Skeleton Knight, in Another World

Ariane, who has visited this area before as a guide to the port of Landfriar, leads by looking around behind her and Chiyome.

From the side, they are two like the old man who came out of the country, but if you look at the development in this area, it may be impossible to do the same.

Many of the people inside lived in high-rise apartment-like buildings made of trees, seven or eight stories tall, several of which lined the streets.

These large tree buildings can only be seen from afar as a collection of tall trees at first glance, but they exhibit a high-rise architecture of contemporary society in close proximity.

There are other corridors in the air that connect the big tree buildings to each other, and you can see several elves crossing between the buildings from the sidewalk below.

"There are a lot of people out there, but how many of them live in here alone?

Chiyome, who was watching what was going on around her, keeps her mouth shut with the questions she rarely thought of.

To that inquiry of hers, Arian, who walked in the lead, looked back and slightly tilted his neck.

"I don't know the exact number, but could it have been about 30,000 or 40,000? There's a lot of people in and out of here, so maybe a little more."

Chiyome rounds her eyes to that answer.

"I thought Laratoia built behind the Great Forest was a pretty big inside too, but this place is different in size...... I can't believe this city is being built."

That's what she says. She leaks an exclamation.

The hiding place built in the back of Mount Calcato, where Chiyome is now based, has a population of about a thousand people, so there will be more than thirty times as many people living here lightly.

If it were any bigger than this, it would be the capital of the king of the Kingdom of Rhoden.

Eventually, when the woods in the group of apartments in Dai Tree broke off, they went out to a bustling place where mushroom-shaped wooden houses, like those seen in Laratoia, lined up.

Whether every house in those buildings is a shop or a few kinds of goods lined up at the end of the house and complained about selling to people crossing the street is happening everywhere.

The atmosphere was like a vibrant downtown shopping district, with colorful objects that people didn't see coming from the southern continent or not, and at the same time, scented smells on the sea breeze stepped into the whole street.

"Mm, this smell…, seems to have plenty of spice system"

"Ki-yun!

Mixing with such a cluttered smell and smelling a spicy scent that irritated his nose, Arian walking ahead added an explanation for his supplement as he and Ponta looked around.

"There are so many spices coming in from Fabnach that the market here smells unique."

After that explanation of hers, I remembered the flavor of the spicy hamburger served inside Laratoia, and I spit and my throat rang unknowingly.

Ponta forming on the helmet is also attracted to various smells, or it conveys how he is busily moving around with his gaze all over the helmet.

Seeing myself and Ponta so softly restless, one elf shopkeeper came to speak toward this side of the street walking.

"Hey, I'm going there. Brother with flower armor on both hands, how about the fresh tomatoes that came in from the south the other day?

Characteristic ears long and pointy on slightly green blonde hair, and a young and neat face common to many of the Elves, while slightly puzzled by some obscure word of attraction that did not suit that face, his eyes naturally were drawn to the substitute he held in his hands.

They were undisputed, crimson ripe tomatoes.

"Oh, are there fresh raw tomatoes for sale in this harbor too"

I accidentally turn to Elf, the merchant who sells the tomatoes.

All the tomatoes I saw in Laratoia were dry tomatoes after they were dried, so I thought all the things that came into the Canadian Great Forest from the southern continent were just those processed things.

That tomato, which the elf merchant holds in his hand, is a little small and slightly longitudinally shaped, unlike the large, round objects seen in the original world.

"If you can buy it inside Landfriar, don't you even need to go to Fabnach?

From behind herself, who was drawn to the tomato shop, Ariane peeps into her mouth and says something like that. I shook my neck to the side to deny it.

"That's it, this is this. Because of this, we have a foothold in New Heaven and Earth, and now we can't turn back here. Besides, I'd like to see the country built by Lord Chiyome and his compatriots for the first time."

When I said that and returned it, Chiyome, who had followed me from behind, also nodded forcefully and showed tune.

I turn to the tomato merchant and mouth the order as I look at Arian clapping his shoulders.

"Store owner, sell me one tomato for a taste."

"Huh? One tomato for a taste…, is that it?

To his own words, the neat looking Elf merchant looked surprised and listened back to his order like a parrot.

When I twisted my neck, not knowing what that expression meant, I asked the shopkeeper as Arian remembered what it was like to watch it in the back.

"Oh, these tomatoes, they're pre-treated, right?

"Yes, we are cheap because we wholesale pre-processed tomatoes"

Instead of answering this side of the question, Arian talks to the merchant who was selling the tomatoes, and the merchant returns the answer to that, and Arian nods as he is convinced.

