Vol 1 Chapter 1 (2/2)
Luckily, in the middle of the forest, I found edible fruits, and then packed several of them into my item box, so I could eat them later. The apple-look-a-like is very juicy, so it’s delicious.
I have a very large desire to sleep right now, but I better review my current condition once again.
I was caught by numerous 『Arms』 that came up from a black fog. They must be the main cause of why I had been transported to another world, and it looks like that I was summoned by someone to this world right? Even so, why was I sitting alone at that highway?
First, I was deemed as useless, or possibly that they got the wrong person completely, and so, I was thrown away.
Second, some incident happened at the summoning, so I ended up there by mistake.
If I have been thrown away, then it is Moumantai.[19] I was grateful I wasn’t killed before being dumped out. Since I will try to live my life by myself, please just completely forget about me.
The problem was if there was an incident or a mistake. In fantasy novels, the usual reasons for summoning are 『Become a Hero to defeat the Demon Lord』, 『Become the King’s Bride』, 『Sacrifice』, 『Miko[20]』, etc. Well, there are a lot. Whatever the reason was for my summoning, the summoner must be searching for me right now, however, I have zero intention to approach them.
After all, I am just a commoner that doesn’t have any combat power at all. So, the Hero-motive should be low.
Kanzaki Misuzu, 22 Years old. Although this is embarra.s.sing, actually I still don’t have any experience with a man. I had several boyfriends, but somehow even a kiss caused me to feel weird and made me fade out.
That’s why I am still a virgin, so I had a strong feeling that I am a prime candidate if they were searching for a 『Miko』 or 『Sacrifice』.
If it was a 『Miko』 , then I would be imprisoned inside a temple, and praying for a G.o.d that I don’t believe in, and if it was a 『Sacrifice』 , then I will be immediately killed. 『Sacrifice』 is scary. Burning to death in a place deemed a holy land or being eaten by a dragon or beast like Yamatanoorochi.[21]
There is also the 『King’s Bride』 motive, however, no matter how ikemen or influential the King is, since he is a guy that I hardly know, then no thank you. Furthermore, it would surely end up with me being cooped up inside the castle and turned into a baby producing machine.
Waaa, not good! Not good! All options are Nai Wa~.[22]
Whatever their objective is, a person who summoned a person from another world without permission is a bad man. I don’t want to even get a bit closer to such a person.
Anyway, I need to not be found out as a summoned person, so I need to be inconspicuous.
Since there was no bed cover, I covered myself with my coat, and then slowly spread myself on the bed. Ah, by the way, the toilet is a detached outdoor building. Also, there was no water flusher. I never found this kind of toilet except for the time when I went mountain trekking.
At any rate, today I had moved my body a lot. How many years has it been since the last time I walked like this? I committed an act of violence and killed a living creature, too; this is staggeringly frightening. I couldn’t see it but as a strange dream.
Before sleeping, I activated『Search』. Today I had used 『Search』 for the whole day so it had leveled up, and now I would immediately know if a creature appeared and approached this building. Furthermore, if the resident of this house came back, then I will know it, too. Since I am staying without permission even when I don’t have any money, then I need to at least be awake when the resident comes back. Since I had thought about 「Dark Eyes and Dark Hair are a target of persecution」, then I need to wear my hood, right?
I once again used 『Search』 to check the surroundings, after that I fallen asleep.
Yes, I immediately fell asleep.
------ it was a sleep that I didn’t even wake up from when the alarm that『Search』 uses to detect enemies began to ring.
Volume 1
Chapter 1
To Another World
Part 2
Somehow, I can hear a distant ringing sound. Beep beep beep beep beep. What is this sound anyway? I have a hunch that I should wake up after hearing this sound, though. So gently, my consciousness resurfaced.
Just then, a screen popped out inside my mind. It was an alarm warning that 『Search』 had detected the presence of enemies. There are two yellow markers. One is in the kitchen, and another one is right beside me. I opened my eyes in surprise and then found a large shadow looking at me.
