Chapter 15 (1/2)

The other world’s mayor has the smell of a heroic woman

Upon observation, Erishe city does certainly appear to be making various kinds of preparations for the festival.

The street trees were being decorated with cloths of various colours; red, blue, green and white. The other citizens could be seen setting up the stalls and a.s.sembling something that looks similar to a turret.

Since there are still more than 10 days, I could tell that they are doing it at a leisurely pace.

…….Is it another world’s festival? I wonder if I would make a profit if I set up a stall.

The horse was left at the entrance of the town and as we walked, I started discussing with Rebecca on the things that we should do.

For the time being we decided to go to the slave trading house to confirm if Jephthah-s.h.i.+ is genuinely from the Solo’s household. We went on full a.s.sault in the information gathering about the mayor and started discussing on what would be the best gift.

At the same time, I conveyed to Rebecca-san directly on my newly obtained “guidance”.

I have already achieved two guidance in just two days in a row so the fact that I have obtained new ones surprised her. However, in the end, “Since you have 8 vocations as well, you must be really loved by Le Baraka, Jirou.” said Rebecca, seemingly convinced by it.

I tried asking Rebecca-san about the “???” but somehow she doesn’t know anything about it either.

From the guidance list, both “Try going to the mayor’s house” and “Fulfil the promise with the Imperial Trader” are also unmistakably related to this match. I was really surprised by it but the thought, “If even the Great Spirit are blessing me with these guidance then it should be fine to ride along with the story” came across me and I suddenly started feeling optimistic.

I was initially wondering if the Great Spirit was overestimating my ability but this could be natural in this world. I’m not really sure about it………….

Incidentally, I was having a doubt if we could have a choice of “not going along with the guidance” so I tried asking.

According to Rebecca-san, a portion of eccentric people who did not follow the guidance (well doing something totally opposite) suddenly couldn’t see their vocation board anymore possibly since it is an act against the spirit’s principle…..well there seems to be various reasons.

In other foreign countries, rather than believing in the spirit, there are also those who believed that the Fire G.o.d or the G.o.ddess of Faith will make the country stronger. Those countries apparently did not seem to receive the blessings of the Great Spirit (Le Baraka). How do I put it, there appears to be quite a number of deity beings in this other world.

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The whole afternoon was spent investigating and information gathering and I was guided around the city while in the night, I was repeatedly asked to return to Sh.e.l.lo-san’s place to stay. Without realizing it, three days has elapsed.

For now, what I understand was—-

Based on what the workers at the slave trading house said, Jephthah-s.h.i.+ is indeed a genuine person from the Solo household. He doesn’t seem to bring along his attendants most of the time.

Rebecca-san who boldly went in the slave trading house was really manly.

I waited outside for her.

The mayor, Milkpearl-san is a 50 year old woman. She has a daughter who is currently studying in the Imperial City. Her husband is supposed to be staying with her but they are not seen in a place together much.

The guidance “Try going to the mayor’s house” has yet to be achieved, although we have already investigated the location of her house.

Milkpearl-san is quite a workaholic but not much private information about her was obtained. It’ll be good if only we could find out her hobby or her favourite food.

She is able to handle her work considerably well and she is highly popular among the citizens. When Milkpearl-san first a.s.sumed the position as mayor, apparently Erishe city is not really a big city yet but now the scale is almost on par with the first free city, Marishera. Before she took over, rampant corruption and bribery run throughout the city. It was quite a corrupted place at that time but it appears that she managed to clean the place up.

I see. So that is the reason why gifting strategy will usually not work on her.

Apparently Solo household does the trading in the Imperial City on an extensive scale but since Erishe is still considered as an almost undeveloped area in the vicinity, they mainly just sell slaves as wholesale to Erishe.

Jephthah-s.h.i.+ is the third guy from the Solo household, currently supporting the first son of the Marishera’s branch as he works as a merchant apprentice. In other words, despite how that guy looks like, he is actually just a merchant novice as well.

He must have been just playing around when he was young, I concluded it arbitrarily in my head.

Rebecca-san’s information gathering ability is amazing. She seemed to be familiar with everyone and was able to strike up any conversation easily. I wonder if it is because she was a former mercenary. Come to think of it, I have not heard of her vocation but could it be in her lineage?

We heard of the jewels’ value in the shop after they were examined but it appears that this world is not able to produce the same degree of jewels like Earth.

It was not the problem on the quant.i.ty but there were only very few kinds around. As subst.i.tute, they have processed gems similar to spirit stones. Then if I were to bring all the jewels from j.a.pan, they might sell really well, or so I thought but it wouldn’t be so simple.

First of all, they will usually create the spirit stone’s mould before processing the jewel here but there is a crucial difference with the jewel from earth. This stone consist of a ma.s.s spirit’s force. The spirit stone’s source is, a “magic item” that can be enchanted by the spirit’s magic. At the same time, it can also be processed into an accessory to be equipped too. Spirit stones are just too almighty.

For the sake of gathering information, we went to the bar, inn, guild, city hall and travelled around various other places so I am quite well-versed with the geography of the city now.

On the south side of Erishe is a harbour, the point of contact to trade goods with the other countries. I had thought the sea in this world is similar to the one on earth but somehow the waves here are not too strong, they were just moving back and forth and the surface was swaying unnaturally. It might be due to the two moons existing here.

I couldn’t smell any salt from the wind too. The sea water seemed to be fresh water.

Speaking of, I suddenly started wondering about the seafood here in this world. I had seen only meat and vegetables in all my meals yesterday and today but I haven’t even seen any fish yet. There could be a possibility that the ecosystem is different. It’s unfortunate since if there is such a fine harbour here then fis.h.i.+ng equipment might sell well here.

Outside the city on the opposite direction of Sh.e.l.lo-san’s house, if I go on further from there, I will reach the mining town, Rukuraera.

The domestically prominent mining area in country is Rukuraera mountain’s mine. From a refinement ground, it gradually developed into a place that is no longer an exaggeration to be called a small town now.

Moreover, there are two dungeons in the immediate vicinity. For the sake of exploration, the weapons and armours are in demand too so as a result, the place became a major industrial town due to the mining, refinement and production at the same time.

When I first came to Erishe, the group of dwarfs that I saw must be the people from there.

Anyway, they are running production, mining and refinement all at the same place so wouldn’t it possibly be causing environmental pollution? I a.s.sumed they would not be taking counter measures for that I guess……

However, a mining town or dungeon does tickle a man’s feeling so I wish to have the opportunity to go there once. I am interested to see what they have to sell there such as weapons or armours…….. After watching the gold from this world or the dagger from Sh.e.l.lo-san’s house, I can conclude that the metal refinement technology seems considerably high. I’m highly expecting it.

I haven’t come across a luxurious weapon shop in Erishe yet so it’s really interesting……..or rather, I can’t find a shop that sells a good weapon yet. The place where I sold my knife to doesn’t seem to have a good one. Ma.s.s producing swords seems more like their main thing.

All right! It’s not a bad result if we can gather these much information in just 3 days.

Although, we have yet to obtain any information that is essential for the match. I haven’t even thought of the gift yet.

Well, anyway there is still the guidance for tomorrow, let’s try going to the mayor’s house.

The next day, Rebecca-san and I visited the mayor’s house.

It is a splendid looking two-storey building in its own way. I wonder how should I describe this house. It looks like those types in the old European town usually seen on the TV program.

A solid wooden door, built in windows and slate roof.

Truly this house is nice. I admire it. I might want one as a second house.