become the mentor because the work will not go on for long. As a result, work efficiency has increased up to fourfold. Now I don't have a problem with preserved food for the time being. I think the kids would be satisfied because if we did it quickly, we could also have fun playing in the time we could have free...... right?

"" "Yes, Mr. Yumiel!

"… and that's why"

"Oh, uh, yeah...... no, you can't!?

I'm about to be flushed by strange persuasion, but I should deny it here. It's not about asking little kids for efficiency. I have to watch you grow in the long run.

"... no, is it? What the hell...?

Yummy looks innocent... no, she always has the same look! Still, it doesn't seem like you're dealing with a child in bad faith. I'm sure you're doing it really well.

"Fine, Yummy. Something that's just kids. I think it would be more motivating for these kids to do it while we're having a good chat? I think that would be a long way to go if you forced me to, but then I can't. You're gonna be a kid who doesn't like helping."

"... oh my God"

"Sure, I think it's necessary to keep a bishy eye out for you everywhere, but I'm gonna get tired of that all the time. Right?

Children shaking their heads vertically with bumps. Look at that, Yummy slightly opens her eyes.

"... yes, was it? Then I wish you'd told me sooner."

Oh, the children's faces are catching... "I couldn't tell you because I was scared! The words seem to convey." Yumi, it's tough when you work...

"Come on, guys, let's have a chat, huh? But the help is to get it done right! Okay?"

"" "Ha-ha!

And children who travel to places of thought with the way the curse was broken. Yeah, I'm trying to help you while you talk. This will be fine.

"... Thank you for letting me know, Mr. Caorle. I'm so oblivious to common sense."

"Yeah, I can't help it."

I was a slave, so I won't say the word. It's something you don't have to tell me if you try it in person, and now Yumi is Takahiro's family. You just have to take your time to remember that you don't have enough common sense.

I'll gently stroke this little girl's head so that it doesn't have to be verbal.

"... what is it?

"Yeah, anything. Yes, Takahiro, where are you now?

"... is that your husband? Then you'll be taking care of the little ones in the living room upstairs. Come in through the front door and poke."

"Oh, thank you."

For the last time, why don't you go to the front door? Hit the ground floor, all right! I'm sure Takahiro is well placed to take care of the little one. Let's go and help you. Because it feels unreliable somewhere, Takahiro.

"Please don't...!"

"Ha ha! My face!"

"Ouma, get it right!

"Wow!"

"Jellyfish, you're so big, don't take it personally!"

"Gordie and I are just the same."

"Wow!"

"Help me...!

Oh, yeah.

It was more chaotic than I imagined.

A total of nine (+ Goldie) things. Takahiro, wrapped around the little ones, is rolling on the wooden floor. It's a situation where the wolves lick their faces around and the limbs and torso can't move as the children cling or snuggling around.

"Ah, Caorle, help me!

Takahiro turns his gaze on me, keeping his back. He looks pitiful without help. Damn, already......

"Yes, yes, you guys, it's a little awkward."

Each and every one of them lifts and removes the little ones clinging to Takahiro. Except for Kuru, we meet for the first time. Decent, looking up at me unfamiliar.

"Heh, thanks for the help..."

Eventually, Takahiro wakes up with Mukuri. I messed up my bumpy hair even more, and it's all over my face. Who cares?

"What are you doing?"

I can't watch you, I'll stroke your shiny hair and wipe your face with a handkerchief. Takahiro tries to escape, "Fine, that's about it," but he's in front of the children. I don't think you should look too sloppy.

"Yes, I'm done."

Well, I fixed it up to a point where it wasn't ugly. Yeah, is this okay... hmm? An ear girl like a fox pulls the hem of her clothes. I wonder what it is?

"Hey, sister, what's up with your brother?

"Become!?

"Yo," that "daughter-in-law"!? You mean Takahiro!?

"Chi, no!

"Eh, 'cause we're good friends, right?

"Taka, I've been looking out for you!"

"Wow!? Wow!"

Nasty and noisy children. The more I deny it, the funnier it makes fun of me. Takahiro says, "Oh, no, you guys," too, but nobody's listening.

Cute, children who keep their mouths shut about thoughtful thoughts. This noise lasted a long time until they got tired of it.

