Read I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle

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"......I can't believe what I'm hearing, that I can't believe it. Is there such a world beyond the sacred mountain, that there is?"

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I'm not lying.

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"Oh, I'm sorry. I don't mean to imply that you are lying, that I am not. But when you get older you get stuck in your own way of thinking. If I didn't have the magic sword, I might not have believed it.

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　Gran, who had been in this country, crossed the sacred mountain and came to the United Kingdom of Fontana, where demons still exist, and there he created the magic sword.

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　Garius exhales loudly when he hears that they are making many other things in addition to hard swords.

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　In this country, no one would ever try to go beyond the sacred mountain.

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　It must feel like an out-of-this-world story.

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　There are demons, but humans have built a country, and even though they live in flying castles, they sail to the moon.

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　He said that he could not believe such a story.

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　However, he does not deny what we say without thinking.

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　Kiku calls him an old man, but he may be soft-headed.

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"I saw something good, that I did. Thank you, little boy."

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"No problem. But I have a favor to ask of Galius.

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"Yeah?　What is it, that it is?　You don't look like the kind of person who would ask me for food, that you don't, but is there something you want?"

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"Yes. Come to my village, Galius. I'm looking for a technician right now."

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"In a village?　I think you said Barca village, right?"

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"Yes. It's a recently established village, and we're thinking of expanding it with more and more people. We are planning to build many things. But we also need people with the proper skills to do so.

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"In your village, that is, ......."

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"Do me a favor, old man. Come live with us in the village. The village of Barca is nice. It's not cold and we have decent houses.

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"...... No, I'm not going to do it, that I'm not going to do it."

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"Why?　You've been saying that for a long time, old man. You said you were the best builder in the Orient. This favela is no place for you.

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　Kiku and I asked him to come to Barka village.

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　But when Galius hears our request, he looks a little troubled and refuses the offer.

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　Hearing his reply, Kiku involuntarily pressed him.

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"Don't you want to come to a village you don't know?　Sure, it's a newly established village that I've never heard of."

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"Well, that's partly true, that it is. But it is simply my problem. I can't say it too loudly, that I have some debts.

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"I know. I know. I've heard about it from both of them. But you're here because you're out of debt, aren't you?"

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"Hmm?　Yeah, well, that's the way it's supposed to be."

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"Oh, actually, it's not?"

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"Mm. That's just a way of talking to the children, that it is. I live in this favela for a good reason, that I do.

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"Heh. May I ask you why?

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"Hmm, well, okay. It's not a funny story, that it's not the kind of story you would tell a child, but you are not just a child for some reason, that you are not just a child. And I have heard some familiar stories. Then, let's have you join me in my tale of the old days, shall we?

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　We're not convinced until you tell us.

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　Maybe that's how he felt.

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　He didn't seem very eager to talk about it, but he was willing to tell us why.

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　I think that the reason for this is that I have been working on this project for a long time.

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　Garius was originally a well-known figure in the Orient.

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　He and Gran, who was once known as a master craftsman, were active and well-known together.

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　Gran left this country to go over the sacred mountain.

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　Many people followed him.

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　But Galius remained here.

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　But Galius remained here because he had a beloved daughter who was still young at the time.

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　She was his only family.

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　The woman who was the mother of the daughter died in childbirth.

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　Galius himself had a very difficult time, but he lived a full and happy life, not wanting to give his motherless daughter a hard time.

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　However, such a life did not last long.

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　Galius' daughter became ill.

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　It was a heart disease.

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　The disease was said to be incurable or even incurable.

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　There is no cure.

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　If you contracted the disease, you could not be cured, and you would die.

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　My daughter contracted such a disease.

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　Galius wept.

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　He has lost the woman he loved, and even his beloved daughter is lying in agony.

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　I want to do something to heal her.

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　It is natural to want to do something about it.

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　Galius scrambled.

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　He did everything he could.

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　Whenever he heard of a good doctor, he called him and asked him to examine her.

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　But all the doctors were the same.

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　There is nothing we can do.

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　Or they ordered medicines.

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　If it was said to be effective for this or that heart ailment, he ordered it at random.

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　But none of them worked.

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　In hindsight, many of the medicines were dubious.

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　Despite all these efforts, my daughter's condition did not get better.

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　And the debts piled up.

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　Galius, who was one of the most famous brewers in the country, seemed to have a lot of money, but even so, he could not spend all of his assets and even borrowed money.

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　But he was not cured.

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　And so, Galius' daughter died.

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　She was supposed to be.

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"Is she alive?"

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That is true, that it is. My daughter is not dead. She is still alive, that she is.

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　But Galilius says.

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　The child he loved is alive today.

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　Kiku and Hannah, who were listening to the story with me, are puzzled.

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　Maybe they've never seen him before.

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　Galius has been living in this favela for a long time, as he told us before we came here.

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　The two of them have never seen each other in this favela.

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　Are you all right?

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　Maybe he's going a little crazy.

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　I couldn't help but think so when I heard Galius' story.

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