Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

Ekart pokes me in the back, stopping my foot by accident.

"Hey, don't stop, okay? If you show bad sympathy, we'll get together, okay?

"No -"

"Such a prelude as to fall in front of you. They cut off their kids' hands and feet to get change."

Ekart tells him to throw up with a bitter look on his face, but he did lose the left arm of the fallen child from half.

I was wondering if the demons attacked me with a lot of site defects on the residents here, but is that actually true?

Maybe he's a wounded soldier... but he's a child. Damn bad chest.

"If you're a merchant carriage, I'll throw you out in front of a horse, even a kid"

I don't jump out in front of noble carriages because they are truncated without question.

If you are a merchant, if the carriage stops even if the child is struck, that's fine.

Make him stop his leg and hope to spend it, and in some cases forcefully take it away.

Sounds like that kind of place.

"Nao, what's our job?

"You're the escort of Master Ilias."

"Right."

Hulka says nothing more, but don't lose sight of it, you want to say.

When I look at Toya, I tie my mouth to a single letter, holding my hand.

I've never seen a slum like this in any of the Raffan, Sarlstadt, Kerg, or Pinning I've visited before, but is it so far different depending on the lord?

Or is it some other factor?

With a bad feeling, we reached the gate as we were, and it was us who went into the city, but right around the corner, this was also a little better than the slums outside, to the extent.

The same is true of poor hygiene, because there are walls and the wind is difficult to get through, the air is more starving than earlier, and there is an awful smell of nausea.

"What the hell, this town..."

"This is what it looks like around the north gate over here. It's a completely different neighborhood, so bear with it."

For once, Pinning is just an adjacent town, I guess we have some experience here.

The Ekarts are not surprised, though the soldiers are showing a ravenous appearance.

It seems that the accommodation to be headed has been decided, and as we move on with Ekart's lead, we can see the streets getting cleaner step by step.

"That's where we're staying today."

That's what Ekart pointed to: a large stone building standing by the river.

Upon coming around here, the surrounding buildings were in about the same condition as a slightly better area of pinning.

"There's too much difference in the same city..."

Ekart shrugs his shoulders in my grumpy words.

"That's what makes it so special. - Master Ilias, we have arrived."

When Ekart speaks, the carriage door opens to follow Arlin and the samurai, and Master Ilias descends.

"Good luck."

"No, Master Ilias, good luck"

And Elias called out unto the captains, and went into the inn, and thereafter followed by five or fewer Ekarts.

The rest of the soldiers moved the carriage toward the stables, and we went to the inn with the last of the Marys who came down.

We head to the room, guided by the innkeeper who showed up by rubbing hands.

One room for the whole party was addressed to us.

I don't have the impression that it is small and painful because the rooms are quite large, although the rooms are packed with about six beds at slightly narrow intervals.

Naturally, the main guest room is Elias and the maid, and the soldiers, like us, seem to use the two rooms around them.

However, Hulka and Natsuki are supposed to go to Master Ilias' room as escorts at bedtime.

I won't go to bed because it's all over the city, but it's a precaution.

"Ha... some towns like this"

"Oh. That was a good place, Rafan."

Because we're alone in the room, Toya responds to words I accidentally leaked.

"You can't make a town."

"Right. Probably intentional."

Here in the town of Mijara is a river harbour town built beside a large river, located downstream of Sarlstat.

Like Sarlstadt, the town is built to cross the river.

Having said that, there is not much fishing going on, and basically the main role seems to be to collect the luggage brought from the town of Django, located in the north-west, and to transport it downstream to the territorial capital of Crevily.

The work of handing it over is also one of the important tasks, as the streets stretching from Pinning to Mijara continue beyond the river to Crevily, but no bridges are built there.

However, as you can see from the state of maintenance of the streets, as things stand, there are few transactions between Pinning and Mijara, and most of the luggage is transported from Django.

The luggage from Pinning will be gathered in the town on the west side of the river and from Django in the town on the east side of the river, and I think the town on the east side will inevitably develop more...

"If you did, you'd split too nicely in the gradient."

As we approach the river, it smooths by stunning, and the surrounding conditions get better.

And if you want the river from the room, you see a beautiful city that's not comparable to this one, so whatever you think, I just think the exchangers dare to do that.

Compared here, it even looks like a town that hasn't had any problems, such as a rough Kerg due to the commotion.

Eyes on the other side of the window, those with slams, but naturally, what's there is nothing you can see on the wall.

"Nao, help the slum kids, don't say that, okay?

"I won't tell you. Besides... we've already discussed that, haven't we? Hey, Toya."

"Right. Mary and Meatier, that's our vessel."

"Right.... It was worse than I imagined."

"Yeah. Knowing it as knowledge is actually... quite different than seeing it"

After picking up the Marys, I had already heard stories from Hulka and Yuki about 'if you were traveling, you would start seeing similar sights frequently'.

And the fact that 'I can't help you, so I need to abandon you'.

