Chapter 328 Lishia — Close to Kaina Village (2/2)

“Water jet, eh? ……… Haven’t heard of it.”

Pascaud was slowly starting to realize that Jin wasn’t just one of your usual magi craftsman.

There was some time left before it got dark so Lishia decided on doing a little sightseeing on her own. And she found a crowd in front of a certain shop.

Curious as to what it was about, she listened in for a while and found out that it was a quarrel about the salt price being too high.

“……That’s weird, there should be more than enough salt stored from what I have heard.”

As a member of the relief knight squad, there are times when she needs to do health management of the soldiers. At such a time, she got to know of the seriousness of deficiency of salt in soldiers and had checked with the inventory control about the reserve.

This year, Kurain kingdom should have more than enough salt in reserve.

“I wonder if someone is buying the goods unreasonably.”

However, no matter how much she thought about it, there was no reason to buy up all the salt around this area. Salt was circulating normally around here and even if one were to buy all of it at once, they wouldn’t make much of a profit either.

It would rather make the citizens suffer. And it would only increase their complaints to the landlords and the country.

“Don’t tell me, that is their reason?”

Lishia thought but if she didn’t know the meaning behind it, it would be meaningless to keep wondering about it and so she cleared her head and went back to the inn.

The following day, the two departed early, hurried with the horses and reached Toka village just before sunset.

There was a lodging house for soldiers there. Lishia and Pascaud stayed there.

Before it got dark, Lishia gave the carrier pigeon some fodder and water.

“Ah, cute.”

Lishia said. It was because that day the two pigeons had gotten chubby.

“I wonder if it’s cold to them now.”

During winter, the birds expand their feathers and store air between them to keep them warm. The two pigeons had their feathers expanded just like that.

“I guess I will give them a bit more food.”

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Muttering that, Lishia gave the birds more than usual.

She then washed her hands and went for her food. Simple food for the soldier. To be honest, they weren’t delicious at all but as Lishia and Pascaud experienced the battlefield, they didn’t complain.

At that time, she heard something troubling from a soldier stationed nearby.

It seems this village was running short on salt, as well. Mysterious men and soldiers are buying all of it.

“Now that I think about it, I heard something similar in Doppa and Rakuno too,” said Pascaud.

Lishia didn’t hear anything like that but she could tell that Pascaud wasn’t lying.

“That’s weird…… I shall send a pigeon as soon as we get into Kaina village.”