Crank turned to the refugees and said.
“This is our country, these people are foreigners who escaped the upheaval in their own country, let’s not say why they didn’t die fighting there. Let’s see it person to person. I am an adventurer in this country. Until a policy is decided at the national level, I will help you as I please.”
“You’re talking about it, isn’t it because you got money?”
Boris, with a goal, intervened, but Crank ignored it. He saw Godiv.
“translate.”
After Godiv translated, people bowed their heads in gratitude. Of course, not all of them were like that, and some people expressed dissatisfaction.
A man came to Godiv and chatted for a while. Then he tapped him on the shoulder and pointed at the crank, and when Godiv looked up, the crank said it was fine.
“If my country was invaded, of course I would have died fighting. But it’s a civil war. Everyone fights because of each other’s greed. No matter who became king, our circumstances did not change. So I don’t want to take anyone’s side. I just want to live a quiet life. Can’t you accept us in this country? I will pay my taxes diligently.”
When Godiv stopped talking, the man shouted loudly.
“Weida di Amir!”
Godiv wept as he translated.
“Quiet peace, I want it.”
Crank, who had been listening quietly, said.
“Here, there are many monsters.”
“We are more afraid of people than monsters. You can’t hunt and eat that, can you?”
Those were the words of Godive with a somewhat sad expression.
Crank, who moved his gaze inside the helmet and looked around his clan, turned away slightly.
“I heard that Cyphers imports a lot of monster meat processed in Korea. Then we will have to treat you well tonight.”
Ariete, who had a party nearby, folded her arms and looked back at the members.
It was a party of five, including two automatons, one swordsman, and one archer.
“What do we do?”
It was Carrot’s question. Gio raised his hand after seeing Ariete thinking about something.
“Shall we search the area?”
“that’s right. Shall we go after the guys we saw earlier? Oh, and there was an automatic crossbow. You have to be careful.”
Ariete didn’t answer. Then I raised my head.
“Where were the kidnapped people taken? They said there were over 20 people.”
“It’s obvious. Everyone is pretty, so they sell them as toys for prostitutes and aristocrats in the city… … .”
It was Boris who had been slapped on the back by Vita for sneaking in and offering a miserable but realistic opinion.
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“Humanity is evaporating because of you! Is that all you can think of?”
“Stop hitting yourself! In the first place, everything you do is the same! People are complicated! Do you think it would be different with you?!”
“what?!”
Vita and Boris held hands and competed in strength, but Ariete raised her hand.
“Crank, request a member replacement.”
“why?”
“I also want to take Boris.”
Geo raised his hand.
“Then I will fall.”
Crank shook his head.
“You can’t. When Ariete rampages, she needs someone to stop her. Kobe, switch with Boris.”
“yep. I like everywhere.”
“Oh yea!”
The good-natured Kobe and the troublemaker Boris exchanged places as they shook hands.
Crank often crosses his arms. It was because his body was so big that such a posture naturally made him feel intimidated, and the terrible muscles made his shoulders a little easier. So, the people who lived together naturally saw the action and followed it.
Even the automata.
Carrot and Lotte crossed arms and looked at Ariete.
“So what are your plans?
“I know this because I’ve been through this a few times. There is no end to playing hide and seek in the vast forest. We have to turn over where the tagger is hiding.”
“Hoo.”
Ariete raised her head. It wasn’t Ariete, who always screamed and squealed. the eyes are cold
“We search from the nearest town. You will stand out because your skin color is different.”
“Hey, we’re at a disadvantage if you openly mess around. The opponent is the same person. Be aware of this. I will try to find out and retaliate in any way.”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t recognize who it is, doesn’t it? If that’s the case, don’t worry. There is a method I have used often.”
With a rough course in place, Ariete made the necessary preparations meticulously and got into James’ wagon and headed for the nearby town.
“Please buy some necessities when you come. These are money and items.”
“Okay.”
Turning his head, Crank looked at the people sticking their heads out the window.
“Use scrolls and equipment sparingly. Anything like that is available. be careful.”
