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"Okay, are you ready?"

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"It's all right, Mr. Alphonse. All the cargo has been checked.

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Let's get going. Barca, let's go!

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　After Biden's confirmation, we were on our way to the Orient this time.

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　But there, the Barka mercenaries have decided to temporarily take on a different form.

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　Instead of the Barka Mercenaries we call ourselves the Barka Traders.

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　This was because of what they had heard from Biden, Sura, and others.

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　A group of mercenaries made up of people from the foot of a not-so-impressive mountain peak might cause all kinds of trouble wherever they go.

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　So they decided to transform themselves into a group of merchants instead of a group of mercenaries.

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　Merchants take their valuable goods to other lands and make a profit.

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　But inevitably, they are victimized by bandits along the way.

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　They risk their lives and may be driven to bankruptcy by the loss of their goods.

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　It is said that there is a way to avoid such a situation, called "trading with others".

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　The idea of trading in teams is said to have originated from the idea of protecting oneself and one's goods by having several merchants huddle together and move as a group.

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　However, this is not just a mutual aid, but an organization.

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　The captain who organizes the traders is absolute, and he alone decides which road to take and in what number of days, where to take a rest break, and so on.

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　In other words, the Barca merchants are still under my command, but they include the merchants and their goods.

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　Just by doing so, our goal this time was to change the appearance of the group from a group of dangerous mercenaries to a group of merchants.

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　Biden and Kristina had approached me, and some of the merchants had decided to join the Barka merchants.

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　They would not trust a group of people who were working under the direction of me, a child they had never heard of.

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　But there had been actual banditry and there had been some damage.

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　Some of them refused to join, but others did, and we completed our appearance as merchants.

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"After all, being a merchant gives a different impression to others, doesn't it?

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"Yes, that's right. The number of people in the group makes it a little difficult to find accommodation, but there are still those who wish to purchase goods from far away places. They seem to be much more accepting of us than a mere mercenary band.

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　Starting out as a barca trader, I have passed through several more towns.

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　In each town, we sold the goods we were carrying, then bought new goods there and sold them in the next town.

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　The merchants seem to know exactly what is available and what is hard to find.

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　I was surprised to see that what I bought at a low price in one town sold for a good price in another town.

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　And merchants seem to be more popular than mercenaries.

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　Perhaps it was because Elvis had always made the mercenaries strictly observe discipline, so they did not cause any problems when they entered the town.

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　The merchants who were reluctant to participate at first, now that they know it is safe, are eager to make a profit.

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　Some of them even asked if they could continue to work as merchants after arriving in the Orient.

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"But being a merchant is not all that good, Mr. Alphonse. They are better than mercenaries, but only a little better.

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"Is that so?"

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"Yes. After all, people are basically averse to strangers. Besides, the farmers are taxed very strictly on the produce from their farms. Merchants who go around and make profits while producing nothing are more likely to be disliked.

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"Some people don't like merchants. I don't know, maybe I never thought about it before because we didn't have that kind of idea in Vulcania, where I was born.

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"It must be a very nice place you're from, Alphonse. I'd like to go there.

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"Well, I don't know. I don't know. We're in a closed country now. If you talk about closing the country and not letting people in, then maybe they will become more stranger-hating than the people around here in the future.

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"Well, it's still a nice place. Oh, the terrain is going to change soon. There are more rivers around here, so be prepared for that, captain.

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"Yes, sir."

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　From the town of Biden onward, we were basically out of harm's way.

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　I thought about looking for bandits again and trying to get a reward, but the merchants were against it.

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　They cried that there was no need to go to the trouble of fighting.

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　Well, that's true.

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　It would be the opposite for the merchants who are carrying cargo to target the bandits.

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　Besides, I had thought that the bandits would come to them sooner or later.

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　However, it seems that no bandit would bother to target a merchant protected by more than 100 fighters.

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　We continue to move on without any problems.

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　Finally, we were approaching a small group of countries.

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　This is where the Orient, our destination, is located.

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　It seems to be a place where a number of small rivers flowing out of the sacred mountains form a number of large rivers.

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　The rivers sometimes rise and overflow.

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　However, the soil carried from the mountains by the overflowing rivers overflows the area, and it is said that this soil is excellent for farmland.

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　A number of small countries have sprung up, and people are living in each of them.

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　We finally arrived at such a flooded land.

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