Skeleton Knight, in Another World

The sun is completely down and a carriage of carriages is going down the street towed by one horse down the darkened Diento night lane.

A brown-haired, habit-haired man is taking the reins as he sings his nose in a good mood. In the twenties. The figure of the man there doesn't look so wealthy, although he has a small and beautiful figure.

If you look at the various luggage loaded in the wagon that the good man is driving, you can see that everyone is a young pedestrian.

The pedestrian man was always looking to stay in this city, when he came to Diento.

Eventually, when I began to see the intended inn at the destination of the carriage, a man who stood as if waiting for people in the street in front of the inn waved at the man in the carriage.

"Wow, that was late, Raki. Did you get the sale?

The man, who called on the pedestrian man to be Raki, raised a martial bone sword on his hips, hardened himself with leather armor and carried a shield, albeit small, on his back.

The short cut hair was blonde and the body worked out was quite physique. With a people-loving grin, I approached Raki's carriage, a pedestrian in a cheerful way.

"Belle, I'm home. I got more than I expected."

Raki also answered the query with a full grin, calling his opponent's name casually as to whether he was a willing friend.

"Are you serious?! I was also talking to Rae that this time is already closed..."

A big warrior-style man called Bell turns his face into a surprise look in the way he says he heard an unexpected answer.

"Speaking of which, what about Rae?

"Oh, he'd already be in his room first."

While having that conversation, Raki puts a carriage in the carriage parking on the ground floor of the inn to remove the horse gear that was connecting the horse. After depositing the horse at the stables of the incoming inn, he pulls out the bag he was putting in the carrier.

This inn has a place to keep the carriage on the ground floor, and at night the doors are locked to reduce the risk of being stolen from the carriage. However, it is normal to raise the gold eye of the carrier to the room just to be careful.

Raki tries to lift the bag heavy, but Bell pulls it from the side and lifts the bag.

"That weighs a lot. Is it true you bought weapons?"

"Like Bell said, the armor store was already closed. I just came to sell weapons to an armoury store, meet a guy called Mercenary of the Journey. I bought it."

Cross the ground floor counter of the inn and head to the room upstairs. Raki was generally this room when staying at this inn.

"Rae, are you coming in?

When I knocked on the door of the room and hung up, I heard a reply from inside with a woman's voice.

With recognition from the woman, Raki opens the door and enters the room with the bell behind her.

In the room was a not very large corner room filled with three beds, with one woman sitting on the deepest bed.

He lowers his semi-long chestnut hair, which is usually bracketed behind him, and unties his traveling outfit. She is a neat woman dressed like a man on a prudent chest.

The woman, called Rae, looks intrigued when she sees a bell holding a heavy looking bag coming in from behind Raki.

"Is that it? Weapon, did you get it?

"Yeah, kinda..."

That's what I told Belle earlier, and I want Rae to hear it.

"Hehe, mercenary of the journey. What kind of weapon did you buy?

"Oh, you were interested in me, too!

Bell quickly lowers the bag he was holding, pulls out the contents and looks at the weapon. And when I saw the sword body of the weapon I took out, I accidentally roared.

"They're all good weapons. Twenty-five gold coins? There was a lot of money to buy this number..."

"Look, look! This is beautiful, isn't it? It's a different vibe than the others, right?!

Belle and Rae accidentally leak their voices when they detect Raki's purchased weapon.

"They're all about thirty gold coins. I have sixty pieces of Rae's, and if I'm bad, I might go for a hundred..."

When Raki deliberately lowers her voice and communicates her quote, they both look stunned.

"You bought it, didn't you?

Bell peeks into Raki's face with a voice like he pushed to death again. Look at that look. Raki laughs bitterly and scratches her head.

"Actually..."

Raki put her face close to the two of them so that she could speak in as small a voice as possible and talk about the backdrop of the matter.

"Yeahhh!!?? Muggoo!!

Talking to the two of them about the time of this buyout, the two shouted too loudly in surprise, and Raki hastily blocked their mouths.

