Chapter 451: To Toka Village (2/2)

“Please.”

The juice she distributed to everyone had bubbles on its surface. The glass was made out of crystal and so it was easy to spot.

“M-Mr. Jin, this is…”

Lithia gave a doubtful look at the juice as it was her first time seeing it.

“Ah, it’s a carbonated drink.”

As their time as officials had ended, Jin shifted to his usual tone.

“Eh? Carbonated?”

“Yeah. It’s pretty good.”

Jin drank all of his juice at once in front of Lithia.

Jin, who had created a magic tool to suck out the helium from the air, was also easily able to take out the carbon dioxide from the air. Due to this, lowly carbonated drinks had been going around at Kaina Village for about a week now.

He had it made low carbonated such that the villagers don’t choke on it as they are not used to carbonated drinks. There were two flavors, citran and lemon.

It was being sold at the Nidou castle and at the hot springs. It was reasonably cheap at only 3 toll per cup (30 yen).

Currently, the butlers were making and selling it. However, once everyone’s used to it, he plans on hiring a few villagers to do it for him.

Putting that aside, as Elsa, Saki and Berthie also drank it with pleasure, Lithia finally timidly took a sip.

“…eh?”

She felt a popping sensation in her mouth. Citran’s acidity and sweetness mixed to make the drink very nice and pleasant to drink.

“Delicious…!”

And before she realized it, she had emptied her glass.

“Mr. Jin, this is delicious!”

“Glad to hear that.”

“These are what one would call specialty, huh…?”

She muttered heartily.

The next day, 17th of July.

Jin and the others departed for Toka village as planned.

Jin and Reiko, Elsa and Edgar, Saki and Ehr, Berthie and Neon, and Lithia. All of them were on golem horses.

The distance between Kaina village and Toka village is about 80 kilometres. Although the road is a bit rough, 3-4 hours is enough to reach there for a golem horse.

As such, the group was able to reach Toka village before noon.

“Mr. Jin, welcome!”

Gloria came to welcome them. She had stayed in Toka village for most of July and was to assist Lithia with her work.

“A-about the sword… is it done?!”

Before Lithia could even call out to her, Gloria asked Jin about the sword and even fumbled on her own words.

“Yes, it’s done. More importantly, Ms. Gloria, is it alright for you to not attend to Lithia?”

“Ah…”

She rushed over to Lithia’s horse and held the grips. Lithia gave a bitter smile and got off, leaving the horse to Gloria.

“Well then, let’s all have lunch first.”

Lithia invited the group over to the temporary landlord’s mansion which was beside the barracks. The villagers were looking at them from a distance.

“Ah, from that time…” some of the villagers seemed to recall Jin as they were having such a conversation amongst them. However, nobody there realized that Jin was Kaina Village’s landlord.

“U-um, I’m sorry.”

They could hear that conversation, making Lithia alone feel extremely embarrassed.

They all entered the landlord’s mansion and Lithia was finally relieved. After taking the horses to the stable, Gloria returned and received the sword from Jin and paid 25 gold coins for it. After which, she excitedly went outside.

“She’ll probably be vice commander forever if that isn’t fixed” — Lithia and Jin both thought.

“Well then, I’ll prepare lunch.”

She signaled to one of the servants and 3 villagers came in with the food.

Among the food, there was something Jin hadn’t seen for a while.

“…this is…”

The food on the plate was, no matter how you looked at it, pasta.