“Don’t worry. Even if I look like this, I am an adventurer with thick bones.”
Everyone, including Ariete, gave Crank a thumbs up, and he also raised his thumb.
Kobe came to Crank’s side as he watched the motorcar leave.
“Shall we go explore the surroundings?”
“no. First of all, let’s install the booby traps for killing monsters. Protection measures come first. I asked Venus to explore the surroundings.”
“yep!”
A few men came over to help. I was talking, but the words didn’t work. While waiting for an interpreter, they watched Crank do it and drew a circle around the village by drawing on the floor.
Then, with a wooden stick in his hand, he pointed at the trap Crank was making.
Crank noticed what he was trying to say and raised his thumb. The men also raised their thumbs up and nodded, then ran through the woods and set traps.
Vita, who was treating an injured person nearby, looked at it curiously.
“Wow, the language doesn’t work, but it works.”
The phenomenon also happened to Priest Vita.
Thanks to her efforts, most of those who were injured or who were dying from exhaustion were restored to health. Although the skin color was different, they all bowed while saying incomprehensible words in front of the priestess who looked like a granddaughter or daughter.
“Treva! Treba!”
“Treva?”
Godive interpreted.
“He is the god of life and healing that appears in legends. There are no priests in Cyphers, so when the priests of Riznet come, they treat them respectfully.”
“Oh wow! really? Oh, but it’s a bit embarrassing. Are there any more sick people? I can still write some more.”
In the meantime, Crank started to build a wooden fence by chopping down trees and using them to build a village, as if he had decided to build a village here.
In between, Venus brought refugees or informed the location of other groups. Based on that, I wrote a report on the scroll and even drew a rough map, and the attached crank tore the scroll.
“message.”
Hwaaak?!
When I tore up the painstakingly written report, a blue flame arose and burst into flames before disappearing. Kobe was amazed to see that.
“and! Is it a scrolling message? See you first.”
“It is almost the only means of long-distance communication now that two-way communication is blocked. Even so, the situation can be communicated only in writing in one direction. The guild applied for a quick report.”
“We also want to build up our skills quickly and gain fame. It would be more comfortable then.”
Crank asked softly.
“Why don’t we make the party a bit bigger? Like adding skilled adventurers.”
“Oh, that would be nice. For beginners like us, such a good person… … .”
After speaking, Kobe raised his head with a puzzled expression. Krank, who met his eyes for a moment, turned to the call of the people.
“Huh?”
Kobe had a bit of an eye for his size.
Vita, who had cured all the villagers of Gearco, was having a very strange experience.
Apparently, just a few hours ago, people who were dying were trying to get up somehow with a little help.
To protect the refugee camp, young people followed the friendly giant, cutting down trees, building fences, and setting traps.
The wild animals and monsters captured by the automatons began to be processed by removing skins and even bones from the hands of women and old men.
Vita, looking around at how people are trying to live, gave an exclamation of surprise.
“Oh oh! Oh oh! the village! A town is being built!”
Crank made not only wooden fences and traps, but also primitive weapons such as stone spears and stone axes.
“Deterrence is important. The serene peace you desire is not achieved only by human longing. translate.”
Godiv translated Crank’s words. A spleen expression flowed across the men’s faces, and each of them began to make crude weapons.
Surprisingly, he was good with his hands, so he made a bow and sling. By then the sun had set and Venus returned with the legs of a giant desert scorpion.
“I found it close by during my return. I killed it because I thought it would harm the village.”
“I’d rather have a scorpion roast for dinner tonight. Let’s go get it.”
The men of the refugee camp who went together to collect scorpions were horrified when they saw a desert scorpion the size of a bull.
“Did you catch this by yourself?”
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Godive began to give honorific titles to the automaton with the green heat-resistant wig hanging down. People cheered when the desert scorpion was dismantled and moved to the refugee camp.
Here, detective Vita discovered an interesting fact. The Cyphers refugees were wary of Venus roaming the village.
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It was amazing, so I asked Godive, the only one I could speak with, and he answered kindly.
“Cyphers don’t have automatons?”
