Part 1

A contagious troublesome nature.

As if there’s such a thing!

Being accused for nothing, the next day after we explore Dam Kingdom considerably, we headed to the prosperous shepherd’s Karnan Kingdom next.

Just in case, I go back to Earlshyde once at night to check if there’s information of devil’s invading.

But there’s nothing for now.

Even so, it’s a pain going back every single time.

Should I somehow make a wireless communication device?

「s.h.i.+n…… You, are you thinking enigmatic things again?」
「Not at all. More than that, Karnan Kingdom is famous for it’s fabric, right?」[TL: I’ve translated this incorrectly before, should have been fabric instead of textiles.]
「Yep, that’s right. Especially a cloth made from a demonized sheep is famous. Is there something wrong with it?」
「Nah, this mantle ya see, though it have heat adjustment and optical camouflage, I didn’t given it heal.」
「Heal?…… Ah, is it the case in Swedes Kingdom?……」

That’s right, granting that, will basically protect it’s wearer. But it is for that reason, that we cannot give it’s granted benefits to someone else.

If this mantle will be given the same 『auto heal』 like the uniforms such as the combat uniforms, Sicily would have not suffered as much in Swedes Kingdom. [TL: I guess he’s talking about Sicily healing the injured people.]

Because humans in this world, all have magic power, magic tools can still be activated even if you can’t use magic. Just like how Elly is using the mantle.

Then, Sicily wouldn’t have to felt sorry for not being able to treat a severely injured patient, someone can just be cured by simply continuing to activate the mantle granted with 『auto heal』.

If it was just a uniform, we can take out the blazer, but since it’s a combat uniform…… Sicily have to refrain from there.

「I’d like to give a new grant to the mantle. But now the mantle is full of characters, though I’m thought I can grant healing to the lining but I guess not.」***
「Why not buy a new one?」
「It would be good if I can use a demonized spider silk to make the cloth. Or it won’t be as good as the mantle or the lining. I have a hard time finding a cloth that can handle as much characters as the mantle.」
「Is that so.」
「That’s why, after arriving at Karnan Kingdom, I would like to look for materials for clothing to be used in the new mantle, but is that okay?」
「That’s fine, isn’t it? Karnan Kingdom is famous for it’s fabric, but it also have a diverse fas.h.i.+on. So I also want to look around here and there.」
「I, I see……」

Girls shopping…… Is there such a heart breaking word in this world? [TL: Guys usually suffer from this lol.]

When I said that I’m talking about the feeling of exhaustion when accompanying someone shopping……

「Sorry but, can we borrow Sicily, Olivia, and Elly? We’d like to go around with only the girls this time.」

What a good news! Only the women will go!

「That may be good. I was worried for Sicily when I’m going to look for the fabric, looks like it’s more fun going shopping with the girls. Is that okay with you Sicily?」
「It’s okay. Shopping with everyone will be fun.」

Sicily not sensing my inner delight, said it’s fine.

「I will also go with the older sisters!」
「I’ll ask you to take care of Mei. I said it yesterday, but it’s easy for us to get involved into trouble because of s.h.i.+n. Brace yourselves.」
『Understood!』

…… That harmonized neatly……

While being immersed in hopelessness whether this perception can be overturned, we crossed the border to Karnan Kingdom.

「Wah! It’s sheep-san (desu)! There too many of them (desu)!」

Crossing the border on foot, we once again flew to the sky, in a vast land full of gra.s.s, we saw a flock of sheep.

「It’s my first seeing from this viewpoint but…… it’s amazing, right?」
「Ah, a shepherd.」

Looks like Rin discovered a macho shepherd. You’ve been saying that yesterday.

「Indeed he got a great body! He looks strong!」
「I think he’s actually strong. A demonized sheep is more or less cla.s.sified as medium size. Unless you can defeat it, you can’t become a shepherd.」
「Seriously? They’re like a soldier.」
「Hey…… is that….」

While I was preoccupied by Thor’s explanation of Karnan Kingdom’s shepherd that became as strong as a soldier, Maria noticed something.

