'After experiencing this carriage, it's going to be tough to go back to travelling in a normal carriage like we've been doing.

　Albert and Leon nodded silently at Cain's statement. Chris said the same thing a while ago, so I still think Raiden and the Dimension Bag (Dimension Box?) The carriage that has been turned into a carriage is probably a foul combination.

''Even so, Miss,'' he said, ''the girls are using the carriage, you guys should sleep outside,'' even though the owner, Tenma, is over here. And how could you call yourself a 'girl' at that age?

　Leon confirmed that Chris-san wasn't there and complained about it as if to get rid of his daily resentment. It's not that I don't think about the carriage, but if hostile forces find out that Albert and Cain, who are engaged to be married, slept in the space with an unmarried woman (Chris-san), it's hard to know what they'll say (Jeanne and Aura are slaves, so at worst, they can cheat by saying it was a one-night stand. (Possible). That's why Albert and Cain both quietly followed Chris-san's instructions and chose to sleep outside quietly. Well, Rion, who doesn't have a fiancée, wouldn't have a problem with it, but Chris-san wouldn't like it, so Albert and Rion are thought to have taken Chris-san's advice without saying a word. I guess you could say I was flattered.
　And I don't think I have the same problem as Rion. However, Jeanne and Aura have slept in the same space under similar circumstances before, but I was hesitant to sleep in the same place as Chris-san. Because Chris-san has been giving off a dangerous vibe at times lately...

They say you don't go near a man when he's in danger.
I don't know if I can call Rion 'Kimiko,' though.
No, he won't.

　In response to my words, Albert and Cain show cooperation as if they were having a meeting. It's not like Leon didn't understand the meaning of "kunshi", but he seemed to understand that he was being ridiculed and was going to complain, but Cain said, "Do you understand the meaning of kunshi? He stood up and started squatting with his back to us. Probably trying to cover up somehow, he stood up, but couldn't think of a good way to cover up, so he started squatting anyway.

'Temma, what's your plan for the rest of your career?'

'We're going to go through as many villages and towns after this as we can. We'll be gathering information on the Wyvern as we go, seeing which villages and towns are on the front lines of Wyvern damage.

　We went straight to the first information we were given, because if the wyvern herd was moving from that location, the damage would be much greater. Therefore, I decided that it would be best to go there while gathering fresh information, although my movement speed would be a bit slower. You will be able to see the wyvern in the range of my search for now, but if you decide on a general direction to move based on the information you have gathered, you will eventually catch a group of wyvern, and if you go straight to the place where the group of wyvern is caught in your search, you will not miss the group by mistake. There won't be.

''It's just that there's a chance that the wyvern herd is moving farther than expected, though, so we might have to run from one end of the frontier county territory to the other then.

　In that case, our burden will increase substantially. Moreover, since there's a chance that we'll start defeating the wyvern swarms right after we've searched and found them, it's a strategy that would normally be tantamount to suicide.
　However, even in that case, there is an easy way to lower the difficulty level....

Well, Leon, in that case, you're in charge.
''That's right. When I've ranked the people who are most likely to be useful this time, I'll count from the bottom and you're the one with the most physical strength among them. Besides, this request is from the frontier county family and this is the territory you will manage in the future. In other words, there's no one more qualified than you!

　It's a way to reduce other attrition by increasing the burden on one person. It's simple, easy to do and has a high success rate.
　Cain and Albert, who came up with this idea, immediately sold their fellow Three Idiots Trio member, Leon. Incidentally, Albert's rank order at this time was me and my grandfather at the top, followed by Slarin' and the others, and then Chris and Amour, followed by the three idiots, Jeanne and Aura. However, I said at the beginning that I didn't count Jeanne and Aura in the pure strength of the team, and because it's unfair to force a girl to do something like that, they decided that the bottom spot would be the three idiots, and they came to the conclusion that Rion, who has the most physical strength (and brains) among them, was the best candidate.
　Rion tried to argue that that was a violent argument, but the two of them said, "Since it's a matter for the Frontier Count family to begin with, it's only natural that their successor, Rion, should have a tough time of it! He was about to be rounded up when he said in a voice.

'No, in that case, I'm going to ask the duo of Slarin and Ryden to do it. Raiden would follow Slarin's instructions, and since Slarin doesn't have a lot of effective ways to deal with flying opponents, he'll inevitably be treated as a reserve force. That, and if Slarin goes to the rear, we won't have to think about evacuating Jeanne and Aura.

　If the situation arises, the two of you can hide in the dimension bag inside Slarin's body, and if anyone is injured, we can use it as a refuge.

It would be better for me and Tenma to join you and not leave Slarin to his own devices, so that the three of us can take over at any time. It's not a good idea to have a carriage that you can't see running around, as that might give people who see you a false impression.

Good job, Grandpa.
""Dear Merlin, thank you for making your rounds!"

