Legend

The downpouring sunlight doesn't make you feel cloudy at all the day before, and the blue sky is spreading just to say that the end of summer is still ahead in the sky.

The day after Dusker came to the village of Goto, after breakfast, the line was about to leave the village quickly.

It is the village chief and Luchard who are here to drop off such a line. And only three Epica and two gatekeepers.

I should have dropped him off at the village dweller's tour if I were supposed to, but it was Dusker who stopped it.

Even the day before yesterday we came and interrupted our wheat pruning. Beyond that, the inhabitants of the village are told to do their job properly without dropping themselves off.

There was something delightful about us caring so much about ourselves, the peasants, if we tried being residents.

No lord ruling the land belongs to any faction, nor is the title high with the Viscount.

It's not particularly tyranny, and I'd say it's very normal when it comes to taxes. No, the village near the Seremus Plains, which serves as a place to fight the Bestian Empire, means the Ningro tax is light compared to other villages.

It can be said that almost none of us, even such lords, speak out against the peasants themselves.

No, that's normal.

But Dusker cared about himself, even though he was in a high position as Borderline Uncle. On the contrary, some were directly heard at the welcome feast held the day before.

To the peasants, a nobleman named Dusker was actually an incredible opponent in his eyes.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no! Seto, your brother and your sister are gone!

Epica's cry echoes at the entrance to the village.

Epica is still showing her willingness to hug Seto and never want to leave.

Ray, Seto and Vihera played with themselves while their parents and the adults around them were busy farming.

If I tried Epica, who I realized would be gone with such an opponent, that was something I could never stand.

"Epica, don't be too annoying"

"Oh no!

It was an Epica that was meant to stay away from Seto, but eventually Ray, who stood next to Seto, puts Pong and his hand over Epica's head.

"Higu...... brother?

Ray opens his mouth as he strokes Epica's head as she turns her gaze in tears.

"Sure, this breaks up once, but it's not like we'll ever see each other again. Besides, it's the Bestian Empire we're going to. I will return to this kingdom of Mireana again when I have finished what needs to be done there. I'll drop by this village again then. So don't cry. You're a boy, aren't you? If you keep crying like that, Seto's gonna hate you?

"Ugh... is that true?

Ray nods at Epica as she asks as she puts tears in her eyes.

I guess that finally convinced me. As it is, Epica uses her little body in a cup to hug her to Seto.

"Seto, stay well. Let's play again."

"Gru."

When I hear Seto squeal and leave as he is, the next thing I know, he hugs me to Ray.

No matter how small Ray is, he's just about the size of a 5-year-old Epica. He strokes Epica's head and opens his mouth as she hugs her hips all the time.

"Be well."

"Yeah!"

When I grinned and nodded at Ray's words like I wondered what had been crying until earlier, I held him to Vihera instead of Theorem as it was next......

For a moment, Ruchard, who was watching it, gave me the look of envy, but happiness or unhappiness, now that Vihera is wearing a robe, I can't see the usual fancy figure.

It should also be noted that Epica had no nostalgia for Theorem at all, because she had purely little contact with it.

After Ray told me about the elk, Theorem was practicing battle until the Duskers arrived to survive.

Its teolame, but because I broke my favorite long sword in the battle against the elk, what is currently on its hips is what Ray put out of the mistering.

Except it's definitely cheap crude, more than a long sword taken from the bandits.

As for Theorame, I would have liked a little more of a superb long sword, but basically what's inside Ray's mistering is that the spears have a large number of breaking objects for throwing, later only the Tsu spears, the magic item's demon spears, or the very expensive spears I bought for seizures.

I can't even lend you a demon spear, only expensive spears if you can, but Theorem resigned himself when he heard the price.

Spears can never be used either, but basically Theorem prefers a long sword, and the arms of the sword are actually also higher.

And ultimately, it was the sword that the bandit now had that was using.

"... All right, it's time to leave!

As if I was waiting to finish my goodbye to Epica... No, the Dusker I was actually waiting for tells me that through the carriage window.

Hearing the voice, Ray crosses over Seto, and Vihela and Theorem cross over the horse.

Having confirmed that, Dusker finally turns his gaze toward Ruchard before shouting again.

"Let's go!

Using that word as a signal, the carriage begins to move forward.

That was how it was a carriage going down the streets leading from the village, but the peasants mowing the wheat lowered their heads deeply and dropped them off as the carriage passed near them.

In such a manner of the inhabitants of the village, the knights, the squires, and the men of God hold their grin and leave the village dignified, like a line of nobility.

"Brother, sister, ceto! I never came back!

To the cry of tears heard from behind, Ray replied by waving gently without looking back, and proceeded as he did.

That was the case with Vihella, who was waving while riding a horse.

Thus, a row of Duskers and a row of Vihelas merge and head to the Seremouth Plains.

"Still a killer landscape."

Such a grunt came from one of the knights who was escorting Dusker's carriage.

This knight, one of Dusker's men, has also participated in the spring war, and it will be the first time in months that he will return to this vast and arguably selemus plain.

