It appears that Isteria City was a quite large metropolis.
Although when he asked Valetta and Valin back in the village, he was told about the situations in the city and what kind of shops in there, he forgot to ask the important size of the city.
Although the city was bigger than what he had expected, he was happy for his miscalculation.
Although he was bothered by the gathering of people for the war, the armistice treaty had 4 years remaining. It’s not a story that he will see in his current journey.
「Because we will arrive just a little further, let us keep our pace for a bit.」
「Of course. Let’s keep at it! Auch....」
In this way, while enduring the pain caused by the blister in his sole, Kazura cheerfully step forward to reach the Isteria City, desperately.
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They had walked on the highway that ran aside of the endless field.
With the view of the fields, they took a break for a meal (after making sure that there are no people nearby, they ate the canned food), and walked while taking short breaks in between it. The party finally arrived in front of a giant gate of Isteria.
Although the sun somewhat started to fall, there was still time before it completely sunk.
「Waa. This is all walls? They are surrounding the entire city.」
In front of the Isteria giant gate, Kazura took a look on the wall that extending out to both side and became surprised.
The wall was made from stone block had a height of 5 meters and was endlessly surrounding Isteria City to defend it.
The gates had double doors made from wood, and reinforced with bronze. It was massive.
Its height was about 4 meter.
In top of the wall, every several hundred meters, were soldiers that guarding it with spear in their hands. Sometimes they took a good look at the surroundings.
There were some parts of the wall that were still incomplete, but he could see many people doing construction work on it.
At the distant, he could see that beside the wall, there also towers that being constructed, adhering close to the wall. It was constructed with stone at the exterior while the interior was wooden frameworks.
「Kazura-san, we will enter the City.」
Kazura and Myra was gazing at the walls, the gate, and other things, with their mouth wide open. Both of them were completely like a country bumpkin visiting a big city. Valetta called out to them while holding back her laughter.
「Ah, yes.」
Kazura replied weakly while he still admired the giant gate as he passed through it.
On the gate that they passed were several guards, the party reported to the guards that they came from Grisea Village to sell firewood and Arcadian Bug that they carried. Valetta took out a parchment from her bag. It was a certificate that states their place of origin as Grisea Village. She then displayed it to the guards.
It was not allowed to carry weapon to the inside of the City, so the weapon that they had brought with will be deposited with the garrison. In exchange they will receive a wooden board as the deposit proof.
While doing this, she gave several copper coins to the guards for the entrance fee, but it was only for the entrance fee, since depositing weapons was free of charge.
「Uooooo, This is amazing! It is completely like a film about Middle Ages....」
A Certain Country Bumpkin
Kazura who just arrived in the city, raised his voice in admiration when he saw the scenery.
First of all, different from Grisea Village, there were a lot of buildings in here.
On the both sides of the 7 meter width straight road, there were buildings from wood and stone constructed at fixed interval. On the road there were a lot of people moving back and forth.
Far away, a big building with stone dome could be seen. There were also a lot of splendid two or three stories buildings.
On the back of the gate was a stationhouse for the garrison that was like a wooden hut. The soldiers that came out from it seemed to relieve the soldiers that manning the wall, and were climbing the stairs that attached to the wall.
「Will we immediately go to sell the firewood?」(Kaz)
Kazura want to take out his secretly brought along digital camera to record the city and the guards, but somehow, he suppressed this urge. He calmed his excitement and began to talk with Valetta.
Meanwhile, the girl beside him, Myra was still gaping with her mouth open as she saw the city scenery.
「No. The sun soon will sets so we will go towards the common lodgings[3]. We will sell the goods and buy nails at tomorrow.」(Val)
「Common lodgings...... Is it some sort of Inn?」
「Nn~ It’s a little different. There is no individual room like the Inn, but it’s a facility that has large rooms where a large group of people could stay in. It’s a public facility that is directly managed by the city. The lodging fee is very cheap and there is also meal. But only evening meal though.」
In brief, it’s a facility resembling a larger form of resting lodge where they