"We're here, it should be here. I haven't been here for a long time."
The group of people came to the entrance of a remote village. Yagyu Jubei pointed at an old-looking house at the entrance of the village and said with some uncertainty.
On the side, Wen Wen, who was holding a camera, moved the camera to record the appearance of the village. While filming, the Black Feather Witch couldn't help but complain.
"You are really a poor friend. This village seems to have problems with food and clothing. You have the nerve to come to borrow money from others."
Wen Wen really couldn't understand why these Japanese witches were living such a miserable life. They were still witches after all.
As a reporter, she is definitely well-informed, but the average living standard of the witches on Japan Island is definitely the lowest she has ever seen.
No matter how poor the witches in the outside world are, they must have enough food and clothing. Even if they cannot afford a private island residence, it is not difficult to build a small house with a single door in a large residential area.
As for food, the witch does not need to eat. Eating is just to satisfy the taste. It is not a necessity. Besides, the price of ordinary food in the witch world is so low that mortals cannot imagine. After all, the food that mortals need to farm for half a year is not enough for those who farm. For a witch who specializes in breeding, it is just something that can be ripened with a random spell.
What is really expensive are the spiritual ingredients that contain magic power. Long-term consumption of these spiritual ingredients will help the little witch increase her magic power. However, low-level spiritual ingredients are not too expensive to accept, even for a relatively poor witch family. , It may be true that you can’t afford to eat every meal, but it is not difficult to eat one meal in two or three days.
In short, the life of a poor witch in the outside world is comparable to that of a mortal noble, and even nobles may not be able to compare with it.
But look at the witches on Japan Island
Alas, this shabby little wooden house is disgusting to all mortals, let alone a witch. She is obviously a witch with extraordinary power, but her life is more miserable than those mortals. Haha, what is the problem?
"Tsk, even if you don't have money, the witch can easily build a beautiful little house with her own power. How can it be so shabby for just a spell?"
Wen Wen complained softly.
Dorothy glanced around the village and was not very surprised by this situation.
"Alas, that's how it is with so many monks and so few people."
She sighed and said.
Dongying Island is not that big, and overall it is only the size of a medium-sized witch kingdom. However, the population in a bigger place is very dense.
Sophilia showed her the population statistics of Japan Island before. This big place has a population of two billion, which is outrageous.
You must know that the total population of the entire Witch World is only over 50 billion, but the territory of the Witch World is hundreds of millions of times larger than Japan Island.
Witches are scattered in this huge witch world, which is vast and sparsely populated, which gives the Council of Sages a headache.
After all, the witches' pace of expansion has never stopped, and the territory of the witch world is constantly expanding. In contrast, the witches' actually low birth rate cannot keep up with the expansion of the territory. In addition, The high mortality rate of the war race consumes the population.
The Council of Sages is often troubled by the fact that large areas of territory have become deserted due to no one to manage them. Anyway, various propaganda on the Magic Network to promote marriage and birth has never stopped.
But Japan Island and Wanjie are two extremes.
Dongying Island has always been closed in the past. Outsiders are not allowed to come in, and locals are not allowed to go out.
But witches are immortals. Even the most common witches have a lifespan of a thousand years, but the fertility of witches is not low.
It may be difficult for a powerful witch to have children, but the fertility of ordinary witches is not much worse than that of mortals. Even if the witch's fertility is a punishment mechanism, giving birth to a child will cause the magic power of the witch partner to permanently decline, but ordinary witches do not care about this in the first place. , anyway, no matter how hard they work, they have no hope of becoming a great witch, so why not give birth to more children and take a gamble, what if a mutant genius is born?
The weaker you are, the more capable you are of giving birth.
The result is conceivable. Even though the land area of Japan Island is about the size of two or three earths, this place may be huge enough for mortals, but it is too small for witches.
Generally speaking, the resident witch population of a medium-sized witch territory like Japan Island should not exceed 1 million, but now, Japan Island has obviously seriously exceeded the standard.
The limited land resources on this island are not enough to nourish so many witches. What is even more troublesome is the severely solidified social constitution of Japan Island.
The vast majority of the land on this island belongs to the Chinese, who number only a few hundred thousand people.
So of course, the life of these ordinary Japanese witches is not very comfortable. They even have to rely on the Chinese and rely on serving the Chinese grandfathers in order to barely obtain the few resources.
To put it bluntly, this is no different than being a slave.
The witches are indeed extraordinary beings with extraordinary powers, and their productivity is indeed powerful, but the prosperity of the overall productivity is never said to be directly proportional to the living standards of individuals.
