Chapter 39 (1/2)
The Mirror Lake and the Dungeon
The next , aside from an incident where an elf tried to blend in with the soldiers in order to receive soup from Maki and Chiharu, and was escorted away by the prince of Midland, things went relatively smoothly And so the party was able to leave Epina for their next destination safely
”Why did he think he could do it secretly?”
”He already sticks out for being 2 meters tall”
Chiharu and Maki were exasperated at how Aeris put thelad that he looks better now”
”Yeah His face seelad that they didn't have to hide from someone as ione through Epina The next toas shi+el You reached it by passing the high mountain pass of Epina, where it lay in a deep valley There was a seon in this town, and a lake that appeared to have flowed out froeon And just in front of it, lay the lively little town
From on top of the mountain, it looked like a boith a ht Maki and Chiharu watched fro the view as the lake slowly becaht?”
”Oh, do you like fish, Ryan?”
Paulo had heard Chiharu's s
”I do But we haven't hadNoir”
”What did you have in Noir?”
”Fried fish!+ I sandwiched it in bread”
”Ah, that does taste good Now listen to me, Ryan This mirror lake, you can catch sea fish in it”
”Uh, but isn't the sea like 10 days away?”
”It is And while the water is froeon, there are ruround They even say that , isn't it?”
If anything, it was chilling! Chiharu thought for a second that she heard the scales jingling in her pouch
”What? You two look strange all of a sudden Who doesn't want to see a mermaid?”
”Well, they were very pretty”
But they also wanted to take us into the sea
”I'll send soo ahead and buy soht!”
”Yes!”
Chiharu and Maki were now veryon thethat they arrived in shi+el The cooks had to start ht, it would be a soup made froht at a town on the way there They just had to put all of these dried ingredients into boiling water and add some salt And then some herbs were sprinkled over it to finish it off While they did this, filleted fish from the lake was covered in flower and thrown into a shallow pan with oil And like that, the fish was fried
Then they passed them out to the soldiers as soon as they were cooked The war their bodies which were tired fro ill-mannered, but they sandwiched their fish in bread as they talked
”I thought soht come today But they didn't”
”I didn't even see Sauro”
They lazily enjoyed another dinner that night
As for the leaders, they had been invited to the mayor's house And a very serious discussion was under way
”Of course, I understand that you wish to hurry to Gro in Groeon Please, if you could only lend us your soldiers for just one day”
Apparently, there were eon They did not have enough Adventurers here to deal with them And there wereup The er in Gro to us Monsters have never coeon up until now But now it is very possible As you can see, shi+el is right next to the dungeon's entrance Please, please consider it”
Kaider folded his ar this The others all turned their eyes towards him
”Hmm”
”Kaider, what do you think? You know the eons Midland's soldiers weren't sent to Gromble alone They were sent to the dwarven lands We will follow your orders”
”Yes Nyran, what do you think?”
”While this is unexpected, considering that we had assumed that help from Midland would come much later, I do think we could spare a few days”