66 – 22. Open the doors one by one.
Forests, mountains, or places where people are sparsely inhabited, their own ecology is established.
Sometimes monsters are excited as if they were uninvited guests, but even that is probably part of the natural ecology these days.
Also, since monsters don’t always preoccupy the position of predators in terms of the food chain, they often resolve themselves on their own.
However, the biggest problem is when monsters and native lifeforms are integrated by transferring, multiplying, or infecting existing lifeforms.
They are doubling, at most, several times that number in an instant, and expanding the scope of their activities.
This standard does not discriminate between plants, insects and animals.
Also, it is a disaster that occurs depending on the region, and since the disasters are also diverse, it has long been a long time since each country searched for and eliminated them from time to time.
“It smells really fishy, but bear meat is great for health food! There is nothing to throw away, even the intestines!”
Ruilin, who knocked down a bear, starts smoking under the pretext that she cannot throw away meat.
“You can sell this leather, but if you have one for temporary sleeping bags, capes, bases, crypts, or camps, it will be very cozy.”
“… ….”
To be honest.
I’m more afraid of bears than Ruilin in front of me.
Even a savage warrior who can fight that bear head-to-head.
… Bears are scarier.
Why?
It’s not just because he’s big and fierce.
Because they have many natural temperaments of their own, there was plenty of room for this method to not work.
I’d rather infiltrate demons and become monsters… It’s much better to face the reverse… Should I just laugh it off or swallow dry saliva?
Ruirin roared at the fear of the bear and ran forward.
Then he puts his fist right in the face.
Seeing the bear’s muzzle dent like a crushed fruit… How to say
My heart felt cold.
Maybe the entire bone and even the brain were crushed.
Even so, the brown bear managed to persevere, and fought fiercely against Ruirin for several minutes after that.
I wonder if the magic tool that was wrapped around it is an ordinary thing, it doesn’t even get torn even if it is scratched.
“Doesn’t it hurt?!”
It’s just that it wasn’t torn, so it’s a shock and the pain is transmitted intact, you’re very nervous?
f*ck!
Have you ever seen a cataclysmic scene where a beaten bear flies away, crashes into a tree, and then bounces back?
… It’s my first time too.
No, I wondered if something went wrong at the point where the bear flew away after being hit by that kid, but it might be something very wrong.
Rui Lin sniffing and blowing her nose horribly to dispose of the bear.
“When it comes to drawing blood, it smells like a creek nearby. Let’s go there.”
After that, we set up camp nearby.
Skinning took quite a while, but cutting and dividing the meat and bones took a lot of time, and even though I helped with the bottoming to smoke it, I was able to breathe just before the sun went down.
“I should be able to eat everything, but then it just makes my body feel heavy. We don’t know how long the journey will be, but we should stock up when the hunt goes well.”
This must be possible because of the magic tools she possesses.
A coat that can store contents regardless of its volume.
They say he has a name, but he doesn’t know it.
It was originally like a rustic cloak, but a craftsman he knows well reprocessed it, so he repaired it well with convenience and practical design?
I thought it would be because the tone of telling what I heard while talking was clear.
Surely, she was competent.
The age difference is only 4 years, but that much… It’s an absurd talent.
In this case, it is a genius for survival or a genius for adaptation.
… I’m not sure.
Roasting bear meat over a fire.
… A bit big though
Water was boiling in a small cast iron pot placed near the fire.
In addition to that, I mixed some of the grain powder and some of the dried vegetables, and it became an ambiguous soup.
A desperate effort to literally call sheep.
Since there is a stream, the intention to properly fill the water boat has been conveyed very clearly.
“Seeing how he moves like that and has a short mouth, is it true that your teacher is a dwarf?”
“… ….”
Teacher.
At first, he told me to call him on his own, but then he asked why he was a teacher.
“Let’s say I entered a remote village. Then the child born in that village will know the way better than me, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then there must be something to learn from him? As you can see, it’s best to ask questions you don’t know, right?”
