Carrot, who handed over Ariete to Crank, turned his head.
“Okay, do you guys have plans? If you’re free, why don’t we go on a quest together as a makeshift party?”
“oh? What is it?”
When Kobe asked, Carrot laughed sinisterly.
“It’s a little hard on the body, but it’s easy.”
Geo’s party, which had nothing to do right away, readily expressed its intention to participate.
“Let’s make some money and move!”
“and! that’s right! Come on, let’s get rid of the smell of horse manure!”
“Oh, that’s right, friends.”
James interrupted and started talking. After earning some money in the adventure transport business, he says he has started a lodging business.
“An adventurer’s dormitory?”
“Yes, I intend to only accept them as young friends like you. You’re going to run a restaurant, and the rent is negotiable, but what about it? Why don’t you go and see the house? Right in front of you.”
Beginner adventurers showed great curiosity.
“That’s what I mean. It was so hard to set up a party home when I wasn’t even ready.”
“that’s right. I think I’ll collapse after working, but I think I’ll have to prepare a little more for cooking, washing, and the party home.”
Crank, who was carrying the sagging Ariete, also approached.
“Do you accept drunkards too?”
“Ugh! Crank Ugh… … !”
“Hmm, I guess that will take a bit of discussion.”
Carrot, who was cleaning up after hearing the report from Lotte, who went to the guild to check the date of the quest, was delighted.
“Oh, the day after tomorrow. I can take a day off and go So tomorrow is your day off?”
“Where have the others gone?”
“Yeah, I went to see Uncle James’ boarding house. It says it’s near Uncle Lol’s bakery, come and clean it up.”
“All right.”
Carrot, Charles, and Lotte busily moved to finish organizing.
Ariete, who was drunk and unconscious in a place where there were many trustworthy people, was left in a state of fainting on the bed.
“If I hadn’t talked to you then, you wouldn’t have slept as happy as you do now.”
She responded to Carrot’s muttering as she looked down at Ariete, who had fallen asleep in bed drunk.
Whoops… … !
“Kuhhhhh!”
Carrot, a little giggling at the peaceful fart, covered her with a blanket and left the workshop. Standing in front of the wide open entrance, Carrot, hands on her hips, looked around, then looked back.
Charles and Lotte are going back and forth in the kitchen, tidying up and washing dishes, and people who have visited the house have not returned yet.
A pleasant wind suddenly blows over the red sunset where the sun is setting. It was a warm, cool evening spring breeze that was neither cold nor hot.
The doll girl with her small nostrils widened laughed hahahaha.
“Um, good. really good. Let’s not forget this feeling right now, let’s continue to imitate happy people and live like this.”
Now, with her arms raised, the little doll girl looked at the sunset in the sky and smiled brightly.
* * *
the next day… … .
Ariete woke up with a terrible hangover.
“Ugh, my stomach hurts… … .”
Cranks have been popping in the workshop since dawn. The sound of that hammering might make your head ring, but Ariete didn’t show any dissatisfaction.
Rather, I was relieved.
“By the way, move rooms?”
Ariete, who held up the glass of honey water Charles had brought her, answered Crank’s voice. It’s a little far away, but it’s inside the workshop, so if you raise your voice, you can have a conversation.
“Okay, get a room there and stay. This place is too desolate for a woman to live in. Tuna too.”
Tuna couldn’t answer because it was still midnight.
Normally, she would have screamed at the top of her voice, but her body was speechless, so she pouted her lower lip and turned her head.
“Heh, I don’t like it. my home is here It’s no use trying to kick them out.”
The popping sound in the workshop stopped, Crank’s helmet sneaked out, and he stood up and walked away.
A blunt helmet is pushed out in front of her hungover face.
“I am not trying to kick you out. It’s about expanding your influence there. It’s to bring in a new aspiring adventurer to your command. It means to create an Ariete faction.”
Krank looked down at Ariete’s brightened face, then turned around and went back to the workshop. At the same time, Ariete’s booming cry explodes.
“Yeahap! A strong and strong morning today!”
“Oh, how noisy! Only you are still morning! Is it broad daylight now?”
Looking at Carrot shouting out loud from the workshop, I looked at the clock and it was definitely past 10:00.
“Did you drink too much yesterday? It was a long time since I drank.”
Ariete jumped off the bed, washed and groomed, and summoned Shion to wear it.
Knock knock! Kirik.
“Um too! You put it right.”
Ariete, who became a cool armored knight, looked at her appearance and liked it.
“I couldn’t go yesterday because I was drunk, so let’s go today. Where will be my party room in the future?”
Crank, who stood the body of a large hard-skin automaton on the workshop, laughed at her grandiose remark. Then, he drew a map on a sheet of paper scattered on the workbench.
“Today is your day off, right? Can I go out for a while? I’m going to go see Olive and manage my personal connections.”
“Um, yes. Assembling is enough with only Charles. Soon Tuna will wake up too, so take Ariete and Lotte as escorts.”
People who were ready to go out went out to the studio.
Carrot follows Ariete on a tour of James’ adventurer’s dormitory before going to see Olive. The location was quite close.
“This is a bakery that Tuna often hears about, right? Well, down this alley from here, it’s a five-story gray building.”
“oh! go to this Ariete.”
