10 - 8. Walking

We began our tour of the shopping district with the arms store facing the plaza.

The plaza, where we first arrived in this world, is a large semicircle immediately after entering through the south gate. There is a fountain in the center, an avenue extending north to the lord's mansion, a relatively wide road extending east to west along the southern wall, the guilds of adventurers on the east and the guilds of commerce on the west across the avenue, and a road running diagonally from the opposite side of each guild's avenue leading to the east and west gates.

Between the commercial guilds and the south wall, there are weapon shops, armor shops, clothing shops, and tool shops with their large frontage facing the square. Houses surrounded by the city wall are usually built in tight rows due to the limited land available, and their frontage is usually narrow, extending upward three or four stories, but the stores facing the square are rather wider than taller.

Stores built between the Adventurers' Guild and the south wall are somewhat different, with repair shops and apothecaries having only about half the frontage of arms shops, although this is due to the size and quantity of goods handled and the fact that there is a separate apothecary guild in front of the east gate for apothecaries. The restaurant is next to a store selling outdoor meals, and the production materials shop is wider than the arms shop due to the rental of production facilities. The width of the plaza is more irregular than that of the west side, but the height and design of the plaza are aligned so that the landscape of the plaza is well organized.

"It looks like a theme park with a row of souvenir shops.

"At least we can get everything done in this plaza."

As Ochazuke said, adventurers who don't have time to look around and are willing to spend money for a quick battle will find that the plaza is almost always sufficient for their needs. The only thing to say is that the inn is located to the north of the Adventurers' Guild and does not face the Fountain Square.

The man who built and rules this town is a knight count, the first of several generations of adventurers who have received knighthoods for their great deeds and achievements in battle. He is said to be a lord who still respects valor and is tolerant of adventurers. In a world where demons exist, a knight count is allowed to stand before royalty, a higher position than I had expected, and is popular among the common people.

The Duchy of Tarkant, where the labyrinth city is located, is a country founded by a former adventurer who became a duke from a knight count, and it is also a story, and the main character, the knight count Garlei, is admired by children and adventurers.

I visit the stores, remembering what I have learned from the stalls, starting with the weapon shop.

"Woah!

Leo started to get excited.

When we entered, a large sword as tall as I am was displayed in the center of the room as if it were stuck in the floor, and behind it were two staircases that curved gently and extended to the left and right. The first floor is for mass-produced items and items made by apprentice blacksmiths, the second floor is for modest weapons, and the third floor is for one-of-a-kind, first-class items. The variety of weapons sold here is reminiscent of a department store. Sharpening and repairing services are also available in a separate section on the first floor.

The armor shop next door is the same, with a display of full plate armor in the center. And again, Leo was excited by the large display of armor.

We looked at all three stores up to the third floor, but our pocketbooks are still well-served by the items on the first floor.

We took a [weapons and armor appraisal] in a hurry at the first arms shop. Everyone else had them.

The next tool shop had a fully equipped production facility on the first floor, like a model room, and sold portable tools from the second floor. I was surprised that the production facility was also treated as a tool.

I was a bit tempted to buy a cane from the apprentice's corner in the weapon shop, but I had to hold off until I went to the craftsmen's area. I'll keep this in mind in case I can't find anything affordable in the workshop.

My next plan was to visit the retail stores along a street not as wide as the main street but wide enough for a carriage to pass, but I decided to skip it and go to the nearest stall behind the arms and armor shop. After a short walk down a narrow alleyway, we came upon a row of stores with awnings.

There it is, meet me here in an hour".

Many N.C.'s are walking around, and the stalls are much more empty than yesterday's stalls. Yesterday, many of those who had been forced to stay at the guild's simple lodging without meals had come to that alley after asking the guild staff about it. Maybe the stalls here are not so well known, or maybe it's time for the other players to go to battle.

Yeah, and they've already declared themselves free. It's true that each stall is small and difficult for six people to walk around together, but you've given up now, Ochazuke.

Still, at first we tried to walk in a group, but then we became separated. It can't be helped that different professions have different things to see, and I found myself buying cooking utensils and condiments. I couldn't resist and took "Cooking"!　More [cooks] on my occupation list!

