Chapter Ninety-Four: The Kates

After Sivi and the others had breakfast, Alice took them out of the castle.

Although they had already walked through the streets of the marriage when they came to the academy, because of Theo's loss that time, they didn't pay much attention to the streets on both sides of the road.

And this time it's pure shopping.

"But there are still some surprises." Sivi looked at a candy house with a sign that read "Sweet Treasure, and is obviously very popular," and showed a curious expression: "I thought that most of the town outside the school must be selling all kinds of enchanted items or alchemy materials." "Because as a traveling mage, there is no part of the academy in Sivi's memory. Before he officially went out, his perception of the street outside was even mixed with the impression of playing role-playing games on the earth, such as weapon shops, prop shops, taverns and the like on the street, but what appeared in front of Xiwei at this time was indeed similar to the big city street of Horadur, with people coming and going, and the traffic was busy, and the very normal commercial street was built on the mountain, and the white stone was neatly paved under the feet, and most of the houses were also based on this white stone, which looked neat and generous.

And compared to Khoradur, the street clearly feels more vibrant. Of course, most of this vitality is also brought about by the lively and lively students who walk on the streets on a windy day.

"Hehe~ It's not that there is no such shop. However, after a week of studying, students will definitely want to relax first. Alice whispered to Sivi with a warm smile on her face.

The maid girl still seems to be a celebrity on the street, and many shopkeepers greet her warmly along the way.

Alice also responded one by one without snubbing the Sivihuas.

Along the way, Sivi also found several shops that sold alchemy materials or directly sold magical items.

However, only a handful of them can be recognized as equipment by the system, and those items naturally have a high price tag worthy of their performance. Rather than using the money he earned from his classes to buy these high-level equipment at most, Xiwei felt that it was more cost-effective to slowly brush up the copies by himself.

By the way, although Alice is very popular among the shopkeepers, Sevi has become the most popular among the students.

Along the way, Sivi meets more than one digit who recognizes him and keeps asking first-year students about the next class time.

The last group of people who are too annoying can only turn around and visit the deserted streets as if they are fleeing, and then return to this side of the street later.

"Then again, many of the shopkeepers on these streets are mage apprentices, and even a few are beginner mages." Taking off his broad-brimmed mage hat to fan himself, Sivi wiped the sweat from his forehead and casually asked Alice the question he had just thought of, "What's going on?" "Mage apprentices don't care, but if you become a beginner mage, even if you go to the army, you will have a better future than a random shopkeeper here, right?

"This is because many of the shopkeepers used to be students of the Academy." Alice doesn't seem surprised at all by this phenomenon: "Even if I don't pass the promotion exam, my yearning for magic won't wane, so I just live here and never leave." Wouldn't it be nice to have two days a week to exchange magic tips with the students, except for the occasional time when you can get some pointers and information? When the girl said this, there was a slight look of envy on her face.

"And a lot of the things they sell are the result of their own research, so I think it's great to be able to focus on one thing and keep working hard for it and get paid for it." Although sometimes the effort and the reward are not proportional at all.

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Just as Sivi was about to say something, Theo suddenly tugged at the corner of Sivi's clothes, and then looked at Sivi who was looking at him in confusion, pointing his little finger in one direction.

Xiwei followed the little girl's finger and looked, it was a small room that looked a little dilapidated, there were some creepers on the wall next to the house, and there was a sign with red letters on a green background above the mottled gate, but the words on it had been mostly recorded because it had not been repainted for many years, and he could only barely recognize the "iron axe" wine, such a fragmentary word.

But what is even more striking is that next to the old-fashioned wooden door, there is a cat that is about the height of Sivi's thighs, walking upright on its feet.

The cat's coat color is the usual brown and white, and it wears a much smaller swordsman's dress. He also wears a fur hat decorated with red feathers on his head. The triangular cat ears peek out from under the hat and shake from time to time, which is extremely lethal with the pair of innocent eyes and cute expressions on the cat's face.

At this time, the cat, which could only walk upright, was holding a wooden sign and walking back and forth in front of the store.

