After a while, lunchtime came.
Everyone gathered back in the carriage. Among the people who boasted and shared their spoils, such as wild greens, herbs, and fruit, Crank was busy checking the number of people.
So when a group of people came, my eyes even flinched a little.
Geo’s party brought people to join them.
“excuse me. I heard from Boris and came to him. I thought it would be nice to have a meal together.”
“Oh! Geo! Good-looking friends are always welcome!”
Carrot welcomed them with open arms. Even the villagers were happy to see familiar faces. In the midst of this, Crank was only able to complete the head count check.
“It’s difficult to check because there are so many people.”
“Don’t look at it alone, share it with each other. Excluding Tuna, there are 6 of us including Automaton. We can share.”
“Well, why didn’t I come up with that idea? I will apply it like that from the afternoon.”
Crank, who had handled everything by himself until last year, admitted his mistake. Then he shoved the sandwich into his mouth. The women saw it and were delighted.
“Oh, crank bachelor, he eats well even after wearing that.”
“Yeah, he’s tall and has a really nice heart. He is a rare young man. It would be nice if I could just take off my helmet.”
“Ugh-! Madam, they say you’re under a curse. Is that why you wear it?”
“It’s no use for boys to have a good-looking face. It’s okay as it is, are there any women?”
“I heard that you make good money, but shouldn’t you break the curse? I brought it with my daughter, so why not take a look?”
Ariete and Tuna suddenly became nervous at the comments of the women.
“Quack-crank! My, how about my cheap sandwich? Hey, is it delicious?”
“Um, not bad. And this is Charles’ cheap price, and you only helped.”
“I told you everything you like?!”
“Oh, uhm! crank! I’d like to say hello to the party over there for a while, and I’d like you to introduce yourself.”
“Oh, wait a minute, eat this.”
Maria, who had been sitting at a distance and watching silently, smiled happily.
“Spring has come. nice to see.”
Carrot, who was sitting with her arms folded next to her, smiled with the same expression.
“Um, me too. Either one doesn’t matter, but both are fine.”
“Then you live in two houses?”
“Is there a legal problem with that?”
“It’s not like that, but I can’t hear anything good about it.”
“It sounds like there is no problem as long as the parties involved admit it.”
Maria laughed when she saw Carrot making comments like a greedy old woman.
I wonder how the hell did they make that wooden doll look like a human?
After finishing the meal, Crank visited Geo Party, who was resting nearby, to greet them. Ariete and Tuna also followed.
“This is Ariete from our party, and this is Tuna, the workshop assistant. I couldn’t bring the automatons because they were on guard, but the gray hair over there is Charles, the black hair next to them is Lotte, and the green hair is Venus.”
Turning around, Crank pointed out and introduced the automatons guarding the crowd.
Vita got up from her seat and took Tuna’s hand and greeted her warmly.
“Tuna! long time no see!”
“hehehe, yes, how have you been?”
“Sure!”
Gio went to Ariete, who was standing next to Crank, and bowed her head slightly.
“Nice to meet you. This is an adventurer’s party in the second year of debut. I’m Geo, and from this side, I’m Priest Vita, Boris, and Kobe.”
“hmm. nice to meet.”
Ariete held out her hand, and Ji-oh smiled awkwardly and held her hand.
“You look young. How old are you all?”
“Oh, everyone is 20 now. Vita is 18 years old.”
“I see, they are younger people.”
Crank turned his helmet and looked down at Ariete.
“Come to think of it, I said it was my preference for younger people. How old are you?”
Ariete, who was moved by Crank’s insensitive remarks, slapped him on the back and replied.
slam! slam!
“I am 22 years old this year! And my birthday is in September! Remember!”
“Why should I remember your birthday… … ?”
slam! slam!
Vita, who was listening, saw Tuna holding her hand.
“Tuna? How old is Tuna?”
“Oh, no, I don’t know. my age.”
Everyone saw Tuna. Tuna, a little embarrassed, continued to speak in a hurry.
“Since I grew up, I have been living with Master and two, just the two of us. Me, my age, me, I don’t know.”
“Then Tuna should be 22 too. My birthday is also in September.”
