Isekai Nonbiri Nouka Chapter 1083: The Unifying King’s Memories of His Journey and Souvenirs

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Previously on Isekai Nonbiri Nouka...

Pilot suits for the Arti-Horse have arrived, with Yoru and Klim eager to try them. Meanwhile, the chief learns the surprising truth about Yame's seemingly strange interactions, discovering her "weaknesses" are actually a unique defensive mechanism and that her companions' rough treatment was a misguided form of protection.

I am the Unifying King.

Having accomplished my goal of meeting Lady Tiselle’s father in Village Five, I am preparing to return home.

It will still be a little while before I leave Village Five, but it is important to be ready to move at any time.

I also properly received letters from the Third Princess of the Gozlan Kingdom and her attendants, informing their relatives that they were safe.

I will not check what is the content of the letters.

A king would never do something so uncouth.

I also received letters from Lady Tiselle’s father, Youko-dono, and Count Chrome, addressed to Lady Tiselle, Ekaterize-sensei, and Lady E3.

Of course, I will not check the content of those letters either.

I would probably make enemies with all sorts of people.

A king simply accepts the letters and delivers them without asking questions.

I don’t mind even if people make fun of me for being a messenger.

Because that’s exactly what I am.

Hahaha.

-0-

Now then.

Until I leave Village Five, I have things I need to do.

First, ramen.

I intend to visit as many ramen shops in Village Five as possible.

I’m not doing this just because I enjoy it.

It’s to learn about ramen.

And to find the ramen I want to create myself.

I also want to study techniques and ingredients I don’t know about.

If possible, I would like to become an apprentice at one of the shops, but I am a king, after all.

That would not be allowed.

It seems that even nobles can personally run businesses in the Demon King’s Kingdom, so perhaps even a king could become an apprentice…

But Count Chrome and Count Pugyaru stopped me.

Grrr.

For now, I eat ramen.

And play baseball in between.

My understanding of baseball deepens, and I work up an appetite.

Wonderful.

-0-

As I went about my days like this, before I knew it, the day of departure had arrived.

I don’t want to go home.

There is still ramen I haven’t eaten.

I had planned to eat it, but the shop was closed unexpectedly, so I couldn’t.

Can’t they let me stay one more day… no, two more days?

But no.

It was time to leave.

My subordinates show no mercy.

Well, we have a ship to catch, so it can’t be helped.

It would be impossible to charter an entire ship just for us, after all.

First, we use the teleportation gate to go to Shashaato City and check the condition of the ship we are scheduled to board.

It is scheduled to depart tomorrow, but schedules like that can easily fall apart due to the weather or the cargo.

「Our cargo has already been loaded. There should be no problem with tomorrow’s departure, so they would like us to board by noon.」

Understood.

Then we will stay one night in Shashaato City as planned.

There was also a shop in Shashaato City that served ramen.

As expected of ramen.

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And the next day.

We set sail.

I ended up staying in the Demon King’s Kingdom longer than I had expected.

Now, let’s go home.

That was what I thought, but the ship’s destination was a port in the Six Dragon God Kingdom.

We were scheduled to stay there for about three days to resupply and load and unload cargo.

Apparently, Zahazaha-dono is in the capital of the Six Dragon God Kingdom, so I will go and greet him.

As a matter of fact, most of the souvenirs I am taking home will be transported by a group of wyverns under Zahazaha-dono’s command.

Of course, I wasn’t the one who arranged this. It was arranged by Lady Tiselle’s father.

Still, since they are officially transporting my souvenirs, I should make sure to thank him properly.

Zahazaha-dono invited me to ride back with them, but I politely declined.

I suppose I would get home faster that way, but riding a dragon is frightening.

My subordinates have also been indirectly turning down the offer.

I’d like to let at least one of them try riding one…

But the moment I say something like that, my subordinates will unite and make me ride one, so I won’t say it.

A king lives safely.

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There is another reason I declined the offer to ride a dragon. I have something to do during the voyage.

The Ramen Kingdom.

It’s not just because I want to eat ramen.

I am supposed to deliver ingredients to the Ramen Kingdom.

The merchant company actually responsible for transporting them was commissioned by Count Chrome, but since it is a merchant company from the Demon King’s Kingdom, it cannot openly bring supplies into a human country.

