2499 - - 67-22 Evening coolness and sightings



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 Special Investigator 99, pseudonym Alto Elbein, was exchanging information with <> Escher Saeun.

 The exchange of information, however, was to ask about recent events ...... especially about <>, so that others would not be suspicious if they heard about it.

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 Information is important for a merchant.



 Incidentally, Escher's wife, Ramitha Sewn, does not know the identity of her husband. She seems to think that he is just a merchant she knew a long time ago who came to visit her.

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 She was more interested in the spices that Arto Ervine had brought.

"This time I brought 30 kilos of pepper from the East," he said.

"Thirty kilos! That's amazing!"

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 In the four principalities, a hundred grams of pepper costs about 10,000 tokens (about 100,000 yen) (retail price).

 It is not the same price as gold of the same weight (1 gram of gold is 300 Tall = 10,000 Tall in the 4 Principality). In the four countries, a gram of gold is 300 Tolls = 30,000 Tolls for 10 grams of gold), but the price range was close to that.

"I'll give you 10 kilos or so.

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"Oh, that would be great!

 This was an exchange between merchants.


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 When he traded 10 kilograms of pepper for 400,000 dollars, Escher's wife, Ramitha, treated him much better. It's a cash cow," laughs Alto Ervine, aka 99, to himself.

 Behind the store there is a small stable where the horses are kept.

 The mares are not cheap, so Alt-Elbein has paid for them in advance, and there is a pile of hay in front of the horses.

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 The golem he had brought with him was taking care of the hay. As a matter of fact, it was tuned for this kind of work.

 After watching for a while, Alto is satisfied and returns to Escher Sehn's store.


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 When he returned, he found Ramitha in a good mood,

"Well, you must be tired after coming so far. We have prepared a bath for you today.

 I have prepared a bath for you today so you can wash off your sweat.

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"Well, well, well, thank you very much.

 Here in the town of Krossos, less than 20 kilometers from the sea, there is good access to water.

 The inhabitants have a custom of taking a bath at least once a week.

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 Most of them bathe in public bathhouses (open every three days), but some houses and inns have their own bathhouses, and the Seoun family also had a bath, albeit a small one.



 Alto sighed as he was allowed to take the first bath.

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(It is nice to have a bath at home, even if it is small.)

 He was tired from the hard march across the Maise Plains. Even the super-elite are human beings.

(However, it was a relief that it was not dusty because of the rain the other day. ......)

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 While he was sweating and dusting in the bath, Alto Elbein was ruminating in his mind about what he had just heard.

(There seems to be no doubt that someone claiming to be a "Magecraft Meister" has come to the village of Saichi, which is close to the neighboring town of Hamsus.)

 The contents of the report, however, are hard to believe. <<100 golems><<<>.......

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 It was hard to believe that they had achieved such extraordinary results in just a few days (I had to see it with my own eyes, after all.

(I knew I had to see it with my own eyes ......)

 After getting out of the bath with these thoughts in his mind, Alto Elbein heard one more useful piece of information.

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 He was told that the drainage channel that Jin had been working on since the afternoon of August 9 should have been completed by now.

 The reason why Escher Seung knew about this is that the towns and villages in the vicinity were notified in the name of the King before the construction of the drainage canal.

 The person who sent the notice was Nahams Marrow, the Undersecretary of Technology. He is supporting Hitoshi on the administrative side.

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The canal is on the east side of the town.

 It was still light in the evening, so Alto decided to go take a look.

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 It is about 2 km away, which means it takes less than 30 minutes on foot. It was a little too far to walk in the cool of the evening after taking a bath, but for Alto this was one of his missions.



"This is ......."

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 A waterway about 3 meters wide and a road about 2 meters wide running parallel to it appeared before Alto Ervine's eyes.

 The road was not part of the original plan, but Jin D. had sent it to support the 100 > reinforcements toward the end of the work.

 The road could be built with just 110 golems marching along. Of course, we had to clear out large rocks, standing trees, and some grassy areas.

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"...... this, really, by an individual called <>> ......? That's absurd!"

 Even with his own eyes, Alt-Elbein could not believe it.

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(Could it be that the "Magecraft Meister" is not an individual but an organization ......?)

 ) The guess may not be far off the mark.

  and > are also that possesses .

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 However, they did not appear out of the blue.

 It is something that has been built up over time by an individual named Jin.

 It was impossible for a person who had learned and grown up in the small world of the Duchy of Jags to suddenly understand it.

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 However, whether he could understand it or not, the fact was still there in front of him.

 After standing there for a while, he heard a faint earth tremor.

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"What is it?"

 He looked over to see a group of golems walking toward him.

"Oh, that's ......!

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 For a moment, he is startled, but then he realizes that they must be the golems used by the he has heard so much about, and he is relieved.

 He decides to move out of the way and observe from nearby.


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 The 110 golems were walking in an orderly formation.

 They were to re-step on the completed road to make it stronger.

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 110 <> passed in front of Alt-Elbein.

(Their body shape is very similar to that of human beings. (Their movements are unbelievably human-like.)

 ) Since I had learned some very rudimentary engineering magic, I was able to recognize them.

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 But it stops there.

(There are more of them, but our golem seems to be stronger ...... because it is designed for civil engineering and not for combat.)

 ) I decided to go for it.

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(After all, is it that we have technology but lack of peace?)

 I even think so.

"I saw what I needed to see. Let's go back."

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 Alt-Elbein said to himself and headed back to Escher-Seun's store.

 Before long, the sky was dark and the stars were beginning to twinkle.

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How was it?

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"Luckily, we met a golem that was working on a construction site and was turning around."

"Oh."

 At the dinner table, Alto and Escher are exchanging information under the guise of small talk.

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"I don't mean to ask this after dinner has been prepared, but do you have any likes or dislikes, Artoo?"

 Ramitha, Escher's wife, asked with some regret.

 Ramitha is a small, plump woman, like a landlady of a downtown, but she is not what she seems. But despite her appearance (?), she is attentive and considerate.

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 This time, she is not the one who is the most attentive, since Alto Elbein has gone out for a cool evening before I could ask her this question.



"No, I don't have a preference.

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"No, I don't like it." "That's good to know."

 In fact, Artoo, who had been trained as a secret agent, had also experienced survival training and could eat almost anything that was not poisonous.

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 And on the table were Ramitha's home-cooked dishes.

 Salted and boiled white fish. Vegetable salad. And flour baked.

 Flour baked is a local dish of this region, made by kneading flour with water and salt and baking it in a pan with oil.

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 It is similar to chapati. It is crispy and savory.



"Oh, this looks delicious.

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"Enjoy it!"

 The special investigators, human beings, were also enjoying a hot meal that they had not had for a long time.

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