A few days after returning home, Chariot accepted two requests at the same time.
One is a request to defeat the ogre, and the other is a carriage escort from the furniture factory.
The ogre's crusade was in the village of Cabane east of Ibro, while the destination of the furniture workshop's carriage was Kilmaya, a small town in the Principality of Escalante south of Viscount Lagato.
You might think it's impossible to receive requests in completely different places at the same time, but it's possible if you split the normal party into two.
Long-term collaborators Leos, Gard and Sergio will be responsible for defeating the ogres.
On the other hand, the escort to the furniture workshop was what Schooler had requested, so I went along as a reward.
"I want to conquer the ogre, but this time I'm going to learn how to protect it from Shull."
I was temporarily escorting the village chief of Azka Village to Ibro, but I just sat on the coachman's platform with Mr. Zeol and did not do anything like escorting.
"Bolz, the owner of the furniture workshop Diaco, has a quirk, but the salary is very high"
"A habit...?"
"You'll know when you meet him."
Early in the morning, while heading to the south gate of the meeting place, Shule explained the content of the request in detail.
Furniture workshop Diaco is a workshop that produces fine furniture and apparently has customers in towns outside Ibro.
The workshop owner, Boruz, appears to attend business meetings with Kilmaya's business partners about twice a year.
Schuler began taking on convoy duties last spring, and this will be his fourth request.
The one-way carriage ride from Ibro to Kilmaia takes about four days.
The Lagarto family, the Escalante family, and knights from the two families patrolled along the way, so it seemed that there was almost no danger, but it was not absolutely free of thieves and monsters.
"On rare occasions, you may encounter a wyvern"
"Isn't the wyvern an A-level monster?"
"True, but it's the weakest of the A-classes, and I only attack travelers once every few years, so I'm not worried I guess."
A wyvern is a pterosaur with wings on its arms.
The wings are about 4 meters long when spread out, and about 7 meters from the head to the tip of the tail.
They sometimes nest every few years on Mount Buller, on the border of the Lagato and Escalante areas, but they rarely seem to come down from the mountains to the highway.
"Even so, there are still cases of livestock being attacked on farms at the foot of the mountain."
"What would you do if a wyvern attacked you?"
"When the time comes, I will sacrifice my horse to protect my employer."
"Wyverns are big monsters, but once they get the necessary food, they'll leave."
"The horses are really pitiful, but the guard contract seems to say that they must be sacrificed."
While Shure and I were waiting at the designated place near the south gate, a large carriage drove up.
It had four horses and a cargo bed behind the cabin.
When the carriage stopped, there was a woman who looked like a maid and a man who looked like a housekeeper, followed by a middle-aged leopard man and a leopard woman who was a little older than me.
"Good morning, Mr. Bolz."
"Good morning, Schuler, is this the adventurer he was talking about?"
"Yes, it's Hua Wuming from the same party."
"Nice to meet you. I am Hua Wuming, a C-level adventurer."
"Haha, even though you are a cat person, you are also C-level."
Borch looked around, as if judging me, and Schur's temples twitched.
It's hard for others to understand, but he seems to be in a bad mood.
"She is indeed a cat lover, so that's okay. Don't get close to my daughter unless necessary. Okay, I understand!"
"Yes, I understand"
Schuler seemed to say he had a quirk about Borzi's idiot parents.
Her daughter Elisa is said to be 17 years old. Although she is not as tall as Schuler, she is still quite tall and pretty.
It seems that the original request was made to Schuler because he did not want male adventurers to get close to Alyssa.
This time I was allowed to accompany him because he was in the same party as Schule and was a cat lover.
If Alyssa and I walked side by side, it would be like an adult and a child, owner and pet, so naturally Bortesi would allow it.
However, Bolz was unaware of the cleaning techniques Miss Leila taught me.
"Well, I have nothing to show Elisa"
When we met, Alyssa's fingertips were twitching.
"It seems that you want to take off my proud coat, but Boruz's eyes are very bright, so let's give up."
"Really, I'm a guilty man too Nyanten."