But words that could be taken out of my mouth unexpectedly as foolishness pop into a view that doesn't show any unusual appearance just to say what the month was like for a few months.

In fact, even for those other than the blurry knights, the sight that was spreading across the full sight looked no different from spring.

Of course some differences can be seen, such as the fact that the grass is growing bigger than spring, or rolling animals… or more bones in people and thoughts.

But still, on the whole, it didn't look like how things had changed compared to spring.

"... maybe not that bone, undead or something?

One of the knights shrugs unexpectedly when he sees a bone falling on the ground.

This Seremus plain, which has been the scene of war between the Kingdom of Mireana and the Bestian Empire on several occasions, is therefore also known to have so many undead.

"Maybe you'll be okay. There's no way the undead can do this in the sun."

That's what I returned the word for, Ray on top of Seto.

Even though Griffon's Ceto is nearby, the knight's riding military horse doesn't even look particularly frightened.

It would be proof that knights are properly trained to use in warfare around here, and that knights at the same time possess enough military horses.

"I see.... would it be okay to have Seto and you even with the undead"

"I hope so. More than that, the problem is more night-time than it is now. Naturally, you need to spend a few nights on this Seremus Plain, don't you?

A knight nods with a bitter look at the words out of Ray's mouth.

"Oh. Honestly, I'm not happy to camp here."

Even so, when the knight's gaze shifted from Ray down to Seto, the bitterness that was on his expression disappeared.

"Gru?"

What happened to Seto when you noticed you had your gaze pointed at you? I howl my throat when I say so.

"There's Seto this time. You don't have anything more to fight monsters when you camp."

"I won't deny that. There's a lot of problems with large numbers, like in the spring war, but with this number of people, there's no problem at all."

Right? Ask Seto with his gaze, naturally! and reply by honking his throat all the time.

Besides, he was a knight who exhaled in relief, but Ray spins the word again.

"It's just that if they're normal monsters, they're undead. They don't have fear or anything, so don't be too alarmed."

While we were talking like that, the carriage kept going inside the Seremouth Plains, only once pinched a break to grab lunch along the way, and then continued to walk extensively.

"I guess this is a good place to settle when I see a meadow expanding all over my sight like this"

Even if it's a summer afternoon, the sun is tight no matter how much it's heading into the fall.

Ray groans as your men and the knights of the escort gaze at the sun in disgust.

It should be noted that Vihela and Theorem are also exposed to direct sunlight, but they are not particularly comfortable with just scratching sweat on their thin faces.

This area would be proof that we are both physically superior to normal knights.

Thinking that way, Vihera, who was listening to Ray's soliloquy earlier, opens her mouth by moving her horse to next to Seto.

"Well, surely this land has fertile earth, and meadows. I don't have a problem with water. I mean, it's good for farming, or for pastoralism. … but that's why the Bestian Empire and the Kingdom of Mireana have been fighting for years."

"Besides, only where wars between the two countries have been waged for years now is there an undead problem. If one of us gave this land to the other, we wouldn't be able to use this place as a colony without much leeway. That's more than a certain amount of adventurers for all settlers… or combatants, unless that's a special example."

The knights who were listening nearby also nod at the words of Theorem, who entered next to Vihera.

"Surely it would be difficult to colonize the Seremouth Plains if that were not the case.... It's just, well, subtle if you ask me if I can do that realistically. No, you might be able to do it if you want to as a country, but you get too little compared to the cost"

There is little hostility towards Theorem among knights who say so.

Unlike the elk, it was not directly harmed, but probably influenced by the fact that the neutrals and Theorem have barely fought in the spring war.

No, a general with an alias who is also famous in the Ningro Bestia Empire, so many people wanted to talk to him as a knight.

"I see. Opening up work, caring for livestock during the day, watching out at night. I'm sorry that we're still going to live here for a few days."

Ray, who was listening to knights and Theorem, whines as he was convinced.

(If we were to build a city and a village here... that would be the only way to put in a lot of National Army and adventurers like we did to Gilm and build a castle wall at once)

Though I thought so in my heart, Ray, the guild was created only because that's the edge.

Because of the scarce monster materials, minerals, herbs and other resources on the periphery, and because they are very beneficial, the kings of the past kingdom of Mireana, aware of the impossibility, were able to imitate much of the power of the country.

But although this Seremus Plain is a rich place, it is not the only place like Gilm.

There are still many lands within the Kingdom of Mireana that can be opened, and naturally there are no undead wandering in such places as this Seremus plain.

Considering the neighborhood, the land was not the land I wanted to gain until I did that.

However, it is difficult to be taken by the Bestian Empire in the defense of the land.

In contrast, as for the Bestian Empire, I would have liked this land because it is also the land that leads to the kingdom of Mireana, where the sea exists.

Most importantly, if the Bestian Empire were to be able to do something about the undead that appeared at night, there was not so much room to deal with it… In the end, the land was close to a kind of buffer zone, close to the implicit understanding of both sides.

(Even more resentment and more undead, thanks to years of war in that state, I guess)

With that in mind, it was Ray watching as the sun was turning into a sunset.