Vermillion

"Father......!?

To Elidoor's confession, we both looked at each other.

"No way, was Eridore a nobleman......"

"Dear Elidoor, should I have called you?

Kay looks heartfelt, Eileen inquires with a pranky grin. Elidoor smiled bitterly again and shook her head, "No, no, no."

"Come on. My father is noble, but I am a civilian."

When asked, Elidoor's father raised his martial arts in a former battle and was a one-generation nobleman told by a knight.

Elidoor is that three boy. Unfortunately, he didn't have the talent for martial arts, so he worked in a merchant's office before becoming a village chief.

By the way, my oldest and second son were military men. Generation-only aristocrats can sometimes be described as equal to their parents if their sons also achieve merit. But happy or unhappy, Lord Krause's peaceful reign continues, with no shadow of war, and he is unlikely to be 'born' in the army.

The brothers who cut off from the army are now in the pioneering business with Eridore.

"... my older brother is a tax collector in the village of Latica, which was originally given to my father as a territory. Would you have stopped by the little village along the street before you came to our village? It's that village. My younger brother is a little further north from here... by the woods closer to Wolvern, and he's the head of another pioneering village."

This pioneering circumstance seems to have been one in which the knight's father had spent a long time planning and collecting funds "so that he could leave something behind for his children". He started in earnest a few years ago because it was clear and permission was given by the Duke.

"So we're taking care of the village, and Dad's taking it easy on Wolvern's mansion. Life in the capital is expensive, but living in the countryside is physically pleasant, and my father will have to live long..."

Eridore, who said so, had a tender face with her eyes butt down.

By the way, after my father's death, the territory will be taken in as the direct jurisdiction of the Duke. Not immediately given to another nobleman, but with time for the Eridors to consolidate their foundations, it doesn't seem so bad as a treatment.

"… especially if the village can survive………"

With his expression on his face, Elidoah closed her words with a heavy tone.

"Enough to be..."

Kay nodding in arms was honestly filled with "sorry I suspected a bad lord or something".

"Don't be in trouble if the village doesn't continue. Even for your father."

"Not at all. But only this time, I have to turn to judgment. It's in my hands."

Irene is full of sympathy, and Elidoor wants you to pose.

"As for you two, what do you think? Would it still be reckless to continue the village like this?

They looked at each other again,

"Depends on the case"

and answered with a different accent.

"…?

"First, that's the most important thing about how fast the [deep (avis)] boundaries will move in the future. Even now, if erosion seems to be progressing at explosive speeds, you should just run away because you won't say anything bad."

Kay said that with a serious face.

If swallowed by the realm of [deep], weeds begin to grow at an abnormal rate and crops lose to it. If "The Pioneer of Abyss" blooms, it may become temporary income, but it is deadly as a rural area for fields to become useless. In addition to that, dangerous poisonous insects and beasts appear from the forest, making it extremely difficult to live a daily life.

That is probably how Joaquin's "Kingdom of the People of the Ancient Sea Plains" perished, too.

"It's just going to take some time to observe that. Explosive erosion, but [deep] doesn't come tomorrow today, because it will be at least a few years' worth of talk, so don't worry."

"I don't feel comfortable at all……………"

Elidoor looks pitiful with her eyebrows in the letter "C" on Kay's words, whose authenticity comes through with a hint of seriousness.

"Well, that being said, the erosion may have stopped already and the boundaries may not move from there. It's too early to give up."

Eileen says it like a rest, but it's not like it's actually possible. Looks like Eridore got some hope back, too.

"I hope so… in that case, would it be okay to maintain the status quo?"

"No... if asked if it's dangerous, it's definitely dangerous. Sometimes [deep] is close, but most importantly, adjacent to the forest that leads to [deep] is bad."

stroking his jaw, Kay points out.

"Assuming you keep living here, don't need a lot of precautions"

"…… measures, can you? For example?"

"Cut and expand the forest. The beast of [Deep (Abyss)] basically doesn't want to go out into an open place, so you just have to land around the village before it erodes into [Deep]. That way, like the last time I saw Grandurus, the beast would escape to the village... and things like that should be avoided."

Kay's "countermeasures" were a force without a body or lid. Exactly environmental damage recommendation.

"That's tough...... or you can't. Our village alone……………."

The boulder elidoors also shut too powerfully. How much effort and time it took just to cut and expand this village. Without any civil work machines, there is a lot of impotence, such as manpower to change forests to more land.

Whatever you say, Kay, that's better than you know.