"Are you serious? Did you buy all this for 150 gold coins?!

"That's amazing, Raki! Wouldn't you make more than twice as much money if you sold all of this? Was he someone who wasn't too familiar with the value of the weapon?

Rae's question shakes Raki's head.

"No, he said he was a traveling mercenary, but he felt like some nobleman or a knight with it. I don't have the atmosphere I'm having trouble with my money, and I was wondering if it felt like I had come to dispose of some interrupting luggage...?

"Ha, wow. I can't believe I can handle all this stuff in the way..."

Did Belle stain herself and feel the inequality in the world, sighing when she saw the sword she was raising on her hips?

Raki, who was watching how it went, erupts unexpectedly and so on.

"Ha. Oh, yeah, Belle. Pick your favorite weapon out of this! I'll give you one for free."

"Oh, come on, okay? Say that..."

Bell speaks out as if he had said it by accident, but his eyes were looking for a sword that was happily placed.

"Fine. Bell always has escorts. Besides, if Bell's weapon gets better, I can buy safety on the road, too."

To the word, Bell reaches for a single sword. It looks almost the same as the sword Bell has on his back now.

"Is that okay?

"Oops! I knew the most familiar form would be the one I was most used to."

Bell is happy to see how she feels when she feels like she is quick on her hips.

See how it goes. Raki and Rae laugh face-to-face.

"Is it time to go to bed today? I'm always sorry, Rae. In the same room as us..."

Raki looks sincerely sorry, but Rae at the time didn't have the wind she cared about in particular, she flickered her hands and rolled over the bed in the back.

"There's nothing more bothering you now. We've been together ever since we were little. There's only three beds. It's a lot better here."

"Even with two beds, you'll use them alone! Me and Raki are going into the same bed, so I bet there's three beds, but it's none of your business, right?!

Bell, who had raised his sword until earlier to ascertain his condition, brings tea in from the side.

"Am I still a fine lady?! It's not natural!

"Ho, where is that lady?"

Belle teases Rae by pretending to look around in front of Rae. Then, as usual, they enter the process of provoking each other.

"Yes, yes! It's late today, so I'm gonna clear this place up and get some sleep!

Raki, who always plays the two arbiters, flaunts them in a manner he's used to, clears his weapon, drops the lamp-shaped magic prop fire in the room and dives into bed.

"Tomorrow we're heading for Rubierte, so we're gonna do it, both of us."

Copy that, Bo.

"Ha-ha, good night, Raki"

After hearing the two well-heard replies and laughing a little, Raki closed her eyes in the bed. Eventually, from nowhere in the room, the sound of resting dominated, and the city gradually sank into the silence of the night.

A line of L'Aqui's manoeuvring carriage was proceeding towards Rubierte along the streets stretching out of the city of Diento to the northwest.

The streets are sporadic, but the beasts and warcraft show themselves, but the new sword was so delightful that Bell was slamming down all the time quickly.

Rae, who is supposed to provide magic cover in the rear guard, complains about such a bell, but this is the usual sight, so I don't particularly care about Raki.

Behind the raki line are several other pedestrians and travellers. In addition to the fact that Belle and Rae are quite skilled in Star Four mercenaries, it is usual that they do not leave behind to benefit from the fact that there are few mercenaries who can use magic.

On the fourth day out of Diento, I finally see the city of Rubierte.

A moat that draws water from the Shipult River surrounds the outer perimeter of the city, and a stone city wall five metres high is built. It's been a long time since Raki came to Diento, a city that made it smaller.

"Nothing. You got here before noon."

Listening to Bell whine as he watches the fields spread around the city, Raki presents the merchants union membership iron pedestrian bills to the gatekeepers to get a carriage in from the east gate.

The pile behind me was iron scum products and weapons obtained in the city of Diento, which is about a little grocery for living, so censorship was also very easy to pass.

I had to ask for the grinding of the weapon I got first, and Raki made the carriage go toward the blacksmith. I coarsely spit out the funds in my hand to purchase weapons in Diento, so I decided it would be more efficient not to grind them in Diento, but to ask them to grind them in Rubierte and look for sellers at the same time.