“Yes.”
“Technology is the product of the subject’s time and effort. Sometimes even misfortune and good luck, and even the long-cherished wishes and beliefs of that person are included, so you can’t neglect it, right? Even those who are serfs and ignore them can dig up the ground better than most knights and warriors if they dig the ground for decades. A person with power is good at destroying things and destroying buildings, but he can’t achieve the same results as the people who build them. That’s why those with power know that well, so they try to control them with that power.”
“… ….”
“It is with due respect that I call him Master. Am I wrong?”
“… Do whatever you want.”
After that, I asked a lot of questions and pecked at them.
However, even if the demon king spoke confidently, he couldn’t understand at all.
The application was even more impossible.
Even though he told me the decision.
“Why are you making a decision on a matter of course? Is there anything more plausible? What’s more important than that? Is that like a spell from the heart that warriors have? The chivalrous principles of the Imperial Knights?”
So I was going to tell you the basic things I learned at the academy, but I stopped.
… There’s no way something standardized there would suit him, and he doesn’t have any particular patriotism or loyalty to the Empire… A slight sense of reluctance springs up from easily revealing the vision or secret level.
‘I would have told you if it was necessary.’
To instill useless prejudices or flimsy expectations, I thought that wouldn’t be the case.
So.
It’s hard to explain, so I changed the direction to experience it myself.
I realized at the same time that what I learned from teaching like that is good for Ruirin and useful for me as well.
-Originally, learning is a way to complete understanding and become more mature while teaching.
The demon king said it was a natural phenomenon.
… The reason why I’ve been absent-mindedly lately, forgetting to even play the lute, and that’s because I ended up getting stuck there.
However, to realize and gain more than a week or two of searching and contemplating, I spent a few hours contemplating what to teach Ruilin.
I don’t know if this is right.
-That’s the process. If I’m stuck alone and only roll my head, why would the sky give me an answer? That is possible only after qualification has been granted.
The demon king started making strange noises.
-Of course, if you think about it by yourself, at some point, like water overflowing in a bowl! There will come a day… You said It’s been a long time since you’ve already overflowed the bowl. On the contrary, the key is to use it well. Religious people giving grace and virtue, even if they do it without knowing it, their level rises and enlightenment follows, all of it is the virtue of filling and emptying.
“… ….”
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Seeing Ruirin, did you start pretending to be a talkative person too?
“The point is, giving is enlightenment and there is meaning in raising the realm, is that a story?”
-Yes. Even because of causality.
Causal?
“… ….”
If I keep listening to it, I think my head will hurt.
-It’s kind of like opening a closed door. And the kids who don’t have to do that are, by nature, the kind of people whose doors are already open. Who doesn’t open the door? Have to open
“Is that also a kind of talent?”
-Strictly speaking, even talent belongs to this category. Even if you have talent, what if the door is closed? Rather, it festers or rots. Give me an example Try lighting a pot. Then, close the lid tightly and keep the fire burning all the time. Doesn’t the lid just burst out, whether it’s water or contents? It’s like that.
If you look closely at this.
-Just like your situation before.
“…… ?”
Anyway.
It was a journey with a lot to gain.
Even then.
Kick—
“?!”
I woke up from seizures while sleeping, and stayed up all night with my eyes open several times.
Whether it was that grudge or not, it was still attacking us without warning.
“Something cursed me? It’s hard to see him getting a good night’s sleep.”
“… ….”
She was quite outspoken Rui Lin when she just shouted.
She said about him that she had a personal illness, and she brushed it off.
After that, her movement itself was smooth.
On the way, she briefly passed by bandits’ camps, and although she encountered dwarves and alien races, they did not lead to battle.
Still, it’s not like there weren’t any crises.
When I came close to the border on the map, I almost ran into the 6th Mountain Scouting Team, commonly known as the 6th Mountain Scouting Team, which is famous even in Dabas because it is a forest.
I had to wait for two days while digging a tunnel.
