Kujonin

Head east from the fort.

Because it was night, I flew over the sky without worrying about the eyes of the people. You may have passed through the place where you were attacked by an airship, but even if you look closely, you can't see it because there are no magic stone lamps on the road.

However, the town was normally lined with magic stone lights and seemed not to be prepared for a raid. As far as the fire heroes are concerned, it seems that there isn't much strategy or tactics in the sky, but somebody will come up with bombing, etc., as people think. As in the previous world, an air raid shelter may eventually be created.

While flying in the sky, I talked to the Isle about carpet bombing,

"People aren't slimes in the Southern Hemisphere! Are there any unexpected attacks on such people ...?"

I was surprised.

"At this point, can we do something similar? We don't know if the country of fire is still unaware or not enough, but we know the magic circle of fire and we have a lot of magic stones That's why somebody can only come up with it, or maybe it's already coming up, but if you do that, there might be some reason why the people won't follow you. ''

"Sure ... the form of war will change."

"I think it's changing right now, but there is magic in this world. There will be many different responses, including" Wand on the water wall "."

"I denied chivalry and ran out of the house, but isn't the knight really disappearing from the war? No matter how high the level is, if no one can cope with an attack from the sky, no one can protect it ..."

Isle was thinking with his hand on his chin.

"Our company is already flying and working, so we can handle it. If we start selling flying brooms alongside" Waterstick, "the world will change dramatically."

Bersa, listening next to her, said:

"Flying brooms are pretty dangerous. It's going to make it easier for individuals to cause terrorism. The magic tools we use are dangerous."

"President, a farmer who has exterminated Almario has recently been seen!"

Seth pointed forward.

It's where we were with the slim demons.

There is a forest further east of the chokro field, and we walked up the forest for a while searching for demons.

"Fuha, the road is running !?"

Bow suddenly exclaimed. If you look at it, you can see that there is a road between the trees in the forest that makes it possible for a carriage to pass.

"Is there no such way?"

"No, it's supposed to be in the Makai no Mori, but ... what's that?"

Bow is laughing, but seems uneasy.

"Is the Makai no Mori like the border between the Great Demon and Great Plains?"

"Yes. The Demon Lord is surrounded by a deep forest, which is called the Demon Forest, where demons confuse the adventurers and turn them away. Then ... adventurers can do whatever they want. Merchants may come ... huha !? "

Bow opened his eyes.

"Maybe a merchant in the country of fire has come. Will you hurry ahead?"

Not only soldiers, but also merchants who shoot weapons like "fire wands" and fire balls at monsters, will be worried about what their hometowns are like.

As I went south, I saw a big inn in the woods. The site is so large that many carriages are likely to stop, and the stables are fine. However, there are no fee horses in the stable. The wagon-less carriages without wheels are just thrown away.

The light of the magic stone lamp is leaking from the inn window, so it seems to be open.

If there are people or demons, you may be able to listen.

"Good evening ~"

There was a bar counter in the back of the inn, which was a rather wide bar. There is a staircase in the corner of the room and the second floor seems to be a room. An adventurer's guild.

According to the detection skills, there should be three people at the inn, but none are awake. One of the three is drunk sitting in a bar chair. The other two seem to be sleeping on the second floor.

I tried to talk to my drunk uncle, but she wasn't likely to get up, so I'll let her look around. At the back of the bar was a kitchen with a stove-like magic tool depicting a heating magic circle that I often use.

"President, this seems to be able to fit magic stones!"

"Can you make a snack?"

Seth told me to make a simple soup.

"It seems like a carriage was coming regularly."

Isle finds a piece of paper that looks like a bus timetable on the wall next to the stairs. Is it a stagecoach? This inn may have been a station.

"Look, look. The price list of magic stones is in a bunch. It seems to have fluctuated a lot. After all, it may have been painful to stop trading magic stones at Great Plains."

Bersa flipped over a stack of paper and said, As you can see from the table, the price of magic stones was gradually decreasing. Did buyers other than Great Plains no longer need to compete and lowered their purchase prices, or did demand drop? I guess there's a demand for using the magic stones for the "rapid wand" and airships, but I wonder what happened.

"Huh ~, no."

Bow, searching for something, was sitting in a bar chair and taking a break.

