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Chapter 072 - Portable Wash Toilet

We are going to the forest called Green Howden where the giant scorpions, the enemy we have to defeat, lives.

TL note: howden, or hoden, which means t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e in german, “there’s a giant scorpion in my green t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e”

A one way trip from High elf kingdom, Enol to Green Howden would take about 7 days.

Early morning on the first day, after we departed from Enol.

“Uuurgh~”

Lyss got carsick and became all groggy.

Normally if she had to travel, she would do so in high cla.s.s carriage with cus.h.i.+ons, and on paved roads. So this is the first time she had travelled long distance on dirt roads like this. She sat hugging her knees like in gym cla.s.s, blue faced and had a handkerchief against her mouth.

By the way due to her sitting while hugging her legs, when the wagon swayed, her voluptuous chest gets squashed softly by her legs, causing them to change shape. A truly marvelous sight.

Snow and Chrisse, who were already used to it, played with the reversi I bought in Enol. s.h.i.+a was on the coachman seat, and I was on lookout duty at the back.

“Lyss-sama, are you okay ?”

“Ye, yes, I’m fine, s.h.i.+a, uuurgh...”

s.h.i.+a was worried so she voiced her concern from the coachman seat.

Lyss replied that she’s okay, but clearly her face’s color is saying otherwise.

I’m also worrying about her so I gave some advice.

“Lyss-sama, if it is that unpleasant, I heard that looking far away can help relieving the symptom a bit.”

“Is it true ? Then I will believe hero-sama’s words…...”

It’s just folk remedy, but it was better than doing nothing.

After that, s.h.i.+a cheered her up in a weird way like ‘n.o.body has died because of car sickness anyways.’

For now, the first day ended without us getting attacked by monsters, so we reached the camping ground as planned.

We started preparing camp before the sun goes down.

I asked Lyss to take out the necessary things.

She held her hand out and called out their names, they then appeared.

Snow was preparing food.

Chrisse was taking care of the horses.

s.h.i.+a was setting up a barrier surrounding this area.

Inevitably, the duty of gathering firewood fell on me and Lyss.

“Well then, let’s go gather firewood together”

“Firewood gathering, is it? Please leave it to me!”

Just in case, I took an AK-47 and hung it on my shoulder, then called out to Lyss.

But somehow she is strangely motivated, and pulled out the rapier which was hanging on her hips.

“Er… Lyss-sama, what exactly are planning to do ?”

“What, aren’t we going to gather firewood ? Ah, it’s all right. This rapier isn’t of normal metal, it’s made from the rare metal, orichalc.u.m, that’s why it absolutely won’t break. Furthermore it’s extraordinarily magic conductive, so I can easily pierce and break a tree trunk at this level.”

(There is something like orichalc.u.m !?)

Without minding the me who was shocked by the existence of orichalc.u.m, with a joyful expression, Lyss was about to chop down a tree the size of a grown man.

I hugged my head at her ignorance of the ways of the world.

TL note: cdn.amanaimages.com/preview640/28174010702.jpg - yuus.h.i.+n

What kind of airhead is she!?

“No, living trees have water in it so you can’t use it as firewood. So you don’t have to cut it down”

“Is, is that so ? I’m sorry, I’m such a baka…...”

Lyss realized her ignorance and put away the rapier with a beet red face.

Good thing it ended without her cutting down an innocent tree.

“Well then let’s gather withered branches that had fallen around this area, shall we ?”

“Ye, yes. I’ve troubled you”

Lyss dropped her shoulders a bit and starts collecting the withered branches like me.

Then came dinner.

The sun has gone down. We put a table and chairs next to the bonfire and made a roof with cloth. On the table there are stew and bread, simple side dishes, and a lamp s.h.i.+ning with magic.

TL note: something like this I guess i.imgur.com/mUV3Zu4.jpg - yuus.h.i.+n

These furnitures and the like were all brought by Lyss.

During the level up quest last time, we camped for many days, but we didn’t bring many tools like this.

It was almost like a camp I sometimes saw on the TV in the previous world.