Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru

Eighteen stories: Metropolis and the Rise

The line that revealed the night at the break cabin left the cabin after everyone woke up the next morning also in the dim, eating a heavy breakfast called Almal's BBQ (seasoned only with table salt brought by Ichigo).

The sky is still dim, and the streets to Isteria that lead into the woods are as dark as the dark night.

Other than Yiliang, his companions collect mushrooms and weeds that can be eaten from time to time, and they seem to look good in the woods, but Yiliang, who has a vision of about 1.5, only manages to have enough vision to see how his feet look.

Still, I was carefully walking closer to Barletta walking next door, but as I walked, my eyes grew accustomed to it step by step, and somehow I could see my surroundings.

If it's true, I'd like to use the portable lantern I brought, but in case people come from the Isteria side, I can't use it in a detour.

The fact that I brought a corner but can't use it is just luggage.

"You all have pretty good eyes for looking good even in this dark. I can finally see my surroundings."

When Ichigo spoke to Barletta that way, Barletta tilted her little neck strangely.

"Really? I think it's normal... Ah, but Mr. Rosru seems to have pretty good eyes."

Last night, when Roslu hunted Almal, he was somewhat predictable, but the humans in this world seem to have pretty good eyesight.

Because I don't even get books satisfactorily, I rarely do things like reading things for long periods of time nearby, and if I had lived like I was asleep with the sun since I was born, I might be able to get super vision like them.

Roslu's vision is special, probably because he's a hunter.

"Uh, sure. I was in the dark woods last night, and I was stopping Almal with arrows in one shot, hey. It's a black animal, but you can often find it."

"True, isn't it? I can hardly find a black Almal in the middle of the night."

Take even the streets of the woods with such a story as Barletta.

That's how the sky brightened up as I walked, and the light plunged into the woods, which were dark.

Pinch a few breaks along the way and walk in the woods for five hours.

When the neighborhood was much brighter, Ichigo and the others went out of the woods.

"Is that it? Could it be that you've reached Isteria already?

To the sight spreading in front of him, Ichigo asked Barletta, who was walking next door.

Ahead through the woods, as far as I can see, the fields are wide open, and I can see private houses everywhere.

"No, this is a barn zone around Isteria. Isteria is just past this barn zone."

"The barn zone...... this is quite something. I can't see the end of the field."

Ichirano tried to find where the end of the field was, but the field continues to be extended, and that's what it also looks like extending to the other side of the horizon.

People are seen taking care of the fields everywhere, but the plants growing in the fields were small, lacking water or lacking energy, and some of them were withering away.

There are trenches on the sides of the field that seem to be waterways everywhere, but now the water is callable without passing through.

"It's quite large, isn't it? The fields stretch all the way around Isteria, and there are villages and towns everywhere."

"Uhm, you produce food on a large scale for a long time...... by the way, what is the Isteria population going to be there?

When Ichigo inquired that way, Barletta put her hand on her mouth and gave a bare gesture to think a little.

"Eh, I did hear from my father a few years ago that there were about 200,000..."

"Mr. Barletta, there must be nearly 300,000 people here by now."

"Hmm, 300,000 people...... and 300,000 people live there too!?

Ichigo unwittingly looks back and asks Rosru, who supplements Barletta's answer.

"Yeah, right after the truce four years ago, the Isterian population was down to about 200,000, but by royal decree, the other lords' inhabitants are incorporated as Nalson-like inhabitants every year by the thousands. If there were another war, it would be obvious that the Isthère realm, which borders Barbell for the longest time, would be a war zone."

"I see, is that why you're gathering people"

Apparently, the city of Isteria is quite a huge city.

When I was questioning Barletta and the village chief in the village, I asked him about the city and the type of store, but I didn't ask him about the size of the city at heart.

Nevertheless, it turns out to be a city considerably larger than what I had imagined, which is a delightful miscalculation for the better.

I am concerned that we are gathering people for war, but there will be no talk of what will happen in the immediate future, as the Truce is still four years away.

"We'll get there if we work a little harder, let's just work a little harder"

"Of course, I'll do my best! Say..."

Thus, while enduring the pain of the mame on the soles of his feet, Ichigo made desperate strides toward the metropolitan Isteria in a grumpy manner.

Five hours of walking down the streets along a field that stretches.

He continued to walk even as he caught a small pause such as a meal break overlooking the field (he ate cans making sure there were no people around him), and the line finally arrived in front of the huge castle gate, which was the entrance to and exit from Isteria.

The sun is leaning slightly, but there's still going to be time before the sun goes down.

"Wow, is this all wallproof? Are you surrounding the city all the way?"

In front of a large gate entering Isteria City, Ichigo was surprised by the length of the barrier stretching on both sides of it.

The walls, which are likely to be five metres tall and made of stone, extend to protect the city of Isteria.

The gate was made of wooden with a kannon door style, it was very thick with bronze and well reinforced, and it also looked like it was four meters high.

There seems to be a surveillance soldier with a spear positioned on the wall every few hundred meters, looking around from time to time.

Apparently, the walls still had unfinished parts, and people were seen carrying out construction everywhere.

In addition to the walls, they also built towers, which were built in a way that stuck to the walls, and there was a far-sighted view of the tree skeleton inside the exterior walls of the stones about to be made.