"I guess...... But I think we should do everything we can. You hire people, you cut down more trees even if you don't..."

"Besides, the Duke of Wolvern is not a human resource, so if you tell him, he'll try to take some action."

Eileen, elbowed with her left hand, slaps the trick and the table with her right finger.

"Even if we say that we have quite a distance to the capital, it means that the territory may sink [deep], and we can't leave it to mankind. I will definitely be an investigative team and send a" Dead Bird (Plug) "sorcerer. At least for a few years, this village should be the hub of the investigation mission."

It is also possible that the flow will bring together desolates and adventurers who aim for a thousand dollars to explore [deep]. Eileen expressed an absurd idea to expand the village to the woods if the safety of the village is paramount, and to build reception facilities for such flowers - accommodations, cafeterias, liquor bars, etc. - when it is necessary, it becomes a wall, etc.

"And then, … if your father was a knight and your brothers a soldier, could you somehow work for the army with that handout? You know, building garrisons."

"That is…… impossible."

Elidoor shook her head at Eileen's suggestion.

"In addition to reporting to His Majesty, all we can do on our own is to recall our father's squire, who belongs to the army at best. My brothers Conne is unfortunately not a big deal. And it's hard for my father to get help from another nobleman because he's a grown-up, and this is my father's territory in the first place... unless it's a special tease from His Majesty, we'll have to do something about it ourselves"

Ha, and sighed Elidoor, turning back to Holland.

"Hopefully, everyone at the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce will promote this product. [Deep] precious material was picked near the village of Vaak, ……"

"Of course, if that's the extent of the matter, I'll let you cooperate"

Holland answers with a strange face and nods with the other merchants.

"Assuming that the [deep] material comes in steadily, the traffic may also be more frequent. Depending on future trends, of course, I'll just talk to the Chamber of Commerce headquarters."

"… thank you. Ask Joaquin to sing this one..."

With a caress of his beard, Elidoor is thinking. Joaquin wouldn't say no, either, as he can get the profits of this exploration to be mountainized.

Eridore, who had dropped her gaze on the table for a while, looked up and laughed at Kay powerlessly.

"I would be relieved if Kay would stay in our village..."

"... I'm sorry, we're going back to Satina."

Kay answers with a troubled face. I sympathize with the current situation in the village of Vaak, but I don't even want to live there because of that. Kay and Irene have something to do. "Ha, I'm kidding," grinned Eridore, waving.

Slight hindsight.

"... hey Holland, you're already staying in the village of Vaak today, aren't you?

"Nn? Yeah, 'cause it's too late to leave for Euria."

Asked by Kay, Holland sees the day he plugs in through the window. It's still summer so the sun is high, but it's time for the evening.

"Right. I'm sorry to leave without doing anything like this... Eridore, if you don't mind lending me an axe."

"What? Axe?

Eye catching elidoors. "Oh," nodded Kay, taking his seat as he wrapped his arms around him.

"Because it's stupid. I'm the one who told you to cut down more trees, let me just help you out a little bit."

So he lent him his axe, and Kay came out of the village.

The men of the village and the other wild horses who listened to Elidoors are the same.

Kay was lent a cutting axe for both hands with a pattern length of about fifty centimeters. Probably the best quality of what is in the village compared to the hand axe that other men have.

"Kay, what about the axe?

insignificant, Elidoor asks. He's worried that if I say one thing or the other, he'll destroy the axe. You seem to care what Kay said earlier about "stupid power".

"What, don't worry. I've been eating like this for a while."

To Kay's answer, both Eridore and the surrounding wild horses, "!? He just said he couldn't believe it, but it's true. Especially in the game.

[DEMONDAL] So it costs money to do anything anyway, so it was the iron plate that made the subcharacter for the gold measure. Kay has a quick wooden dust that can be done with a single axe. From the beginning, Eileen did each of the explorers who dived deep into the woods with a full swing of speed, taking rare materials and going home with a dash.

"Well, let's get started."

Kay walks over to the young tree at the forest entrance, making sure the axe is in good shape.

I'm not sure about the tree appraisal, but it would be a kind of oak tree. The thickness of the trunk is about twenty centimeters in diameter, just right for the start of the hand.

"Ok."

Without much force, swing the blade down the trunk, aware of the centrifugal force. A kong dry sound echoed through the woods. It was a 'light' blow in Kay's subjectivity, but as powerful as the full swing of a common adult male.

Axe eating obliquely against the trunk, just pull out the blade, now try to shake it up from the bottom and tap it in.

