Satou's here. There is an unexpectedly large amount of omens of fall. But those many omens get overlooked until the fall.
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"Dried fish~?"
"They're aall fish nanodesu."
I brought Tama and Pochi along to one of the big fishing villages in Marquis Ganika's territory.
We came to this village to search for fish as presents for people who live in the mountain regions.
This territory of Marquis Ganika is in the middle of the air lane that connects the Royal Capital and the territory of Duke Oyugock, it's an elongated shaped territory that mostly faces the sea.
"Merchant-sama, would you buy our product nya?"
When we were walking along the dried fish racks toward the place where there was a lot of people, a girl with strange end word talked to me.
She's a catkin like Tama. Unlike Tama, her hair and eyes look bad, but it doesn't seem like she has an ill intention against us.
It's annoying to correct her that I'm a noble, so I decide to continue the talk while leaving her misunderstanding alone.
"You really saved me nya. We've been getting a whole lot of fish for a half of month, we couldn't eat them all, so we had to turn them into dried fish nya. Yet the usual merchants said, 'every fishing village in the territory is getting a good haul, the price has fallen', they were reluctant to buy them, it was troubling nya."
When I asked about the dried fish's price, it was bizarrely cheap at only 5% of the price in the Royal Capital, so I bought a lot as recommended.
This girl seems to be the boss of this village, catkins and gillkins people with big builds carry the baggage one after another when the girl orders them.
"Are you only going to buy the dried fish nya? We also have dried abalones and beautiful shell cratfs you nyaow?"
The shrewd catkin girl tried to sell some expensive products.
The shell crafts' craftsmanship were not quite that good, but since I heard that they were the handiworks of widows and girls from poor houses, I decided to buy them all as they weren't that much anyway.
I can just sell them in the inland branch offices of Echigoya Firm.
Another fisherman-like gillkin came to sell some fresh mackerel-like fish, so I brought a basketful of them.
When I bought one, more fishermen came to me one after another to try to sell their fish.
It seems the story about big haul is true.
"Octopus~?"
"The octopus outside the labyrinth are small nodesu."
Tama and Pochi who saw octopus among the seafood tilted their heads in puzzlement.
Of course they're small compared to the Dungeon Octopus that are more than 10 meter big in the labyrinth.
Even those are small compared to the Kraken that live in the open sea though.
While having that exchange, Tama and Pochi stuff the products that we've bought to their magic bags.
"Work~ work~"
"Pochi will work hard too nodesu."
"Magic bag nya! As expected of a great merchant, they're different nya!"
The catkin girl made a fuss when she saw that.
There were many merchants who have magic bags in the Royal Capital, but there's probably no peddlers going around fishing villages who have one, no wonder it's rare.
Then, a catkin old man wearing worn-out clothes appeared.
Perhaps it's just my imagination, but the surrounding people's eyes are steep.
"Hear me! Everyone! This big haul is an omen of the undersea people from the deep sea attacking! We have to abandon the seaside and run away to the mountain now!"
--Undersea people.
Without caring the atmosphere around, the old man makes his speech while scowling at the sea.
I tried searching the sea map just in case, but I couldn't find the thing called undersea people. Of course, I've also searched the seas outside the territory.
There was a lot of monsters, but that was just the usual so I ignored it.
"Bemud-jiisan, we have a customer right now nya. Talk your nonsense to your pet dog in your house nya."
Once the catkin girl did that, the villagers around also sneered at the old man.
U~n, I hate this kind of mood.
I urge the catkin girl to settle the payment, and lead the villagers' interest from the old man to me.
"Excuse me, how'd you like to be paid, with cash or jewels?"
"Of course cash nya! It'd be good if it's in copper coins so we can distribute it to everyone nya."
Even though we bought so much, I only had to pay with 73 copper coins. I've been buying things with gold coins so far, so this feels strange.
The villagers who saw the piled up copper coins made a fuss, "We're having a feast today!"
We were invited too, but since we needed to prepare the lunch, we refused.