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"Hey, are you sure I can eat as much as I want here?"

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Yeah, you can eat as much as you want during the festival. Eat as much as you like.

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"Yay, yay!"

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　A scene seen in the plaza inside the water fortress Palamea.

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　In the middle of the square, a huge campfire made of wood is lit and burning.

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　Nearby, instruments that seem to have been used in this area for a long time were being played, and many people were dancing to the music.

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　The people playing the instruments are from a village near Palamea.

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　Music was what I considered absolutely necessary for the festival to be held.

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　Everywhere in the world, including in past lives, there is a culture of music that is enjoyed through the playing of sounds.

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　However, it differs from region to region.

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　Even if we compare the music in the territory of Ghana, which is closer to Palamea than to Barca, the performance in this area seems to be a little different.

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　In a world with poor means of transportation, society is small, closed, and complete within itself.

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　Those who step into the world with their feet on the ground and troll around are seen as enemies of the small society.

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　If music from other regions is played at a festival to comfort the inhabitants of this neighborhood, they will feel as if they have been denied their culture in addition to having their lands destroyed and their lives taken away.

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　That is why we adopted the music of this area.

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　We are not your enemies, but rather we want to blend in with you.

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　And at the same time, we decided to give you an immediate practical benefit at the festival.

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　We provided the food and made it all-you-can-eat.

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　This works especially well for children.

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　There are hungry children everywhere.

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　And for those children, those who provide them with food are not their enemies but their friends.

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　No matter what their parents or other adults around them say, there is no substitute for the magic of food.

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　Therefore, I decided to transport a large amount of food and serve it at this festival in order to grab the children's stomachs.

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"uu......,you......"

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"Dad ....... You're really dead, aren't you?"

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　But even amidst the cheers of the children, there are those who sob.

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　They were placing flowers on a stone monument a short distance away from the campfire, kneeling on the ground in front of it and shedding tears.

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　The monument I had magically created.

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　I magically created a huge hardened brick that looks like marble and made it into a monument.

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　And on the monument were inscribed the names of those who had died in this place.

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　I had landed at the time of the fall of Paramere and checked the documents that were left behind.

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　The first place I went to was the church.

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　The church keeps a list of the names of the people who live there.

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　I had stored this record in my brain by [memory storage].

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　I excluded those who were left in the list that I knew were survivors, and inscribed their names on the stone monument.

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　Incidentally, it is fortunate that the priest in charge of this church was not in Palamea when it was submerged.

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　I guess you could say that the priest was lucky, but I was also lucky.

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　And so, people shed tears when they found the names of their family members, relatives and acquaintances on the stone monument they have built.

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　Filling our stomachs with food is good, but sometimes it is important to cry.

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　Crying from the bottom of one's heart can also heal the wounds of the heart.

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　Such a festival had been going on for several days.

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　The reason why I did it so much is because I wanted many people to participate.

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　And on the last day, we had an event where I floated my magical creation on the water of the lake and let it flow.

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　The thing I created was called a bottleship.

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　It's a glass bottle with a model of a ship inside.

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　The glass bottleships were magically made and illuminated by magical lighting and floated on the lake by the residents.

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　Since a large number of bottleships were made, it was fantastic to see all of them swaying together on the lake at night.

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　Thus, the festival of Palamea was held without any problems.

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"Hmm, so there aren't that many slimes downstream of Paramere, are there?"

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"Yes, that's right, Mr. Barca. There are many watering holes in the Arbalest territory, but slime is not so common. Besides, we can usually catch fish in the rivers.

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"Can those fish be sold?　If we can get a steady harvest, I'd like to be able to eat at Barca, too."

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"Yes, but it's not that tasty.　In the Arbalest territory, they are dried for preservation, so we can't sell all of them."

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"I don't mind. Partly because I want to eat fish, but most of all because I want to have economic ties with Palamea. In Barca, near the forest, fish is very precious. Even if the fish is not that tasty, there will be people who want to buy it.

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"Okay. We would really appreciate it if you could sell us something.

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"Okay, that's it. Okay, that's a deal. So, is there anything else you're interested in?

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"Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. Actually, there's a dangerous part of the river that runs near our village. I've been asking the knight for a long time if he could work on it, but he hasn't been able to make it happen. I mean, you know... ......"

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"Oh, the river construction. Okay. I'll send a knight from Barca. I'll send someone to inspect the site first. After he's done his inspection. Is that all right with you?

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Yes, yes. Thank you very much.

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"Oh, well, we're also ......."

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　There were other reasons for keeping the festival going for several days.

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　It was to talk to the powers that be around here.

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　The powers that be here are basically the heads of the surrounding villages and towns.

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　As chiefs, they organize the villages and pay taxes to the lords.

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　And even if the control is transferred from the House of Arbalest to the House of Fontana, it is basically the same.

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　It is because it is easier to tell the person who is originally in charge of the village to "pay taxes to us from now on" than to replace the chiefs of each village one by one.

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　We talked with the village heads and decided how to develop the surrounding land.

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　It seems that especially where there are rivers, there is a certain amount of flooding due to heavy rains.

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　The most common issue was the maintenance of such rivers.

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　We also discussed with Ghana and the village chiefs the selection of people to live in the land that had been "cleared" and "improved.

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　It was probably a good thing that we first redeveloped the fields around Lake Palamea.

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　Some of the village chiefs, who at first seemed to be somewhat rebellious toward Ghana, changed their opinions when they were shown that they might be able to obtain new and improved fields.

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　I also induced them to make some profit for us as well.

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　We had done all this, but the land in this area would be the domain of the Ghanaian families.

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　I will not be able to get much benefit from it.

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　So, I found out what could only be obtained in this area and made a deal with Barca to give them priority in trade.

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　Although there are rivers in the territory of the knights of Barca, they do not produce fish in large quantities.

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　If we can get a steady supply of fish from this area, it is a good thing.

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　In this way, they succeeded in laying the groundwork for the acceptance of Fontana's rule by the residents of the neighborhood of Palamere.

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