「Hyaaaaaaaa!」(Misuzu)
I jumped back. When I bent my body back, my head hit the wall and made a loud sound.
「You had slept like a log just now, but it seems that you have a pretty lively way of waking up.」(Bear)
I am frozen while clinging to the wall.
It’s a bear, there is a bear here. He is so tall that I need to look up to him, has tough broad shoulders, and his arms are bulging with muscles. He has red shoulder length hair and blue eyes. His facial featuresare deeply sculpted; and, he has a split chin, too. Split chin![1] White armor, huge body, he was really give off an impression of a mighty Knight. His face seems to be radiating the message: “I am h.e.l.luva strong, baby.”
The person from another world that I met is a Wild-Type Ikemen-san.[2]
Fortunately, it looks like I can understand Red Hair’s words. My ears hear a completely different and unknown language, but I can fully comprehend it. I am really grateful from the bottom of my heart to be able to understand the language. I had been given a translation function. Thank goodness.
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― Valerian Forrest[3] ―
HP ：836／836
MP ：326／326
Race ：Human
Age ：86
Job ：Phantesma Kingdom[4] | Blue Knight Order Second Division | Commander
Attribute ：【Fire】 【Wind】
Skill ：Iai Slash[5]・Two Steps Thrust[6]
t.i.tle ： 『Red Lion』
Current Status ：⃞⃞⃞
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Yeah. There are many things I want to tsukkomi at. What do you mean by 86 years old? No matter how I see him, he only looks like someone in their late twenties. Then, what’s with the t.i.tle 『Red Lion』? Too over the top. It is even too chuuni to be a net nickname. Also, what do you mean by a lion? He’s a bear, you know? Bear!
「Van. Please don’t do anything that scares her.」(Blue Hair)
Perhaps because he heard my scream, the other person entered the room.
He has light blue hair and deep blue eyes. The light blue hair is silky smooth and beautiful. The hair cuticles are glossy. He wears armor similar to Red Hair’s. He also has a tall stature, a slender, but well proportioned firm body, so he seems strong, too. If Red Hair is a “Wild Ikemen” type, then he is a “Cool Beauty” type.
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― Alcyan Micah[7] ―
HP ：797／797
MP ：360／360
Race ：Human
Age ：82
Job ：Phantesma Kingdom | Blue Knight Order Second Division | Vice Commander
Attribute ：【Water】 【Wind】
Skill ：Dance of Ice Flowers[8]
t.i.tle ： 『Icy Young n.o.ble』
Current Status ：⃞⃞⃞
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This person also has a chuuni t.i.tle! Furthermore, he is such a handsome person, you know? If he is 80, then what kind of healthy lifestyle did he have to be this youthful?
「I see that you have awoken. I am sorry if my companion scared you. If you like, do you want to join us for breakfast?」(Blue Hair)
Breakfast! It’s a breakfast, Madam! I am wholeheartedly alright with it! I want to join the meal!
「Hey, are you alright? Are you still half-asleep?」(Red Hair)
Since I was still clinging to the wall and not moving a bit from it, Red Hair reached out his hand and rubbed my head. Stop, it’ll be torn! My head will be torn off!
「It’s fine, I’m already wake up.」(Misuzu)
I smoothly spoke the words, as if there is an instantaneous interpreter in my head. It is strange how my mouth can speak out words I never knew before.
「I see. Then, please this way.」(Blue Hair)
When I followed the Light Blue Haired Handsome-san out of the room, I looked at my surroundings. Just one bed away from the bed where I had been sleeping were two beds with luggage placed on them. Whoaa, then last night, I slept in the same room with these two? Just how hard did I crash? Normally, I would have woken up. Please do your job,『Search』! No, that’s wrong. 『Search』 was already working properly. Then, please do your job my crisis management ability! Because I felt so embarra.s.sed, I told them that I wanted to borrow the toilet and then headed out.
Not only they enter under the same roof, but even the same room, the me who slept without waking up is stupid, stupid.
