Chapter 8 (1/2)

Chapter 8 of After a Different World Transition, I Founded a Nation in a Week

AN: Now, can I write speedy development?

I don't mind if the anxious eyes of the readers pop out too much.

The girl who came to call me is crying her eyes out. We headed to the girl's house as she requested.

I was convinced how serious the girl's situation is in as the villagers and the village chief know of the circ.u.mstances of the girl as they gather in the vicinity.

The girl's house only has two rooms, the bed is stacked straws covered in cloth.

While being supported by the girl’s father on the bed, the girl’s mother is spitting out a large amount of blood from her mouth and tries to relax her body.

She looks blood-drained and her eyelids were closed. I unintentionally thought that she had died.

「Mother, Mother! I, because of me!」

The girl hugs her mother’s hand to her chest and cries out to me.

Seeing the overflowing tears and trembling lips of the girl will not stop, I walked up to the girl's mother silently and pointed my right hand palm up.

「Item box, Elixir」

When I said that, a small white vial appears in my right hand. Although the vial is a gla.s.s bottle that is about ten centimeters, it has a considerable presence due to its fine decoration.

「Let her drink it.」

When I said that, the girl received the small bottle quickly from my hands. In front was the father of the girl that is taken away in astonishment.

While the girl is taking off the lid of the bottle to let her mother drink it, Eleanor comes diagonally behind me.

「Is it all right?」

Eleanor is asking about the elixir.

「How much remained?」

「Each of us has one and the two guild warehouses have 400 each, approximately 2000.」

「And the materials for production?」

「…  I am sorry. I an unable to grasp entirely.」

I listened to Eleanor’s reply and looked at the rest of the members in the doorway of the room.

「Well, there was no alchemist in this corps. It's okay. No problem.」

As I looked at Eleanor and told her that, she bowed once and get back.

「A, ano…. will this be able to save my mother…?」

When I looked back, the girl look up to me as she hold her mother's hand.

「If this medicine will not be able to help her, I'm sorry but I have no other means. She seems to be asleep, keep her warm and nurse her.」

As I said so, the girl wiped her tears with her hand and shook her head in the vertical direction.

「Y, yes… Thank you.」

「Don’t worry about it.」

I raised one hand and return an answer to the girl who gives her thanks. We get out of the girl's house.

There were many villagers outside who watched this anxiously.

However, I'm sure no one will be able to say ”Maybe it will be okay.”. We silently moved to the entrance of the village.

There were also figures of mercenaries who could not move yet at the entrance of the village, but I just turned to the village chief who came after us without minding it in particular.

「Then, let's return to the base for the time being. Moreover, we might come here again after a few days.」

「Are you going home already?」

The village chief raised his voice without hiding his surprise of my remark. It seems that he a.s.sumed that we were travelling so he thought that we're going to spend a night.

However, for me, were not in a situation where we can relax outside. We haven't got information about the surrounding area yet. Anyway, the village is just a short ride from Lagreat.

「Ah, I have some business to do.」

When I said so, the village chief nodded with regret.

「Is that so?… I do not intend to stall you. However, selling the mercenary group as criminal slaves will fetch a good amount of money. Excuse me, but could you tell me your name? Is your base the Misare Village? Or perhaps it is in the Galland Empire….」

The village chief looked over our clothes while asking such a thing.

It seems that law offenders can be sold as criminal slaves. A healthy man who can fight is in demand and seems to be sold for five pieces of gold. By the way, a debt slave has a usual price and a criminal slave has half the price and it seems that there is no problem treating them considerably bad.

I did not have the courage to go with the flow so I do not know the price of a beautiful woman slave.