17 Lesson 16

Eating breakfast in the dining room, Aeta equips her hips with an iron sword and leaves the inn.

At the entrance, Milfana, Miri and Gordon dropped me off.

"Come on in."

"Please come back safely."

"... come back for more meshi"

"Oh, I'm coming. Please do as I said yesterday in the room."

I wave goodbye to the three of them and leave the city of Tula behind.

Aeta decided to buy a carriage because it would take about a week to reach the Mountain of Death on foot from the city.

The city has most of the stores needed for adventure, and carriages specialize in handling them. It was early in the morning, but most of its shops were already open because the adventurer's morning was early.

I asked Milfana where it was so I could make a smooth trip to the carriage store.

The store is quite large, the main body of the carriage is lined up at the end of the store, and you can hear the horse crawling from behind the store.

There was a man wiping a lined carriage, so Aeta speaks.

"Sorry, I'd like to buy a carriage."

"Oh, there you are. I'm the owner, Stallen. Nice to meet you."

"Oh, nice to meet you. I'm a sorta."

Hold the hand that Stallen offered to.

"So what kind of carriage do you want? Small, medium, large in size. Hood type, front type, box type in shape. Other than that, it's not a good idea to go away, but it's a roofed, sidelined type, and so on... and some of the more luxurious things that nobles ride."

"Oh, yeah."

Aotea looks around at the carriage lined up in the store. And you reach in front of one carriage.

"... this is good. How much is this?

That was a front carriage type and a slightly smaller one.

"That's the guy... you have three or four other people on your own. If I were to load a lot of baggage, it would be a little tight. The price will be… seven gold coins"

"That's seven gold coins. Then I'll get this, and I want a horse. Can I buy it at your place?

Stallen nods and fingers the back of the store with her thumb.

"You can hear me, can't you? The back is stables, pick one you like for me to see. Prices vary from horse to horse."

Turning to the back with Stallen's guidance, there were many horses.

"Look around as you like. I don't mind stroking it or feeding the vegetables there... but just stop being aggressive."

"Okay."

Aotearoa slowly looks around at the horse's face when she takes the carrot-like vegetable 'Lady' that was in the box.

I react in a variety of ways: horses that connect me to get a feed, horses that are just unresponsive if I'm not interested in coming closer, horses that just step back.

Aotearoa didn't pinch any of it and had no choice but to make it the first personable horse she saw.

But the second I see the horse that was in the deepest part, the thought disappears.

Its eyes are powerful, its body is larger than other horses, it is hairy, the black flavour of its limbs is thin, and it has a slightly darker reddish brown overall.

"What do you say? Are you willing to follow me?

"Customer, that's him!

Stallen panics, but the horse is embraced by Ethereum's hand without resistance.

"Want some?

When I give you Radi, I honestly start receiving and eating it with my mouth.

"... he was a runaway horse, and someone I knew deposited him with."

"Really? Doesn't look that way...... so how much is this guy?

Aotearoa asks as she is licked of her pero and cheek.

"The one I kept, he said he'd sell me as much as he could if he couldn't... he seems to like you... how about a piece of gold?

"All right, let's buy it. That's eight gold coins to go with the carriage... now there's got to be eight. Check it out."

The average price of a horse here is three gold coins, five gold coins for the first personable horse you see. Aotea doesn't know that, but if you only saw the horse's abilities, you could say it's a broken price.

"... you just did. It'll take a little while to attach to the carriage."

"Oh, please"

"And I'm confirming, are you going to use the carriage immediately?

I'm headed east as soon as I'm ready.

"Well... then why don't we meet at the East Gate? If you have anything else to prepare, you can finish shopping in the meantime."

Aotearoa nods a little thinking.

"... so please. We'll rendezvous later, and in the meantime, listen to Stallen."

Bulls and snorts and replies as if he understood.

"Ha, you're really connected. You should be able to get to the East Gate in about an hour, you should be here by then"

"Okay, then I asked for it"

That said, once the horse's back. Why the carriage store after.

In an hour.

Aside from the dishes made by Gordon, Aotea arrives at the East Gate on time after being unable to buy the dishes that open the store or buy the groceries that are likely to be needed for water and travel.

Stallen had already arrived and was doing a final check on the carriage.

"That's fast."

"Hmm? Oh, that's you. You're on time, I thought you'd be late because you look like an adventurer."

"I thought you'd be late. Sorry."

"Hey, some merchants like that. I can't help it if they think so... but I'm ready. Do you know how to operate a carriage?

"It's all right, 'cause I've been taught before."

Aotea remembers the man who taught me to steer the carriage.

"Fine then. I'm fixing the carriage, so if it breaks, come on."

"Oh, thank God. Well, I guess I'll be there soon."

Seeing Ethereum boarding the carriage, Stallen wondered for a moment that there was no luggage, but convinced that she would have a magic bag.

Are you happy to play the role of Aotearoa? The horse leaves with a voice of heen and joy.

I wonder what that Aotearoa will be called? and held the reins with various candidates in his head.