At the same time, the lord’s castle,
The 2nd Guard Captain, Adventurer’s Guild Master, and Romani and Ulpa, who commanded the subjugation party in the lord’s office, were reporting the subjugation to the lord.
The guild master said.
“All the important experimental data they mentioned is in this.”
Ulpa held up a leather bag. Sitting at the desk, the lord smiled warmly and pointed with his finger.
“Can I see that?”
“If you can beat Ulpa, you can.”
“hahahaha.”
The lord smiled kindly and opened his eyes. It was a sharp eye.
“Who are those helpers?”
“Everyone was rescued. Right now, I rented an entire inn on 9th Street and am on pension.”
The guild master, who took some time off, asked.
“What should I do?”
“We must keep our promises. More people would have suffered if it had not been for their regrets and tip-offs. As promised, give them a new life. But not within the city. Arrange a suitable colonist village and attach an automaton as a guard and surveillance station along with the settlement fee. If they stray from the human path again, they need to be dealt with quickly.”
The guild leader nodded. Youngjoo continued.
“Guild master, bring some of those helpers to me tomorrow. I would like to know how the research data could not be used for civilian purposes.”
“Lord?”
Lord Deo Argon smiled.
“It is the data left by so many people dying, isn’t it too wasteful to just dispose of it? Let’s find out if it can’t be used for hospitals or treatment.”
The 2nd Guards Commander raised his hand and spoke.
“Lord, there are quite a lot of such materials among the materials we have collected.”
“Aside from those materials, organize and store materials related to the black mage’s research. Hearing rumors that we subdued the Black Mage Guild that conducts biological experiments, I’m sure people will ask for data sharing here and there. Let’s throw it at them then.”
“Then what about the existence of an assistant?”
“Hide them thoroughly. In another sense, it is the last bastion.”
The guild master who was listening pointed it out.
“Can I really do this? Rather, shouldn’t we destroy all the data and silence all those involved?”
“no. If we cover everything up, this will happen again. The sh*tline must be on at all times.”
The guild master, who was trying to think of the lord, grinned when he heard a better answer than he thought. Romani and the captain of the 2nd Guard turned their heads and cleared their throats a little,
Lord Deo Argon, who closed his eyes and knocked on the desk, saw Romani and Ulpa.
“Thank you for your support. Romani and Ulpa.”
“no. Lord. I did what I had to do as a city citizen.”
The lord turned his head and now looked at the 2nd Guards Commander.
“It won’t be long before I can be promoted to captain of the 1st Guards. Thank you for your effort Pavon 2nd Guards Commander.”
“thank you. Lord.”
The lord took out a piece of paper from a drawer and handed it to the guild master as if he had just remembered.
“Marvin Guild Master, something like this came from the capital, would you like to take a look?”
The guild master who received and read the document twitched his eyebrows.
“Tourism?”
“Heh heh, that’s it. Do you remember Princess Giuseppe, the leader of the Bronze Gate Investigation, who came last time? After he passed away, he must have boasted a lot to his close young ladies.”
“However, it takes a lot of time and danger to get here from the capital…! ah!”
Marvin, the adventurer’s guild master, saw the bronze door installed in the plaza through the window. The lord laughed.
“It’s not too far from the capital to Maine Coon. And Maine Coon also has that bronze door. And the notice came yesterday. Each Bronze Gate belonged to its respective city.”
“What! Ugh!”
The guild master seemed to like it while making a strange sound. Seeing that, the commander of the 2nd Guards sighed, and Romani, who knew him well, just laughed.
“From the capital, you can move through the direct portal in the order of Maine Coon-Trail-Argon-Trogen. The movement of large-scale logistics has not yet been permitted, but it is scheduled to open soon for the purpose of simple personal transportation. This tour of the aristocratic families in the capital will be the beginning.”
“Good news. Then many tourists will flock to the guild. I must prepare.”
“Ah, you were selling children’s books, right?”
“Huh, are our adventurers more famous than we thought?”
“Is it a children’s book?”
As Romani looked up, the guild master told the truth, and Romani laughed hahahaha.
“okay. Are we famous too?”
“of course. The adventure story of the junior warrior class adventurers Romani and Ulpa is a very popular list.”
“That’s where the nickname of a junior soldier came from.”
“That’s right. I am sorry for processing the contents of the report without a word. Your stories have been of great help to the guild operation.”
Romani looked back at Ulpa and smiled kindly.
“I’m glad it was helpful. I am okay. Use whatever you like.”
“What a thank you!”
“You have to have a guild to have adventurers. Senior Marvin.”
Marvin, who was Romani’s senior when he was active duty and became a guild master after receiving a recommendation, smiled heartily at his words. The lord, who was also looking at them happily, said.
“And I forgot, the capital will raise taxes once we start opening the Bronze Gate.”
“Oops!”
When Marvin hears it, his knees bend and he stumbles. Seeing that, even the 2nd Guard Captain laughed bitterly.
After becoming a guild master, he always showed a dignified and gentlemanly appearance, but in fact, Romani remembered him as a somewhat eccentric and funny person, and that was the case.
Looking in the direction of the capital, Marvin’s guild master raised his fist and shouted.
“Somehow, it didn’t seem like they would give it away for free! Princess Giuseppe! I will not forget!”
“ha ha ha!”
Even Lord Deo, whom I have known since childhood, laughed at his behavior for the first time in a long time.
