214 – Jarod, Capital of the Kingdom of Jaim on the Continent of Matoto (2)
The next day, when Senna said she would go to work and left the mansion, Chester, who remained at the mansion, said with a slightly embarrassed face.
“That, is the original article like that?”
The article went to work. It was unimaginable in the Kingdom of Been.
In the kingdom of Biend, knights were a truly special occupation. As for how special it is, all men who were born in rural villages and said they put in some effort dreamed of becoming knights when they were young.
A knight is a powerful class that does not have to bow to anyone except the nobles. In addition, you can play and eat without doing anything except training your body and honing your skills every day.
There were not one or two women who would even roll up the hem of their skirts, fascinated by it, as long as they moved majestically while riding on a huge warhorse wearing stylish armor.
Plus, if you’re lucky, you might spend a hot night with ladies you can’t even hold hands with.
Being a knight was such a job that stimulated men’s romance in many ways.
The important thing here was the role of the knight.
Knights usually play and eat. Then, when there is a war or a duel, they go out and fight.
In other words, it is treated as a kind of ‘weapon’ that is used during wartime while being meticulously oiled and managed without doing anything normally.
Since Chester knew only such articles, it was so absurd that the article called “Going to work”.
Of course, there is a small conflict with a neighboring country near the border far from the capital, but I can’t go to work because of it.
‘Come to think of it, Sena was also in charge of the gateway.’
There are several knights in charge of the gateway, and the guards only called Sena, a female knight, because there is a female, Monia, on this side. ….
Rather, it was absurd that a job like a knight had multiple people in charge of the gateway.
“The article here looks very different from our article. I think we make more money here. Right, Monia?”
Chester looked at Monia, her face still as enraptured as it had been since she ate her meal at the restaurant yesterday.
It seems that Monia liked the Haewangwoo course meal just as much.
Listening to Sena’s words, the main dish, prepared by a nationally recognized chef, is prepared by choosing only the highest quality sea king beef among the high-end ingredients, sea king beef. Caught Monia’s tongue.
To some extent, how impressed she was with Monia’s tongue while she was eating sea king beef and evaluating her cooking, the chef would not have taken her money. Rather, he said that he was grateful that a person who knew the taste so deeply ate the food.
“Chester.”
“Huh?”
“How much is that restaurant?”
“…… Do you want to eat again?”
“Yes. Alas, all the food I’ve tasted so far has been garbage……. What the hell have I been eating?”
Monia, who had her ecstatic face, put on her serious expression and grabbed her chester and shook it.
“Because a person was born! Until the death! I eat 3 meals a day! 3 Meals! Just a baby! Besides, childhood should be blown away with breast milk! Then how much is left! …… How much?”
Monia begins to seriously consider how many meals a person eats in a lifetime. Chester is difficult to do arithmetic, so he didn’t pay attention to Monia’s words and started thinking about what to do today.
‘First, go to the tool store and check the handsling… I see, now I want to make a proper tool out of vibration ore.’
There are ores you took when leaving the floating island. It seems that the time has come to use those ores that were not thrown away no matter how heavy and burdensome they felt.
Chester made proper tools, not crude machetes, knives, or axes made without proper equipment, knowledge, or skill.
“Chester, how much are you eating?!”
“Monia.”
“Huh?”
“Wouldn’t it be a wholesome thing to think about what to eat for lunch today?”
“…… That’s right! Seafood is famous here, so……. Oh, I’ve never eaten a lot of seafood, so I don’t know what’s there! Chester, what would you like to eat?!”
“Fish, fish… …. Did you grill the fish?”
“You ate that a lot on the island! Let’s eat something other than that!”
Chester and Monia were talking about what to eat when a maid approached them. She was the head maid in charge of the whole mansion, and of course she was also in charge of treating valuable guests as a whole.
“Everyone, if you want to try different seafood dishes, there is a restaurant I recommend.”
“Oh. Then I want to stop by the tool shop and blacksmith, stop by the sights of the city, and also eat the seafood that Monia wants, so can you make a good route and let the driver know?”
When Chester asked the chief maid, Monia said with a worried expression.
