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"How is the management of the village, Kristina?"

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"Yes, it is. The magic tools are selling well, so I guess we're in the black for now."

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That's not so bad. I wish I could make more money."

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"No. I think this is still a great achievement, Mr. Alphonse. It's amazing that a group of people from an abandoned village in a salt-affected area can eat without anyone starving. It's just that we're not used to making magic tools. The limited number of tools that can be made does not increase the amount of money that can be made.

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　I talk with Kristina at my house in the center of the village of Barca.

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　She is a merchant, and uses the village of Barca as a base for her business, going to the Orient and other countries as well.

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　In addition, she is involved in the finances of the village.

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　From Kristina's point of view, the income and expenditure of the village of Barca are not so bad.

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　She says that it is a success that more than 100 mercenaries are still managing to make a living even though they are doing manufacturing rather than mercenary work.

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　However, it is not a very big profit.

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　Magic tools are expensive items, but the production speed is slow for mercenaries who are not used to making things.

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　Although they could only produce a small number of these items, they had succeeded in turning a profit because of their preciousness.

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"So, I'm thinking of implementing the plan..."

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"That's the plan, isn't it?　You know, the one where you said you were going to raise children?"

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"Yes, yes. It's a plan to educate children in order to increase the number of trusted friends and, above all, to increase the number of people who can play an active role in Barka Mercenaries in the future. How many children can we take care of as a village if we make the surplus you mentioned earlier?"

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"Yes. ....... It's fine for now, but winter is coming. It will be difficult to raise more than five children in the village, no matter how many we have, because it will be hard to find food to eat and money to prepare for the winter.

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"Five?　Is it that little?"

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"You are going to educate children, right?　If we want to raise our children well, we need to take good care of each one of them, not just feed them. In that sense, I don't think we can have too many people.

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"I see. Well, it's a start. It's not so bad. But five. That's less than I thought.

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"Yes, of course. That's right. So, even if we collect orphans, we have to be very careful in selecting the right people. I think it's better to bring in smart and fit children as much as possible.

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　Choosing people, huh?

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　To tell the truth, in the planning stage, I had planned to gather a suitable number of orphans who did not have citizenship in the Orient, and let Ai raise them.

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　However, Kristina told me that it would be difficult to do so.

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　Even if they were children, it would cost a lot of money to feed one person.

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　Even if we gather so many children in Barca, we may not be able to take care of all of them.

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　If that is the case, it would be better to gather the best children.

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　What shall we do?

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　Should we test them to see how smart they are?

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　With these thoughts in mind, we finally started working on the first step of human resource development, the acceptance of orphans.

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"What do you think Ai?　Do you have any ideas about what kind of girl you would like?"

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"Well, yes. We prefer healthy children. Extremely sickly or sickly children may not be the best candidates to start with.

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"Well, of course. Health first. Don't you have to worry about their heads or their physiques?

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"It won't be a problem. People are very different from one another. Every person is good at some things and not so good at others.

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"Yes, but wouldn't a bigger body make you stronger?"

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"Perhaps, but the amount of magic power is also considered to have a great influence. It would be difficult to predict how strong a child will become just based on his or her physique at an early age."

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　A few days after my talk with Kristina, I was in the Orient with Ai.

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　The Orient is a city-state covered by a wall.

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　Inside it, master craftsmen live their lives.

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　But outside the walls live the poor.

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　From the poor districts here, orphans with no relatives are selected and brought back home.

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　When I told this story to Banerji, he did not seem to have any problem with it.

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　In fact, Banagher asked me if I was okay with the children not having citizenship.

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　He said that rather than taking the children home and educating them, it would be better to take the adults to the battlefield and bring in those who have played an active role in the war, as in the Orient.

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　But I was not willing to do that.

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　I want to have immediate and ready-to-use talents, but the purpose is to bring up people who can be trusted.

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　Banagher's offer to introduce us to someone of his own acquaintance was declined, and so we came here to see the orphans.

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"Well, I'll choose one, then, won't I?

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"Yes, Master Alphonse."

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　Ai says it doesn't matter because every child has his or her own personality.

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　I'll take your word for it.

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　Since Ai is the one who entrusts the education of the child, we have no say in the matter as long as Ai says so.

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　But I will narrow down the number and make the choice.

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　With that in mind, I invoked Intimidate in the impoverished streets of the Orient.

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　I make my magic power sharp like a small needle, and spread the needle of magic power around.

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　The magic power was not the size of a thick needle as used on the battlefield, but smaller and thinner needle-like power was dispersed in large quantities.

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　Though small and thin, [Intimidation] is more bearable for those whose magical defenses are weak.

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　One after another, those who were in the poor district collapsed, clutching their chests.

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　Among them, however, there was one who was still standing despite the [pressure].

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　His body is small.

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　He must have been a child.

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　Ai and I walked toward him to call out to the child who had withstood the pressure.

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