“As expected, our neighborhood is the best!”
Carrot, carrying a large rucksack on her back, strolled through the streets of the lively city. Crank followed behind him, carrying a lump of white sheet on his back, followed closely by Tuna, hugging the teddy bear and looking around the stretcher.
“Do-cha-k!”
Arriving at a deserted warehouse area around dark, Tuna looked around and followed Crank and Carrot as they entered the warehouse.
“Hey, is this your house?”
“okay. Let’s talk about your future by tomorrow. I have a lot of work to do now.”
“Uh, that, yes.”
Tuna’s eyes widened when the light was turned on in the studio, which was a converted large warehouse.
Various processing facilities and equipment, as well as automatons and their parts, were filling the interior.
“Hey, is this the automaton workshop?”
“It is my personal preference. Sit properly.”
The crank that lowered the woman wrapped in a sheet on top of the automaton repair table moved its shoulders a bit as if it were stiff and said to Carrot.
“Prepare the meal. 3 servings. I will heat the water.”
“okay!”
Crumble, rattle, bubbling,
Tuna, who had been sitting and watching the small automaton Carrot stand on the platform, take out ingredients and seasonings, and start cooking by hooking up the pot, stood up hesitantly.
“Is there anything I can do to help?”
“You spoke well. Come on.”
Tuna ran to Crank’s call and helped Crank set up a large water bottle from inside the warehouse. Tuna was surprised to see the water tank that stored rainwater and the magic boiler facility.
“Yes, did you make it?”
“Yes, this is a storage area, so there is no water supply and there is no public well. Drinking water was made because it was difficult to get water for daily use no matter what.”
“Oh, oh! amazing! Mo, it’s not just the body that’s cool. He’s a guy with good skills.”
As soon as she opened the valve, Tuna was thrilled to see hot water pouring out. A mana boiler is a common thing only in well-maintained Ark City, but even if you go only to a pioneer village, a boiler is treated as a valuable item that is difficult to see.
“Ooh, we used to heat up the water in a big pot and use it. Gosh, that’s awesome.”
“Tuna, come here for a second.”
Crank called Tuna to a dark spot behind the boiler. As he hesitantly approached, Crank lowered his voice and pointed to a white sheet lying on the automaton workbench in the distance.
“…You are the one who rescued me from there, so you must never reveal your identity. You can die. no i will die It is you.”
Tuna nodded as if it were natural. Crank nodded and headed to the workbench.
“What is your name?”
When the sheet is removed, a blonde woman who has become contemplative stares at me with a face about to cry. And I barely opened my mouth.
“I, I am…! Wow, the bathroom…!”
Surprised, Crank ripped open the sheet, pulled out the woman, and ran out of the warehouse somewhere holding the woman in his chest.
“uh? The rice is done, where are you going?!”
After a while, Crank returned with the woman in his arms. The dismembered woman was sobbing desperately with tears and runny nose.
“Kheuheuheuk…! Ugh…! Mi-sorry…! Sorry···.”
“it’s okay. Now, let’s go take a bath.”
With Tuna’s help, Crank put the missing woman in the bathtub and scrubbed her with soap and a brush.
“Tuna, if you ask Carrot for a pile of herbs to put in the bathtub, he will give it to you. Bring it.”
“Ah Okay.”
As Tuna ran, Crank saw the woman in the bucket. She kept her head down.
“What is your name?”
“… Ariete.”
“I’m Crank, the girl you saved over there is Automaton Carrot, and the gloomy woman who brought the herbs here is Tuna.”
Ariete didn’t speak and kept her head down. Crank poured hot water on her head.
“Apufu…!”
Shoot aaa!
Crank filled another bathtub with hot water, threw in a bunch of herbs, and carried Ariete into it.
“It’s almost done. Now it is your turn.”
“Huh?! Me, I can do it alone!”
“Okay, don’t be nervous. I will prepare a change of clothes, so throw your clothes in that basket.”
“Oh, that, yes. thank you.”
When Ariete empties the water in the bucket, the black water flows out through the drain pipe. Seeing that, Crank said.
“I’ll have to make a flush toilet in here tomorrow.”
After the bath, Tuna emerged wearing Crank’s shirt and pants. Due to the difference in physique, they had to tighten their belts and tie their shirts, but somehow, their faces looked like they were dying.
“My, it smells good. Sniff sniff…!”
“Wear it today. Choose your clothes at the market tomorrow.”
“Gee, keep going, it’s okay to wear it.”
“huh?”
“Oh, no.”
Crank looked at Tuna curling up, then turned his head to see Ariete, who was also sitting in a chair wearing Crank’s shirt.
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“Let’s eat.”
“okay! After washing, it is now rice!”
Crank opened the helm’s mask, took out only his mouth, and stuffed Carrot’s food into it. Seeing that, Tuna and even Ariete looked at each other with curious eyes.
“You, why, why don’t you take it off?”
“That’s a curse screen.”
“curse?”
Carrot stood next to Ariete and scooped up some food for her to eat.
“Crank is cursed. If you take off that helmet, you guys will be delirious. So don’t ever think about seeing your face. And don’t ask me in detail about pitching in the future. I hate cranks.”
“Oh, yes. okay.”
“…”
At that moment, Ariete burst into tears. Turning her head, she looked at Carrot and said.
“… it’s delicious.”
“then! Carrot’s special nutritional food. You paid special attention!”