Feels so weird to post chapters on laptop and translate on mini-keyboard. Next chapter in 3-6 hours maybe otherwise 6-12.Year 7445, Month 9, Day 11
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Year 7445, Month 9, Day 23
"Together with Zenom-san the three of us are going to the capital."
Ah, I guess they"re going to buy casings (pig"s bowels) huh?
"Oh, I see. Be careful. Are you returning in the evening?"
Ah, that"s right.
"That"s just right, while you"re at it could you stop by the company as well. It"s fine if it"s Rozural or anyone else but could you tell them to secure enough rubber for four pairs of rubber sandals?"
"Yeah, got it. Also, we"re returning by dinner. Putting aside Gwine, father and I have to join {Sooner} for dinner after all."
This time Zenom and Ralpha are with {Sooner} while Bel and Angela are with the {Butchers}. Toris has been giving it his best swinging the sword on the 8th floor and concentrating on finishing them off.
"Ah, that"s right. How have things been going with Ginger and Hisu? Are you getting along?"
"Yeah, somewhat I guess. After trying to talk to Rodrick and he"s a good guy as well."
"Hn, I see. Get along well."
"I intend to stay the night over there. I made a promise to buy some clothes for Anna-chan and Hanna-chan."
It seems Gwine is planning to stay the night in the capital since she doesn"t have much relation with the former {Sun.Ray}.
"I see, I"m sure they"ll be overjoyed. It"s fine to take your time."
Anna and Hanna sure are loved. Just as would be expected from their deceased father who was running a business, their mother Leila can do some simple arithmetic as well. It seems they"re being taught various things by Leila now. Eventually I"d like to take the time to properly educate them as well but when I look at the state of things with Catherine and I"ve been thinking it might be good to just throw all of the educating jobs on Basutoral.
Of course, it"s very welcome for Gwine to teach them as well. When it comes to Anna and Hanna as well, if possible I"d like for them to become future managers of Greed Company but they"re nothing more than employees and not slaves so I can"t coerce them and I have no intention of doing it either. Even if they were to separate from Greed Company I think being able to do arithmetic would be a great weapon for them.
When I returned to my room Miduchi was folding the clean laundry the inn had brought back and putting it on the shelves.
"This afternoon those four combat slaves I bought previously are joining us. Today do you have any kind of plans?"
"Wun, since the last time you went to buy them you said the discipline duration would take about a month so I didn"t make any plans in specific for this break. We need to go and buy equipment and stuff right?"
"Yeah, sorry about that."
"Rather than that, is everyone from your family still not coming? I still haven"t greeted your parents after all.."
"Wun, since sister just returned last month I think it should be pretty soon though..And, I think it will only be father or mother just one of them that come this time. From here on out as expected I doubt two of them would come at the same time?"
a.s.suming they are coming it would probably be father. I"m sure mother is engrossed in teaching magic to Zetto and Becky after all. And since brother became the official lord as expected I"m sure he and sister-in-law don"t feel like this could come.
"Regardless of the case I want them to come soon...Since we"ve run out of things to sell, it"s really troubling.."
When I sat down on a chair and Miduchi made some tea.
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"How about this?"
The old blacksmith said bluntly to my former knight slave while handing him a long sword.
After taking the drawn long sword Garuhashu tried swinging it around a bit before tilting his head, I guess it didn"t fit very well, he handed it to Okonneru. Okonneru started swinging the sword around a bit and nodded satisfied before trying a different way of swinging it.
I was just having the slaves pick out their weapons to purchase from the stock of a blacksmith. Since Garuhashu and Konneru were both true knights they automatically end up in positions on the front line. Since Firenoto and Manzokki were both soldiers they should be better with spears and halberds. We need to go to a different blacksmith for those.
Since there was only a few swords in stock it"s not like they have that many choices. The two of them spent around 20 minutes picking out their swords. The spears took a bit more time. Just as would be expected from soldiers Firenoto and Manzokki preferred weapons with a long reach. Or rather, it seems they didn"t learn how to use the sword in the army. It seems they didn"t learn how to use the sword from before they became soldiers like Zulu so I guess they were training with the spear from the time they were kids.
When I tried listening to their stories after all it seems there"s some differences in the army of Devas Kingdom and Rombert. Things in that area don"t matter at all for now. Well, I"ve heard the general outline from Bel and Zulu so I already knew most of it but it seems things are quite different depending on the region they"re from as well so I was able to understand that there"s a lot of differences. Something like the army, army system, and training details of another country, there"s no need to know it for now. Right now I"m an adventurer that fights monsters after all.
We started towards the leather crafters shop and ordered leather armor for the four of them. I"ve spent quite a bit..2,000,000 Z on the two long swords, 1,000,00 Z for two spears, and 2,400,000 Z for four suits of leather armor so that"s a total that"s largely exceeded 5,000,000 Z.
"I"m Henry.Okonneru. Everyone it"s nice to meet you. I use the long sword and kite shield as well. When it comes to combat on a horse I prefer the lance."
"I..I"m Jesutasu.Manzokki.. I"m in everyone"s care. My weapon is the spear. I"ll give my best to be useful to everyone."
They each stood up one at a time from the table and introduced themselves to everyone here.
"Alright. They"re not here today but there"s still a number of other members as well. I"ll let you meet the people not here now eventually~ so it"s fine if you can just remember the names of everyone here today. Also, I intend to bring you all to the capital tomorrow. We need to make sandals for you after all."
After I said that the four of them were all surprised. It seems they think I"m going to order leather sandals rather than the pre-made straw sandals. Seeing that Giberuti took the belt off of the rubber sandals he was wearing and showed it off to them. Don"t do that when we"re eating. I made a bitter smile.
"This is a rubber sandal. It feels good to wear and lasts quite a while. Since you all different from me and combat slaves after all. Eventually you might even get rubber sole boots like Zulu-san. Make sure you do a proper job."
I guess he didn"t mention Angela"s name because she"s not here?
"Then, since this is your first meal with everyone. Basutoral, how is it?"
"Yeah, we made various things today as well. I"ll prepare them right away. Well please try out the flavors of them."
If they eat and drink some good things I"m sure we"ll get to know their characters.