And then the sound of murmurs and talking began and went until an hour or two passed.
Rom:"and so the kingdom's in a panic ever since the royal family got tha illness,every one already knows bout it but don't really talk bout it much."
And so rom filled him in with the utmost basics of the world and mostly the country they were in.
The dragon kingdom,lagunica.
Everything subaru was thaught can be chalked down to this.
1.there are only four countries in this world he had found himself in.
It took me by surprise how small this world is compared to mine,but it's still large enough i guess.
2.their names are as followed.
1-lagunica
2-karraragi
3-vollachia
4-gusteko
3.the legendary people
Hoshin of wastes,Reid astrea,the divine dragon volcanica,wise man flugel..and..
The great sage shaula? After that,finally the most feared being in this world,the witch of envy...satella right?
4.lagunica's knight system.
Seriously!?,getting executed for offending some guy is just too much!
5.about magic,the od,spiritual arts and the gate.
I wonder if i have a gate?,i probably do right?,i mean duh!,i am the protagonist so of course i would!
6.And finally the state of the kingdom they reside in right now.
I would definitely be a suspect if some knight found me as felt and old man rom did.
After the hour or two had passed subaru was caught up with basic dealings of this world.
If anything i can't use 'from the east' isekai trope now.
Subaru found himself baffled by the fact that this world he stood was in fact not a spherical one but a flat one,he couldn't even fathom the science behind this and found himself even more downtrodden when he found Out that he was placed in the eastern most country,causing him to be unable to use his favourite trope of isekai anime.
Rom:"i'd advise ya to not say the name or word 'witch of envy' or 'satella' round town,if ya wanna stay outside the bars that is."
To old man rom's warning subaru merely nodded in a dire manner.
He was made aware of the events caused by the witch of envy by rom,the description of her victims were...enough to make him understand why using her name in public in itself was taboo.
There are some familiar names in the names i was told,the sage shaula?,the wise man flugel?,hoshin of the wastes?
As subaru listened on to the explanation of the historic characters and their accomplishments,subaru was able to recognise some names that could be found or maybe even originated from his own world.
In them,the name hoshin was Un-doubtably
a japanese one,the name flugel was german for wings and finally the sage's name,shaula..it was a star name,representing a scorpian.
Although that makes me wonder if his name is related to a scorpian,does that mean he uses some kind of scorpion power?.
In the midst of his thoughts,the sound of a creaking door was heards,presumably being opened.
Both rom and subaru who had heard the sound swiftly turned towards the door,expecting felt to have finally come back,but instead of the short girl with blond hair,a tall man,a head taller than subaru,was the one to be found entering into the loot house in lieu of felt.
Seeing the man,old man rom brought the giant club closer to himself,yet he seemed much less perturbed than subaru,who backed away until he was next to rom,having had to flip over the table with a roll to get there.
Is this the first enemy i have to face?
Thinking so subaru glared at the intruder,though subaru was completely enveloped in the charade of things before,he also gave a passing glance at the thought of an enemy.
It is common for the mc to fight someone on his first day in an isekai anime,so he half expected something like some thugs or something of the like barging in through the door yesterday causing subaru to save both felt and rom somehow when they were discussing things.
Certainly a fancy one to be called some level 1 crook though.
As subaru examined him,he couldn't help but think how noble like the man was.
His hair was a cyan blue colour and they blended to a shade of brown at the lower part of his hair,very thinly they existed,not too thick not too thin,but thick enough to give a clear difference of appearance and thin enough to not encroach onto the blueness that resided on top,just at the botten tips of hair.
His eyes were the same eye-catching colour as the major part of his hair,and were sharp and slightly thin and along with it he had a whitish skin complexion.
He wore a gold ear-ring on his left ear,the ring itself was small,tightened onto his ear lobe and a slight sized,presumably,diamond hanging off of it with some extension given by an extremely insignificant chain of gold.
