I Shall Survive Using Potions!

"Sorry Ahhhhhhh!!"

The village chief who rubs his head on the floor and apologizes, and behind him, he's bowing his head in the same position, the villagers.

After that, I already threw all the rushes and rushes, and the real deal, the village chief smashed everything up. According to that story, this is what it looked like.

Though never wealthy, a small village in the back of the mountain, harvested in agriculture, forestry, hunting and living quite a bit, with the occasional pleasure of being in a nearby hot spring.

So it came one day. Familiar, the bandits.

But they didn't attack the village and take its roots, and they've had deals like this.

"I'll protect the village, so give me money, food, and a woman as a reward"

It was hilarious.

Apparently, he was going to make this village a 'feeding ground' because bandit operations alone are unstable.

Not once attacked and crushed, but as a stable source of food and gold. as a source for women. And as a source of bandit apprenticeships, I use them all the time.

All this time, though, even if young women and girls are crushed by themselves and adult men and boys are crushed instead of shields as disposable men, in a few years the village will become an old man alone.

But there's nothing wrong with that.

At that time, all you have to do is take everything from the village and move to the next feeding ground.

And the only bad thing about Tachi is that they 'hang on to requests for escorts', though in form only.

At this point, I cannot ask my lord for help. 'Not yet, nothing's been done', and 'I'm just holding on to my escort contract'.

I am merely presenting its contractual terms, and nothing, I am not making threats or committing criminal acts. … no one knows what will happen if I refuse that contract.

I wish it was evidence of other banditry, but I don't know which damage was the work of those people, the survival of the attacked merchant squad doesn't live nearby, and in desperate flight, I won't remember the face of the bandit. Besides, if the suspect denies' I don't remember ', it's over.

Also, even if the Lords let us out the Leaders, we just need to encourage the Bandits to operate somewhere else while the Leaders are here and come back after the Leaders have pulled them off. There is no way we can do this, as a real problem, such as keeping the army in such a rural village over a long period of time.

In the first place, it is better to leave the villagers exploited than to send out troops for the small village in the back of the mountain and do damage in the fight against the bandits. And the tax, I'm not going to cut it. No wonder the lord decides so. If this is a village that pays more taxes or produces scarce things, things may change somewhat......

"... so we did nothing and tried to trick the irrelevant other people we drew in into fighting the bandits, so? It is also for those with children who have only three people who can fight..."

The villagers will think Bell is also a combat personnel because of his aptitude, but the dagger Bell has is mostly decorative and is only for intimidation. At best, if you can make a mistake with one of your enemies, you can do better.

It seems that Bell's role is to protect me as a shield of meat and to buy just a few seconds until Emile or Francette rushes. Stick to the sword you stabbed in your body, don't fall out...... so don't be ridiculous! Who makes you, that's what!

"Chi, no! I don't think you can fight nearly thirty bandits alone!

... No, you can fight it.

"Naturally, I'll fight you too! We are gathered here in the village, with the exception of the children and the young men who have not yet made traces.

But, guys, all amateurs who have never done interpersonal combat or anything, although they are somewhat in good shape for a tight job. The extent to which hunters can fight a little. That doesn't do much good with the experience of the beast. "

But with that said, the village chief's eyes weren't dead.

"Whether a young man goes to the city alone and says to fly a flag or something, there is no way for families with elderly parents and young children to leave their villages, abandon their land and go to the city, but to live for those who can only do farming, hunting, etc. At best, it is Sekiyama who dies in slums (slums).

Then you'd better fight here, Ichi or Bee...

Thousands times better than running away without a fight and regretting watching your dying wife die in a slum (slum), even if it ends in battle!!

So, when the kids got to know all of you that I think you're used to interpersonal combat, the devil gave it to you. I want some fighting power. I want to increase my chances of winning a little. And if there's a slight chance of helping a woman or child, I don't care what happens to her life, and if she goes to hell instead of heaven after death... "

That's what I said, the village chief pushing his head to the ground again.

Look, some of the villagers here are also quite old.

