Chapter 13 (1/2)
We got 2 new friends joining the Pirates of the Round Table.
The first one is a vampire knight. Adelhide Bernstein.
She is a True Vampire.
She could fly in the sky like a vampire, compress mana, throw it like a lance, and change it's shape into a sword to fight. It's more like a skill. Although she had little magical talent, it seemed that she had great perception ability.
She had silver hair and golden eyes. Her style is great, and her breast are relatively large. Her slender legs are attractive. Her skin didn't look like vampire's, she looked like any ordinary people under the sunlight. She is indeed a beauty.
The other one is Claudia Fyura, who fell in love with my idiot sofa and the other furniture in the 『Room』. I think she took interest in me. It's scary to imagine that she might dissect me for the sake of it.
(TL: previously, I translate dame sofa as sofa. I think that this sofa will be a recurring villain who strips people from their productivity, so I will start translate it as idiot sofa. The softness turns people into idiots)
She is good at using magic with tags.
When I asked her about it, she put a note with a pattern on the ground and a small earth golem emerged from the ground. She said that the golem can change depending on the material.
She could make a lot of small sized golems, but only a few person-sized golems. It seemed that the ability was limited by mana.
Instead, she could make 50 smaller ones.
Her power seemed to be useful for human-wave tactics.
Regarding other magic, she can use every common magic except light and dark attribute.
Her 【Water Magic】 can heal but not as much as my 【Healing Magic】, but it can recover to some extent.
It's nice to have a healer with ability to summon golems in the group.
She was also familiar with magic artifact, so I'll ask her to identify them if I managed to procure one.
She had blond hair and regular sized chest. When she looked beautiful when she was calm, but her image was ruined by the idiot sofa which brought the ugliness in her heart. But overall, she's a friendly person.
We couldn't force the other slaves to join us. There were also small children, so we can't invite them aggressively.
They didn't seem to be from the Kingdom so I'll ask the guards in the Satellite City near here. And let's hand over these slave s.h.i.+p as well.
The idea of slavery isn't really that bad, but there are a lot of cases where orphans are kidnapped and turned into slaves. It was illegal in many countries.
The only exception is the Empire.
(The slaves themselves are not bad. People sell themselves to support their family. Besides, criminal slaves are also a form of punishment)
Families who are too poor and can't live without selling themselves are common in ancient j.a.pan. If slavery was forbidden, the entire family will starve to death or worked to the bone with low wages.
I'd rather be a slave. At least I have something to eat.
There are a few people who thinks like that.
The issue also leads to employment problems. There will be an influx of cheap workers.
In modern times, there are many companies who worked their employees 24 hours 365 days with low wages and no holiday breaks.
As a result, there were some cases where simple slavery would be better.
***
We changed our route to satellite city Schutzwald at once. To help the slaves and turn in the slave s.h.i.+p crews. And since our food stock were dwindling at amazing pace, I wanted to refill it before we arrived to the Kingdom.
On the other hand, what do I do until we arrive?………studying.
「Well then Masaki-dono, let's start the test」
「Please do」
「Let's begin the first test. Good luck, Masaki」
「Don't say it while sinking in the idiot sofa……」
Claudia is giving me a test while enjoying herself on the sofa. She had coffee on one hand.
It's my first test in years. The school days are so far away, in term of years and dimensions.
The reason why I studied is simple. I never buy anything in this world yet.
I never had the chance.
Being summoned to another world, sent into a prison, arranging a prison break.
Destroying war vessels and became a leader of pirates.
Party hard and capturing a random slave s.h.i.+p.
And now, returning former slaves and turning in slave s.h.i.+p crews.
In other words, I need to be able to read and write in the city.
Initially, I was thinking about asking the pirates to teach me but they are useless.
Roxas can barely read numbers. He said that he remembered everything in order to not getting scammed when trading.
But now we have Claudia and Adelle. Even though they were one of demon-kin, both of them had education because they're acting as a scholar and a knight.
(TL: someone help pls... 魔が付くが学者という事や騎士っぽい振る舞いをしているから教養があると思い頼んでみたのだ。)
Both of them happily gave me an OK.
Education is power.
Students need to study hard.
But remember to play.
As a GM I just want to say that you need to study hard and play harder.
This world's character is similar to katakana so it's hard to see but relatively easy to remember.
With this I do not understand Cyrillic letters or translations If it is a stylist it should be a lot hard to memorize.
(TL: I'm at loss with this one. これでキリル文字とか訳が分からん文体だったら覚えるのに相当苦労するはず。)
The numbers were Roman numerals. It was easy so I didn't have any trouble about it since the first day.
At first, I had trouble with the complicated letters and get a lot of wrong answers, this went on for days, and it ends today on the graduation exam.
「………Yosh, I finished reviewing. Please grade it」
The listening test is over, I handed the thin wooden board that subst.i.tute exam paper to Adelle.
Adelle couldn't stop staring at the board as she received it.
Next to her, Claudia fell from to the sofa.
Her coffee was spilt.
Oy don't waste the coffee!
「……It's perfect score. It's amazing, Masaki-dono. Have you been educated somewhere?」
(TL: She was asking if Masaki was ever gone some kind of education somewhere, but I was struggling to form the question in English)
「In my previous world, my country gave aids for education so every children can read and write. The numbers are same so I don't have any trouble with it. The letter were also similar to the ones in the previous world so if I can understand them if I put some effort」
Then I proceed to tell them that I was summoned from another world.
I was the leader of these pirates and I don't want to keep my past as a secret among them. But my abilities were a different matter.
I haven't told anyone about 【Invicibility】 yet. It's too dangerous to disclose this information.
「I-I see… So that's why you can get perfect score on the numerical test」
Claudia managed to rise from the sofa.
Has the sofa prison's effect weakened?
「Is this enough to shop around the city?」
「It should be alright. This is enough to be employed as a staff in the castle. Your writing is beautiful and easy to read」
The literacy rate of the people in this world is low. People like Roxas, farmers, and general public couldn't even read and write letters.
Although there are educational facilities to study, they are expensive so only n.o.bles and aristocrats can afford them.
On the other hand, I was taught by the beautiful Adelle-sensei for free.
「The writings should be beautiful. Writing speed is important but it's useless if no one can read it」
「I heard the same thing from civil workers. Even if it's not an important doc.u.ment, you should write it as beautiful as possible」
It seems that this world is quite similar. In my workplace, there was a guy who placed too much importance on speed and we were overwhelmed by unreadable doc.u.ments.
No one can decipher his ”encryption”, that includes colleagues and seniors.
I savor a cookie after the test.
The two women enjoyed their cookie in relaxed manner.
Using a culinary skill 【Taste Essence】, I can make a very delicious meal. This tastes great. However, if I do this too many times I would get stuck in the kitchen, so I only applied it to simple dishes.
We were having an elegant break time in the 『Room』 when someone shouts from the outside.