177 - - The Merchant

Oh, there you are.

"Thanks for calling."

It's already bedtime or something, but I'm here at the wholesale store on the isle. The warehouse is bustling with people unloading, taking goods to the warehouse, and vice versa. Mr. Org welcomes me with a smile, and even though he is still the owner of the big store, he seems to be working with me on the site.

"Here's a souvenir.

"Eggs. Which one?"

He accepts it with these words. I gave him a small amount of , and there is a reason for the small amount.

"...... holy shit."

Yes, it's ranked as a god ingredient.

The number of < has been steadily increasing, and Pochi is the boss of ten. I think it is Tama and Mee who are actually in charge. Tama and Mee gather other chickens when I call them.

Once, when I was cooking at the general store, about two people who couldn't wait to cook came to peek around and I asked them to help me. At that time, I was cooking as usual to adjust the taste of the registered recipe. I had registered several kinds of egg omelet recipes such as sweet, dashi-maki, salty, hard, fluffy, and so on. All I asked him to do was to crack the eggs into a bowl. .......

I noticed that swords and spears were dancing in the living room (behind me).

"d*mn!　Even the yolk is broken. I was so stupid ......."

"It's not so easy, is it?

It seems that it was impossible to break the rank of divine ingredients with bare hands. ....... Galahad and the others who tried couldn't even crack it, and they were hit with an iron claw by Kal when they tried to use their skills in the room. Cal was able to cut both pieces off, but depending on the position, the yolk was cut in half as well. Reno sometimes crushed the yolk and made a terrible mess of it, but he was able to cut the shell with his spear with surprising dexterity. (Note: All of them were delicious.)

......The egg-cracking was the first time I saw Kal's swordsmanship. I wonder how strong he is compared to Galahad and the others.

Me?　I usually hit the edge of the bowl with a kon-kon and crack it open. If I'm not very good at it, there might be a reason why I can't break it with a sword. That's why I have a small amount, because it was a mystery to me whether other people can cook it or not.

"I don't think I can use it with those cooks, but I think Rudolph would be thrilled if I just showed it to him.

Rudolph is the name of the chef of the restaurant who wrote the letter of introduction. In the real world, it is not easy to remember people's names, but in the <>, it is easy to remember because everyone is unique.

"And this one, too."

Bring out a few barrels. They are filled with , but as soon as I put them in the barrels I had purchased, their rank drops. He wonders if he should make barrels out of the material from the < given to him by Ruscha, but then realizes that these barrels would be more useful to give away to someone else.

"This is also ......, it can be used as an ingredient, so I can [appraise] it, but from reading the description, I think it would be better to give it to the temple. I mean, which garden, which garden?

Something I can't say about my garden. I have a feeling that Mr. Org has an "eye" for foodstuffs. I can see the item name and rank, but I can't decipher the detailed description. Is it holy water or divine water or something like that?

Sugar cane is also increasing steadily, but it is taking a little time because I have to do the planting due to the grass.

While I was waiting and sipping tea at the rest area next to the warehouse, a merchant who travels back and forth to Fuso arrived shortly after. He told me that he crosses to Fuso twice a year when the sea route is open for a few days, and that he was staying at the isle to adjust his daylight hours when the time came again.

Foussou is very different from the rest of the country. ......Yes, for example, you cannot directly activate [skills] externally in that country. For example, in that country, for example, you cannot directly activate [skills] externally.

"[Skill]?"

I don't know, are you a wizard?

"[Skills], including magic, are pre-packaged in . <. I have heard that it is possible to learn how to make , but it seems that it can only be made in a special building called < or in a <."

"I can learn, but do I need a [ward]?"

I've been putting it off.

"Also, the laws on this continent are codified, but they are not so clear over there. The basic laws are posted in places like bulletin boards, but the details seem to be governed by what we call court precedents here.

That's it, a high tag. In the Edo period, laws were not written in texts like the Roppozensho (Complete Book of the Six Laws of Japan) for everyone to read, but were kept under wraps. It is said that it was a crime to look up the law if you wanted to know the contents of the law, except for what was written on a bulletin board in the plaza called "takafuda. --I heard that it was quite lax, though.

I wonder if they were trying to improve the morale by making people think that doing such things would be a crime. How about writing everything down when you see crimes in the news that take advantage of loopholes in the law or that take advantage of the law?　I wonder.

But when I am in a position to go there, I realize that it is an international society, and I am afraid that I might commit a crime due to the difference of culture and customs if I don't write about it. No, well, even if it is written, I will not read all of it. In fact, I bought a copy of "The Laws of GEERS" at a used bookstore and left it there with a sense of relief.

I am referring more to the warnings at the Adventurer's Guild and the "don't cut down trees" sign I saw in Sir, which is practically the same as the system in Fuso.

"I have heard from those who went to check on the situation that the sea is a little different this time. It seems that the sea dragons have changed their behavior.

Sorry!　It is probably because my island has entered the sea dragon's walking route.

It will be a few days before I go to Fuso, he asked me. I told him that it would be a long time before I would be able to go there, considering the skill level up in the arena and other things in the real world, and he replied that it would probably be around the right time. It seems that game-like convenience has been achieved.

I was told that a party of A-rank adventurers would escort me, and I was to go with them to the ship as an escort without any pay. I was not expected to be an escort, of course, but this merchant named Hop said that he owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Org and that he would not mind if I did not get in the way. He said, "If it's up to two people, I can hire an escort for you at my own expense. I wonder if the limitation on the number of people is due to the ship?　I could invite someone, but I've specified a weekday off, so I'm not sure if our schedules would work out.

I could ask Reno to take me to Fuso, but it would be better to go with someone who knows the area better. I would also like to see how the escort mission, which is a promise in a story involving an adventurers' guild, is going to be like.

"Oh, well, Homura, I'll be waiting to hear your tales!"

I thank Mr. Org, say goodbye, set up my bed in the [garden], and get ready to lie down and log out.

Before that, I had to check the occupations ......, there were so many that I had to scroll down, and I didn't have the energy to read all of them, but there were more.

Asha's heroes, Verus' heroes, Tasya's judges, the cook of the gods, Tasya's alchemists, ......, just looking at them makes me hungry. I think you mean the game of Go, not the game of egret?　No, you mean black and white.

There are a lot of things out there without any kind of restraint. I'll have to run to the guild archives and see if there are any more ways to change jobs after this one. I haven't been to the other continents yet, and it seems like it will be a long time after this, so I'm sure there might be a way to change jobs.

Before going to bed, I had a bowl of tai-chazuke - not tea, but soup stock. E! and went to bed (logged out).

<<< again and again

Oh, I hear the voices again. They are neither adults nor children, and I am not sure if they are male or female. In fact, I am not even sure if I recognize them as sounds.

You try to listen to it, but it's so broken up that you can't make sense of it.

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In the latter half of the song, the voice becomes dim and unintelligible. Barely "I want to sleep, that's for something, something, something"?　I thought about it, and then I returned to the real world.