When we get to the blacksmith of interest, the smoke rises from the chimney in the back and from the back there is the sound of a hammer pounding metal.

Asked Rae for the carriage's turn and asked Bell to hold a bag with the sword he had purchased, Raki dived into the entrance to the blacksmith's workshop.

Behind the workshop, I saw two men exchanging words if they were losing and shouting at the sound of hammers pounding.

One man would be a gray-headed old master and head of a blacksmith here, the other a magnificent man with a disappointing physique that did not take a hiatus on the bell and wore the uniform that knights usually wear.

"I say an additional order for a weapon, sir! You can't make what you need for the lives of ordinary people after all you've done with your weapons, even though you're short of ingredients!

"Say what! If you took a weapon and fought for a warcraft, you shouldn't have left the lives of the people!! I didn't forget that Giant Basilisk came out the other day!

The two had heated arguments so much that they couldn't beat the heat in the blacksmith, but the contents remained parallel lines for as long as they were in the argument to say whether the eggs were first or the chickens.

Bell had a very surprising look at the name of Giant Basilisk that came out in the debate between the two of them, but Raki had to agree with this as well.

It's a warcraft that can easily destroy one or two of the villages if you do anything wrong. The other day, a man named Mercenary of the Journey told me there was a big man out there, but I didn't think he was going to be the big one.

Eventually, one of the two men who was arguing, the head of the blacksmith and the old master, came in sight and called out to Raki, who looked at him as if he were smiling here.

"What are you guys? Guests?"

Raki nodded in a panic at the voice, raising her voice as defeated by the sound of a hammer as they both did.

"Yes! I came to ask for a grind of weapons for sale!!

It was not the old master of the blacksmith who reacted prematurely to Raki's reply, but the knight man who had a slightly grumpy face.

"What!? Kid, are you a merchant who came to sell weapons!?

After gaining momentum and being pressured by a knight who came here with a large strand, Raki managed to express his affirmation by accepting the head.

"I'm sorry, can you show me that weapon and all that?!

There was no reason to raki or say no to that word, so I urged Bell with my gaze to arrange fourteen swords that had been brought to the workbench that was at the blacksmith.

I gave up one sword that had fifteen to Bell, but the sword I had from Bell's source is now loaded with scum iron on the carriage of the carriage. Bell was a little tearful about the treatment, but it must have been too crude a weapon for a Star Four mercenary.

It was a sword that didn't even give me ten gold coins from the beginning, so I can't do that either. Rather, it is stronger to be surprised that I was often able to ascend to Star Four with such a Namakura.

Next to the knight's man, who was ascertaining each and every sword arranged on the workbench, the head of the blacksmith also began to pull the sword out of his sheath to ascertain the condition of the item.

"Aren't they all pretty good steel swords! About 25 socks?

A knight man turned his gaze to the head of the blacksmith and inquired, but the head, the old man, was pouring a sharp glance into a sword in his hand that did not make him feel old.

"Lord... where did you get this sword?! Isn't this a Mithrill sword... 500 socks is a substitute for doing it..."

The head of the blacksmith raised his surprise, but Raki himself had an even more startling look. That was the same with Bell, who was next door. I thought it was a good sword, but I didn't think it was a Mithrill sword.

I didn't think that the product purchased in 15 bottles of 150 socks or 10 socks per bottle was the same amount of product handled by a single pedestrian just because the market was the market.

Mithril is said to be a metal that destroys demons, a metal that plays magic if it is thinly extended and affixed to a shield, and is quite treasured when it is easily cut down by a warcraft with a stubborn body if it is turned into a sword.

However, because the misrill ore itself is rare and even very difficult to refine, it is not a ratio of other weapons to say the misrill product.

Because some Elves or Dwarves were originally able to make Mithril's smelting technology, there is a history of Elves hunting and Dwarves hunting based on it, and people gained access to the smelting technology.

