Industrial revolution starting with the undead

"Ooh, skanky. Take a break."

……

The village of Bath.

Even today, villagers who work in farming wipe sweat at the shining sun. And it's not just the villagers who work, it's with one skeleton per two villagers.

Elysio, the village chief, also ordered Skeleton to do various jobs while harvesting crops and weeding the fields as usual. They are plowing the harvested fields again, causing the harvest of heavy crops to take place, and assigning various tasks that Elisio cannot do, even if he is already old.

And Skeleton, too, acts according to the orders given to him by Elisio like that, and does the work silently and without complaining.

At first it was a skeleton that they thought was creepy, but it didn't take that long until they were accepted as part of the village.

"Phew..."

"Oh. You, is it time for a break already?

"Whoa. No, you're hungry."

"Yes, yes, I'm making dinner. Yang Fong and Lee Fong have to take a break too."

"Be. Oh, Yang Fong, Lee Fong, take a break."

Latch, Elisio's wife, prepares meals in front of me.

We've been together for decades now, and we set up five kids. But when the food situation was tight, there was also a past in which he sold three and four men to slave traders crying. In addition, he lost his eldest son and eldest daughter in a village raid by the bandits, and left to say that the only remaining second son would make money, traveling to the city. Only Elysio and Ratchi, who are already old, remain in the village today.

Exactly how tough it is for two elderly people to manage their farmland, 80% of the vast farmland was all rough until the other day. And it was not only Elicio, but also the other villagers, all agricultural land left behind because there was not a single young people.

For them like that, the skeleton given by the new lord - Gin Fleetberg - was just the light of hope.

Elysio sips a sip of the soup prepared by Latch, full of vegetables, and sighs heavily.

"Good. Latch's been trying his best to cook lately."

"Like before, you don't have to use dandruff vegetables. I think you're really happy that there's so much to eat."

"I really am. Be. I must thank you very much, my lord."

"Yeah. Yang Fong, Lee Fong, sit here."

A table and chair set up outdoors for just five members of the family.

If we don't consider that three of them are skeletons, they will also look like one family group. In fact, that's what Elicio thinks.

Whatever, Latch has two skeletons, Yang Fong and Lee Fong - because we once gave ourselves names for three and four men, and they're adorable.

"Sketchy, yangfang, leefang, I wish I could eat"

"Your lord said you didn't need a meal. Are you really not hungry?"

"Maybe I'm hungry. If you talk to me, I can ask you what you want to eat."

"But I don't drink soup."

I'm already worried about the skeletons who don't eat while surrounding the same table from Elysio, who thinks of skeletons just like his family. At first, he told Latch to make more and offered them as well.

But Skeleton ate absolutely nothing.

It would be for each person to think of it as "helpful because you don't need a meal" or "it's painful not to feed them anything even though they're family," but Elysio's idea is the latter. If possible, I want to eat with my family.

Most of all, the skeletons, which have only a cavity under their mouths physically, just flow straight down where they drank the soup.

"Next time, ask your lord. Can you eat a sketch boy?"

"Right."

"I wish I thought it was horrible at first. You're already like my kid."

"That's what I've been thinking since the beginning. Look, it's cute if you look closely."

"Well, yeah, be"

Although the values would be different for each person, this old couple no longer thought they were scared of skeletons already. Instead, we even think of them like sons already, who follow their own to do tough farming.

Put the bread in your mouth and then drink the soup thoroughly, okay, and Elisio gets up.

"Come on, let's work this afternoon."

"Are you going to start yet?

"Hey. I'll leave the work to the sketches. Work hard in the afternoon, skank."

……

Even if you don't utter words, the sketch boy replies with a rattle of bones.

With that, Yang Fong and Lee Fong also showed some nodding tricks.

Even if we don't hear back, we can have a conversation like this.

"Come on...... Ooh ya?

"Oh. Is it a traveler?

"No, you're a soldier. You're a businessman, right?

That's how the risen Elisio tilts his neck.

What their eyes caught was a group coming straight to the village. Moreover, it is a mixture of horse riding soldiers and walking soldiers.

Lords - in Gin's case, they would be someone else because they would come in a skeleton hose pulling carriage. Maybe a traveling merchant stopped by. Several travellers and merchants have visited before, each time surprised by the existence of skeletons.

"Also, I don't think I should explain."

"Right. You're so cute, everyone on the trip calls you a monster."

"You're not a bad guy, you can handle it. Sa, sketch. Come with me."

……

At last, Elisio heads with Skefold to the entrance to the village.

The first time I met Skeleton, a traveler I had done before, I tried to slash him. There are monsters, etc.

We need to give an explanation from the mouth of Elisio, who is the village chief properly so that he doesn't.

"Stop!

He would have led the soldiers of the escort, that's what the leading man shouts.

With it, horseback riding stops around, and for some reason, the soldiers stare at Elisio as they venture hostility.

No, that eye is staring at you.

Not Elicio, but the sketch boy behind that half-step...

"We are an Episcopal Patrol Corps"

"Heh, it's hard work. I am the village head of this village, my name is Elysio."

"... who is behind it"

"Yes, this is a soldier from your lord, a skeleton made of witchcraft. We are not young, and the farmland can be rough all we want..."

"Again, this is a cult village!

"Huh...!

Without listening at all to Elisio's words or anything else, the knights set up their weapons.

Nor is that such a long sword as a knight possesses, but a weapon like an iron hammer or axe. As if you didn't envisage fighting with a sword from the beginning.

Unexpectedly Elisio steps back and steps forward so that the sketchy boy can shelter Elisio like that.

And a commander-like man.

"Kill him!

So they cried out, and the knights attacked the sketches all at once.

The hammer, the axe, with the momentum of the horse and the strength of the knight, targets the skeleton. And to sketches who don't even have one of their weapons, without the means to prevent it.

The axe smashes Skefold's bones, as well as strikes Elysio, who was behind it. And Elysio can't avoid it.

"Gu, ha..."

……

At the end of the day, what was in Elisio's eyes?

Right in front of my own eyes, I even thought like a son - a figure whose only body was shattered by numerous weapons.