4-11. Departure 1 (1/2)

4-11. Departure (1)

Satou's here. I love to make programs without being limited. The last time I did that was when I made a legged robot for my graduate research during college. When I became a working adult, I haven't done it.

This time, it seems that I'll make magic tools.

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Yep, it's a good morning.

I walk the town while enjoying the morning sunlight, feeling refreshed.

Yosagu-san was unlike me, yawned constantly looking sleepy. I invited him for breakfast but since he didn't come home his family was probably mad so we decided to part ways outside the shop.

”If I made it big in the labyrinth city, let's come again.”, I shouted him that.

Even though it's early in the morning, the people who are having meals on the stalls, and the people who are selling fresh groceries are lively.

The vulgar atmosphere that usually permeates in the east district was probably the fault of the visitors.

I'm smelling something good from the stalls.

Although I'm not particularly hungry, let's buy some souvenirs for the girls. Though I can't buy sushi in wooden box pack like those fathers from Showa era.

I buy a big handbasket made from thin wood from a street stall. It's about as big as two rice bowl. I also bought two lidded containers for soup and put it inside the basket.

I buy warm meals and put it into the Storage through the basket. I keep buying various things to the extent that it doesn't look unnatural.

Soup made from meatless animal bone and vegetables. Thick stew with vegetables and dried meat. Various grilled meats starting from grilled goat meats. Seryu grills. Freshly baked flat breads. Steamed potatoes. There are some scratched fruits from many fruits I've bought.

I've bought for about 30 servings. It's too much for souvenirs but I'll keep some for emergency. With these much, even if we are in an environment impossible to light fire, I could still provide warm meals. In the first place, I plan to use the Storage so that we don't end up in desperate situation.

I wanted to buy alchemy materials, but it was closed at the time.

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When I get back to the gate inn, Arisa who saw me from the window comes running down.

After she looked at my face, she begins to stomp the ground with her foot.

”Uuu~~~~. Mou! That glossy face~~.”

She bites the edge of a handkerchief, taking a pose. Every single one of her gestures are old... let's not ask her age before she was reincarnated.

”I was the one who was supposed to take your first time~~”

I don't remember making such promise.

I keep silent about it since it'd be bad if I don't.

”You're fussy, and this isn't my first time anyway.”

”Nooo, even though it was one in a millennium chance to snatch away the DT of a boy....”

I talk to Arisa in whisper to check on Lulu's condition. If she still hasn't recovered, I'll postpone our departure for two days.

According to Arisa, it was only serious in the first day, it's fine now.

Since it looks painful, let's give her the painkiller I made from practices. There are five of it, those should be enough.

After we finished our simple meal, I advance as planned yesterday.

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I ride the wagon until the parking space of the Commercial Guild. Horses were easier to fine-drive unlike cars so it was easy.

It's lively here too in the morning. Every carriages which occupy half of the parking lot are unloading their cargo. Every carriages look well seasoned. The ratio for luggage carriages and covered wagon is fifty-fifty. The carts are loaded with a lot of 10 kilogram bags. The people who are moving the bags look like ruffians who wear villager-like simple long-sleeved shirt and trousers. I can see patchworks on its knee and elbow.

While I look at other carriages out of curiosity, Sunifun-san who has finished confirming the load and assessing the prices comes here.

”Good morning, Satou-sama. You came really early.”

”I'm sorry. Am I troubling you by coming too early?”

I don't think that what I'm doing is that bad, but let's apologize for now.

”Not at all. The god of business surely like people who are quick.”

Even though Sunifun-san said that, if I look at the surrounding, it's probably customary to bring in the goods in the morning and bring it out in the afternoon.

I am guided to the warehouse. The goods that I've ordered yesterday are put on one of the section. I confirm the products and their number with the help of an employee. I check the contents of every barrel of the Dragon White Stone and close the lid.

Sunifun-san watches over me doing that like a grandfather watching over his grandson. Hey, you're not that old right.

I ask the employee to carry the goods to my wagon, while I complete the payment for the transaction at the office.

When I get back to the wagon, the loading is complete so I visually check on the goods. Since I've put tags on the Dragon White Stones, it doesn't seem like it has been swapped. It can't see through if the inside of the barrels are swapped, but they probably wouldn't have enough time to go that far.

I thank the employee and give him one big copper coin.

”May you have good businesses!”, Sunifun-san left the words as farewell as I left the guild.

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”Welcome nano desu~.”

I'm greeted by Pochi when I return to the gate inn. She hugs me as I go down the coach seat, so I rub her head. I separate from her as I pat her head, and I work to unfasten the horses from the wagon.

”I'll help no desu.”, she immediately stands on the stoll that we've just bought and begins to help. Might as well teach her the way to unfasten the belt, manage the yoke, etc. It's also good to review myself as I teach others.

”What's everyone else are doing?”

”Lulu is washing over there. Others are shopping no desu~.”

”So Pochi and Lulu are house sitting huh?”

”I'm watching the luggages no desu~”