As a result, Dwarves disappeared from the continent and the Elves fled into what is now a lost forest. It was a refining technique that we got so far, but the key quality didn't extend far enough to the quality created by the Dwarves, so it would be true that the two sentences didn't go on.

Raki can see a lot of different items as the merchant's end, but that was not the case with items that he did not expect to handle.

"No... I bought that from a traveller, so I bought it for a lot cheaper..."

Saying that, Raki's back was sweating cold. A man named a traveling mercenary said these weapons were loot from a bandit, but I don't believe the bandit possessed Mithril's weapons at all. If a bandit steals Mithril's weapon, it will be quite important, and a crusade order will be issued and recovered immediately. I don't even want to hear about the horrible origin of this weapon if I think so.

But I didn't have that bad vibe with wonder from the man who named me a traveling mercenary. Raki was superior to this somehow sensation, so I could hardly see where it came from.

That's how I think Raki wanders around in my head, and a knight man interrupts me with a voice up.

"Kid! Are you willing to sell the weapons we have here to our lord, Viscount Rubierte?! How about 500 socks of Mithril's sword and 25 socks of other swords?!

Raki, who returned me to that word, calculates quickly in his head, but it was five times more expensive than when he bought it. Raki felt a little backward and decided to reduce it a bit.

"You can have a Mithril sword for 400 socks. And then we will give you these according to the knight's values."

"Ho!? How dare you put a hundred socks on Mithril's sword?

The knight man peeks into Raki's face with an astonishing look on his face. I guess I'm going to tell you to guess their intentions. But I bought it for ten socks, so I can't really say I'm backwards...

As he had decided to, Raki conveyed to the knight's man the most seemingly soul-guts he had just come up with.

"I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Viscount Rubierte on her memory."

The knight man gave a surprise look at the words for a moment, but when he laughed out loud, he bashed Raki's shoulder.

"Wahaha! That's what you call a merchant! There's no way out of this! I say Horcos as the Knight Commander of this Rubierte Territory"

"I'm late for my application. I am a pedestrian, my name is Raki, Lord Knights of the Horcos"

"Uhm, I have to come through the story to Master Bacol, who is quick but lord. I often get people to wait here. You'll be back soon with the money for your weapon!

To put it this way, when the Knights of Horcos jumped out onto the horse connected to the table, he rushed out to the castle with freshness.

Looking at it blindly, the head of the blacksmith came and called out to Raki.

"That husband is always like that. Don't hesitate until the Knights of Horcos are back."

Thanking him for the words, Raki was able to talk about the scum iron that was loaded in the wagon and get it bought here at the blacksmith. Recently, steel stones and other materials should have been transported from the south to the city of Diento.

I thought you could buy it higher than the market, but the leader made a lot of money, so he bought it at a pretty low price. I told him it was a service and he sharpened Bell's sword for free, so I didn't have any complaints about it as a raki.

Then the returning Knights Commander and several of his men came to pick up their weapons. 725 gold coins of the price were also paid exactly and I shook hands with the captain and broke up on the spot.

The gold coin was put inside a hidden box with the cargo carriage floorboard removed, and the soil was also covered and packed from the top so that no noise could be heard.

"Nevertheless, I didn't know that sword was made of Mithril..."

Bell leaks his exclamation in the way he said he was emotional. Speaking to Rae about the upside of this one, she was quite surprised, but at the same time blessed.

"You did it! Now your wish to have your own shop for the memorial is much closer to reality, isn't it?!

"Right... I didn't think this was gonna happen."

Raki was also letting the wagon walk towards the merchant union office in this city, responding with a little fluffiness.

Merchants' unions collect a variety of information. From the wheat harvest that year to the information on the arrival of warcraft, to the nomenclature of tariffs that vary from territory to territory. Especially since tariff-related information varies from territory to territory, possession of tariffs on the route to destination causes taxes to be levied at the time of stopping in the city, which echoes the sales value.

It is the merchant's business to listen to those information and find the seeds of commerce within themselves. The sale of the sword earlier made quite a bit of money. It will be crucial to purchase something that is likely to sell before leaving Rubierte.

