Apparently, there has been no major disruption in this town so far.
Though I thought there might be some evacuees from the war, it is near Gagaria, far north of here, that will be the battlefield, and we have to cross the Great Desert to get to and from this town and Gagaria.
In the Great Desert, there will appear a demon called Sandworm and a group of bandits called Sandburglars.
Because of this, it seems that most of the refugees will not bother to pass through such dangerous places, and the number of refugees coming to this town is within acceptable limits.
We walked through town after that, eating fruits that tasted like bread, called bread fruit. It's more like gathering rumors and going around than gathering information, and naturally, there's no way Miri or Mr. Daijiro, plus information about the Demon King's Army.
"If this were a story, 'are you the ones sniffing around here', the loose ones would show up. So I'm going to get back to them, and I'm going to get information from them."
"My husband hasn't sniffed around strange things in the first place, has he? I take it for granted that the traffickers who lost their way in the war gather information about the surroundings and the war."
"If you ask me - then I'll only look into the Demon King's Army - no, but I'm also too conspicuous"
"You're indecisive. My husband is the type who can't really be the hero."
"I know that myself"
If you're the protagonist of the story, here you are. I'm sure you can make up your mind and act.
Information gathered includes:
-I don't know when the war will end.
-We don't have to worry about getting into war around here.
· There is a great desert to the north, and the suburbs of the town of Gagaria ahead become battlefields.
· Recruiting mercenaries in the town of Gagaria.
-The eastern Great Forest is rich in fruit and potatoes and inhabited by dark elves.
-Dark elves do business with humans.
-The country collects oil.
It feels like.
In the end, this is the only two means I can take.
Two things: be a mercenary and go to battlefield, or stay still in this country.
"Then I guess mercenaries"
If I were you right now, I wouldn't die if I were attacked by a hundred people.
Crossing the desert is also inherently likely to die of fear of shipwreck, but I have tons of food and water in my item bag that I can evacuate to My World if I have to.
Desert demons are nothing but experience.
"Sir, if we're gonna cross the desert, we're gonna have to buy a dessert runner."
"Dessert runner? What, it"
"He's a demon running in the desert. Camels or dessert runners mostly travel in the desert. I don't think even Fuyun can cross it, but if they know there's a powerful horse across the desert and they collect it, they're gonna have trouble, right? Horses are tough for war."
Sure, they're gonna buy the oil in a way that's close to forcing them to.
If Fuyun is forced to buy it, as far as I'm concerned, if it turns into a small sum of money without such an obnoxious horse, I'll be in full swing, but Hal will be sad.
"And they say the route through seven oases is the hardest to get lost in the desert, so we'll have to go through there. You can buy maps across the desert on the exchanges in this country, so let's go there. Because they also know the latest information about the sand thief."
"Ma, wait. How the hell do you know all that?
"Why, while my husband was listening everywhere, my aunt at the fruit shop told me. Well, I thought your husband would cross the desert. Besides, did you get any more information on the town of Gagaria? There's a dungeon in the town of Gagaria. There are also inheritance monsters, and if you give them lots of clean water, they'll give you skills to help you cross the desert."
... Well, is that right?
Even if I didn't, I knew perfectly well that I wasn't good at gathering information.
Really, I'm so glad you've had Caro before.
"What do you say? I'm still a useful wife, right?
"Yes, yes, great"
That's what I said, I stroked Nite's head.
"... no, don't"
... Is that it? Something's not responding right now.
I just stroked my head.
"You, maybe it's a good idea to do something from yourself, but are you ashamed to be done something?
"Chi, no. It just felt a little good."
"Oh, yeah, yeah."
I stroked his head again and Nite's guy looked humiliated as funny.
After that, we headed to the stables.
That's where the dessert runners are sold. But how much horses and camels were in the stables, but they didn't sell what they were meant for.
I asked a blonde guy about my age who was managing a stables and he said it in a troubled tone. Anything, they say the army bought all the dessert runners. You think I'm in real trouble because I've never had such a thing in a war before?
Because the battlefield suburb of Gagaria is a flatland that is neither desert nor forest, and usually most of them use horses that knights are used to riding.
"Don't you have any extra dessert runners?
"I'm there, but with a pretty big eater. I'm so hungry right now, and when I'm crossing the desert, when I'm hungry, I run to the demons, I'm so weak."
"You're like Centaur..."
"Ken... what?
"No, it's just that you have a similar one to the roba I know. Do you like demonic meat?
"Yeah, I like everything but demons and meat, but I don't have half as much to eat anyway"
"May I see it?
When I asked him that, he led me to the back of the stables. There was an animal like a dinosaur a little bigger than Fuyun.
Right, was that animal you saw at the entrance to town a dessert runner?
"Is that it? Is that the collar of a slave you're wearing around your neck?
"Yeah, that's right. The slave collar was not originally a slave, but was used by non-demon men to serve demons. We are now giving orders not to attack humans. But still, it's not perfect."
The collar of the slave is such that the collar is squeezed when there is an order violation. But it is possible in itself to violate orders if we endure that suffering.
"Especially since this dessert runner ignores my husband's orders when he's hungry, but he goes to the demon."
"Hmm, by the way, how much do you eat?
"I don't care if it's meat or fish, but it's about five kilograms a day. Ordinary dessert runners eat just under three kilograms, so that's almost double. For that matter, we have the power, so we can afford to cross the desert. Oh, in the case of fish, you don't need to take bones or anything. I'll keep eating this one."
"Can you handle that?"
Fortunately, there are dozens of kilos of fish in the item bag.
When I asked him about the price, he told me that a thousand senses would be fine. He thought it was pretty cheap, but if he couldn't keep buying it, he was just thinking about strangling it and disposing of it because it would cost him maintenance.
I handed over ten pieces of silver coins and received the keys to my servant's collar.
The dessert runner with the collar removed was told to be careful because he could not be allowed inside the town. I don't know what else to do because I'm a demon.
It's too late today, so I decided to leave tomorrow, and until tomorrow morning, I decided to have it kept in this stables. I would have had the money to keep it in the stables, but only tonight it was a service.
I didn't go back to My World that day and decided to stay overnight in an inn.
Nite almost crawled me at night, but I need strength to cross the desert tomorrow, and I haven't done anything weird since when I explained that I need to sleep now.