episode_0554

There is quite a distance from the Island of Knowledge to the Northeastern Plains.

If the Zodiac is the center of the Empire, then the Isle of Knowledge is slightly to the west, and the Bavarian settlements in the northeast and the County of Dorkreif are at the very edge of the Empire.

It took a full day by carriage from the Isle of Knowledge to the Blackwood Duchy. To the northeastern plains, which were slightly further away, it would take at least two days, and considering the large number of people moving together, it would take at least three days.

-Tap, tap.

‘Agnes~! I lit it~!’

“Thank you, Infernosilia.”

‘Eeeeek!!’

Agnes and her spirit returned after lighting a bonfire at the camps of the Auguste siblings, the warrior party, the royal family, and the mercenaries.

Since there were a lot of people, Agnes’s power to use fire magic was very useful. Even if you just have fire spirits and water spirits, 80% of the problems you encounter while camping can be solved.

It’s already been about four years since the day I gave Agnes the Inferno, but I’m glad to see that she’s still doing well.

“Release, are you feeling uneasy?”

“… Please, Agnes.”

“Why? You have a fire spirit too. And a high-ranking spirit.”

“… … .”

“… What the heck, is the contract over?”

“It’s not over yet. We’re just taking our time for now.”

As soon as he mentioned that he had become awkward with Sally because of the distance between them, Agnes’ expressionless face suddenly changed into a frown.

“Really? So there’s no spirit now?”

“… That’s what I mean.”

“Then there’s nothing we can do. Infernosilia, light our bonfire.”

‘I got it~!’

Looking at how he himself knows how to use fire magic, asking the spirit to light it for him in an inefficient way, his intentions were truly impure.

There was a time when he had poor spirit perception and needed help from me, but now he’s just being arrogant because we’re on better terms.

… It was a moment when the original purpose of somehow reconciling and reconciling became even stronger.

“Let’s prepare dinner, Miss Agnes.”

“Seraphine said she’d have her servants bring it to me. She said it wouldn’t be a problem if there were a few more servings.”

“But I feel bad about wasting the food ingredients I brought. If there are any left, I can share them with the tents of the Auguste family or the warrior party.”

“Come to think of it, why doesn’t Agnes Youngae go back to the warrior party camp? Did she sleep well in Lilith’s tent?”

“… I’ll go back when I’m sleeping. They’re always tired whenever we meet these days, so I don’t want to get involved. ”

“Well, what do you think? Eating together is better. Oh, Isabelle. Could you bring me some cabbage and carrots from the carriage?”

“Ah, yeah!”

Since Seraphine said she’d prepare the main dish, let’s just make a simple appetizer like soup.

After living in hiding for about three months, I was able to cook a lot of different dishes. Aunt Poppo from Strawberry Town taught me a lot about home cooking.

… I would like to go there again if I get the chance. But I don’t think Ethan’s feelings will be very good if I mention what happened back then, so I just keep it to myself.

“Mom, me too~! I want to be Iris too~!”

“It’s dangerous, don’t come into the kitchen, Iris.”

“Me too, me too I’ll cook~!”

“… Agnes, could you look after Iris for a moment?”

“Do you know what kind of nanny I am?… Eris, come here for a moment.”

Agnes, who was grumbling, took Iris to a place away from the kitchen. No matter what, she said she would listen to requests.

In the meantime, I was cooking vegetables that I had cut up in the small kitchen with Isabel. Occasionally, I would check on Agnes and Iris to see how they were doing.

It was Eris who found it quite strange that she was using such a payment method even though she was a child, and at some point, her gaze was fixed on Agnes’ fire magic.

-Whoosh.

“… If you hold the flame on your finger here with your hand, it will look like this.”

-Hwaruk.

“Wow, Agunas is cool! He looks like a prince!”

“Yeah.… But in times like this, you should call her princess, not prince.”

“No~! Only women can be princesses~! Agyunas should be a prince~!”

“… … What?”

“Agyunas doesn’t have a t-shirt~! Mom told Iris that t-shirts are only for women!”

“This, this little kid… .”

“… You shouldn’t be getting angry at a child who isn’t even two years old, right, Miss Agnes?”

“… … I’ve never been so excited.”

… Seeing that you don’t get angry or upset even after hearing those words, I guess you know how to be discriminating when dealing with kids.

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The afternoon of the third day of traveling by carriage.

“… I’ll get off here. See you later, Lilith. ”

“Yes, Miss Agnes.”

“Goodbye, Agnes Youngae.”

I saw Agnes off at the fork in the road that split into two.

