We're almost there, Gori.

'Is there a gathering of several mobile cities of desert elves ahead of us...



　The journey in the mobile city went well.
　However, we don't have any goals in mind.
　I'm just enjoying my newlywed life while enjoying the various things I purchased through 'online shopping'.

Taro-san, please 'ahhhh'

I'm next. These grapes are good, too.

'Ahhhh. These grapes are so soft on the skin and delicious. No seeds.

Mr. Tullow, your world has made great strides in agricultural breeding.

You won't be able to get that in the Kingdom of Bart.

In this world, you take the seeds of a good crop, grow the next one, take the seeds of another good crop, and repeat?

'Basically, yes, but a lot of places don't even do that. We can't afford it.

My brother's policy was to make wheat anyway. He didn't think that fruit would be enough to feed the troops in a war, and he didn't think it would be easy to preserve.

　The crops in this world are almost always the original species.
　That's why fruits aren't very sweet.
　So it's understandable why the desert elves are so passionate about the fruits they sell in 'online shopping'.

''Taro-sama, I can see the mobile city of the desert elves. There are a great number of them.

　I was lounging in a room in the upper part of the castle, lounging in a room in the upper part of the castle and being fed grapes in turn, which is what a newlywed would do, when at one point the Frau identified a number of mobile cities that had assembled and reported to me.

'Many?　Gee!　That's too many!

　No matter how one counted, the number of mobile cities exceeded thirty.
　Moreover, I could even see the mobile city of the Giraffe tribe that had just parted ways after trading with them last time.
　They were the only ones equipped with domes, so they looked familiar and I recognized them immediately.

''Fruit, I'm going to buy a lot more.

Yeah.

'These desert elves really do like fruit, don't they?

　When they arrived at the meeting point, Lord Vital, the chief of the Kirin-san tribe, and dozens of desert elves were waiting there.
　They all appeared to be the Lord and Chief of the Mobile City.

''It's been a while, Chief Katoo.

'It hasn't been that long, to say the least... but it's a lot, nonetheless.

　This point is the meeting point for the desert elves who live in the mobile cities.
　If you head here when you get close, there are usually a few mobile cities to interact and trade with.
　It seems to be such a place.

''We've never seen so many people gathered at once either, but good rumors spread quickly.

"Chief Bitar told me about you. Chief Katoo, the human master of Goliath Town. I am Chief Yulai of the Hippo clan.

I'm Wheeler, master of the bunny clan.

I am the Lord of the Zebras, in the ghetto.

　One after another, they introduce themselves, but why do all desert elves have tribal names that look like kindergarten class names?
　I don't need to ask the answer, though, it probably comes from the type of electronic elves that manage the mobile city.

''Trading, but we've prepared some fruit for you.

　It's because fruit is most pleasing than anything else you can prepare.
　And then there's the soda water for the fruit wine and juice.
　Everyone asked for sparkling water, as Chief Vital had taught them.

''We'll pay you for the gods and potions, and we'll give you a dome for our mobile city too!

'We'll have more fruit if we can make medicinal herbs more efficient.

And the fruit wine!

It's great to mix the juice with sparkling water, it's tasty and crisp.

I'm counting on you.

I understand.

　
　We need the potions, but even if we had this much in stock, the four of us wouldn't be able to use them up.

''Even our mobile city has a dome!

We'll save a lot of money on water bills, and our crops and medicinal plants won't dry up and spoil.

You're making progress with your medicinal herbs.

Now you can buy more fruit from Chief Katoo.

That's nice.

　In all, tens of billions of eidolcs worth of fruit, fruit juice, fruit wine and soda have been sold.
　The desert elves' love of fruit is amazing.

''Lord Taro, we're overstocked on potions too. We'll have to go sell them to the human oasis.''

'Yes. Shall we sell it in Old Town and Shiptown?

　There's a lot of demand there, and I'm sure the potions will sell well there.

''However, it might not be safe to return to the Old Town area from now on.

　As we were discussing what we were going to do, the Lord of the Zebras, Lord Ghetto, approached us.

'Danger?　Did you have a named sand beast?