Now everyone was looking at Ariete. Ariete crossed her arms and said.
“Don’t they all look like the same age? I don’t want to distance myself from Tuna because of the age difference.”
“Uh, oh, oh!”
Thrilled, Tuna sneaked up to Ariete and hugged the bumpy armor.
“Oh, thank you. Ariete.”
“I will say it. you are one of my benefactors I want to be with them on an equal footing as much as possible.”
Everyone looked at the two with happy faces. Then everyone’s eyes turned to Crank.
“Your turn. How old are you?”
Crank, who had crossed his arms and looked at the wide-open meadow, turned away instead of answering.
“Should we start distributing people soon?”
“crank! Where are you running away!”
“I want to hear it too. Uhhhhh-!”
Kobe scratched his head as he looked at the three men walking away.
“Would you like to spend the afternoon with Mr. Crank? There are some automatons I know here, so it’s a bit reassuring.”
“Yeah, let’s do that. All you have to do is figure out the number of people who came when you go back.”
“It’s a b*tch.”
“Boris!”
Vita sighed, but everyone just laughed. Because it is true. said Boris, who bit the puppy grass and put it in his mouth.
“Shall we get one of the automatons too? Don’t you have some spare savings?”
Thinking seriously, Ji-oh shook his head.
“no. We’re not even grounded yet, and we don’t know how to run it. And I don’t have much money, and the cost of consumables for combat automatons is no joke.”
“The guild also rents automatons, right? Over there, Venus and Lotte are famous for being rarely registered for combat use these days. I’ve seen you go out with other parties a few times.”
At Kobe’s words, Geo looked at the automatons wearing green and black thermal wigs, respectively, and nodded.
“Let’s borrow it first, return it, and decide. It’s natural to have willpower if you have it.”
“If possible, with that black hair. I heard that half-swording is at a high level, but I want to learn close combat techniques as well.”
It was Boris’s words, and Vita said.
“Thanks to Morphine’s training, I think Boris’s swordsmanship is already sufficient. Shouldn’t you rather kill that temper? Didn’t you almost die before because you ran out angry alone?”
Boris turned his head away and kept his mouth shut. G.O clapped his hands and started to ventilate.
“Come on, let’s move too.”
Even in the afternoon, people were busy touring the meadows and forests, collecting blind herbs and herbs that would be nothing more than weeds if left alone.
After giving each one an escort assignment, Crank, somewhat freed, headed for a broken wagon abandoned under a tree in the woods.
Seeing Crank’s eccentricity of turning it upside down and tearing off the appendages like a bear, Carrot approached, wanting to know what else he was doing.
“What are you going to make?”
“There’s something I’ve been thinking about, so I have the ingredients.”
It was Crank who found the abandoned wagon yesterday and brought materials and tools in advance. After disassembling the leaf spring of the wagon like that, he completed a bow after a long ticking.
“Suck!”
Tud deuk… … !
It was a terrible thing with a high carbon steel plate spring woven with a chain instead of a bowstring. Crank tried to pull it as hard as it could, but it wouldn’t pull halfway. So he called Charles, whom he had in mind since making it.
“Pull it.”
I’m going to have a good time… … !
Charles pulled it lightly. Crank gave him the large arrow he had brought and instructed him to shoot it.
Intercept… … ! Tung-!
Chow ah!!
The arrow crosses the field in a large parabola. Carrot, who looked up with her hand on her forehead, exclaimed.
“Ohhhhh! How big is the rain? You can’t even see it right after launch!”
“There are many off-the-shelf weapons that have already been released on the market. The same goes for bows. However, in order to save money, I made something similar with scarce materials and skills.”
“How much is the new one?”
“I don’t know, but wouldn’t it be 2-3 times more expensive than a human long-distance longbow? Aside from making it, the price of the material cannot be ignored.”
“Bah, what was it just now?”
Gion’s party’s archer Kobe came running. It seemed strange because he was in charge of long-range attacks.
Carrot laughed.
“Kobe, that’s not something man made for use.”
“Oh, can I still touch it? please! I am interested.”
Crank, who was curious about how it would apply to normal humans, readily agreed.
Geek… … !
“Huh!”