A blade that plunges about ten centimeters down from the first incision. It's intentional, not detached. Proceed with the logging consciously so that if the diagonal incision is tied in a straight line, it is at a right angle.

Con, con, con, con, contiguous petty sound, repeated it twice and three times peeled off the area sandwiched in the upper and lower incisions.

The inside of the trunk is deeply exposed - at that rate, he taps with a blade for more tricks and 'digging'. Cuts of 'ku' lettering that form all the way through.

Finally, if you take the other side lightly, you're done.

"Like this."

Young tree falling down making noises with merimerimeri. It took about a minute.

"You don't seem to have lost your arm, Kay."

"Oh, my God."

Kay laughs bitterly at Irene, who is so greatly benevolent. As long as Kay's current physical abilities are in place, it's not that difficult. And this axe looks quite a delicacy, and the center of gravity is well balanced and easy to handle. This is going to be pretty efficient.

"Yes... in a moment"

"Are you sure you've been doing this…………"

"So mildly...... that axe is so heavy"

Kay nodding satisfactorily, the outfield is on purpose.

"Okay, let's go at this rate."

With a refreshing smile, Kay looks for the next 'prey' in the hunter's eyes. The summer logging festival in the village of Vaak has only just begun.

†††

Kay then, with the village men, continued his non-stop logging until dusk and succeeded in retreating the surrounding forests by nearly ten metres.

From young trees to large trees, Kay alone chopped down trees more than fifty gracefully. It's a staggering record, even though he left the stump to devote himself to logging.

Even while the men around him were tired and resting, Kay, waving his axe with great pleasure, left the name "Tired (Tyares)" and "The Principality's Best Wood Dust" wanting.

By the way, Irene handed out drinks with him before heading back to the village. She joined the women for dinner, making the evening a luxurious barbecue in the open.

Sometimes, thanks to the trees that Kay cut down, firewood trees could be secured in large quantities, and even bonfire-like bonfires have been burned. Joaquin played a cheerful song, and the villagers made a noise as they drank and ate, and everyone was floating around as if it were a real festival. It's like trying to forget your anxiety about the future.

Eventually, the bonfire burns out, and the night book descends.

Kays, who had been invited to Ellidoor's house, thankfully lay herself on the bedside in the guest room.

It's a hammock-shaped bunk with a cloth hanging from a wooden frame. Cool and comfortable to sleep in this season. Eli Door, if it is winter, it will be filled with fur and straw underneath.

"No, I ate. I ate."

Eileen is delighted as she falls asleep and strokes her stomach. At dinner, he wanted to like the stew of summer vegetables and wild rabbits behaved in a large pot, and he was eating molly. Kay also nods that there was plenty of vanilla grown in the village's herb garden and that was delicious.

Often, a comfortable silence.

"... Speaking of which, Eileen. I think it's time I started working on my magic."

Stay asleep next to Eileen and look up at the ceiling, Kay says.

"Oh, finally."

"Uhm. I want to be able to make my own level of arrow avoidance and monster props."

"I want me too"

"Of course I make Irene's share"

Rather make it for Eileen, Kay murmured in her chest.

"That's why I have one favor to ask..."

It's gonna be expensive.

"Can I pay you in installments?

"Whatever. So?"

"With the power of Kerstin, I want you to create a demonic prop that manipulates shadows"

Request a long usable type of magic item that consumes extremely little magic power.

"Ah, well. I thought I could use that... it would sell so much, but maybe if I found out about this, it would suck."

"I guess."

Vasily, the "Dead Bird" sorcerer, said some sorcerers lose their lives in training. Even beginners can easily train their magic without risking their lives. Demonic props are definitely in demand, but that is why they are awkward. I can definitely get your eyes on the great guy.

"Especially that Wolvern bald guy......"

It reminds me of a silver-haired mushroom, or a sarah brown haired long scalloped old man, and Irene puts her face up. Valgren-Kremlat - "You can talk to the magic school in the capital," he said kindly, "but who is he himself who can do that? There is no doubt that he is a noble and sorcerer of high rank.

And the Principality is a nation that strengthens the tactical operation of magicians. If the demonic props of magic training are out of touch, they may no longer choose the means.

They nodded at each other, trying to keep this confidential.

"Well, if that's the extent of it, it's cheap. Looking forward to Kay's future."

"Leave it to me."

There are not only practical types of talismans, but also a number of fans, hairdryers, etc. You can't even eat a single hunter, but I want to live in Rich if possible.

"…… Nevertheless, I wonder what will happen to this village"

Living, associating it with the word, Kay, as in solitary. Irene, who hits a terrible turnaround, roars "hmm" as she strokes Kay's chest plate.

