Chapter 22 - Returning to Territory

“Then let’s go.”

I came out of the house and said to Garcia who was pulling Kokuoumaru.

“Sir, I also want to ride Kokuoumaru ssu.”

Hihiin!! ……

“Well …. the place where I want to go is up in the mountain, but this guy, except me, only allows women to ride it.”

“What..”

Garcia questioned.

I felt sorry for him.

Well, I will just ask the elder of Nakamura if I could borrow a horse.

Tokotokotokotoko …

When I came to Nakamura for the first time in a long time, 90% of the rice had been harvested.

“Please take him.”

The elder kindly lent Garcia a white horse.

“Thank you for this.”

“No no, not just today, you can borrow the horse anytime.”

“Eh? Is that alright?”

Asked Garcia.

This elder had treated me well, so I wanted to give something to him.

“Well then let’s go ssu!”

“Wait, since we are here let’s go to the shrine.”

I had been away for a long time, so I wanted to tell the Yoshioka family that I had come back.

“Oh, that’s good. With this you can participate in the autumn festival this year.”Tozo felt relieved that I had come back.

“Well, I’m the lord here.”

“Tomorrow is the last day of harvest so the festival will be held the day after tomorrow.”

When I thought about that, I was almost late.

“By the way, what about Shohei?”

“He went to the west of the territory again.”

Apparently he was working on the matter I had asked for.

“Then we should go too”

“That’s right ssu.”

Pakaran pakaran pakaran ……

We rode the two horses and went to the west of the territory.

Even so, there was no extermination of monsters right now.

Today, I went to the ‘hole’ that was in the rocky area of Mother Mountain.

“Sir, is there really magic ore in the west of the territory?

“I think there is a possibility.”

“But the magic ore that Yamamura mined had already been exhausted, right?”

“Yeah. However, according to Granny Natsume, it seems that back when she was still a kid, the monsters on the west were already there. That means that the mining of magic ores in the west was abandoned because of the appearance of monsters, so the mining concentrated in Yamamura … that is what I think. ”

“That or the mine in the west of the territory had dried up ssu, so the mining site was changed to Yamamura ssu, and then the monsters appeared in the west… there is that possibility too ssu.”

“Well I don’t know which one is the truth but we still need to know, right?”

“That is right ssu.”

When talking on horses like that, we arrived at the “hole”.

Gogogogogogogogo …

Even though it was daytime, the hole was still blacker than a moonless night.

At that place, there were three escorts and Yoshioka Shohei.

Shohei wore saint like clothes and wrote on a white paper as he muttered lowly.

“Yo. How is it?”

“Lord-sama… Akira is over there.”

At the place where Shohei’s chin pointed at, there was another hole.

“What is that?”

“When I asked him about the hole, he said it was dangerous, so he dug another one.”

I see.

As expected of Akira.

“But what you said at that time … isn’t that in this hole.”

“! … that, that’s right.”

Saying that, Shohei turned pale.

“Well, well. You should protect Akira from that kind of things.”

“Yes……”

When he replied, Shohei wrote something again and started muttering lowly.

I decided to trust Shohei’s groundbreaking and psychic talents, and looked into the hole that Akira was digging.

Kankankan! …… Kan !!

The sound of hammering a wedge on a rock wall echoed.

“Oi! Akira!!”

“Ah!!……”

A voice came from the hole, and after a while, a smile illuminated by lantern appeared from the darkness.

“Thanks for your hard work.”

“I, I … I, I”

Akira was laughing even though he couldn’t say anything.

Speaking of which, the training skill [Receiver] had already been transferred to Akira from Garcia.

“Recently, my calculation ability have become faster.”

Garcia said that, but well, this guy wouldn’t learn any skill, so it was okay if experience points weren’t transferred to him for the time being.

In other words, adjustment.For now, the 3 people that received the mark [Receiver] were:

1 Isao-san the [Harvester]2 Yoshioka Shohei the [Psychic]3 Akira the [Miner]

Currently, there was a reason that experience points gained in battle were transferred only to them.

“Look it’s sake and canned food.”

Saying that, I took out a bottle of sake and oil sardine.

Akira could talk more smoothly if he drank sake, so I gave him some.

Gubi, Gubi …

“The stone … I, I still can’t find it.”

Akira said with a blush on his face.

“But! I’ll definitely find it so please let me continue.”

“Well, it’s fine. There is a possibility that there is no more ore here.”

“I, I, I … I’m having fun now. I’m doing this because I like it.”

“……Is that so.”

Well, I also want you to find it.

“Well, we can’t be sure for now. So please keep trying.”

“Ye … Yes”

Besides, I hadn’t defeated many monsters since I marked [Receiver] on Akira.

As the transferred experience points increased, I thought that he could learn some skill as a [Miner].

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I was sweating a lot after coming back to the Far East after a long time.

By the time I came back to my house, I felt like I needed to change my clothes again, so I think I’m going to take a bath.

“Fuu, yareyare…

I tried to take off my jacket and immediately Igarashi-san supported me from behind.

“Ah. Thank you ♪”

A truly excellent secretary.

Igarashi-san elegantly took of my jacket with her hands

“…”

“… what?”

At that time, the obsidian-like black eyes of Igarashi-san looked were a bit troubled, but right after, she went to her sharp eyed looked and gazed at me.

“Do you want me to undress all your clothes? …”

Only one choice, huh.

“I … I’ll undress in the bathroom.”

Half of her bride skills were already mastered.

“Tarirariran ♪”

I escaped the sexual harassment of Igarashi-san and headed to the bathroom.

Chapun ……

“Fu, yareyare.”

The bath was located on the terrace that was facing the sea side, and the ocean view spread out in front of me.

This was really the best.The bath was warm, the scenery was refreshing, and my fatigue after touring around the territory right after a long trip seemed to fly away.

“Uu …”

At that moment as I tried to relax myself.

I suddenly saw something flying in the sky over the sea.

That something gradually grew in size.

It seemed to be heading in my direction.

“What is that?”

At first, I thought it was a bird.

But as that something approached, I could see flashy colors, so maybe it was a dragon?… But that was not dragon.

Kiiiin !! ……

What! That was a “person”!

And although the world was far and wide only few people could make such appearances.

That was the strongest woman who had no party and flew around the world to complete a quest using flying magic, Wallertus.

Boo-on !!Pashapashapasha.

There was a gust of wind.

I reflexively closed my eyes.

“Yo! Aiga Janies! I’m here to play !!”

Hearing the cheerful voice, I opened my eyes.

In front of me was a woman wearing bikini armor.

Right.

The number one woman in the world. Glico Fontagnier, the magic swordsman.