Volume 6 (1/2)
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Before I noticed it, I had become 12 years old
I realized it when I suddenly looked at my adventurer's card
The nue column had become 12
I wonder when my birthday passed
While ere traveling my sense of time had deviated
Nevertheless, it's already been two years since the teleport
How time flies
Conversely, you could say that it cost us a whole two years
After spending two years, you can say that we've finally been able to return to the Central Continent
If we've eration to say that Asura Kingdoht in front of us
When I think about the things that happened on the way to the Milis Continent, it seems like the journey from here on will be easy
We have the money and the means to travel
If I had any worries, it would just be the fact that ether with an organization; however, even with that, no one has been found yet
I believe that they are still alive
However, even if I were to put in my best effort, at this point it's not like they would suddenly be found
Currently, we're at the Dragon King Kingdom's most eastern point, the port city, East Port
It's the same as West Port, a town filled with oods
After we found an inn we held an operations
It's the sa each other
”Now then, let's talk about things from now on”
The tere looking at the map with serious faces
It's so we've done et bored of it, but for Eris who is bad with the difficult talks, this is the only time when she listens with a serious face
”In order to get frodom there are three routes”[1]
Just like that I pointed
It's a sies and the forests
Creating and selling detailed ainst its laws
It see one
Well, it's fine as long as we understand the general terrain
”The first route is the general one used by merchants for trade purposes”
Then I followed along the er
It's a roundabout route that follows a path around the Eastern side of the Dragon King Mountain Range
”It's the safest route of them all With our movement speed, it should take around 10 months to arrive”
It's the one that costs the most time, but since it's the road that has the most maintenance done to it, it's also the safest
”Why is it bad if we don't take the roundabout way?”
Then Eris raised an obvious question
No matter what the time is she will come out with obvious questions
Since she's honest, they're easy to explain
”The route that circles around West is covered in a forest”
I pointed e while answering that question
To the West of the Dragon King Kingdoe dense forest area spread out
Essentially, you cannot pass through it with a carriage
However, if you have someone who knows the details about that path, you can cut your movement time by several months
The prerequisites include horse riding skills as well
Eris and I cannot ride a horse
Ruijerd can probably do it
However, no matter how sle horse
Since that's the case, ould have to pass this route on foot
In the case of going on foot, we have no idea how et there
It seems practically everyone chooses the safe Eastern roundabout route
Itof a difference in tiht even be faster
If you're in a hurry, going around is the way to go
That more or less summarizes the explanation
”I see, then West is no good”
Eris seems to have accepted it
”Then, the third route is”
While saying that I pointed er to the final route
Get on a boat and cross over into Begaritto Continent, we can search as we go and pass straight through into Asura
I don't kno many days this would take
”Although, this route is already rejected”
”Why?”
”Because it's dangerous”
Begaritto Continent is said to have a stronger flow of ic Continent
If you look at it, the average ic Continent, but in addition, there are a large nuround strange weather phenomena often appear
That clile word
Desert
The continent is covered in sand
And then, there are giant scorpions of the saiant worms that eat those scorpions as their staple food are prevalent
In the afternoon it's scorching heat, at night it's mid-winter
There's almost no oasis, you can't take any breaks
Also, if you head even further into the center of it, the sand disappears and for a while it turns into a snow-covered tundra
From a desert it suddenly turns into a land covered in ice
If you make it that far then
Going to that sort of place to search and cut through it's not realistic at all
”Since that's the reason, we're going to take the route that goes around to the East”
”Rudeus is a coward, as usual”
”I am a person of many fears after all”
”I think it would be all right if it was us though?”
It seearitto Continent
Her eyes are sparkling
However, the distance to go through the Begaritto Continent, it can't even be co from Milis to the Central Continent
”We would have to take a long boat trip, Eris are you alright with that?”