From here, the left fork leads to the Bavarian residential area, and the right leads to the Dorkreif County.

The warrior party with the royal family should naturally move to the county territory since they came here, and I have business with the Sky Oriole that Lilia mentioned, so I should naturally move to the barbarian residence.

“Aguñas~!Papa~!”

“… Yeah.”

Agnes joins the warrior party with a faint smile, as if to say that she cannot pronounce her own name properly until the very end.

After parting ways like that, we walked along the fork in the road for another couple of hours, and then we heard Lilia’s excited voice coming from ahead.

“Here we go, Senior Release!”

I heard her voice calling my name and got out of the carriage with my luggage. In the Bavarian village, there are separate paths for horses and for people.

After leaving the carriage to Isabel and Lyria, she followed the Auguste siblings into the Bavarian village.

‘… I heard it vaguely from Iria last time, but even so, it must have been a bit exaggerated.’

It will take some time until they become fully civilized, so perhaps they will just escape the hut life and build several log cabins.

The moment I entered the village, thinking that it would be nice if the wind could keep out of the house since it was winter, what appeared before my eyes was a sight completely different from what I had expected.

“Uh, uh, uh, uh… ?”

“… They said it was a Barbarian, but it’s much more advanced than I expected.”

“That, it doesn’t seem to be at a developed level, Ethan…? It seems to be at the level of a small city… .”

First of all, it was hard to find even a log cabin, let alone a hut. Most of the houses were two- or three-story buildings made of baked bricks.

The ground looked like just a dirt road, but upon closer inspection, it was cut straight and hardened to give it a texture like asphalt, and water pipes were installed around the river that led to various parts of the village.

For your information, in this world, water supply is a facility that is only available in cities. Even in small cities, they still have to draw water from wells, let alone water supply.

‘At this point, it seems like it’s almost at the level of Iron Horde… .’

The fact that there is a totem temple instead of a church, which is common in villages of any size; the fact that their clothing is somewhat revealing even in winter; and the fact that they are a tribe with no concept of private space, so they have no fences – these are all remnants of the Bavarian tribe.

It felt like only the people living in a well-developed small city had been turned into barbarians, so Lizzy, who had been watching Edan and me with bewildered gazes, put on a confident expression.

“When I first came here, I was a little confused. I thought it wouldn’t be a very civilized village since they said they’d bring my idiot little brother here, but at that time, this village was truly wild.

When I found out that there were no walls in the bathroom, I thought I would go crazy because I had to do it every morning. ”

“… That’s the general perception of the Barbarian tribes.”

“But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t stand the thought that Karaham might have to live in a place like this.

Even though my younger brother is a bit stupid, if I left him in the middle of the wild, he would lose all the knowledge and culture he had learned from the Auguste family for 20 years. That’s why I did a little bit of work behind the scenes. ”

“What kind of numbers did you use to get this… .”

“First, let’s start with Lilia’s house. Since Olke was the daughter of the village chief, she lived in the center of the Barbarian settlement. The boss, who seemed strict on the outside, was secretly paying attention to Olke’s opinion. Lilia tended to accept almost everything Karaham said, and Karaham did everything I told her without saying a word, so it was easy to get started.”

From then on, it was the beginning of Lizzy’s Bavarian redevelopment operation, which was almost like a heroic tale.

“First, we started by rebuilding the house of the village chief and Olke in the center of the village into a three-story brick house. If we built the building in a place where it would be most visible, it would immediately attract the attention of other Bavarian tribes.

Rather than simply building tall buildings, I focused on incorporating civilization into as many areas as possible, such as water supply facilities, heating and cooling facilities, food storage, and laundry tools. I had to introduce civilization to other Barbarian tribes, centering around this house. ”

In the process, there was some friction with the bosses, but as they gradually showed the benefits of civilization, they came to tacitly acknowledge the magical tools that Saeriji was bringing in, and later, in the center of the village where Karaham and Lilia lived, a three-story building that was completely different from the surrounding scenery was built.

“From then on, whenever there was a small meeting or tribal event, I focused on inviting as many people as possible to my house. By doing so, I was showing the benefits of civilization to the entire tribe.

Then, I would trade with other tribesmen who showed interest, selling them magic tools or renovating their houses. Still, since they were barbarians, they were good at finding wild monster materials. It wasn’t a bad deal. ”

… To summarize, it means that the village chief’s house was made into a model house and promoted to the entire tribe.

Considering that we are using business methods that would come out hundreds of years later, it is clear that this was a difficult time.