The cabin is large enough to accommodate about 10 people, but Shure and I sat on the bridge or rather, I sat on Shure's lap.
Since it is a four-carriage, the driving station is set at a higher position and the view is also good.
In addition to the four people in the cabin, there was a driver and two craftsmen on the carriage.
I thought the owner of the workshop was a luxurious cabin, and the craftsmen would carry luggage, but I didn't expect it to be a carriage from a furniture workshop, with a comfortable chair on the loading platform.
The three of us sitting on the windswept coachman's platform were the worst in the carriage, but of course we used natural magic to resist the cold wind.
"The wind can't blow it."
"Huhu, thanks to Hua Wuming's natural magic."
"You can do this with empty properties."
The driver, Haig, is a donkey man in his 30s.
Haig wore a thick cloak and hat to protect himself from the cold, but he was happy to know that he was protected from the cold wind.
"Okay, I know I can't help it because of my job, but it's hard when it's windy."
"Are we going to cover the horses too?"
"No, the horse's body temperature will rise when it runs, so it's okay."
"What do you do when it rains?"
"Yeah, it's so convenient to just block the raindrops."
"I can do it, then let's keep it out of the rain."
"Thanks.
"Of course, Hua Wuming is extremely talented."
From Ibro, continue driving south along the highway to reach the Royal Capital.
There are many other large towns in the area along the way, and the roads are well maintained and have more traffic than the roads heading north, east, or west.
Trees have been cut down on both sides of the highway to improve visibility.
Cows and sheep graze on the other side of the fence, and the grass prevents visibility from getting worse.
"Oh, it's completely different from the road heading north."
"With such good visibility, it's easy to see monsters approaching and it's difficult for thieves to hide."
"What if a thief shows up?"
"Escape is the first priority, unless the entire carriage is wiped out."
"An attack by a thief on a carriage is a serious crime and is punishable by death unless there are exceptional circumstances."
Even if the adventurer responsible for guarding kills the robber, he will not be recognized as self-defense, but will receive a reward.
"If you have a bounty head like Zossen in the mix, you can get a much higher bounty."
Basically, banditry is a crime that pays off but even so, in years when crops fail, many people pretend to be bandits and flee at night because they cannot pay taxes.
"It's been a hot summer and it looks like there's been a drought in the south of the kingdom."
"I heard there's a good harvest in this area."
"Yes.
Since his own safety as a coachman was at risk, Haig seemed concerned about this information.
“Where do you get information about other cities?”
"The first is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. People from other towns who come here to do business will definitely come to us, and the information is the most accurate. There are many horror stories here, so you have to be careful." Be careful. "
"I understand"
There is an unspoken understanding of carriages traveling on the highway that, except for the very slow carriages, keep a certain distance from each other and travel at similar speeds.
The carriage in front is always at least a hundred meters away.
When attacking as a thief, it is natural to shorten the distance. If we keep the distance, it will appear that we are not hostile to us.
"In other words, when the distance between carriages shrinks, we guards need to be careful."
About an hour after leaving Ichiro, the carriage in front caught up with the carriage in front.
The overtaken carriage was loaded with a large amount of straw.
Viewed from behind, it looks like a mountain of straw moving.
"Hua Wuming, be careful, sometimes there are robbers lurking in the straw."
"Do you understand it"
At first glance, stacking lots of straw doesn't seem to increase speed, but hiding the robber in the straw seems to be a classic trick.
It seems that when you try to overtake the slow carriage, robbers attack the driver from the straw.
"Hua Wuming, where is the carriage behind you?"
"Don't come near me"
Schuler lowered me from his knees, sat me down in the middle of the black grid, and grabbed the hilt of the dagger he had pulled from my waist.
The distance to the carriage driving in front is shortened, forty meters, thirty meters
"I haven't seen any suspicious movement from the straw."
20 meters, 10 meters Just when I was about to catch up, something moved in the straw.
Just when Shure was ready, a face of a girl with pigtails popped out of the straw.
The bear-like girl smiled and waved.
Schuler waved to him, a wry smile on his face.
"Haha, don't be surprised."
