In A Parallel World With Random Skills, I Reluctantly Become A Mafia Boss?

Chapter 18: Currency

The next thing I knew, a brownish red hue of rustic metal materialized in between my fingers. It seems that it was a success.

Finally, I can deal with most things by using money!

Ah, I let my true desires slip out there for a moment.

I apologize for being this greedy, but I was only human. Still, I had to control myself. Let's live a frugal life, and get an honest job in the new world, shall we?

This doesn't change the fact that money is still useful in certain situations, but let's leave it at that for now. The next thing I had to ask was about how to travel to other places.

Travel in the world called 'Aragnor' was diverse, albeit inconvenient.

The most widely known way was by going by foot. This included having escorts from a 'Famiglia' guarding you from danger, or going by yourself.

Other means of travel were either riding a carriage for commoner travel, which was regulated by the 'Association' as a way for cities and countries to interact with each other. While private carriages were only used by wealthy merchants, nobles, or generally, the affluent citizens in each city.

Apparently, the most efficient way to travel was boarding a ship when crossing the giant rivers and lakes separating countries, travelling to the outer islands outside the continent, or getting on a flying vehicle called an 'Airship'.

An 'Airship' was a rare vehicle of giant stature powered by magic, to fly in the sky. Truly, a fantasy-like way of travel. In the game, there was an 'Airship' in every town I went to as a means to go between countries quickly, but only a picture of the vehicle would be seen, and nothing more.

I had hoped I can see the real thing someday, but according to Marielle-san, only the 'Royal Family', the leaders of other countries, and the 'Seven Major Famiglias' had access to these mammoths of travel.

Speaking of the 'Seven Major Famiglias', it seems that their bases were indeed the 'Seven Seraphim Shrines' as the letter had foretold.

Marielle-san had said that all of the shrines were separated from each other, and was divided amongst the countries. It is said that whichever country had the most shrines under their dominion was the strongest, hence the larger the amount of shrines, the larger the domain of the country.

Currently, the 'Haleve Empire' had three of the shrines, where the 'Famiglia's' that focused on 'War', 'Engineering', and 'Magic'. So they are called the rising power that will soon dominate the entire human race.

Coming in second, was this 'Zershel Kingdom' which had two of the shrines that focused on 'Summoning', and 'Knowledge'. They might not have combat power, but their intelligence about how to prosper as a country was still high.

And last but not least, the 'Holy Country, Vanadis', which only had one of the shrines under their control, which worshiped the seraph, 'Luminaris, Seraph of Healing'. Which in turn, made the 'Luxinias Famiglia' prosper in the field of 'Medicine'.

But, the final and seventh 'Famiglia' were not allied with any country.

No one even knew who they were, nor where their shrine was located. What they specialized in was rumored to be 'Power' but no one knows for sure. Other than that piece of information, not an iota of credible source was found. It was as if they were completely anonymous and were hiding from the rest of the world.

I wanted to ask Marielle-san as to which 'Famiglia' she had belonged to in the past, but I decided to refrain, as asking a personal question so abruptly might make her hate me.

Because, I also noticed through using my <<Dragon Eyes>> that Marielle-san had considerable strength, maybe even enough to match up with that 'Black Panther' I had met before, but something was wrong, I couldn't tell what it was though.

Still, throughout this discussion, I had rearranged my plans for the future, and decided to leave first thing tomorrow when I had booked a carriage ride to the next city, Lavis.

Marielle-san had said that every 'Monday' morning, a carriage would leave for 'Lavis City', the nearest city from here, located in the western part of the 'Royal Capital, Zershel'.

Since she said this, I made her elaborate about the dates in this world, and as to which day it was today. It seems that my hunch was correct, that this world shared the same calendar with Earth. Having 365 days a year, and 12 months in a year.

Incidentally, 'Edoria City' was located in the southern side.

As to the rest of things we had talked to each other about, I would explain at a later date. Although, it seemed that Marielle-san was the first to wonder about my strange clothes, which was strange that in itself, but I decided not to mind it.

When I explained that I had no idea where to buy new clothes, as a means to dodge the question, she kindly told me where the general stores were. Again, she really is a considerate person, so much that I might fall for her.

No, this is just gratitude. Just gratitude. Get it together, me.

While I was thinking of at least cleaning my clothes that was dirtied during my time in prison, and the fight with Zetsuen, the little girl, Elle-chan went out of her room, and appeared in front of us...