”Let's not go with Begaritto”
Since that's the case, we decided to go with passing the Eastern route
I'm in a white room
This feeling of so up from within my body
It's a sensation which I'll never get used to no le word
shi+t
”Suddenly going with shi+t, as always, you're vulgar”
A ami
I was finally starting to forget and then you appear again
”It's been a year hasn't it”
It's been a fairly long time
If that's the case, then I would be able to feel a bit relieved in my heart
”That's not the case”
The first tiain after all
”In any case, as always, you're so cold to et your hands on a demon eye thanks to me”
These are things which wouldn't really change whether or not I had them, and I'd rather have an essential person that would have helped us on our voyage
I a to you
Without acquiring the correct inforot depressed, received some comfort, then somehow or other we discussed and reconciled; it must have been fun to watch!
”That really was quite enjoyable However, isn't it fine?”
What's fine?
”Well, thinking of it all as my fault”
shi+t
The ti on others
ReflectedYeah, shi+t, I can't re I did
Why? shi+t damn it
”Well, that is your flavor as well After just reflecting on it a bit, you won't be able to advance forward at all”
Just for now
When I open my eyes I'll remember I'll be able to reflect
I'et serious and listen to what you say
”Listen? Ohhh, this ti to honestly listen to my advice?”
However, you know, there's one bit of advice I want to know
”What is it? If it's so that I know, it's fine if I answer it for you”
I'd like you to tell me the location of my family
”Isn't your family in a different world?”
If possible I'd also like to knohere Sylphy, Ghyslaine, Philip, and Sauros are as well
”Hmm”
If a person is lowering their head and asking like this
Quickly tell me
”I wonder what I should do”
Just peeping into so tom- bastards like that
Do you only tell s that are convenient for you?
Even though you'll let me meet the Great Demon Emperor, you won't let me meet my family?
”Yeah yeah, sorry sorry I was going a bit overboard”
It's fine if you understand
”However, is it okay? This tiht lie you know?”
Finally I get to hear that kind of talk from you
That's right, you are the type to lie aren't you
”No, it's not really about whether I lie or not I' to believe in my words”
Since right now is an e to what you say, but if you were to lie even once, I would never listen to your advice again?
”Then, I'd like you to make a promise with me”
What kind?
”If in the case that you reunite with your fa my next advice, I'd like you to believe in me from now on”
Believe in you, and becos you mean?
Listen to what you say and with a yes-yes, and serve you like a manservant?
”Nope, it's just, each and every ti isn't it”
Don't you get it?
If possible I want to forget the sensation of being dragged back into the past that I wish I could fix I reflect on it and memory that started to fade beco there's this a and I start to feel depressed
”That true? I've done so bad Then, do you want to decide on a rule? For exa my advice on a certain day next time”
How about if we make the next time you appear 100 years later?
”In that case, you would be dead by then”
Never show up again is what I'
”Hah Well, I figured you would say that Then, is it fine? Going without any advice this time”
I'm sorry about that
I'll compromise as well
If by following this advice I successfullybelligerent when I talk to you
”Will you trust me?”
No, I can't go that far, but at the very least I'll stop with repeating the pointless ”will I or will I not” dialogue
”How positive of you”
Just like this time, don't just suddenly show your face
Otherwise enter souy's dreams and send me a letter
”That is difficult In order to appear in dreams, there are actually some conditions”
Conditions?
In other words, it's not like you can just show your face whenever you want?
”That's exactly what itin their dreaths match up It's considerably unco to receive my advice You're pretty lucky”
To the point where I want to let others feel this happiness
Like those trash bugs around there or so
So there are conditions
Incidentally, what are those conditions?
”Well, I don't really understand theuy on this day' and then it connects”
In other words, that means you can't control it
We'll have to go with so different
I'd like if you'd at least give me a bit more details in your advice
It feels like I' played with, which is irritating as well
”Okay, details I get it, let's go with that”
Alright, then, I' on you
”[Cough] Now then, I'll give you this time's advice”
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In the next instant, a vision flowed into my demon eye
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The vision went up to there
Wha-as that just now!?
”Oh~ Rudeus Listen well The young girls na detained in shi+rone Kingdo the scene from just now, you will most likely come across it and save her However, you must absolutely not use your own name Use 'The Owner of Dead End' to name yourself and listen to her circumstances After that, send a letter to an acquaintance in the shi+rone Royal Palace If you do that, you will be able to save Aisha and Lilia from the Royal Palace”
No, wait, why?
Acquaintance? Letter?