"The tomatoes here are pre-poisoned, so you can't eat them right away if you buy them. And because the currency only deals in gold, even if you pay in a quarter of gold, it becomes expensive, so you have to adjust it in quantity."

Thoughts stopped for a moment at the words of that Arian, and he had the illusion that the market was swiftly distant.

"Lord Arian, now what...? No, did I tell you tomatoes are poisonous!?

My voice grows too loud even to my own surprise, holding my own mouth by my hand by accident.

It was the elf merchant who was watching this side of the exchange that answered that question.

"What? You don't usually cook with a brother in armor? That's amazing! Tomatoes are originally poisonous and can't be eaten until they've been detoxified. Well, even if I say poison, it's to the point of running into the toilet with my belly down when I eat it! hahahahahaha"

That's what the elf merchant says and laughs off as he rolls the tomatoes he had in his hand.

Ariane told me the supplement so that I could take over the words of him.

"Originally, tomatoes were called" belly nuts ”in Fabnach in the south, and they were inferior to the mouth of people who had difficulty getting a bowel movement. But he liked the Fabnach kingdom enough for the first king to call the fruit” tomato "and eat it down his belly. At the time I saw it, I heard that when Evangeline created and gave away her magic tools to detoxify tomatoes, she was greatly appreciated by the king of Fabnach, and then the intimacy between Canada and Fabnach was deeper."

Drop your gaze on the tomatoes in the hands of the shopkeeper as you gavel at her talking about the familiarity between the Canadian Great Forest and the Fabnach Great Kingdom.

"... belly nuts, what a name you have no body or lid"

Shake your head (wearing it) and divulge yourself by surprise at that too dishonorable and cheap name.

Does eating tomatoes raw breaking your stomach break your stomach even if you speak in your current physical state?

I've never heard of diarrhoeal skeletons, but I don't think that's why I want to actively try them.

But Fabnach's first king, who named himself "tomato," a diarrhoea-inducing drug so to speak, was eating it aggressively, seems to be a human being in the same condition as himself.

Since the first Evangeline, 600 years ago, who built the Canadian Great Forest, is likely to be the same, they may have gotten to know tomatoes as cuts and managed to improve them so that they could eat tomatoes.

Surely it was five hundred years ago that the great kingdom of Fabnach was interested? Because intimacy at the time still continues as a North-South deal, we can see the relationship between the two.

"But how does this tomato detoxify and do it?

In the meantime, take your gaze off the tomatoes arranged in the store and ask Arian next door.

If it is not poisoned, it is not suitable for eating, then the mountains and the tomatoes piled in front of this eye can only be viewed.

"Tomatoes are definitely” antidote crystal balls "dipped in water for an hour or two, then cooked as is, or dried and preserved...... I think it was?

Ariane, who answered her question, turns her gaze to the store owner to ask whether or not she answered her question with a little less confidence.

Besides, the shopkeeper nodded back with a full grin and affirmed her answer.

"I can't believe I can't speak raw in this place right now... But, well, if you can get that" antidote crystal, "what you found out is that eating raw tomatoes is going to happen."

Saying goodbye to the shopkeeper with the thought of pulling his hair behind him, he leads the way as he cools down the shops further ahead.

There are also quite a variety of spices such as spices that come from the southern continent lined up in the store, so much so that when I looked at them, I felt that the belly bugs that I didn't think would have come to mind.

I was blinded by all those grocery stores, but I caught my eye on the products lined up in one of the outdoor stores.

It looked like a store handling parchment paper, papyrus-like paper, etc., and as several different sizes of products, such as brand new scrolls and paper bundles, lined up in the store, apart from that, he turned his feet to a painting already decorated with paper in written condition, etc.

"Store owner, where is the landscape depicted on this paper?

I ask the owner of the store who is surprised and concerned about the full body armor that stopped at the store, pointing to the product that I have shown interest in.

The product I pointed out earlier, it depicted some city view on a piece of paper in an elaborate brush, and not only was there one object like that landscape painting, but several other objects depicted elsewhere were also decorated in the store.

"Oh, is this it? This is a portrait of the King's capital of the Great Fabnach kingdom, and then a few of those points are a portrait of Plymouth on Harbor Street."

Did you recognize this person as a customer to a question that showed interest in the product, and the owner's man carefully returns the question to this person?