Unbelievable. How unbelievable can you be, Kanzaki Misuzu? Even if you were exhausted by the consecutive unthinkable events, this is an unbelievable mistake. If they are bad guys, then I might already be dead by now.
Haa… Like this, I held a one person evaluation meeting for my big mistake.
It was fortunate and relieving that my first meeting with people from this world was on a friendly terms. We can communicate with each other and they also didn’t show any reaction to my black hair and black eyes, so my worries for this point have been cleared.
Also, the matter about their statuses. It seems that both of them are Knights from the Phantesma Kingdom. So perhaps this place is the Phantesma Kingdom? Since they are wearing complete sets of armor, maybe they are on duty.
Then, how far should I explain the situation? The other party is made up of Knights. A poorly devised lie wouldn’t be of any use to them. If I make up some half-baked cover up story, then they would think that I am a suspicious person and then I would be arrested and thrown into jail.
For now, while hiding the fact that I am a person from another world, I will tell them about what happened to me as truthfully as possible. If it is possible, I want them to accompany me to the nearest town. I also want them to teach me about this world.
The next course of action has been decided. But, the first thing, of course, is breakfast.
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I had slept in the same room with an unknown man without realizing it. Without any mental preparation, I had inadvertently met with the people of this world. I had received so many shocking events that finally woke me up completely, and then after finis.h.i.+ng my one person evaluation meeting, I reentered the house.
The breakfast that the handsome-san prepared was hard bread and stew.
Uuu. At last, I could get a proper meal. Cooked food is the best.
「Then, why did Reene came to this forest? Did you also want to harvest the blue dewherb?」(Cyan)
The handsome-san, Cyan, asked me. Blue dewherb? Umm, what’s that? I have a feeling I have seen it somewhere…
Ah, Reene is my alias. Since there is a staple “another world story genre” trope that says 「If your real name, in other words, yot true name, was found out by others, there is a risk that it might be used in a magic to control you」[9], so just in case, I didn’t tell them my real name.
The Suzu (鈴)[10] in Misuzu (美鈴) can be read as 「Rin」 so I used it as my alias. But they lengthened the vocal part and p.r.o.nounced it as Riin. In the end, I decided it as 「Reene」[11].
Leaving that aside, I need to answer Cyan-san’s question, right?
By the way, they also didn’t introduce themselves using their real names and only informed me that they are the Knights Van and Cyan.
「I don’t know what you mean by blue dewherb. Actually, I was here before I realized it. When I regained my consciousness, I was sitting alone on the highway next to the forest.」(Reene)
「……What do you mean by regained your consciousness?」(Cyan)
「I really mean it. When I was walking near my home, my surroundings suddenly became dark. Then suddenly, there were arms that seized me and pulled me. I only remembered up until this part. Then, when I regained consciousness, I was already sitting on the highway.」(Reene)
I didn’t tell any lie. I just said it in a misleading way, but the contents are the truth without any embellishments.
「I didn’t bring any money or things and I didn’t know where this place was at all. Since I didn’t know which way I should take, I followed the carriage road and entered the forest. Then, I arrived at this house. Since there is no one who answered when I called, I entered without permission.」(Reene)
Cyan-san and Van-san threw many questions at me to get finer details, but I answered every question that I could answer while obscuring anything related to j.a.pan. However, I hesitated for a moment about whether or not I should answer that I have one when asked about my family name. When they mentioned it, and since I do have one, so I needed to answer honestly. By twisting my surname Kanzaki, I replied that my family name is Kanzack. When they asked where my house was located, I answered「a small village in the countryside」 in an evasive way.
In the end, their interpretation of my conditions was that, 「Although the social position is not revealed in detail, perhaps she is a daughter of a quite well known n.o.ble house. She had been abducted for some reason and brought here while unconscious, but for some reason, she escaped」. This is very convenient for me, though.
When I stopped telling them my story, Van-san then asked me.
