Yomigaeri no Maou

"Well, it's a long way from the precinct, and let's talk about what we're going to do"

It was only natural that some time after Saufa had left the lock-up, he began to say so, and it was a question of where he was going.

The Lulu basically entered the Lugung merchant country at the request of the Adventurers' Union (Guild), but their original purpose was to head to the lake-bottom city.

So I just want to head straight to the lake bottom city more than I put in Lugung, but that's not more appropriate than getting the job.

For that reason, it would basically mean that, for a request, we should aim at the centre of Lugung - that is, the great commercial capital Hatama, which hits the capital of Lugung.

But here's the problem: Faitha, a young man of the Enzir tribe, who was on the road.

He is a member of a clan that sits on the banks of the lake-bottom city and has the purpose of telling the remaining Angel clan that the Angel clan that escaped from Lugung is safe.

Even as a saufa, you'll want to head over there because you're later trying to get tangible intangible profits from the Enzier clan by delivering Faitha to Enzier.

This means that one line should be considered in the direction towards the lake-bottom city, with the settlements of the Enzir clan.

So Lulu, thinking about Faitha, said.

"... as for Faitha, I guess you just want to make sure the clan is safe soon, huh? Shouldn't we head to the lake bottom city?

Faitha nodded at this, but says, making that look a little more difficult.

"I'd love to if I could... just ask what bothered me"

to this word. Lulu leaned his neck,

"What do you mean?

asked.

The question is then answered by Saufa, the leader of the caravan.

"It's not like we were just falling asleep while you guys were taking your exams in jail. I spent my spare time gathering a lot of information. While talking to the soldiers at the barracks. Hey, among other things, I heard something problematic... or if you think about it, it was a natural story, but it seems the route to the lake bottom city is mostly regulated. Yeah, it's not going to be easy."

Following that, Faitha said,

"... I intend to know the way quite well, but when I summed up the stories gathered by Lord Saufa, I came to the conclusion that it seemed difficult to get out. Now, it seems there is so much darkness behind it..."

Says.

Faitha knew a lot about the back roads, the way out, and so on, and she brought them in with some guessing, but even that seemed to be so tightly guarded that it made little sense.

Still, Faitha,

"There's nothing we can do about it if it's small... but we can't be sure without a little more information."

So I said, when Illis,

"Does that mean you're giving up going to the lake bottom city?

Ask.

Saufa answers this.

"No, I won't give up. but that you probably won't get there if you go straight without any preparation. So I think we should prepare (...)"

and a meaningful dialogue.

It was Zoe who somehow realized what this word meant.

"That preparation means... I mean, that. That's what Faitha just said, getting more information first, right?

"Exactly. In more detail, it would be nice to learn more about the deployment of the military, its purpose, and so on."

"... I mean, you want me to steal from the military?

That's what I'm talking about.

I smiled and said out to Saufa, Zoe with a frightened face.

Lulu and Illis looked a little funny, but Faitha looked stunned,

"It's impossible to decide that. It's classified."

I said.

Even if we know it's the only way, we can't do it.

That's what I said.

But Saufa,

"No, I think I can. If the three of you were there, you'd do it. Besides, just in time, you guys are going to take an enlistment exam for the army's mercenary unit, right? You can just keep walking in, crawl to your desk and steal it. And the guy who asked you to do it was a stone and two birds, right?

and say pretty unscrupulous things.

In fact, Faitha stares at Saufa with the look of what a fool she is talking about, but sees Lulu, Iris and Zoe nodding at the end of Saufa's gaze with the look of having no choice, and rushes to tell them.

"... No way, are you really motivated? You're gonna steal inside information from the military, right? I'm sorry if I caught you..."

But Lulu says.

"I'm sorry if I get caught, which means I just have to get caught. That's not a problem."

Following that, also Iris,

"You're right. Besides, it's not that hard. Aren't you just going to join the army and borrow some paperwork?"

I say that in a light way.

To such a dialogue between the two, Zoe expresses her opinion from a slightly different perspective.

"... you won't be able to, but after you do it, I feel pathetic considering how panicky the Lugunese military will be... I'm just horrified to think how miserable it would be if I lost an important document..."

It seemed that sympathy would gush terribly on the other side, either from above who was once a soldier.

Lulu and Iris are not on the side of getting their necks flown, though it is obvious because they are on the side of getting their necks flown.

Anyway, Faitha gets a gaze at the way she doesn't say a word that none of the three of us can do it, like she sees a strange creature.

Saufa to such Faitha,

"... even you fought them once. You know you're a very powerful man, don't you?

Ask.

Faitha nodded at it,

"I know that... but the battle itself is different from stealing confidentiality, isn't it? And the number of people..."

Though there are only twenty talented young men in Enzir, it should be natural for the group there and the group of hundreds or thousands of military men to change the story.

But Saufa,

"Well, I know what you're saying... but there are things I think I've lived for a long time. Surprisingly, there are people in the world who don't know how to understand, and suddenly, one day, they show up in front of us. I look like those people... in fact, I meant to say pretty lame, but they don't think it's going to be hard at all, you know?

Sure, the Lulu's have no feelings whatsoever.

