Lariel's request was for a location near the mountains in the northern part of the Kingdom of Roubair.

She frowns at the dusty streets that are deserted and the Mt.

"What's the situation in the terrain around here? I don't feel so bad ..."

"Witch-, but it looks like people are living."

Focus your magic on your eyes and look out over the bald mountains and the surrounding land.

Until now, I felt that the earth downstream of the vein flow had weakened, but there was no major magical problem in the location of the book in question.

Rather, it feels as if the fields and the trees in the surrounding forest are alive with the magic that leaks from the Bald Mountain.

However, it seems that the town itself has not been developed or is lonely, and it seems to have survived using the remnant buildings that flourished.

"Let's go now."

"Yes."

I took Tet and walked around the town, but I was lonely because there was no one to manage the former guild building, and I could not help finding a restaurant that also worked as an inn. Go in.

A dwarf man, the owner of such a restaurant, sat lazy in the chair of the restaurant.

"Oh, you're the girls, are you traveling?"

"Yes, can you tell us about your meal and this town?"

"I want to eat delicious rice!"

"Bad. There isn't enough food to share with the outsiders. I want to cook and eat, but the villages around here are all bad harvests and that is the priority. Well, only the accommodation can be offered."

To the dwarf shopkeeper who seems apologetic, I take out the magic bag.

"Flour, oak, various vegetables, dried fish, fruits, salt, and sugar. Can I cook with this?"

"What ?! Where are these ingredients ...?"

Astonished and open-minded dwarf shopkeeper I keep negotiating.

"For the time being, I will provide the ingredients for me, so will you prepare the meal for the time being? I will pay the regular fee and I can use the surplus ingredients myself."

"That's why we ask for delicious rice!"

In response to my request and Tet's innocent words, the dwarf shopkeeper, who had black and white eyes, took a deep breath and brightened her face.

"That's why I'm going to cook a delicious dish! I'll be happy for a long time! I'm talking about this town! I'll talk while cooking!"

That being said, the dwarf shop owner who accepted my request told me the history of the town as he cooked.

There are many mines in the northern part of the Roubair kingdom, and many dwarves settle for mines.

It seems that those dwarves had taken on various jobs and built up the town.

"After all, the size is a town, but why not a guild?"

"The industrial mines in the town have been abandoned, which has caused the dwarven blacksmiths to relocate, reduce the size of the town, and withdraw the guild."

"It's hard"

Tet hits with Nico Nico and eats a side dish made of meat and vegetables on a dough made by melting wheat with water.

"Speaking of which, what purpose did the girls come to this town?"

"We've been aiming for mines."

"Sorry, that's a shame. Now it's an abandoned mine, but in the old days, magical metals such as magic steel, mythril, and olihalcon, and [magicite] were mined. A large amount of insects now enter and breed. Nobody can get it because it's there. ''

"Yes ... can you tell me the story in detail?"

We hear about the situation in this town, while eating savory dwarf dishes.

That is what tells the history of this town. A dwarf shop owner in an abandoned mine town that runs a restaurant and inn tells the story.

About 200 years ago, a vein was discovered in a nearby mountain.

Because it was a vein containing magical metals including rare mythril, magic steel, orichalcum, and a magical mineral [magicite], a large number of dwarves migrated, built towns, and developed. .

During the heyday, in particular, many craftsmen were born, many weapons were born, supported many adventurers and knights, dedicated to the royal family, and exported to other countries.

"Thirty years ago, dwarf miners working in mines are good at earth magic. They exhausted all of the mine's metal and ended up abandoned. The dwarven miners, blacksmiths, and human merchants left the city.

"Did the people who stayed in this town follow you?"

"We're dwarves born and raised in this town. There's nowhere else to go."

The meal is over, and the dwarven shopkeepers serve the tea and beat the city's history.

"Fortunately, we're good at earth magic. We can grow fields in these ruined mining towns and have strong bodies. And we can't get any magic metal from these mines, and we still have a small amount of iron and copper. I can take it, but ...

Earth's magic is not weaker than anywhere else.

It looks like they can live enough to live, but is there any problem?

"Is there any problem?"

"The abandoned mines are not strong, but a lot of monsters have settled in and are increasing year by year. So recently, metal can't go digging, and some monsters digging inside the abandoned mines have appeared and the abandoned mines are in a maze."

It may be difficult to defeat them.

And the cause of the explosive propagation of the demon may be the activation of the demon due to the magical power erupting from the veins.

The aftermath is full of magic and the land is not suffering as badly as the lower reaches of the terrain, but there is no money in this city to solve the problem of monsters settling in abandoned mines.

"That's right. Now the town guards are exterminating the demon that came out watching the entrance, but to tell the truth, nobody knows what is going on inside."

It won't be anything tomorrow today, but it won't be a very good situation.

Anyway, the five great gods Lariel asked me directly.

"For the time being, we'll see inside."

"Maybe there are a lot of magic stones in the back!"

When me and Tet answer so, the dwarf uncle looks surprised.

"What about the young girls? I don't say anything bad. It's better to quit."