「Hey, Reene, after you entered the forest, did you meet with anyone until you reach this house?」(Van)
「I didn’t meet with anyone. Since I also thought to quickly call out if I met with someone, I always keep my eyes on my surroundings, but there was no signs of any people.」(Reene)
「I see. Then as expected, he is in the direction of the waterfall.」(Van)
「He left the horse behind, therefore it is unlikely that he went outside the forest.」(Cyan)
「Did something happen?」(Reene)
Cyan-san answered my question.
「This house was the residence of the forest guardian.」(Cyan)
「Guardian?」(Reene)
「Yes. This forest is called Azure Forest. Inside the forest, there is a place where blue dewherbs grow in large numbers. Blue dewherb is a herb used to restore energy and one of the components of Ether. Even by only drinking the water it’s boiled in, you can recover magic power. Although it’s used for many types of medicine, it’s hard to cultivate, so it can only be obtained from ones growing in the wild. This place has an environment that is favorable for blue dewherb’s propagation. It was originally a plant that only can be found in small numbers at a given place, so a place where it grows in large numbers like this is rare.」(Cyan)
Ah, I remember what a blue dewherb is. It’s the one written in the Agamena Herb status screen. Then, that can be mixed to make ether. Yes, I might also want some of these
「Blue dewherb is demanded everywhere, so its price was relatively expensive. Because of that, people who knew this fact would enter the forest to earn some extra money and quickly pick the wild dewherbs to exhaustion.」(Van)
「If we didn’t leave some of them behind to propagate, then the blue dewherb would soon go extinct. Since this area is located near the national border, a lot of skirmishes happens near here. It’s a situation where mana recovery is in high demand, so to ensure a stable supply of this, this forest is considered as an important place for our country. For this reason, this forest has a guardian who will restrict the amount that can be harvested.」(Cyan)
「This place is the guardian’s dwelling, but this is also the lodging place for the people who come here to pick up the herbs.」(Van)
「I see. So, is there any problem if the guardian isn’t here? Perhaps he went to pick the blue dewherb, right?」(Reene)
「The waterfall is about 2 hours from here. Usually, he will be back before the evening. To be honest, from the fact that the water in the stable’s bucket had went stale, the guardian has been gone from the house for at least two or three days.」(Cyan)
「Then, there might be something that happened to him. He might be hurt and unable to move.」(Reene)
「We’re going to go there and check. Can Reene wait here in this house?」(Cyan)
I finally understood the reason why both of them seemed so troubled.
It seems that after this, they will go to check the conditions inside the forest. Since the way to waterfall couldn’t be pa.s.sed by horse, both of them will walk there. If I tag along, then I will only drag them down. Even so, I said to them, 「I want to help, since if the Guardian-san is hurt, I could cast healing magic on him.」After hearing that, they were considerably surprised.
「So, Reene is a Healer?」(Van)
A Healer is a person who can use healing magic, right? Is this really something that surprising?
「Is a Healer unusual?」(Reene)
「Healing magic is a composite magic of Light, Water and Earth elements. A three elemental composite magic is considered to be an advanced magic art, so it’s difficult to learn it. Also, the number of people with the three elemental attributes at the same time is few to begin with.」(Cyan)
Even if it is considered difficult, I have been able to use healing magic since the very beginning. After all in games, 『Heal』 is one of the most basic of basic magic.
This makes things complicated. Even though I don’t want to become conspicuous, maybe I shouldn’t say that I can use healing magic. Be that as it may, I have a debt to repay for the meal and lodging. Since I don’t carry any money, then I will use the healing fee as the lodging fee. Also, they are the first people from another world that I have met, so I will be happy if I could help them.
All things said and done, I decided to go to the waterfall together with Van and Cyan.
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It seems it will take two hours to get to the waterfall by foot. By the way, “two hours” was the translation of what my ears heard, but what they actually say was something similar to a stound[12]. Two hours is one stound. I really wanted to ask, how many hours are in a day? Is a stound the smallest unit of time? And many other questions, too, but since it would seem really suspicious, I didn’t ask them.
