Day 411-420/Day 419

Day 419
I made the giants carry me, at least until we arrived safely in the giant kingdom «Colossus · Titan».
Too thick wall just over 100 meters in height surround the area, leaving everyone speechless from the difference in scale.
With the experience from my past life, it was not as disturbing knowing there were buildings which can extend that high up in this universe, but still the power needed to build such things is surprising.
The main gate in such heavy walls had heavily equipment giants as protectors.
As friends of the giants, we did not have much of a problem and I was able to enter inside just by going through a simple process.
This «Colossus · Titan» is the city where the King of the giants live.
So the buildings inside the wall were also sized accordingly, a single house is as tall as a high-rise building filling my entire field of vision.
That alone is not too bad.
The houses that are likely to have a long history are also finely decorated with many artistic shapes. The wide road is kept clean, and carriages are pulled by big beasts.
Huge fruits we have never seen before, and some kind of lumps of meat are displayed in the market all lined up, with a crowd filled with a fierce violence like an explosion waiting to happen.
I feel like a dwarf or a fairy who walked into a human's world.
After having walked around being guided by the giants for a while, we came to a certain corner which was a little away from the living space of the giants.
There were houses of such size that a dwarf would live, as far as it was compared to the surroundings, people of the corresponding size were living in them.
This is the area of the giant kingdom «Colossus · Titan», where people like us are living.
It is generally called the «Dwarf Block». Tribes of those with less than five meter in height are gathered.
Even so, due to the policies of the [Giant King], «Colossus · Titan» has a considerable friendship with many tribes, so that trade here is thriving.
There is also the danger of having to compete with the [Redeemer King], but for the giants that hunted those big beasts monsters, that are difficult for the other races to beat down, they are apparently quite good as trading partners.
It is because there are various uses for the leather, meat, blood, viscera, grease, etc. that can be taken from those big beasts.
It will be too long to go into all the details, so I will omit it for now, but the «Dwarf Block» can be thought of as an area where those who are not giants, like us who came from outside, can come together.
If the giants and other people were to live altogether in the same place, accidents are likely to occur due to the difference in size. Still, it seems that danger is still around even if you stay here, but you can still lower that possibility.
Anyway, we gave our thanks to the giants who guided us and today we parted ways.
The giants also have reports and so on to deliver, so it was necessary to ask them anything we needed to while they were still available.
After promising to meet again later, my group looked around for lodging while staying in the area.
There was a tiger-type beastman who was cooking huge pieces of caterpillar meat, an elf's laundress washing dirty clothes, a demon greengrocer selling vegetables and fruits that we have never seen before, a Witch's magic tool store with magic items lined up, etc. I visited each store one after another.
The only trouble is that because of where this place is, the commonly used language here is the language of the giants.
That means, that because I am the only one who can understand it, it became troublesome to have to translate for everyone every time.
I noticed it and felt like I had the only pair of functional ears, acting as an interpreter every minute, this was the common scene in every meeting, but the others moved on without any problems.
After looking around we went to a big liquor store under the personal recommendation of a local, the [Mining Cave Sake Brewery] had a dwarf couple in charge of many employees.
A delicious alcohol is made there using fruits purchased from the farmers of the giants they are affiliated with, but there is a question of quantity.
The main customers seem to be giants, and it seems that there are many are fans of the sake and wine produced by the small but powerful dwarves.
After tasting, we buy it by the barrel unit. Unfortunately we do not have any money we can use here, but at that time we barter.
Since we have many items that are not available in the [Mysterious Dark Continent], we fought a fierce battle with a skilled wife.
Ultimately, both sides end up with good things, and we both leave with smiling faces.
Separating with happy farewells, we move off to try the taste at once.