Ahhh, I'm kind of in a weird hurry...... Phew.

"So, you gave him a proper breakfast?

From here on out, it's the beginning of what it was meant to be. Do you take good care of him... I'm worried. We have to make sure.

"Oh, Yummy and the kids, they were making grain polidges. Oh, I made dinner yesterday! You sure about that? Huh?"

"What?"

I put it on my lap, from where a seven-year-old boy (who says he's named Theo) is nodding happily, I guess it's true.

"So, what about the laundry?

"I just did."

"What about cleaning?

"Yummy and the others are done"

"Mmmm..."

Oh, my God, you look like you're doing a good job out there. If this means I'm here... I kind of clapped it out.

"Ha, well, you're ready for lunch too, aren't you?

If you're doing this exactly, naturally, you're doing it. Let's go home now......

"Noon...? Yabe, is this the time already!?

"Hmm?"

At noon, I heard Takahiro's face gradually turns blue...... is that it? Could it be?

"The kids are bitching me and I'm not ready at all... Ya, yay, yummy will kill me...! Help me, Caorle!

Taka Hiro lays flat with Theo aside. Oh, I knew this guy was missing somewhere. You don't rely on me in a place like this... Yeah, I can't help it. I came originally with that intention, and I'll help you!

"Yes, yes, I'm just going to make dinner."

"Oh, that? Are you really going to help me? What about the store?"

"Mother said, [Cole] just now, help Takahiro today..."

"Seriously! Whoa! I love you Mr. Kate -!!

"Huh, I'm the one who can help you..."

"Oh, and thanks for the caorle!

Nah or a proper thank you...... well, usual. Come on, cook, cook!

Move the place, this is the orphanage kitchen. To cover a large number of meals, or bigger than the kitchen at the Mampu Pavilion. This is going to be good food and worth it.

"So? What are you going to make? You've done your shopping, haven't you?

"Oh, I bought some shellfish and fish at the market, but I haven't even thought about it yet."

Looking inside the "cold box", the seafood is certainly packed narrowly... but I'm not sure what I bought it all for. I wonder what kind of dish you were going to cook with mackerel, anchovies and scallops.

It was true that your mother said, "Housewives generally think about what they make and then shop, but men waste a lot because they shop in the mood they are then". Yeah, I knew I couldn't leave it to you.

"Decided! Takahiro boils the water, and gives it a taste of vegetables! Fish and shellfish are mine!

"Ooh, roger. I'll take care of it."

Well, the cook's daughter's skill, I'll show you!

"Yummy!"

"Wow..."

"No, Kul, you have to eat vegetables too"

"Exchange!

"Yeah, every scallop."

"And bread...?

"There's plenty of bread."

Wow, I knew, if there were nineteen of us, it would be a tough time having lunch. What I just made was "grilled scallops in soy sauce butter" and "boiled carrots and snap peas in salt", along with soup and rye bread made with fish alla.

Luckily it seems to be well received, but flipping a plate or turning it over to soup is a doozy thing I don't have time to eat.

The kids are fine stuff, they run around outside after dinner and take a nap when they think they're back exhausted. I even jumped in crying that I was "injured" when I was taking the dried goods and laundry inside the orphanage and having dinner.

At night I had a sumptuous, roasted lamb and pinched in bread with onions, lettuce and tomatoes, but even here, I ran around to take care of kids who couldn't eat well or try to sneak through vegetables.

And when I'm full of stomach and take a breath, now I'm taking a bath. The boys leave it to Takahiro to bathe the girl with Yumi. It's such an embedded tub filled with about ten people, including me and Yummy, that they have little ones.

A metal sphere of about 20 cm in diameter surrounded by wooden frames, a magic item with [warm] - "Tequione" (which is said to be the developer's immediate name) - seems to work well, at just the right temperature that children don't hate.

If it warms up better, fluff the children trying to ladder anywhere and let them wash their bodies and hair with soap. The kids shrugged again by the fact that Kuru started washing them, and they were all covered in bubbles, but, well, the result is auray......

And it would be eight o'clock at night if I was wiping the bodies of the bathing children with a towel and feeding them milk. Oh, it wasn't long...!

Then it's time to go home.

