CH 181

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I Hadn’t Thought About How To Transport The Wine In order to pay Mr. Hannes for the wine, I stopped my training and returned to the room where my things were kept. Then I took out the gold and silver and handed it to Mr. Hannes. “Yes, thank you.” “Really, you don’t have to do so much for this village…but thank you.” Said Mr. Hannes and his wife gratefully. “Still, how will you carry all of that wine with you?” “Ah…” I had been thinking so much about buying the barrels of wine, but had not considered how I would carry them… Each barrel weighed a few hundred kilograms, and so it was not something I could carry alone. Not only that, but there were over twenty of them… Leo wouldn’t be able to carry them either…so I wasn’t sure what to do… “I hadn’t thought about that… But yes, they will need to be carried…” “You saw through the sphere and the illness, but are still forgetful of other things…” Mr. Hannes looked stunned at my lack of foresight. Well, it wasn’t like I had done any detective work. It was all because of Leo… It had nothing to do with my own intelligence. In any case…I had to think of a way to carry them back. If only I had told Phillip to ask Sebastian if there was a way… However, I had made the decision after they left, so it could not be helped. “What should I do…” This was not a problem where Weed Cultivation would help me. While I did have herbs that raised one’s physical ability, that would still not allow you to carry a barrel that was hundreds of kilos… “We do have some wagons in this village… But it won’t be enough to carry all of them at once…” Mr. Hannes said, after thinking it over. As they delivered the wine barrels to Ractos, of course, they would have wagons. However, they did not have enough to deliver them all at once. And so it would likely be two or three…maybe four or five barrels at a time. “The merchant is arriving tomorrow, yes? The one from the count’s territories…how will the wine be delivered to them?” The count’s territory was even farther than Ractos. Not only that, but since they did not make the journey often, they would have to carry a lot each time. In that case, I wanted to know how they did it. “The merchant comes to sell us grapes. And so they have several wagons, much like a caravan. The grapes are unloaded here, and they take the wine barrels instead.” “…I see.” Well, that was the natural way to do things. I didn’t know why I expected some other special method. “I’m sorry, but I’ll think of a way to carry them before I leave this village. Even if it means taking them a little at a time.” “I understand. It is no problem for us at all.” Mr. Hannes was not against the idea of carrying them one by one. However, I wanted to remove them from the village as soon as possible. It wasn’t like they were being careless, but I still worried that someone might drink it by accident. The wine I had bought made people sick. And so if someone drank and became ill, then I would feel somewhat responsible. And that was not why I had bought the wine. “Well, I’m going to train a little and then go to sleep.” “Yes, good night.” After dinner, I said good night to Mr. Hannes, who was going to bed, and then I went out into the back garden. While I needed to think of a way to carry the barrels, I also couldn’t forget my training. Because you never know what might happen. “Phew… Too bad there isn’t a bathtub here…” I returned to my room and wiped myself with a towel and some hot water. The chief’s house might have been bigger than the others, but unlike a nobleman’s house, it did not have a bathing room. Well, perhaps that was just considered normal in this world. After wiping myself, I settled down quietly in my bed in order to sleep. “…Now that I think about it, I’ve never slept alone since rescuing Leo.” She had been so weak on that first day, and so I ended up staying up the whole night and watching her. It was all a nostalgic memory now. And ever since then, Leo had always slept close to my bed at night. She was still a maltese back then. So she would sometimes crawl under my blanket. Or I would wake up and see her resting on my stomach. If she did that now, I would be crushed… And ever since coming to this world, we were always together. We were in the same room at the mansion, and whether we visited a village or a forest, we stuck together. And even during those nights where she couldn’t fit inside the tent, there was still Sebastian and the others. And so this was the first time in a few years where I really slept alone. “Of course, I’m too old to say that I feel lonely… But still…” I thought to myself while going over those memories with Leo. While I had sometimes been a burden to Leo, and sometimes I had to take care of her, they were all good memories to me. And I felt myself smiling as I drifted off to sleep. —————– The next day, I woke up as the sun started to rise. I got ready for the day and then left the room. Mr. Hannes and his wife were already awake and just about to eat breakfast. “Good morning.” “Good morning, Mr. Takumi. Breakfast is ready.” We greeted each other and then I sat down at the table to eat. They were both elderly, and it seemed that much like many other elderly people, they slept early and woke up early. Of course, it would be rude to say such things, and so I kept it to myself. After I finished breakfast, I did some light jogging before going to the back of Mr. Hannes’s house in order to make herbs with Weed Cultivation. According to Mr. Hannes, the merchant would arrive shortly after lunch, and so I had time until then.

CH 181

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