Hate funds are luxurious, but it is difficult for carriers carrying the key luggage not to pack as much. Plus, there's one horse towing the carriage, so loading too heavy stuff slows your legs down.

The destination also came to the merchants' union office thinking about various future plans whether to go south from here and in the direction of the Wang Capital, or west down the Sipult River and out to the Gulf of Burgo.

Putting a carriage in the carriage parking and asking Belle and Rae to leave a message, Raki took a trip to the shopping area in the back alone. A merchants' union exchange is precisely a trading exchange, that is, an inquirer.

Even a seller without a specific buyer can buy the item at a price that takes into account the market price at that time, but the purchase price is naturally lower because it does not sell directly to the buyer.

Still, they often buy it steadily, so they bring in excavations such as warcraft hunted by mercenaries and rare herbs.

"I guess I'll start by deciding what goods are in the warehouse here and then check the customs items in the territory on the route..."

Raki zeroes to herself as she confirms the plan in her head. There are a variety of people on the exchange, such as people who come to buy from people who come to sell things. There are just so many merchants and they are scattered around negotiating prices. It creates a distinct kind of hustle and noise.

In the meantime, a conversation between a man in the corner of the buying house, who would be a union member, and one girl rubbing at a buying price, entered Raki's ear, which passed by.

"That's crazy! When I used to come to sell with your father, they bought more than ten pieces of gold for less than this! Why 10 pieces of gold in this quantity!

"That's why the kid's in trouble... Price is something that starts and goes up because there is demand, and things that are not in demand inevitably go down. We can't afford it any more."

The little girl is about one hundred and fifty centimeters tall, and her hair is bright brown and saggy. She knits three pieces of hair behind her back and drips it down to her shoulders. I have the impression that my big blue eyes burn in the day, healthy skin, and my outfit is some village girl.

"Already! That's on my mind! I'll sell it elsewhere!!

When the girl grabs the bags placed on the platform, she snorts back and heads towards the exit. I get an indescribably fragrant scent in Raki's nostrils rubbing off the sides.

"Hey, lady, you can't find a buyer by yourself! Sell for what you've been told!! Chip."

The union man offends the girl's attitude, but the girl ignored it and left the exchange.

Raki followed the trail of the girl who had just left, looking sideways at it.

The girl earlier was able to find it as soon as she left the exchange, and it would not be a mistake to look a little sloppy, Raki spoke to the girl.

"Hey there you are. Do you have a minute?

"? Who? Brother......"

When the girl, who was called out, looked at Raki with obvious suspicious eyes, she hid the large bags she had on her back.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Raki. I'm a businessman. Uh... you are."

"It's Marka. Mr. Raki, the pedestrian, what can I do for you?

Raki greeted her softly against Marca, a girl with a slightly blurry tone.

"I'm a little concerned about what you have.... Could it be Cobmi?

"!? You know?

Marca looks at Raki with a slightly unexpected look.

"You smelled unique. I need you to show me some of the stuff in the bag... If it's good, why don't you let me buy it?

I had been patrolling Raki's words for a while, but eventually I never offered him the bags. Raki thanked him small and took that big bag and looked inside.

As soon as the mouth of the bag is opened, the unique aroma fills the area through the nose as well. Inside it was tightly packed in a semi-dried state with flowers intact.

It was a cobmi flower in pretty good condition even when I took one and confirmed it. When Raki nods to be satisfied with it, he lifts the bags again to ascertain their weight.

"Yeah, if this is all there is to it in this state of things, how about thirty gold coins?

"?! Gold coin Saanju, Mugu!!

Raki hastily blocked her mouth where she was about to raise her voice unexpectedly, with a stunned look on its presented forehead.

I couldn't help but be surprised at her. Three pieces of gold, such as the cost of living that her family, a villager, spends in January, will suffice.

When Raki tries to keep quiet with her index finger on her mouth, she also pushes her mouth up and down forcefully.

"Are you okay with buying it away at that high a price?