Arian and Chiyome also expressed interest in the landscape ahead depicted, staring at it as they devoured those landscape paintings decorated in the store with the owner's description in their ears.

In this less developed world of transportation, these other landscapes and unusual creature paintings are probably a sort of entertaining sensation.

"Do you have anything you like?

To the inquiry of the shopkeeper, he nodded loudly and informed him of his willingness to buy by pointing to one of the products lined up in the store.

"Why did you buy that? I thought I'd buy a picture paper."

After the earlier outdoor shop for a while, Arian said so and asked with a strange face.

As she said, what I bought earlier at the outdoor store was not a landscaped object. Speaking of what I bought, the size was a bundle of paper and writing tools that were stringed around A4 size paper.

"Lord Arian, my long-distance transfer magic [the transfer gate (gate)] is capable of traveling in an instant to a remembered landscape location, but as long as it depends on memory, it is limited according to one's memory. But if you keep the destination landscape on this piece of paper, it's a lot easier to tap it into your memories."

While wearing a thick bundle of paper, I look at the painting paper in an open shop earlier and say what I came up with.

Then Arian also struck his hand with great agreement in the wind, which he was honestly impressed with the proposal.

"Well done, that would be good for remembering a lot of destinations. Otherwise, Ark would fly off somewhere else, somewhere different from where he was meant to be, somewhere else he wouldn't seem to be."

While I was listening to such rude things about Arian, I even came past the shop-lined streets to the doorway of the port of Landfriar.

To see the pale sea stretching out in front of him spread beneath his eyes, it was apparently a little high in this area. The port where the ship docks is built into a cove, almost like going down a steep slope on the shoreline to get down to the port.

But many people can see moving around in the harbor that you can see under your eyes, but few people use the stairs that lead to the harbor.

Down the stairs of its fairly high shoreline, there was a large cavity under the cliff where its harbour was located, some of which even housed the likes of harbour-related warehouses and underground docks.

Apparently this is a two-tiered structure above and below ground level.

The warehouse built on the shoreline of the cavity is connected to the ground inside, and many people and luggage can be seen moving in and out.

"It's like a secret base in a harbor..."

I approach the harbor with such excitement, but from where I was passing through the stairs it was forbidden in principle to enter the harbor, or a fence about the height of my hips had been placed to prevent further intrusion.

"It's off-limits to anyone but port officials. But tomorrow I'm going to board the Leaveberta moored over there, so I'm going to go inside."

As I stretched my neck through the harbor with a slight shame to peek in, Arian, standing next to me, showed me one sailboat that was moored in an underground harbor.

Would the total length of that sailboat, called its Lieb Berta, be about a hundred meters, the world boasted the largest mysterious sailboat ever seen in an underground lake, but it was slightly over that size.

There are not many types of decorations like the sailboats created by the people, but rather like the pursuit of functional beauty, it feels quite prestigious to have a mast with folded sails standing three times on the deck.

Isn't the hull part wooden, or the slightly whitish tulle hard surface reflects the light between the waves to sparkle.

"Lord Arian, what is that sailboat made of?

I ask Arian unexpectedly about the texture of the modern ship somewhere in it, but she twisted her neck and roared whether she was also oblivious to the ship relationship.

"Mm-hmm, I don't know that much about the ship either... But I've heard they use dragon scale to increase the durability of ships."

With that said, Arian looks back at the sailboat Lieb Berta that docks.

Watch yourself eat that moored sailboat without thinking about its fantasy specifications, such as using dragon materials in the armor of the ship.

I don't know how proud the Dragon's scaly system is of its defenses, but if I may say so, this sailboat is an armored ship.

It's not very clear from this position, but since you can see some cannon-like items lined up on the deck, it would be better to call it a trading battleship than a trading merchant ship.

But I remember that armoured ships using iron, steel, etc. had originally evolved against the explosive-based shells used by enemy artillery, but what the hell was that armor supposed to be?

From Arian's mouth when he saw the cannon previously mounted on the sailboat in the underground lake, he had the impression that people and others had not even manufactured the cannon properly yet, as opposed to explosive-based shells......

Buried in such thought, Arian suddenly slapped me on the shoulder and looked back.

"It's time to go, because you don't have to peek so hard from here, you'll hate it tomorrow and see it as close as you can"

Nodding back at that word of hers, I look back at the trading battleship Lieb Berta docking in the harbor.

Let's honestly leave it to the quiet exhilaration of tomorrow's sailing journey without thinking about the difficult things now.

My immediate concern is whether I can sleep tonight in the mood before this excursion.