　Grandpa, who had just returned from patrolling the perimeter, pointed out the shortcomings of the strategy and suggested improvements.
　Certainly, Grandpa was right, if a carriage that looked like it wasn't being controlled by a person was blasting away, people might make a fuss about it being a new kind of monster. If the person who witnessed it was someone who wanted to get close enough to confirm his or her identity, he or she could get out of the carriage and explain, but such a person would be extremely rare. Most witnesses would not be afraid to approach such an unknown carriage and would run to the nearest village or town to deliver the information to the Adventurer's Guild or Order. Then, depending on how the information spread, it might take a long time to clear up the misunderstanding.
　He adopted his grandfather's idea as it was, and received a report of a patrol of the surroundings, but as far as he could see, there were no likely enemies, nor were there any signs or traces of them.

''I've had Shiroumaru mark a few places, so I don't think the demons will approach so easily.''

　With that, Grandpa moved a little further away from us and laid down to take a nap.

'Well then, it's your turn to make your next rounds, three of you. I'm going to bed too, so you can wake me up when it's time to get out of trouble or when it's time to go.

　I asked the three of them to follow me and I decided to sleep near my grandfather. Incidentally, Shiroumaru, who had returned with Grandpa, had chirped his way into the carriage and was getting a snack from Chris.
　The night watch on this trip was basically designed to take more of the men's load, and the women would be in charge of the first or second, or near dawn at the end of the day's encampment. This is partly because the three idiots (especially Rion) were defeated by Chris's silent pressure, and partly because my grandpa and I accepted his plea (we almost got down on our knees because of our skin, etc.).
　That was one of the reasons why the women occupied the carriage, but no one except Rion complained about it. The reason is that Chris-san at that time had the power to make you even feel fear in a way. Instead, I gave Chris-san a certain condition (........) and made him drink it. That is.........

Jeez...

　It's Amur's management that is looking for an opening here. At first, Amur said he was going to sleep outside, just like me, but I asked Chris to persuade him. Well, even so, he is still looking for an opening, so he doesn't seem to have convinced me wholeheartedly, but.......seeing as Chris-san just pulled him into the carriage, he wouldn't take a hard-line approach, even to the displeasure of me and Chris-san.
　The absence of Blanca (I prioritized sending Sana and Yoshitsune to the south) left me with some trepidation, but then the sun rose with no problems and we were able to leave the encampment as planned.

'Well, it looks like the Wyvern is less damaged than I thought.

　Three days had passed since the three of us had talked about our plans, and we made our way through five or so villages and towns to our destination, but contrary to my expectations, the wyvern herd hadn't moved much since our first sighting.

Maybe they had enough food for a while that they didn't have to move, or maybe they're just very comfortable.

　Cain, sitting in the guru's seat beside me, responded to my mutterings with an easy-going look. That idea is certainly possible, but it's been more than two weeks since the first report, so it's hard to imagine that there was enough food in that place to keep the wyvern herd from moving during that time.

Well, I guess we'll find out tomorrow...well, I guess we're about to find out where we're going to camp today.
'I guess so. Tomorrow is the big day, and I need to rest and regain my wits today.

　The place where the wyvern herd is, there is no better place to hide than I thought, and it will be difficult to evacuate Jeanne and Aura as we had originally planned, so we decided to take them there as is. The plan for this was thought out yesterday. To put it simply, Slarin and Raiden will be assigned to two guards, and when they get close to a group of wyverns, they will be asked to leave the area.
　It doesn't necessarily mean that they won't be attacked by the wyvern when they move away, but I'll let them have more than one golem in addition to Slarin and Raiden, and most importantly, the two of them have a Scorpion-type golem in their possession. The Scorpion-type golem is currently the best performer among the golems I've made in terms of speed, power, and robustness, so although it has difficulties with air attacks, it's not a problem in terms of strength. If it comes down to it, all it takes is for me or my grandfather to go to them.
　I'm sure the three of them would like to stay away from Jeanne and the others, but I also received a reminder that they are responsible for their own safety, and I've given each of them about a hundred golems, so I don't think it will be so dangerous.

'I'm sorry you're following me after all this time. If it was just 'Oration', you could have handled a bunch of wyverns.

Well.

　The reason why the three of them went with us this time was not to help defeat the wyvern's herd, but rather for the purpose of 'a royalist nobleman joining in the defeat of the wyvern's herd'. It was also meant to be a foil for the three people who would have to support Tida in the future. Well, even if you just follow along with this request, you can claim that you 'joined in the defeat of the wyvern's herd', but the three of them didn't want to be told by the reformers that they were just following along, so they wanted to at least get a shot in the arm, so they made a memorandum of understanding (in case something happened, the protest from the reformers, not the protest from the three of their parents' households, was

''Well, it only increased the difficulty level a little.

'It's usually unthinkable to say that the difficulty level has only gone up a little bit even though three more people have been added to the baggage. Well, we (the baggage) are grateful for that.

　And, listening to Cain's self-deprecation, we arrived at the potential encampment for today and made sure there were no problems around us before we began to encamp.