Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 6 - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: 8

6-8 . Fashion Show

<TLN: G=Gokiburi=Cockroach . He wrote the 'G' in alphabet>

It would be good if you could do the same with thieves . . .

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After we left the town, it was peaceful for three days, but for two days after that, we were attacked by thieves three times .

Since they were just small scale thieves with 7-8 people, we had Arisa did preemptive attack with Shock Wave, and the beastkin girls to defeat the thieves .

At the first battle, Mia attacked with Acid Mist, but it was too gruesome so I made her use Blind Mist and Mustard Mist on the next time instead .

If I fight right away, I could make short work of them, but since it looked sufficient with just the beastkin girls fighting, I was just standing by while watching them and being ready to cover them anytime if needed . And since the beastkin girls had the advantage of level and fighting experience compared to the thieves, my turn never come up .

We didn't bring the thieves to where people lives after we learned the lesson from the last time . We made them sleep with Arisa's magic, stripped them from all their equipments besides their clothes and leave them tied with ivy rope . If their equipments are taken away, they probably won't be able to continue their thief business . If they tried to force their way, they would get killed instead at best .

I teared off their outer clothes and bandaged them so they wouldn't bleed to death . The earl territorial cavalry who are going on patrol would come across them in several hours, I'm keeping them alive for that sake .

Just in case, I put a paper written with "Thieves" on them .

"We're not getting into the template situation eh~ . "

"Templa~?"

"Is that delicious nodesu?"

After the second encounter with thieves today, Arisa's mood turns bad .

While grumbling, "I'd like to eat Tempura~", after hearing Pochi's word, she's lazing around on the wagon's floor .

"What kind of template?"

"Usually, shouldn't the theory be the thieves attack carriage with beautiful women or rich man and we come to save them while looking cool?"

I don't know that kind of theory .

"Arisa . "

"What is it? Mia . "

"Rich man . "

Mia points at me while saying so .

"Beautiful women . "

Mia points at the girls .

"A blind spot! We are the people who should be saved according to the template!"

Arisa groans while holding her head . Mia looks satisfied after looking at that reaction . She looks expressionless like always, but when I look closer, her mouth is slightly smiling .

Pochi, Tama and even Nana mimic Arisa by holding their head while looking troubled . Nana looks awkward, but let's leave her alone .

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"Master, it's the blue men . "

Responding to Lulu who's calling me, I go outside to the driver seat . What Lulu means with, "Blue men", are the earl's territorial soldiers . Seems she calls them that since their clothes are all blue .

"We're the knights of Kuhanou-dono, bring me your representative . "

"I'm the representative, my name is Satou . "

"Hoo, you're young . This highways is often frequented by thieves . It's dangerous to travel without escorts . Go back to the town, and hire some guards . "

"Thank you for your concern . We have excellent bodyguards, so it's fine . "

I open the wagon's curtain and Liza shows her face .

Liza, please stop that carnivorous smile, it's scary .

"Fumu, quite strong looking escort you have . But, you should keep your escorts outside the wagon so they could see if any thief comes . "

After giving that advice, the knights asks for my ID and returns to their patrol after looking satisfied .

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"Jaa~an, am I cute?"

Arisa spins around in front of me while saying so . She's looking cute while wearing one piece arranged with frills on its sleeves . When she's wearing that and coupled with her violet hair, she really looks like a character from a fantasy movie .

"Yup, you're cute . "

"Ehehehehe~ . "

She probably has not thought that she would be honestly get praised, she looks surprised and then becomes bashful while looking happy . That feels slightly fresh .

"Cute~?""Look~ nano desu . "

Pochi and Tama appears with the similar clothes as Arisa while asking . They spin around like Arisa .

"Pochi and Tama are cute too . "

"Wa~i . ""Yay~ desu . "

It looks like they find the floating skirt fun, they spin around until they become dizzy

"Since you've bought some fabric in the town, I tried adding frills on the clothes we have . "

"You're quite skillful . "

"I'm experienced with making clothes myself for some events back then~"

It's better not to ask what kind of events are those . She's decided on her pose .

Arisa who's looking proud, suddenly freezes . Nana is posing when I look behind .

"Master, am I cute?"

Cute, or rather, a sight for sore eyes .

"Nana! Wear some clothes, clothes!"

Lulu picks clothes that Nana has left on the ground and cover her with it .

She wears drawers like everyone on her lower-half part, but upper-half has brassiere . They're sewed half-cups . I didn't see anyone selling them in the city, so it was probably something Arisa made .

"Arisa, you're really skillful . "

"W, well yeah . "

It seems Arisa is weak with getting praised .

"Master, am I cute?"

"You're cute, or rather, sexy . Nana, don't thoughtlessly take off your clothes in front of an opposite sex . "

"Yes, master . "

I tried as hard as possible to say that calmly . Thanks to Poker Face skill which I've leveled up to expert level, I've succeed on not leaking excitement in my voice .

