Helping with Adventurer Party Management

"What do you care?

What do you care? Explain your thoughts as you slowly organize them.

"Assuming the worst, they are entering this territory. Is that good enough for you?

First, sharing assumptions. Make sure they all snorted before continuing.

"But where are they?

And cast doubt on it.

Paperino tries to answer reflexively, shaking his neck.

"Where... where is it? Indeed."

It is difficult to spend days outside the territory without a burning fire. But it can't be inconspicuous if a group of strangers were camping in a very, not even wide village surrounded by fences.

"Until a while ago, I was about to say that the village chief's clan was empty, but I made it a park, and I flattened it out."

Kilik wrinkles around his nose with his chin mustache.

The village chief's house remains a sort of child depository, but the village chief's family's house, which is no longer inhabited, has been dismantled to secure land and recycle timber.

So there is no empty house in this village where a group can lurk.

"There it is. Hey, look at the map again."

"What's wrong with this map?

Peek into the map Kilik prepared on the tabletop for everyone.

This map was produced by Kilik to train the boys in his liaison role and draws a whole lot about houses and terrain, as well as to help check out various measures.

"This mark is a check when you hand out beans."

"Right."

Which houses come and which are not when lentils are distributed.

Marks are also left on the map with checks made at addresses to ensure that there are no mistakes such as missing or overlapping distributions.

"On top of that, I'll overlay the mark that I've been asking you to dispatch earning peasants to explore the bean fields"

"Hmm."

Mark about the farmer who said he wanted the beans, and the farmer who said he wanted help.

Farmers in this territory had a long and painful life due to the frustration of their previous lords.

So after the distrust of the deputy was dispelled, every farmer, with a lateral connection, had contested ahead and asked for the distribution of beans and the secondment of workers.

"Well, there's a house you haven't asked for yet."

But there is only one house on the map, a farmer who has not come to fetch beans, nor has he been dispatched a worker.

"That's right. And do you have a list of the kids in the village?

I still have data to overlap. It's a list of kids coming to the park that Kirik created.

Originally a list I told you to make to see how healthy your kids are, but by the way, it's useful.

"Hey, seriously. This kid... he's got to be alone, but he's never been to the park."

If you overlap the map with the birth roster and Kilik's list of children, this house should have one child, but since Kilik started making the list, he said he's never been to the park.

The inspection should have passed the neighborhood of this house, but I don't recall much.

"Does Sarah look familiar in this house?

A red-haired daughter shook her neck to the side and silently denied it.

Both Kilik and Paperino shook their heads left and right in the same way.

Definitely. We have them in this house.

I felt like silent certainty and silence had been severely worn over everyone.

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"So what?

Break the silence after a while with dry lips.

We implemented it all as a measure to improve the lives of farmers, including the development of birth registers, the opening of parks, checking the health of children, but it is ironic that that would be a tool for policing.

"What's Kirik's opinion?

"That's an ambush. Assault before they realize it, kill it. Do not give the opponent time to use magic. I'll run out of it."

I see, there's no forgiveness.

The opponent probably has a few maneuvers, and this one has fewer people.

So you get ahead and kill them before they let you do anything.

"What about the operation?

"Attract yourself on the table and infiltrate in the meantime. Might be easier in the daytime. Let the liaison do what's distracting you."

Rejected.

"It's a child, isn't it? It's safe because it's just a distraction, and they're alert."

"Still no good"

Hardly denying it, Kilik has presented another proposal with a loud sigh.

"Then let's use adults. Instruct the earning peasants here to plow the garden. If there's more than a certain number of people, they'll panic, and they might show up. In the meantime, we'll enter through the back entrance and storm."

"Okay. That would be nice."

The farm tools are made of iron, and if there were 10 peasants, their opponents would hesitate to use force.

You might think, I can push you back with my mouth.

Consider the details of your actions with the utmost care so that you choose a single man as your priority.

"That doesn't bother me, but I thought I'd ask Miss Sarah and the deputy to run as well. Anyway, you two are the only two people in this village who can take a decent sword or bow."

Kilik is in the role of getting inside the house and rambling, so he's going to solidify the back door with me and Sarah.

"What about Gorgogo and Paperino?

"We just have to lock it tight and get it locked up in the warehouse. We're going to have to have some patience."

"What do you say? Can you stand it?

I was kidnapped with the intention of a surprise attack, etc., and it doesn't even make me laugh.

I'll have the two of you locked up in a locked warehouse.

"I don't mind that, because the deputy can swing his sword?

"Right. Kenji, are you okay?

He always says rude things when he says he's serious.