It's all one flower.

2224. Face-to-face stories

The golden ring glows with the old man's left middle finger.

... if I sell this, it's going to be the cost of living.

Noticing Reno's gaze, the old man raised his left hand and turned to the back of his hand. The circular ornaments are lavishly decorated with earth dragons (moles).

"This is a family crest for sealing." Your ancestors found a new vein of copper and gave it to you along with the Baron's throne. "

Heehee. Grandpa, if the world were the world, would you have been an aristocrat?

Razornik was impressed.

Old man Talpa put his hand down and smiled bitterly.

"Well, it seems that the nobility was named after them and had no territory." Still, I swear on this Tulpa family crest, I won't lie. Yakushi-san, ask me anything. "

“Thank you. I'm a pharmacist, could you not tell anyone? Because I can't make medicine without ingredients."

Alright, it's hard not to be cured because of economic sanctions and not because of you.

Awelana nodded with a stiff expression and mended her smile.

"I'm glad Mr. Talpa is safe." I thought I might never see my neighbors again. ”

"At that time, my eldest daughter-in-law came to pick me up and I managed to get it." I got my blood pressure pills dripping, though. "

"Was that so... now we're making a makeshift with your family?"

"No, I'm alone." Soon after I got here, I got into my apartment, and I got caught up in a coup fight. I wish my grandson had saved me instead of being such an old man. "

The old man's voice trembled with tears, which moistened Awelana's eyes.

Razornik reheats his Shenhua tea with magic to make it smell.

Waiting for her feelings to calm down, Reno called out to Talpa.

"Don't forget... Stiff bread, please." Thanks for the info. ”

Tarpa looked at Reno with a serious look on his face as he handed him a paper bag that was very responsive to his size.

"If I thought you were... the face you saw somewhere... isn't it a bakery?" Um, I forgot the name of the scalar district. "

Tsukijiya. Were you a customer?

"I only went there sometimes on a good day." You don't have to remember. Did you make this? "

"Yes, it's hard bread with dandelion leaves, and it will cum for about a week."

"I see. Thank you. If Tsubakiya is a Tsubaki, I'm sure." I didn't think I'd be able to get that delicious bread in my mouth anymore, but I never thought I'd get it here. "

Tarpa pushed a small paper bag and set it aside.

Well, it's about my brother-in-law, Pruvia, and my nephew, Arndo.

"Oh, I know the two names on that sticker, but I've been seeing each other a lot." I was greeting you, but I remember your face. I'm sure. "

I turned to Awelana and pulled my chin back.

“Do you know when my nephew joined the Liberation Army and where he is now?”

"What I found out was last year's hot time." I forgot what month it was, and I didn't ask when it came in. ”

Huh? Did you hear that from him?

Awelana rolls her green eyes.

The old man pulled his chin firmly.

"There was a cookout organized by the Liberation Army at the headquarters of the Fishing Association last year during the hot season."

Tarpa was also lined up in a row.

A pair of Nemus Liberation Armbands circled in pairs. From the cardboard box loaded on the trolley, take out the plastic deep plates and keys, and hand them over one by one.

"Please bring it to the cooker in the future."

When you're done, please wash it over there before you go.

It seemed efficient to explain when serving the soup, but when the last one was taken by the one just behind Talpa, the two Liberators shouted at the back of the line.

Queue, move!

“I'm going to the shade! Let me follow you!"

The line begins to march on to the safe depot of materials.

The majority of those who stand in the arsenal are landlords without power. If you line up for a long time in a hot sky, you may die of heat stroke.

Another threesome has arrived. Now it's a towel. I think the reason why two trolleys came was because they were stretched out. Place a new towel on the head of the person holding the dishes and press the ends into the bowl.

Many of the residents of makeshift homes were burned down in air raids, leaving them without anything. For the landlords who had no power without a hat or a sun umbrella, even a single towel was appreciated.

From the beginning of the row, a delicious smell comes out.

The person before Tarpa was also hung with a towel. The name of the store is dyed. It seems to be a cheap product somewhere.