”Was that just a bit too ive tooto be like that, I guess Now then, which of the with I wonder?”
Eh?
Why?
What do youwith?
Does that et into discord between either Lilia or Aisha?
”Well then, Rudeus Give it your best”
Bestbestbest
My consciousness sank as I continued to hear that echo
I jumped up from bed
My head was in pain like it was being smashed
An overwhel dizziness
And then nausea came
I left the bed, and half ran towards the exit of the room
After I left the room, I entered the toilet
After looking into the toilet, I immediately started to throw up
My head hurts
A tremendous headache and nausea
My legs feel unsteady
I left the toilet
I felt like the room was very far away
I put s
I slowly drop down to the floor
I could hear an intense blowing sound from in the dark inn
Searching the surrounding with just my eyes, I tried to find what it was
I quickly realized it
It's the sound of
”What's wrong, are you all right?”
As soon as I realize it, in the pitch darkness a white face is floating there
It's Ruijerd
He was looking at my face in a worried way
”Yeah I'ht”
”What did you eat? Can you use detoxification ic?”
Ruijerd pulled a cloth from his pocket and wiped my mouth
The scent froer
However, it didn't disappear when I threw up- it felt like so in my chest
”I'ht”
I soed to squeeze those words out from my throat
”Really?”
In return to his worried voice I nodded
I remember these headaches
It was so I tasted in Wind Port
”Yeah, it seems like I failed to adjust my demon eye when I was half asleep”
When I used the demon eye to try to look further than 10 seconds into the future, I got headaches like these
When the headaches started hen I couldn't see beyond that point in the future
However, I understood that intuitively that if it had gotten worse it would become like this
Then, why has it become like this
I can predict that as well
That dream, that advice
The vision I was shown in there, it's because of that
Hitogami showed me a vision of the future
Most likely, using the demon eye
”Because of that, huh?”
After I slightly whispered that, Ruijerd made a puzzled face
I remember the details about how I met the Great Demon Emperor in the port city and received the demon eye
The sudden et my hands on this demon eye
In regards to the journey the advice given was completely useless
After all, the demon eye wasn't really all that useful
No, thanks to the demon eye I feel like I've kept my life a nued somehow or other
In hindsight, because of the deent once or twice
I could say it came to be a zero-sum balance
For
However, for Hitoga
Just because of that, for the sake of showing ht be why he let me meet with the Great Demon Emperor
I have the feeling that so completed
The anxiety ismy neck feel stiff
Inside of ami
It was the first tiuy' is holding soe power
That guy wants me to do some kind of work
That kind of premonition causes me to shi+ver
”Rudeus, the color of your face is bad Are you really alright?”
Ruijerd isa very worried face
And, just like that, I almost started to express my unease
By the way, ever since the ti his wishes, I've progressed with various things
However, in that instant I realized a single truth
(Since the time I met Ruijerd)
That's right
The first tiami was just before I met with Ruijerd
And then that guy gave me advice to join up with Ruijerd
It's a strange talk
Why had he never made contact until now?
Why did he suddenly coic power disaster?
Why did he not just give the advice to depend on Ruijerd, but also the advice to ”save him”?
I feel like everything has a connection
I think that guy is planning so
I have no proof, but it's a type of distrust
However, froht rose to the surface
(Maybe, I wonder if Hitoga)
Hitogami said there were conditions in order for him to appear in dreams
It ht in those conditions and can't directly control Ruijerd
Therefore, he had ic disaster and get teleported, leadRuijerd, and even had him escort us up to Central Continent?
No, in that case, I don't understand theme the demon eye and advice to save Aisha
I don't know
What is that guy thinking??