“… Do you have any experience like this?”
“What?”
“There are a lot of people who usually go crazy in less than a few hours, let alone a day, but they are holding up well.”
“… I’m used to getting stuck in her closet.”
She didn’t at least get down on her knees and pray.
You can sleep if you want to, and you don’t have to worry about when someone will attack you.
It was a bit like being confined in a small place without a single light, but once I got used to it, I could sleep well.
The problem is when I can’t even sleep, and I have to deal with feces, but….
“Wow, that’s poisonous. You are calm all day. If you stay in a monastery, you’ll be very happy. He’s calm, doesn’t look like he’ll do anything wrong, looks like he’ll do his job well. The most important thing is that eating is short!”
“… ….”
That’s because there’s a lot to think about.
Rather than that, are they all curse words? Is it a compliment?
Not only that, but even the demon king is snooping around, so the burden of claustrophobia is surprisingly less.
Ruilin whispers, but she keeps saying that.
Anyway.
She followed Rui Lin’s words well, so she was able to safely cross the border marked on the map without encountering a logging party.
And from now on.
“Beware of the Metran Kingdom’s scouts.”
The reason why Davas’ Demonic Logging Team was so called.
The 11th Border Reconnaissance Squadron, which is mainly in charge of the forests of the Metran Kingdom, is called the Witchbeast Gildongmu.
And here.
This area where the so-called demon tree grows… It was also famous as a place where one should not set foot on it.
The sight of purple-tinged leaves and branches flowing as if they were alive… At first sight, it’s very frightening.
“The old Jangmok actually eats living things. Some of them even have consciousness and can communicate, so they are treated as semi-spiritual creatures and spirits around here.”
Metran Kingdom, unlike Dabas, was closer to the outskirts of the continent, so it was more of a position to put effort into harmony and exchanges with different races.
Among them, the engagement policy of bringing heterogeneous races into Metran to create harmony or even embracing them by mixing blood has planted the driving force for alien races to settle down in a variety of ways even now.
… He said, but these were the contents that he roughly learned at the academy.
“… ….”
When I was wandering around as a hostage, I thought this was the third time I came here.
I don’t remember it, but I know it as information, it’s because I heard it separately.
“The rough journey is short-lived. If we cross the border soon, let’s go comfortably from then on.”
“… ….”
Why do you have a separate identity, but you are proud of the border and do not try to pass the checkpoint separately?
Ruilin answered the question about this.
“Because if you don’t cross the border, it’s doubly difficult to find whereabouts. Who do you think is following? If you see that you can feel it with your whole body that you don’t welcome it, it could turn into a needless incident later, so you take a little risk in order to erase the traces. I don’t think the teacher knows it, but originally, information is exchanged at each border, trading posts, checkpoints, and even some neutral trade zones? Hey, your people have come here. Hey, some of your nobles passed by here. Or has anyone ever been here? I’ll check it out, okay? Something like this.”
“… ….”
The words are long.
For a more dainty explanation, isn’t the content anew, harrowing?
“And that information flows not only to each country, but also to all kinds of behind-the-scenes organizations. Even if you leave it alone in the country, if something seems to be there, it could drag an organization member over and attack it, or send an assassin.”
“…… Is that enough?”
“See if you can get a bounty after killing someone, or start with kidnapping. If what you’re holding is great, isn’t that a benefit in itself? I and my master both have magic tools, so if we do this, we’ll be targeted right away, right? And what if he was killed and buried in a remote place like this anyway, or died screaming because he was an animal and monster food? How do i find it? Wouldn’t it be much quicker to give up the corpse and find some keepsakes?”
“Hmm….”
From that explanation, I thought it was a bloody world again.
“However, if you use it against them, you can rob them against the reverse side, so depending on the time, it will be a good money-maker. It’ll be annoying if you get caught later, but it’s also something worth trying with a big heart if you decide not to wander around the area for a few years.”
“… ….”
This one, too, was extremely bloody despite its dainty appearance.