10 09. Encounter With The Knight
The next morning, Darya went out to collect in the woods outside the king’s capital.
Even when it comes to collecting, it’s light enough to take stones, sand, etc. near the street. I don’t expect that much from the contents.
I’m upset to be in the tower and think I might be able to come to Tobias again, and I’m glad someone I know asks me about breaking my engagement.
If I went to the woods, I would never see anyone like that, so I was going to change my mood for the day.
The move is a carriage, but I am alone, so I rented a sturdy boxcarriage with metal doors to a slightly excited and trained eight-legged horse (Slapenil).
The rental fee is quite high, but these eight-legged horses (Slapenil), small demons and thieves attacked on the move, etc. are said to kick them down with one blow.
They also say that if you go from the door behind the platform to the platform and hide, and blow the whistle that is there, you will return to the king’s capital on your own without the instructions of your Lord.
I went to make an appointment and said I just had a cancellation, so I borrowed it without hesitation.
At first he had roughly run an eight-legged horse (Slapenil), but there was nothing wrong with it. Instead, I’m comfortable enough to think I’m getting the eight-legged horse to take care of me.
Under the blue sky, the birds’ voices overlap and the wind slowly rocks and flows through the trees.
Although there are some bumps on the road to the woods, the road width and condition are quite good. More importantly, the good carriage was still comfortable to ride.
From near Wang Du to the forest of purpose, it is said that there are few demons.
But as my father taught me, in case, I have put stone-throwing demon stones in my jacket, as well as protective gear. It’s a form that we can handle even when a human thief comes out.
When Darya confirmed that no one was there, she took a bottle of white wine out of the bag and put it directly on her mouth.
After a few sips, exhale loudly. Badly behaved drinking, but that’s what I wanted to try once.
Apparently the last few days have been surprisingly stressful.
I finally felt like I could breathe deeply.
If you continue down this road, there is a slightly opened river plain.
So when I picked the stones, I looked out at the river, and let’s make it a little early for lunch – that’s what I was thinking, and from the woods beside me, a bunch of birds honked and flew.
He stops without an eight-legged horse (Slapenil), holds up his front right leg and peers into the woods. Apparently, he’s on guard.
There was noise with Gaza from the deep right side of the direction of travel. It’s not the sound of a small animal standing.
A bigger animal, maybe, a demon.
Darya gripped the stone-throwing demon stone tightly for the demon.
“… finally, the way…”
It was man who came out of the bushes of the woods with a faint voice.
Except there’s blood everywhere from head to toe.
“Hey, you okay?!
“… mi, water… get it… huh?
The man with his hands and knees on the ground is blurred and speechless.
Darya hastily took a leather bag of water from the carriage.
“Drink!
The man, who received with his head lightly lowered, can drink the water from the leather bag at once, just because it is a shame to breathe.
“… I’m back… thank you…”
The man fell into the spot.
The chest area of the armor remains, but both the shoulder area and the back area are torn off. The clothes he is wearing are also blurry, and his upper arm is badly twisted with multiple wounds from his left shoulder. Anyway, my whole body is bright red with blood.
“Are you okay?!
“I’m fine… mostly, demon blood… off the hook with my people… from the mountains, two days, running…”
The direction the man managed to put his finger on, the top of the mountain ahead is covered in snow.
From that mountain, all I can say is that he lived a lot.
Being out of company may mean being an adventurer.
“Wait a minute.”
Dalya entered the carriage once, poked it out of her luggage and transferred it to a wooden cup.
“Go ahead.”
“Thanks……”
I received a cup and the man who took a sip rounded his eyes.
“This is a potion…!
“Yeah, I’ve already opened it, so drink exactly to the end”
The opened potion cannot be saved.
I tried putting it in a cup because I might shy away from knowing it was potion, but they were right.
The price of one potion is 5 large silver coins. It feels like Dahlia, and it is a 50,000 yen medicine.
It may seem a little expensive, but it works pretty well for injury recovery. I can’t replace my life.
“I’m sorry… I’ll pay you when I get back to Wang Du”
When the man lowered his head and finished drinking the rest, he took a few deep breaths.
How strange it was for my upper arm wound to heal as it slowly unwounded.
“Thank you. It’s easier.”
I got a healthy looking voice, but the man’s face is full of blood, so I can’t confirm changes such as better complexion.
“I’m late to name it. I’m in the Knights’ Demon Crusade Squad. I say Volfredo. I’m the youngest son of a lower nobleman, so don’t worry, call me Wolf.”
The man was a knight in a demonic crusade unit belonging to this country.
This world has demons everywhere.
Usually, meat, skins, bones, etc. come on the market as a resource, defeated by adventurers and via adventurer guilds.
But when it is judged dangerous to wear it with the scope of human activity, or when the number of demons becomes too high, or when strong individuals or large demons are found, the country’s demon crusade forces go out.
The threat of this world, a multitude, or a large demon, is like a disaster.
I only fight such demons, and I heard that the Demon Crusade Squad is full of pretty strong people.
“Dali the common man, is. I do a lot of things.”
Darya deliberately cut her name like a man and said:
Today I wear my father’s jacket loosely. On top of that, he has a black hat with all his hair hidden, black framed glasses, a choker that changes his voice low, and his throat is covered with a gauze muffler.
It’s a precaution in case you get tangled up with one woman in the woods.