"Towels, please."

A familiar voice came into his ear, and Talpa saw the voice of the Lord.

Fisherman?

"Huh? Ahh! Grandpa!"

"What? You know him?"

The person who pushes the trolley asks the attendant who hangs the towel.

"Yes, yes, the people who lived in the neighborhood. I don't know his name, but he took a walk early in the morning, and he used to meet us when we went fishing."

“I was close to greeting you, but I'm glad you're doing well.”

Talpa said, and the two who pushed the trolley laughed.

I've known you for a long time, but it's also on the edge of the water.

I'll do it later, so you can talk for a while.

Thank you very much.

When the towel was hung on the tailmost person, the two pushing the trolley went to the material warehouse of the fishing association.

How have you been since then?

Talpa asked a middle-aged man who didn't even know his name.

A fisherman in his mid-thirties answers, looking away at the two backs.

"We were out on the boat, so it was helpful, but my grandfather, who was hospitalized, and my aunt, who was nursing, weren't."

When she reissued her ID card, she said she had it checked with [Ming (Ah) Kashi Mirror (Mika Mika)].

"My aunt who worked at the hospital seems to be alive, but she's missing."

When Talpa spoke of comfort, the familiar fisherman shook his head to the side.

“My grandfather and aunt were killed in a Kirkuk terrorist attack, not in an Aatel air raid. It's all because of the government that's been cheating us all this time."

So you joined the Liberation Army?

That's right. If you defeat the current government and Sheratan sends you to the throne, you will make the world better like it used to be.

Isn't that just the people of the lake?

A middle-aged man with the tail threw his doubts behind Talpa's back.

The green-haired fisherman answers with a straight look at the sweaty land people.

"In the Old Kingdom, all the people of the lake and you and the people of the land were equal, right?" If Lord Sheratan restores it, the people of the lake and the people of the land will be able to laugh and live as the people of one country, the same as the people of Kirkuk. ”

It used to be the Royal Family of Lacrimalis and the Tripods, so it was a good spin, wasn't it?

The fisherman answered, his eyes shining as Talpa questioned.

“So, instead, we're going to create a parliament. Even the Kirkus are not all bad terrorists.”

Are you familiar with the autonomous region?

The middle-aged man at the end makes a disturbing voice.

"No, but Senator Lacquéus of the Autonomous Region was in exile in the kingdom of Amitostigma, violating the evil of the Kripeus regime."

Huh?

With the information of water in my ears, all the people who were nearby looked at me.

“With the government's rhetorical control, domestic newspapers, magazines, and radio stations can't report the bad deeds of the Kripeian regime, but the Lacrimalis Kingdom and foreign countries have long known each other.”

The green-haired fisherman said hotly.

I'll be happy to volunteer again if I need a sacrifice, just like when Sheraton defeated the Arterial Formation.

"You're still young, but that's not true."

"Parents will be sad."

And they that waited for the cooker heard, and said with a mouth, and the green-haired fisherman answered with a quiet voice.

"Both the cowardly father and the coinage mother are finished as human beings." I want to be useful to the world for the two of us. "

"Even my aunt will be sad. Corner, you're not gonna ruin the lives you've saved."

Tarpa was embarrassed, too, but the middle-aged fisherman said with a lonely smile.

"My aunt... well... but yeah. My aunt is a long-lived race, so if nothing happens, I'll die first, and I'm a pharmacist (* giggle *), so I want you to live as long as you can to save a lot of lives and see the end of our revolution."

"Arndoux..."

From the eye of the pharmacist Awelana, a large grain of tears spilled.

Razornik urges Tarpa to continue.

"During the time of the charity, I was undergoing various trainings, and when I was old enough, I was going to be assigned to the Star Beacon Squad in the western district."

"And where else would we meet?"

Talpa shook his head sideways to Reno's question.

"I used to line up every time, but I only met that fisherman once." The west district is far away. "

I spent two days listening to a powerful informant. But everyone says they just talked to Arndeau in a row.

I didn't get any more information than Tarpa.