In front of their eyes, workers were cleaning and a building was under construction.
James, who was helping clean up inside, saw them and welcomed them.
“Come, guys. did you come to see? Ariete, are you feeling okay?”
“Yes, thanks for your concern.”
Ariete was a little shy, but her eyes were busy looking at the building. Upon entering the building with James’s permission, the girls were delighted to see a wider interior and many rooms than expected.
“It was originally an inn, but it was closed because it was a remote place and there was no business. I bought it cheaply.”
“By the way, isn’t your room a bit cramped? Is it the level of a side room?”
“I’m trying to go to a single room. Everyone is working independently, and going back and forth will be tiring.”
“Oh, wow! Are you really close? You can see our studio through the window!”
As Carrot and James leaned out the window, Ariete put on a happy expression.
“Is this where it starts!”
Carrot turned her head and looked up at James.
“Ah, don’t mind our Ariete children. It’s because it seems to be full of ambition. So, will Geo’s gang come in?”
“Well, when I said it was a single occupancy room, they decided right away.”
“What are you going to do in the corner of your room alone? Wouldn’t it be better to be together? Humans live in groups.”
James said with a smirk.
“Even when living in a group, personal space is important. Well, in many ways.”
“Oh oh.”
After looking around, Carrot left the building, stopped at Roll’s Bakery at the end of the alley, bought some bread for a gift, and headed to Olive.
“What are you going to do?”
Ariete, who was having a late breakfast with the bread Carrot bought for her, looked back at Lotte and said,
“I’m going to go to the guild for a while. I need to practice walking alone.”
“It’s wonderful, Ariete child.”
“hmm.”
Carrot, who had waved to Ariete and walked away carrying a bag of bread, found a boy sitting odokani on a bridge across a river while walking along a quiet city street.
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His face was full of pensiveness that was not suitable for children of that age, so he caught Carrot’s steps.
So, the doll girl who came closer opened her eyes wide and wandered around the boy.
Perhaps noticing that, the boy turned his head. I think it was around 13 or 14 years old.
“why?”
Carrot had one eye narrowed and his lower lip stuck out because he had a face that didn’t have a face, but he still couldn’t leave this boy alone.
“Even though life is hard, I think throwing yourself off a bridge is a little too hasty.”
Carrot took out a loaf of bread from the envelope he was holding on his chest.
“Would you like to eat one?”
The boy also looked at Carrot with a dumbfounded face and then quietly accepted it.
Argon’s best flatfooted carrot, who was well placed, looked down at the clear stream flowing under the bridge and chattered.
“Isn’t life like that? Don’t live with too much impression, and relax your shoulders.”
The boy, chewing bread and looking down at the water, did not answer. Carrot leaned over to the boy and asked.
“what’s the matter? What’s wrong with a face that looks like it’s lived out the world at that age?”
“that is… … .”
The name of the boy, who has been silent for a while, is Jegan.
“It’s common to go out and come back, because life in a pioneer village is hard, so?”
When a pretty girl approached him warmly and asked, Jegan, who gained courage, spoke up with difficulty.
“Are the kids bullying you?”
“… … huh.”
Jegan, who lowered his head, finally sniffed. It made her feel a bit pathetic, but Carrot didn’t yell at the boy.
Instead, he clung closer and put his arms around his neck and asked back.
“You say you came from a pioneer village? How did you bother me? Tell me more.”
Carrot, who had been quietly listening to Jegan’s story, squeezed out tears, frowned.
“school? Are the books stolen?”
When children grow up, families usually send them to school. Most of the learning is the same unless you are a child of a noble or wealthy family. Learn the minimum common sense necessary for living, including letters, and the natural duty to have as a person.
However, specialized educational institutions are only found in large ark cities or capital cities, and in ordinary ark cities with a high proportion of ordinary citizens, temples take over the role.
It takes 3 months to complete all subjects, and you can take it again and again as long as you pay the tuition fee regardless of gender or age. Of course, you can get more advanced knowledge if you want.
And there are cases where automatons are sent to such temple schools.
Carrot is for that.
It started when the waitresses at Maria’s inn took Carrot to the temple school after work.
As soon as Carrot, who had accumulated a lot of common sense and knowledge, heard that the books needed for the school class had been taken away, her face was terribly distorted.
Carrot stood up and pulled Jegan by the scruff of his neck.
“wake up. where are you?”
“Uh, no, that’s it… … !”
After dragging a boy taller than herself into an alleyway, Carrot found a group of fierce-looking children in a dark alleyway on 6th Street.
The boys, who were snacking on something, turned their heads and looked bewildered.
He even giggled, as if he thought that a child like Palpoon had been dragged by his girlfriend to find stolen items.
“ok? what?”
“Did you not hear? Give me a book, without which this guy won’t be a proper adult.”
The children made ferocious expressions upon recognizing the intimidated boy next to the confident red-haired girl. Then, he tossed the food he had eaten into his mouth and approached it while munching.
“Mum nom nom, what should I do? Didn’t that mean we swapped sh*t already?”
match! Courage!
The body of the sarcastic boy turned halfway in the air and fell. Seeing it, the other children stare in amazement.
Carrot, who had been slapped on the cheek first, looked down at the boy who had collapsed on the floor, then raised his head.
There was no emotion in his round eyes.