Chapter 16 - Hole

“Lord-sama. Please take this.”

Saying that, the chief of Nakamura was pulling a horse.

“Hmm, can I really get it?”

“Yes, Of course.”

Heein !! ……

A black-haired, strong-looking horse.

“Thank you so much! I thought this territory was not that large, but it took a little too long to walk around it.”

“That’s right.”

The chief who said that had a smiling face.

When talking about a lot of things with the chief,I noticed that he wanted me to marry his daughter.

I wanted to refuse this, so I said that I could not get this horse,

“No, it is different from that … please take this horse.”

He answered me like that.

I felt sorry for him, so if there was a guy who looked good, I would try to introduce him.

Someone like Garcia.

Hiiin!

“Oh Lord-sama! Isn’t this a good horse?!”

Garcia also praised the horse.

“You will have a lot of profit if you sell this ssu.”

“I won’t sell it. I’ll use it myself.”

“Oh, I see. So, have you already decided its name ssu?”

“Not yet.”

I’m not good at naming.

“Then let me name it ssu. Well how about Pochi ssu?…Bohee! ”

The horse front leg kicked Garcia.

“U, u, u …. Then, because it’s black, let’s name it Kuro ssu…… Guhe!!”

The horse kicked again.

“Uuun, somehow it didn’t like it.”

“Cause that’s a dog-like name, something more horse-like please.”

“Then, because it’s black, I’ll use black. How about Black Prince?… Hidebu!!”

Then this time, the horse kicked Garcia using its hind legs.

Anyone would get angry if they were given a strange name.

“Black, black …”

I heard a voice from behind and looked back, and Igarashi-san was muttering with a serious face.

“Black, big… Kokuoumaru?”

Hearing that name.

Hiin♡

The horse walked to Igarashi-san while neighing.

“Eh, what’s the difference with the name that I gave before?”

Well, it was a male.

That’s why this guy would be called Kokuoumaru next time.

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Even after the rice planting season was over, we were busy in summer too.

We cut the grass that grew endlessly and took measures against pests.

However, compared to the rice planting season, this season wasn’t that busy.

So, I would try to take an additional 50 people, mainly from Nakamura.

The new batch were

・ 30 vanguard swordsmen

・ 20 attack mage

Very simple.

Combining this with the 25 trained in advance, the total was 75.

Huhuhu~ … Huhuhu~ …

However, when I gathered all the 75 people, it was really hard to trained them by myself.

“Hey! Don’t go too far!”

Even after I said that, they just went to another place.

“Don’t fight yet!”

Even if I say that, they would fight again immediately.

Well, I guess it would become like this.

It was so hard to trained 25 peoples together.

When the number jumped to 75 people, that exceeded my ability to even remember their name and face.

However, the hard part was only in the beginning.

If everyone had a fighting power of over 100, there would be no serious injuries unless there was some trouble.

On the other hand.

The first 25 peoples were steadily improving their fighting power… 558, 489, 721 …

The martial artist Chiyo, who had been strengthened by my possession, had already reached fighting power of 1256.

And I’m glad that two of the three support mages already learned magic.

[Tect] … all the peoples defense are slightly increased (Level 1)

[Ruki]… one person’s attack is slightly increased (Level 1)

In particular, I was very grateful that the defense support magic was a magic that could affect all the peoples, Tect

Tect only increased the defense slightly but if all the 75 people’s defense were increased, that was something big.

And then, I also started riding Kokuoumaru, and the fighting power of this guy gradually increased, and it was now 794.

Hiiin! !

By the way, there was no dangerous monster for my army in this area anymore.

When I was not around, the effect of [Complete Blessing] stopped working, but I would let the others to hunted monsters and I would go around a little.

I wanted to get an overview of the west side of my territory.

I was riding Kokuoumaru to the west side.

Pacara, pacara, pacara …

“Hello Natsume-san.”

“Well well, isn’t this Lord-sama.”

First, I arrived at the house of the granny who had the suitable job of idol.

“That is a good horse.”

By the way, I often visit this house after I became lord to talked to her or just drinking tea.

“I have something to do today, so I want you to guide me.”

“Yes, that’s fine … but even if it’s me, I can’t run faster than a horse.”

After she said that, I grabbed Natsume-san’s hand and pulled her up on the horse.

“Kya ♡”

Fufufu.

That’s a woman like voice, granny.

Pacara, pacara, pacara …

According to Natsume-san, the three mountains in this territory were called Mother Mountain, Older Sister Mountain, Little Sister Mountain.

And the west and south side of the Little Sister Mountain, the people called that the west and south side of the territory.

There were monsters on the west side of Little Sister Mountain, though small in number.

No people live there.

That was true when I looked around on horseback.

Granny who live at the foot of Little Sister Mountain was because of her extraordinary skills.

“Did you not grow crops in the past?”

“Come on, from when this one was aware, there’s already monster here.”

Well, this land didn’t look fertile too.

There were lots of rocks in the dry soil.

Further north, on the west side of Little Sister Mountain, there was Mother Mountain.

Beyond this Mother Mountain was another territory.

Going to the border, Mother Mountain was a rugged, less green mountain, contrary to its name.

There were no usable trees.

“…”

It was when I was a little disappointed, pulling the rein and turned the horse.

I could see one dark hole in the gap between the rocks on the Mother Mountain.

Gogogogogogo …

“Natsume-san. Do you know what that hole is?”

“Oh … I know about that. My parents told me, if you become a bad people, you will be sucked inside”

It seemed that the hole had been there for quite some time.

Hiin!!

I was worried but I couldn’t do anything about it.

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“Aiga-sama, there are visitors.”

When I came back to the separate room, Igarashi-san said so.

“Are they waiting inside?”

“Yes.”

I went inside and saw two strangers who sat straight.

“I am from Tomura and am mainly a trader.”

Said one of them.

“Tomura? The village at the north of Little Sister Mountain?”

“Yes”

So it was like that

His accent was a bit different from the other villagers.

“And what is it?”

“Yes. Today I would like to introduce this person …”

And the man in Tomura pointed his hand to the next man.

“My name is Yoshitaro Bando.”

This one also had weird accent …(TN: They talk like a samurai/people of the old time.)

“Who are you?”

“I’m from Okuga.”

Okuga?

When I had a question mark on my head,

“The territory next to us.”

Igarashi-san said that near my ear.

Well … that was good too, but I want you to put your lips on my lips next.

“So? What is the purpose of the person who came to see me from the neighboring territory?”