And my item pouch is getting smaller and smaller. No, I'll find it here before I go to the artisan's quarter. So I look around the stalls for pouches and sacks.

"Homura~~"

Kikuhime waves her hand and calls to me, so I raise my hand and answer her and head that way.

"What's wrong?"

"I found a nice pouch!"

I peeked into the store behind where Kikuhime was standing. It was a store selling robes, pants, and other second-hand clothes, and it did not look like a store selling item pouches.

"Welcome!　Item pouch, right?　We have just one more."

It seems that he has already heard from Kikuhime, and the man man who is the store keeper talks to him. Apparently, he had acquired some item pouches that Kikuhime usually does not accept along with used clothes, and was having trouble handling them, so he sold them to Kikuhime at a low price.

The item pouches he showed me for 5,000 were

Item Pouch

Capacity 200

Durability 10/100

The 200-capacity item pouch I saw at a store in the plaza cost 20,000 yen, so it must be a steal.

But isn't the durability too low?

When the durability reaches 0, the item is destroyed. It is not difficult to imagine what happens when an item pouch is broken, perhaps the items inside are scattered on the ground.

While I was appraising the items with a disturbing thought, Kikuhime poked me.

"We can recover our durability, and this is a better deal even if you deduct the cost of materials.

I bought it. I paid Kikuhime 200 shillings for 20 threads to repair it and had it repaired by the edge. I still have less than 10,000 sil to spend on weapons and armor. The staff I saw at the armorer's shop cost 7,500 shillings, and I'm starting to feel like I'm missing a lot of things.

I thought the item pouch would be replaced by the initial one, but there was an empty slot next to the item pouch and I was able to equip it with the new one. The initial items do not have a durability indicator, so I guess they will never be broken. I understood that if it is unbreakable, it means that I should put my important items in this slot.

"Thank you, Chrysanthemum Princess!"

"I'm sorry, but my money is running out."

"Likewise."

We both laughed and decided not to buy anything after that, and we enjoyed chilling out at the store together, and then moved on as the meeting time approached. Since everyone had not returned yet, I gave Kikuhime the berry juice I had bought yesterday to drink while we waited.

The artisanal area is located in the northeast section of the city, more than two kilometers walk from the plaza. First, we passed through the narrow, intricate alleyway from the stalls, then turned right onto a street where carriages could run. A hundred meters ahead, we could see four streets with commercial guilds, adventurers' guilds, and inns. It is convenient to have the map out so that you will not get lost in the narrow alleys for the first time. As we walk along, we talk about the results of the war at the stalls.

"I just had to take [food]," he says.

"I'm just as greedy over here as I am over here."

"Ha-ha-ha, let's do this."

When I told him I got the fish, he gave me a fish called that Leo caught yesterday. I didn't expect him to give me his first memorable catch. ...... I'll grill it later and return it to him.

It turned out that we could pick up a streetcar on the street before entering the engineering district.

We decided on a time to meet again and went around to see the artisanal area. At first I was looking around with Ochazuke, who is professionally close to me, but we separated when we saw a workshop specializing in short canes and disappeared into the workshop. Each workshop has its own characteristics, such as making any kind of weapons, dealing only with weapons up to a certain rank, or making only long canes. Some workshops do not have any special characteristics, but they are all different.

While searching for a place to buy a long staff and a robe, I found a workshop specializing in daggers and e-mailed the location to Leo and Peter. We also find a workshop specializing in longswords, but it is not so good, based on the staff of that arms shop.

As we walk through the narrow and complicated alleys, our sense of direction becomes more and more questionable. Well, it's easy to get back to the rendezvous point by opening the map, so I don't mind. I close the map now and enjoy the walk and the scenery.

Narrow alleys with walls of houses on both sides, arches connecting houses straddling the alleys in places. The second floor of the workshop is often used as a dwelling, and sometimes you can see laundry, roses and grapes crawling on the walls. Is it possible that the small space is biased toward vines in order to get greenery?　As I was thinking about this, I completely forgot about looking into the workshop and walked around looking for my favorite scenery in the alley.