Nana seems to be satisfied with, "Sexy", comment and obediently wear the clothes that Lulu gives her .

If Lulu didn't react, I would probably fixedly stare at her without moving . If the two of us were alone, it could be dangerous . That's why, I should not hold grudge with Lulu's fast reaction . Though, it would have been nice if she were slightly slower . . .

"Did you only make clothes for three people?"

To keep up my appearance, I talk to Arisa getting back to the topic .

"Yup, it's impossible to make ones for everyone at once . Since Tama and Pochi were looking at my prototype with gleaming eyes, I made for them first . "

"Next, for me . "

"Yes, yes, the next one is for Mia . Lulu and Liza will be after that, it's fine right?"

"Yes, it's fine . "

"I wouldn't look good with such fancy clothes . "

"It'll look good I say . Right, should I add frills on your apron? You'll look like a young wife~ . "

It's rare to see girl's talk happen . It relaxes me .

While listening to the voices as background, I go back preparing lunch . My repertoire has increased after Liza teaches me . You'd get bored of the wolf meat steak no matter how delicious it is if you eat it everyday .

"Carefully scoop it after the lye comes out . Since it'd be wasteful to throw away the soup, please use this cloth to filter it into the the container and put it into the pot . "

I thought that you would just cut the ingredients properly, but it's unexpectedly labor-intensive .

Thanks to Liza's teaching, the result tastes quite good .

I've asked Lulu to make steak in place of me, but losing to the appealing looks of Pochi and Tama during the meal, I decide to make the steak later .

Okay, let's check the effectiveness of education skill by teaching Lulu the secret of grilling steak on the next lunch .

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"Satisfied~?"

"It was delicious nodesu~ . "

"Haa, blissful . "

The three are lazing around, while I'm compounding beside them . Recently, Nana and Mia have been helping with the clean-up, so they're not around .

I crush a magic core with my fingers, and put it inside the mortar .   Normally, you need nutcracker-like tool to crush it, but this tool is really not user-friendly, so I don't like to use it . Nowadays, I crush cores with fingers in secret .

I thoroughly grind it with the pestle and put it inside a bottle . I sort them inside bottles of various shapes and colors reflecting the effective ranks of the magic cores . I didn't forget to put labels on them too .

Since the magic shop girl has said that even in powder form the magic cores are unstable, I'll try to test how unstable they are .

I put an ear pick worth of powder on top of a wood plank and load it with magic power . Just when I load 1 point of magic power to it, "Pon", it explodes . The three centimeters thick of plank is perforated until the bottom .

Pochi and Tama who were dozing off jumped up and looked over here blankly . Arisa reproaches me with her sight . "I'm sorry for surprising you . ", I said and went back to the experiment .

Still, I think it's more powerful than gun powder even with the same amount . Though, the only gun powder I know is from fireworks or firecrackers, so my comparison might be flawed .

Certainly, a normal person would die if one of this explodes .

I put a red powder made from magic core on a plate and mix it with stabilizer . Since the stabilizer is white, it becomes sakura-colored .

I put a small cut of paper on top of a magic bestowing stand, and then put about 1 gram of the mixture powder on top of it .   I operate regulator at the edge of the magic bestowing stand, and set it according to the textbook . After this, I just need to put magic power to the magic bestowing stand .

The reagent is complete in about ten seconds for each . Seen from AR, it's Reagent 1(+5) . I wrap the completed reagent with paper like origami as instructed in the textbook, and then put it inside a small bag . I'll put them in the Storage after I've gathered enough .

Since I've gotten the knack, I put 10 grams on my second try and continue on .

I stop after making 100 reagents in 10 minutes .

Next I use those reagents to make recovery potions of magic power, health, stamina, 10 of them each . Since I could make five at once, and I've made other materials besides the reagents beforehand, it doesn't take long to finish .

"Arisa, put these away . Use it whenever you need . "

"Ho~i"

I put half of them inside Arisa's item box .

Pochi and Tama who see me tidying the imbuing tools begin to prepare the wagon .

It's Liza's turn to be the coachman this afternoon .

Since there doesn't seem to be any thieves or beasts that are going to attack the wagon, I guess I'll re-investigate the method to make scrolls .

At the time when I got [Shield] magic in my magic column, I immediately searched for the scroll creation method inside the magic books, but I couldn't find it .

I had not only searched in the magic books from Seryuu city, but also the books from Arisa, Zen and Trazayuya, but I still couldn't find it .

When I changed the search words, I did find ways to create magic tools and golem but, there's nothing about magic scrolls .

The next day after that, I always read through magic books looking for hints of magic scrolls creation . There is absolutely no clue so far, but I've became knowledgeable in type of chanting and magic theory .

Of course, I also have interest with magic tools and golem, but since they need large-scale facilities, it's unreachable for now . There are recipes for magic tools with simple structures, so I'll challenge myself by trying making that on the next break .

I'd like to quickly increase my repertoires, not only for cooking but also magic .