Okay, until now, we’ve been walking.
So, well, we’ve been bringing Ketorami-san with us.
The wide road was a great help. Otherwise, Ketorami-san might have gotten stuck in the middle of the road.
But as expected of a water town.
We will have to travel by boats through the canals.
If Ketorami got on the boat, the boat would definitely sink, so Ketorami-san will be staying back.
“Okay Ketorami, take care on your own. If anything happens, run out of town.”
‘Ouh. You be careful too.’
There is a place near the canal for carriages and horses to be left, so we used that.
……very, surreal.
A light truck-sized wolf mixed in among the horses.
A wolf large than a carriage.
The stares from the surroundings might have been annoying, Ketorami-san curled up and seems to have chosen to take an afternoon nap.
Well, Ketorami-san would wake up if someone tried to do something to him, so he should be fine.
who would
Boats could be borrowed for free, so we borrowed two and split into two groups.
I rode with Suzumoto, President, Kadomi and Kariya.
……meaning, if I accidentally got caught up in something, there are relatively lightweight people able to cut, shield, make walls to block or heal. ……thank you, sorry for causing trouble. Yes.
….a boat trip right?
This town, [Deichemoore] is split into 5 areas.
1 is the area just now. The town’s west area and the entrance to town. With it being the entrance to town, it has plenty of traffic and street stalls, the area that feels like the front door of the town.
Most of the town’s public facilities seem to be here.
The [Adventurer’s Guild] might be here too.
if it exists
Then another is the center of the city. Surrounded on all sides by water, it is the high class residential area, the mayor lives here too.
The expensive shops for nobles also seem to be here.
When entering this area there seems to be a much stricter check than at the entrance, but we don’t plan to go there so that doesn’t concern us.
dangerous
The remaining 3 are the south area, east area and north area.
totally unexpected
The south area is used as a fishing harbour and trades with a different town on the other side of the ocean. So a port.
……actually, there’s another town on the other side of the ocean?
……ah, would that be the area that would be the school grounds and gym? Let’s keep that in mind.
the one ith a lot of people?
And the east area is the residential district. There’s also a shopping district selling daily necessities and it is a relatively bright area.
don’t bring the wolf there
Yes. We are currently headed to the north area.
……why are we specially going there? Isn’t it the priority to find the guild and register?
Well……it’s because we have no funds.
If they asked for a registration fee, it would be strange for nobles to be penniless, but they’re also fake nobles with no backing, so we don’t really know if we can trade at a proper store.
So it’s better for us to get some money first from a slightly shady place, then use that to act as nobles, is what we decided. Yes.
illegal
And so after rowing and rowing our boat, we somehow arrived at the north area.
“It’s dark.”
“It is dark.”
Iya—, an appearance as expected of the dark side of the town. Gloomy.
I can understand why this area is strangely distanced from the other areas.
And the people passing by are also gloomy.
……among them there are well-dressed, like nobles, people and those people generally wear masks.
And they also generally have people with collars carrying luggage following behind them.
……mhm. Okay.
“Everyone everyone, how about we retreat for a bit?”
“Ah mhm, I thought so too. ……is somewhere out of sight on the water fine?”
“All units retrea—t.”
fall back
For now everyone returned to the boats and went back the path we came a little.
Since there aren’t many people that come here in the first place, there’s little traffic in the water.
The ideal situation of rather than not having to fear the gaze of others, there’s isn’t even any gazes to fear.
“For now, since we are calling ourselves [Nobles], wouldn’t it be bad if we don’t have masks?”
“It might be better to have them. ……so, more importantly, Mary-san.”
……everyone’s gazes are, painful.
“……we are extremely sorry but, Mary-san.”
President’s bitter voice is somehow, fresh. Mhm. There’s no need to mind it that much.
“Roger roger, I got it I got it. Collar. Yes yes, I’ll put it on, don’t mind it.”
Okay, pachi kon. It’s easy to put on since I just need to clasp it. Taking it off will need a key or [Cleaning] or be torn or cut apart by the brute force of the front line group.
It is made delicately in the sense that it can be broken even if the key is lost.
……no, it does have enough strength such that normal people definitely can’t break it though.
…dainty collar?
“So, masks?”
We need money to buy masks, but we have to money, to get money we need to sell things at the north area, but we don’t have the masks to enter the north area.