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“四百十九日目”
　巨人達に運んでもらって、無事に巨人王都≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫に到着した。
　その周囲を囲む分厚すぎる壁は高さが百メートルを軽く超え、スケールの違いに皆は言葉を失った。
　前世でこれ以上に巨大な、それこそ宇宙にまで伸びる建造物を知っているだけに取り乱しはしなかったが、それでもその迫力には驚かされる。
　そんな壁にある、重装備の巨人達が守る正門。
　巨人達の同僚らしく、あれこれ手続きしただけで特に大した問題も無く中に入る事が出来た。
　
　巨人王都≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫は巨人達の住まう都市だ。
　だから壁の中の建造物もそれに見合った大きさで、高層ビル群のような家屋が視界一面を埋め尽くしていた。
　それもただ大きいわけではない。
　長い歴史のありそうな家屋には細かい装飾が施され、芸術的な造形のモノも多い。広い道路は清潔に保たれ、巨獣に牽かれる獣車が行き交う。
　市場には見た事も無い巨大な果物や何かの肉塊が並び、爆音のような激しさすら伴う賑わいがあった。
人の世界に紛れ込んだ小人か妖精にでもなった気分だ。
　しばらく巨人達に運んでもらいながら見学した後、巨人達の生活空間から少し離れたとある一角にやって来た。
　そこには周囲からすれば小人が住むような大きさの家屋が立ち並び、それに見合った大きさの人々が生活していた。
　ここは巨人王都≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫の中にある、俺達のような大きさの者達が暮らす場所だ。
　一般的に≪小人街区≫と言われている。だいたい五メートル以下の種族が集まっている。
　と言うのも、【巨人王】の政策によって≪クロニュソス・ティタン≫は多種族とかなり親交があり、貿易が盛んだ。
　【赫眼王】など敵対する勢力もあるが、巨獣などサイズ的に他の種族では倒す事が難しいモンスターが狩れる巨人達は、貿易相手としてかなり良いらしい。
　巨獣から採れる皮や肉、血や内臓や脂などは様々な使い道があるからだ。
　詳しく言うと長くなるのでココも省略するが、≪小人街区≫は外からやって来た俺達のような巨人ではない者が集まる所だと思えば良い。
　下手に巨人とそれ以外が同じ場所で生活すると、大きさの違いから不慮の事故が起こりやすい。ここに居ても無くなるわけではないらしいが、それでもその可能性を抑える事は出来るのだとか。
　ともあれ、運んでくれた巨人達に感謝して今日は一旦別れた。
　巨人達も報告などが残っているし、コチラからお願いした事もしてもらう必要があったからだ。
　後日また会おうと言って別れた後は、色々と見回りながら泊まる宿を探した。
　巨大な芋虫肉を焼く虎系獣人、汚れた衣服を洗うエルフの洗濯屋、見た事も無い野菜や果物を売る鬼人の八百屋、マジックアイテムが並ぶ魔女の魔道具屋など、気になる店を次々巡った。
　ただ困った事に、場所が場所なのでココで一般的に使われている言語は巨人達の言語だ。
　そのため理解できるのは俺一鬼だけなので、いちいち皆に言うのも面倒である。
　それに気が付いて分体を通訳としてイヤーカフスが機能するようちょいちょいと弄り、何て場面もあったが、他は特に問題も無く進んでいった。
　見て回り、個人的なオススメはドワーフの夫婦が大勢の従業員を率いて営んでいる大きな酒屋【鉱山洞の酒蔵】だ。
　提携している巨人の農家から仕入れた果実などを使って造られる酒は美味いのに、とにかく量がある。
　主な顧客が巨人らしく、小さいながらにパワフルなドワーフ達が造る火酒やワインにはファンも多いらしい。
　試飲した後は巨樽単位で買い漁る。残念ながらここの貨幣は持ち合わせていないが、そんな時は物々交換だ。
　【神秘豊潤なる暗黒大陸】では手に入らない品が多くあるので、やり手な奥さんと激しい舌戦を繰り広げた。
　最終的にはどちらも良いモノが手に入って、ほくほく顔である。
　笑顔で別れ、早速味見してみようと思う。
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