That's what I say, I start getting ready to go home. I left the store at night. When I get home now, I'll be able to help with the cleanup and tomorrow's planting. As I thought about it and packed my bags quickly, the children followed me.

"Eh, no! Stay more!"

"Kum, kum"

"Oh, but..."

Trouble...... what shall I do? It's easy to pull away the kids hugging them to their stomachs on their backs, but they really tickle their protective appetite.

"Hey, stay."

"That's right, that's right ~"

"Yeah... yeah, right... Takahiro, what do we do?

Ask Takahiro for a help ship. Then he brought his hands together with the bread and lowered his head.

"Sorry, Caorle! Just for tonight, take care of these guys, watch them with me. I didn't get much sleep yesterday... it was tough with Yumi and Ni."

"Really..."

Sure, I think it would be a struggle to do anything if this was all we had. Even if you fall asleep, there shouldn't be any kids who wake up in the bathroom. I guess I couldn't sleep much with that escort.... Okay, I can't help it! Let me help you to the end!

"Yeah, okay. Well, I'm staying tonight, too."

"Oh, thanks!

"" "Yay!" "

Hehe, when you're so happy, you don't even feel full. Plus, the elderly group, who were "mentored" in conservative food making, worked hard to see Yummy flicker and say, "Stay more! I'm asking you... Yummy, the more" instruction "you have...

That's how I ended up staying at Bright Orphanage. Things are going well, and now I'm in a big room for little kids, sleeping with Takahiro and Yumi.

"Hey, more pampering?

"Uh-huh, I have to go to bed now."

"I want to hear more ~"

About half the kids are already asleep, but the kids I like to talk to get more cancer. But it's almost ten o'clock at night. Kids have to go to bed now. Shall I threaten you a little here?

"If you don't get some sleep soon, the haunts will come."

Uh-huh, I don't have a twist... Look, even the kids are laughing.

"My grandmother said it's okay to be a grandmother because she's watching me."

"Mostly, there's no haunting!

No, you can't. My story. Then you can't scare the kids either. I was scared of the monstrous talk I heard about Grandpa when I was little... even though I remember just hearing that scared me and trying so hard to sleep in a futon. Yeah, let's talk about that.

"That's what I'm here for. I'm going to take a child who won't sleep forever."

"Ugh, uhm?

"Yes, Uvume. In the haunt of a skinny brunette. You take a bad boy."

Did you get a little scared of the unfamiliar sounds, children grabbing futons and leaning against each other? Especially you, Bardo, who was urging me to talk earlier, didn't bluish his face and make it faint. Did I surprise you a little too much?

"Hey, sister... Uvume is a brunette...?

"Huh? Uh, yeah, yeah."

Is it that much of a concern? In the same tone as if to confirm, I'm asking you, Mr. Bardo.

"Is that like that guy...?

"Huh? Who are you talking about?

That? That's not about me, is it? Bardo, you're pointing behind my right.

Hmm? You only have windows over there...? I look back casually. Yeah, it's a curtained window, after all. There's just a gap in the curtain. Fix it.

That's what I thought, approaching the window...... I noticed.

He's here.

There's something outside the window.

That's a brunette woman. Pathologically, he drips loosely wavy hair on his white skin, clasps his hands on the glass, and asks inside the room. Gyro Gyro and moving eyeballs don't seem to tie the focus.

Eventually, Sole stared at me standing by the window, Gin!

"Ahhhhhh!?!?"

"" "Ohhhhhhhh!!" "

It was hard from there...... ghost, no, it was mr. Eru, but the children who noticed her cried out as if they were responding to my screams, and it just took me an hour or so to fit it in.

Listen to the noise, everyone in the orphanage is coming, and that's going to make another noise. It was really hard...

Now Takahiro is preaching with Eru, who explains, "You're here to read '@ wiki'... No, you're here to read to Bright Orphanage..."

"Think time!" So, "[Cole] contact me beforehand!" I can hear you scolding me tightly. Let's leave that to him.

The problem is this way. The crying tired sleeping kids cling to me and Yummy and not leaving. Yummy's lying faceless, children stuck to her sides, stomach and head, very surreal. No, I'm in the same condition.

Well then, I can't move poorly... I was going to go to the bathroom before I went to bed...

After all, it's hard to take care of a child ~...