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How's it going over there, Walter?
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"It's looking good, Commander Alphonse. The people who had the money like the village headman are giving me a hard time, but they're thanking me in all sorts of ways. After all, they came to our rescue right after the storm and offered to share their overpriced rice with us. Nowadays, just anyone wearing our red uniforms can become very popular.
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"I see. That's great. But come to think of it, I wonder what's going on in other countries.
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Well, from what I've heard from my mercenary acquaintances, it's pretty tough except for the Orient. Some of them harvested rice early because of the possibility of a storm, but not the rest of the world. There seems to be a lot of damage from that big storm.
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Rescue operations within the Orient and subsequent recovery of rice.
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There is still a lot of rice that has not been recovered.
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However, we have collected most of the rice from the village headmen who had taken on various peasants as guarantors.
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In addition to myself, I also received reports from Walter and others who went to each village to collect the rice.
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Walter's squad and other squads that were working separately also succeeded in recovering the rice and made a large profit from it.
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The rice purchased in exchange for magic tools ended up being recovered at ten times the original price, or even higher, so it was a good thing.
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Incidentally, they were able to do so because they lent out their eyes to Walter and others.
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An educated Kiku, but a mercenary like Walter, whose life experience is mostly on the battlefield, is not so good at negotiating with a business savvy person like a village headman.
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However, he seems to have been able to negotiate with them because he had Ai with him.
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It is not possible to say something reasonable to Ai and get out of the way.
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It seems that they have done their job as agreed.
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And now that he has done his job, I check with Walter about other things outside of the Orient.
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Some of the villages that Walter visited are located in the bordering areas with other countries.
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According to the information he received from them, the other countries are said to have suffered a great deal of damage.
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In the Orient, there were a certain number of people who thought that a storm might be coming due to the influence of the Barka mercenaries and the Barka Church.
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However, this was not the case in other countries outside the influence of the Church of Barca.
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Other countries must have improved their agricultural efficiency through [soil improvement] and so on, but it seems that not so many people harvested rice early.
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As a result, other countries suffered losses.
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The harvest, which had been expected to be good, unexpectedly dropped dramatically.
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"Doesn't that mean that we are on target?"
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"...... I agree, Commander Alphonse. Other countries don't send out rescue teams like we do. It will take time to restore the damaged towns and villages, and there is no food. In other words, we can't afford to fight.
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"Right. Should we attack somewhere?
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Let's go. Right now, they can't possibly take care of any of these places. It's time to make some money.
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"Good. Gather the mercenaries we can move. Barka mercenaries, let's go!
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Damage to rice paddies and fields caused by the storm.
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And rivers overflowed.
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The large scale and widespread damage caused by these storms to small states has put many countries in a difficult situation.
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That is to say, many countries are stuck.
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And if they cannot move, it means that they can attack as much as they want.
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So, Walter and I agreed.
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Fortunately, we have rice.
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Now, even if we raid some random country, the mercenaries should have no problem finding food.
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"But where should we go? You can't go too far away, can you?"
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"Hmmm, let's see. "Well, let's see. It's already autumn, after all. It would be better to find a place where we can go and fight quickly, and if there is some place nearby that looks nice, that would be great.
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"Is there a good place nearby? But there's no point in attacking a village in the middle of nowhere, is there? After all, there's probably not even decent food anywhere now. In that case, I think it would be better to find a place where we can get something of value.
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"Something with money, huh? Yes, that's right. ....... No, let's change it up a bit. Let's go for something we can use in the future instead of money.
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"Something I can use? What is it?
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"Weapons, Walter. It may not be worth much, but we'll get the materials for the weapons. So that we, the mercenaries of Barca, can continue to fight."
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"Weapons? Are you going to attack a weapons store in some city?"
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No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We'll go to Glugaria. There's a lumberyard there on the riverbank. The storm's probably wreaked havoc there. Let's go there and get some softwoods. Then we can make bows for the mercenaries.
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"A bow. That's a good idea. Commander Alphonse has been teaching us how to use bows by learning the movements of meteors... but other than the Commander, none of the mercenaries have bows made of soft magic wood... Ordinary bows are not that powerful, and if we can get a bow made of soft magic wood, it will increase our strength."
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"That's what I mean. The soft magic wood I got in Grougaria before belonged to the Orient. It's a good chance for us to get our own."
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I think that lumberyard is in trouble because the river is flooding.
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But unlike rice, the softwoods have their roots in the water, as I recall.
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The Gulu River must have been in trouble in the past, but the fact that the lumberyard has existed there for a long time means that it is reasonably resistant to water.
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This means that we can get Juma-moku itself even after the storm, I guess.
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I want it.
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With it, mercenaries can get strong bows.
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Let's hurry!
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After discussing this with Walter, the Barka mercenaries immediately gather about 200 mercenaries and head for the lumberyards down the still wild Gulu River.
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