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"Oh, wait a minute. That belongs to my family. You can't just take it.

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"What are you talking about?　Here's the deed. It says right here that if the person who made the futures contract fails to deliver the rice, the surety will pay in his stead. We are just following the contract."

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"But ......, but who could have predicted that such a storm would hit this village? This is not right. It's outrageous."

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"No, it's not. No. Look, it says that right here too. The contract will be fulfilled promptly even in the event of a disaster. The storm was a big one, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean that the contract won't be fulfilled. Hey, you guys, take it."

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　The rice is taken from the village headman's storehouse.

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　But since the rice stored here was not enough to cover the already skyrocketing rice prices, they also took money and goods, saying that they would make up for it with other things.

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　Seeing this, I hurriedly confronted the village headman, who protested to me, with a certificate to silence him.

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　Some of them tried to resist me by force, but that was a bad idea.

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　They may have money and experience in rough times, but we are mercenaries.

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　If they point weapons at us, we will be facing mercenaries who have mastered the art of swordsmanship.

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　A mere bouncer in a village who boasts of his strength is no match for them.

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　A little time had passed since the storm.

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　After the rescue operation in the disaster area, and just as the harvest season is about to end, they start to collect the rice.

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　The village headmen and others who had become guarantors for various farmers got too greedy, and their money was collected at a rapid rate, taking all they had.

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　Surprisingly, however, the recovery rate of rice from farmers who did not have guarantors was not so bad.

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　Immediately after the storm, we thought that this year's rice harvest was doomed because of its magnitude.

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　The winds were so strong that trees fell down.

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　It was impossible for the rice in the fields not to fall over.

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　It seemed that either we would not be able to harvest rice properly, or the rice would be of horribly poor quality.

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　But it seems the farmers were smarter than I thought.

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　Apparently, there were a good number of them who were harvesting the rice early.

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　This surprised me.

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　Normally, they would have harvested a little later, and if they had, it is hard to imagine that they would have harvested before that storm.

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　But in fact, the act of harvesting part of the rice crop earlier was observed in many villages.

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　It seems to be related to the unique psychology of farmers.

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　The first was simply because they heard that a storm was coming.

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　The first was simply because they had heard that a storm was coming, and that it might be a storm of a magnitude not seen in a normal year.

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　Of course, this was based on Ai's prediction.

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　I didn't make him keep his prediction to himself, because I didn't make him keep it to himself.

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　Kristina, Galius, and others knew about it, and other mercenaries must have heard about it too.

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　And they may have heard about it from other mercenaries who were sent to each village.

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　Or maybe they heard about it from those who were sent to build a church in the village.

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　Normally, no one can predict the future.

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　Moreover, it would be a gamble to predict the weather not for the day after tomorrow, but for a different season.

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　Even if there is a story that a few special people can mysteriously guess the weather, I don't think I would trust it completely.

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　But in this case, there was a lot of money involved.

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　The storm forecast is nothing more than a rumor.

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　But based on the forecast, I was pushing hard to trade futures that I might actually lose a lot of money.

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　Something might be wrong.

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　I suppose it's not surprising that you would think so.

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　And then there was the church of Barca.

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　In recent years, strange phenomena have been occurring in the East, even those who live in the village have heard about it.

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　The existence of magic.

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　Mysterious phenomena can be caused simply by muttering words called incantations.

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　And little by little, such spells were spreading in their village, and their usefulness was becoming well-known.

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　Such magic is said to have originated in the church of Barca.

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　However, they did not immediately believe it.

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　In fact, a number of people had already claimed that they were the ones who had created this magic.

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　None of this is anything more than a bunch of unverifiable and shady nonsense.

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　But the Church of Barca was a little different.

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　Because there was a trial that could not happen in any other magic.

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　When you enter the church of Barca as a believer, you go through a ritual.

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　Those who performed the ritual would suffer terribly if they testified falsely in the trial.

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　Magic can be used by others by using [naming], but phenomena such as this trial are unique to the Church of Barca.

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　A religious organization that uses magical arts may have something that can give magic to people who have been very ordinary until then.

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　He began to think that perhaps these magics really originated from the Church of Barca.

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　In addition to these, there is also the peasant's judgment.

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　It had to do with the fact that they were using an agricultural method and variety that had never been used before.

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　Unlike in the past, the act of tampering with the land through [soil preparation] and [soil improvement] may have raised many questions from the standpoint of farmers as agricultural experts.

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　Do these magic tricks really have a positive effect on crops?

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　It was natural to think that even if they could temporarily increase their harvest, they would eventually find themselves in a bad situation.

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　It was not only the farmland, but also the new variety of Barka rice that would be the cause for concern.

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　However, in spite of these concerns, the harvest was actually good.

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　We found ourselves with an unprecedented amount of rice ears from the same area as in previous years.

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　But they were still worried.

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　They did not know when it would be best to harvest this completely new variety of rice.

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　Banerji has been communicating the efficient cultivation method of Barka rice to each village through the council.

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　However, no one can be sure whether this information is truly correct or not.

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　Considering the impact on the land, agricultural experts could not make a decision so easily.

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　Then, there is the information that a storm is coming.

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　So, it would be OK to harvest some of the rice earlier.

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　It seems that some people thought so.

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　The harvest has been unprecedentedly good, and there has already been a lot of rice.

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　It would be good to reap all of them at the indicated harvest time, but it might not be bad for the future of agriculture to harvest them in several phases at different periods and see the difference in taste.

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　Farmers who thought in this way harvested a percentage of their rice fields before the storm came.

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　Thanks to this, they did not have to pay back any of the rice they had traded in futures.

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　However, those who traded greedily or became a guarantor for various farmers, like the village headman, were sometimes forced to collect their rice in this way.

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　I'm sorry for those people, but they will have to give up.

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　It was their own bad luck that they could not get around.

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　But I did not only take rice from the village.

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　As one might expect, even though the headman, who was often disliked, and the farmers, who traded too much in order to make a profit, suffered a loss, the farmers would easily turn against me if I took food from the affected villages.

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　With this in mind, we decided to go for a scattering campaign.

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　A part of the rice collected was used for a soup kitchen in the church.

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　If it were true, they could have made more money by selling the rice to someone else.

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　But this time, they decided to pretend that the reason they are using military force to collect the rice is to give it to those who are in need after the disaster.

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　The villagers would not know how much rice we actually collected and how much we gave to charity.

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　The only thing we know is that the Barka church is still providing food for those who are in need.

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　In this way, they succeeded in raising the reputation of the church while collecting as much rice as they could from various villages.

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