“crank!”
Tuna lifted the hem of her robe and stormed into the entrance of the workshop building. Looking inside, she noticed the crank that was now grinding the part and sprinted away.
“Che, cuckcrank!”
“hmm?”
The height didn’t match, so grabbing him by the collar became a hanging level. However, Tuna still steadfastly expressed her dissatisfaction.
“Hey, the lab! I want to go back to the studio! Ah, nothing here! Even people I don’t know, you, too many!”
Krank looked down at Tuna, who had come to pick up materials and was talking nonsense, and tried to calm her down, but a nearby dwarf intervened.
“Are you the tin giant’s girlfriend? They say it’s my hometown. How about just living here?”
Dwarves are originally a race that worships work and technology, so they like hardworking people, and among them, they tend to view wizards and pharmacists favorably.
This is because wizards provide breakthroughs when dwarves face technical limits, and pharmacists have mastered the art of treating diseases.
Moreover, Tuna knows how to do both.
“And strangely, that girl smells good. Is it perfume?”
Hearing that, Tuna, whose face turned red, sniffed with her hands and arms up to her nose, and the dwarves started to laugh happily.
“Oh, oh. There are a lot of dwarves in the workshop.”
Tuna opened her mouth for a while and looked at the dwarves assembling the loom and cutting wood with curious eyes, but when Crank tried to sneak out, she rushed over and clung to it.
“Oh, where are you going! Soothe the poor me! Everything, please appease! You lost your heart, tin giant!”
After dragging Tuna, who was almost bewildered by a nervous breakdown, into the dorm where she was being tied up, Crank took out all the few household items, moved the materials, hammered them, and finally put up a signboard.
Far East Pioneer Village business trip branch, Tuna’s 2nd research institute.
Tuna covered her cheeks with both hands and screamed as she looked up at the signboard.
“Hoo oh oh !! Hey, it’s a lab! This is my lab!”
Excited, Tuna rushed in, but soon ran out in disappointment.
“Oh, there is nothing!”
“I combed the dumpling skin, so now you fill in the inside. Get ready to shop. Ask Godive what you need.”
James prepared an automatic carriage. Tuna rushed to the nearest town, the Far East Border Guard Station, and returned with a full wagon.
Crank returned the empty money bag and said sullenly.
“Waste is not good.”
“Woah, women’s s, you should relieve your stress with shopping. hehehehe!”
With a second lab where she could shut herself in at any time, Tuna felt relieved and in a good mood, and turned around with a smile. Then he called the village women and moved all the daily necessities including pots and bowls in the wagon to the laboratory.
He shouted in Cypher’s language to the people gathered like that.
Opening Celebration! If you collect herbs, they will be exchanged for daily necessities!
The expressions of the people gathered with pitiful faces became sharp in an instant.
People who had lived a life no different from slaves in their own country, had been quiet all the time while paying attention, but when a fair reward followed for their labor, a sense of purpose came to them, and they chatted and laughed with colorful expressions, agonized over holding herbs and weeds, or asked and taught people around them. gave them away and picked them up.
Carrot, who was called as an escort and watched it with interest, could not keep his mouth shut.
“and! People are laughing! I’ve never seen people here smile like this! Awesome! Tuna!”
The people who pulled the herbs lined up in front of Tuna’s lab. Then, depending on the amount or rarity value of the herbs Tuna had gathered, she would change them into something like a bowl or soap she wanted.
At the same time, herbs were piled up on shelves inside the lab.
Crank, who was watching, clapped, and Ariete also praised her.
“awesome! Tuna! Smart!”
Tuna smiled and turned her head. Then he raised his thumb.
In the afternoon after a bout of collecting herbs, I taught horses.
“Oh, hello, please.”
“Oh, hello, please.”
“Fhahahaha!”
Carrot burst into laughter because his stuttering made teaching strange. Eventually, Bita and priests were invited to teach the language, and Tuna served as an interpreter.
There were many students who were more eager to study than expected, so the class was a success.
While the adults were busy, Carrot took care of the bored children. However, the children began to learn the language faster by repeating simple words appropriate to the situation rather than just playing with them.
Thanks to this, simple communication took place in a matter of days.
The village children who had learned the greeting ran to Carrot after returning from an afternoon patrol.
“Ah, hello, ha, please.”
Carrot with a proud face also smiled brightly and raised her arms.
“hello-!”
“hi! under! please!”
“Hello! please!”
As if the shape seemed amusing, some mischievous children followed Carrot and shouted hello like three cheers.
After greeting the children and Carrot laughing, a girl approached.
“My, my name is, uh, um, Verita. Hey, twelve, twelve years old.”
“Oh oh! My name is Carrot! Nice to meet you, Berita! I am 11 years old!”
As soon as the words were communicated, Verita, who was slightly taller than Carrot, smiled. Carrot also smiled brightly at Verita.
“Look, can we really live with understanding each other? You guys won’t turn our backs on us, will you? huh?”
Cypher girl Verita tilted her head. would not understand Ariete lifted Carrot, who was smiling sinisterly, and put it around her waist and turned around.