……at first glance, it seems like there’s nothing we can do, but there’s actually a loophole.
“I have a helmet so I don’t need one. How about Kadomi-kun?”
“My helmet……doesn’t hide the face. Can’t.”
Yes. Toriumi’s helmet was full-faced.
Kadomi-kun’s won’t work though, can’t be helped.
who need’s masks
“Then, we’re off—.”
“Be very very careful, particularly Mary.”
As expected of me. They don’t trust me, or more like they trust that I am ridiculously weak.
“Roger. Everyone else please go and enjoy sightseeing.”
And so, only Toriumi and I are infiltrating the north area.
…full body armour+maid?
In terms of fighting strength, it leaves quite a bit of uncertainty, but I don’t think there are many people that would try to steal me from Toriumi, no matter how you look at him in his full plate armour, he looks like a strong warrior.
This guy has quite an advantage with appearance alone.
“Mai……no, Mary-san, is your neck okay?”
“I am alright. Please do not mind.”
Since we are in the town, I changed my mind and words to Rosemary-san mode as we walked.
Like a dog on a leash, a luxurious chain is extending from the luxurious collar and Toriumi is holding onto that, so if he pulled it, my neck would be pulled too, but Toriumi is being careful of that and walking slowly.
So I can walk normally without having my neck tugged.
“……but, the stares really hurt.”
The passer-bys are staring at us an unusual amount. Hm, it’s unsettling.
“It must be because Toriumi-sama is in a conspicuous outfit.”
This is probably because there’s some guy in full plate armour clanging as he walks.
The sound is what it is, the appearance is……like, with this gloomy town, like……mhm, creepy!
First of all, it’s not something to wear in the middle of town and the weapons and armour have a clear [Used] feel to them……
“Nn—, I think this is more of Mary-san thou—gh. It somehow feels like the gazes are slightly off of me.”
What? Hm, certainly. The gazes might, be directed at, me.
That’s stra—nge, no matter how you think about it Toriumi’s armour……
……aaaah, co, could it be!
“……could, maid uniforms……be unusual?”
[Alive Grimoire]-san didn’t know about the existence of maids either! If servants exist but maids don’t exist! If maids don’t exist! ……then maid uniforms wouldn’t exist either, probably.
“No, it’s probably not that, not that.”
……ah, could it be, that thing the gatekeeper soldier-san said?
[You are quite a beauty]. Hm. Come to think of it, Toriumi was listening to that conversation with [Sharp Ears]. Mhm, I see.
……I myself, am not that much of a beauty. I, think. At least, definitely not at the level that draws gazes.
Then the cause would be……blonde hair blue eyes.
……but, there’s quite a lot of blonde people in this world……
“I do not know the standards for beauty in this town.”
“Nn—, well, it does somehow, feel like it’s quite different from our standards. ……no, rather than standards, response?”
Certainly, for us, even if there was a ridiculously beautiful person, as long as it’s not a monster level beauty, we wouldn’t stare at them so much, right……
“……well, different culture?”
Well, that should be it.
….really?
A few minutes of strolling.
We found a sign saying [Pawnshop] (I think this is probably written in otherworld language too, but I can read it thanks to [Translation]. It somehow feels weird.) so we went into that store for now.
When the door was pushed, karan, an unexpectedly cute bell rang.
“Welcome. ……ooh, you have quite a nice one, knight-sama. Will you be selling that? Then even if it’s used it would be 70 gold……no, how ’bout 90 gold?”
But the storekeeper uncle does not have a shred of cuteness!
This is what we get when we come in! Of course, [That] is me.
Wasted! This town is wasted!
“No, this is not for sale.”
Toriumi immediately corrected him without any panic.
“Really? ……even for 100 pieces?”
“I’m definitely not selling.”
“Damn, fine. ……well, yeah, a slave like that can’t be bought with just money.”
Is, is that so…… I won’t say anything anymore, nothing else……
Different cultures, scary……
slavery
“……so, what business do you have in this store? Trade?”
“Ah, mhm. It helps that you’re fast. ……it’s this, how much will you buy it for?”
The thing that Toriumi took out from the sack he was shouldering was the dress I sewed.
