Legend

"Hmm? Ray? Why are you here at this hour again? Didn't I tell you it was about evening?

It was Pastra who had been so vocal to Ray, who came to Galanca.

He was about to go fishing, or he was about to head to the sandy beach with his handkerchief.

That was probably because Ray promised to buy it all out if he got the fish, and Ray quickly found out just who asked for it.

Ray nods slightly annoyingly, even though Pastra asks strangely.

"Oh, I was going to. Dusker, the lord of Gilm, asked me to do something about the pirates I caught."

"... can you speak directly with the lord? That's amazing."

Even if I'm surprised I can talk to the lord directly, Pastra says that's how he's not interested in how Ray talked to Dasker.

Most importantly, if you live in a rural village like this, you probably don't have so many opportunities to see magic items, so it's natural.

"So, I need a slave trader, you know where he is?

"Oh, if you're a slave trader, you live in the same house as the guards, so maybe you should go there?... Look, it's the building you see over there."

It was Ray looking at Pastra pointing, but there are several similar houses lined up there.

Of course, the details are different... but that's also a difference to an extent that you wouldn't know if you didn't get close.

Where? And Ray was trying to hear a more accurate location of the house, but if you hear Pastra's name calling from the beach side, there's no reason to let him take any more time.

"Okay. That's the house around here for now. Then I'll go nearby and ask. Go fishing for Pastra. Get as many fish as you can."

"Leave it to me. I'm gonna get you some fish before Ray can eat it up."

Saying so, Pastra leaves with a confident grin.

(Does it actually make you feel confident about fishing? Well, I'm in a fishing village, and there's no reason I'm not good at fishing)

Fish caught in the fishery is delightful to Ray the more.

I mean, it's in Ray's best interest for Pastra to work hard.

After supporting Pastra's back like that, Ray heads to the house used by guards and slave traders.

Where a few houses are gathered, I didn't know which house had the guards as Ray expected...

"Oh, Mr. Ray?

Well timed, guards show up from one house and reveal their surprises when they see Ray.

If you go outside the house to hear from the pirates from now on, you can't be surprised because there was the biggest special medal for catching pirates there.

"What's wrong with you? I heard you were coming this evening."

"Oh, hey, the lord of the guilm asked me to. They want to collect and buy away the pirates I've caught and enslaved. That's why I asked the slave traders for it."

"... the pirates in the guild?

In Ray's words, the guard gives a strange look.

As a guard, the man knew what place Gilm was in.

There is no sea nearby, and there is no such thing as a great river that moves large ships near the gilm.

of such a guild... why would anyone in a position of lord also want a pirate slave?

Even if you have big doubts, you decide in your position that you shouldn't care about such things, you don't pry any further, you say something else.

"Lirose would be in the house. Shall I call you?

"If you do that, it'll help us too"

Ray asks the guards, recalling that the name Lirose was the slave trader's name.

Then, soon, the guards tried to get inside the house...

"That's not true. I heard it all the way to the house."

Slaver...... Lirose shows up from inside the house, saying so.

"You were talking about wanting to buy that slave. This one's perfectly fine, but it's not even free to carry slaves, is it?

Lirose's words are an unmistakable fact, never from Ray... not from Gilm.

Even when Ray was in Japan, he had to pay shipping when carrying his baggage.

Naturally, even in Elgin, it's not free to deliver a package called a slave.

No, if someone comes directly from the guild, it won't hurt my nostalgia for Lirose.

But even Gilm isn't manned enough right now, so we can't afford to do people this far.

Or sometimes I ask Ray to carry me... given the number of pirates, I need to go back and forth many times, and most importantly, as Ray, I know it's my best, but I didn't want to imitate putting the pirates in a ceto cage.

Besides, Master Dusker didn't ask me to do that either.

Even for Dusker, the presence of Ray... and Ray's people are very dependable.

The role played by the Rays in the construction of the Gilm is enormous.

I guess I had the feeling that it was very unbearable to use such people for the transport of slaves.

Most importantly, the honest feeling of Dusker was that when he came back from this vacation, he wanted me to bring him in, even if it was a little.

"I know. There are many dangers to just moving from here to the Guild."

Going down the street doesn't mean the monster will never come out.

Not to mention, the kind of bandits exist everywhere, and when you encounter them will depend to a great extent on your luck.

Still, the bandits around Subrusta are now almost devastated by the Rays, so they can travel somewhat safer than they were a while ago.

But there is no doubt that the bandits will gather again in not too far away than the fact that the area around Subrusta is a great place to earn money for the bandits.

The cautious bandits will be wary, but the bandits, like those whose sole purpose is to make money with ease, have no head to be wary of that.

