"I think it's time to execute your plan!" Dain said jumping down from his seat.
There were many plants beside the lane which we were passing through. There was a small house made up of wood in the middle of all the plants.
"Follow me!" Dain started running as I followed him.
"What's it?" I whispered.
"I think we can execute our plane on him." Dain said pointing his finger towards a middle-aged man who was half bald and was wearing the most common clothing in this land. He was carrying a plough along with some bag in his hands.
"Oh, ok. Wait but why are we running? We are here to execute our plane not to execute him!!"
We slowed down as we were getting near that man. He looked confused as two men who were dressed like nobles were running towards him.
Yeah, even if Dain was a merchant, he wore costly clothes saying that a good outfit gives two times more profit than looking like a beggar. Well, whatever, I was on my normal outfit which I wore on the starting of my journey.
"Now you talk to him." Dain pushed me forward.
"What?! We discussed that you will be the one to talk!" I argued.
"Yeah but, I have to atleast see how to execute the plan once before I step into the plan." Dain answered me.
Bruh I don't want to talk to strangers and on the top of that I am not good at communicating with other people.
I looked at Dain once again to see if he changes his opinion but he was looking at me to start executing the plane.
"Bruh whatever! Hey old man!! We are the left-hand-men of Duke Azel…." Just hearing that bastards name made the man shiver. "… the lord wants to get the sample of all the fruits that grow in winter so we want you to handover all the unseasonal fruits you have! If the lord gets satisfied by them, we will be here again to buy a year worth of all the winter fruits!!!" I shouted on the top of my lungs. It was with fear and nervousness obviously.
I walked on my top speed towards Dain without seeing the face of that old man. I hope this works! Please!!!
"So did it work?" I whispered in Dain's ear.
"You are a genius!!" Dain shouted showing me a thumbs up.
"What?...."
"You nearly convinced this whole village!" Dain smiled at me.
"Why are you making fun of me? You could just have said that the plan faile-" I was too stunned to speak as I noticed many people surrounding around us.
"What the hell is happening here?!!" I shouted as slowly as I could.
Many people makes me purple. Are they here to beat the freak out of us for demanding something so silly?
"So, you have this much potential huh?" Dain complemented me?
"So everyone!! As you heard what this young man said please bring every winter fruit you have and write your names on the bags that you have filled your fruit with! As you know if the lord Azel gets satisfied, you could be rewarded with something you didn't imagine in your life so hurry!!"
As soon as Dain shouted everyone started running in different directions towards their own farmlands.
That's unexpected they really believed me and started plucking the fruits in their farm.
"?" Monica was glaring at us seriously. "What?" I questioned her slowly walking towards her.
"Are you the slaves of Azel? If you have told me that at the beginning, I would never have travelled with you." Man! she is so serious.
Dain came running towards us then grabbed her hand and dragged her towards the wagon. "I will explain everything to you later but please stay inside the wagon for now!"
Now that I think about it, I didn't really tell Monica why I was travelling with Dain. Anyway, I think Dain will convince her later for not telling her beforehand.
After some time, the farmers came to us one by one and started placing the bags before us. As one can expect, the bags were small as they were unseasonal. Still, I didn't expect to get so many bags. I thought I could get four to five kilo grams or something from this whole village but I think this would sum up to atleast ten kilograms.
We slowly started packing the bags into the wagon, there were nearly thirty bags filled with different fruits. I feel sorry to fool the farmers by taking their fruits but if we don't return to them they will curse Azel not us, so it's good for me.
"Let's get moving. It's already dark!" Dain shouted as I sat inside the wagon.
"…" Uwaa I forgot about Monica!!! She is glaring at me intensely!! I feel like am going to pass out!!
"Dain!! Stoop the wagon!!" I shouted.
"What is it?" Dain shouted from outside suddenly stopping the wagon.
"Once come inside!!" I shouted.
"Yeah what is i- AAAHHH" Dain screamed as soon as he opened the wagons door.
Demon!! She is a Demon!! So scary!! Her glare is like a Lazer that can even cut a diamond!
"Sigh… Ok Monica come out and sit beside my seat." Dain asked her as I signalled him by waving my hand to take her out.
They both sat at the front of the wagon as Dain started the wagon along with narrating the story while I decided to open the bags.
Man!! A world without smartphone and wifi is still boring. I started to separate the different kinds of fruits and pack them in different bags.
After some time, Dain stopped the wagon as it was already past sunset.
"We will camp here!" Dain shouted so I can here.
I slowly stepped down the wagon and glanced at Monica. "Huff…" she doesn't look that angry now.
Dain started cooking while Monica started to set a camp.
I on the other hand was trying to feed Dain's horse Doba from a kilometre away from it. "Doba is not a man eater." Dain laughed at me. "…"
As soon as Dain finished cooking, we gathered around the table.
"So, you are the son of an estate lord huh?" I nodded as an answer to Monica.
"You were also one of the victims of that ugly bastard huh?" she started to make quite angry face.
