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"Well, I'll take care of you for one night."

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Yes, yes. It's an empty village, but take your time.

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Thank you. We have a lot of people here, so if you have any problems, just let me know.

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"Yes, sir. What, they even gave us some food to eat. I'm sure the villagers will be more or less accommodating. Please take it easy and rest yourself.

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　Carrying the soft magic tree, we returned to the new Barca town.

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　It was on the way.

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　We could not return that day because of our slow progress, so we decided to stop at a nearby village on the way and stay the night.

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　Actually, this village is neither in the Orient nor in the country of Glugaria, but belongs to another small country.

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　However, the chief of the village was very kind to accept us to stay here.

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　This is probably because of the storm that hit this village as well.

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　It would normally be a problem if a group of mercenaries came to a place where there was a lot of damage.

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　The villagers would be worried.

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　But it seems that the conditions we gave them were good.

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　We offered the merchant Zen had brought to us a part of the money we had paid him for selling off the softwoods, as well as some of our own food, to let us stay with him.

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　Along with the money's value, the food I took out of my magic bag was more than the mercenaries could eat.

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　In other words, in this village where the disaster had damaged the food stockpile, the food in front of us must have looked terribly attractive.

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　They gave us permission easily.

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　Well, it is a small village where there is no such thing as a proper inn.

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　There was no way for all the mercenaries to sleep in private rooms, and it was more likely that they would be crammed together in an empty house or some such.

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　However, if you rest your body slowly, you will be able to move the next day.

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　Above all, the mercenaries looked happy because they didn't have to stay in the field.

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　However, the reason for staying in this village is to wait for the assassins to come.

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　It is a village without good defense facilities, and although it is the best in the village, I am sleeping in a building that could be called the house of a village chief.

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　It would look much more open than the usual attack on me in the new Barca town.

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　In other words, I was staying in the village in the hope that some assassin would show up by daring to expose an opening.

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"Wow. They're not coming."

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"No, he's not coming. Why don't you go to bed, Mr. Alphonse?　A child's body grows by sleeping, so it's best to get a good night's sleep. Leave the rest to me."

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"Hmm, I see. Then I'll do as you say. Wake me when the assassin comes.

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　I stayed up late waiting for the assassin in a room of the chief's house.

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　But they never came.

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　No one who looked like an assassin appeared, and it had already been dark for quite some time.

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　It seems that they are not coming today.

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　Ai told me to go to bed early, so I listened to her and went to bed, leaving the vigilance to her.

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　I left the vigilance to Ai and went to bed.

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"Good morning, Ai. No assassin came after all?"

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Yes. No one suspicious appeared in this room.

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"I see. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I should just go back to the new Barca Street. ......"

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　The next morning I was awakened by the light of the sun on my face.

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　As soon as I woke up, I saw Ai in my field of vision.

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　It seems she had been standing beside me, guarding me the whole time.

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　At times like this, it's nice to have Ai around so I don't have to sleep.

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　Ai, who had been awake all night, said that nothing unusual had happened.

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　That's all well and good, but I've been thinking a bit about what to do in the future.

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　Is it really necessary to expose an opening like this for the assassins to take advantage of?

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　If it is only about the money, it would be better to stay in the field with only the mercenaries, but I don't know what to do.

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"Well, okay. We'll think about the rest later. All right, let's go get something to eat."

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　It's hard to wait.

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　You never know when the assassin is coming, so you have to wait and wait and wait to deal with it.

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　To be honest, this is not my style.

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　I'd rather do it myself than wait.

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"Good morning, Commander."

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"Good morning, Commander Alphonse. Breakfast is just about ready. You'll eat, right?

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　While worrying about the assassins, he [washes] around his face and refreshes himself before leaving the village chief's house.

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　Since there are so many mercenaries, the villagers have cooperated to prepare meals for all of them in bulk.

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　They have built a simple kitchen in the village square, where they are cooking rice using magic tools and making a soup with appropriate vegetables.

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　When I show up, Zen and Walter notice me and call out to me.

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　Boom!

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　The next moment, I hear such a sound.

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　The two people who just spoke to me are lying right in front of me.

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　Zen and Walter had just come to tell me that breakfast was ready and were about to hand me a bowl of rice and soup for each of them.

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　Their heads exploded and they were lying on the ground, bleeding profusely.

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