“Chester, aren’t you asking too much?”
“Monia, think of the things you made me do in the past.”
At Chester’s words, Monia shut her mouth for a moment and recalled her past.
And she said.
“Sorry.”
“It’s okay.”
While Monia was depressed after recalling her past mistakes, a maid arrived who received the order from the chief maid and delivered the route to the coachman.
“Okay, shall we go?”
“Ugh….”
Chester leads a slightly depressed Monia to enjoy her foreign land.
* * *
The first thing I stopped by was the largest tool store in the capital.
It is a place run by the Golden Thrush Merchant, and it has a variety of items on a terrifying scale, and thanks to this, Chester and Monia were able to find a hand sling eating dust in a corner of the store.
“Hmm. Can you write this? Too… ….”
“First of all, the management method is written in this notebook.”
“Really?”
Finding her hand sling made her feel better. Monia blew away her gloomy mood and started looking for a hand sling that fits her hand.
Hand slings were made experimentally to compete with guns, so the number was small, but the variety was great.
It was said to be a handsling, but it was almost the size of a crossbow, or if you look really closely, you could hide it so secretly that it was hard to tell if it existed.
All had their pros and cons, and Monia thought about her management and maintenance, so she found and purchased a hand sling that most closely resembled what was written in her notebook.
“What is written in this notebook is like a hand sling with additional modifications, so it is difficult to find exactly the same.”
“Isn’t it uncomfortable?”
“Yes. It takes some finger strength, and the reload isn’t as fast as the escort used, but….”
“Definitely. If you meet a skilled craftsman later, you can ask him to remodel it.”
“…… Shall I renovate it?”
At Monia’s words, Chester widened her eyes.
“You Monia?”
“If there is no one to do it, I have to do it, what can I do? Chester didn’t have a blacksmith, so he made his own tools.”
“If you say that, I will have nothing to say. I have no intention of stopping it.”
After purchasing a variety of additional tools for three handslings, including spare ones, Chester and Monia browsed the tool store a bit more.
“Does Rex want to buy anything?”
When Monia asked, Rex brought one of her toys, as if she had been thinking about buying it from the beginning.
“This is me!”
“Huh? What is this.”
“Toys… looks like I saw the kids playing with it on the way home.”
A cone-shaped piece of wood and a string. The clerk, who followed the Chester family, told them the name of the toy, which was completely unknown.
“Guest, that’s called top…….”
After learning how to use a top from the clerk and purchasing a top, they left the tool store.
After getting on the wagon waiting outside the tool shop, we went to the largest blacksmith shop in the capital.
“This smithy is near a slum. Please take care of yourself.”
“Slum?”
“Yes.”
“Well, if the scale is this big, it must be about the size of a slum.”
When I first heard that there was a slum, I didn’t think much of it, but as I got closer to the smithy, a very disgusting smell started to flow, and everyone frowned.
“Kuh….”
“What is this smell….”
“That… Well, slum cleaners don’t go. However, slum people are not good enough to clean up the filth on the streets.”
“What? Street filth?”
“Yes. Well, they don’t want to have filth piled up in their houses, so when it builds up, they just throw it on the street.”
“What, such crazy.”
It was a difficult story to imagine in the Kingdom of Viend, where waste disposal facilities were excellently prepared.
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Even Chester was like that. There might have been filth in the streets in any town of any size, but none was as poor as the one Chester lived in.
No other reason. Because there were few people, there was not so much filth.
In addition, all the places that Monia went to are big cities where waste disposal facilities are standard. That’s why Chester wasn’t used to having filth lying around in the streets, or even just scattering filth on the streets rather than disposing of it.
“So you have to be careful. Sometimes there are knights or guards patrolling the slums, but the nasty slum residents target them when they patrol and throw filth over them.”
“… ….”
“… ….”
That was something I really didn’t want to hear.
“My master is especially often targeted. For a beautiful woman, life is sometimes easy, but sometimes it is difficult.”
“Hmm. That’s it, yeah there. Is not it?”
“Sure. That’s right. Well.”
I was at a loss for words.
While Chester and Monia were without horses, the carriage arrived at the smithy moving steadily.