In the case of aristocracy, men often avoid riding a carriage with a single woman, so they decided not to explain that she was a woman.
At least, this knight in front of you should take him to the king’s capital early in the carriage.
“Mr. Dali, I’m so sorry, but if you’re going to King’s Capital, will you let me take a ride? Of course, we’ll pay you back when we get back to the castle.”
“Of course it is. Please get in.”
“Thank you. It helps.”
Wolfe rubbed her bright tea-based eyes after blinking several times.
If you look closely, the white eye area is congested.
“Um, eye, does it hurt?
“Since the demon blood came in, it’s been a little crazy…”
The fact that it has not healed in an earlier potion means that it is not an injury, but a possible poison or eye disease. Or maybe the blood that’s still on my face is flowing into my eyes again.
“You should wash it off early. I think some demons may have gone blind.”
“That’s 20 gold coins in the temple…… hey I’d like to avoid that”
There are doctors in this world, but severe injuries are more common in temples for clerics to treat. It is gratifying that most injuries are treatable, although it is paid for and the heavier the injury, the more expensive it becomes.
“There’s a river nearby, do you want to go wash it?
“Please”
When Wolf got up, he finally realized he was pretty tall. It also looks slightly skinny, but that could be due to its nearly 190cm height.
“I’m sorry to bother you, but next door.”
Darijah vacated half of your table.
“No, it’s dirty. I’ll walk to the river.”
“It’s a waterproof cloth laying down there, so it’s okay”
“Really? Then I’ll be sweet with your words.”
Wolf sits pretty much by the edge so his clothes don’t touch this one. Still, the smell of dark blood flows quickly. You should still wash your whole body out early on this.
I wish I had brought a demon stone of water that could give me some amount of water, but I only brought drinking water in a leather bag with embalming grant.
“Isn’t this waterproof cloth handy?”
“Do you think?
It would be a casual word like a public discourse for Wolfe, but Dalya became terribly happy.
The waterproof cloth was developed when I was in college, because it was my own devised magic guide.
There are no vinyl materials in this world.
In order to make my father’s raincoat, I wanted a cloth that was waterproof, and all sorts of trial and error began with a waterproof cloth.
As a result, once the blues lime was powdered, mixed and applied with chemicals on one side of the cloth, followed by a settling magic was made of a waterproof cloth made by Dahlia.
Thanks to this, for a time, on the rooftop and all over the garden, various slimes were dried or there was powder in the bottle on the floor.
Incidentally, during the rapid spread of the waterproof cloth, there was also random capture by adventurers, who, if they were willing to blueslime, would undoubtedly be resented.
“When I first joined the Knights, I used to apply wax (brass) to camp tents and cloaks for rain. It’s a rookie’s job, but this is so hard. Since water comes in through the gap when I forget to apply it…… it is a thick cloth so that the wax can be applied well, it was also hard to carry. After a while it became a waterproof cloth, lighter and less laborious”
“Was it? It’s nice to be convenient.”
“Raincoats are fine, too. Oh, a raincoat is like a cloak made of a waterproof cloth, a cape through your arms, but when you start using it, fewer people in your unit get a sweat rash (or something like that). Until then, it was a cloak of leather even on rainy days in the summer…”
“Sweat rash (also), is it”
Darya made a waterproof cloth, but I never thought about that.
“Yeah. Even if it’s itchy, it’s under my armor. I won’t put it on anyway, because I can’t really take a bath in the camp. Of course, you can’t fool yourself when you’re on the move, because when you purge, you can be focused.”
It was a truer reason than I thought.
When I hear the voice I actually use, I see something that needs to be improved.
I want to develop a more breathable cloth while retaining the waterproof function, and I want to make it even lighter if possible.
“It looks like it would be useful to have a waterproof cloth that is more ventilated and lighter”
“I hope so. However, the durability is still there, so it must be difficult.”
I need to retain durability as well, this may need to be tried out a lot, including new materials – Wolfe has spoken out when I’m thinking about it.
“Excuse me, I’m just talking about the inner circle. Mr. Dalí, do you have a collection around here?
“Yeah, I’ve been looking around a lot”
“I’m so sorry, I got in the way of my job”
“That’s not true. I was going to see how things went today.”
As we were following each other, we saw Kawahara.
It was originally an area created as a resting place on the move, so it’s quite flat and large.
I left the carriage in a place I had flickered, and we both went down.
Wolf swept across the shallow waters of the river, washing his eyes and face out immediately. but there is also dry blood and it seems hard to take.
I keep washing my face with water over and over and finally try to give it to you.
Darya handed him a towel in his hand.
“If you don’t mind.”
“Excuse me.”
He finally turned to Dahlia, trying to soak his face with a towel.
When I saw that face, the words disappeared.
The short hair, dirty to blood and dust until just now, was glossy sandalwood.
White skin with no blemishes, too neat facial contours, nose beams through trying to get high, thin, well-shaped lips.
Under his long eyelashes, when he was in the works of art, his long, sliced eyes had glowing gold like a dark whiskey in the light, black eyes reminiscent of the night in its center.
Through Darya’s previous life and present life, he is a beautiful young man who contends for 1,2nd place.
I don’t want to go out with you, but if you want to decorate your portrait, maybe it’s not bad.
“Animals may come by with the smell of blood, so they bathe in water and then wash their clothes too”
With that said, Wolfe takes his armor and heads towards the center of the river.
Darya turned her back immediately to the sound of the water.
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