Chapter 11 (1/2)

TL : Cnine

ED/PF : akshaythedon

Holy Republic Lenaria is one of the biggest states amongst the other big states in this world.

It has several satellite cities with the population of Lenaria city alone being around 200 thousands.

In the first place, that count is only when one were speaking about the people who own citizenship. That number will increase further on adding people who don’t possess citizenship.

Holy republic Lenaria is a country without kingship lineage, as its name stated, and is a country that is ruled by a council elected once every four years.

The council seems to be elected, but it’s different from how a general republic does. The temple of Lena chooses the council from amongst the people who have received referrals from the ones who have certain number of citizens’ votes.

Even so, temple of Rena possesses the right of veto against the council and the gathering of human organizations of people with citizenship.

In short, the political power of this country is completely under the control of the temple of Rena. Naturally, this country’s supreme ruler is also the temple of Rena.

The temple of Rena in this Holy Republic Lenaria is the greatest holy land of the believers of goddess Rena and the place where her believers from all around the world come to pay homage to her in the temple.

Since it’s a rich country, there are many people who visit other than for the temple of goddess Rena.

And I come to this country as one of its visitors.

「What are you going to do after this, Diehart-sama？」

Nut gets on my shoulder and queries me with the aforementioned question.

「Uhm, now that you asked that… Let’s look for a base for now」

Saying so, I walk toward the city outside the rampart.

When the city is very large, there are things that you can do outside the city.

Since the outside city also has another rampart.

If it’s the outside city, I can enter it as I please without even the need to show the citizenship for the sake of entering the country.

If by normal standards, it’s dangerous to stay outside at night.

But, people who don’t possess citizenship anywhere can do nothing but stay in the outside city, since they have no other place to go.

The one who stays in the outside city is usually people of the ruined country or a criminal who’s chased by a country.

That’s why the public order is really bad.

Honestly speaking, it’s the job of the knights to protect the public order outside the rampart.

Inside of the rampart is protected by the palace guards and vigilante corps, while the knights are protecting the safety of the people who go to the highway outside the rampart.

Since wild demons frequently appear in the highway, if they don’t periodically exterminate them, the people who use that highway will die.

They must fight the demons in an area that is even bigger than the city. That’s why they’re mounting a horse, and must be someone who is skilled enough to work as a knight.

Since the country will be troubled if someone with that kind of ability rebels against the country, a knight must have loyalty toward their country and their king.

However, in the end, a knight is just someone who protects the city to which they’re tied to by treaty or birth(hometown).

The knights won’t protect someone who doesn’t have citizenship.

That’s why the knights won’t do anything at all even if humans killed each other in the outside city.

On the contrary, if someone without citizenship harmed someone with citizenship, the knights will kill the one without citizenship.

If it’s from the knight perspective, people of the outer city are no different from wild demons.

But then, why are the knights not driving away people from the outer city?

That’s because, according to the knights, even the people who disturbed public order were lucrative existences as cheap labor for the merchants.

The manpower, far cheaper than the normal citizen, is contributing to the development of the city.

For that reason, the knights allow people without citizenship to exist in the outer city. But, it’s the story as long as they don’t harm the citizens.

Someone who looks like a bad person just passed by me.

「Where are we right now？」Nut, who moved to my bosom pocket, is asking me.

「I’m going to search for an inn if possible, but… It seems that even a decent inn is quite rare in the outer city」

If going by location and security, the inn inside the rampart may be the best one right.

But, I can’t lodge in the inn when I am already having a hard time entering the rampart without citizenship.

I can enter the rampart in secret, but I might be suspected by the people in the inn.

It will be for the best if I possessed the ability to use magic to manipulate one’s will, but I don’t have such ability.

That’s why, I’m looking for a place at which I can stay sometime in the outer city.

I’m walking around the outer city.

The puddles of water due to yesterday’s rain made my shoes dirty everytime I took a step.

「… It seems better than the outer city of the one from which we came before」

I mutter to myself while looking at my surrounding.

Of the cities that I came upon, this is the third outer city.

The public order of the two before this one was really bad.

At any rate, the corpses of humans scattering around everywhere, is just everyday occurrence.

It was the first time for me to see the body of a murdered human.

But, I felt it is slightly unpleasant due to that sight and nothing more.

I think it would have caused an uproar if it were in my world.

Maybe it was a side effect applied to my mindset when I got summoned to this world.

I didn’t get scared even when I was surrounded by the demons during my summoning.

Rather, Reiji and Shirone’s side is even scarier than them.

Maybe it’s the same case for Shirone’s.

Since it seems that Reiji and Shirone have defeated many demons.

Don’t they feel scared?

I discover a place that looks like an inn as I saunter around while pondering about such things.

But, I just passed by it.

The reason is because I’m penniless.

So, the first thing I should do is to look for a place to endure wind and rain.

My feet ended up bringing me to a slightly separated place from outer city.

「God damn it… What… should I do now…」

I couldn’t get any better ideas no matter how much I look for it.

It won’t pop up even when I drink some liquor.

I feel a bit unwell.

So, I enter a place with lesser people to vomit for a while.

「Oi Dozumi！！ 」

A voice calls me from behind, while I’m vomiting.

Dozumi, that is my name.

Not my real name. Since my face look like a rat[Dobunezumi], they just abbreviated it into “Dozumi” to call me.

When I turn around, there are five people standing behind me with a towering high bald man at their center.

I was familiar with their faces.

They are my fellow comrades of a band of freedom fighters to which I used to belong.

Seeing the people that I didn’t want to see awakened me from intoxication.

I belong to the soldier battalion which exists in the outer city of Holy Republic Lenaria.

Even if I say that it’s a troop, it’s nothing but just a gathering of hoodlums.

Different from the knights, it was an organization solely existing to exterminate wild demons which aren’t under the control of the city.

But, we never did something like exterminating the wild demons.

Our opponents are the same humans as us.

We’re a gathering of ignoble guys who get our daily meal by snatching it from the weak ones. That is the organization to which I belong.

I joined it because one can’t live without being a part of any organization to stay alive in this outer city.

That’s why I never complain even if the organization to which I belong is like shit.

But, I am crying because the soldier troop to which I am supposed to belong to is trying to kill me.

「Isn’t this my leader… What can I do for you today？ 」