His attire was a clear darker blue coloured coat that lengthened from his shoulders and neck to his ankles,almost covering the entirety of his bottem clothing which in itself was an even darker hue,his sleeves were folded but yet let only his hands be visible,if unfolded it was to surely cover his hand a whole and more.
(AN:how the hell did i become so poetic all of a sudden!,man those breaks seriously do wonders! Don't they!)
Despite the cautious stance of subaru and old man rom the man cheerfully strode forward with a smile along with smiling eyes as they were closed and bended to represent happiness.
Though rom himself was aware of such smiles being facades most of the time to lower the guard of one's opponent,political,economical and strategical alike,subaru himself was swayed by it and sighed,thinking that the man infront was of no harm to their lives.
Rom:"did i not tell ya to not come here till evening? or did ya just not care?"
As old man rom asked this question off the encharming man,subaru realised that he was most probably the 'customer' they were talking about before felt's departure.
the man in question clicked his fingers and spoke,his voice a bit on the younger side exuded the terms 'safe' and 'negotiative',he started out with a "tis simple you see" and began talking.
???:"is it not already afternoon?,then so in three or four hours it would be evening,so i merely thought being acquainted with my could-be future partner or employee before negotiation seemed like a delectable idea,and so i followed through with it and came along."
After completing his speech,he spread both his arms slightly and said "and now i'm here".
While old man rom was still seemed cautious,subaru became excited at the prospect,and so jumping over the table subaru went near the man and extending his hand forward,greeted him eagerly.
Subaru:"so you're the customer i heard from rom!,thank you so much for making the deal,and if your wondering who i am,then i'm the guy who you were just talking about,Natsuki subaru!,pleased to make your acquaintance!."
With a smile,the man took subaru's hand and shaked it up and down,removing their conjoined hands,both subaru and the man looked straight into their eyes while the man intoduced himself.
???:"Natsuki subaru,i see that your quite the straight forward man aren't you?,tis fine,i like men who wear their heart on their sleeves.
My name,tis simple you see,you may call me Ninita,Ninita remedy,also pleased to make your acquaintance Natsuki subaru."
Subaru quickly flicked off a bead of sweat forming on his fore head discreetly to not let the man see that he was nervous.
Thank god i payed attention to those nobles in animes!,i probably would have sounded like the biggest dork around if i didn't know how they talk at all,as always,anime for the win!!
Unbeknownst to him,subaru's noble talk was only grazing the side of actual noble speech, whereas Ninita himself was unaware of subaru's innermost thoughts.
scratching his forehead,old man rom gave him a sign to sit down by motioning his chin towards the side if the table.
Ninita without any complaints thrown,sat down on the dusty floor and drank the milk offered by old man rom,which he drank hesitantly,but after drinking it,he seemed like he was holding in the weight of the world and wasn't able say anything about it.
He turned towards old man rom with a shaky smile and asked rom.
Ninita:"th-this milk,is it watered down?."
To which old man rom gave a curt nod whilst drinking his own cup of watered-down milk.
Ninita:"i-i see,people have their own preferences indeed,but for me...tis simple you see..,tis simply...uh."
Subaru:"absolutely abhorrent,right?."
As Ninita shakily tried to acertain what he thought of it,subaru decided to cut him off after noticing his struggle and answered for him with out a single doubt seen in his face when he did.
After rom threw a relatively harmless object at him,which subaru dodged,he also sat next to Ninita,who looked at him with a slightly confused face and began to speak.
Ninita:"tis a simple way to say it you see,but truly was it not a bit too....upfront and rash?."
Hearing this subaru gave Ninita a grin,and pridefully said.
Subaru:"hey,your the one that said you like 'straight forward' people right?"
Ninita:"ha.."
With such a small sound Ninita promptly drank the whole glass of abhorrent milk,although slowly and forcefully.
Man he totally rocks the 'kind noble' character trope doesn't he?
Subaru realising such thought also thought that Ninita and himself could be good friends in the future.
