Chapter 77

I am Gunter.

Today, 32 years old is guarding the South Gate to protect his beloved family.

Otto is very annoying today. I was grinning and grinning, not working. Probably something good for a beloved wife. Even if I know it, it ’s a grinning face that I ’d like to meet a few.

“Otto, tighten your face for a moment. Will you be the gatekeeper with that face?”

“Tightening, for the time being”

When I pointed out, Otto slammed her cheeks and squeezed her face, but it had no effect. My cheeks are a little red, but my face is still broken.

Listening behind me, sighing and sighing, I heard a low laugh. Looking back, the chief stood with his shoulders shaking.

“Is my subordinate similar to my boss?”

“Wow! No, Shishi, I …”

“Please listen to me for a moment. What is the opposite?”

The chief leaves after hitting my shoulder with Pom Pom.

Depressed at the Baptism of Turi, sometimes asked me to talk about Mine, and Otto sometimes has a sense of taking care.

It can’t be helped. I’m serious, but do you want to go out with Otto today? …… But if you talk to an Otto guy, it’s a long story.

sighing I didn’t think I was being valued the same way around me, and knowing that my family love is a desire to get along with two annoying people There was not.

After completing the turnover and takeover, take Otto to the East Gate.

East Gate is the gate that leads to the highway, and has the most traffic, and is a street with many inns and restaurants. There are many shops on the alleys and back streets close to the main street, and the residents of this town have their own shops.

Since it’s summer, the doors of all the stores are wide open, and you can hear voices from here and there while drinking alcohol. We avoided heading to the people who come and go, and we headed to a tavern where the gate soldiers could gather.

When stepping into a bar filled with the smell of sake and food, two side-by-side long tables in the middle of the store are occupied by groups of customers, and dozens of people are talking loudly. There were several round tables near the wall that could be used by a small group of people, most of which were buried.

“It’s full”

“I will go quickly”

Talks to the shopkeeper who is pouring sake at the counter in the back, passing behind the group that is making a fuss.

“Oh, Ebbo. For two people, Berea. After that, I’ll ask you for some suitable salted intestinal salt.”

“Aiyo”

Order two bereas from Evbo, the owner of the store. For me, who is a gatekeeper as an apprentice of soldiers after the baptism ceremony, most of the people in this city that are not so big are acquaintances except for the rich and nobility who move by carriage without showing their faces. .

When two bereas and one large copper coin were placed on the counter for intestinal filling, Ebbo poured Berea into the wooden cup. If you hold the cup while taking care not to spill it, you will find an empty table and move to the round table at the back.

Although the tableware of the previous guest was still left, a waiter who quickly found us trying to sit down quickly took away a tableware such as a wooden cup or fork.

All that is left on the table is a hard bread instead of tableware that is a little boiled by sucking gravy. If you wipe the table with the bread and drop it on the floor, the dog in the shop will come waving its tail and start eating the bread.

¡I put the cups I brought on the table, and sat down on the chair making a noise.

“Thanks Vantor”

Appreciating the god of sake and showing the wooden cups lightly to each other, he brought Belea to his mouth.

¡Drink most of the cup and cup as if it were poured into your throat. I think this is the best way to drink Bellaire. Berea’s refreshing sensation passes through her dry throat after work. The stimulation of carbonation and the bitterness and fragrance peculiar to Berea spread in your mouth after a moment.

“Puah, it’s delicious! …? What happened?”

Put an empty cup on the table and encourage Otto to wipe off the foam in his mouth. Otto asked for the replacement of Bellaire for the two while receiving intestinal salted salmon from the waiter.

¡Otto made a deledere with light bowel on the hard bread used instead of a plate, and lightly shrugged his shoulders.

“No, this is still being said by Corinna, so no matter how much the team leader is the opponent, I can’t speak”

“How did you have a child?”

“What, why did you know !?”

“No, do you know what your state is and your wife’s words?”

Otto scratches her cheeks.

I understand that I did the exact same thing and pointed out in the same way, but I don’t say anything extra.

Still, is Otto the father? Is it okay with such a floating man? And the words that crossed my head for a moment were the words I was told if I thought carefully.