"Mr. Kazra, we're going into the city."

Barletta speaks with a bitter smile to Ichigo and Mura, who are looking at the walls and gates of the castle with their mouths gently open, side by side as if you were up.

Ichigo...

"Oh, yes."

and replied raw, still diving the gate with his mouth open and looking up at the huge castle gate.

There were several guards where they dived the gate, one line informing the guards that they had come to sell the firewood and arcadian worms carrying them and that they had come from the village of Grisea, and Barletta had shown them the leather paper of the certificate from the village of Grisea out of the bag.

They couldn't bring weapons into the city, so they deposited the weapons they brought with the guards and received a wooden plate in exchange.

At that time, Barletta was giving the guard a few copies of copper coins as an admission fee, but all he needed was an admission fee and the rental of the weapons was free.

"Wow, this is awesome, it's like being in a medieval movie..."

Ichiya, who entered the city, voiced her amazement at the view coming into view.

First of all, unlike the village of Grisea, there are many buildings anyway.

On both sides of a straight stretch of road about seven metres wide, wooden and stone buildings are built at regular intervals, and the streets are crossed by many people.

In the distance you can also see large, domed buildings made of stone, and many splendid buildings on two or three floors.

Behind the castle gate was built a wooden hut that looked like a guard's stuffing, and the guard, who supposedly came out to take turns, climbed the stairs that were on the fence.

"Are you going to sell firewood or something fast?

Ichigo manages to contain the urge to photograph the city and the guards around with the digital cameras he sneaks in, quenching his excitement and speaking to Barletta.

Next door Mullah was still seen in the sight of the city with her mouth still open.

"No, I'm heading to the joint lodging today because the sun is already starting to fall. It's tomorrow to sell things and buy nails."

"Co-accommodation… is it like a lodging?

"Hmm, a little different. It's not like a room is addressed individually, like a room, but a facility where a large group of people sleep in a large room. It's a public facility run by the city, so the accommodation is very cheap plus meals. Even so, it's just dinner."

I guess it's a clogged place, a facility that feels like it made the break shed I stayed in last night bigger.

Someone with some money stays in an inn, and people who don't have money or want to save may sleep in such public facilities.

"And pay close attention to thieves because they sleep in a group. Seems like they steal a lot of stuff while you're asleep. I think it's all right because I'm taking turns with my luggage number."

Barletta's joint accommodation description was accompanied by a "yes" response from Isteria Novices.

I walked around the city for about twenty minutes and the line came to a joint lodging to take care of this evening.

The co-lodging building is like a wooden bungalow, and the ceiling is not that high, but it's just the size of the elementary school gym.

There is another building in the back of the lodging, apparently a cooking area to be seen from the smell that drifts.

When Barletta paid the old man at the reception just moments after entering the entrance and went inside, there were quite a few of the forebears sitting back in a thoughtful place.

"Wow, this is so crowded."

"We weren't so crowded when we got here before... oh, we're free around there, let's rest there"

Barletta, who was looking over the lodging, finds just enough room for a row to rest and arrives at the place with care for the sitting and falling asleep ancestors.

When we got to the empty space, we each unloaded our luggage and sat down, taking a breath.

"But this is a really big city. There are lots of buildings, and I never thought the whole city would be covered with walls."

Ichigo unbandaged the bandage that was wrapped around his leg and disinfected the mame on his sole with oxydor while hiding it with a cape, he drank the water and spoke to the barettas taking a breath.

Mullah is wearing her cape out of her head and sneaking the drop out of her Zuta bag and throwing it into her mouth.

"There was no barrier when my father brought me here ten years ago, but it looks like you started building it after the war started. I'm just saying it's not costly enough and it's not completely finished yet."

"We're talking about building a big fort along the border with Barbell since the truce, so I'm sure that's delaying the completion of the city's fence. Well, there's a truce period of four more years, so I'm sure it'll be done by then."

"Mmm, a fort. Don't get intrigued by it..."

When Yiliang and the others were talking like that, the door that was behind the lodging opened and a tree trolley carrying a large pot from inside was carried.

People who had fallen asleep on the floor until then get up instantly and make a long line ahead of us and in front of the pan.

"Looks like you're ready to eat. Shall we line up too?"

"Right."

I also have to take turns for my luggage, so I line up to pick up my meals half at a time.

The only thing served as a meal was a thin flavoured soup with a little vegetables in the wooden jar, which didn't even have a spoon on it, but I guess I'm not about to complain because it's a cheap joint lodging.

One line that Ichirano had become accustomed to eating canned rice with plenty of salt from Japan gave him an indescribable look with his mouth full of the thin vegetable soup he had received.

"Um, has this been the way this lodging meal has been?

"No, at least it had more utensils in it when I came two years ago to sell fur, and the flavor was darker than this. And I think it came with one loaf of bread."

While the Yilians talked about it, they snuck the good brought table salt into the soup so that it couldn't be seen around them, darkened the flavor, and then mouthed it again.

It kind of tastes like just warm salt water, but it's better than drinking it as it is without anything in it.

Together, among mushrooms and weeds picked in the woods, he chose what could even be eaten raw and mouthed it while soaking it in brine, succeeding in obtaining fullness, albeit dissatisfaction.

Even while they were doing that, they were replacing ultra-thin vegetable soup, with long queues in front of the pan again.