Approximately six hours after the troops left the village of Gricea and began moving towards Isteria.

The troops stopped the marching legs and began preparing the camp.

The sky is already stained with sunset colors, and in less than two hours the area will be surrounded by darkness.

Marie, who was in the carriage with Ichiyoshi, said no to Ichiyoshi and then got off the carriage, she herself drove somewhere to help prepare for the camp.

"Dear Kazura, good luck for a long time"

As Ichigo was getting off the carriage and stretching his back, Habel, who had finished connecting Rata to an impromptu horse fastening made nearby, walked over.

Except for a few breaks sandwiched along the way, Havel is supposed to let go of Lata all the time, but I don't feel tired at all from that look on his face.

Rather, he looked better than he did yesterday, and his expression looked brighter than usual.

"Mr. Havel is tired, too. I'm a carriage, so my body is easier, but Mr. Havel is tired because he stays riding all the time, isn't he?

"No, to this extent, it's easier than any training I've ever had in my unit. My butt hurts a little, though."

"Really? Again, professional military men are different... Speaking of troops, did Mr. Havel lead a unit organized solely by noblemen with Mr. Isaac?

Previously, when Habel came to the village of Grisea with Isaac, he led a unit formed exclusively of noble origin consisting of 100 people.

Lately, I'm clear beside the good side, but can I just leave the work I've been leading in the troops alone?

"Yes, I was an undersecretary of a unit called the 1st Sergeant Corps."

"Oh, were those guys cadets after all? Mr. Havel's been helping me out a lot lately, but is it okay if I don't show my face to the troops?

"That's okay. Just as it was time to finish a year of basic health training, I let the people in the Corps roll over a few appointments and now train in a different unit. Wouldn't you be watching hell by now?"

"Oh, is that such a tough training?

When Ichigo inquired, Habel glanced slightly at him for remembering his own training.

"It's not tough. I've been in action for months in a war that was going on until four years ago, but it's so much better in action if you think about it without dying alive. If you disturb the discipline at all, you'll be beaten up irrelevant, and when you're less skilled, you'll only be fed something like livestock bait every day."

"Wow, that's an amazing place... I hate to be hit, but it's tough to feed livestock every day..."

"Besides, the last year they were part of a unit commanded by me and Master Isaac, they went to work for the military from their own homes, rented inns, etc., because from the second year they were forced to live together in military quarters. If you're the kind of people who left everything to their servants, you'd be quite comfortable."

Apparently, the training provided by the Isterian army to the cadets is divided into several processes.

I guess the first year is about making strength, and from the second year it means production.

I was wondering if a person in an aristocratic capacity might be something with a more relaxing life, but that doesn't seem to be the case in this world, at least in Istel territory.

But if you think about it, even Isaac and Havel, who seem quite a senior nobleman, go to work in the military early in the morning every day and work late at night.

With that in mind, it would be natural for the other nobles who were their men to be made to struggle accordingly.

"Can't living together in a dormitory take a squire?

"Basically, you're not allowed to be accompanied by a squire. However, depending on the judgment of the Force Commander, you are supposed to be able to take them when you leave the city for days with long distance march training, etc. However, I own the cost of it."

"Heh... it would be pretty hard to be a spoiled and raised nobleman or something. I'm gonna quit because I can't stand it anymore."

"Right, there are a few people out there every year who quit. But if you quit along the way for no other reason than injury or anything else, you will be treated as disgraced, so you will scratch the prestige of the house. So you can't discharge me unless you're prepared for the rest of it. Even if you leave, you'll be treated like a snub."

"Oh, it's a horrible place..."

Even if you can't stand the training and want to quit, it seems like a terrible environment for even the worst suicides to come out.

Conversely, I guess those who dive through such an environment will have considerable guts.

"Is it compulsory to belong to the military?

"No, all servants are volunteer. That said, it is common practice in most aristocratic houses to force several people to serve in the military, except for their oldest sons, so they are forced to enlist even if they don't like them in person. There are quite a few who volunteer themselves because they are attracted to military admiration and identity, but the majority regret knowing the harshness of reality."

"Is this like a half-enforcement? Is Mr. Havel a couch put in by his parents?

"No, I wished for my father myself and enlisted in the army. So is Isaac."

"Oh, that's splendid. Why did you volunteer?

