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Chapter 3: I tell, I sell

Chapter 3: I tell, I sell

The soldiers arrived a week later, when I saw them I was really terrified you know, one of them lost one of his arms the other one has a long slash across his face while the others lost some of their fingers, but even though they’re retired veterans the aura they emit still frightens me I hope they won’t go wild in my town.

I greeted them near the village entrance; I thought they’re unreasonable people but I was surprised that they were not being rude to me on the contrary they were showing me a good attitude because of that it dispelled one of my fears immediately, quickly I gathered all the available villagers and introduce them their new town guards.

There were a total of 20 retired soldiers the leader and the oldest one among them is Anselm, a 30 years old veteran who has a long scar across his face when first looked upon he is always mistaken as a vagabond poor man anyway he’s single and good at commanding troops with a considerable skills in archery and swordsmanship but has poor skill in using spears.

The second in command is Dirk their handsome companion, honestly though since the start of the village gathering almost all of the single women are always glancing at him anyhow the reason he’s here is because Anselm is his adopted father even though he’s not injured to the point of being forced to retire, he pleaded at my father to let him go with Anselm and father agreed, aside from being handsome he has good skills in using spears and scouting.

After the introduction I just left them to have their own sweet time with the villagers. Now the security problems are solved we need to attract more merchants and peddlers maybe I should build a tavern so at least this village can some cultural activities and maybe festivals to the problem is how do I advertise my remote village? This is a tough problem…

[Anselm]

It’s been so long since I can live peacefully maybe I should thank my injuries this time sorry Lord Otto it’s just that I’m too tired going to wars and I want to live the rest of my life in a quiet village anyway when we were dismissed by the Lord he suggested for us to go to this remote village not too far from the Habsburg fortress he says that if I can help to improve the security there I agreed of course, we’re already arriving at the village and surprisingly the one greeting us is a 9 year old kid is this a joke? But sadly it isn’t I still kept my composure and manners even though it’s just a kid he’s still the village head surprisingly the kids got manners he didn’t insult us for our injuries and on the contrary he was happy to have us in his village well that made us all feel better, after a while he called a village gathering and introduced us, well that was surprising I thought that he was going to humiliate us in front of the crowd but surprisingly he just wants to introduce us to the villagers after the introduction the villagers started to talk to us and entertain us, some of the boys in my group though are jealous to my adopted son Dirk cause all of the pretty girls are flocking to him anyhow when I observed the surrounding I found out that the little village head is already gone what an odd and honest boy maybe it’s worth living here when he’s in charge.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

[Cristoph]

It’s been a year since I met the new village head when I first met him I was surprise to see how young he was honestly he’s too young what in the world is the Lord thinking, we had a simple chat surprisingly he asked about the village current situation and asked me to tour him around the village, after the tour he asked to have a village gathering because he wants to discuss something to the whole village surprisingly the topic is all about our food supply he wants us to implement many new odd farming techniques to prevent the worse from happening of course many reacted negatively but instead of being angry and throwing a tantrum he answered every single inquiries clearly and easy to understand because of it the unrest died down and every villagers finally consented, what a kid he can display a temperament of an adult it’s not even surprising for me to say that he has a temperament of a good noble, after that we have implanted all that was agreed upon that meeting and when the time came for the new harvest we were all overjoyed to see that our little village head wasn’t just speaking nonsense, the crops were bountiful our livestock were plenty after the harvest some unknown people arrived surprisingly all of them were the new guards that our new village head had acquired from the lord, we were all happy at first we thought that the new guards are all vagabonds but unexpectedly they were one of the nicest guys we have seen, well I’m now expecting a lot from our little village head.

[Alberto]

I decided to conduct a harvest festival with the hopes of attracting new settlers and merchants I don’t know if because I’m a reincarnater or not but somehow all of my plans are going smoothly many peddlers came new residents also came for the whole week this continued the festival was tiresome many things are needed my attention and I’m quiet tired already when the villagers saw my current situation they were alarmed how could they forget that the village head was still a little child thus they pushed all of the jobs to  Cristoph so that I can have a day of fun and rest, while I was having fun in the festival I wasn’t alone I have Dirk is always following me saying it’s for my safety well I can’t blame him, while I was having fun visiting the peddlers and stalls I met the Joseph the chief Rabbi I thought he was in England why is he here in Habsburg this is bad.