"It's okay. If we go to Wang Du, we can sell it for a pretty high price, right?

It was Marka who dropped his voice and asked in surprise, but Raki answered it as if it was nothing.

"If you're a merchant, do you know what disease this cobmi can work for? If you ask the villagers, they will all be deluded, won't they? They say it's not necessary in the village..."

"Oh...... you mean ill or a kind of preventative medicine? It could be a substitute that we don't really need in the village..."

Raki replied to her question with a little hesitation as to what to answer, and Marca looked a little obstinate in that reply and missed her face, offering Raki her right hand.

"That's how grown-ups usually tease! Enough, I'll sell it for your good value! Hurry up while you don't change your mind!

Raki laughed a little bitterly and gave her the amount I had just offered her, thirty pieces of gold in a bag. Marca checked the contents of it and laughed a little to see if she was in a better mood and slipped it inside her clothes.

"Thanks for today, brother! Good luck with your business, then!

Marca smiled and waved. That's all I said, she ran out and quickly became invisible. Raki decided to go back to the carriage once he had the bags containing the cobwebs he had bought.

Returning to the carriage, Belle and Rae seemed to be leisurely on the carriage. When Rae finds Raki, she happily stops by and calls out.

"Welcome back! That was fast, wasn't it? Does that smell good?

"Oh this is it. Cobmi flowers. It's a drug ingredient."

Raki showed me the bags she had just bought from the girl who said Marca, scratched the earlier story and talked.

"Some of you were terrible unionists...... Still, I bought it at that value. And what the hell kind of medication would that be?

Bell, who was beside him, is also listening and hammering, looking at the contents of the bags that Raki brought home, tilting his neck.

"Cobmi flowers can be a contraceptive ingredient. And then it will also be the ingredients for the abortion pills..."

"Yes!? Is this contraceptive material?! This is the first time I've heard of it... it's probably not something I need in the village."

"Haha, sure! You don't feel like having more children in the village!

Rae and Bell seem emotional when they recall the reality of the village because they are all from the same village.

"And contraceptives are so expensive to sell..."

"Right, I heard that the city uses it in whorehouses and that nobles often buy it. If we take it to the Empire, we can sell it more expensively."

"Empire? Does this Kobmi flower not bloom in the Empire?

Rae looks strange and tilts her little neck. Besides, Raki shakes her head.

"No, I'm certainly talking about not growing much up north, but there are other reasons why I can sell it high. You know what Hilkism is?

"I've never heard of you!

Bell answers vigorously with his chest stretched. Rae stares at such a bell half-eyed, but draws information about the Hilk wanderings that were in her, especially without saying anything.

"It's the one who preaches all over this northern continent, isn't it? I've never seen Rhoden because he has a god of fire, a goddess of water, each temple... is that a church?

"Yeah. Hilkism is a religion taught and spread by the Hilk nation beyond the Gulf of Bordeaux and further ahead of the Northern Kingdom, and it's a religion that tells us that only one Almighty God created all of the world and all of us."

"Oh, my God, I don't like friends... the god"

Bell heartily listens with a sympathetic look to that god. It's a statement that would be preached to if the Hilks asked.

"That Hilk teaching forbids abortion. The Empire has Hilkism rooted throughout the territory…, and Cobmi, the ingredient for abortion pills, is ostensibly forbidden. But the demand is high, so they're going to trade for a lot of money back there."

The two of you are listening to Raki as if he was impressed. But Bell was still hammering, but there was no comprehended expression on his face, which seemed to fall out of the right to the left as usual.

"So now you're going to sell it to the Empire with that?

"You're an idiot! We were talking about a ban, weren't we? If they find you, Raki will be hit in the neck!!

Raki laughs powerlessly and drops his shoulder thinking it's the usual thing.

"For now, is it the King's Capital to sell Kobmi high? I'll get some info to King's Landing, so I'll ask for the carriage again."

Saying so to the two of them and depositing the bags containing the cobwebs with Rae, Raki went back to the merchants' union office while choosing in his head a path to the king's capital.