There is no sign of Aradia coming to the rendezvous point the next morning.
On the other hand, I think Shockeya would run away like this, but since she was credited with a lot of military money and deposited, on the contrary, I had the idea that it would be difficult to determine the slump as it was.
(I have no choice. As per the meeting, let's go put on some chocolate purchases.
The morning was early but the market and so on were functioning. It was already yesterday, and the chatter followed in turn from the content of the gathering of information with the men who were seen as informants at the tavern at night as meals.
Let's just say we've been reading reports and stuff coming up from soldiers in charge of gathering information around here.
Chocolate, however, was a luxury ingredient, and there did not seem to be enough products gathered in this emergency borderline Burso-Lakeyo Territorial Office, and it was also extremely difficult for Aladia to buy the bulk that she wanted.
Even during yesterday's interview, I had the impression that I didn't seem to know much about chocolate, even to the general public, in terms of where it was available and when I examined the market and distribution situation.
"Is there no real thing here either?
"That's right, so far the market says to wait 6 months. Come on, it's not like I can sell to a jump like you.
"I have money.
"Even if they say so, if it wasn't until a week ago, no, it would have happened three days ago. It's hard to get around here, here comes a vendor that handles something called milk. In exchange, I bought chocolate from a major store and went home. The vendor also had a lot of sucrose and put it on milk. This is the state of the Realm itself, isn't it? The chance of something like that coming in, I don't know what time it comes next. I can't replace my belly on my back, so I let go of chocolate without everyone.
"Three days ago?
Speaking of three days ago, right after I was helped to escape the King's Capital. Shockeye thinks he might have gotten quite a bit more if Aradia had lagged behind his investigation into the buffer zone where he said there was a former Platoshire field because he thought there were demons, etc., or a place called the 'Canyon of the' to argue for the royal family, but it is a well after festival.
It also took an unexpected amount of time to select the location of the True King raid. Sure, I thought it would be a dressed place if we were just going for the queue, but if we looked at the positional relationship between this unit and the target, there seemed to be no good place to balance the limitations on the size of the junction that Aradia could put up. If you strain it big, you could lose sight of the true king who escaped to the canyon terrain and bushes, and if you close it small, you can't hide this unit. In particular, the giant Ayasino was considered to have nowhere to hide.
Finally Aladia abandoned the place and discovered that there was a large lake on the street leading there. Around it spread the forest along the streets, and there was also a lake to hide the giant Ayasino, which led to the conclusion that if we set the line so that it did not fall on the streets, there would be no better place to escape to a single line of True Kings than just a wide plain and a lake.
"That's right. However, they didn't do anything to buy up the full amount anywhere.
"Then Grandma, how come there's nowhere left?
"You're so docile looking for chocolate. Chocolate, when added with sucrose and milk, is nourishing, especially for children. Of course, adults will be delicious. Because we got plenty of those ingredients, all the chocolate in the inventory was turned around in your processing plant.
"Medicine?"
That's the first story I've heard. But I don't see any reason for this old lady to lie to herself. Perhaps it is a special circumstance of chocolate in the land that we do not know. More or less, Shockeye has never even seen such a thing as chocolate with this eye. It seems to be made from beans, but only some merchants in the empire can handle it, and the origin of the beans and so on are said to be completely secret.
"Well, if it turned out to be such a drug, it wouldn't be easy to get anymore. Even if I couldn't buy it up at all, I wouldn't have had a lot of chocolate myself in the first place, because that's the only cure for this peripheral area.
"Huh? Is that what's going to be handed out to the people here?
"That's right. A decent fountain will be sent here, won't it? That's why the Emperor of the Empire pities the people and distributes the chocolate, also known as Noble Classhold, to the upper classes of the country alone, to civilian distributions like ours. But some of our peers, like us, seem to be uncomfortable, flushing important chocolate into the kingdom in the dark.
I see. Because Aradia said that the frontier territory is the frontier, that seems to be reflected in these places. I don't know about the injuries, but they may be sick or used to prevent them, but they mean that processed chocolate is distributed as a drug.
And it turns out that when other ingredients are not lubricated, distribution keeps them as ingredients, and sucrose - a sweetener called sucrose, to the best of Shockeye's knowledge - and this one has the ingredients necessary for processing the milk that is not familiar, the public processing plant buys it up and turns it into medicine, and furthermore, it is delivered to the border authorities to distribute the chemicals.
Of course, they are controlled goods, so making money is no big deal, so if they are expensive, they try to export them outside the country, but this is inherently smuggling and punishment. However, the soundness of the vendor's management also needs to be applied in order to keep chocolate in stock at all times for distribution, and the darkness seems to have been publicly missed in the half if official export bills had also been issued. But that's only because other ingredients are always in short supply, so to speak, only dubbed chocolate is sidelined.
If there are materials that can be processed as medicines, it will be virtually impossible for the authorities to look away, buy them all up and flush them out. Still, if it were the reign of Uncle So-Lakyo as a custom, it might have been forgiven, but now that officials from the Imperial Centre are in charge of everything, it leaks out of the vendor's mouth that such controls are also being carried out as determined.
"─ I wonder if there's anywhere else that just sells that medicine.
"I can't. If you're a resident with a tax certificate, you could've easily gotten it at the office desk in the castle if you'd just notified me if it was normal, because now an official from the Empire is doing it. Hey. I hear that payout is pretty tough.
This is troublesome. Finally, it is impossible for Aladia to get the quantity she wants. No, I'm anxious to get the chocolate itself, as opposed to the quantity I want for this minute. Instead of purchasing chocolate and calculating how to wash your feet, even though you haven't asked for it, you won't even be able to buy chocolate, which is the most important job I've done by helping you out of the barn. It will be seen as useless.
I wish I could have checked the box, but didn't I know too much about being banished?
Alternatively, so much so that the enemy needs to be stopped from leaking information.