And when I turn my attention to that direction……

「……. It’s the moment as we talk about the shepherd. As expected, isn’t it s.h.i.+n’s characteristic to invite trouble?」
「No no! Besides me there’re others now!」

Just as we we’re talking about not becoming a shepherd unless you can defeat a demonized sheep…… a sheep just turned into a demon.

This is not my fault, alright!?

Putting that aside, there’s a demon, is it better if we subjugate it?

Or should we wait until the shepherd comes?

「Anyway, let’s get down for now. If there’s no shepherd in the vicinity, we’ll subjugate it.」
「All right.」

Floating magic is cancelled when everyone came down to the ground.

And when trying to see if there’s any shepherd nearby……

「Do oraaaaaaa!!」

A man who’s a lump of muscle jump out from a nearby bush with and brandish a huge axe.

Eh what is that again? A weapon with spear and axe together.

Hm, hmm……

「Halcyon!」 [T/N: LOL]
「It’s halberd.」
「……」

Uoo! So embarra.s.sing! And I voiced it out with all I got!

While blus.h.i.+ng for mistaking the man’s weapon, the man cut off the neck of the demonized sheep, and killed it.

A muscular body, holding a halberd instead of staff, a man wearing a robe different from a magician.

Yep, no doubt. That is a shepherd.

「Oh! Are you guys traveler? Are you alright?」
「Ah, yeah. We’re alright.」
「Even though it’s dangerous. Why are you in a place like this?」
「That’s not it, we saw a sheep turning into a demon, we thought it’d be bad if there’s no shepherd and no one subdued it.」
「Oi oi, that’s reckless. I can see you’ve just recently turn into an adult, right? It’s still early for you to hunt demons.」
「There’s no such thing. Look.」

Just a while ago, enemy search magic sensed a sheep on the verge of turning into a demon, and just now became a demon.

So I cast a wind blade magic towards it.

The demonized sheep’s neck was cut off in an instant, and fell down on the spot.

「See? We’re good, right?」

Seeing that scene, shepherd-san was struck dumb……

「Ahahahaha!」

And he suddenly burst into laughter.

「What’s with this lad! Aren’t you strong! And are you a magician!?」
「Oh, yeah, well.」

Shepherd-san seems to be having fun and was striking my back.

What great power! My back hurts!

「I see I see, but sorry, no matter how much you bring down the demonized sheep……」
「Ahh, it’s okay. We did not hunt the sheep because we wanted to.」
「My bad. You’re not supposed to handle a demonized shepherd, unless your a 『nationally recognized shepherd』 with a qualification like us.
「Eh, ehh……」

A shepherd has a national qualification!? Is there such qualification in Karnan Kingdom!

「A, anyway we can’t just leave the demon, so you don’t have to worry about it.」
「Is that so? My bad. Are you guys going to head for the Kingdom after this?」
「Yes, why?」
「Then, if you’re there, I recommend you to 『Shephard’s Clothing Store』. You guys have clothes and equipment for travelers after all.」
「Ehh, is that so? Thank you.」
「What, it’s nothing to thank for. You can secure a demonized sheep without effort. It should be me thanking you.」
「Ahaha, then it’s about time for us to go.」
「Ou, I am Garan, if opportunity presents it, let’s meet again!」
「I am s.h.i.+n. If fate allows it.」

Saying so, I shook hands with Garan-san, and left the place.

Nevertheless, I got a good information. Shepard’s Clothing Store, ne. Let’s go when we get to Karnan Kingdom.

「At any rate, that was some amazing body!」
「Yeah, he took it down with one blow, maybe a shepherd is stronger than a soldier in this country.」
「I’m talking about a nationally recognized shepherd, perhaps Karnan Kingdom’s shepherd might be an elite.」

From the knowledge of my previous life, a shepherd’s social status seems low but, it might be different from this country.

