Skeleton Knight, in Another World

Two days later, once they returned to the site of the lake, they were visiting Landbart again.

This time, however, he did not enter the city, but stood beside the street, a short distance from the city gate on the south side.

Looking out at those who take the street in front of them to Landbart and those who leave, wait for the figure of the person who had made the promise, and gaze at the street in one direction of the city.

Then he waved gently and sent a signal, acknowledging that a familiar figure there would bring a large carriage of four-headed carriages.

Sitting in the passenger seat of a large carriage is Raki, the pedestrian we talked about the other day.

Next to him also sits the woman with semi-long chestnut hair. Maybe she's a mercenary while she's a woman to see leather breastplate and other gear in her manly outfit.

A blonde-headed man, also cut short beside the carriage, had accompanied him in such a way as to guard his surroundings while placing his hand on the martial bone sword patterned buttocks of his hips.

Probably for luggage escort, I'm not too far from the city and I don't feel the need to be so vigilant, but I do feel sincere about the response.

"Thank you for waiting, Master Ark"

When Raki noticed this way, when he pulled that large carriage aside from the street and then stepped down, he greeted him with a courteous thank you, like a merchant who would accommodate his guests.

"As you ordered, I've loaded a large carriage of horses and just sunny food to pack there from the sale of the Grand Dragon material I deposited the other day. Please check."

Follow his lead and approach the large carriage with mountains and loads of luggage on the back carriage.

The luggage is covered with a shiny thick cloth so that it's okay to get wet in the rain, and I'll lift it up a little and check inside.

The carrier was loaded with wheat, dried beans, smoked meat, etc. packed in a hemp bag or something, and Ponta, who was over her head, was busy shaking her tail to see if it smelled delicious.

Arian and Chiyome have also opened the contents of the luggage on the carrier and peeked inside to check.

"Um, I did get the package I arranged. Now let's talk about the reward..."

When he said that and turned his gaze toward Raki, he shook his neck aside with great momentum to try to control the story on this side.

"No, the first arrangement you get is enough! Besides, I also had a facial connection with the major chambers of commerce during the sale of the Grand Dragon materials I had deposited, so I received no more rewards. Thank you."

Raki put a full smile on that face and thanked him again and bowed his head.

"Hmm, so if you want to keep brokering things, let's say I nominate Lord Raki. Why don't we pay the deposit for the intermediary with Lord Raki first?"

Having said that, I took out a piece of parchment wrapped in a beautiful ribbon from my nostalgia and offered it to Raki.

Raki rushed to receive it and urged him to look inside, alternating the parchment on hand with him in an effort to grasp the situation.

And Raki, who untied the strings that had been wrapped and opened the parchment, looked at its contents and raised her bare voice to surprise the mercenaries he was bringing in.

"Yeahhh!? Isn't this a Landbart business license!? What is it, this!? It's not even on the market yet!?

A surprising, less eye-opening Raki turns to that parchment and his apparently upset face by moving his gaze busily toward this side.

"How convenient would it be to decide where to visit if there were a store when doing business with Lord Raki in the future? I would like to make arrangements for building materials and such personally separate from this one. So I asked the lord here to give me his license to do business."

Raki increasingly opens her eyes to the answer and reveals her surprise.

"Lord!? Marquis Landbard and Shirya - are you going to be close?!?

You tried to fix the tone like you panicked, or you laughed at the look of a suspicious verbal raki and sent an eye out to Arian as he watched what was going on beside him.

Arian then exposed his distinct skin and ears to the surface, unlike that of the person, as he slowly removed the hood of the grey coat he had been wearing and let the white and long hair sweep into the wind.

"I think Lord Raki has heard that the wife of the current lord is an elf tribe, but we have a good face in the lord's house because of that connection. Please don't hesitate to do business again."

With that said, I also pull the ponta out of my head and take off my helmet.

Raki alternates between Ariane of the Dark Elves and herself of the red-eyed Elves with brown skin with a surprising look, keeping the word that her open mouth cannot be blocked.

The men and women of the mercenary who were behind them also looked at this side with a surprised look.

"... were you both of the Elves...?

I answered the question that Raki asked with her mouth open with a voice that I had finally squeezed out, wearing my helmet again with my first consent.

"Sort of. I can't expose myself to the public in front of too many people. It would be appreciated if you kept your identity, etc., to yourself. To keep the deal going smoothly."

Raki nodded at his words without a word or two and promised not to say anything about what he had just seen, even to the two people behind him.

As far as the exchange between Raki and those two is concerned, he is apparently a mercenary but like Raki's body. Then it would be somewhat safer than other mercenaries.

Even if being an elf here spreads through their mouths, we have all three people on this side who have the strength to deal with it, so there is no problem.

Say thank you and goodbye to Raki, who remained a surprise face until the end, and then move the large carriage in the person of Chiyome.