When Ichiyoshi asked Habel that, Habel smiled a little lightly.

"... because there is something I want to protect"

"(Hmm? Does Mr. Havel even laugh like this?)"

Ichigo has been acting with Habel for several days now, but he has never seen a look like this before.

I've never seen too many emotions on the table, always looking like I was worried about a step back.

They showed me things like sales smiles every day, and they talked to me a lot, taking care not to bore the good.

Ichiyoshi wondered what Habel called 'what I want to protect', but I didn't feel bad to hear much root digging leaf digging.

"Really?"

I snorted and kept it.

"If you're interested in military training, would you like me to show you the barracks and training grounds later? I only have the sights of a Kingsguard and a sergeant."

"(Ugh, seriously! I definitely want to go on a tour of this...... but I don't know what to do...)"

Ichigo was very interested in Habel's offer.

However, if you show your interest in the military here, around Zirconia may well be happy to bring in a consultation on the military aspects.

So far, Ichigo has no intention of providing Isteria with military support.

When I say why I do not intend to provide support, it is because I still have little idea of the internal and diplomatic situation of this country, as well as the size of the army and the character of the country itself.

Without knowing anything about the reality of the country, it is dangerous and very impossible to peddle only the opinions of the Narsons and provide military support.

Besides, we can't afford to be turning our hands on the military side because the priority now is to redevelop the food problem and infrastructure.

With too many hands at the same time, judgment can become cluttered and irrevocable.

Whatever you do, do it one by one.

I thought it would be a good idea to gather information after deciding whether to provide support or not.

"Hmmm... I don't know what to do..."

Nevertheless I want to see what I want to see.

When I think about what the armies of this world are and what life the soldiers usually lead, I can't stop curiosity about wanting to see them once and for all.

If you can tour around a lot without thinking about it, I want to shoot around there on a digital camera, and I want to ask the general public a lot of questions while recording using around the handicam as well as soldiers.

They don't know what's going on in the tent of someone who commands the army, like Zirconia, or how they live their daily lives.

More to the point, I'd like to ask Zirconia and Isaac in armor to take a commemorative photo as well.

Zirconia looks so brilliant in armor and has a good style that it would be a sawdust painting if they could even take one of the poses when shooting.

Isaac is quite a beauty on his long body, so this looks like another good photo shoot.

Havel thought it would be a bad idea to have Havel respond right away when he was starting to lean inside, wondering if he'd be okay with a tour

"If you want to see it, call me anytime. I'll show you anywhere."

He told me.

"Thank you. I might ask you to do it when my hands are free."

"Yes, then, definitely"

I was also wondering if it would seem intriguing to jump right away, so for Ichigo this offer was very much appreciated.

Again, a man named Havel can reach the itch, or it really helps to distract me in various parts.

"Well, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about Kazura's meal."

Habel has changed the subject once again when Ichigo is concerned about Habel's care.

Apparently, this story is the real deal.

"I think I'll let Marie prepare Kazura's meal for a while to come, would you mind?

"Is it a meal..."

When I heard it was a meal, I remembered that Ichigo had offered Zirconia nothing about his future diet.

Until now, Ichigo has been dining with the Narsons at the Narson Mansion, but Ichigo can't get nutrition or fullness from eating the meals prepared by the Narsons.

For that reason, after dining with the Narsons, they were sneaking up on cans and stuff so no one could find them.

I was just about to offer that I don't have to prepare my own meal because it's very troublesome to eat six meals a day like this in the future, rather than something spicy.

I end up eating alone, but this leaves me no choice.

If I had eaten every meal served to match the Narsons, I would be in a state like a punitive game where all my belly capacity was compressed and my hunger was accelerating, and I would have to pack additional food brought from Japan as well.

"Yes, but the other day when I tasted the cans that Master Kazura had, the taste of the food that Master Kazura usually eats in the kingdom of God seems very different from ours. I've thought about it a lot, but it's hard for us to recreate that flavor."

When Ichiyoshi opened his mouth to Habel to offer him a rejection of the meal, Habel blocked it and started talking.

What Havel is referring to is a can of minestrone fed to the Narsons for tasting.

Minestrone is a dish where large quantities of vegetables are simmered based on tomatoes, so if there are no ingredients like tomatoes in this world, it would be quite difficult to reproduce the flavour.

