"Ladies and gentlemen, please come in, I live here with the orphans of the village."

Under the watchful eye of the villagers from afar, Ji Feng and his party followed Tiffania to a rather large house - only compared to the other houses in the village, of course.

"Tifa!"

"Sister Tifa!"

As soon as they entered the house, several young children immediately ran out, but they didn't dare to approach for fear of Ji Feng and Haruhi and others, who were too brightly dressed. In fact, since King Toristine has been here, Ji Feng's clothes are already a little old, but compared to this group of orphans who may have never worn new clothes since they can remember, their clothes are still too new.

Seeing the timid eyes of those children who were about the age of kindergarten, Haruhi's gaze immediately softened as if it was about to melt, and even Louise, who always had a little aristocratic reserve and arrogance on her face, tried her best to soften her expression, trying to make herself look more amiable.

However, perhaps because they had been taught by adults not to approach any strangers, these children were no longer afraid when they saw the smiles on the faces of people such as Haruhi, but they did not rush to them without permission.

-- Richly dressed strangers, even if they smile at them one second, may trample them to death the next second, or they may suddenly take them into carriages and brutally torture them or even eat them.

But in the admonition of the adults, those strangers who look no different from the uncles and aunts in the village, and even have the same gentle smile, are not necessarily good people, especially those who lure children with delicious things to follow him, and in the end they will definitely take the greedy children and sell them, absolutely without exception.

As for whether the children who were sold became slaves, thieves, prostitutes~ prostitutes, or beggars. The adults didn't say it explicitly. But the children also know that the bad guys certainly didn't take them to feed them as princes and princesses.

"Tifa, these kids...... Are they all orphaned because of the war? ”

After seeing these orphans living with Tifa with his own eyes, Kasuga suddenly wanted to ask why they became orphans. I don't pay attention to whether there is any mention in the "original" of why these children became orphans Haruhi, and even these orphans themselves are a group of "dragon characters", even if they appear and have names in the plot about Tiffania. It's impossible for a normal person like Kasuga to remember all the characters in every detail - unless there is some secret or treasure behind the trick.

"War? There may be some reasons for that.

The father of a few children went out to fight with the lord and never returned, and then the mother died of illness and moved here to live with us.

But more often than not, because the parents were killed by thieves, both parents were sick, attacked by wild beasts or even monsters in the woods, died of illness in the service of the lord, or died of being pricked by something.

There are many reasons for this, but it's a peaceful place...... Or maybe it's too poor and too remote for either thieves or soldiers to come here. Officials who collect taxes are also uncommon, and lords never show up. ”

When it comes to the reasons why these children are orphaned, there is no sadness on Tifania's face, but she usually tells Kasuga and them about the various natural or man-made disasters in this other world that can kill civilians. Shesta and Louise's attitudes are similarly bland, and only people from other worlds find it "unbelievable".

Not to mention a poor village in a remote area, even if it is a village close to the royal capital, where the life is rich and stable, civilians will die for various reasons. And the life of the nobles who are magicians is of course more secure. Injuries can be properly healed, or even directly using healing potions or healing magic. Unless you have some strange illness, or die immediately in an accident or battle, you can basically be saved.

But even so, because of the frequent frictions, conflicts, and even wars between regions and countries, there are actually not a few noble magicians who have died on the battlefield. In the event of a terrible war, some families may even be cut off from their bloodlines - all male and female heirs who are magicians will be killed in battle.

In absolute terms, the number of dead nobles is simply too small compared to commoners, but in terms of proportion, the proportion of nobles who died during the war was even higher than that of commoners. Even averaging the years of war with the years of peace, the death rate of the nobles was not much less than that of the commoners.

"These orphans, as well as all the people in the village, can go back with us if they want to live with you in Torlistine.

In any case, you are the cousin of our princess Angelita, and the 'Void User', and you are more than capable of settling them without our help. ”

Because of the impulse, Haruhi didn't discuss with Ji Feng, who is a military advisor, and Louise, who is a "local tyrant", so he made a promise to Tifania to take everyone away. However, Tifania, who was simple and kind but not naïve, shook her head lightly, smiled and replied helplessly:

"It's impossible.

Only a few people were fine, but it was impossible for the local lords to allow their people to relocate to other places, and it was equally impossible for them to enter the realms along the way. ”

"Uh......"

The reason given by Tifania is very simple, it is a well-known common sense in this world, and only Haruhi who lives in modern society will ignore it. But even if she thought about it with her toes, she knew that the lord of the "ancient" must not allow the people under her rule to escape, otherwise everyone would run away, who would farm and work for him?

And it is impossible for a good lord to accept the lords of other regions indefinitely, even if he is not afraid of disputes with other lords, the number of lords who can support in his territory is also limited, unless he continues to absorb the population and expand the army, otherwise in the end it can only make all the people complain, and the natives in his territory will spontaneously exclude or even expel outsiders.

"That'...... It doesn't matter if there are only a few people, if you want to go with you, let's go together.

We don't need these children to work, they just need to study hard and grow up to do the jobs they love. ”

"That sounds good, but they won't want to leave the village unless you force them away, and the people in the village won't allow you to take the children.

In fact, life here is already very good, and the people in the village are very kind, even half-elf orphans like me are willing to accept it. These children belong here, and when they go to a strange country or a strange city, they may not be able to live more happily than they are now. (To be continued.) )