A four-headed carriage progresses away from the city, off the streets and looking for invisible places.

When it comes to large carriages, the seats are not that wide, so the seats are like stuffing when you, Arian, and Chiyome sit down.

"Well, I didn't think you were going to see your lord for a business license or anything."

Arian, who squirmed a little silly, sighed half-eyed at this way.

This business license was requested by the Elves' Arian through Treasa, also the Elves' wife.

I stood as her escort on that occasion, so if I asked for something, I asked for it from Arian's point of view so that things would go smoothly.

For her, it's in a way that makes people owe me, so I guess I didn't really care.

Speaking of the pivotal Petros, I don't think there is a problem because I laughed that I wished or fulfilled the transfer of my business license because I didn't get enough thanks in the previous case.

"I'm sorry, Lord Arian. If we keep Lord Chiyome on our side, will we be able to make a deal without her ever caring about her qualities in that city?

When she returns it, Arian agrees with such faces as disapproval.

"By the way, Ark's been shaking his head tightly since just now, but what's going on?

"Hmm? Um, I took off my helmet when I showed my face earlier, but my long ears didn't fit well in my helmet. I'm just looking for the right position..."

Having heard its own reply, Ariane took her gaze off this side by poking her cheek wand with a frightened face, for some reason exhaling a grand sigh.

The skeleton's head fits perfectly in the helmet, but I feel cramped in the helmet as soon as I drink hot spring water and return to the figure of the Elves. This is quite a problem.

"What about here?

With that in mind, Chiyome, who was holding the reins of the carriage, looked up at him as he saw what was going on around him.

Stop the head you were shaking at her words and gaze around.

Thanks to a long way off the streets, there are no people's eyes around.

"There's no problem here. Let's say we deliver the food for the carriage and go and raise the report to the chief and Hanzo halls inside. After that, take Lord Ariane back to Laratoia and report back to Lord Grenis."

Activate the magic of [Transition Gate (Gate)] while speaking of future plans. When he caged more power than usual and deployed a magical formation large enough to surround the large carriage softly, the carriage was in an instant moving to a base pioneering area by the lake.

The people of Yamano, who had concentrated on the construction of the base, admitted that they were this way, and when they saw the food on the carrier, they cheered and stopped working one after the other and stopped to come to the carriage.

It didn't take long for Pitta, who saw it, to scold everyone and get rid of them.

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After that, Chiyome also accompanied him to the hiding place. After reporting the matter to Hanzo of the Blade Heart (Jinsin) clan and Gouro of the head of the inside, he discussed and agreed on a project to rebuild the rewarding company, and then left Chiyome inside and returned to Laratoia alone with Arian and Ponta.

In the meantime, to this side of the report, Grenis was listening by sitting in the opposite seat across from the table, trying to take a serious peek at this side.

"─ Well, I was able to find the fountain that Lord Dylan showed me, and my flesh returned, but it seems to be time-limited. I didn't even believe in my own flesh and people, but if I opened the lid, it would look like an elf."

So when he cut the words, Grenis shook the tip of his pointy ear with interest, smiling towards this one exposed to having brown-skinned elf ears.

"Ark, I wish you were good, but if you were an elf, wouldn't you be willing to name the name inside of us? What do you think?"

That's what Arian's mother, who looks like only twenty cars, showed her with a cute little tip of her neck.

When I tilted my neck a little too without being able to grasp the meaning of the word, it was Arian who reacted quickly to her story.

"Could you put Ark in a part of the inside!?

In that reaction she noticed what Grenis meant by "naming the name inside".

At the end of each of the Elves' names is the name of the inner house to which they belong. In other words, naming the inside name means being welcomed as a member of the inside and belonging there.

"Oh? You disagree with Ark that you're going to be one of them inside?

In Glennis' return, Arian clogs his words and sees this way.

"If you're an elf, there's no reason to disagree, but you'd rather keep him as a warrior in a central maple than be a part of this walking hazard!?

They seem to say something terrible outside of their opinions, but when I think back on what I've done, it's hard to deny it because I'm not even wrong.

In such a depressed mood, it is good to bury your face in Ponta's belly hair to take care of your mind.

Pushing his face around to Ponta, who seemed free to stretch on the table, the Ponta rang "Ki-yun, Ki-yun," and rolled around.

If you think about it, it is not particularly false to put your affiliation in the elves because the figure that has regained flesh is not inferior to the elves and you have the ability to see the Spirit, as Arian said before.

It would also be true that it would be more stable to think of a place of identity than to continue wandering skeletons with no stopovers forever.

"Oh? Does Arian want to belong to Maple and keep him on hand?

"Chi, you're not!? He said you should get central clearance to make it a proper affiliation, and mostly your mother's acting for your father, right? You can't officially welcome Arc into La Latoia under your mother's authority, can you?

