Chapter 258: The Stall Is a Huge Success! Once Again

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Taking the souvenirs with them, the saint, her attendant, and the children went back. Now that he’d drunk our liquor, the high-handed guy had become awfully servile.

“Please forgive me for my earlier rude transgressions,” he apologized while bowing deeply.

…I wonder, why do the people of this world flip their attitude as soon as liquor gets involved with anything?

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We let the people lining up outside in and started our stall work. As always, the guildmaster was the first in line.

“Today’s the last time? Seriously!?”

“The adventurers have come back, right? Tomorrow I’m going to wrap up the request with big game together with Sword and then we’ll move to the next town. Watch out to not drink too much. The simple dish has been prepared by the orphans. So, if you give them some support, they might be able to reproduce some of it.”

The guildmaster froze, before eventually nodding, “…You have my gratitude for various things.”

“I don’t remember having done various things that would justify gratitude. We’re an S-Rank adventurer party. We act high and mighty while carrying out our duty.”

He guffawed at my response.

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I thought the saint and her sidekick went to the church, but they came back!

“”We still haven’t drunk enough after all!”” They blurted out…

Putting aside the guy, will the saint be okay with this? I mean, I know that clergymen drink wine, but she’s around my age, isn’t she? Or is she possibly a legal loli?

Oh well, whatever. There’s no law stating that you must be twenty before drinking over here.

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It was a good town. This made it hard to leave, but it’s how once-in-a-lifetime encounters work. We had some fairly beneficial meetings here too, and this town was much cheaper for stocking up then the previous ocean town. And above all, it’s got olive oil!

The fish and octopuses are on the smaller side, but we should come here again sometime. It’s in the opposite direction when looking from the capital, but the distance to this place and the capital isn’t that different when coming from Ys.

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At the end, I headed over to the orphanage, donated some food, stroked the heads of the children since they were crying while clinging to me, and left.

Now then, I guess we’ll continue our journey around the bay once we finish the remaining request. Looks like Sword also got an urge to give Bronko a spin.

I’ll have Leemon and her party live in Char-Non-Violence – Kitchen Version. It basically runs on auto and will follow Sword and me. I taught them how to drive the thing just in case, but I can’t let them drive it yet since they need some more training to avoid accidents.

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ChaNon has a box-shaped exterior similar to a 『Kitchen Car』 that uses white and turquoise as colors with magenta accentuating certain parts. As I added paintings of Ryokus all over, it’s got a pop-feel. The front part houses the passenger’s seat that can also be used as beddings while the rear part is reserved for the kitchen.

All in all, it’s extremely narrow, but I did add a shower room. It also comes with a storage space to stow away tables, chairs, and other things, a dishwasher, freezers, refrigerators, a sink, six stoves, an automatic ale-server and cider-server (if you press a button, the correct amount of ale will stream out of the tab after adding foam while the cider will stream down in a long, narrow line from higher up), water faucets that provide hot and cold water, a rack for displaying items with a register at its side (depending on the purpose, it can heat or cool the item in the display), a menu (regardless of whether people can read or not), and as a finisher, an automatic washing-sterilization-cleaning function!

It makes the clean-up super easy! However, it has the precondition that you have to return everything to its usual place and throw out all food and drinks before using it.

Even so, considering I made this in half a day, it’s got quite the high performance.

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The instant Sword saw the finished ChaNon, he scolded me, “Hey, if you can build stuff like that, then do it right away!!”

“Baahh… Going with the Ryokus and Char instead is a lot more fun when in another world.”

When I said that, Sword apparently remembered how Mr. Amato became totally excited when he saw the Ryokus and Char for the first time.

“…Come to think of it, those two told you to make a demonic-beast-shaped Char, didn’t they…?”

I suppose they were referring to a cat-shaped bus that appears in a certain anime.

Tapping Char-Non-Violence – Kitchen Version, I explained, “This one here is commonplace in the other world. You can see such cars in cities. Even when Mr. Amato and Damsel Scarlet saw this, they’d just yawn at it. Char, Ryoku, and Bronko, on the other hand, are doubtlessly uncommon, and if they do exist, you can only look at them at exhibition halls…events where the latest golem and magic tool techniques are unveiled.

The Ryokus and Char are creations I built based on my dreams and imaginations. Building Bronko in the other world would be in the realm of possibility, I suppose. The technologies exist, but…it’d be quite expensive. The Char back at our mansion used four-wheeled golems, which had been created in the other world relatively early, as a reference, and the one I rented to Damsel Scarlet would count as a model of a later period, I’d say. Given that she already knew how to drive, I chose its form so as to capitalize on her driving skill.”

Sword blinked his eyes in surprise.

“…I see. So that’s why you used those shapes for the Ryokus and Chars, huh?”

“Well, I went a bit overboard with Char, but I don’t regret anything. As for the Ryokus, I built them while having a clear image…no, dream…while having a clear dream in mind.”

Sword remained silent for a bit and then stroked me, “…I see. Gotcha. Well, ain’t like I hate ’em or ‘nythin’. How to put it…you, Amato, and Scarlet might be used to these, but since that’s not the case for me, I like this since I feel like it’s an awesome, mobile home. Since the Ryokus and Char are more like livin’ beings, I can’t quite think of ’em as golems and they’re more like comrades to me.”

Char can talk as well, after all.

“As far as I’m concerned, I think I’d have doted on Char-Non-Violence – Kitchen Version, even if it had the shape of a demonic beast, but since I was running low on time and materials, I constructed it at top speed. You seem to like the “mechanic” types…the ones that cry golem at you, but since my memories are full of those, I regard them as boring. I want to build stuff I can only build in this world. The Ryokus, Chars, and Bronkos are all golems filled with dreams and aspiration only I can fulfill.”

“I see.”

He kept stroking me, and once I looked at him, he was staring at me very gently…kind of like a Dad.

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