Year 7444, Month 12, Day 13
If you don't know that you need to pull the trigger to fire a gun when it's all you've got and it's nothing better than a club. Even if you do know, if you don't know things like how to reload the ammo, the valid range, and how much damage it can do then you probably can't use it any different than a bow. And since fighting your enemy directly and cutting them down with a sword is seen as an honor, they might see fighting from a distance as cowardly as well."
I was taught about the tactics of wars on Orth a bit by brother and in order to gain even more information about it I sent Kuro and Mary into the knight group have them learning there. Since they have the common knowledge a Japanese person should know as well, they should be able to calmly analyze the differences between modern day wars as well. Though I also feel like I'm holding my expectations a bit too high for them as well.
"Hn? Guns huh, guns are still a bit difficult."
If I were to try and make them I'm pretty sure I can. The type that is a lot better than a matchlock even. But, as expected it won't go that easily. There's no hope in regards to something like mass production. Even when it comes to bullets if you don't make enough there's no meaning and gunpowder is necessary as well. Of course I'm still researching them though.
I think it will be once I start to make use of {Transmute.Rock.To.Mud}. Since it seems you can take out the metals that you're sorting in any "form" you like. Let alone things like coils and springs, it should be even possible to make the small metal parts detonators use. I know the structure of simple guns but when it comes to the shapes of the small parts of a type-64 rifle then there's no way I could remember them. The type of bolt action gun that was used in a past world war by infantry should be plenty. It doesn't matter if it's a clip or a box, anything is fine but if I can make it function with a magazine then I'd have nothing more to say. Though regardless of what it is there's nothing I can do about it at the current point.
Although, if it's the types of small arms that I'm supposing, if I can just prepare over 50 of them and plenty of ammunition, along with rifleman who have been trained, and then if they have a few other small handheld individual firearms, then even if it's 5,000 people lead by the first knight group I think we could probably win while making use of just small scale magic. At the very least it should be possible to corner them into retreat before we take any large damage. Ah, I guess they call that winning.
In any case, these last few months, I've been using several hours on our days off to teach these guys the details of things I know that seem like they would be useful...There's no guarantee that I'll always be able to be on their side after all.
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That night, we intended to wait until Zenom and the others returned before having dinner but they never came back. Since Zenom is using Miduchi's horse and Ralpha and Gwine are using my horse, even if they just let it walk a bit and take breaks along the way it only takes 2-3 hours one-way. As expected when the time passed 7 pm it was pretty much pitch black outside. Miduchi and I were a bit worried but the three slaves and Annoy-ouple said "Ralpha and them aren't children and Zenom is with them. Even if we don't worry too much I'm sure they'll suddenly appear tomorrow. I'm sure Ralpha just drank too much and they couldn't control her so they'll stay in the capital tonight right?" and didn't seem very worried.
If it's said like that then it certainly seems true. It seems but even if she's like Ralpha is usually pretty careful about staying safe. Though she's always drinking it's never reached the level of drunkenness where she can't ride a horse. She should also know that the capital is different from Baldukk where everyone knows the faces and names of the {Slaughterers} as well but...Well, certainly if Zenom is with them then there should be nothing worry about.
We ate dinner at a public restaurant called "Rasurun" which is famous for it's chicken pies and even though everyone started late today since the usual heavy drinkers aren't around we ended up finishing things early and returned to our inn. After returning to the inn, just in case I tried confirming it but Zenom and the others still hadn't returned.
I returned to my room and when I was writing some stuff on the desk Miduchi came to my room.
"Hey, I'm a bit worried though.."
"It's just as Toris said, Zenom's there, I'm sure they're fine. Wait just a minute, let me finish writing this."
After I replied Miduchi made some tea and is sitting in a chair.
"Did, you already take a shower? That was fast."
"No, not yet. Since I was a bit worried..I thought we might end up going out."
"Hn? I, don't reallylikedoingitwithoutshowering."
No, it's not to the point of hating it though. It's manners to get rid of the sweat right.
"Really~ What are you saying! Aren't you worried? Two young girls still haven't returned you know?"
"That's why I said, since Zenom is there it's fine. In worst case there's always my company as well, even if they end up completely broke there's place they have to stay. In the first place, you said going out after this, but we have no method of transportation? Even if we were to go to Rombertia right after this about the only places I can think to check are my company and a brothel managed by one of Zenom's acquaintances? There's no method of finding them."
When I said that and Miduchi seems to have accepted it.
"N, I guess that's true..Then, I'll go take a shower."
She said that and left the room. Now then, I guess I'll go to a shower after I finish writing this as well. Ah, what I was writing just now is a letter to Bakuddo, or rather, it's more like an instruction document for production. Documents regarding my predictions of the demand in the capital from here on out. I wrote out the situation in the capital as much as possible as well. To the level that we won't get in the way of Webdos Companies business that is. I think if mother who should probably be remaining in the village sees it then she should be able to make the appropriate decisions.
I'm sure someone will come near the end of this month but if I write out the instructions on a letter before hand then I'm sure they'll be able to make preparations easier in the village then just by word of mouth. In the first place, even when they come near the end of the year I'm sure father or older brother won't be accompanying them. It's just my prediction but at the very least sister-in-law Shani will come together with the squires for the deliveries and then after packing the carriages full of supplies they'll head straight to the battlefield like that. They'll only make it back to the village by early summer of next year or so.
I finish my writing and drank the rest of the tea Miduchi left.
The next morning, I woke up before dawn together with Miduchi and while showering I also washed my face. In addition I finished off brushing my teeth and after returning to the room I grabbed the knit trash can on the side of the bed and took it to the small incineration furnace in the back of the inn to get rid of. Since most guests don't have much trash or even if they did it wouldn't be much at all so the brat of the inn gets rid of it when he cleans the room, but I mean, these past few months, some types of trash that I somehow don't want the brat to see have occurred. When I arrived at the place to throw trash away and there under the slowly brightening sky Bel was holding a trash can with a troubled expression.
Somehow it's difficult to look at each others face right? I didn't want to run into anyone either.
It would be strange not to greet each other as well.
"Morning."
"ha ha.."
Ah, really, pardon me from this. I can't do anything but make an embarrassed bitter smile.
"Miduchi-san, I'm envious.."
"..ha ha.."
Toris, I won't forget about you~
You should have been able to even beat that King in count in a single night.
In another 20 minutes there's a passenger carriage that goes to the capital. I don't know if we can ride it with six people but if we can't then we'll leave behind Zulu and Angela.