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15-Intermission 9 Divine Punishment Day, Front Line

"Captain! There's someone in a forest nearby!"

"Hh the Farsight Pipe after hearing h, I could see a lizardkin and a catkin girls in the thicket near a forest

They probably didn't hear about the evacuation order since they were living deep in the s

Looks like there's no one else

"No choice, let's go help the on additional two horses"

The adjutant gave an order followingto the forest

"Haa, the glorious Seventh Knight Co lost children"

"Careful with yourthe notice about Divine Punishht Company have been encamped at the southern dom's populace and hold down the Monster Sta~?』

『That appears to be the case』

Frorass and looked at us

They said so but we couldn't hear thehtened frohts

"You e By the Royal Order, the populace is too evacuate to a nearby town You two also have to evacuate, however we cannot send guards just to escort you to the bottooes to the town"

I told the necessary info to the girls who couldn't say anything all out of surprise

I don't kno norants are informed of, but we cannot take the

"Encampment?"

"It's at the pass over there"

I pointed at a irl

"If we go noe should arrive just at the right ti steith et your shares too, eat and grow big"

"Aye!"

I heardwith the catkin kid

I saw the kid juht when she heard about the meat stew

Shedeep in the e elder shared some from the hunters I really understand the kid's joy

"So ere you two doing in the forest?"

"Master asked us to pick soirls slaves?

However, they're wearing soood clothes for slaves

Since there's probably no one eccentric enough to have a lizardkin as a love slave, these girls must be a kind of freed slaves

There'stheir fordoathering, however, we cannot allow you to go back to the forest now"

"I understand"

The lizardkin girl nodded unwillingly

Judging froh

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"What's this? Did you kidnap some demi-human kids?"

I heard a sarcastic voice e entered the fort gate

Fourthat was a hts, I would have dropped ainst these people

After all--

"Shiga Eight Sword Candidates-saination"

Their expressions turned sours when I emphasized the candidate part

In order to fill the vacant seats, I heard they were holding selections to be a Shiga Eight Swordsfour candidates

The loudest rumor said that those seats would be quickly filled once Viscount Pendragon and his companions who enliven the royal capital the other day returned

That's why these guys went to this dangerous front line in order to raise a ht wolf packs and wyverns, they ht? Did you meet any monster?"

"No, there was no monster around the forest, it was as if someone went ahead and swept theht Swords candidatess went back into the fort after leaving an irritating line

"Still--"

Although I've heard that the monsters around this area are culled out once a year, this is the first ti?"

Lizardkin and catkin girls averted their eyes while looking aard

"No, it's nothing"

"Uy uy~ Ta~?"

"Tairlover her lips

It's probably soht after, the catkin girl's storowled and ent to the courtyard where the outdoor dining rooo at the Seventh Knight Coe stew"

"Wa~y?"

"Thank you"

They've started distributing food at the encauessed

Since the inside of the fort is craed tables in the courtyard

"Geh, today'sraised the deirls' expectation, but today's stew is an extremely rare miss in recent days

Head chef Kozun of this fort is quite a skillful cook, but there's nothing that can be done with the hopelessly tough wyvern ood"

I heard those voices nearby

I thought they were being considerate to us, but I realized that they were being honest when I saw their expressions

Looks like they got an eating habit so horrible such that even this tough sinewy ood for theood?"

"Tougood~?"

"It has been prepared quite thoroughly The one who cooks this irl had a ords like she wasn't a freed slave

"Hou, the girls brought by the Third Patrol sure said soeh, old man Kozun"

Head chef Kozun appeared

Looks like he's loitering around in the courtyard after he's done with the cooking

"Who's your old hly prepared it is, this ga with this herb It eaken the seh, for real"

"Really--wa, ooh"

I tried the herb I got frorew up in a gourmet house, I couldn't say that this is tasty, however, it s not edible

"But, y'knoyvern is still wyvern"

One of my subordinates blurted out unnecessarily

Even if that's the truth, you shouldn't have said it here

"Then, go and fetch a better tasting aniet it for you if there's a wild boar around"

Someone reacts to the conversation between head chef Kozun and irls

"No wild boars~?"

"Right, I saw a Serpent Dragon (Naga) flying around, although it's a bit far away That thing is tasty"

"Naga? If it's sie or stew"

"They're tastier grilled than stewed The intestines are poisonous, please be careful"

"Hou, you sure know your stuff Do you often eat them?"

"I-It's not too often"

Oy, wait

Wait a ht as well have a taste on the legendary 『Feathered Serpent (Kukulcan)』"

"Tasty~?"

"Is that good?"

"According to an old tale, it's so good that dragons scrambled for one and sank a continent"

"Oh, jeezuz~?"

"That sounds pro"

Fools, if a Feathered Serpent (Kukulcan) really comes out, all of us will be killed in an instant

No, not that

Now's not the tia?"

"This ~?"

"From the summit of a mountain,three of them in a mountain at the seaward side"

"I'ht Pipe"

Then it's understandable

I said irls and went to the commander to report it

I don't knohat kind of talk was held between the fort commanders, but after a while, a birdman scout flew to the eastern sky

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