After finis.h.i.+ng our encounter with the national shepherd of Karnan Kingdom, we finally reached Karnan Kingdom.

After having a similar exchange to the time in Dam Kingdom at the entrance gate, we got an inn in the same way……

「Amazing! It’s so fluffy (desu)!」
「This is amazing, isn’t it? Even when compared to what I used in the house, the quant.i.ty of wool is much more?」

Like last time, we got a two big rooms for eight people, and when we gathered in one of them, Mei-chan dived into the bed and said so, and Elly who saw the amount of wool used on the bed muttered so.

There’s more wool on the bed than used by the royal family and the duke, indeed the number of sheep is larger than the population.

「Come to think of it…… s.h.i.+n-kun’s house does not use wool on your bed, right?」
「What’s this Sicily. You’ve already got to know s.h.i.+n’s bedding in his house?」
「Eh? Ah! That’s not it! It’s grandmother! It’s when grandmother offered me to go to her room!」
「What the, and here I was sure you already know the comfort of s.h.i.+n’s bedding in his house.」
「Mo, mou! Maria!」

Sicily and Maria are playing around but, grandma’s room?

「What are you doing in grandma’s room?」
「Grandmother, it seems she hurt her back slightly when training, so she asked for treatment.」
「Grandma…….」

You’re already old, so please take care of your health.

「So I lied down on the bed and treated it……. And at that time, I noticed that the mattress is different. What is that? Grandmother also said she does not know.」
「Ah, that. I found that material on a low-repulsive tree skin in the forest. I gathered them and lain it on the bed.」

Cork was also the skin of the tree but, apart from that, there was a softer, low-repulsive skin to peel from the tree. I longed for a low-repulsion bed in my previous life, so I made the mattress first.

「Low-repulsion? Can you sleep in that?」
「It’s amazing. I tried lying down because I was asked to give it a try but…… I almost felt asleep.」
「Really?」
「What can I say….. I feel like my body is floating…… or it’s like being wrapped.」
「Tha, that much?」
「By the way, the bedding on top was really light, but why is it so light?」
「Eh? Even though s.h.i.+n-kun’s house is rich……」

There’s a reason on why Alice made such a doubt.

This world’s bedding is mainly made of wool, the more it is, the luxurious it is.

It’s because it’s amount was amazing, that Elly and Mei-chan were surprised.

Then, when the quant.i.ty is larger, the bedding becomes heavy. Light bedding to say, is generally cheap.

「Ah, that’s because my bedding is not using wool.」
「I heard that a while ago…… then what are you using?」
「Feather」
「Bird’s feather…….」

Everyone is looking at me with dubious face.

In this world, the effectiveness of feathers are still not yet known.

「Well, you should try it someday. You’ll be surprised.」
「Is that so? Well, I think Sicily will soon experience it.」
「Maria!」

Leaving the bedding situation of Walford’s house aside, we move towards our purpose in this country.

The female team went to shop, and I decided to go to the Shephard’s Clothing Store told by the shepherd Garan-san.

Everyone’s mantle including Gus’s has already been kept by me.

Since I want to process it immediately.

「Walford-kun, is it alright to come with you?」 [T/N: Was going to put “c.u.m” in there, but that might make you rage so I refrained from doing it lol ? ]

When I was leaving the inn, I was called out by Mark.

「That’s alright, are you also searching for materials, Mark?」
「There’s also that, but I’m interested in what material you choose and what kind of processing is done.」

As expected of the only son of the workshop, he seems to be really interested in manufacturing.

「And I’m the only one left, can I also join with you?」
「Suits you. Then, we three shall go?」

In the end, it was divided into male team and female team.

After asking a person in the inn, we soon found Shepard’s Clothing Store.

I am told that this clothing store seems to be famous in Karnan Kingdom.

There’s not many fas.h.i.+onable clothes, but there’s clothing such as cloak necessary for travel, and clothes that uses sheep’s wool, as the owner is a national shepherd, there are an abundant stock.