“Production as well as import itself has been banned. It must be because I was hated. and… … .”
The story he told was a new surprise to Vita.
“Wow! Was there a reason why the automaton became female?”
In the past, during the war, when the Lisnet military received intelligence that the enemy soldiers believed in the story that if they were killed by a woman, they could not go to heaven, and maliciously remodeled the automaton, which was male at the time, and put it into the battlefield.
The early automaton, which made its femininity stand out by reducing its physique and emphasizing the pelvis, emerged from anywhere in the sand or in the forest and became a killing machine wielding a sword, making the Cypher soldiers tremble in fear.
Kobe nodded.
“Wow, so… … .”
That’s why everyone had a different look at Automaton Venus. This is because the enemy weapon, which had a legendary notoriety, is protecting them.
“Crurl-! hehehehe!”
However, the children did not know such a thing, and they were just busy chasing the doll because it was strange that it was walking. Then, as he fell, Venus, who was watching, approached and picked up the fallen child.
The appearance of a mechanical doll walking with a human child gave a warm expression and trust to the people of Cypherz, who were watching with fear and awe.
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However, there was a person who sprinkled cold water on him. It was the tin giant Crank, a mad mechanic who wore a helmet on his head.
“The automaton is set up to rescue the child first if both its owner and an unknown child fall into the water.”
“What?! really?”
Crank added an explanation.
“There are quite a few such fixed settings that lie on the ground. Please read the instruction manual of the item.”
“It’s harsh that love made out of interest in that child.”
“If you think of that love as an emotion created for the propagation and preservation of the species, it is the same.”
Vita looked at the crank with a blank look, but he ignored it lightly.
Godive, who heard the explanation from the side, looked back at the people’s eyes and decided to just keep his mouth shut.
He hoped that the fantasy would continue.
In the refugee camp, which used to stay up all night in fear of slave hunters and monsters, it was possible to sleep safely for the first time in a long time thanks to the advent of reliable adventurers and security automatons.
* * *
Meanwhile, a customer enters a bar in the nearest border town of Liznet.
Sitting at the bar, I look up and a person disguised with ash dust raises his face.
“What can I get you?”
“I didn’t come here to buy, but I want to sell something.”
“If that’s the case, go to the general store.”
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When the gold coins were placed on the table, people’s attention was focused on them.
“Look at me. I mean, I came here because the closest place is here. I’ll pay the commission, so help me open a store. Things are clear. I have two.”
The man who glared at the bar’s main guests with bewildered eyes swept them up and said,
“Tsk, tell Malgujong next time. So, the first things to start with… … . Where are your things?”
“hehehe, can I bring you?”
The tavern owner snapped his finger and said.
“Come through the back door.”
After a while, a man approached with a mother and daughter staggering down the bar alleyway. Said the tavernkeeper, dressed in Cypher’s traditional attire, dark hair, brown skin, slim figure, anxious face, arms crossed.
“I contacted you, so if you wait a bit, the contractor will come. where did you get it These are the refugees who have come over these days, right?”
The masked men only laughed. At that moment, the door of the inn building on the other side of the alley burst open, and a woman with a cold expression peeked out her head. she asked right away.
“How many are there?”
The owner of the bar stopped closing and went in, and the business changed. The mask turned around and said.
“two people.”
“300,000 liz.”
A mask wrinkled his face.
“300,000? Only the two together?!”
“If you don’t like it, go somewhere else.”
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Seeing the wooden door being slammed shut, the men exploded in rage.
“no! Does 30 thousand make sense?! Is that all you can do! Only 300,000 for two people!? Are you kidding me!?”
The door opened again and the hostess poked her head out.
“Then 500,000.”
“No, are you kidding me?! Hey!”
When he protested in anger, the door was closed again, and the man burst into anger.
The man next to him said to the door.
“Because I am busy. Let’s just do 500,000.”
The door opened and the expressionless hostess tossed the purse. When the men who grabbed it grumbled and left, only the two mothers and daughters remained. Grabbing the woman’s hand with a rough hand, the landlady took them to the cellar.