Cyan-san had already prepared water and food, since the guardian-san might not have eaten anything. I also helped with this, but since I couldn’t use the hearth, I didn’t do anything big.
Since mountain climbing might be very hot, and there is no danger if my black eyes and black hair are found out, I left my coat back at the lodge. Actually, I wanted to store it in the item box, but as expected, I couldn’t do this in front of them.
Along with the fact that I am a person from another world, the fact that I could see other people’s statuses and use the item box are my top secrets. If this gets found out then it will surely be troublesome. After all, both secrets would be exploited for military-related tasks, right?
Leaving that aside, the b.u.mpy uneven road the waterfall was quite unforgiving.
Van-san walked in the front to be on the lookout for any monsters, while I walked several steps behind him, and Cyan-san walked behind me diagonally.
Naturally, the conversation along the way was mainly between me and Cyan-san, although sometimes Van-san joined in, too.
「If someone entered the forest and took the blue dewherb without permission, would they be arrested?」(Reene)
「If they didn’t take too much, then they wouldn’t receive any particular punishment. Small villages usually don’t have any healers, so they can only make do with medicinal plants. So for the villagers in this area, they can come here and take as much as necessary.」(Cyan)
「Then, Cyan-san and Van-san also came here to pick some blue dewherbs?」(Reene)
「That’s right. The castle received periodic s.h.i.+pments of the herb, but this time since we came near this area to perform a task and the number of the herbs in our possession had diminished, we decided to come here to ask for some from the guardian directly.」(Cyan)
Afterwards, I discussed with Cyan-san about what I will do from now on.
「There are several small villages in this area, however, everyone there is either a farmer, a hunter, or a woodcutter, so I believe that it would be difficult for a girl to live there alone.」(Cyan)
The nearest city near here is the city where Cyan-san and Van-san live. It’s called Coltea City and it takes about four days by carriage to get there. That city is the second largest city in this country after the capital city, so there are a lot of people and jobs, too, so there must be a job that I can do. As a Healer, I can also work in a clinic or the knight order.
Since Cyan-san and Van-san are on duty right now, after they received the blue dewherbs, they would go back to their work destination. Since that place is a bit dangerous, they can’t take me along.
Since the guardian-san periodically went to Coltea to deliver the blue dewherbs, I could go together with him. Until then, I would be looked after by the guardian-san for several days. This is what Cyan-san suggested to me.
「But I didn’t bring any money or anything.」(Reene)
「The gramps will be happy to have someone to speak to, right? Don’t worry about money, if you help him, then it will be alright, you know?」(Van)
Van-san also a.s.sured me. I am grateful for what they do, even though my ident.i.ty is unverifiable and super suspicious. Van-san and Cyan-san are good people. Maybe this is what they called a chivalric heart.
The guardian-san that Van-san and Cyan-san mentioned is surely a good person too.
During my stay with the guardian-san, I will strive to be someone who is helpful. Then, in the meantime, I will ask him to teach me about many things about this world.
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Although at the beginning I talked about many things with Cyan-san while walking, gradually the road became rugged and I quickly became exhausted. Since it was the place that was frequently used by the guardian-san and the people who picked the herbs, the path is a proper road. However, the waterfall seems t be located at the upper part of the mountain. Isn’t this like a scraggy obstacle course? If he really takes this road every day by foot, then the guardian-san is really a Grandpa of the Wild.
We also encountered monsters several times, but every time they appeared, they were immediately defeated by either Cyan-san, Van-san or both of them together. My help was completely unneeded.
It was the first time that I saw a blade used in a fight, but its speed and fierce slashes made me speechless.
Even though Van-san has a huge and heavy physique, in battle, he immediately approached the enemy like an arrow. When I thought he had first drawn the blade, the monsters had already been defeated.
When I first met with Van-san, I thought that he wasn’t a 『Red Lion』 but a bear. But after seeing his appearance in battle, I understood why he is called a lion.
