Chapter 02 - I asked kids a lot of things

　　The town of the royal capital is like a medieval Europe townscape.

　　I first called out to the street children who had been hanging around here.

　　「Can I ask you a little bit? I just came out of the countryside, and don’t know much about this country. In exchange of treating food from the skewer stall there, can you teach me a lot of things」

　　They felt suspicious at first, but seemingly unable to win against their appet.i.te, they gave me an ok.

　　I gave the kids two skewers from the stall and listened to what they said.

　　First, the thing that calling it the most important thing is not an exaggeration, monetary value.

　　 1 iron coin → 10 YEN → 0.1 USD (TL: not accurate ofc)

　　 1 copper coin → 100 YEN → 1 USD

　　 1 silver coin → 1,000 YEN → 10 USD

　　 1 gold coin → 10,000 YEN → 100 USD

　　 1 large gold coin → 100,000 YEN → 1,000 USD

　　 1 white gold coin → 1,000,000 YEN → 10,000 USD

　　Judging after asking a lot of things, it’s probably like this.

　　The stall’s skewer that I treated the kids was 5 iron coins for each.

　　With a family of 4, it might be possible to live for a month in the minimum with 6 gold coins.

　　Other than that, there’s also the nation independent adventurer’s guild and merchant’s guild (this is a staple in fantasy novels), and when you belong to either of these, the movement from town to town and country to country will become smoother.

　　In short, it seems like it would cost cheaper.

　　It seems like in the cases with people who don’t have ident.i.ty cards other than the guild cards from adventurer’s guild or merchant’s, or do not have one (according to them, country b.u.mpkins or street children like them doesn’t have ident.i.ty cards), although there’s a difference whether it’s towards a country or a town, one would need to pay taxes to enter.

　　This part’s also in the cliche.

　　Also, I asked about this country.

　　And then, it seems like it’s true that there were battles against the demon race, but it looks like, it’s something that this country started.

　　It looks like the reason was something like destroy the demon race who resents the human race or something, but in the end, they were only aiming for the land of the demon race’s country.

　　The relations with the neighboring countries that the human race governs has also become suspicious, and people who have started to run away from this country have begun to appear.

　　They said that they’re also orphans who lost their parents due to war.

　　The kids were unexpectedly well-informed.

　　They said that they did multiple jobs to earn money to live, so they had heard a lot of things.

　　Street children, how strong-willed.

　　But anyways, I will stay in an inn here for the night, and leave this royal capital tomorrow.

　　When I asked the kids about it, they said that there’s a stagecoach that is operated everyday that goes from the royal capital to the town of Keels which is on the border with the neighboring country, so I’m planning to escape from the royal capital using that.

　　After that, I will go to the neighboring country, and think again after that

　　Anyways, the first priority is to go away from Leyhesel Kingdom.

　　I will need a capital for that, but I have an idea for that.

　　Besides, there are also the 20 gold coins that I got from the country.

　　The reason why they gave me a lot more for a single person, is probably they at least have some feelings of apology for summoning like kidnapping due to their own circ.u.mstances.