Yeah, the fact that a child is able to float should be a good loving father. No problem at all.

convinced me after omitting myself.

“Yes, I’m sorry! Waiting people”

A cup was put on the table, and the contents were shaken and the bubbles of Berea spattered slightly. However, there are no shop assistants or customers who care about such details.

When I handed the middle bronze to the waitress, I and Otto spoke to the cup so that they could be hung around. Unlike the first cup, it is not poured with momentum, and it is swallowed with a crispness while rolling and tasting the complex taste of wheat aroma, bitterness, sweetness and umami.

Speaking of which, Otto’s wife was a long-cherished seamstress for Efa and Turi, and Turi had said that she would work hard to move to Otto’s wife’s workshop after the current workshop’s Darua contract.

And his wife’s brother is a husband of a company that Mine is taking care of. I am only connected to Otto, but when I look at the whole family, I feel that the relationship is unexpectedly deep.

“Otto. Take care of you, your wife, and your kids. Will your child be the successor to the big store?” Mine had said that before.

“… I have a story about that, team leader”

The atmosphere of Otto has changed dramatically. The shy face tightens, and the eyes look around for the words. Just as I was trying to tell my family what Mine was carrying, I saw my tense shoulders, and in a moment, I was drunk and my head was cold.

I feel like my throat has dried up even though I just drank it, and slowly swallow it with Berea in my mouth.

“… Okay, talk”

“Oh, that’s not right now … I think it will be several years later, but I think I’ll quit the soldier”

Otto took the position of a soldier because he was allowed to marry a trace shop daughter at a large store.

The partner whom Ichisuke’s travel merchant drowned was a trace shop daughter at a large store. Everything is different between travel merchants and street merchants. A traveling merchant cannot suddenly become a merchant of a big store in the city.

By the way, it is said that the people around her are telling her that she wants to be a merchant in the city, and she is distrusted by her important daughter. Otto proved his feelings by buying citizenship in the city and taking on a job that was not a merchant.

However, I was really surprised at that time. Was it about 4 years ago when I was a gatekeeper at the West Gate?

Passing through the gate, a merchant who was supposed to go to the town where his parents live and open a store if he sells the goods here, just a few days later, in this town to seduce the woman I bought a citizenship and used all my property, so I asked if there was a job teller other than a merchant. I couldn’t believe my ears as I listened to it with other gatekeepers.

However, I knew that Otto had been taken by his father as a travel merchant since he was a child, and a man who said he was going to his parents bought all citizens and bought citizenship. I could understand that I really fell in love at first sight.

Otto has been living as a travel merchant, so he was able to calculate, read the papers, and was decent. After all, it was myself that introduced the soldier’s position on the condition that Otto mainly worked on paperwork.

Soldiers are enthusiastic about training, but there are many men who neglect paperwork. After Otto came in, it became much easier to interact with the merchants who came in and out, and the guys with referrals from the nobility.

Did the Otto quit the soldier? Does it mean that you were accepted by your wife’s house as a merchant?

I know I’m helping my wife’s shop alongside my job as a soldier. He also knows that he interacts with the merchants entering and exiting the gate as merchants so as not to dull. If Otto’s efforts are fruitful, congratulations, but the complexion is dark and embarrassing.

“Did your brother-in-law finally recognize your child?”

“… No, I think it’s different because there were occasional talks before that. The cause is Mine.”

“What !?”

My daughter’s name came out unexpectedly, and I put a cup on the table with Don. On the contrary, Otto relaxed his expression a little and drank a cup with his hand.

“The leader of the team, I chose soldiers as a job other than merchants because I wanted to connect people with the people in this city. I chose soldiers to gather information in order to learn the faces of people and to know the merchants and aristocrats who go in and out of the city. “

“Fum”

“I was planning to be a soldier for a while, but the situation in the store is changing. The linshan and hair ornaments that Mine brought in are really good, and the performance of Gilberta Company is growing at a stretch.

“Well, what products did Mine bring in?”

I’m happy that Mine is praised, and I’m proud as a parent, but there are things that I can’t agree with.

From my eyes, it is Turi that makes Rinshan, and even Efa and Turi make beautiful things even for hair ornaments. Many people see Mine failing because of lack of power or trying to make it.

