On the other hand, this is the area where street vendors have set up store in the capital, Leusert.

"......I see you've been spotted. ......"

The words were muttered with a sigh in a whisper that no one could hear.

"People in this country are quite talented, that there is a person who can recognize that it was a thread taken from an underground spider. ......"

However, although no one seems to be around, Regulus 46, a.k.a. <>, a ranger of the <> dispatched by the old man, is listening to his mutterings.

When the old man heard it in Horai Island, he thought about the meaning of the mutterings.

<>

I have tried to make such a conclusion, but there is too little information to draw a conclusion.

<>

* * * *

"......The stairs are dark. And narrow. Long."

Goose descends the stairs, muttering to himself.

The stairs were just as he had said, dark, narrow, and long. They seemed to lead to the bottom of the earth.

With only a small magic lamp, Guth descended the stairs so dark that he could barely see his feet.

(Mr. Goose doesn't have enough sense of crisis. ......)

Following five meters behind him is Capella 7, aka Terral, a member of the fifth column (Quinta).

（It sounds good to say that he is dynamic, but he is a bit reckless. (Of course, it's a bit reckless, but that's what a thirst for knowledge does for you. ......)

There were about 200 steps leading to the basement.

Guth thought about turning back several times, but he could not stop thinking how happy Saki would be if she knew the truth.

He also thought that it would be a waste of his time to come all the way down here.

As a result, Goose descended to the basement about 40 meters below the surface.

"A door..."

For a moment, he hesitated to touch the handle, but eventually he opened the door.

There he found .......

"Welcome, curious scholar!

and a man held a knife to Guth's neck.

What are you doing?"

But instead of an answer to his question, the man in the back said,

"You should do a physical examination.

"I'd like a physical examination," was the reply from the man in the back.

"Yes, sir."

The man with the knife to his neck used his free hand to search the pockets of Goose's clothes.

"Nothing in particular," he said.

"Nothing in particular," he said. ...... put the knife down for now. ...... but be on the lookout."

The man in the back came a few steps closer and bowed lightly.

"I beg your pardon. But sometimes there are people who try to find out where the cloth comes from and try to monopolize it.

As I got closer, I could see the man's face clearly.

He is a thin man, about forty-something years old, with thin lines and not suited for rough work.

However, as if to compensate for this, there was a black golem standing next to him like a guard. No, actually, he was a guard.

"...... My name is Tengkunhan. Formerly a craftsman, now a ...... humble alchemist, I guess."

I've heard that name somewhere before, I thought, and Goose said his name too.

"I'm Goose Minakata. I'm a naturalist.

Tenkunhan ponders for a moment when he hears the title "naturalist,

"You are not from the ...... Shoro Kingdom, are you?

He then asked, "You are not from the Shoro Kingdom, are you?

"Yes. I am now a naturalized citizen of the Shoro Kingdom, but I am from ."

"Oh?"

"The guy who held the knife to me over there ...... is not from Mitsuho?"

"Oh, I see ......, he asked you about your Mitsho accent."

* * * *

In Horai Island, the old man was relieved to receive the information sent from Capella 7.

.

Since the door was not yet closed when the knife was pointed at him, Capella 7 quickly entered the room and was ready to stun all the people in the room if any harm was going to be done to Goose.

<<>

There seems to be no sense of madness or arrogance. However, many of them keep such negative aspects to themselves, so I cannot make a judgment at this stage.

* * * *

"When I was young, I thought I would make a name for myself as a craftsman. I could use my engineering magic."

After offering Goose a chair, Tenkunhan sat down himself and suddenly began to tell his story.

"But my sense of aesthetics is a bit strange," he said. I was well-received by some connoisseurs, but not by the general public."

Guth doesn't know much about that.

"So, eventually, he got fed up with himself, became desperate, and sneaked out of the town of Ismar, where he happened to be stopping, and set out for the land of the different peoples.

Unbeknownst to Guth, at this time Tengkhunhan was shown a broken bicycle in the Kali settlement, but was unable to fix it.

"When I realized that I was useless not only as a craftsman but also as a magical engineer (magi engineer), I was depressed. At one point I even considered suicide."

"......"

Guth nodded inwardly, "Well, that's understandable.

"Then, in the land of mitsuho, I learned about a paper called <>. I thought this was amazing. So I decided to study again to see if I could develop such a new material.

Guth was a little impressed with the man's academic mindset.

"Then, in one of the caves, I found an interesting insect. It is a kind of spider, and the thread it produces is of very high quality.

The thread woven from it is the cloth," he said, finishing Tenkunhan's explanation, although he seemed to have skipped a few parts.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The old man also learned about the situation through Capella 7.

But, the old man thinks.

<>

He is an old man who would have laughed if he could have seen his face, despite his high ideals (Lao Tzu, the mobile terminal guy, is busy with his spaceship now).

* * * * * *

"Hmmm, I see what you mean... ......"

Guth, though not as much as the old man, had a vague idea that this Tengkunhan person was of a regrettable type.

"Soon, Mitsuho and the Shoro Kingdom will officially establish diplomatic relations. Then, I think we can sell the cloth through regular channels."

"What?　I've never heard of such a thing!"

Tengkunhan is surprised.

"That's because you're hiding in a place like this and trying to do business secretly.

With that, Goose wonders who is the best person to take this story to.