"So I hope Master Kazura will let us use the canned and other foods that he has, and let us cook with the ingredients that we prepare. It may not work at first, but I will make sure that we are able to serve a dish that Kazura is convinced of."

"Does that mean I'm going to rebuild it based on the food I brought and add a lot of ingredients?

"Yes, and if you can give us feedback on sequential dishes, we can adjust the content accordingly."

Once again, Ichigo was impressed with Habel's offer.

Havel even cared about the taste of the dishes he had previously spoken of only once, and would have tried and missed to recreate the flavor of the cans until now.

I might have intended to take more time to try and make mistakes, but I may have decided to make an offer by looking at the massive amount of food that Ichigo had brought in and deciding that this was not going to work.

In a good way, Havel's stock price again hit a stop high.

As a matter of fact, all those assessments are a good mistake, but Habel is already in a position of being a very attentive and competent man among the good.

No matter what I did, a stream was forming that would be mistaken in a beautifully favorable direction.

"Hmm... then let me ask you a favor. However, promise me that you will never feed anyone else the ingredients I bring. Although I have brought a lot, there are a limited number of them."

"Of course it is. Don't worry, I will never feed anyone else."

"Nice, definitely, right? If you break your promise to me, it's gonna be a big deal, okay?

"Huh! Yes!

It would be difficult in case the ingredients were sidelined, so Ichiyoshi put aside his precautions and threatened him with a more serious look and voice colour than this.

Don't you dare tell me what will happen if I break my promise, which will increase the effect of the threat more.

Yiliang is supposed to be a god named Graciol, so this threat should work for Habel.

Ichigo saw that Habel's expression was slightly convulsive before reverting to his expression and voice color.

"Then I shall ask you"

Once Ichigo accepted conditionally and undone his expression and voice color, Havel seemed to be clearly relieved.

"So, let Marie make it from dinner today as soon as possible. There are only a few ingredient types in the march, but I'll make them do it somehow."

"You don't have to be too pushy. Because you can just cut a little vegetable or something appropriately and simmer or saute it together"

"Yes, I did. Now, tell me what ingredients we can use."

"Hmmm right...... what am I going to..."

Ichigo was relieved to be able to dine with the Narsons in the future, thinking about what to base his dishes on.

After all, meals are tastier and more fun to eat with someone than to eat alone.

Besides, no one feels good about being imitated to refuse to prepare a meal, so I didn't have to crush the faces of the Narsons.

Also, if you cook the dishes the way Havel suggested, it's like the ingredients brought from Japan will be served in increased quantities with food from this world.

It's the same as the dish that Ichigo was eating in the village of Grisea, so if you eat a little more, you have no nutritional or fullness problems.

When the story rolled in how well she was, Ichigo felt lighter.

Next to the good, Habel was relieved to be able to get through the conversation well.

As a matter of fact, Havel didn't pepper what Zirconia was saying.

Zirconia's story suggests that Ichiyoshi was satisfied with the dishes prepared by Habel at the Mansion, but not with the dishes served at the Narson Mansion.

But Havel had wondered from the beginning if that was the case.

The cook working at the Narson Mansion should have super first-rate arms.

Although the cooks and the samurai who work at the Louson Mansion are all fairly skilled, there can be no such thing as exceptionally good arms than the cooks at the Narson Mansion.

Thinking about it, I came to the idea that the reaction Ichiyoshi had shown at the dining table at the Louson Mansion might have been an act that cared about herself and Baretta.

That means that if Zirconia is right, even if it is well addressed to those in charge of cooking in their own house, it could buy an extra disapproval instead of making any sense.

Or, if you tell Zirconia that honestly, you'll miss your chance to put Marie in Narson or a good asylum.

Then Habel thought about what to do, and came up with something like what he had suggested earlier as a means of never buying a good disapproval.

Haberle had grasped from the impression he had gained through the river inspection he had carried out with Ichiyoshi until a few days earlier that Ichiyoshi was not of such a character that if asked in good faith this one would not be unhindered to say no.

Based on that, it worked as a result of a good wish in one or eight.

"(Now don't let Marie get away from that life either... Father would have to break it if Master Zirconia would talk directly through it. Afterwards, if Marie can make Kazura like it, it's cheap)"

While relieved that his actions were successful, Havel narrowed his eyes when he found Marie, mixed with a close guard squire in the distance to help him prepare for the camp.

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