In order not to do so, I have to make sure to keep taking down the bandits around Subrusta on a regular basis... it will be difficult to see if that can be done.

In the worst case scenario, it cannot be denied that an adventurer who received a bandit's crusade request from Gilm, as before, will be out there.

Most importantly, if that happens, people like Sabursta's guild and guards will be crushed to the point where they have no more faces.

Anyway, if you can't even crusade the bandits near the city you live in, it's the same thing they point out.

"What do you do around there?

"Hire an escort to move. Naturally, the cost of hiring that escort… and the cost of transporting the slaves will all be paid by Master Dusker."

"... are you serious?

Lirose turns her sharp gaze to Ray.

I thought you might be able to pay for some travel, but still about half as good. Doesn't the rest have to be paid at real cost? And yes, Lirose thought so.

But they told me that Dusker would pay for all the travel expenses, and I couldn't be surprised at the incredible amount of generosity.

Ningro, Lirose doubts Dusker for wanting a slave who is at his place that far.

If you simply want slaves, that's why there are slave traders in Gilm as well.

Why bother telling yourself that? And I doubt it, but there's only one thing I can think of with it.

(A slave needs to be a pirate?

Yes, that was all.

I don't think the lords of Gilm and I have some business to attend to.

What could be considered to be so was that the pirates who had enslaved them still had business to do.

Of course Lirose knows that the pirates she enslaved are good - only compared to the outrageous pirates.

Still, there are many other such slaves if only to say good.

If they were not slaves of the kind known as criminal slaves, but also slaves known as debt slaves, that would have been a good number of slaves with no personality problems.

(When that happens, after all...... you should think Gilm needs a sailor somehow...... no need to think about what I don't want here)

It was true that I was concerned about things I didn't know, but there are also several people I know in Lirose who stick their necks in things I don't need to be curious about and die as a result.

In order not to be like that, we need to have a good relationship at a good distance.

(Plus, if you can go as far as Gilm with someone else's money, that's definitely what makes this a big business opportunity, right?)

To get to the guilds on the periphery, it is usually necessary to hire an adventurer with the appropriate arms.

And an armed adventurer is naturally highly rewarded when you hire him.

Since the lord of the guild holds the reward, he could have arrived safely in the guild unless he played extra poka.

Once you arrive in the Guild, there are a number of products unique to the border.

If you bring it and sell it off, that would be the one property...... no, it would be possible to make more money.

Quickly calculated in his head, Lirose eventually nods back at Ray's words.

"Okay. Let's take that story. There's a lot I'd like to talk to you about, but you shouldn't be around."

"I guess. I think it would be wiser to do that."

If it's Ray's known Dusker, there's nothing like being put into a lot of exploration that would bother him particularly.

But that's only the anticipation, and I don't know what kind of hand Dusker would actually hit.

That's not to say that none of Ray's predictions are off and the possibility that Lirose will strike a noisy hand with displeasure that he put in an exploration.

"Now that we know what it costs to travel, what do we do about the price of slaves?

"... to be honest, even if I ask you that. I've sold bandits and stuff to slave traders, but I've never bought slaves."

It's not that I hate slaves, but in Ray's case, I was purely capable of being without slaves or whatever.

He also has many magic items besides strength, and it is significant that he did not need a slave.

So I had no idea exactly how much the slaves were sold for.

"Hmm. When that happens, you actually need to go to the guild and then look around. Most of all, I think we need to offer a lot of discounts, given all the kinds of benefits."

"I guess. In the first place, when you bought those guys off, you bought them off a lot cheaper, didn't you? Then don't help me if you sell me cheap."

"No, because this is also business. Anyway, we're not really going to sell it cheaply."

Lirose tells me that you can never imitate that as a slave trader.

Ray thinks a little...... Whatever further he says would be pointless, Dusker decided about negotiating the price...... exactly what Dusker's men experts would do, and stopped talking any further.

"I won't say anything more about the price. So, when are we leaving for Gilm?

"Right. Get ready for a lot of things when you get back to Jubis... twenty days, no, maybe a little later"

Ray said something about the twentieth day, but if you think that there is no means of travel called ceto or ceto cage and you have to travel by carriage, you still think it would be quicker.

In fact, given the time it takes to travel from this village to Jubis and the time to prepare from then on, I can even say that twenty days is preferably early.

And the pirates will need to talk about it after they have a facility to build a groundship.

Beyond that, it would mean that there is no work to be done even if we hurry up to the guilds.

If it's a gilm under construction, I'm pretty sure there's actually some work to be done.

But still... No, that's why the pirates are so far ahead of us.

"Right. Well, it didn't mean we were in such a hurry, so I think we should focus on safety, not speed until we get there."

In the end, that's all Ray advised Lirose.