'No, I heard there was going to be a pretty big sand bandit out there, and one of the reasons we were all here at once was because we were told it was too dangerous to go in that direction.

　A sand bandit.....
　There are only four people in our case, so it could be even more dangerous.

We've never had any victims in the desert elves, but we're just making sure. We exchange information about this kind of danger through electronic elves, and a mobile city is bigger than a sand drift ship. There's also the fact that we're less vulnerable to damage.

Can electronic fairies keep in touch with each other?

'You didn't know?　I thought that's why I was here.... The electronic fairies at Chief Katoo's place are in contact with the electronic fairies in Mr. Kirin Town. So they must have known how many mobile cities were coming to this point.

　If you think about it, there's no way we can gather so many mobile cities in a short period of time if the fact that we have fruit for sale and the fact that we can improve the performance of the electronic fairies to the gorymen doesn't get through to the other electronic fairies from the Kirin Man.

''Chief Katoo's place is managed by humans and has a small population. You should be careful about the sand bandits 'Aisha Grand Fleet' that are currently on a rampage.

A large fleet of sand bandits?

'For what it's worth, a young woman named Aisha, the captain of the fleet, seems to be very strong anyway. Life in the Oasis is hard and very closed in. She gathers together a group of people who seem to have become uncomfortable there, and with a fleet of dozens of ships, she threatens the merchants for their cargo and gold.

A female sandpiper?

　It seems to happen a lot with stories and stuff, but that person must be very good at it.
　Because it's hard for a woman to be the leader of a group of roughs and outlaws like that, because it's hard for a woman to be the leader of a group of roughs and outlaws like that.
　There are risks that only a woman can take.

"I hear he was a great hunter. You must be an excellent leader because he has risen to this level of great sand banditry in just a few months. Instead.....

And in return?

"No........from the point of view of us desert elves, Aisha is quite a beautiful woman, but from the point of view of the humans, they say she is the 'strongest Dobbs sand bandit', the 'rotten eyes of the merchants who were attacked', and the 'double misfortune of being deprived of their cargo and gold, and to top it off, being shown the Dobbs'........

Yes....

　The ghetto-dono talking about the rumored sand bandits, and I'm beginning to feel more and more uncomfortable being there.
　The sand bandits are a group of criminals, but I can't help but feel sorry for them.

'They only attack the ships of wealthy merchants, and they don't kill or maim people. The members of the group are also the kind of people who have been told to leave the Oasis because the population is too big to support them, and some of the women, like Aisha, have been ridiculed so much for their looks that they have left their homeland. They're sympathetic, too.

　What kind of a bandit are you?
　But I don't think stealing is a good idea.
　Not all of us are great merchants, and not all of us make money with rowdy hands.

We desert elves have never been attacked, but we gathered here to see how things went, just in case. We haven't been attacked by any of us desert elves, but we gathered here to see how things went, just in case. You guys better watch out.

But what information about us is leaked?

'I don't know. We haven't divulged it, but if Aisha's fleet, for example, scouted the mobile city of the Katoo chieftain, we would know immediately that it was unoccupied. They might try to take it. They'll want a home base, you know.

Okay.

　Worst case scenario, we'd still have one ship.
　We could survive by shopping on the 'internet'.
　The goldmas might get angry.

So that's it. Take care of yourself, Chief Katoo.

'Yes. I'll be careful.

　It's an increase in the performance of the electronic fairies by the gorimachos, but it was done in one night.
　Whatever it is, if it's done at once, it will take the same amount of time whether there's one electronic fairy or 10,000 of them.

'Linking Gori. As long as we have a banana, we'll be fine, Gori.

　Goliath Macho finished the work of improving the performance of the electronic elves of the desert elves while devouring three hundred and seventy kilograms of bananas.
　As expected, all the other Electronic Elves in the other mobile cities were animals.
　It was truly a zoo series.
　The mobile cities that had gathered at this point were equipped with domes, and the chiefs were all happy.

''Be really careful!''

''We've strengthened our sand beast hunting and increased our production of potions, and we'll definitely be back to buy more fruit.

　They liked the fruit available via 'online shopping' very much.
　We parted from them, being reminded to be careful of the sand bandits.