It just felt right,the man seems to be some kind of innocent noble who can hold his own or something,well based off the fact that he was here hiring people to steal from others.
Subaru:"man,your the the perfect representation of the picture i had for 'nobles' you know that?,forget being business partners!,lets be friends!."
Saying so,subaru extended his hand forward,but not in the same manner as before,instead of being 'noble' like he was completely extending his hand,straightening it completely,even the way he said things was raw.
Meanwhile,the man being proposed of such friendship looked at him with wide eyes,as though he was surprised by the contents of subaru's words.
Seeing this subaru raised an eyebrow and questioned him of it.
Subaru:"hey,what is it?."
Hearing this,Ninita promptly shoock his head and with a smile shook his hand in the midst of saying.
Ninita:"there is nothing wrong,tis simple you see,i would much appreciate being your friend,Natsuki subaru."
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After a few hours passed,another sound of creaking was heard but instantly erupted out from the entrance as a smashing door,and out that smashed open door came felt.
Felt:"hey!,the target was a bit more tricky this time,am i a bit too late?."
Saying so,felt glanced at Ninita seated next to old man rom on the other side of the table,
who just looked at her with an innocent smile.
Instantly a look of realisation takes over the scapes of her face.
Subaru with a frown stands up and approaches her with a finger pointed at her directly.
Subaru:"hell yeah you are,we've been waiting for you for atleast three hours!."
And then he turned the pointed finger behind him,directing it the noble man who just silently waved.
Subaru:"but even more so,this guy over here deciding to come here three hours early probably made you even more late!."
With a raised eye brow felt questioned.
Felt:"what?,why'd he do that for?."
To this Ninita merely shrugged and stated.
Ninita:"tis simple you see,i couldn't wait to meet the man i was to do business with you see and after pondering for a while i decided to see for myself who i am to be acquainted with in the near future."
With a finger pointing towards the sky,he spoke gleefully,the smile still plastered on his face.
Ninita:"and i can assure you that tis was surely the correct decision made,as i have made a good friend in the most unlikely of places."
With and annoyed expression felt trudged forward saying.
Felt:"ugh....did you really have to drag it that much,you could have just said something like 'i just wanted to meet the guy you told me about before negotiation',damn nobles and their long winded speeches!."
To this Ninita merely shrugged again before saying.
Ninita:"tis a difficulty of being noble,truly even i myself find it a drain to my own ears,but alas my parents as nobles themselves imprinted into me such ways of speech,and as all habits are,they die hard."
Huh,that saying exists here to then,i wonder what other saying works here?
Ninita:"truly to say,i would much rather say something along the lines of 'how are you my guy!' than 'how could you be doing on this lovely day my fellow',but alas if I were to do so,i may be punished by own family."
As he said this,Ninita held a twinge of regret and sadness,but of course his face denied this accusation masterfully with a brilliant smile.
Felt who had seated herself on the opposite side of Ninita while he spoke,reached out to him with a brown bag without saying anything,seeing this Ninita was about to take it but felt pulled her outstretched arm back and grinned.
Felt:"if you really don't like talking like a noble then maybe i can tolerate ya,but you're not serious about taking the stolen goods without negotiation now are ya?,if you are that desperate then maybe i can sell it for a higher price?"
At this interrogation,Ninita's smile finally relented and a slight frown over took his features.
Felt:"So,if yo—Ouch!"
In the midst of tense atmosphere felt began to speak yet again but was cut off.
Subaru who had been listening in on the conversation,decided to come and flick felt on the head to stop her from further antagonising Ninita.
Subaru:"Come on felt!,stop antagonising ninita and sell him the thing,he isn't like those,what ever type of crappy,nobles,seriously he is akin to a saint among men!..well in this case a human among nobles?..ehh what ever!,you get the point!."
(AN:Ninita means Akin to in japanese)
And so the grinning felt started chuckling at what subaru had said and the noble man's frown vanished and instead his face was animate with laughter.