Instead of taking the old people out of battle and protecting them, are you going to make them a throwaway stone to survive at all? The village chief himself, among them......

Hmm, right.

Hmm, that's what I mean...

I said, get up, arm in arm.

"Village chief. Why did you try to get us involved by doing something crazy?

…………

I can't say anything, just the village chief with his head down.

So here's what I said.

"You guys didn't do anything crazy, you just had to say this." For the sake of the village, carry out a life-threatening battle. So help me '. I just wish I could have said that... "

And the village chief and the villagers kept laying flat.

"That's right, it's Caorle!

When the villagers disbanded and were only in the companionship in the given room, Francette quickly mentioned that. And then, following that, Roland and Layette.

"Uhm."

"Sasuka?

Francette is unusually pleased that I do something godly to gather faith from people. And Roland also tends to be happy to participate in the act of protecting folk grass. Emile and Bell, needless to say.

... and Layette, what the hell, 'Sasukao'! I don't abbreviate it funny!

Anyway, the table job, it's not the shop owner of "Convenient Shop Bell," it's the back office job, the "Goddess Eye" job.

... No, it's not obligatory. Is it like a hobby circle activity?

While I'm at it, it's light...

"Well, the comfort trip between the store's employees and the people involved, once it's on hold here, From now on, as" The Eye of the Goddess, "the common sense of the world is to leave it a little over here..."

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Yeah, well, come on!

Earlier, I had a little talk with everyone in the village since then.

And once upon a time, the land was chased for a reason, and we had to pioneer villages in the back of the mountains like this, and we could not return the hardships of our ancestors, who succeeded in pioneering them while losing many of their companions, to nothing for the sake of banditry.

And if it's to protect the village, it doesn't matter if the majority of the men gathered here die, he said.

If the women and the children and the young men before they became children survive, the village will remain and knowledge will be inherited. And in the next generation, you just have to have lots of kids. In that way, our lives are inherited.

"This is never 'in vain death'..."

Relative to abandoning a village and running away, sticking your face in the dob of a slum in some city and dying of regret, how proud, chested and happy it is to die......

To the village chiefs laughing at that, there was no more humiliation.

Did you reopen it, or...

Anyway, that's why, prepare for battle.

"Then I'll stick it in the center of the enemy and knock it down for about half the first time. Master Roland and Emile will also want to be active in front of Caorle, so divide the rest into three equal parts, equal..."

To Fransette's words, if it's true, 'You're kidding!' I know you want to say, 'but I've divided it into three equal parts from the beginning, and I can't handle it myself. That's what he thought, Emile nodded silently, looking a little remorseful.

Roland doesn't seem particularly concerned about anything because the idea is stained with him that if he commands and defeats his men, even if he doesn't defeat his enemies directly, that is, his work.

... but.

"You can't do that. The villagers did nothing, and if they were in trouble, a convenient God (Deus Ex Machina) appeared and everything was resolved. The villagers have had no experience and no growth. So how are we gonna get through this next time without us? What's next? And what's next?

"Ugh..."

To my words, a caged francette.

"And what do you think would happen if that story spread? Guys, we won't risk or struggle ourselves, we'll just have to wait for help to show up from somewhere. 'Like that village, help must come!' Think about it.

We have to survive the trials on our own. Whatever the degree to which someone else can help you, throw it round, leave it to others, God depends... And they didn't mean it at all. "

Shame on my shallow, or Francette leaned over silently.

But rarely did Emile argue with my words.

"That's because you don't know the power of us or Caorle, right? If I had known, wouldn't the villagers have behaved differently and asked for it? Besides, we have the power to help, but we don't, and we can let ourselves get hurt and dead?

"Fine."

"... Huh?

You were surprised by my reply, Emile with a surprised face.

But the world, that's what it is. Whatever we say to people, we have zero risk. Oh, my God, there shouldn't be. When that happens frequently, people rot.

Roland and Francette look like they were convinced. That's right, the merit of the year. Fransette, too, because she's already over thirty.

Yeah, the villagers won't die.

We'll do it ourselves, but we'll help you out a little.

Yes, 'just a little'......