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Chapter 117: Itinerary

The female agent of the Marches trading company, the carriage Coachman and the four members of the "Black Golden team" team, who were their escorts, were swaying along the road in a carriage.

"It takes a week to get to the city of O'Circus, right?"

Rumeya asked the agent of their employer, Leada.

“Yes! We're taking the shortest route over the pass this time, so we should be there in about a week."

Leada unfolded a simple map and showed them all.

Tauro was a little taken aback when he heard the detailed itinerary.

The route was almost a straight line to the city of O’circus, passing through almost no major towns or villages, but the straight bullet journey was too long.

On the first day, we could stay overnight in a village on the way, but after that, if we could not find a house before the town of O’circus, we would be camping out.

This was the itinerary planned by Marches, who had been a peddler for a long time, so he must have calculated some unreasonableness would not be too hard, but it seemed a little harsh since Leada, who had come as an agent, did not seem to have any physical strength.

Aeris, who seemed to know her way around, also said that it would take about a week to get to the city of O'Circus, so it seems that she, like Marches, was the type to accept a bit of recklessness.

From now on, it seems better to consider whether we can afford Aeris's prediction.

Tauro thought, "Well, I've made preparations beforehand, so I should be fine.”

The first night, as planned, they decided to stay overnight in a village on the way.

“Are you traveling to the city of O'circus? So you're planning to cross the pass?"

The owner of the village inn was surprised by this unusual combination of travelers.

"Actually, there is a poor mountain village off the road on the way to the pass, and some young men there have been attacking travelers crossing the pass recently. So, I don't recommend going over the pass now."

"Is that what you call a need to eat?”

Shin asked the innkeeper.

"I think so, so I recommend turning back and detouring."

The innkeeper replied, suggesting a safer option.

“What do you think, Leada?”

Aeris urged the client’s agent to make a decision.

“...If we turn around and make a detour now, we'll be delayed for days. It will make our business partners wait. In business, trust comes first and I'm sorry to burden you with this, but could we please cross the pass?"

“If the client says so, then I'll go along with it, but Leada-san, do you understand that you're also putting yourself in danger?”

Tauro pointed out that she was putting business first and neglecting her own safety.

“I understand. But as Marches-san said, this deal is a great opportunity. I think so too. As long as there's a promised date, if anything happens to me, Tauro-san should deliver the goods to the client."

"You don't have to prepare yourself so tragically. The fact that the rumors have gotten this far is probably because the other party is just a thief who doesn't kill travelers. There may have been some injuries, but if they've been identified as being from the mountain village, I'm sure the nearby villages have tolerated and let them off the hook because they're in need of food, not because they're up to no good."

Tauro glanced at the innkeeper, who had turned his back to deal with other customers, and added that the man was a good man who had warned them.

The innkeeper must have warned them because Tauro and Aeris were still children, so they decided to continue on the route over the pass as planned.

When we left the village the next morning, the innkeeper stopped us again, but we thanked him politely and left.

There were two more days to go before the pass, and if we made a detour before that, we could find a village, but there were no houses along the straight route, so we decided to camp out for the evening.

"Well, I'll get ready for camp."

Tauro said as he pulled out a rolled up lump of cloth, a wooden stick, a stake and a hammer from his “magic storage.”

“? What do you need those for?"

Aeris was intrigued, thinking that Tauro was up to something strange again.

"It's a tent.”

Then he tied a string from the end of the cloth to a stake in the ground, unfolded the cloth, set up the stakes, and began to assemble it into a three-dimensional structure.

In no time at all, there was space for people to enter.

"I made it just for this day."

“Hmmm. But if it's made of cloth, won't it be over for us when it rains? It has to be leather."

Aeris said, peeking in.

"Fufufu, It's okay. The cloth has been soaked with slime bodily fluids to make it waterproof!”

Tauro smugly boasted of his performance.

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