Carrot screamed, shaking the book in her hand. Looking at the crank, which he got out of the car, wondering what was going on, Alcott cheered with a faint look on his face.
“crank! Adventurer Mr. Crank, right!?”
All the while thinking that he had seen them who had helped during the raid the previous day, he had heard the name from his grandfather, who had met them again by chance, and remembered the characters in the fairy tales he had seen.
Maid Louise, who was standing next to her, was also surprised. There are actually people in front of me who are very similar to the picture drawn in the children’s book that I beg to read every night.
Crank, who had been examining the contents of the fairy tale book, awkwardly nodded.
“That’s right. I am the crank.”
Alcott now looked at Carrot and tried to say something, but the words didn’t come out.
So Louis helped.
“Usually, our young master was quite engrossed in your story. You must be so happy to meet the real thing now.”
“and! thank you! young master! i am carrot Nice to meet you, would you like to hold hands?”
Carrot held out his hand.
A steel glove full of vicious spikes and spikes was put out, and Alcott got so excited he grabbed it with both hands and shook it.
“It’s real! The actual object of Automaton Carrot is in front of me!”
“Wow, Bocchan, I’m going to cry. hahahaha! It’s not bad to have people who take care of our story and like it. Rather so good! Youngsters are the witnesses of our lives! Stay tuned! I’ll try hard!”
Alcott, moved, felt his nose tingle. And he nodded his head.
“Yep! I’ll watch! please!”
Carrot smiled brightly. Even though he knew it was an automaton, Alcott blushed at that smile.
By that time, when the conductor announced the departure, they hurriedly climbed into the vehicle. Carrot, who poked her head out of the window of the moving car, waved her hand.
“Brother Olcott! Healthy! see you again!”
Beside the bowing Maid Louis, Alcott waved enthusiastically.
“huh! bye! See you again!”
Carrot, who smiled and waved for a while, sat down again. The crank in the seat next to him was reading a children’s book carefully.
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“What is it?”
“I think this is a relatively new version? This is the content of the southern business trip. How on earth did you describe it in such detail?”
Ariete, who was sitting in the back seat, stood up and held out her arms.
“What are you looking at? Where is my book?”
At that moment, Crank jumped up from his seat.
bang!
Crank, who was tall and threw his helmet into the ceiling, lowered his head and listened to a storybook with a groan of pain.
“Ugh! I brought this… … ! mmm!”
Carrot looked out the window and laughed.
“hahahahaha, I need to go get a book?”
* * *
It runs one more day like that, and it’s noon the next day.
Carrot couldn’t keep his mouth shut at the majesty of Liznet, the capital of the first ark city.
“Wow! super big! I can’t see the end of the wall!”
The ramparts, which gradually began to emerge from the other side of the meadow, were so long that I couldn’t see the end.
Ariete, who had been looking at it with her upper body sticking out the window, brushed through her hair and pointed at the now fully revealed castle gate with her arm stretched out.
“The place we will enter is the eastern gate. There are three more capital city gates in the east, west, south, and north.”
“The gates are said to be huge! Do golems pass by? ha ha ha!”
None of the other passengers laughed at them, as was the usual reaction of people who had just arrived from the countryside. The little girl laughing and talking was cute anyway, and the voice itself was nice to hear, so I just pretended not to know.
“The size of Liznet will be more than 10 times that of Argon. I don’t know the exact size.”
“More than 10 times?! Is that really?!”
“Yes, there are about 5 Argon-level big cities inside. There are too many small towns to count.”
Carrot’s mouth fell open. Pie smiled and closed the jaw, but repeated opening it again.
Then the conductor shouted.
“Coming soon! Please pack your tickets and luggage!”
Numerous vehicles and wagons are coming and going through the huge gate that is wide open. Seeing that, Crank nodded.
“It is also the capital. The movement of logistics and manpower is no joke.”
Carrot was surprised again by the hard-skinned automatons pacing around the gates while he paused at the castle gate to check tickets and identify people.
After a short inspection, they entered the gate and were greeted by nice buildings and well-maintained streets. Carrot, clinging to the window and looking at the city, looked at Ariete with sparkling eyes.
“Here?! Is this the capital?! Wow!”
“Right, but no. This is the eastern gateway city. It’s called Alumni Liznet. The true meaning of the capital is the royal castle, so it is located in the center of the city. We have to go in about half a day more along the way.”
“Babababa half a day?! Half a day inside the castle walls?! How wide is it!”
Crank turned the pitch.
“Where is your house?”
“It is near the west gate. It faces Lake Daizen.”
While Ariete replied with a firm expression, the vehicle everyone was on finally arrived at their destination.
“Wow! amazing! amazing!”
After leaving the station and walking down the street, Carrot’s mouth didn’t stop. She swung her wide-open eyes in all directions and captured the scenery of Liznet, the capital city.
From the inside of the gate, tall buildings with more than 10 stories were lined up, and on the wide sidewalk, there were many people in neat and sophisticated outfits and automatons with a new appearance.
It was a very beautiful and busy city.
Stopping on the wide pavement, Carrot shouted with his arms outstretched, his head slightly overheated with excitement.