“But Gilberta is basically a clothing item, and the plant paper made with Lutz has great benefits and impacts, but it has a different direction. Benno expands what he handles. Corinna is basically only interested in clothing, so she said she didn’t want to expand her work … “

“Maybe Mine’s carry has become an ugly seed?”

When I grin unexpectedly, I deny it by waving as if Otto was panicking.

“No, it’s not ugly. It’s amazing when you see it as a merchant. You can see that Benno wants to do it. Benno seems to want to give Gilberta Chamber of Commerce to Corinna sooner than expected, to add me as an assistant, and to have his own store …. Create a new store and take over what Mine has brought I’m trying to expand it into the city. “

A huge amount of money should be moving if the husband of a big store is trying to sell and expand until a new store is created. Before Turi got excited and explained that Mine was rich, but thought that he would be saying to the captain. I don’t think it was the amount that a child who just finished the baptismal ceremony had.

“… Is it true that Mine earns ridiculous money?”

“That’s true, but I’m so thorough in managing my money that I don’t think I’m a kid. The gold account wasn’t taught by the proper team leader, and where did you remember?

睨 Lightly scolding the ottoman who raised his eyebrows like hesitating, I screamed.

There is only one person who likes his cute girl, gives extra power to magic, and gives knowledge that is too clever.

“You have been taught by God. Mine is a daughter loved by God.”

“I thought it was just a fool, but I’m scared because of its persuasive power.”

Otto laughed and shook his shoulders and caught a bowel. I’m going back to the same while biting the intestines.

“So when do you want to quit? No one can take over your work?”

“I don’t think it’s going to change right away, so I think it will be about two to three years later. I’d like to nurture a successor that can do the calculations … It was a miscalculation that Mine was taken to the temple. ”

Otto recalls that Mine encouraged home work with weaknesses and difficulties in human relations so that Mine would not become a merchant apprentice.

How well would it have been if Mine could work at home and occasionally go to work together at the same time as decided at that time? At that time, I never thought about taking Mine to the temple.

“It was a miscalculation for me too, because Mine suddenly said that she didn’t want to get close to the nobility, suddenly said she wanted to become a shrine maiden. No matter how much she wants to read the book …”

Reminds me of when Mine said she wanted to become an apprentice of a shrine maiden.

“Benno seems to have gathered a lot of information and turned his hands around, but is the team leader convinced?”

“Do you think you are doing?”

“No, not at all”

When I praised Otto, Otto lightly raised her hand and waved her head to surrender. No matter how good the conditions are, I can’t do anything I like to let Mine pass through the temple.

“You can’t be convinced. You’re saying you’re treated like an aristocrat, but you can’t really do that, given their privilege,”

“Is that right?”

Only the mouth. For some reason, blue clothing may be given, but I know that Mine cannot be treated in the same way as a noble.

“Still, I was able to avoid being thrown into the orphanage. If I came home, I could still reach my eyes. The nobility was my opponent.

“But it’s a pretty dangerous position”

“… Ah”

Since Mine’s magical power went out of control and stopped the temple head with intimidation, the temple head was supposed to throw Mine into the orphanage even if I and Efa were in prison, just by becoming imprisoned. . Even if life was saved and Mine was able to go from home, it would be a big concession for the priest. It is useless if you want more preferential treatment.

Rather, it must have been disliked and shunned by the headmaster who was intimidated by the common people. Just think about what will happen once Mine begins to go to the temple.

“Team leader. This is what Benno said, but it seems that it is only about five years that Mine is able to spend time in the temple at the temple. It will be done, but if the aristocratic population increases, there is a risk of being treated as a nuisance. “

“… it’s only 5 years. Still, it’s better than not going to the temple and dying in less than half a year”

The purpose of passing Mine through the temple is to extend Mine’s life. That is all I can do with my power. I need witchcraft, but I don’t have the money and money to get it. Too irresponsible as a father.

“If you don’t think you can stay in the temple, you can sign up with a nobleman. Mine is very valuable. It has both magical power and money-making power. If you can, the terms of the contract may be different from being killed. “

“Mine said she wanted to stay with her family and didn’t want to make a contract with a nobleman, but … I want her parents to live alive”

I have been struggling with the heat for a long time and now I can finally do what I want, so I want you to live as you wish.

