The Elf Is a Freeloader

The four of you who left Aye's house arrive at Nijin Station on the Metro Toyota Line, which is just around the corner.

"You can go to Nagoya, right?

"Yeah. I'll stop somewhere else today. You don't have to rush around in one day, you just have to go again."

Copy that.

You guys buy each ticket to your destination. Yasushi will teach Elle how to use the ticket vending machine.

Today, Elle decided to cover all the costs of trains and shopping herself.

Because Elle now has some funding from Mayor Hatano, Ryu's father, for getting a certain salary as an appearance fee for "Mr. Elf" and for the fact that Mayor Hatano personally bought me a few examples of Elle silver and copper coins to add to his collection of Western antiques.

As for El, I was distressed to have you and the ayes bear from what to what, as before, and I accepted that, even for you, including the meaning of being part of El's social studies.

However, at first, it was difficult to understand the notes received from Mayor Hagano that Elle was money.

If you try El, it's out of common sense, like "banknotes." For her, "money" means coins or jewels such as silver or copper coins, and only "fine, same painted, elongated pieces of paper" such as banknotes.

Yasushi explained it to me and finally convinced me that the piece of paper was the money of this country.

In fact, I have seen Yasushi pay with banknotes many times, but she has always wondered how things could be bought with such a piece of paper.

The four of us are going through the ticket and out to the home.

In the meantime, Elle has always been in a good mood.

"Sounds like fun, Elle"

"Ha a, Mr. Takashi. Densha no ru, no smudges."

Though obsessed, Elle replies with a grin.

Elle has also seen many trains running so far, but naturally today is the first time he has taken them. So I can't seem to help but look forward to that.

"Densha, Sokuri"

"The train looks just like it? To what?

"Carrie crawl!

"Carrie crawl?

"Ha Yi. Carrie Crawl, Daikai Imou Shi no Manju!

Elle stretches his hands out one cup to appeal to its carry crawl and size.

But Yasushi wasn't quite there.

"Hey! Stop it, don't you, El! You won't be able to eat a bun!

It wasn't just the aye, but both Yasushi and Ryu imagined a giant bun that looked like a potato worm and looked disgusting.

"Elle... if you're gonna say that, 'Big Potato Bug Warcraft,' right?

Guess what Yasushi would have wanted Elle to say, and I'll correct her mistake.

It should be noted that Elle's warcraft called Carry Crawl is a warcraft that looks like a bigger potato worm than a human being, a warcraft that catches and eats prey with tentacles grown around his mouth.

Its tentacles have a paralytic poison, and sometimes humans sacrifice it, he said. Naturally the prey offended by the paralysis poison will be eaten alive by its potato warcraft.

In fact, Elle also had experience fighting this warcraft as an adventurer in that world.

"Densha, it's better than Carrie Crawl! Ha Lu no Yuma Yo Ri sucks! Noshimi no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!

Do you understand the difference between "Warcraft" and "Manju" or not?

With a floating expression, Elle kept looking in the direction in which the train would come.

Eventually the train slips into the home and the entrance and exit doors open.

Elle, who ran into the train first, looks inside of it and makes his eyes shine.

"Yis, Yi Pa, there is! Come on, Pa, there's one! Sugo!

Elle looks at the plethora of seats in the car, hanging ads, and more.

"Mr. Yastaka, Kole, Ni?

Elle asks, pointing to the hanger.

"This is called hanging leather, and it's used by people who can't sit in their seats and stand. Here's how..."

Yasushi demonstrates and shows how to use suspended leather.

"So there's Mo, Yis, Yi Pa. I'm Nahito, aren't you there?

Elle looked inside the car. The train is empty and no one seems to be able to sit down.

"Yeah. Because there aren't many people today. But when it comes to weekday work hours, the train will be packed."

"Shkinjika? Sushi?"

Elle tilts her neck in unfamiliar Japanese.

"Even in El's world, there were people who worked every day, right?

"Ha Yi. Hito of Shounen, Hito of Ichiba, Hatarakuhito, Ipa."

