"Then, let's go..." (Mile)
The "Crimson Vow" group descended to a forest near a port town and saw off Kragon, who had said that he would pop out to greet the Ancient Dragon Village on this continent and then return to the Ancient Dragon Village on the Old Continent. After that, they started walking towards a small village located a little far away from the port town.
That's right. It's too risky to suddenly go to a big city in a country where you didn't know the language, customs, or common sense. Even if the original word was the same, the meaning of the word might have changed over the years, and raising your right hand lightly in greeting might be an act of insulting the other person.
That's right. If you raise a white flag as a signal of surrender, it will mean to the other side, "We will absolutely annihilate you!" which was a declaration of war and an act of provocation...
Besides, if you go to a big city without knowing much about it, there is a high chance that you will get tangled up with or deceived by idiots or bad people. The current "Crimson Vow" was not a party whose dangers were well known and understood by the people, but for the people here, it was just a group of four young girls...
What's more, in order to get some money to live on, they were planning to exchange some of the items in Mile's item box for cash, so there was a high chance that they would be noticed by small villains.
Besides, you're a fool if you didn't even know the product value here.
So, first of all, they decided to do a tutorial in a small village.
In that case, they thought that even if they made some mistakes, the story would spread only within the village.
"Well, I don't think there's that much of an extreme difference...but it was originally a single civilization with the same language, the same customs, and the same common sense...
Until civilization declined considerably, communication by ship would have continued, and communication equipment would have still existed.
By the time all of that stopped, most of the technology and knowledge had already been lost, and the situation would not have changed much from what it is now, so I think it would be similar to the old continent." (Mile)
"It would be fine if that were the case..." (Mavis)
Mavis responded with skepticism to Mile's optimistic talk, but of course Mile had obtained some information from the nanomachines, so it wasn't baseless wishful thinking.
Even though Mile didn't approve of asking nanomachines about anything, no matter how easy it was, she didn't want to cause a fatal disaster due to a misunderstanding during her first contact, so she had confirmed this thoroughly.
"...We got it in easily..." (Mile)
Mile said that, but this was a small fishing village that was not surrounded by walls or had a gatekeeper. Of course, anyone should be able to freely enter.
This village, located a 2-3 hour walk from a large port town, appeared to be a village specializing in fishing.
...They seemed to be growing some vegetables for their own consumption, but there was no sign of them doing any large-scale farming of wheat or anything like that.
They probably sold the seafood they caught to large port towns or inland towns and used the money to buy grain and other goods. They didn't eat much meat, they mainly ate grains and seafood. It was an ordinary fishing village.
"There doesn't seem to be any inn..." (Reina)
As Reina said, such a thing was unlikely.
No wonder. There's a big town nearby, so they decided to stay there. People who came to this village from town for business were bound to return for the day.
This village was so close to town that it was unlikely that there would be enough guests to support the inn.
"Well, that's not a problem. It's just a matter of staying overnight somewhere far away from the village. It's much more comfortable that way than staying at an inn in a small village or at the village chief's house..." (Mavis)
As Mavis said, it might not be the case for a normal hunter, but with Crimson Vow, the bed, toilet, and bath were much more comfortable. So, all they had to do was talk to some people in the village and get some information, then head straight to the port town and camp there for the night.
That's why....
"Then, aim for first contact with the first villager, let's go!" (Mile)
"Okay, okay..." (Reina)
By the way, "Let's go (れっつごー)" was a word that appeared occasionally in "Japanese fairy tale" so Reina and the others knew its meaning. They also seemed to understand synonyms such as "Let's la go (レッツラゴー)", "Tokkan (吶喊)", and some others.
Then, they talked to the old man who seemed to be bored, gave him some alcohol and snacks that Mile had taken out of his item box, and listened to him talk about various things.
The old man, who was too old to engage in fishing, was staring blankly at the sea when a young woman spoke to him and offered him alcohol and snacks, so he started talking!
Normally, one would be a little wary of being approached by a stranger, but for an elderly man who has already taken care of his life and doesn't care if someone comes to pick him up, he was more concerned about the young woman than worrying about himself. Apparently being able to talk was far more important. ...And it came with alcohol and snacks.
The old man didn't even notice that the girls' intonation was a little strange, that they sometimes spoke words they didn't know, and that they were strangely ignorant.
It was normal for people who came from other countries, or even within Japan, from far away in the mountains, to have difficulty speaking the dialect or to be quite ignorant. They weren't even citizens of the royal capital, so no one around here cared about such things.
Although it was close to a relatively large port town, this was a far corner of the country far from the royal capital and was an area where the people of the royal capital call them country bumpkin. ...That's right, they were the same "rural fellows."
Then, as Mile and her group were gathering various information from the old man, they started to gather around.
...Other old people.
The young people seemed to be out fishing in small boats or gathering seafood and seaweed from the rocky areas, but the older people were working on the seashore or indoors repairing nets and processing seafood. Apparently, they had sensed that one of their elderly companions was having a drink with a young woman, so they dropped their work and came over to meet up.
And…….
"Don't drink, don't drink, don't drink! Don't eat, don't eat, don't eat meat!"
There was enough alcohol and food in the item box.
Perhaps there were more users of storage magic in the New Continent than in the Old Continent, or perhaps Mile's storage magic... The old people were a little surprised when they saw the item box pretending to be one, but they weren't all that surprised. At best, they could only say that it was amazing and that they were jealous.
And Mile was kind to little girls and old people.
"Tsumami is an ogre meat dish made from organically processed ogre meat!"
...By the way, it had nothing to do with organic farming.
Of course, only the old people drank alcohol, and Mile and her group drank fruit juice.
Even in this country, there didn't seem to be any age limit for drinking, but it's not the kind of "Crimson Vow" that people would drink at a time like this, and Mile and her group weren't old enough to think that alcohol was delicious to begin with.
So, even if they did drink, it's at most a light sip of an aperitif.
"Hohoo, all the young people hate fishermen and go to the nearby port town or the royal capital to raise their flag?"
"That’s right. If an ignorant country person with no resources or connections can make a name for himself by going to the city, then there shouldn’t be thugs, thugs, poor people, and slum dwellers in port towns and royal capitals...."
"Right?!" (CV)
Well, it couldn't be helped that young people from the countryside had dreams and longings for the city.
"Like me, people who have broken their dreams and come back to this village are the most they can do..."
"Did the old man go too!!" (CV)
...Well, the old man must have had a "younger time."
It could not be helped. It was unavoidable...
"Crimson Vow" listened to various stories, but all four of them gradually began to feel that something was wrong.
That was…….
Huh? Are the old men talking a lot?
The story I'm hearing is supposed to be a true story, but aren't the monsters too strong or the hunters, mercenaries, and military soldiers too weak?
……yes.
For some reason, most of the episodes told were stories about humans having a tough time against monsters that shouldn't be that big of a deal...