Volume 4 Chapter 15 (1/2)

Volume 4 Chapter 15: Return Home

Translator: “Pink Tea” Editor: ”Ryunakama”

Michaela, along with Daisy, were in a lookout cabin on the path leading from Eniado to the desert.

「There were some dozens of minutes until the estimated time for the return of Saki-san and Berzelia-san…… And several hours for Axel-san……」

The visibility is bad enough with the purple storm alone. When the night falls the sense of direction would be completely lost.

In this storm, the amount of miraculous water one can carry becomes the time limit.

Thus, the estimated time of return was set for each participant.

Though it’s unknown who will return first.

……Anyway, just come back safely, please……

It was when she thought that.

「Ah! Michaela, look! Here they are!」

Daisy raised her voice and pointed in a certain direction.

Prompted by those words she looked that way and thereーー

「Axel-san……?!」

She saw Axel-san approaching at an incredible speed.

But not even an hour passed yet.

……But with that speed, I can tell that he already visited the investigation point……

The speed was that abnormal.

Unless he lost the way, he surely should’ve reached the investigation site.

……In that case, the reason for his return is either him running out of water or accomplishing the goal……

And while thinking that, Michaela, along with Daisy, left the hut.

「Hey, over here, my friend!」

Outside the hut Daisy shouted, waving her hand, and it seems Axel noticed that, as he changed his course.

Keeping the same speed he reached the hut.

「Daisy and Michaela-san. So you were waiting here.」

「Yeah, all we have left to do is a discussion on future plans, and we can do that anywhere, and waiting here we can get feedback on the progress faster. And if something happened near the city we can react right away.」

「I see. Thank you.」

As Axel spoke with Daisy his tone was pretty much the same as before.

Even though he ran at such a speed through the desert, and on top of that, through a sandstorm, no signs of fatigue or thirst could be seen.

This is absurd. However, there was something that bothered Michaela even more.

「We didn’t do anything to be thanked for. ……I’m glad that you returned safely……!」

「Yeah. ……But, well, I’m not the only one who came back.」

「So you meanーー」

「Yeah, I certainly fulfilled the request, Michaela-san.」

Then, he put the transportation bag on the ground and greatly stretched it.

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Almost half an hour of shaking inside the transportation bag. Though he recovered to some extent, still exhausted Edgar lay there on his side with the eyes closed, butーー

「We arrived, Edgar.」

With those words he was pulled outside.

「Uh……?」

What he felt first was the wind, a few levels weaker than the one he felt in the desert.

Hitting various buildings and barriers it weakened to something like this. He often felt this wind when he was in the town.

……By arrived, you don’t mean……

With those thoughts Edgar opened his eyes.

Then, he saw a familiar city. And not only that.

「Chief Explorer! Are you okay?!」

He also saw familiar people.

That was a colleague from the same guild, who was supposed to wait at the town, Michaela.

「Ye…Yeah. Somehow.」

「Thank goodness…… A 《Doctor》will come right now. Let’s head to the hospital after you take an examination together with the snake god.」

It looks like all the arrangements were already made. Nodding to her with 「Understood」, Edgar once again looked over his surroundings.

It’s not a dream. His hometown, Eniado, is right in front of his eyes.

「So I managed to come home……」

「Seems so, Myers. I didn’t think that I will see this sight once again.」

The voice of the snake god came from the side.

Turning there, I saw her being pulled out from the transportation bag by Axel. Andーー