"... honesty, I think this one is worse than everyone else thinks."

Try to whisper, Irene, to be afraid someone will ask you.

"…?

"It's true that this country, now Lord Krause of Wolvern is the ally, but it's not strictly up to who's king, is it?"

The Principality of the Union of Akland. If you string that history together, the port city of Kitene was originally the beginning of the country, and the current Duke Krause is the direct descendant of the lords of ancient Kitene. The size of the city and its mighty military power, as well as its lineage, are the basis for Lord Krause's king's authority.

"Lord Krause is very old."

"You did, sure."

Kay recalls Wolvern's martial arts tournament. The Prince himself was quite old, and Kay was immediately honored by the Duke of Dietrich, who is seen as the next successor to the Duke's grandson.

"Think about it, isn't it weird when that duke or whatever poked away? If it were, the Duchy's allies would take their place, but what do you think would happen if the lords of other cities heard that the Alliance's land was about to be eroded [deep]?

…………

To Eileen's disturbing whisper, Kay silenced.

"…… Isn't that bad?

"Absolutely bad."

If Kay is the lord of another city, he will surely be anxious. You just have to be anxious, but assuming the Lords of Kitene insist on shifting allies, etc. -.

And if you think from Wolvern's point of view, something like that should be unacceptable.

"... that's awkward, we'll be rubbed out of every village."

Unexpectedly get up off the sleeping table, Kay.

"I thought about it, too. So I thought we should make sure it doesn't get rubbed off."

Irene laughs as she falls asleep.

"That's Joaquin's husband there. I want you to spread the word on a level that you can't take back."

"... to the point of becoming"

As it was, just reporting to Wolvern also had the possibility of 'mouth sealing' each village. But if Joaquin spreads the word in every city, he can no longer take tough measures.

"As for Wolvern, you have to argue that '[deep] erosion has stopped'. Whatever the facts... the village needs to survive, too. In that sense, I think the village of Vaak is cheap for at least half a century."

"Uhm......"

Kay roared and fell asleep again, but was very restless.

"You've become more important than I thought......"

"Right..."

"Will Elidoor be okay?"

Kay is worried that she will die of stomach pain.

"Maybe, but Elidoor's husband is also thinking about something quite small and similar. Dad's a nobleman for a generation, and he'll stand around well, maybe."

"I hope so…………."

Whatever you say, it doesn't change the fact that [deep] is imminent right next door.

Hopefully things will be carried in the right direction for this village, Kay prayed.

But aside from that,

"I don't know what to say, but you might have been right to choose Satina for your place of emigration..."

"Yeah... Blah, blah, blah, blah. I think so too..."

The two looked at each other and sighed haha. Eileen, peering into Kay's face at close range, hits me in the forehead.

"…… in the future, I wish I could take citizenship in Satina"

"That's nice."

The current situation is that Kay's retention of Wolvern citizenship makes it exceptionally easy to do things like buy a home. Having money wouldn't do this if you were a free citizen.

"No, we have to work hard when we get to Satina."

Making magic props to find a home. Acquisition of citizenship if the foundations are consolidated to some extent. Through the Cornwell Chamber of Commerce, good relations also need to be established with the citizens of Satina.

"Take your time with Kay………………"

Heh heh, Irene smiling, wrapping her arms around Kay's neck.

Keep your mouth shut like that. Kay also hugged Irene back, but her hammock-like bedside wobbled and restless.

"… Unfortunately, the sleeping area does not seem suitable for strenuous exercise."

"Right."

Let go of my lips, two bitter laughers.

"And don't you smell like sweat?

Kay cares while he snuggles. Long time ago logging was fun and strained, but I sweated quite a bit because of it. For once, I cleaned my body with a cloth wet with water, but I don't think it's as clean as taking a bath.

"Heh heh heh heh, if it smells like kay........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Saying so, Eileen took a deep breath in Kay's chest, but raised her face largely,

"I thought so, but I guess I'm a little bit allergic to boulders."

"Wouldn't you?

Cook, and you two bite off a laugh. Eileen is joking. Sometimes we both get sweaty, so we wouldn't care so much about each other.

"If you go to Euria, you'll have a fantastic place to stay."

The lakeside city of Euria flourishes as a relay point for travellers.

"You can take a bath in a while."

It's expensive, but good once in a while.

"Then………… right?

Eileen laughs lusciously.

There was also daytime fatigue, and the two stayed put and fell asleep laughing.