However, whether or not to make a contract with an aristocrat for the desire to live. What kind of aristocrats will be under what terms and conditions? Everything is up to Mine.

My father is a very small area where I can reach out. The guild chief who sold the magical tools collected for his granddaughter was better than Mine, Benno who got a lot of information gathered in consultation with his relatives than his father I think that’s why.

“… What can I do as a father? No money, no ambassador. No matter how important you are, you are a soldier who can’t even protect your kids?”

Leaving complications that can’t be leaked at home, depending on the sake. Greatly, I told you to protect the whole family, and there is nothing I can do.

Otto listening to my bitches loosely leans his head.

“No, it may be God’s control that Mine’s father is a soldier guarding the city gate.”

“… What do you mean?”

When I narrowed my eyes, Otto looked around the hustle and bustle, and then screamed a little.

“Because Benno has worked, there is some protection in the city with contract magic. There are at least a few who are trying to protect Maine. The most scary thing Benno predicts is It seems to be scratched by a survivor of nobility. “

“Do you want to be scratched?”

sighed in a noisy language. I had some assumptions about the aristocrats in the temple, but I never thought that Mine could be targeted by other aristocrats.

“If you leave the city, the effect of contract magic will be cut. If you are an aristocrat in this city, if the guild leader or Benno moves, you may be able to ask and investigate. However, there is a possibility that the remaining nobles may not even be able to reach the lord. ”

The husband of a big store that looks like a great power, the head of a commercial guild, and even the lord of the city, seemed to be scolded, saying that the power is limited. I did.

I can’t do what I can’t do. How do you deal with the other nobility?

Otto grinned her lips and grinned with laughter at me, holding down the temple.

“In order not to be like that, you have to look up the priest who doesn’t have good feelings for Mine in the temple and the nobles that are related to the priest. “Isn’t it a problem to look after all the letters of introduction and invitations? The work of the gatekeeper is the perfect job to protect Mine.”

In a few moments, I recall the work of the gatekeeper. Certainly, the work of gatekeepers is perfect for knowing the trends of the nobility.

Other nobles will not come in without a referral letter or invitation from the city. Aristocrats such as horse-drawn carriages and horses that use vehicles to enter the city must pass through the gate, move to the city walls based on the letter of introduction, and enter the city.

A great nobleman never hangs around in the towns of ordinary people. If you pay attention to the nobility who stops the carriage in the city or heads directly to the temple, kidnapping can be prevented with considerable probability.

Even if an aristocrat intends to hire a rogue and kidnap him, if he is a gatekeeper, the surplus will be immediately known. If you look at those who have a dark background, you can see.

Talk to the inhabitants of the city, look around for suspicious individuals, deepen the bondage between the gatekeepers, and make preparations so that you can move quickly when an abnormal situation occurs. This is all my job as a soldier.

“Isn’t the team leader saying that he became a soldier to protect his family in the whole city? You should keep Mine-chan in every town as before”

“If I think so, I can only say that I’m lucky to be transferred to the East Gate next spring.”

Soldiers change gates every team every three years. It seems to be aimed at preventing strange adhesions, deepening the unity between soldiers, and making work uniform, but I don’t care about the details. I just need to know that this spring, my team will move from the South Gate to the East Gate.

Because East Gate faces the highway, it is the most crowded of all gates, making it easy to get information. As many survivors come and go, it is the place that needs the most alert.

“Be careful enough, don’t miss information gathering. You might want to use the connection between soldiers and review the way you communicate so that you can move if you detect any danger.” No, I ’m going to cooperate, because Benno has pierced my head so far, my family is not irrelevant. ”

Otto said so, when he grabbed his fist, he bent his elbow to make a bicep. Laughing challengingly, showing the gestures that soldiers do when praying for each other’s good health.

“Team leader. Let’s protect it.”

In the same way, I also smiled and drank up the feeling of being cramped with Berea in the cup, and put the tongue and cup on the table.

squeeze the fist and bend the elbow and lightly touch your fist against Otto’s fist.

“Oh, my family will protect me everywhere in this city”