Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 3] by Hiiro Shimotsuki

Author:Hiiro Shimotsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Now that my transportation and an escort had been secured, I only had a couple more stops to make, and the first of these was to see Karen. After all, I wasn’t the only one who had been tasked with looking after Aina while Stella was out of town. She had asked Karen to look out for her daughter too, and as such, I also needed her permission before whisking the little girl off to the village of the cat-sìths.

“So you’re saying you want to take Aina with you?” she summarized.

We were presently in her office in the town hall, and as always, paperwork was piled high on her desk, and she had been in the middle of plowing through it when I showed up. As soon as I stepped into the room, she stopped what she was doing and we both sat down on one of the sofas she kept in the room for entertaining guests.

“Yes,” I said, taking a sip of the black tea Karen had handed to me. “I think it’ll be a nice change of pace for her. And more importantly, I believe it’s important for children to explore other nations and the cultures of other races while they’re still young.”

I knew Karen’s sense of responsibility was very strong. She’d promised Stella she would take care of Aina, which meant she was never going to just let me take her off someplace without a good reason, so I decided to play the “education” card.

“Children should explore the cultures of other races, huh?” she repeated with an amused chuckle. “You make it sound so simple when she’d never be able to do something like that if it weren’t for you.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yeah. A regular girl from a little town like this one would most likely never set foot outside of it, let alone get the opportunity to ‘experience the culture of other races.’” She flashed me an exasperated yet fond smile.

She had a point. Not only was the transport infrastructure in this world practically nonexistent, but even going by road, you always ran the risk of running into bandits or monsters. Most people spent their entire lives in the village they were born in without ever taking so much as a single step outside of it. Yet I had already taken Aina to the royal capital and helped her to travel back to the town she was born in, and now here I was, asking for permission for her to accompany me to the village of the cat-sìths. Karen’s reaction was understandable.

“Well, it’s not my decision to make,” Karen eventually said. “If you don’t mind her tagging along and she wants to go, there’s not much I can say to stop you. But you must promise me you’ll be careful on the way.”

“We will.”

And so, having secured Karen’s permission to take Aina with me, we were finally ready to leave for Orvil. Or so I thought.

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Later that same day, Aina and I went over to Shess’s estate to inform her of our upcoming departure.

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