Obviously, this little fluffy thing is very pleasing to girls. Alice has been seen more than once and is still able to remain normal because of this, while Alyssa and Theo are very fond of that one.

"Teacher, what is that? Orcs? "I've never seen a cat standing like a human and still wearing clothes," Alyssa asked, curious and excited.

"That's the Kate." Sivi touched the girl's head and began to explain.

Caiterau, a cat capable of walking upright, was once known as a cat-human, but was later abandoned to prevent confusion with the cat-people among the orcs. Like goblins, they are also natives of the Eastern Plains. At the same time, they were one of the first aborigines to become a vassal race of humans.

These little furry things have their own tribal civilization and language, "Meow Language,." Their vocal cords are so special that they can't make any other sounds than meowing.

As a result, even though they have a good intellect, they can only understand human language, but they are unable to respond accordingly, and this communication difficulty is not alleviated until the Kate people begin to learn human writing.

Because of their cute appearance, ability to please people, and intelligent brains, although the Kate and the kobolds of the plains were the first races to surrender to humans, they were treated very differently.

The kobolds of the plains belong to the kind of creatures that bully the weak and fear the hard, and after they surrender to the humans, the humans only give them the minimum material assistance. At the same time, only occupations such as miners, which are labor-intensive, extremely dangerous, and do not pay well, will recruit kobolds from the plains.

Kate is different, and many people don't mind keeping a smart Kate at home.

In addition to the delicate-looking waitresses, many taverns also hire Kates to help.

And although the Kate seem to be weak, in fact, they have more physical strength than ordinary humans with the blood of the plains hunters flowing in their bodies, and they are also unambiguous in doing physically demanding tasks such as logging, blacksmithing, and metallurgy.

If it weren't for the inability to use magic to limit these little things, I'm afraid their own civilization would be very powerful.

In fact, because of their cute appearance and physical qualities that are so diametrically opposed to their appearance, many female mages will hire the Kate rather than the big guys from the swordsman or knight camp to act as their mage servants.

"It's so cute~" Elisa took Theo and ran to the Kate's side, trying to communicate with each other.

Because humans don't have any discrimination against the Kates, the Kate people, who have joined the Pan-Human Integration Alliance, are also very close to humans, and they don't have to worry about them hurting the two little girls.

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"Really, I ran over like that before I could finish it......"

Sylvie sighed and stood aside with Alice, watching Alyssa's communication with the Kates. It feels like a family of four, and the parents are looking at their children with gentle eyes, which is a very warm picture.

Although the facts are quite different......

"But Miss Alyssa and Miss Theo seem to be happy." Alice also had a knowing smile on her face.

The midday breeze blows through the streets, gently ruffling the girl's hair and skirt, and looks very pure and lovely against the white stone buildings around her.

…… Today's special: Shandra's specialty is a foot animal rib, and it turns out that the store is a tavern. Sivi read the words on the sign held up by the Kate: "It's almost noon, let's go have lunch." ”

He looked at the two girls who seemed to get along very well with the Kate clan, and laughed helplessly: "Anyway, the two of them shouldn't want to leave here so early." "Huh? But "Alice suddenly squirmed, as if there was something unspeakable.

"What's wrong?" Sivi asked curiously.

"No, nothing." The girl shook her head, and then she said, "But I don't have any money............... "Don't worry about that." Sivi smiled and patted his not generous chest: "I'll ask you." ”

Although he is almost about to integrate into this world, some conceptual differences are not easy to change.

At least now Xiwei feels that it is not easy to go out to have a meal together and have to let the girls pay for themselves, which is too annoying.

"But, but" Alice still seemed to be a little hesitant about this, her face revealed a little red, and she kept pointing at her fingers: "I'm just a maid, it's really ............... to waste your money like this" "So don't care." Xiwei waved his hand to show that he didn't care at all: "It's just a thank you gift from Xie Lu for taking us to familiarize ourselves with this town today." "Well, then I'll thank Master Xie Xiwei first. Alice, who couldn't resist Sivi, had no choice but to obey him.

"Small meaning~" (To be continued.)