I came to my senses thanks to an e-mail from Ochazuke, who told me that he had found a robe specialist.

I ignored the workshop and went to the far end of the building.

There was another mail, unexpectedly from Galahad. I replied that I did not mind.

I did not pay attention to it because I was looking at the alley, but it seemed that I had come a long way from the street facing the entrance of the workshop. I guess the right route to find the workshop is the one next to it, although it is too complicated to be called next to it. I had avoided an open entrance with a yelling sound as the scenery of the alley, and this is the result of my search for the ivy-covered wooden door of the back entrance.

Would it be faster to go ahead and go through this alley?　Would it be faster to go back?

It's too early to open the map.

When I opened the map, I was on the wrong side of the road. What the hell is this place, a beast road?

I looked at the map to see if I could change the magnification, but nothing changed when I changed the magnification. Now I looked at the description of the [map] and found that I had not taken the [skill appraisal]. There was no explanation, but there was a check item, so I checked the <> checkbox. It's a trap that I never selected a skill to look at it because I thought there was no skill appraisal.

Maybe the map I got from my friend only shows the basic roads maintained by the country or city, or recognized by the country.

I'll send an e-mail to everyone and tell them that some paths are not on the map. Should I take a [Skill Appraisal] now?　I have 3s left! If you walk around thinking, "What should I do? It's a little interesting.

The alley was a dead end. At the end of the alley, there was a small wooden door with black iron studs on the top of three short steps. On either side of the door, the ground was exposed for the width of the three steps, and from the right, a thin tree, which looked like a sara tree, threw its branches over the old door, and from the left, grape ivy covered the wall, going around the side of the door and over the top.

Good, very good!

As I was getting excited with the nice atmosphere, the door opened and I saw a man who was going out.

I was so embarrassed!　But!

"Excuse me, SS......, may I take your picture?"

"What are you doing?"

The old man was trying to get at me. Before I was scared, I remembered the old man in the stall. He seemed to be slightly older than the old man in the stall, but he was still tall and strong.

"Sometimes I look at him and grin."

I was thinking about something else and gave too honest an answer. I wonder if the SS (screenshot) or the photo came through.

"...... are you a man of the world, my friend?"

He gave me a very disgusted, horrified look. Not "old-fashioned" as in "the way of the people" but...

"No, it's a door. It's the scenery of this alley. It's not you. ！！！！

I rushed to clear up the misunderstanding.

No, he is a nice old man, so you can collect old man's SS.

"I'm sorry, you're not a customer.

"Customers?　Do you handle anything?"

"...... is already out of business."

It's a shame, he looks like he's still going strong. But it's nice to be able to relax and enjoy yourself, even if it doesn't suit you."

The old-fashioned way of saying "Shudo" made me think of a certain historical novel, in which the main character is a small old man. The image of this old man is different from that of this physically fit old man.

"Doesn't it suit you?

"It doesn't suit you. You look like you might be swinging a sword early in the morning."

"You know what I mean?"

He looks at me with a stupefied look on his face.

You're doing it. ！！！！

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Skills

Cooking] [Weapons and Armor Appraisal

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Homura Lv.7

Rank E

Occupation Mage, pharmacist

H!?　　160

M!?　　253

STR 10

VIT 11

INT 31

MID 13

DEX 9

AGI 10

LUK 10

N!?C!?　Galahad] [-]

Title [Interactionist

Skill (3S!?)

■Magic and Magic

Fire Magic Lv.3] [Gold Magic Lv.3] [Water Magic Lv.2

Production

Mixing Lv.1] [Alchemy Mixing Lv.1] [Cooking Lv.1

Collecting

Collecting

■ Appraisal and concealment

Tool and medicine appraisal Lv.1] [Plant and food appraisal Lv.2

Animal and Demon Appraise Lv.3] [Weapon and Armor Appraise Lv.1

Presence Detection Lv.1] [Presence Dilution Lv.1

Enhancement

Intellectual power enhancement Lv.2

Others

M! Natural Recovery], [Night Vision], [Map].