Elle's Japanese proficiency is getting higher every day these days. The hearing, in particular, seems to be able to be heard with little problem, unless it is an unfamiliar word or a special word.

For this minute, Yasushi predicted that the conversationalist would soon be able to speak fluently.

"Attendance hours are overlapping hours for people who go to work like that. There are more people on the train than there are today because so many people travel at a time."

"Wakarimashi! Hitofue. It sucks."

Yeah, Yasushi smiles gently at Elle, who snorts.

"If you're stuffed, say that the train is filled with people without gaps."

Yasushi will explain the source and use of "stuffing".

……………………

Aye looks at Elle and Yasushi, who talk happily, somewhere complicated.

And neither Yasushi nor Elle, nor Aye Himself, noticed that Ryu was staring at such an aye in silence.

With the swing of cancer, the train moves out.

The seats on the Metro Toyota Line are of the long chair type, with chairs installed along the walls on both sides. Yasushi laid down his hips in all four of them.

Elle sticks to the window as if she were a child, letting her eyes shine and looking out at the landscape.

But the landscape outside blacks out in an instant.

"I'm makura!

Surprised Elle turns to you after checking the surrounding windows.

"This route will be subway between Nikkan and Akaike Stations."

From Akaike Station, the Metro Toyota Line runs underground in conjunction with the Tsurumachi Line of the Nagoya Metro.

"Chika-tae?

"Run beneath the ground."

"Ji, Ji Mei no Shita..."

Knowing that this huge train is running beneath the ground makes Elle even more stunned.

It is not impossible to dig a huge tunnel in the basement if you are a Dwarf with excellent civil engineering skills. But it must just be impossible to dig a tunnel long and wide enough for such a huge train to run at high speeds.

Of course, we would be able to do it over the long years of a hundred years and two hundred years. But according to Yasushi's story, he dug this giant tunnel in less than a decade.

Once again, Elle is amazed by the human skill of this world.

Magic is like a different technical system. Which is better and which is inferior and so on, but this world is pretty developed, at least in terms of everyday life.

It's been more than fifty days since I've been in this world, but it's still a continuum of daily surprises.

No, there must still be a heap of surprises to keep coming.

Considering that, Elle's heart hits his expectations from time to time.

In anticipation of what she would be experiencing, Elle smiled at the boy who would keep an eye on herself next door - to the boy who had been watching me since she came to this world.

When the train dived underground and passed several stations.

As I recall, Ryu asked Yasushi.

"Hey, Yasushi. After all, what does Elle have to do with you?

"Oh, that would mean my sister-in-law. They say you're 15."

I can't possibly publish 152, Elle's real age. Doing that would undoubtedly repaint Guinness Book's highest longevity record with a smash and it would never be updated again.

In particular, no one will trust you when you publish it.

As a result of the consultation between the families, Elle's age was set at 15, and she settled down because she was a healthy sister-in-law.

Currently in the process of applying for adoption, El will soon officially be named "Erlula Zafira Filacilula Akatska".

I have already introduced Elle to my neighbor as an adopted daughter who I took away because of family circumstances. Of course, being an elf remains a secret for the moment.

Her appearance - especially with regard to her distinctive ears - will have to be seriously considered as to what to do now, but it will also not be such an issue that a solution can be found so easily.

Even now she wears her usual knitted hat. It's getting hotter and hotter in season and it must be getting tougher and tougher from now on. Fortunately, the interior of the car is cooled, so there is nothing like sweating on your forehead.

"When you get to Nagoya... El, I'm sure you'll be surprised"

"Oh. I don't have half the holiday crowd. Especially not compared to Tokyo."

Quite a few people pack around Nagoya Station, even if it's not a holiday.

JR Nagoya Station, which is also the main entrance, is also the relay point for a number of native lines, including Shinkansen.

If that were a holiday, the crowd would increase even further as more humans push it than on a weekday.

Still, just compared to stations in front of famous places all over Tokyo, which is the capital of Japan, it still gets summer in front of Nagoya Station.

When you get to Nagoya, what will Elle do to fulfill it? Aye and Ryu laugh small at each other, anticipating that.

And.

The train finally arrives in Nagoya.