Seems like there is a flashback for her. I better not get involved in anyone's story. First of all, I have to survive and save my family. I stuffed my mouth with food and started chewing it as the situation was too awkward for me.
"Why? What happened?? Are you a victim too?" Damn you Dain!! Damn you!!
Now I have to get away from here as soon as possible. I ate as fast as I could and ran towards the tent and slept.
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"Hey buddy, wake up!! It's already late!" Dain shouted as I slowly opened my eyes.
I stretched my body a little and started walking in half sleep towards Dain. Bruh I didn't get too much sleep as there were insects making weird sounds. I stuffed myself into a blanket fearing that there may be poisonous insects in the wild. Strictly speaking, I am not good outside. I doubt that I slept out any time in my previous life. Wait!! Am I living another life or is it still a dream? Now that I think about it, a dream should not be this big right? Maybe I went to coma.
Whatever, I brushed my teeth with some kind of herbs that Dain gave me while Dain was cooking breakfast along with Monica. They got quite close. "PFFFF" These herbs don't taste good at all.
"So how long will it take us to reach our destination?" I asked Dain.
"Probably by noon we will be there." Dain answered stirring the soup in the bowl.
After we ate, we started as fast as we could. I slept along the way as I was too busy at night fighting bugs.
"We are here!!"
"AAAAKKK" I fell down from my seat as I was surprised by the shout.
"Damn you! Don't freak me!!" I shouted while my eyes were still closed.
I slowly opened the window. "So, this is [GARAI]."
"Huff" this seems like a normal place compared to [RAAIL] this is as the novel describes about this place -NORMAL-. I mean the
"Then I will be off here. Please stop here Dain."
"Ok." Dain stopped the wagon as soon as he heard Monica.
I got down the wagon to give her a send-off.
"I got things to do before I go home. You can meet me anytime at my house if you need any help. My family is quite famous here so you can ask anyone for directions." We nodded to what she said.
"Ok then take care." Dain waved his hand while Monica slowly started walking away from us.
"…"
"Don't look too sad. let's go" I slapped on his shoulder as he was looking sad.
"So do we go there?" Dain asked.
"No." "??!" he was surprised by my answer.
"I thought you need to make money."
"Yeah, but I am a human too, I need some time." Life is more important than money as this village is going to be destroyed.
"Then, want to go to a hotel and take rest?"
"First let's go to the post office." I said taking of my blazer. It was hot at noon.
"Post office?!!" man I can't get tired of seeing those surprised reactions.
"You want to write a letter?"
"What? Can't I write a letter?"
"Ok then let's go!" saying that Dain sat on his seat while I sat beside him to get more air.
I really don't know how but I am able to read and write the language in this world so I think I would be able to write letters. I will experiment on Dain anyway.
The streets were quite filled with people, it might not be too packed but compared to before the people were smiling at each other. They didn't give us any strange stared which I feel very satisfied.
After a minute or two we reached the post office. A post office in different world, I was wondering how would it look as that damn novel didn't describe about it.
It was a big building which was made by huge blocks of stone which looked like it can withstand any storm. There were many white birds chippering on the trees that were surrounding the building. They had a small bag attached to their breasts.
"So, these are the so called {PERCHIP} birds that are used for transporting letters huh?"
"Yes, you are right."
"!!!" "AAK" that surprised me and Dain that we jumped to see who was behind us.
"Hello! Welcome to [GARAI] post office." He was a tall man wearing a kaki-coloured hat with a matching pant and shirt. He had a huge smile on his face.
"These {PERCHIP} are normally white feathered in our region and are one of the powerful communications in our Kingdome. These birds have the power to read our thoughts and deliver the letter to the person or place we are writing to. They are so powerful that people believe that they can meet their faithed one and let them meet each other. So, they are sometimes also called as faith birds."
"Woooow" we were too amazed by his explanation that we stood with our mouth opened for some time.
"Oh! sorry for my rudeness! I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Rad Ropi you can just call me Rad. I am the manager of this post office." Telling that he bowed at us.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Rad. I am Dain and this is my good friend Robin." Dain introduced me and himself.
"My friend here wants to write a letter so can you please deliver it?"
"Sure can."
"Umm.. two letters actually." I spoke.
"Two?" I nodded to Dain.
"Then please come this way." Saying that he spread his hand. In a moment two {PERCHIP}s landed on his hand. That looks cool!!!!!!!
He handed me two papers and a pen to write and pointed to a table to sit and write where many others were also writing their respective letters.
Both the birds sat on my shoulders and started looking at me. Man!! I want to take one home!!!
I started writing the letter as the birds started staring at the letter as if they know what I was writing.
TO BE CONTINUED…..
"So, did you complete writing your letters?
"Yeah, as soon as I wrote them and packed the letter into the bag on the bird, they flew away." I answered Mr. Rad.
"Good for you" he smiled.
"Ummm… you can give the bill to Dain." I said noticing the piece of paper in Rad's hand.
"You bastard!!!" I started running as soon as Dain shouted.