Without it, the impact on this town would have been even greater.

"We're lucky, aren't we? Let the Hulkas pick it up."

"Well, to be honest, I was pretty unsure if I was going to help the Marys. Toya made up her mind. That's part of it."

"I take that for granted. In fact, no one in town helped me, and what a seriously injured child is just in the way. Because that's normal."

From our senses in this world, the treatment of children is rather crude.

Farmers, for example.

The eldest son, who inherits the farmland, takes care of it and, as a preliminary, treats it quite well up to the second degree.

But after that, there's no room. There's no land to let you inherit, there's no job.

It's still better if you're going to be given some money and let out of the house, thrown naked consistently, or the toddler is mistaken if life becomes bitter.

That's normal.

I guess slavery can sometimes be sold as slavery, but this country doesn't have it, and children don't get paid.

When this happens, it's hard to tell whether the lack of slavery is a good thing or a bad thing.

Because it's such a treatment, stranger - no, such a good man wouldn't, even if he was somewhat close, if he said he could pay for dozens to hundreds of pieces of gold to help a severely injured child.

It's not such a sweet world to be protected because you're a woman and a child.

A father protects one child and dies instead.

It may be a good story, but in reality, we lose the big black pillar and the remaining children starve to death as well.

It's better to abandon one child.

It is still such a social situation.

"And then, because it was Kerg, right? I don't think I would have done anything if I'd seen Mary in this town."

"That number, hey. I can't help it..."

The situation is too harsh.

Neither good nor comparable with the burns of the Marys, but as Ekart put it, the fewer of the five satisfied children were even seen to be untreated.

"I don't think I can handle it with some money, but a little more, would you like to donate it to the temple as well?

"You might want to avoid that."

"Mr. Arlyn......"

It was Mr. Arlyn who suddenly opened the door and came in.

"I'm sorry. I went in without permission. Because it's what I heard that bothered me."

"No, I don't mind that...... why?

"Perhaps you all were heartbroken to see how the slam was..."

"Yes."

"Halfway there - no, I can't recommend intervening at all. I know you've heard that the Baron Diaz family is considerably wealthier than our own, but on top of that, it is."

If necessary, the Viscount Nenas family can pom over a thousand gold coins.

Baron Diaz family to do there and say 'pretty wealthy'......

"Can't or won't do anything with some money?

"The latter, right? Now there are no orphanages in this town's temple."

"Aren't they usually co-located?

"You don't. The temple is independent before it's built, but it's almost impossible to run an orphanage without subsidies from the lord."

What we do as a lord's policy.

When an adventurer does something to get in the way of it, he sees it.

Besides, if that's the Viscount Nenas' escort, it annoys the Viscount as well.

That seems to be the case.

"Here, we are deliberately making a difference to the inhabitants. And I'm showing it off. You know what? There's no slums in Cleville, is there? Because all those without money are banished."

It seems that taxes here in Baron Diaz are significantly higher than in Viscount Naenas and elsewhere.

With that, Baron Diaz is wealthy, but high tax rates inevitably increase the number of people who can't pay.

In that case, fields, shops, etc. are relentlessly confiscated and gradually fall apart.

And the destination is the slam.

It seems that the final location is outside the gates we came through.

"By showing it, the inhabitants are desperate. He doesn't want to be. Thanks to that, tax revenues seem to be good..."

Using a class system to divert dissatisfaction, or tighten it, is often said, but in practice….

"The temple also cooks out and so on, and seems to offer some subsidies for it... rather than bailouts, it seems to me, to keep it alive in a critical way"

As for Mr. Arlyn, who belongs to the Viscount Nenas family, it must be unacceptable.

Tell him to throw up with a bitter face.

Even with such opponents, nobility is also a causal business because they go out to celebrate with a smile, with expensive gifts.

"Is that not going to be a problem?

"You won't. It is the Lord's authority to determine the amount of tax. It's against national law if you enslave it because you can't pay taxes, but even if you confiscate fields, that's a legitimate right. You can't invade a king."

"A problem not solved by nobility or, no, by a king? There's nothing we can do about it."

"Huh," Toya exhaled heavily, turning up and shrugging her shoulders.

"Technically, if the king activates power, we'll figure it out, but it'll be hard. Because there is no power enough to crush a territorial nobleman easily."

Mr Arlin says so, adding: "That is why the Viscount Nenas family also remained".

That's right.

The dungeon we're exploring, the scandal about alle.

I can somehow imagine the power relationship in this country because there is no forfeiture of the title, only the replacement of the Lord, and my brother is allowed to be the Lord.

"That's why I'm sorry, but even if you're dissatisfied. If anything happens, we can't shelter you. Unless, of course, it's so unreasonable that it's against national law."

"Okay. I'll keep that in mind."

Everyone, including Mr. Arlyn, feels the same way they don't.

But it was the same again that Haruka responded with a dark expression and nodded.