Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 400: A journey to fix the world?

I slept soundly in the carriage, and when the sun rose in the morning, I woke up and went outside to find there were many monster corpses. Out there was Ferryl who seemed to be waiting to be to be praised, Seru who was satisfied with herself, Titan who was posing as if proud of the amount of monsters it caught, and Gloam who perched on its shoulder unconcerned.

『Master, we hunted all the dangerous monsters in this area.』

「……y-yeah, you did well.」

I was at a loss for words at the proud Tsubaki. I had no choice but to pet the familiars as a reward.

「Oh my, did you all hunt these? As expected of my Ferryl. Good girl, good girl.」

「Ooh, Seru, you’re so clever!」

Akane and Laeva who got out of the carriage praised their own familiars. I’m afraid that if they’re praised too much, they would do the same thing every time we camp out.

「This is…… looks like our departure will be extended.」

「Seems so. But this village has plenty of orc meat, so should we offer it to the towns and villages we will stay in after this?」

「I guess so. But I think it would be better to ask the villagers for help with dismantling and then give them a reward after.」

Sophia alighted from the carriage, then she said that we should delay our departure after seeing the mountain of prey, and Maria proposed giving a bit of it as a reward for the villagers help.

「Let’s do that. In the meantime, Titan can surveil the surroundings and repair their outer walls.」

The village originally didn’t have a good wall, but it was destroyed here and there by the orc colony. The villagers seem to have made some emergency repairs, but that wouldn’t pose much resistance against goblin or wolf-type monsters.

「T-this is……」

As expected, a mountain of monsters piled up in the village plaza was conspicuous, so the chief hurriedly came to check it out, but was surprised to see that our familiars had hunted the mountain of monsters.

「Ha, haha, so you see, we would like your people to lend us a hand again. Ah, of course we’ll pay you as a reward.」

「…………」

He didn’t know what I meant by it, but it seems we’ve at least enlisted some help.

After that, the villagers all helped with the dismantling. We discussed it with the chief, and it’s been decided that the their reward would be a bit of the monster materials, magic stones, and a bit of the grain I had.

Majority of the meat they obtained was orc meat, but the fields were ruined by the orcs, affecting their harvest. It wouldn’t compensate for that, but they were still thankful for the grain that I did have.

In the end, we spend nearly the entire day dismantling the monsters Tsubaki and the familiars hunted that day, and that very evening, there were more monsters that were added, but I decided to just store them in my Item Box. We can’t go on if we keep doing this.

「Thank you very much.」

「「「「Thank youーーー!!」」」」

With the villagers seeing us off, we departed in the direction of Samandour Kingdom.

Inside the carriage pulled at a slow speed for Tsubaki, we talked about what’s to come.

「We ended up helping by coincidence, but the result wasn’t bad at all.」

「Indeed. We aren’t completely unrelated to Sydnia’s collapse, after all.」

「That’s right. I don’t want to see the faultless young children to suffer.」

Sophia and Maria found no problem with helping that village.

「I think you should do as you like, Dear Husband.」

Marnie 100% supports what I decide on doing. I wonder if that’s fine for every case.

「I can’t say much as third wheel, but while it wasn’t very much like a honeymoon, why don’t we treat it like Mito Komon’s country reformation journey?」

「What’s that, the Mito Komon country reformation journey.」

「Mito Komonya?」

「It’s the tale of man who went on a journey beating bad people.」

Akane gave a suitable response to Lulu-chan. That’s not the case. There’s no way a tour around the entire country is possible in the Edo period…… wait, that’s not what this is about.

「In short, we’re going to stop by as many towns and villages as we can, and help as many as we can in those places?」

「DAT’S RIGHTO[1] !」

「……so that’s how it will be. Haa, well, we’ll be stopping by many villages and towns, so we may as well help, huh.」

Outside the carriage, Ferryl, Seru, and Gloam were carrying the monsters hunted by the roads. It was a hassle retrieving them every single time, but I guess I could think of it as their stress relief.

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Footnotes:

1. Spoken in english

TLN: Happy holidays! Take care and have fun if you all celebrate! Also, thank you for 400.