"Do you want to enter? Or do you need permission?"

"No, that's not it. You look pretty for a traveler. So nobles and their accompanying people? Don't try your hand and challenge the monsters in abandoned mines."

It seemed to me that she was a magical noble daughter and her attendant, and Tet and I laughed unintentionally.

But the Dwarven uncle tries to teach us with a serious expression.

"I'm laughing, but I'm really worried. That abandoned mine is pretty deep, and it's difficult for an amateur to get out of it, and above all, it's dark, and there's gas in some places. Is more than a monster. It's not like throwing away life. "

"I'm sorry, but I'm glad my uncle is really worried."

"Thank you, but we're such people."

In such a case, it is a guild card.

If you show your A-rank guild card and the party name of [Flying Carpet] to your uncle, you will be confused when you pick it up.

"We're a little-known adventurer [flying carpet]"

"Ladies ... are you an A-rank adventurer ... but I don't know about a party called" flying carpet "because I'm a countryside person. There's no way ... "

Saying so, the dwarf uncle who is puzzled.

Neither the title of A rank nor the popularity of [flying carpet].

To measure the ability of an opponent with magic power, C-rank adventurers must have the ability to sense magic power, so this dwarf shopkeeper can not even check and judge.

"In the first place, in such abandoned mines, there are only adventurers up to rank D. Why do you bother to get A-rank adventurers? It's incomprehensible that they came here from other countries."

Registered in the Ischair kingdom and promoted to rank A, it will be recognized as a distant country for this low-bay kingdom.

"Yes, I came here around at the request of a person."

"someone?"

"Yeah, I can't tell anyone, but I've been asked to come here, so I wonder if the abandoned mine is involved."

"I see ... Okay. Just promise me. The young lady will always come back here every day for the first week. If you go back to the abandoned mine, I will She believes in the young ladies and sends her. ''

An uncle of a dwarf looking seriously.

I guess it would be good to ignore that and search deep into the abandoned mine ...

"Okay, so I'll rent this inn for a week now.

"If you're a real A-rank, you don't need to worry, but if you see younger women trying to overwhelm, you'll definitely want to help them."

"Huh, I'm glad I'm just worried, but I'm 40 even if I look like this."

"And is Tet 44 years old?"

As I look at the age column on the guild card, the dwarf uncle opens his surprise.

"You are ... very young for humans ... no, it looks young. Is it mixed with elf or dwarf blood?"

"It's just a lot of magic."

In response to his mockery, he stayed at the only inn in the town on that day.

He then met a landlady, a dwarf woman, who was legally loli-ish with a 140-cm tall young figure compared to a stubborn, bearded bearded man.

Although it looks like a little petite 20 years old, this is 45 years old, so I can't despise the fantasy long-lived race.

And another one-

"Wow, it's been a long time!"

"This is Alim. I'm sorry in front of the customer."

The dwarf girl, the daughter of the couple in the inn, has returned home.

He looks around 12 years old, close to me.

Along with her mother's dwarf landlady, she looks like a sister.

In this different world where legal loli exists, my presence at the age of 12 may not seem so strange.

"Good morning! I say Arim. What's your name?"

"Cise. I'll take care of you for about a week."

"I'm Tet. Thank you!"

"Thank you Chise and Tet!"

Chise-chan, Tet-chan ... I guess she's not a girl but an adult woman, but she feels itchy when treated as a girl.

"This is Alim! You're two adults older than Arim!"

"Well, that's right! Chise-chan, I thought she was about the same age as me!"

I smile with a cheerful dwarf girl.

"Hey, Arim. I'll show you a little magic."

I open and close the palm repeatedly to show that there is nothing.

Then, put your hands together to enclose something, and activate [Creative Magic] without chanting.

"Yes. Complete the magic, put your palms out."

"Eh, oh, wow, candy!"

Open both hands together on Alim's palm and put the candy created with [Creative Magic].

There are three flavors of candy wrapped in oil paper: strawberries, lemons, and oranges.

Sweetness is very precious in such a poor village.

"Cise-chan is amazing! Is it really magic ??"

"Yes, it's Alim-chan."

In such a deserted town, even sweeteners such as candy may be valuable.

The energetic and lively dwarf girl rejoices and she feels very dazzling.

And when I saw the candy that I handed out to my parents one by one, I smiled and missed somewhere.

When Selene was small, he remembered playing while singing and tapping his pocket lightly, creating biscuits inside the pockets, or displaying magical candy on his palms.

She remembers her daughter-in-law who broke up, and she was a little stubborn.

And Tet is--

"Witch-sama"

"Yes, I'll give you Tet's share."

You can also create new candy by holding your fist and using [Creative Magic] in your hand.

"Thank you!"

Tet rejoices with Arim, and the dwarves show her daughter a cheerful rejoicing and an apologetic expression to me.

"I'm sorry. I had you share the ingredients and my daughter ..."

"It's good, because I like to see my kids rejoice."

He spent a couple of hours with Tet, listening to Arim and the landlady for a little bit about the town.