Officially, the Demon King’s Kingdom is an enemy of the human countries, after all.

Until now, they have only been able to transport small quantities.

So, me.

I was asked to cooperate by bringing them as souvenirs from me… or rather, as spoils taken from the Demon King’s Kingdom. Under that pretext, they could transport a large quantity.

The King of the Ramen Kingdom taught me about ramen, so there was no way I could refuse.

However, the large boxes called containers that are used to transport ingredients are quite convenient.

They were made at the golem factory in Village Five.

Since all the boxes are the same size, they are easy to stack.

Furthermore, some containers have functions that allow them to cool or freeze their contents.

Thanks to those functions, the ingredients can be transported without spoiling.

As I was looking around the containers, I found one containing livestock.

So the animals’ food and water are automatically supplied during transport?

And their waste is automatically dealt with as well.

Nice.

But there is a limit to how much waste can be stored, so the containers need to be cleaned regularly if they are going on a long journey.

That’s acceptable.

I want some for my country too.

I was thinking that, but most of the containers scheduled to be transported by the wyverns had some kind of function.

……

Do we have to return the containers?

Probably.

I’ll discuss it with Lady Tiselle.

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We arrived in the Ramen Kingdom.

The King of the Ramen Kingdom welcomed me.

And he was deeply moved by the souvenirs I had brought.

He seemed especially pleased with the pigs and chickens from Village Five arranged by Lady Tiselle’s father, as well as the plant seedlings.

Ah, about the livestock, he said that at first, you should focus on breeding them, and as for the seedlings, it’s fine if they fail. Just keep records of the environment and how they grow.

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Talking with the King of the Ramen Kingdom reminded me…

While I was staying in Village Five, I never expected the owner of the ramen stall I encountered in the middle of the night to be Lady Tiselle’s father.

I thought they might be brothers because they looked alike, but I never imagined they were the same person.

And Lady Tiselle’s father is the Grand Master of the King of the Ramen Kingdom.

The King of the Ramen Kingdom had told me that his Grand Master was the village chief of Village Five, but I hadn’t connected the two facts in my mind.

When I realized it, I couldn’t help shouting in surprise.

Ah, I delivered the message from the King of the Ramen Kingdom to Lady Tiselle’s father.

He had asked me to.

This must be the answer.

I couldn’t meet the Ramen Queen, but I asked Lady Tiselle’s father to deliver a message to her.

But personally, I think he should have proposed to her himself.

What?

It wasn’t a proposal?

He only wanted her to help spread ramen in this country?

No, that was definitely a proposal.

Lady Tiselle’s father understood it that way too.

Well, the Ramen Queen is apparently a noblewoman from the Demon King’s Kingdom, so marriage would probably be difficult…

Y-you don’t have to get that angry.

It wasn’t a proposal, right?

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The King of the Ramen Kingdom and I ate something made in Village Five that turns into ramen just by adding hot water.

It was clearly different from ramen.

But it was delicious in its own way.

Ah, I only have about thirty of them.

Taking half of them would be too much.

Somehow, I ended up staying in the Ramen Kingdom for about a month before boarding a ship to return home.

-0-

I remove the towel I had been resting over my eyes and stand up from the chair.

The souvenirs that were sent ahead of me have been distributed throughout the country.

Among the gifts for Lady Tiselle and the others were livestock and plant seedlings.

We have pigs and chickens in my country too, but the taste is completely different.

And so is their strength.

I want to crossbreed them and steadily increase their numbers.

As for the plant seedlings… Ekaterize-sensei will be in charge of them and plans to grow them when the season is right.

Come to think of it, I brought home an entire container full of books… I wonder where those went?

They were books I bought in Village Five, mainly stories recommended to me at the library there.

At first, Lady Tiselle, Ekaterize-sensei, and Lady E3 all gave me cold looks for bringing in strange things, but I haven’t heard how they were treated after that.

They didn’t burn them, did they?

Those things were expensive.

Are they all right?

I was told they were being distributed among the book repositories in various regions.

That’s good.

Oh, so girls have started visiting the book repositories that previously had hardly any visitors.

I wonder if they became interested in stories?

In any case, reading is a good thing.

But the number of people who can read is limited.

There were many places to learn to read in Village Five.

I need to establish places to teach reading in my country too.

Hmm?