There is no such thing as a nervousness trying to challenge a difficult task or an insult because I am too optimistic about its opposite.

I just can because I can.

That's all I see as a story.

That's how it is.

So Faitha answers Saufa.

"Well... I seem to be inexperienced. I've never met these people before so I ate them..."

Then Saufa laughed,

"No, because they're not the kind of people I see that often. Maybe once in a lifetime."

I replied,

"Then you can't have experience forever..."

And it was Faitha who answered powerlessly.

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"Well, here's a goodbye."

Entering the Lugung merchant country, in the third inn town, Saufa said that to the Lulu's.

Lulu, that is a line of five Lulu, Illis, Zoe, Faitha, Paula and Nina.

Ultimately, from here on out, Saufa and the caravans and Lulu went in a different direction, because that's what happened.

The reason for this was that as for the Lulu's, they were headed to Hathama, the Greater Commercial City, to take enlistment exams and enter the army, and that Saufa and the others, even though they were regulated to cross, were once and for all to gather as much local information as they could towards the lake bottom city.

Besides, it also needs to depend on the area that originally went around as a caravan, and given what I said, we can't go to the Grand Commercial City together.

"I guess the next time we see each other is after we get inside the military."

Yes, says Lulu, Saufa,

"I wish you good luck."

I said and laughed.

Rava, too,

"At some point I put together a hell of a story, you guys would be able to do it. I'm looking forward to it."

That's what I said and slapped the Lulu's shoulders.

Ravah took the carriage reins as his master when he was discussing the future, so he was asked later and his mouth was drained.

At first, he said he couldn't do it, but he changed his mind after seeing the look on Lulu's face.

He's just a pretty good guy around telling me not to be impotent.

Then, for a while, I spared the caravan people goodbye, but when it was time to leave, they left beautifully.

Meetings and goodbyes are tough on the existence of a caravan, and that's why they're refreshing in places like this.

After losing sight of the caravan of the caravan, Lulu and the others take the carriage they have been waiting for in order to make their way to their destination again.

From this lodging town to Hatama, the great commercial capital, there are streets, and there are regular carriages.

Lulu and the others will have it on board and go for the great commercial capital Hathama as it is.

There are several people in the carriage who similarly aspire to the Greater Commercial Capital, and they have turned their gaze to what seems unusual when the Lulu's ride.

Because what you are wearing is different from that of the Lugung merchant country, and it stands out a little.

The people of the Lugun merchant countries often wear ornaments in slightly blurred garments, like piercing clothes (kan and udu), but the Lulu's are relatively body-fitting sewn garments, something we don't really see here.

In other words, you can see that you are a foreigner.

Paula and Faitha are ethnic costumes that are also firmly familiar to Lugung humans, so Lulu and others who feel slightly uncomfortable.

When it came to the capital, I thought I might want to buy Lugung clothes again.

However, it may have been convenient to reject it because it is so floating that while I am interested, it was made far away.

It's because I'm afraid of getting bored when people ask me too many questions.

But even so, there are people who are not afraid to be strangers anywhere...

"You guys could have come from outside Lugung!?

There was one person who would talk to me like that.

It was about the same age as Lulu - that is, a boy about fourteen years old, a man of thought and appearance (human).

However, it was thought that what I was wearing was made of lugum, and even from the words I had spoken, I would be from lugum.

I wondered what the matter was, Lulu, but I am free until I reach the Great Business Capital anyway.

Open your mouth, saying it wouldn't be bad to talk in your spare time.

"Oh, I'm from Leonard. Says Lulu. What about you?"

"Me? I'm Aldo. I came out of Rasha's village to be a soldier!

That's what the boy answered to Lulu's question.

"Heh, a soldier. That's an odd encounter. I went into Lugung to be a soldier, too."

"Lulu too! That's good! But... Lulu means he's from Leonard, which means he's got a tough enlistment exam, right? Are you okay with this? Doesn't look very strong though."

"You don't see people. This is still pretty good. Probably gonna be okay."

That was Lulu who answered Aldo's worrying question, but in fact he probably can afford it instead.

But Aldo goes on and on.

"Is it true... it seems that we Lugung humans would end up with about an easy physical measurement, but foreigners can't fight and win against active soldiers, can they? You can't do that."

It is certainly a tough story to tell a man who is going to join the army to fight a soldier and win.

But as a Lugung, that is not the intention to say, but rather the desire for experience.

He says he's not strong enough to fight military men and win, rookies, etc., and he hasn't bothered to seek them from foreign countries.

I guess that's what I mean when volunteers in my own country are enough.

The information this Aldo brings would normally be a pretty tough story, but not for the Lulu's.

If it was a type of test that vaguely showed competence and was judged by an unpublished criterion that I wasn't sure about and decided whether or not to accept, even if it was the Lulu's, I wouldn't say I'd ever take it, but it's an easy-to-understand test that if I had an opponent, and if I defeated it, that would be fine.

Rather, it felt like I didn't even wish.

That's why Lulu tells Aldo.

"It's something you won't know if you can't do it, Aldo. Well, we'll see each other, in the army. Let's not get along then."

Like that.