It was an amazing inn wasn't it dad."
"The food was delicious too~"
"You're right...."
I'd be happier if I didn't know that the lodging cost one gold coin for each room and the meals cost three gold coins....
I accidentally heard that from the employees' conversations.
When I think about earning five gold coins, just how many years would that take.
We put our luggage in the cart in the lodging's courtyard.
Pulling the cart was an unfamiliar animal called yak. It was like a big goat with brown fur.
Looks like the shepherds who are guarded by envoys are traveling with us.
There are around 50 people going to the same village as us.
There's a lot of unmarried youngsters, and it seems there are some families who have girls as if matching them.
We parted way with the shepherds along the way, and arrived at an open place after climbing a mountain road. There are two wolf statues on both sides of the village's entrance. It's probably the village elder's hobby.
In front of the vast maintained farmland, there are lines of splendid houses that are as good as the village elder's mansion.
"Oy, this soil is great see."
"You're right, it's soft like the soil in a forest."
The men who couldn't wait anymore and jumped to the field and exchanged words.
Don't tell me, the settlement village we're going to live in is this splendid?
Such wishful thinking floated in my mind.
"Everyone, please gather here."
The guide girl called us, and then we gathered while leaving the carts.
Several people came from the village. Everyone is wearing fine clothes. They must be the tenants of the lord here.
"Good work. This is the settlement village everyone is going to live in."
--What?!
I can't believe it, I look at the other people with asking glances.
I'm too surprised I can't speak.
"These people here are the workers who will help everyone getting used to the village. Please ask them about the village's facilities."
It's really unbelievable.
Field that's twice as big as the one in the Lesseu Earldom's village, and a big mansion that can hold 10 people complete with a barn. There's even a livestock hut even though there's nothing inside.
They say that in one month, land lord-sama will provide us with goats and orange chickens.
Right at that time, the northern part of the village became noisy.
"Oh no! Look at the sky!"
Geh, aren't those rhinoceros beetles.
Even though they look so weak, they're strong enemies, the knights in Lesseu Earldom couldn't win unless they fought in a group.
"Oh my, they're the leftovers from the hunt huh~"
The guide girl muttered carefreely while holding a short wand.
"There's no need to panic. Look--"
The girl points at winged statues knocking down the beetles to the ground.
And then, two wolves which ran from the village's entrance rushed to the beetles.
"Dad, aren't those the stone statues on the village's entrance?"
"Y-yea..."
The one-sided battle ended quickly, and then the statues went back to their places while leaving the beetles' bodies behind.
"I was going to explain later, but there's no need to now. Those statues are state-of-the-art golems provided by Echigoya Firm by land lord-sama's request. They will defend against burglars and monsters, but they can't cope with harmful animals like wild boars and monkeys, so please keep that in mind okay."
I never hear any village protected by golems.
But, looks like they can defeat most monsters with their strength.
My eyes became hot as I remembered the time when we were prepared to die to repulse monsters while sacrificing several people in my village as we waited for the land lord to get off his heavy ass.
Our life has been made this much easier, I'll grow enough vegetables and wheats to pay the tax next year.
"Dad, this is amazing."
"Dear, we'll have to work hard."
"Yea, let's start the planting today!"
I stepped toward the field while holding a brand new hoe in my hand.
※ Akindo-san is one of Satou's disguises