"What's missing?"

"This is a request form to defeat monsters. There should be a lot of monsters in the Makai no Mori. This inn is similar to the adventurer's guild.

"Is the monster gone?"

Certainly, after extensively deploying its detection skills, only small bird monsters and small animal monsters are found in the forest.

"I don't have any monsters, but do you trade gemstones? Does that mean you were excavating gemstones?"

Rita said so and sat in the seat next to Bow. The way to get a magic stone is to kill the monster and remove it from the body or to excavate it.

"Is there a quarry of magic stone nearby?"

"Fuha, I wonder if there was such a place ~"

When Bow lived in the Demon King's territory, there seems to be no place to collect magic stones.

When I was drinking because the soup was ready, my drunk uncle got up.

"Huh! What are you guys? Late at night?"

"Yes, that's right. I borrowed a little kitchen. Do you drink soup?"

"Soup? Oh, do you want me ... No, not! Who is it?"

The uncle looked around. You may have thought we were surrounded by us.

"I'm a travel cleaning and exterminator

"What is a cleaning and extermination company?"

"I'm doing bug roach, mascara, and pest control in the field."

When I briefly explained their work, I was worried, "Can I make money?" Most people have this reaction.

"Our employees are nourished. By the way, is there a quarry for magic stones around here?"

"Yes, I don't have it right now. I've been exhausted. I'm looking for a new quarry. Where did you come from late at night?"

"From the north"

I didn't particularly say from Great Plains.

"Did you see nothing in the dark?

I didn't think it was too dark due to the moonlight and stars, but I may have gotten used to the darkness in the Southern Hemisphere.

"When has this inn been there?"

The smiling bow asked the uncle.

For an instant, the uncle was scared, but was convinced that "Oh, he was a drunk Maller."

"I think this inn was about five years ago, after the fire brave and mercenaries defeated the Demon King and seized the territory of the Demon King."

Is the Demon Kingdom already belonging to the country of fire?

"I see ... as soon as I'm gone. Do you know what happened to Fuha, the Demon King and his subordinates?"

"Let's think that the monsters that seemed strong were killed by mercenaries' attacks with the" rapid wand, "but ... I guess they sold monsters that understand human words to monsters."

"Yes. Fuha, why am I ..."

Bow scratched his head through the gap in his hat.

"Wait a minute. Did you live here?"

"Fuha, that's right."

Bow looked at his uncle and said, Uncle turns pale.

"Well, Naoki. I need to hide?"

"No, not at all. No matter how others think, I'm still with me as a friend."

"Fuha, what should I do?"

Bow put his hat on the table and exposed his horn. It looks like something has blown out in the bow.

"Goblin! Is it a monster that was your subordinate of the Demon King ??

The uncle fell from his chair and rushed out of the inn. Is there a place to escape here?

"I'm sorry, everyone. Maybe you're annoyed by being a demon mate. Fuha."

Bow said while scratching the horned head.

"No problem. We're bothersome, but we're glad we're exposing it."

"No demons chase me, and this is my hometown. There is no way to hide it.

Bow rinsed the soup.

"While looking at those who are just thinking about fighting humans, even as the Demon King, I've always thought there was a way for the demons and humans to live together. So, that day, Naoki shook hands. And when he said, "I'm so funny, I'm going to be friends."

Bow continued while touching his corner.

"Fuha, I was not wrong. Everybody is counting on me."

"what?"

"I want the remaining demons to show us that we are together. If we're exposing our horns, we immediately know that we're a demons. Just showing them what they haven't done will show them a different path than before. ''

"I see. I was going to do that anyway."

Rattle.

Looking at the sound, it seems that a young woman had come down the stairs and was listening to us. Have you woken up while you are sleeping? I did something bad.

"What are you guys saying? There's no way we can live with demons and humans! Get out! Get out of this inn!"

Young woman shouted. I guess the hostess of the inn. Some of the demons killed important people, so our words may have sounded like a picture. Can't you think that it's different one by one immediately?

We are the ones who went up without permission, so we have no choice but to escape. We said, "I'm sorry."

"We've lived with a demonic bow for two years."

I just said that.

"Such ... then I ..."

We left the inn with a mistress about to start crying.