Volume 8 - Chapter 6 – To Celuroa Kingdom (1/2)
08-06 To Celuroa Kingdom
The next day, 6th of April.
In the morning, Jin and Reinhardt visited the room Elsa had stayed in.
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No one spoke a word. They only silently gazed at the objects Elsa left behind, or possibly had no choice but to leave behind.
Among them was the doll Non Jin had given her a while ago.
It was a little dirty, however it wasn’t dirt from neglect, but a result from all the times Elsa had brushed it or held it in her arms.
(So she left behind you too.)
Jin merely whispered in his heart and softly touched Non’s head.
The dagger was also left behind. Looking at it Jin felt a little disappointed.
However, he was most of all surprised and worried that she had left the Ring of Protection behind.
Jin worried himself about why she had done that, as she must’ve known its usefulness. He had wished she had at least kept hold of this. That’s why Jin picked up the ring and put it in his pocket.
After doing that, suddenly there was a knock on the door, and Elsa’s elder brother Fritz came inside along with a subordinate of his.
“What, Reinhardt, you were still around.”
He said as soon as he saw Reinhardt’s face.
“We were just about to leave.”
“Hmph, I see.”
Fritz said, surveyed the room, then turned to speak to the butler and the guard.
“Throw away your excess possessions. You guys will be under my jurisdiction for a while. I’ll think about whether I send you back to our country or not some other time.”
Fritz said and hit Non who was on top of the night table with his hand, making her fall.
“Uh-oh.”
Before she hit the floor, Jin caught her. Fritz watched it from the corner of his eyes and,
“Hmph.”
He snorted disdainfully and,
“Reinhardt, go already. I think you know this, but don’t say anything unnecessary.”
He said to Reinhardt, back-to-back with him.
“I know.”
With just a short reply, Reinhardt patted Jin’s shoulder and he left the place.
Jin followed after Reinhardt and left without looking back while carrying Non.
The butler Adberg and guard Herman lonesomely watched the two leave.
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The same day at ten in the morning. Jin and Reinhardt rode their carriages and entered Celuroa Kingdom.
Because Reinhardt had gone through with the legalities, there was no problem passing through the border barrier.
The two spoke little words. Even so, they seemed to be enduring Elsa’s disappearance.
At two in the afternoon they arrived in the provincial city of Tellurs where they would spend the night.
In the back of Tellurs flowed a large river called Torres, and on the other side of it was the capital city Esaia.
The river Torres was over 200 meters wide, and there was no bridge. A ferry was the only way across. For that reason, ships were on a reservation system. There were few boats large enough to take carriages on board.
“Reinhardt-sama, I hear that there is one vacant reservation in three days.”
The butler Claude said apologetically.
“Is that so, well, no way around it. You reserved lodgings, right?”
Because there were many visitors waiting for ferries, it was necessary to have many inns.
“Yes, there is an adequate hotel with vacancies.”
And so first Jin’s group went to that hotel. It was surprisingly ten storeys tall, a rather tall building for this world. Jin’s groups rooms were on the sixth floor.
“Taking the stairs to the sixth floor seems really tiresome.”
Jin was thinking something like that, but surprisingly he was carried by golems.
“For its size, Celuroa Kingdom has relatively few people. That’s why golems are used in all sorts of places.”
Reinhardt explained.
It was Jin’s first time experiencing sitting on a golem’s arms being carried up some stairs. The invisibly following Reiko had a somewhat annoyed expression but of course it wasn’t seen.
“Ah, I can see the river.”
Being on the sixth floor meant that they could see the faraway river Torres from above the rooftops. Dozens of ferries were going back and forth. But all of them were small boats.