Kobe’s arm swelled to almost crank level, but he couldn’t pull more than half of the chain he was using as a bowstring. Crank, who was watching quietly, said.
“Like a ready-made bow, if you attach a pulley to it and convert it into a mechanical bow, it seems that the pulling force can be reduced, but in the future, it is possible for humans to use it in case of emergency… … .”
“Crank, calm down. First of all, this is too heavy for humans to lift.”
“ah.”
Kobe staggered, lowering his bow and squeezing his arms.
“Wow, is this really too heavy?”
It has no choice but to be. Because it was a plate spring made of iron that was originally used for carriages.
“okay. This is just a monstrosity that puts all of its stats into output only.”
“Thank you for allowing me to touch you. I’ve been interested in steel bows lately too. I still have to keep writing this.”
Kobe bowed politely and hurriedly returned to escort.
Look at the sky, the sun is slowly going down. The time to prepare for the return was approaching.
Ariete made friends by talking to curious girls of the same age. Actually, she wasn’t very interested, but the young women of the same age did not leave the female knight who was famous as an adventurer.
“Is this spring picnic held only in spring?”
“There are different types of things you can get from season to season, but in other seasons we can’t come out on our own because there are so many monsters. Usually, I go out with the wild fruit management group run by the guild and collect them in my spare time. The things we get like that are sold in the market, and we eat them.”
Ariete, who crossed her arms and thought for a moment, asked.
“Is it necessary to come out at the risk and expense? Wouldn’t it be safer and simpler to live in the market?”
Jane, who was listening, smiled.
“Some people think so, but that’s it. Don’t you want to find out with your own hands what your grandmothers and mothers told you? I’m going to tell my kids that too. Wouldn’t it be nice to know the living berries and herbs you can eat if you get lost right away?”
Knowledge must be kept together, utilized, and shared. to that future… … .
Ariete, who suddenly recalled the story of librarian Lulu, put on a slightly sullen expression.
“Hey, I don’t know where those things grow, and I don’t even know the edible wild berries and herbs.”
“Ahahahaha! are you okay! Are you protecting us who know that? People can do what they are good at.”
Then a small child ran up to her and took her in her arms.
“mom-! Mr. Ajo said to gather now-!”
“Oh oh! Did my son do that? Looks like it’s time to go back, everyone! Organize!”
Ariete’s eyes wavered when she saw that. I heard you were the same age.
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“Jane, you, you, did you have kids? How old were you when you got married?”
“Oh, I’m 3 years old now. I brought it out because there was no place to leave it. Are you handsome because you look like me? thank god. Husband is big but ugly? I will live with you.”
Seeing Jane’s funny frown, the girls burst into laughter. Embarrassed, Ariete was counting her fingers.
“Hey, at nineteen?!”
“Well, I moved to the city from a frontier village with my husband. I came to know that the marriage age in the outer villages is rather early. I guess it’s because it’s hard to make a living.”
Ariete strangely expressed interest.
“How did you meet your husband? Were you afraid or disliked it? Suddenly marrying someone you’ve never seen before.”
“No, I was a childhood friend who lived next door, and my parents knew each other well. But he was a year younger than me. We surprised each other.”
“Jane! What a younger man! It’s a windfall!”
“That is not good! Totally two kids! don’t listen to me! Just listen to him!”
A young woman who was sitting next to her and trimming wild vegetables smiled.
“I was a matchmaker. I didn’t like it, but this man fell in love with me and chased after me.”
“ah! That stalker!”
“Nana! Don’t say that a stalker is a stalker!”
Muscular Nana, who had a large basket full of herbs suitable for her large body, shouted as she clenched her fists.
“Hot ha! Love must be conquered! Why are you looking for a man to flirt with? It’s not funny that you want your prey to pounce!”
“Don’t tell a stalker to claim love!”
“Everyone, let’s not worry about the process. Results matter. How well I treat you at night.”
“A bar, at night, eh?”
The women were frightened by the short voice. Because there were many children in the group.
“Nana!”
“Ughhh! Bar, they say they cook well! rice! hahahahaha!”
The story of the young wives’ bravery was almost chilling. Their talk stopped only when Carrot came to pick them up.