38 Episode 37 Travel and Stores (1/2)

”Hello, I'm Gurtia, a D-rank adventurer and the leader of this escort. I'm good at spotting enemies, but I'm pretty weak in combat, even for a D-rank adventurer, so I'll be relying on you, Kaede, if we run into any monsters.

”I'm Kaede, leave it to me. I can spot a monster within a radius of about 20 meters, but beyond that it's tough. I also have an item box. And this is Catherine, a slave ......, I think.　She's a future mage, but she's basically useless as a guard. I'll provide more than two guards for you. I'm also capable of aerial reconnaissance.

By the way, Catherine has already completed one warding grimoire by today. You can already call yourself a wizard craftsman.

”I'm Catherine, please.

”Oh, you can fly, that's reassuring. There's not much danger along the way, so you probably won't need it, but I'll be there if you need me.

This is Wompe, your escort. I've heard that the item box is large. If you could pack as much as you can spare, it would shorten our journey.

Yes, we have plenty of room.

I wonder where he got that from.

Mr. Wompe had brought a covered wagon pulled by three horses at the front and a heavy wagon with a kind of cart at the back. Both the cart and the wagon were filled with weapons. I wondered if they were going to use this many weapons. It's a fortified city.

”All right, take all you can carry.

So I quickly put the swords and spears into the item box from the back of the wagon.

When I killed a spider the other day, I noticed that if you imagine that items are stored in succession while moving your hand, you can put all the items you touch into the item box at once.

This way, you can store a full load of swords in about 10 seconds. If you really try, you can do it faster, but I'm afraid you might cut your hand. You are dealing with a blade. It will heal, but it still hurts.

I'm up to level 26 after the last kill, but I don't feel like trying to see if the sword will stick.

Wait, how much can you put in there? I've heard it's big, but I've never heard it's so bottomless.

Maybe we can take the whole wagon, I have a few whole giant spider crabs in my item box right now.

”Oh, yeah. Give it a try.

In. In.

It's in.

What the hell? ......

So, instead of a carriage, I was to escort the horses.

There were only three horses, so the three of us were on horseback, and I was the only one flying in the air.

Is it safe to keep flying so high?　You don't want to run out of magic and lose your escort, do you?

”No problem, no problem.

Through this kind of exchange, the party of one flying man and three unaccompanied horse riders, which was not exactly a merchant's escort, descended the mountain to the opposite side of Tubai without encountering any enemies.

Incidentally, we moved by night. The guards are me and Mr. Gurtia, taking turns. We decided that there was no need for us to be on opposite sides of the day and night, since I would basically crush the enemy anyway. The only time we move at night is when our allies can be of help.

The food was flour kneaded in hot water. And dried meat. They would get off their horses and knead it in a pot of boiling water. Fire was made by burning wood from the ground with a small magic stone. Water was brought from the river. What are they going to do in the meadow?

It tastes like something I've eaten somewhere before, but there's something missing. I wonder what it is.

I'll eat it. It's a kind of preserved food. Maybe it's a kind of soba-gaki.

The second day was similar, a peaceful scene of three horses and a man flying in the sky, but the problem arose before the preparation of the third day's dinner.

I'm bored, soba-gaki. At least give me soy sauce. If you don't have anything else, that's fine, but why go to the trouble of eating something that's not that good when you have something that is?

So I have a suggestion.

”Hey, there's a giant spider club, would you like to try it?

The dried meat is okay, but I get tired of it, and it's rather expensive to buy here.

Apparently, this is the only thing he eats on every escort. That would be boring.

Incidentally, dried meat is not seasoned with a lot of spices like in Japan, but is seasoned with salt mainly for preservation.

Salt is not a super luxury item, but it is not cheap.

There are oceans, but the technology to produce salt from them may be underdeveloped. I wonder if it would be profitable to make sun-dried salt on a large scale, though I don't know if it would be good for us.

To do that, we need to secure land along the sea. No way.

”Well, I don't know how to cook it, does anyone know?

Just cut the legs and boil them. It's good. Simple is best.

Simple is best.

So I cut the crab (it's not a spider, it's a crab. So I sliced a part of the leg of the crab (it's not a spider, it's a crab, because I'm going to eat it) with my magic sword and threw the whole shell into the pot. After boiling, the color turned red. It's a crab after all!

The problem was the taste. The problem was the taste. I was a little nervous, but I took a mouthful of crab that I had distributed to everyone.

Oh, my God!　This is my favorite crab meat!

We've got a lot of fine food here that you can't even eat on Earth. Wonderful. Of course, it was a big hit with the others.

And so the peaceful escort ended after only seven days, while we ate the other meat that was in the box.

It was a heartfelt and peaceful journey for the demons as well, as we proceeded to annihilate the small fry that we came across that were less than rank D.

Incidentally, Red Wolf was not good.

As a frontline city, Desibatore is so feared that children who don't listen to them are told that they will be thrown into Desibatore to make them listen to them, and I heard many horrible rumors about Desibatore along the way.

Due to the nature of the city, there are always demons wandering around the city, and it is said that demons enter the city every day.

In fact, the level of danger is extremely high, and there used to be a city called Brokens in front of Desibatore, but it fell about 50 years ago.