What divides classes is never productivity, but whether they have control of the means of production.
Obviously, these ordinary Japanese witches do not have that condition.
Ordinary witches in the outside world are still superior to others. Even if they are at the bottom of the witch society, they are also at the top in the entire Western Universe. There are many servant races below them that they can use.
But this Japan Island
The witches can hardly afford to eat, so why are you counting on mortals?
Dorothy had discovered a long time ago that there were very few mortals on this Japanese island, even fewer than the number of witches. She was probably literally swept to death by the witches.
But curling dogs often have no good end, and the high degree of internal friction caused by extreme involution is never a good thing.
The otaku witch couldn't help but sigh, but she looked down at the red shadow on her waist, and her eyes became firm again.
It doesn't matter, I will take action later.
This darkness that has shrouded Japan for a long time will be torn apart by me, and the days to come will always get better and better.
On the other side, Yagyu Jubei looked at this shabby village with a look of shame. She almost wanted to turn around and leave, but as soon as she turned around, she saw Battousai looking at her sword, and There was a cold murderous intent in his eyes.
Miss Jianhao had no choice but to go up and knock on the door.
In fact, she was not very familiar with the family.
Decades ago, when she was still young, she traveled throughout the island in order to hone her sword skills. She encountered rough roads along the way and rescued many people. This family was one of the people she casually rescued back then.
This family is a hunter. In order to offset the lord's taxes, they once ventured up the mountain to hunt a bear demon. Needless to say, the result was that they were almost killed by the bear.
And I happened to be passing by at that time, and saw that the bear demon was really powerful and a good material for practicing sword skills, so I went up and used a slash and a sliding shovel to successfully kill the bear demon and save the lives of the family.
Afterwards, the family treated her to a meal and told her that they would not forget their life-saving grace. If the benefactor needed it in the future, they would go through fire and water and they would die without hesitation.
Of course, Miss Jianhao didn't care about this at that time. After all, she didn't think these ordinary people could help her. They were too weak.
So, after finishing the meal, she left directly, and over the years, the two parties never contacted each other again. If it weren't for all the rich "friends" who had died this time, she might not have been able to I remembered that I still had such a poor "friend".
Well, and she has millions of such "poor" friends.
There was no way she could do it. When she was traveling, she had cut down monsters, cut down vicious people, and even cut down natural disasters such as strong winds and floods. She had indeed saved many people. Everyone had the same story afterwards, and she had never done anything for so many years. Never took it seriously.
Although these friends are poor, as long as each of them lends himself dozens or hundreds of gold dollars, he can almost pay off the debt of Battōsai.
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Alas, she knew these friends were poor, but she really didn't expect them to be so poor. Let alone hundreds of witch gold dollars per person, she felt that a few dollars per person might be enough.
Besides, it's been so long, it's hard to say whether they still recognize me as a "friend".
At this time, Yagyu Jubei was a little depressed. After experiencing dozens of "visits from friends" in which the house was confiscated and destroyed, she now couldn't understand the concept of "friends".
Those rich "friends" who had been in constant contact with her over the years had betrayed her, so these "friends" who had not been in contact for decades were probably even more unreliable.
Really, I feel that it is more reliable to repay the debt with money. After all, I am also a swordsman. Let Battousai do whatever he wants for hundreds of years, which is enough to repay the debt.
Just when Miss Jianhao was thinking wildly, the door soon opened, and a witch with a delicate face came out.
"Who are you looking for? Master Yagyu, it's you."
Seeing a stranger coming to her door, the delicate witch was a little nervous at first, but then her eyes widened in disbelief.
"Great, Master Yagyu, are you okay? Those notices are nonsense. They all say that you were killed by that Battosai. I just said how can this be?"
The witch's happiness was obvious. She was so happy to see her benefactor again that her eyes were red. But when she turned her head and saw the cold swordsman with a cross scar on his face behind her benefactor, she was suddenly confused.
"Bata. Battosai?"
Because of the notices posted everywhere, the appearance of thousands of people killing Battousai has long been widely circulated, and because the previous notice said that his benefactor, Yagyu-sama, was killed by Battousai, how could the delicate witch and her family listen to it? This, so I hate this enemy "Batousai" with all my heart, so I remember it very clearly, and now I can recognize this enemy at a glance.
But why do benefactors and enemies get together?
This unexpected situation caused the delicate witch's brain to shut down.
"That's a long story."
This situation also gave Yagyu Juhei a headache. Alas, it was his own impulsiveness that ruined Miss Battousai's reputation.
