Chapter 7 (1/2)

CHAPTER 7 – HERBIVORES, CARNIVORES, A SHEPHERD AND ME

The fragrance of flowers is drifting around gently caressing the cheeks If you take a look, a sea of tulle flowers, being in full blosso colours such as pink, white and red, is for partitions of weeds on the fences That beauty ns of su near As it had been a while since he saw such scenery, he unintentionally voiced it out

“It’s a nice village The land is briy” This translation is owned by Infinite Novel Translations

The youth, saying this while s on top of the horse’s back However, underneath the blue cloak he wore an ar-handled spear was tied at the back of the saddlehis apprenticeshi+p and ability as military man apparent The bearer is loaded with combat-like articles

He e Several people ran in a hurry towards hi by their attires The youth however, who assu from the horse

“Having journeyed all the way here, please be welcoe headman, Herman” (Herman)

“I see I’m Axely Anel (T/N: Akseri Aneru), First Lieutenant of Helrevi’s territorial ar to meet me” (Axely)

Throwing discerning looks at each other, Axely raised a voice of astonishh The healthy body, albeit reaching the lied, is indeed that of a farht to call the fra scent of soil Is it maybe pride? Or is it rather conceit?’

(A pioneering village fro core They don’t have a spirit of independence) (Axely)

Even while praising them, he doesn’t breath a word about it Axely looked at the village head confused about his attitude of not disers coenerously, Axely jolted the sword belt at his waist ostentatiously With a clank it springs back into its previous state The whole action is for the sake of observing the village men’s reactions

“… Will First Lieutenant-dono please join us at dinner this evening?” (Herman)

Even while the village headhtly stiffened, his eyes didn’t show anything like trepidation or such I guess he has no knowledge ofdistance and the level of his centre of gravity, he is able to sur is as Axely has expected If you read this anwhere else but at Inifinte Novel Translations, you are supporting thieves

“I’e Although solad if you could serve me some sake” (Axely)

“Well then, please allowyou at uide?” (Herman)

“You have uide, I shall rely on you from tomorroards For today I have planned to have a look around with nothing but e headman-dono’s story after dinner” (Axely)

As soon as he said this, Axely nie to the villagers, he began to walk just as he had said he would It’s not like he will blaation is a forned by royalty

The objective of Axely, being dispatched by the territorial arrowth The village continues to fulfil the obligation of annual tribute pay the reason why only such s this

For around 2 years this place has been a large ice field with strong winds cutting through it The cold-weather daed extensively in the northern part of the Asuria Kingdo the capability of the soil to produce anything As end result it caused even difficulties in procuring fodder as well as crop failure Although the large-scaled animal husbandry and the warhorses were preserved, s unable to bring their livestock through the winter The price forsteeply after that

With the tribute payoods thinned and only the slavethe frequent occurrence of robbery in the near future due to the deteriorating public order, Helrevi’s territorial army reinforced the rapid reaction force Actually even Axely experienced hostilities with mounted bandits

(It is the irony of a horse production area that even the bandit’s horses are excellent Their mobility is first-class) (Axely)

Axely recalled his escortpursued by bandits, we continued to guard against raids at night and day We used the small amount of time before lunch to let loose a bit I was surprised by the bandits being coht cavalry, but I was evenup as hopelessly difficult to destroy them as unit mainly comprised of infantry, we devoted ourself to defence in order to protect the baggage, but… the result of that wasdemoted to a leisurely post

(Cowardice… isn’t it? If someone tells me that, I won’t have any words to refute either It’s because of my indifference toward foolhardiness And it’s also a fact that I th It’s deeply embedded There are no words to retaliate about that) (Axely)

The extent of daate the bandits afterwards didn’t turn into a favourable wind for Axely The result of the battle still held so that he was punished by the feudal lord once, it’s unlikely they would praise hi an accidental encounter At least Axely found it uniinable that the feudal lord, Earl Matthias Helrevi, has such nanimity and calibre

In the end, the current state is hi the borderland… an improper, misfortune post if it’s done by someone with the rank of First Lieutenant in the territorial arly fills the role Rather he was even enjoying it

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“… Co lake, there is only fresh wind and water strea around here” (Axely)

There isn’t a single deserted house within the village to be found Every fa a Cicero bird It seest the laundry drying in the sun Axely was surprised seeing the appearance of the wo their hands as if to cover their ers haven’t developed cracks either

(The soil and the people, where does so abundant as this coate this There er, Ibarns and farms anyway) (Axely)

The cheers of children could be heard fros Axely, ent that way, stood stock still watching a scene he didn’t anticipate there at all

They were gaames

Approxi separated into several groups, but the details of the games are different from any child play Axely knows about And yet they have a charaze either way Axely, who pondered about the reason it couldn’t be calledand intention hidden within those games

Certain children are enjoying theuess it’s ing on the stick and they are co it fly a distance It appears they are free to swing the stick as they please, but there arethe stick froht

(There isn’t any trick to that In order to toss it far away, the skill is to figure out the speed of the stick’s point… the stick’s point, it is!?) (Axely)

Axely, who i it unintentionally recalled hi with all one’s strength… it’s a gager children’s way of swinging their sticks is sharp They aren’t thrown off by an unsteady posture like the one used in agriculture They are swinging their arravity That is slashi+ng, Axely concluded

Also, there are certain children playing by chasing one another, but even so they are co in an unknoay Several of them separate in the sa in order to touch the back of their opponents It’s a game where a child, that has its back touched, drops out In this case isolation means defeat No matter what formation the team uses, the key to victory is to break the fory awakening their creative originality

(Are they aih the central ranks? However, their opponents have also guessed this and are scattering They are trying to get off the hook by gathering at another place A single targeted person was surrounded, huh? However, with exception to that, they have reorganised… if you look at one person being a single unit, it’s quite like a war Even looking at the single state of one person, it is an excellent sroup battle) (Axely)

And last is the apparently youngest group It looks like the re, are hule boy, but at the tiroan No hing and cackling… they crowded him with unforeseen movements and the clumsiness characteristic to very s the to touch hi all the more, they extend their arms

(There is absolutely no stiffness or hesitation in his movements The position of his head doesn’t e level of sliding one’s feet It appears as if he can see all the hands, even those in the rear) (Alexy)