Chapter 090 (1/2)
Volume 1
The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 3 Chapter 3
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「……」
Luuty walked through the town while being lead by the hand by Sancreed.
What she felt was, the hustle and bustle of the town.
The light of magic which shined in the dark night.
The laughter of the people.
The faces that thought back on the hardships of the day.
The faces that believed in the hopes of tomorrow.
Of the Goblins, of the Beastia, of the Majin.
Various smiling faces were found in this town.
The figures of people working, which was created based on a positive culture.
Natural figures……which she had recently seen even in mankind’s territory of the Shutaia Continent.
While looking at that, Luuty suddenly noticed.
「Come to think of it……」
「Nn?」
「The voices of touting for shops……there aren’t any, are there?」
With it being a castle town night, there should have naturally been some. However, she didn’t even see the figures of the employees on the streets.
「Ahh, the touting had disappeared.」
「Disappeared?」
「Yeah.」
To begin with, touting was something done meant to inform the customers of how great the products or services of their store was. As long as there was competition, there was a need to demonstrate who much better they were than other stores.
For any store, if there were parts where they were inferior to another store, they would try to improve and surpass them in it, and that by itself it a good side that would make the entire market grow and develop, but.
At times where they reached a certain level and were pretty much treated as equal, their bad parts as Mazoku would show its face.
Fellow people who possessed unshakeable confidence that their own place was the best would have their prides clash.
In other words, the Mazokus’ time-honored method of deciding who was better, a fist fight would end up starting.
If fist fights that started due to touting frequently occurred here and there, doing business would be out of the question.
It was there that a battle with the intent of unification was performed in the shopping district, and the victor had made a proposition.
From now on, without comparing ourselves to other stores, let’s determine victory or defeat with only our own store’s products and services.
The sales will determine everything……is what they said.
In the world of Mazoku, the victor’s words were absolute. Accepting the proposal of that man, who seemed to be the store owner of a skewer store, the current form was completed……that was the reason.
「In short, it’s a match done with the actual products and services……that’s what it means.」
「Hee……since they possess pride in their own work, something like touting isn’t needed, is that what it means?」
「……Certainly, pride does have something to do with it.」
Luuty’s favorable misunderstanding was something Sancreed didn’t go out of his way to correct.
「Plus……the sounds of fighting can’t be heard from anywhere at all.」
「Well, it’s not like there aren’t any though.」
If a fist fight were to be carried out now, there would only be cases where it would be approved of as a duel under the management of a third party.
「Types of those so-called crimes, there aren’t any.」
「Not even a single case?」
「Yeah.」
Seeing Luuty’s surprised look, Sancreed answered like that.
The Mazoku who had offered up their loyalty to the Demon King Vermudol wouldn’t commit criminal acts on the turf of their king.
Demonstrating their loyalty to the Demon King through their way of life was how the Mazoku were.
The Mazoku of the past were violent and brutal, but the Demon King of those times, Gramfia, had a big influence on that.
The current Demon King, Vermudol, had a personality that didn’t like strife and loved peace. Therefore, it was only natural that the Mazoku would live their lives where they kept order……and the Mazoku personally preferred this new way of living.
……Then again, there was also the circumstances where the Mazoku that preferred strife were mostly destroyed during the upheaval in the past though.
「But, just in case, patrols are also performed.」
Right at that moment, Magic Operated Armors that were carrying out patrols had passed by next to Luuty.
She then noticed that there would definitely be a Magic Operated Armor wherever she looked in the town.
When speaking of the patrolling soldiers when Luuty was in the St. Altlis Kingdom, they had the impression that they were somehow slacking off, but it seemed that the Zadark Kingdom’s Magic Operated Armors didn’t have something like that.
「……」
As Luuty had her attention attracted by the Magic Operated Armors, she had her hand pulled again by Sancreed.
「Like I said, my hand! Please let go of it!」
「Nn? Ahh, sorry.」
「To begin with. I have……」
「Oh, here’s a good store. This is perfect.」
Interrupting Luuty’s words, Sancreed approached one store.
The store was a face-to-face style store where the counter was placed between the customer and the shopkeeper. The front of the counter was a transparent plank that seemed like polished crystal. There were shelves behind that plank, and bags of various colors were placed on them.
Bags of various colors were placed on the counter as well, but Luuty had absolutely no idea what they were.
「Bags……?」
「Well, they definitely are bags. Ahh, give me one of those silver bags over there.」
「Gotcha, that’ll be five large copper coins.」
When Sancreed placed five large copper coins on the counter, the shopkeeper, a boar Beastia, took out a silver bag.
Taking that bag, Sancreed checked its weight, and then placed it in Luuty’s hand.
「It’s called a piece lottery. Well, it’s something like a specialty of the current Zadark Kingdom.」
「Piece lottery……?」
「Try opening it.」
Being told that, Luuty pulled the string that closed the silver bag’s opening.
What was inside were dolls that seemed to have been made by carving stones.
One was a Magic Operated Armor.
One was a wolf Beastia that somehow seemed to have a frivolous-looking face.
「And the last one is……Is this……Fainell?」
Unlike the other black colored dolls, only the Fainell doll was carefully colored.