"That's right, but it's always a good thing that you're fine, Yagyu-sama."
When the delicate witch saw her benefactor acting like this, she nodded in understanding. Without asking any more questions, she just warmly greeted the three of them into the house.
"Sir, come in and sit down. Please be sure to have a meal together today."
As she said this, she shouted towards the house.
"Sanada, come here quickly and see who is here."
After hearing the greeting, another gentle-looking witch came out with two little girls who looked to be about seven or eight years old.
"Mr. Yagyu! You are really okay. That's great. God bless you, Amaterasu."
The gentle witch was also very excited when she saw Yagyu Jubei. She covered her face and kept thanking the gods for their protection.
Immediately, she pulled the two little witches forward and let her two daughters meet their benefactor.
"Kana, Eko, come and see Lord Yagyu."
In short, the family is very enthusiastic.
And this also moved Miss Jianhao a little.
She didn't expect that after not seeing each other for decades, this family would recognize her as soon as they met. This is a true friend. What were they before?
However, she was so moved that she also glanced at the furnishings in this home and judged at a glance that this was a home that looked the same on the inside.
This home doesn't look much better than the outside. The furniture and objects are all visibly old. It can be seen that this family's life is really not very prosperous.
Miss Jianhao was immediately confused. How could she have the nerve to ask for a loan in this situation?
However, she was embarrassed that someone was being nice to her.
Dorothy saw that the family started to prepare for the meal with great enthusiasm. She quickly interrupted, "This is not the time for dinner. There will be many Yagyu's friends' houses to run to later, so..."
"Yagyuu had a falling out with her family. Now she is penniless and owes a lot of debt to a terrible being. If she doesn't pay back, she will die. So she came to borrow money. Do you want to borrow it? If you don't have any money, Then we have to go to the next house and ask."
The Otaku Witch cannot get into the emotional theme directly.
"you"
Miss Jianhao immediately glared, but there was no way she could get angry. After all, what Miss Battousai said was the truth.
"I'm sorry, I'm the one who disturbed you. Let's leave now and ask her at another house. Don't listen to her nonsense. It's not that serious. I have many rich friends. I just happened to pass by your house this time. Just taking a look."
Yagyu Jubei's fair face immediately turned red. She looked at the suddenly silent family and quickly tried to show off.
The delicate witch and the gentle witch looked at each other, and their eyes also began to be hesitant.
Just when Miss Jianhao had pushed Dorothy and Wen Wen to the door and was about to force them to escape, the delicate witch spoke.
"Wait, Lord Yagyu, please bring these."
She chased after him, then took out a bulging money bag from her arms and handed it to Yagyu Jubei.
Before Miss Jianhao could refuse, the purse had already been taken away by Dorothy.
The house witch opened the purse and found that it was actually full of copper coins and silver coins. It looked like a lot, but in fact, the total was estimated to be only more than a hundred gold dollars.
But this is not a small amount of money, especially when the living conditions of this family are so poor, they can still have such savings, which is really surprising.
"Mom, that's my sister's tuition to learn swordsmanship."
The smaller of the two little witches on the side became anxious when she saw her mother's actions, and she shouted loudly.
But before she finished shouting, her mouth was covered by the sister next to her.
The older little witch said shyly.
"Actually, my talent is not very good, so I don't need this. Mr. Yagyu, you need this more than me. After all, if it weren't for you, neither my sister nor I would have been born."
Although this little witch is young, she is so sensible that it is heartbreaking.
Magic flashed in Dorothy's eyes, and she realized that this little guy seemed to be a little genius. He already had the same level of magic as her at the age of seven or eight.
Ah this
The otaku witch silently put the money bag away, then turned and left.
"Stop, you have the nerve to accept this money, won't your conscience hurt?"
Yagyu Jubei was anxious. She quickly blocked Dorothy, and then tried to attack her chest to grab the money.
In response to this, the otaku witch dodged away, and then looked at her speechlessly.
"Aren't you a swordsman? Don't you know how to teach swordsmanship?"
She looked at this guy like a fool.
Miss Jianhao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.
"I'll give you ten minutes. The next one will come in ten minutes."
She said so.
And Yagyu Jubei did not dare to delay. She quickly stepped forward, took out a sword manual with detailed annotations from her arms, handed it to the little witch who wanted to learn the sword, and then demonstrated it again against the clock.
The Sword Master passes on the sword.
The weather is hot and cold. I have a cold. Please be careful.
(End of chapter)