It is dyed a red with that stupidly big rose and a few other flowers, it is also extremely frilly and the type of dress I would never want to wear.
“Hm, let me take a look. ……ooh, this is amazing. ……what cloth is this? Silk……no, different……what’s this?”
Cupra.
Hm, is there no cupra in this world?
Since there is no scientific technology for regenerated fibers, I guess this world’s technology has not advanced far.
The buildings were middle age-like too.
Well, there are [Skills] to compensate, so that would happen.
“No idea. I wouldn’t know that.”
Well, it’s smarter to avoid what they don’t know. Toriumi acted like he doesn’t know either.
……no,rather than act, he probably actually does not know. Mhm.
“Nn, well let’s see. ……nn—, well, that. This, is an excavated item right? It’s a fabric I’ve never seen before and the colour is of a brilliance that is difficult to create with current technology. The design is unusual too.”
O, ou? It’s not an excavate item though? Made by maid.
It’s hard to understand with mademaid, but basically, I made it.
……or rather, this world’s dyeing technology, is bad……
No, certainly, when dyeing with skills, it becomes dyed brilliantly without mordants.
As for design, I made it based on the dress excavated at the north building east staircase so there’s no mistake there.
But he judged it to be an [Excavated item] right after seeing it, the design of dresses from the ruins might greatly differ from the dresses sold normally. It might have been the material and dye though.
Nano fumu, this is something to learn from.
“This, this was made by gathering the best of the old technologies……yet its condition is good. This probably has the blessings of the [Lost Techniques] right? Nn—……where exactly did you dig this up?”
“That, would be a secret.”
Without faltering at the vicious light in the uncle’s eyes, Toriumi easily dodged the question with a joking town.
Mh—m, I do respect this guy’s instantaneous judgement ability, guts to carry it out and the emotional strength to push it through with a poker face.
“……well, I guess so. Mhm, that’s not something you can tell me just because I asked. ……nn. Okay. I’ll give 250 silver. How is it?”
Oh, a sum that greatly exceeds [Alive Grimoire]-san’s predicted price.
Mh—m, I made it taking care to make sure there was definitely no effects and even checked with [Appraisal], so this price is fine?
……ah, could it be, this person can [Appraise]? Hasn’t he noticed that there’s no skills or effects attached? Mhm, I don’t feel like that’s the case.
“Mary, what do you think?”
Eh, ah, me?
“I believe it is fine. It will serve for travelling expenses at present.”
250 silver=2.5 times the monthly expenses of a frugal family.
We can buy 7 masks with this, probably.
definitely
“Okay, sold.”
“Okay. Thank you for your personage. 250 silver coins. Please confirm it. ……but still, asking a slave for an opinion, what’s with that?”
Eh, was that bad?
……ah, it would be. Where is there a master that asks a slave for an opinion!
Now, how do you get through this, Toriumi! ……at worst, we can just run though.
Is what I was thinking. And then.
“A—h, mhm, this one is a bit special. She’s smart and reliable. She’s a slave due to some circumstances though.”
“Hmmm, I see. Well, it would be strange for such a beauty to be just a slave. Well, I won’t ask too much. ……but still, if she’s smart, even without those circumstances, I want her all the more. Is 200 gold still not enough?”
“Definitely not!”
There was that exchange, well, I am a little happy, yes.
I see—, I am reliab—le. Even if it’s a lie……that does make me a little, happy.
charmer
“But, knight-sama, if you’re strong enough to enter ruins, you’ll be entering the gladiator tournament at the national festival ten days later right?”
What’s that sounds scary.
“……no, I’ve just reached this town.”
“Ah, you didn’t know? But you at least know of the national festival 10 days later right? So, famed warriors will be gathering at the colosseum in the castle town and compete with their strength. ……the champion prize this time is extravagant. Since there are people gathering from all over aiming for that, I thought knight-sama was one of those.”
“Heh. ……by the way, what’s the prize?”
“Oh, interested? Hm, let’s see. The gladiator tournament is split into Mono, Di, Tri, Hexa and Nona, but each of this has their own prizes, there’s also the weapons and things like previous years, but these are treated as an extra prize. ……in the Mono, Trio and Nona sections, the special prize, is a magic room of a foreign country.”
hmhm……hm?
……yes, we’re corneeeeeeeeeeeeeered!
The end