Ariane stands in momentum to argue with Grenis' words.

"Oh, two beautiful women are fighting over me..."

As the two of them put themselves down and proceeded with the story ahead of them, for now they tried to break in to join the story as well, but once again they buried their faces in Ponta's belly with their heads held down by one of Arian's hands.

Why?

"Right. In the meantime, until Dad gets back, I'm in charge here, so I can welcome him as a temporary member of the inside. Besides, you can't take him to that center where he's still skeletal and doesn't have the stability of an elf, can you?

─ ─ Arc Laratoia (tentative), may not be bad.

For now, Maple, the central city of this great Canadian forest, doesn't seem to be able to attract outsiders that easily.

Because I have this body, I don't really think about leaving the land of the company with that hot spring.

There is metastatic magic, so wherever you belong, the distant ones will be with you, but putting your place in the center is something you don't want to be in the mood for.

It may resemble the feeling that living in Tokyo is more suited to sex than living in a statue in Kanagawa, Chiba, or Saitama, where you can conveniently go to Tokyo.

More importantly, it may be easier to say that it is somewhat calmer to stay in the cities of Sumida, Shoguchi, and Sakami than to live in the center of Osaka.

─ No, but I don't know how far from the central maple is inside La Latoia, which falls within the category close to the plains inhabited by the people, but will this place be like the towns of Nose and Cape Town?

Outside such a thought of nothing but my own futility, the story was getting settled.

"I'll talk to your grandfather at the center, so we'll just decide to belong for now. Besides, Ark, you have to decide on this."

The words of Glennis descended from the overhead held in Arian's hands.

Finally Arian's hand is off his head, he looks up and sees the two faces,

"Well, you don't have to decide right now. Think carefully, because in the meantime, you're free to spend time inside. If you decide what to do, you just have to give me a call."

Surely, these things will not be easy to answer.

Nodding back at that word of hers, Arian sighed heavily, too, before sitting back in her seat.

"This is the end of the story. Shall we have dinner because it's late today? I got some good tomatoes from Landfria today, so I made it your favorite soup."

To the words of Glennis, I stood up by pulling the chair I was sitting on unexpectedly. Ariane and Ponta looked up at this side in surprise at that reaction of their own, and Grenis in front of them was also circling his eyes as to what was going on.

"Lord Grenis, what tomatoes have you just mentioned are those red fruit tomatoes!?

To that impetuous question on this side, Grenis nods his eyes black-and-white.

And I'm sure of the red-colored soup filled with a cup of pot she brought out from the kitchen and the deep flavor when I spoon it and it's in my mouth.

"Still, you remember tomatoes and stuff even though you don't remember yourself very well. I don't think this has flown to the people's city yet, and that's why I've never heard of brown-skinned elves, and I wonder where they really come from?

Yes, I didn't see it in the people's city.

The flavorful ingredients that give depth to flavor are also common among Western ingredients, including kelp and bonito, typical of Japanese cuisine. Tomatoes are the epitome.

This ingredient called tomato is a universal ingredient.

If this were to be available, food variations would spread at once.

"Lord Grenis, I said I took this tomato from Landfriar earlier, but if I go there, can I get it too?

"Huh? Tomatoes? Uh-huh, tomatoes are more of origin in Fabnach on the southern continent, and from there they come in with a deal, right? They grow it in the south, but the number of dried tomatoes in the trade is overwhelming."

I have certainly heard before that there is a large country on the southern continent where mountain people like Chiyome were pleased. Does this tomato mean it's imported from there?

I don't know how far the [transfer gate (gate)] is, but if you can fly from the southern continent to a company with hot springs, you can fly to the site whenever you like to buy ingredients.

I have asked the artisans of the mountain people in the hiding area to repair the company for this reward, but I was told that it would be difficult to dispatch the lakeside villages that they could do on their feet unless they took shape.

As a result, repairing the company takes a lot of time.

In the meantime, it's not a bad idea to prepare yourself to calm down.

"Lord Grenis, I'd like to cross the South, but can't I get on a boat from that landfriar?

In the clothing and living quarters, the clothes are not in trouble at present with the "Holy Armor of Berenus" already worn. Residence secured a springing company of hot springs that would return the body of this skeleton to the flesh.

The next step is to enrich the food.

To his own question, Grenis roared with those golden eyes to the margin.

"Eh, it's an Elf deal ship, so to get you on board, Ark, who doesn't belong inside..."

I stood up and proclaimed to her gaze, which was so directed towards this direction.

"From this moment on, I swear to name Arc Laratoia!

Elsewhere Arian is taken aback, Grenis claps his hand and smiles.

"Good for you. You'll be able to welcome another comforting compatriot in the elf."

I'm not lost!

It's a land of tomatoes, a continent to the south.