Volume 4 Chapter 3 Part2 (1/2)

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!

Sorry for not posting anything for so long.

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But the good news are that I had finished

translating some chapters between them (not much, sorry for that).

I don’t know when I will have my free time

back, but I hope I could take a long year end break… (hopefully).

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Author:

Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

Editor:

So-Chintzy

Enlightenment Arc

Chapter 3: The Core of CoReform B

Between the Capital City, Parnam,

and the new coastal city, which was still under construction, lay the Arcs’

territory. This was the land that was governed by the Arcs’ House, where Ludwin

Arcs served as its House’s Head (even so, Ludwin practically resided in the Royal

Castle, so he was represented by a magistrate). If compared to the territories of

this country’s n.o.bles and knights, it was just an average territory.

Since Ludwin had performed meritorious

achievements in the previous war, he would have been transferred to a bigger

territory, but for some reason, Ludwin firmly objected to it. It seems that he

had a reason for his desire to not be separated from his territory. Well, since

there was no need to transfer him against his will, I decided to grant him the

lands surrounding his territory. Then right now, Liscia and I, together with

Ludwin, were travelling to that territory with the Royal Family’s Flying Dragon’s

Gondola. It was to ascertain the truth of what we had heard from Ludwin several

days ago.

By the way, since Ludwin was with

us, we didn’t bring any guards. Aisha was quite worried and complained, but since

the Royal Guards’ Commander was with us, there shouldn’t be any problems.

Furthermore…… we also intended to deal with this matter with just this group,

so it was good if the number of our escorts was small.

I watched the Arcs’ territory

from the sky and it looked deserted. Since it was the time that Autumn changed

into Winter, the trees had shed their leaves, the fully harvested fields were soil-colored,

and the pasture lands looked a bit discolored. What a bad season to visit. Since

there were many fields and pastures, from Spring until the start of Autumn, there

would have been a tranquil scene unfolding before me, and if I waited a bit

until the snow had fallen, then it would be dyed with pure white. ……Well, I

didn’t come for sightseeing, though.

「This

place, Your Majesty, please land here.」(Ludwin)

Like what Ludwin had said, we landed

the gondola at the edge of a small forest. Even as we landed, the surroundings looked

like just any other ordinary forest with common trees growing side by side. I

ordered the gondola pilot to wait for us in this place and then I asked Ludwin.

「Is that

person really inside this forest?」(Souma)

「Yes.

Though to be more precise, not “inside” but “under”.」(Ludwin)

「Under?」(Souma)

「It

might be quicker to see it personally.」(Ludwin)

After Ludwin said so, we began to

walk into the forest.

「Then,

Your Majesty, Princess, please follow me.」(Ludwin)

Following Ludwin’s guidance, Liscia

and I walked side-by-side inside the forest. Just in case, as a precaution for

wild animals, I scattered out my small mouse dolls, that I used in the disaster

relief at the Dark Elf Village, to search the surroundings. However, there

seemed to be no creatures that could be a threat to us. This small forest was

often entered by people and the leafless trees granted an un.o.bstructed view, so

there shouldn’t be any problems. Well, even if there was one, Ludwin and Liscia

would deal with it somehow.

But if I had to name a problem,

then it would be this frigid temperature. I felt that today was even colder

than usual. Perhaps I should have worn thicker clothes. But, Liscia, who walked

beside me, seems fine.

「Liscia,

you don’t feel cold?」(Souma)

「When

I was still in the Army, I also partic.i.p.ated in marching during the snow. So this

much is nothing to me.」(Liscia)

Marching during the snow…… You

are, more or less, a Princess, right? As expected, aren’t you too aggressive? Wasn’t

Georg even more considerably at a loss with your actions? While I was thinking

about this, I was semi-desperately singing 『Snow

March』[1] (although, there was snow falling right now).

*Poka*[2]

「Ouch.」(Souma)

Liscia lightly hit me with her

still sheathed sword.

「Don’t

sing some ominous song like that beside me.」(Liscia)

「Ominous……

Well, ominous is it?」(Souma)

The tune was lively, but the

lyrics were only about the hards.h.i.+ps of a battle in the cold. Furthermore, the

final lyric was, 「In any case, we won’t return alive.」

「Either

way, it really cold……」(Souma)

「……si~gh.」(Liscia)

Suddenly, Liscia slid both of her

arms around my arm. Then, she tightly held it closely, like she was supporting

me from the side and smiled teasingly.

「You

feel warmer this way, right?」(Liscia)

「…… I

was strangely sweating」(Souma)

「Why!?」(Liscia)

「Liscia

is so cute that it makes my heart pound thumpingly.」(Souma)

「I-I

see…… My heart too is thumping fast.」(Liscia)

While we were flirting like this,

Ludwin suddenly stopped.

「This

place, Your Majesty, Princess.」(Ludwin)

We quickly separated when Ludwin

turned around. We hadn’t realized until now, but there was some kind of really

big conspicuous thing. Which is……

「A

garage?」(Souma)

It was something that I couldn’t

describe with any other word. It was covered in moss, but it was a small rectangular

building that was made from something similar to concrete. The entrance was

closed with something similar to a shutter. From its size, it was hard to judge

whether or not a common car could enter it, but its outward appearance was totally

like a garage. Although this world had outstanding technologies, overall, this

world’s cultural level was preindustrial, so its design was unusual. In the

first place, wasn’t the concrete itself something that I had introduced for the

first time not that long ago? Seeing that I was puzzled, Ludwin shook his head.

「It’s

not a garage. A carriage can’t enter if the place was only this tall.」(Ludwin)

It seemed that in this world, ‘Garage

= For Horse Carriage’. A station wagon might not fit, but perhaps there was

enough s.p.a.ce for a common sedan car, but even if I said this, they wouldn’t

understand…… Or rather, if what he said was true, then I don’t understand the

reason for this building design in the first place.

「Then,

what is this building?」(Souma)

When I inquired him, Ludwin

answered with a serious expression.

「It’s

the entrance to a dungeon, Your Majesty.」(Ludwin)

◇　◇　◇

Dungeon.

A maze-like place where a mysterious,

peculiar, and unique ecosystem had taken root. For this world, this was a place

where monsters existed before the appearance of the Demon Lord’s Realm. When I

was playing adventurer with Musas.h.i.+ Boy-kun and was invited into a party with

Diss, Yuno and the others, we entered a dungeon and it was similar to the usual

image of dungeons as caves. So I never imagined that the entrance of a dungeon could

be similar to such a clearly man-made structure like this……

When I asked about this, it seems

that there were all sorts of dungeons that exist in this world

「There

are many kinds of dungeons. The locations range from gra.s.slands to forests or

mountains, on top of that, there even dungeons under the sea. The interior

shape, too, could be a cave system or an underground castle covered with stones,

or a mysterious room coated in metal.」(Liscia)

Liscia taught me about the

dungeons. That reminds me, I heard that even the Royal Voice Broadcast Orb was discovered