“This building is so tall! So many people! The road is also very wide! It is also well organized! Everyone is neatly dressed! wow! crank! look at that! It’s a soft skin! Soft skin!”
It was also the first time in the capital, so Crank, who was spinning his pitcher around, heard Carrot’s voice and quickly looked at the direction his hand was pointing.
Across the street was an automaton escorting girls in dresses. The arm exposed in the sleeveless was an indication that it was an automaton, but its face was very similar to that of a human woman.
“Amazing. Did you apply it only to the face? Certainly, doing so can greatly improve cost and maintainability. I’d like to take a closer look, but what material did you use? Did you brighten the color on purpose?”
Crank, who suddenly became very talkative, immediately tried to talk to them across the street, but everyone struggled to stop him.
It seemed to have twice the building and population density of Argon. What was surprising was the fact that this was the East Gate of Liznet, and there were three more cities of the same size, and the central castle was larger than this.
“Nuoo! Korea’s best! The soup is filling up!”
“Well, it sure is cool. It’s a well-made city. I hope someday Argon will develop as much as this.”
Pie smiled as she watched Carrot and Crank scan the cityscape of the capital city.
“Is Crank new to the capital?”
“Yes, to be honest, it was my first time here. There is a lot of work around Argon alone.”
“Oh oh! yes! Lotte said you’ve been here before? To catch the bounty!”
Lotte, carrying Ariete’s prosthetic bag, waved her hand.
“I heard that it was near the capital, but all I saw were meadows and fields in the suburbs. I am also coming for the first time.”
Crank turned his head and now looked at Ariete.
“Was this the main stage of your activities? It is a wonderful and beautiful place.”
She smiled as she finally came back and had her hometown in her eyes. Since entering the city, Ariete has had a somewhat drowsy face.
Carrot ran to the side and grabbed her hand.
“tremble? Are you nervous?”
“Um, something like that.”
Crank, who had been staring at Ariete, looked around.
“Where is the Adventurers Guild? I want to keep watching.”
“Good, I have something to find out. This way.”
Ariete guided them.
Riznet’s adventurer’s guild was scattered in five places. One in each gate city along with the central capital, Ariete is said to have been active mainly in the guilds of Liznet’s alumni cities.
“You worked well here when you ran away from home. If it were me, I would have left for another city.”
“That’s what I wanted to do too, but I couldn’t leave right away. Did you have to pay for your living expenses so you could stand on your own?”
“living expenses?”
Crank asked, and Pie sighed.
“At the time, it was very difficult financially to prepare the dowry for the first and second daughters. It wasn’t enough to reduce the number of servants, so I tried to dispose of the mansion. Ariete, who ran out, heard the news and sent money so we were able to protect the mansion.”
“I couldn’t give up that mansion alone. It was a place where memories with my deceased father dwelled.”
Ariete’s face went wild.
“It’s all because of her.”
For a moment, Crank’s gaze at Ariete changed.
“You are very proud of yourself for paying off the debt on the house.”
Ariete’s face flushed a bit, perhaps because she was embarrassed, but she kept her mouth shut and turned her head slightly.
And he kept talking.
“Since my situation started to improve with the help of my older sister, I stopped supporting and left this place to find my life. It ended up like this,”
Ariete, who was moving by borrowing the arms and legs of Automaton Shion, raised her arm. At that time, Shion, who did not intervene in the slightest, spoke.
“You got up again. I would appreciate that.”
“You are there. and you are there I was just lucky.”
Ariete continued, trying to smile. Carrot, who was walking hand in hand, said.
“Luck is also skill. As long as I live, good days will surely come. Look around you, everyone here is on your side.”
Ariete turned her head. Crank raised a thumbs up vigorously, and Lotte, Venus, and Carrot followed him, smiling with their thumbs up.
It was so nice to see it, so Pai glanced back and gave a thumbs up.
Only then did Ariete open her mouth with a big smile.
“Well, I’m realizing that these days. Right now, I am the happiest of all my days.”
While Carrot was smiling, Pi, who was walking ahead, pointed to a building.
“This is the East Liznet Adventurer’s Guild.”
A large building with four floors boasted its majesty. Carrot looked up at it and pushed Ariete on the back.
“You are first. Go and tell them that Ariete is back!”
She kept her mouth shut and nodded, and soon started walking towards the guild building. Behind them were kind giants and dolls of goddesses.
The door to the East Risnet Adventurers Guild was wide open, and sleek steel boots clad in plate armor were revealed! It made a noise and stepped forward. Then, a female knight wearing a blue heat-resistant ribbon and skirt proudly entered the guild building.
The heads and gazes of capital adventurers who were choosing requests in the lobby of the building or talking to the receptionist flew to her.
Again and again-!
People who recognized the female knight who proudly crossed the lobby of the adventurer’s guild appeared.
“Huh? Isn’t that Ariete? Salty!”
“what? A female knight with a strange way of speaking?”
“Oh oh! Knight Lady Lily!”
Ariete squealed.
“Your evaluation is really too high! I’m back! Can’t you make me happy!”