Cyan-san also attacked with speed, but with supple and unwasteful movements, he looked like he was doing a dance. So his t.i.tle of 『Young n.o.bleman』 was not just for show.
So amazing. Who thought of the t.i.tle, I wondered. 「Wow! He is a 『Red Lion』!」 or 「Kyaa, how wonderful. It’s the 『Young n.o.bleman of Ice』-sama!」. Maybe it was when everyone first called them this?
So either that t.i.tle was made when someone called them something or people called them that because of the t.i.tle they had.
That reminds me, my t.i.tle is 『Another World Traveler』, but who decided this? Even though I didn’t know any other worlders at that time. I also never said, 「h.e.l.lo! I am a 『Another World Traveler』.」
Maybe the t.i.tle was decided by an existence similar to a G.o.d in this world. If this true, then the G.o.d surely a chuuni. He might be saying, “This person is tera-cool[13], isn’t it?” or “Red Lion TUEEE[14]”. Absolutely like a G.o.d.
…… While I am thinking about absurd things to escape reality and reprimanding my completely tired body, I continued to walk the road to the waterfall.
Ah, but I got something out of this. I acquired a new skill.
Since there are several road branches unlike the unforked road to the lodge, what would I do if I get lost? If I am separated from Cyan-san or Van-san. then I will surely be stranded. These were what I thought when I was frantically trying to remember the direction each time the road branched, and as a result, I acquired 『Mapping』. Inside my mind, the road that I had walked had been conveniently mapped. Furthermore, it’s a pa.s.sive skill that is continuously activated and doesn’t consume MP. How convenient.
I really wished that I had this function when I was still in j.a.pan. I am the type of person that when someone says to me 「You will soon find it after heading east when leaving the station」 would reply with 「Can you specifically tell me where east is?」. Sayonara, the past me. With this, I would never have to worry about getting lost anymore.
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― Reene Kanzack ―
HP ：438／586
MP ：728／728
Race ：Human
Age ：22
Job ：Magician
Attribute ：【Light】【Fire】【Water】【Earth】【Wind】【Void】
Skill ： Search・Hide・Mapping
t.i.tle ： 『Another World Traveler』
Current Status ：⃞⃞⃞
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When I opened my status to check on my skills, I noticed that my name in the name section had changed. It’s not Kanzaki Misuzu anymore, but Reene Kanzack. Thus, until the day I return to j.a.pan, the name 『Kanzaki Misuzu』 is sealed.
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We arrived at the location where we were going to search for the guardian-san. It was a place where huge building-sized rugged rocks were lined up.
Among them were two large rocks that supported each other like the kanji 「人」, and formed a natural stone gate.
After we pa.s.sed under them, we reached a place enclosed by natural walls formed from huge rocks. The whole surface is covered by a flower field. Maybe this flower is the blue dewherb? I could hear the whoos.h.i.+ng sounds of rus.h.i.+ng waters coming from the waterfall at the far end of the flower field. The water poured into a lake basin that then flowed into a gap-like cave among the huge rocks.
There is a crack on the hanging huge rocks that forms a wide gap where the sky can be seen, allowing the brilliant sunlight pouring down from it.
The dancing falling droplets that glisten under the sunrays are dazzling. This fantasy-like scenery healed my exhaustion. All my efforts to reach this place felt worthy.
「Spirit essence is gathered at this place, so Monsters wouldn’t dare to enter it.」(Cyan)
Cyan-san informed me. Spirits? So Spirits exist here.
「I wonder where the guardian-san is.」(Reene)
「Don’t worry, he’s a gramps who won’t die even if he is killed.」(Van)
While Van-san was bad mouthing the guardian-san, 「Hey!」, we heard someone’s voice from the side of the waterfall.
「Hey! Over here, Forrest-danna[15], I’m over here!」(Voice)
We searched for the source of the energetic voice that couldn’t be thought of as coming from an injured person. Finally, we found an old man lying down near a rock beside the waterfall. Is he the guardian-san? Just as I thought, he is a wild looking grandpa.
When we app
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