In regards to that guy everythingpoints
And thus I wonder if I should tell Ruijerd about Hitogami or not
I'm lost
””
These worries, I really want to talk with someone and have them resolved
However, I really can't burden this man with anymore than this is what I think
If by talking to Ruijerd about Hitogami, soami to come into contact with Ruijerd
This honest ami
Ideceived by him
I don't think so, but
At the very least, the fact that I take a belligerent attitude with hiami
I would like to think that while I'erent I won't be deceived
”Ruijerd-san If during a painful time someone whispers sords to you, please do not believe in theuys ill co in order to deceive you”
In the end I didn't say it
I never put the ami into words
”I don't knohat you're talking about, but understood”
Ruijerd nodded with a serious face while holding sos
He trusts me
And yet I keep things secret
I made the decision that it was better to keep it hidden, but even with that my heart won't clear up
Just as I realized it the headaches and nausea have cleared up
With , I returned to the room
The clear eyes and head that has becohts
After closingto the surface one after another
There were no hts
It wasn't theoretical thinking
Like being in aup and then disappearing
Even when I was lying down on the bed, I didn't feel like I could sleep
”What is it nya”
Suddenly, I heard that sleep talk and aze to the side
On the nearby bed Eris is sleeping with her ars spread out to the four corners
As usual her sleeping posture is bad
She sleeps with her legs spread out wide
I can see her healthy legs stretching out from the shorts-like pajama substitute
There are risky openings in the cloth that seem like they could be looked into
The clothes getting rolled up and a lovely belly button peeked out
After looking just above there's hills that you can now tell are her breasts
Probably because she doesn't use a bra while sleeping, if I concentrate my eyes, pocchi rises to the surface
And then there's that drooling face that is grinning and laughing to itself
”Nfufu”
I ot up
I pulled down the hem of her clothes and covered her in a blanket
”Ruuudeus sure is ecchi”
It was a loose face
While people are being this considerate, of all things you call them ecchi
Just as you say should I go ahead and grope your chest
Just as I was thinking that my drowsiness returned
While yawning I fell onto my bed
As expected of Eris
While thinking that I completely fell asleep
The next day
While ere eating a meal in the bar, I made an announcement to the two
”I want to do so on the way and dom”
The two tilted their head and nodded
”Understood”
”Acknowledged”
Questions like ”why?” or ”for what reason?” didn't come
I' to ask the reason
I want to go in that direction and talk about Hitogami as little as possible
I decided on that and to keep an eye out, but I honestly have no idea how to explain things in regards to Hitogami, it just causes my head to be full of worries
Ruijerd sa I looked last night and it seems he came to his own conclusion
Most likely, he's realized that I'
While his thoughtssoaht not be all that wrong
Eris is just the same as always
”shi+rone is that place right? The place where Rudeus' shi+sho is?”
After hearing those words froirl came to my mind
Roxy Migurdia
That's right
She should be in shi+rone
Hitogami said to send a letter to an acquaintance as well
At first I ondering who it was, but if we're speaking of acquaintances who I would send letters to there's only one
It most likely means to request assistance from her
Roxy is a person I can rely on
Hitogaestions that make sense
”Yes My most respected… sensei”
My shi+sho is what I was about to say, but I changed the word at the last minute
Co her shi+sho
Recently, I feel like I've said ”shi+sho is a” to a variety of people but
Well, it's fine
”That's right, if it's a person Rudeus respects then we need to stop by and visit They th to us after all”
Eris nodded to herself while saying that
Roxy
Because she was excellent, if it was her, then ould definitely beco power There's no mistake about that
Even though I say that, Roxy is a Royal Court ician
Since she's probably busy I don't want to bother her too much
It already seems like I'll be a bother and I don't want to show up as her pitiful student
Although even putting aside using the disaster search as a cover, the fact that I want to see her won't change
I want to thank her for the Dee dictionary as well
If it weren't for that, I ic Continent
I regret the fact that it was lost during the teleport
That was so that should have been made into a manuscript and then sold all around the world
”I want to meet and see Rudeus' sensei”
”Humu, I'm interested as well”
It see
Probably because I would let out Roxy's na the journey
I'm proud that Roxy is my sensei It's natural that I wouldn't be embarrassed to let it be known everywhere
”Well then, once we arrive in shi+rone Kingdom, I'll introduce you”
Whilethat promise, we set off on our journey
First off we'll advance along the highway and pass by the Dragon King Kingdom's Capital, Wyvern
Fro the East and West sides of the Dragon King Mountains
One route stretches straight north
And then the other route stretches out to the west
Naturally, we chose the route that goes north
We ended up staying in the capital Wyvern for about a week