Having become a member of the merchant group, four months have passed continuing to travel through Kei.
First off, public order is terrible.
What I did during those times?
Together with the children of that area around there.
Somehow it seems that they held onto the formula that elves are a lot stronger than humans.
That’s only natural as I haven’t ever possessed either in my life.
Be that as it may, I hit them more by throwing the stones in my hands than with the bow, if the opponents are nearby.
Sword?
In the first place, don’t bandits come attacking on top of horses, if one is unlucky?
Although it’s not thanks to me at all that the bandit attacks didn’t cause large harm to the merchant group.
I will insist that it turned out well in the end.
It’s an unsaddled horse after all, you know.
That’s harsh when travelling.
Anyway, I was able to personally experience that the public order completely changes depending on the person governing the area.
At any rate, the public servants who should be acting on behalf of protecting the public order, are dangerous.
And in such cities I have seen many starving people.
I understood it qui~~te well.
Because of hunger and injustice, the populace’s unhappiness is rising with a terrible momentum.
This is… there might really occur something like the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Although they are women, this place seems to be full of people resembling generals. It’s apparently not unusual for a woman to be a feudal lord either.
Nonetheless, as they are people of the same Kei Empire, there isn’t much of discrimination between elves and humans.
If it turns into something like humans vs. elves, the elves are aware they will perish. Is what I guess.
That’s because I’m currently travelling.
Anyway, on top of having to appear on battlefields, if you are famous, important people get targeted.
Tentatively there are also humans, who are civil officials that don’t participate on the battlefield. But, although I heard that, it’s only a very small minority.
That doesn’t mean that all of them are slender either. It’s also not the case that every of them has that characteristic long and narrow face.
Then again, if you consider their long lifespans, they won’t change at all after all.
No, if this much is different, it will be plenty, I think?
Actually, all presidents are ikemen…
Ah, if you say that’s only natural, then that’s how it is, but there was no magic.
When I tried to say 「If I were able to cast magic at such time, it would be fine though」 in a casual manner, I was told 『Don’t kid around. Even if you were called magician Liu, that wouldn’t mean that you can truly use magic』.
I also realized several things about myself.
Even so, if I train, it looks like I will be able to reach the level of a human not being able to win against me.
If I end up getting surrounded and ganged up on, I likely won’t have the greatness of elves.
Though you might think ‘what the hell’, isn’t it more ridiculous if you can’t write while being able to read?
It’s far too disheartening.
I’m taking lessons in penmanship in order for my hand-writing to become pretty, especially since even a child can do it.
Isn’t it terribly saddening, if you are told 『Write this down』 by your senior at work and then, after you noted it down frantically, you are told 『How messy ……』?
I want the young people to do their best.
Ah, yea, I received praises by quite a few people about my calculations.
But, 0 isn’t 0.
When inadvertently writing a numerical formula, I secretly write it on the ground or do mental arithmetic so it doesn’t appear to be strange because I end up writing 0.
In other words, it’s the blessing of compulsory education.
At the time of finding a job I got mad thinking that there’s mostly no meaning in your grades, even if they are great, but now I feel inclined to say that I will forgive it.
Even though there’s a place I want to write a letter of thanks, once I return to Japan, I have already given up going back to Japan.
That’s Basara-likish (T/N: Basara is a manga which later on also got an anime. It plays 300 years into the future, so maybe that’s why it’s mentioned here? no idea. The word itself has a meaning too, but that would make even less sense.)
To be able to believe in such a miracle, it’s already around 20 years ago since I thought I might be special.
I’m not a special human.
Muuh …… that’s my philosophy and not common sense?
I believe that. No, I know that.
Am I the only person from another world in this world? I have doubts about that.
If there are humans possessing a different knowledge than me having come from a different civilization ……
In that case, the existence called me, regarding them ……
Even thinking about it is meaningless, I’d say.
Well then, returning to the story, there has been a very important surprise concerning my body.
When I asked around in the merchant group, everyone said that I was likely 14~15 years old.
Moreover, with my former face changing a bit, I’ve become somewhat an ikemen.
However, it looks like my height is normal for my age. My body build is average as well.
Ah, that’s right, though I realized that, it might not be as tall in height as I expected Rastil-san to be.
Accordingly, somehow everyone thought that I’m tall.
And thanks to becoming young, my hair has become deep black and plentiful as well.
No, was it more than Okazaki, the best Japanese soccer player from before. (T/N: Shinji Okazaki (岡崎 慎司 Okazaki Shinji, born 16 April 1986) is a Japanese footballer who plays for Leicester City, and for the Japan national football team as a forward.)
If you have any complaints, let’s have you become a regular in the championship team of the league, where the most money in the world is spent. (T/N: aka the English Premier league. Leicester City won the title in 2016)
I experienced it.
The life span was known to be around 70 years.
In addition, if you calmly think about it, even if I became 20 years younger, once I end up dying 10 years later, let alone being meaningless, it will be quite detestable.
And, as for the current me’s life expectation, rather than having 60 more years, the ways of the world seem to be that I will be at the point of my death earlier.
It is a tragedy what happened to me after all.
Or rather, no one knows soccer itself.
What the hell …… This tragedy exceeds King Lear. (T/N: Shakespeare, read it, and yea, it’s quite the tragedy, that one)
Did I give up?
…… Damn it!
Well then, finishing the journey, where such discoveries and grievances happened, there is currently a tremendously long continuing earth wall in front of my eyes.
This is amazing!!! (T/N: Instead of saying Suge~ (or Sugoi~), it’s Sunge~ (or Sungoi~) putting extra emphasis on it)
It’s always easier to make an earth wall rather than a stone wall since it uses soil, but even then it takes amazing effort.
Even the great person, who apparently died drinking mercury on Earth, seemed to like walls to the extent of deciding to surround the country with a wall, but …… (T/N: Reference to Qin Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of Qin and founder of the Qin dynasty, who died drinking Mercury in his pursuit of eternal life)
The pure me, err the me, who was pure, really believed that, although …… From olden day, that nation ……
By the way, there were the Yellow river and the Yangtze river. (T/N: Chinese rivers)
In the old days, or rather, even among some of the present time they are apparently only called river and large river. (T/N: Yangtze being the large one)
They were magnificent.
Anyway, I arrived at the place, where everything gathers the most, this country’s capital city.
I could feel the city’s liveliness spreading to the stallholders even outside the gate.
As I thought, I was able to possess the belief that a lot of information converge in this place.
A journey is dangerous after all, right?
When I talked with the merchant group leader, I was told to try searching since they will stay for a month.
It seems that people who are capable of calculation are fairly valuable.
Since I have secured a method to stay alive, my stress has rapidly decreased.
For that goal, I want to reach the point of living in the capital city, Land, in front of me gathering everything.
Let’s do this!