Chapter 122 - Battle of Prince (1) (1/2)

School for the first time in a month, lunch break for the first time in a month, Shouhei’s lunchbox for the first time in a month.

And the bench between the school building and the club building for the first time in a month.

“Okay then, I’ll be waiting for you on Saturday.”

“Un, I’ll tell Ichika-chan too, okay?”

I could hear Mikuma Yunno’s clear voice from the speaker of the smartphone held against my right ear.

“Oh, and tell Koji too. I’m telling some of the people I met over here, so it’s going to be quite a party. The more the merrier.”

Those words were uttered in jest, but they’re about half true.

Those boisterous Saeki cat siblings are going to be good mood-makers for the party.

Both Makio and Hina-chan aren’t the type to be so boisterous.

“…No way, but it’s not a girl, is it?”

Hyeh.

“No, no! Well, there’s one, but she’s still in grade school and she’s my friend’s little sister!”

I shuddered at the cold air that came through over the phone and explained it in a hurry.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen that side of you Mikuma-san!

“I see. Speaking of which, have you seen Alba since then?”

Ah, that rat.

I haven’t heard from him since he appeared at the community center while I was asleep.

I’ve got a lot of questions for him.

“No, I haven’t seen him. Why?”

I didn’t think there’s much contact between him and Mikuma.

“He said he had some ores that he wanted to check out for Jaja and Nana. Two of them, I’m still in the process of checking out one of them, but I found out about the other one right away, so I was going to tell him about it.”

“Ores?”

“I don’t know what it’s for, but it’s a rare ore from a dungeon on the Sphere Continent. It’s something that is restricted to be taken out of the sphere continent. It’s a type of iron ore called Ajinkya.”

I never heard about that.

If the twins needed it, he could have told me or Aoi.

“Ah that’s right, the sphere continent. We’re going on a family vacation.”

Heh!

“Awesome! You don’t get tickets very often, right?”

In these times, it is very difficult to cross the ocean.

The turbulence of the air currents is intensifying and the sea currents are swirling everywhere.

According to my dad’s acquaintance, a former pilot who is his drinking buddy…

[The sky and sea have become a dungeon]

—– and the proof is that monsters come out in both places.

Sky monsters in the sky and sea monsters in the sea.

Now that it has become a stronghold of distinctive monsters, it is extremely difficult to travel abroad.

It’s not impossible.

There are “correct” routes for both the sky and the sea.