Chapter 12 (2/2)

“He is a wanderer. Someone from the Rahsa race just like you. He said to be from the warring tribe of Rahan.”

“This guy seems like it might be good.”

The Rahsa race was a warrior society of brown-skinned people that lived at the western desert. They were tall and strong. Most of the reason why Bela had the strength to be able to swing her war hammer around was due to her being of the Rahsa race.

“But what do you mean by telling me you are going to introduce him?”

“It seems that that guy used to be a machiini pilot. He has been fighting on the colosseum because he desired a new machiini.”

“…I see. It seems that he has a lot of confidence in his strength.”

In other words, Marfoi selected someone that had difficult conditions to be met to Bela, who could fulfill them. He was definitely strong in fighting with his own flesh body, so his strength shouldn´t be limited to piloting machiinis. Not to say about the present situation, there should be only few machiinis for sale currently. There would be few people that would gamble on him without knowing of his strength, and for how the n.o.bility, who could do so even then, would not take notice of him meant that his matter in question was really unfavorable to deal with.

“”But will that man end up being a “bad draw” for me?””(TL note: Couldn´t think of a better way to translate -.- It would be that kind of like that thing about j.a.panese popsicles that either “win” or “miss” is written on the stick, and you get some kind of bonus if you “win”. I dunno another way to explain that so google it because Im too lazy ‘ 3’)

In any case, it wasn´t like she was signing a contract for something. Bela decided she should first check him out.

“I will go meet him. But, I have a place I need to go today. Is it fine if it is tomorrow or some other day?”

Marfoi nodded with a smile to Bela´s words.

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“I see, so at last you are heading to the Mona region.”

Right after Bela left the building of Marfoi´s Vagahte company, she went to the office of the Benmark company to meet with Kooza.

“Well, we aren´t going there right away. Besides, how is it with the machiini I left to you?”

Kooza smiled in response to Bela.

“Yes, it is a very well built machiini that is not seen around that often. As to be expected of the method knight group for raising machiinis. They bring up their machiinis without letting them pick up bad habits.”

The machiini Bela got from the bandit group used to be from the knight group of the kingdom of Paroma. The machiinis of organizations that knew how to bring up their machiinis surpa.s.sed the strength of the machiinis brought up by average mercenaries and bandit groups in the essentials.

“I believe I can come up with an adequate sum of money in case you are willing to sell it to us.”

“I´ve been thinking about it. But you see, I got a new appointment for that here so I will be giving up on that.”

Bela said to Kooza.

There was also that about the gladiator Marfoi recommended to her, but most of what Bela was pondering over was about that time at that battle last time when she was surrounded, going one on three by herself.

“”It was really good that I got to get one of them at the beginning. If it wasn´t for that, maybe the fight would have been a bit tough.””

Bela believed that situation hadn´t been one she could have been optimistic about. In the end, the things she could do by herself were limited. She had Borudo´s gnome, but when compared to a machiini, it was really inferior. And so, she was considering increasing her amount of allies.

“Only the c.o.c.kpit and the hatch at the chest were destroyed. I guess this is only expected with your skill. I will call a magician that has a contract with me for subduing the dragon heart stone, so it should go well one way or another.”

“So, how is it going at the bandit hideout?”

“I have already sent the scavengers there. If the place isn´t sniffed by others, they should be able to recover the materials.”

The ones that were hired by people to collect leftover materials after battles were the groups that went by the name of scavengers. Although they would be carrying cargo around, they were a group that owned machiinis. By Kooza´s directions, they headed out to collect the carca.s.ses of the bandit´s machiinis that Bela left at the place.

Although those machiinis wouldn´t move because they didn´t have a dragon heart stone anymore, they could still make up for a considerable fortune just by its raw materials, and those could become a foundation for new-born machiinis.

To begin with, because some amount of time had already pa.s.sed, it was possible that someone would come to know of the destruction of the group and would go rummage through the remnants of the machiinis. Because Bela paid money for that, if the scavengers were not able to recover the materials, it would become a minus that she had hired Kooza´s scavengers. But even so, she already brought with her the more valuable things, and besides, Machiini carca.s.ses were all in all goods that were difficult to carry along without using machiinis. To begin with, it was because the hideout of a bandit group wouldn´t be something that would be found out about immediately that those bandits were able to survive until the time Bela and Borudo came.

“Well, I will be heading to the Mona region when the scavengers come back. I will be counting on you for the maintenance of the machiinis.”

Kooza answered those words by saying “please, count on me”.

For the present, Bela would be seeing the gladiator tomorrow. But whether he was worth for or not… that was that problem.

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