Tuna, who had come with her, informed the children gathered that it was time to wash and eat, then patted Verita on the back and pointed at the girl’s mother beckoning from the other side.
“tomorrow! see! teacher!”
Tuna, who has become famous among the locals as a pharmacist who smells good these days, leaned down and waved with a smile as if in a good mood.
Ariete, who had been spying on the girl running away with a bright smile, looked at Carrot with an uncomfortable gaze.
“Carrot! you! You look like the owner! It’s sinister! You are a sneaky carrot!”
As Ariete slapped her butt, Carrot just laughed.
“Does Ariete hate carrots?”
Tuna straightened her back and turned her head. It was quite a resolute face, different from the one that had been smirking until just now.
“It is said that what determines a person’s treasure, nature is that, that action.”
“and! That’s a good word! I will have to use it next time too! Ariete, drop me off, I have to go eat.”
Carrot, who landed on the floor, ran to the village’s communal kitchen. Ariete, who was watching this, turned to Tuna.
“Actually, I hate carrots. But that carrot is an exception.”
“Huh… … ! Uh, um, me, me too.”
Seeing Tuna, who was much prettier than when she first saw her, Ariete stretched out her hand abruptly, snoring slightly. One arm was broken and bandaged, but Krank seems to have said that repairing it locally is impossible.
Tuna, who was smiling brightly, naturally took her hand.
Verita, who was holding her mother’s hand and chattering about what had happened today, looked back.
I saw a wonderful woman and a kind pharmacist walking hand in hand, and they got along so well that I wanted to show them to my mother as well.
“Oh, Mom! excuse me! look!”
For Verita’s mother, her daughter, who spoke Liznet within a few days, was more unique and mysterious than the picture-like appearance her daughter was pointing at.
* * *
The reason why people first built huts and formed refugee camps here was because there was a spring from which groundwater gushed. Now that it has been transformed into a pioneer village, there is a well that supplies water for daily use to the village and a shelter shaded by a large tree.
Crank, who had made a Jenga for play with pieces of wood he got from a simple carpentry shop while sitting on a bench, was fighting a close match with Carrot with it.
Crank muttered as he carefully pulled on a piece of wood from a Jenga block, crouching over his large body, while the crowd of children and people looked on curiously.
“It is safe to say that the original purpose, the request to investigate refugees, has been completed.”
“Yes, as a bonus, I saved a kidnapped person and laid the foundation for my life. Guess you’ve done everything That through-hole was a pity, though.”
Carrot, who lay down on the bed and took a posture, closed one eye and hit the bottom piece of wood with her finger.
right!
ping-!
The flying piece of wood landed on the back of Aple’s head, who was drinking water from a gourd at the well.
right!
“Eww?! oops! Cool Cool Cool-!? radish! What?!”
Seeing that, people started to laugh hahahahaha.
“Wow-! sorry!”
While Carrot, who was caught by the enraged Aple, apologized by rubbing his hands together, Crank put out his big hand to curse the swaying wooden tower and applied unknown force, but the tower did not fall.
Disappointed, he slid another piece of wood out and said.
“Something unexpected happened, but I don’t think we need to worry about it. They will figure it out.”
Carrot, who was facing the grim face of Aple, looked back.
“Can only the princess arrive now?”
“Well, let’s go back when the handover is over. Standing alone is important. I can’t support you by your side forever. My life is also important to me.”
Crank, who succeeded in removing the piece of wood, rubbed the forehead of the helmet with the back of his hand, as if unconsciously trying to wipe away the sweat.
“hmm? ah… … .”
Crank’s act of rubbing his hands even though there was no way to wipe them, and his disappointment after noticing it belatedly gave a big smile to the people watching.
With a serious expression on the table, Carrot found a suitable place, closed one eye again, and snapped her fingers.
Just-!
ping-!
The piece of wood flew with terrifying force and hit the large side breast of Tuna, who was washing and trimming herbs with the maidens at the well next door.
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“Kyaooo!?”
Tuna collapsed while hugging her chest while making a strange sound, trembling while making a gasping sound.
“Go, my heart aches! Sue, I can’t breathe, uhhhhh… ! hoh hoh hoh… … !”
“Ooooh! sorry! I’m sorry Tuna! This is an accident!”
Carrot, who ran barefoot, hugged the fallen Tuna’s head and sobbed.
“How to! I fell in love with Tuna! My heart hurts!”
“Fhehehehe! kick kick… … !
The collapsed Tuna was in pain, but that comment was so funny that she was in pain from giggling, but faced a funny situation.
The adventurers watching nearby also giggled, and the Cyphers who received the translation also giggled. Aple touched the back of his head where he had been beaten and said.
“Seriously, I’ve seen a lot of automatons, but that one is really… … . You made it yourself?”
Crank, who was lying face down on the bench and staring at the Jenga tower with his hips lifted, pushed the piece of wood away and pulled it, then managed to pull it out, raising his arms and shouting silent cheers.
Aple, who had been watching that, put his hand on his forehead. And he definitely acknowledged that he was the master of that carrot.