I was informed of a good store. The store have exactly what I want.

While on my way to Shepard’s Clothing Store, I window-shop the other stores.

「As expected of Karnan Kingdom. There are a lot of clothing stores and fabric stores.」
「The shop we saw earlier is a specialty store for men, ain’t it? There were several clothes I wanted while having a quick look.」
「Then shall we go back? I also found some nice clothes.」
「Good, then shall we?」

In this way, we made a brief side trip while aiming for the shop.

And the store we arrived at…… [T/N: It’s their real destination, the Shepard’s]

「Big!」
「This is amazing, isn’t it…….」
「It’s four story building, ain’t it.」

Sorry to say this, but it’s bigger than the workshop of Mark’s house. The site area also, and also the number of floors.

We immediately set foot into the Shepard’s Clothing Store.

「Welcome.」

The store’s interior, compared to the store we’ve gone to earlier it’s different, it’s overflowing with luxury. The clerk-san also feels refined.

Anyway, because the store is vast, finding the things we’re looking for will be hard. Let’s ask clerk-san here to guide us.

「Um, excuse me.」
「Yes, how can I help you?」

I told her my purpose for coming to this store, and asked if there’s any fabric that fit the requirements.

「You can grant magic, is the material will be used for the lining of the mantle or padding?……」
「Ah, this is the mantle.」
「I’ll look at it.」

I gave my mantle to clerk-san to let her look at it, and let her take care of it.

「This is…… it’s using very excellent material……」
「By the way, I granted it with eight characters.」
「E, eight characters in a mantle!」

Because we’ll use the mantle, toughness is a top priority. There are not many that can grant a large number of characters.

「Since you’re already using an excellent lining….. then I’ll only have to increase the padding, but summer is hot, is it not?」
「Ah, you don’t have to worry about that.」

Because that mantle, is an effective air conditioner.

「I understand. However, there’s only wool of a demonized sheep that can grant magic……」
「That’s fine. Can you process this number of pieces?」

Taking out from the dimensional storage. Is everyone’s mantle that add up to 13 including Elly and Mei-chan’s.

「Thi, this many?」
「It’s a total of fourteen, right? Can you do it?」
「I don’t mind….. if that’s the case then the price……」
「I’ll give them a discount.」
「O, owner!」
「Owner?」

When the store clerk tried to total the materials and processing costs for the clothing, someone from behind spoke.

Are? It’s similar to what I heard a while ago……

「Ah, as expected, it’s Garan-san.」
「Ou, I see you came right away. I welcome you, s.h.i.+n」
「You’re an acquaintance to the owner? 」
「Ou! This s.h.i.+n is amazing. He killed a demonized sheep with a magic shot after all.」
「Ma, magic shot!? Are you such a high-ranking magician?」
「High-ranking you say….. is it not just a sheep at most?」
「Uhahaha! You’re such a guy after all. It seems like you’re unsatisfied with the rank of demonized sheep.」
「Taking a demonized sheep so lightly…..」

Eh? It’s just a sheep, ain’t it? Even it it’s cla.s.sified as a medium size, it’s not like a wild boar or a wolf.

Thinking so, I was pulled on the sleeve by Mark.

「In Walford-kun’s case, it might be just a demon sheep at most but…… generally, no less medium size is a subject of considerable threat.」
「Well…… because recently we’re taking on targets like a tiger or a lion, my sense is also getting slightly strange……」
「Ou, what’s wrong?」
「No, it’s nothing!」
「That’s so, I guess if such a high-ranking magician were to have an equipment manufactured at my place, our store’s prestige might also go up. Besides, you’ve also hunted the sheep.」

Your shop eh.

「So, the owner who’s a national shepherd is Garan-san.」
「Ou, it’s Garan Shepardo. I thanked you for having hunted the sheep, it may be little but I thought of reducing the price and introducing you to a store.」

And you introduced your own shop? I was lucky.