Saving 80,000 Gold Coins in the Different World for My Old Age - Vol. 5 Ch. 35.2

[Daneya]

Ty for the ch

 

[w1ck3d]

@sjmcc13

Spoiler

Eventually three people from the wagon do go to meet her, but only the retired soldier Wilson is employed by her. He becomes the general of her personal army and she hires the four mercenaries she met in the capitol as squad captains. She also works out a deal with Pez the merchant to sell her goods under consignment and gives him favorable tax conditions in order to establish a viable trade route far from the capitol. The last guy is Jork, the coward that wanted to give the bandits all of their possessions and the women too. He's a jerk, who gets told to get bent and later slanders her to his superiors.

 

[jonsmth]

@Psychronia @Qelix
I don't think the former farmers would have survived if Mitsuha could help it. She knows her duties as a vassal, and I bet she wouldn't let any of those bandits get away. If she did, those bandits would just join another group, and continue to be a menace to the king's subjects.

As to whether the bandits should have tried to fight or flee, I suppose it all happened too fast for them for even fear to set in. Furthermore, they don't have the experience to be smart enough to know when to run.

 

[CountryMage]

@jonsmth fear definitely set in, but the clarity of hindsight, only comes if you live through the terrifying situation. In this case people are just dying, left and right, and all your brain tell you is move, move, MOVE! Without specifying any direction, or anything.

 

[Yanagi]

Killing is not the solution.

There is a reason why farmers turn into bandits, and as long as it remains unsolved, more farmers will turn to illegal means of feeding themselves...

 

[jonsmth]

@CountryMage
> Without specifying any direction, or anything.
I suppose you're right. I'd add that they maybe they were already anxious from the start (due to inexperience, being in unfamiliar land, having to fight for survival because hungry, etc), and perhaps in their panic, they moved forward instead of backward.

> In this case people are just dying, left and right
Then again, they already experienced this as part of a defeated army. Perhaps they have fallen so low and were desperate enough that it nothing really matters anymore and they're better off trying their luck?

> clarity
While farfetched, let's consider the case where they were actually capable of rational thought and foresight, and fear didn't take over, that they somehow knew well enough and were thinking clearly enough: they are bandits - there's literally no way out. And if they can die near-instantaneously as their brethren did in the battle not long ago - against weapons that can even kill dragons - why even try to run?

Considering these and including what I've mentioned in the previous comment, I think there's plenty of reasons that these 5 former farmers didn't run.

 

[jonsmth]

@Yanagi
Those were former farmers, conscripted into or joined the invading army. They were soldiers. They are foreigners. They don't own land in a foreign country.

It was already mentioned that some of the soldiers who fled couldn't go back to their own country. They could have taken refuge anywhere else but they decided to take up banditry. The problem was that the kingdom let the enemy go instead of killing them because otherwise, bandits were rare.

For bandits, killing is really only the humane solution. These are criminals who usually have had a hand in stealing, killing, pillaging, raping, kidnapping, and selling people into slavery; the former mercenary made sure to tell the readers that they're no Robin Hood. The fact that they were already given a chance to escape or even take refuge but decided to take up banditry shows that they are irredeemable. The alternative really is to capture them and sell them to slavers, which is probably something that Mitsuha would be less receptive to.

 

[NankingwasAprank]

I too enjoy creating insurgents everywhere I go because gunning down the enemy is a PERFECTLY viable solution.

 

[stal2walk]

@rrolo1 i know it just a joke but if you cut out 1 person when the fight begin you better do that there was like 3 merc on their side and she even get their boss first (she must do. its basically 2v3+5)
better safe than sorry mate

 

[SweatyBrie]

Interesting obsv: The sword fighting is close but the footwork is lacking. Ik the author tries hard writing it, but the artist made the swinging look like an amateur.

If you watch videos online (of these medieval style swords) or try a sword, you know you have to use your momentum or the other’s and aim for vitals. You have to be constantly on the move since you’re moving a heavy sword. Merc does aim for eyes and neck but also tries to cut torso after cutting someone.

 

[Raudhbjorn]

Loli & merc fistbump of camaraderie off-page.

 

[wigjump]

Enjoying bad-ass cutthroat firearm-certified merchant shrine princess.