Ninita:"haha!,tis seems to be true that being friends with you was truly a great choice!."
As the negotiation progressed,ninita was given the bag Felt had 'bagged' and after checking the item rather warily he packed it inside his coat.but instead of coming out empty handed,his hand came out with a bigger bag than the former which was handed to felt.
After checking out the contents of the bag herself,she showed it to subaru with a smile.
Felt:"sewing materials!,its just as we asked."
Saying so felt gave subaru the bag.
Subaru:"awesome! They seem high quality too!"
Hearing subaru's praise Ninita raised his head proudly before snapping his fingers and saying.
Ninita:"of course! Tis simple you see,a merchant company may it be,our company mostly sells sewing materials and clothings so tis but an overall rule to have quality materials for sewing."
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Ninita had told them that in the span of a week or so,he will come and take a look at the dress subaru would have made with the sewing materials given to him and soon after left.
Everyone agreed that he would sew a dress for felt as an example,after all you need some some sorts of measurements to make a dress but since the notion of mannequins was non-existent he would have to take felts measurements instead.
Subaru seriously felt both sorry for Felt and terrified of her.(no pun intended)
In only a day and a half subaru had teased her to an extent that normally no one does to some one that they had just met,and all of them having some kind of lecherous notion to them and now the aspect of taking her measurements...lets just say felt was extremely infuriated with these happenings and even went so far as to say that she won't help him.After subaru had begged her to help,she relented and gave him her measurements.
In the meanwhile of taking her measurements the words 'pervert' and 'i'm seriously not into little girls' can be heard over and over again.
After the measurements have been taken and an idea was planned out by subaru,all three of them seated themselves around the table,with loafs of bread on top.
Subaru:"bread! Again!?,seriously even Ninita said these breads were crap!"
Felt:"well duh! He's a noble who eats luxurious food all the time! Of course he would say their crap!"
Pointing a loaf of bread at felt subaru replies by saying.
Subaru:"thats not what i'm saying! Ninita's a good guy who isn't even capable of saying how crap rom's watered down milk is!"
Hearing this rom gave subaru a side-eye.
Rom:"okay kid how long are ya gonna go on with this?,you've been saying that for awhile now"
With a loaf of bread in his mouth subaru replied with sudden infuriation.
Subaru:"wehn tha mik yor gimming ve *gulp* tastes good! Wait i just got a sudden sense of deja vu."
After everyone had ate,subaru and felt left the loot house with the sewing materials in hand and when they reached their tent,predictably it was not lightened,only the moon's illumination letting them see the tent that surely existed.
Subaru:"we should seriously get a light source in there,look how dark it is! Someone would think that it was haunted or something."
Subaru said out loud.
without a care of what subaru was saying,felt simply trudged forward saying.
Felt:"meh,works for me,come on i'm dead tired."
Inside the tent,felt without further notice tossed her knife and it's holder on the ground and fell limp on her bed.
Meanwhile subaru,who had gotten himself a lit candle by frolicking around every where for a light source sat next to his bed and took out the sewing materials.
He was thankful for the demi-human who was passing through the slums for giving him the candles and even lighting it for him,at the moment he had three candles,one was lit and a little used already making it some what smaller than the rest of the candles.
Seeing him seated with his sewing materials out,felt curiously asked what he was doing.
Felt:"what're you upto? Don't tell me are you starting now!?"
Subaru:"hey i can't be lazy now can i? I need to do my very best to make this the best dress possible!"
Felt:"but don't you still have a whole week left?"
Hearing her question subaru had gone into a thinking position having his eyes closed shut and hand closed to his chin.
Opening his eyes he concluded his answer.
Subaru:"well if i complete it quickly i would have more time to play with you now won't i?"
With a flustered sigh,felt turned around and tried to fall asleep,leaving a very amused subaru to start his sewing.
Subaru:"Alright,now where do i start?"