Chapter 7 (1/2)
Chapter 7 – The Sleeping Maiden＊
“…And with this, I’m done”
In one of the roo the various inforiant screen, he finished what he was doing after only a few minutes
After Gran had left and Luru had gone into the ruins to have a look, though the exterior had been worn down, he found that the insides were quite splendid you could say, and had been broken in few places, and with its facilities al condition
Thanks to the deic installations, the syste care of the us Machine was one of the ternals fro able to shut down the Magus Machines outside
With this, he no longer had anything in particular to do so he could have just returned to the village, but Luru felt the desire to know every corner of this ruin
The central installation had been located not very far from the stairs, but it seemed that it maintained the entirety of the ruin and there was a map still in there
Because of that, Luru understood that he had was still just at the entrance to the facility
In other words, the ruin still continued further in, and it see clues on the ancient deh
Since he was already here, he wondered if there was any information in this roo, but found that there was nothing aside fros related to the installation, and even that was of the bare minimum level
It was as though they were trying to hide so
The level of difficulty in finding inforh to make him feel as such
It us Machines this quickly
Having said that though, after considerign that it was because of this that this facility had ed to remain after all this time even after the hus about it
Regarding the Magus Machines, when he shut them down he had a check to see what their objectives were The Lupes Gigantes had been tasked with the round areas, and the Cannon Apis had been charged with keeping surveillance of the surrounding areas
While they did so, if they discovered anything abnormal, they would elie
It seeantes having different range of surveillances, and unlike the Cannon Apis that had attacked as far as the village, the Lupes Gigantes didn’t move beyond 10 metres from the ruin
Because of the technological strength of the ancient deround portions were durable even with the passage of ti said that, they wouldn’t be fine for eternity
Maintainance would be required once every few hundred years, and because of soood luck, Gran and Yuumis had stumbled upon that exact maintainance day by coincidence
It seeantes coround, they were going to seal up the entrance to the underground portions of the ruin with a new, airtight wall, so this time had truly been a coincidence
Including the fact that Luru, a for, was here, he felt that it was hard to say if Gran and Yuuood luck or bad luck, but perhaps ‘coincidence’ is actually soht Luru as he waited for them with a smile
As for the other things that he ca the central installation room, it was that this place wasn’t built for the sake of the war against hu-term preservation device, and to preserve its functionality
Unfortunately he didn’t knoas being preserved, but whether because of son, he couldn’t find out even when he searched for it
However, since he had this map he knew precisely where it would be, and once Gran and Yuumis came, he could just find out himself
In truth he wanted to go look now, but a promise was a promise
Breaking it would just give hih he are that he wouldn’t be punished or anything, Gran had shown his good will through his words, and Luru felt soood will of his
That’s why Luru waited
He would wait until Gran had delivered Rusty and the others to the village, and returned with Yuumis
-Clunk, Clunk-
In the rooe devices created by the ancient de his knees while he waited for Gran
While he did, he heard echoes resound through the inside of the ruins
When he listened carefully, he realised that they were the sound of somebody’s footseps
And as for whose footsteps they were, that was extremely easy to conclude
You couldn’t easily find people ould co that it was none other than Gran who had left Rusty, Mii and Yuuris at the village
And truly, a burly swordsman appeared in the room after a short while; it was Gran
Luru felt a little better having seen Gran head towards him with a hearty smile
Being alone in a ruin created by his coly lonely, and painful
When Gran returned, he felt so warm return inside him
His blood was finally ain
Gran’s sard expression
“…Oi, you alright?”
He asked
Luru smiled, and replied,
“I’m fine… It seems that the inside of the ruin is cold, that’s all”
Now that it was s onceit
“It really is cold, huh… Well, it’s underground after all Not cold enough to catch a cold, though”
“Yeah …Well then, shall we start exploring?”
“Ahh… It feels kinda weird to have you taking charge, Luru”
“Isn’t that fine? I’ht?”
As though thinking back on it, Gran nodded and replied
“Ohh, you’re right, you’re right All of the wasp e stopped at once Good job! They were sround… Yuu ‘Precious legacies of the past are…!‘ or so like that”
Spoke Gran, a little jokingly
It looked like he was picturing Yuumis’ dramatic show of sorrow
“It isn’t like they can’t be used for research even if they’re broken a little, right?”
“Well, that’s right, but she wanted some that were in a more perfect shape, yanno”
“I get how she feels, but… it’s too late to do anything about that now, right? If we search the ruins, weof which, where’s Yuuether with you?”
When Luru asked this, Gran frowned and spoke accusingly
“Oi, oi, did you forget what it was you did?”
“Eh?”
“Didn’t you fiddle with the barrier around the village so that Yuu, ‘I can’t get out! I can’t get out!‘ yanno Despite that, the kids seeh”
Now that it was mentioned,
‘Co like that did happen, huh‘
he remembered
‘But in that case, asn’t Gran locked in as well?‘, he wondered
If he remembered correctly, he set it so that Rusty, Mii, Yuuri, and Gran would be able to enter it
And so that nobody would be able to leave
But despite that, Gran was here right now
When Luru asked about this, Gran replied,
“Before I entered the barrier, Yuumis screamed at me ‘Don’t enter the barrier’, she said It was a pretty close call”
“Ahh… Well that makes sense So Yuumis is still inside the barrier, huh? Couldn’t she have just rewritten the ain?”
Muttered Luru
When he did, Gran tilted his head to the side, and said,
“You say it like its easy, but don’t you know just how hard rewriting e aic sequences rewritten by others that easily, they’d be useless Even a coician needs at least a few dozen minutes, yanno”
“But I thought it’d already been a few dozen minutes”
“Yuuin with it was made so that it’d be hard to rewrite, and since it was overwritten with an even h level sequence, Yuuht be average when it coician, you know? And for her barrier to be…”
Since the barrier Yuuht that with tiain, but it sees weren’t so simple
Perhaps the technique he used was so that was lost over these past millenia
Since the technique of rewriting was soht than siecraft, Luru felt that he could understand how things ended up this way
“Well, as for Yuuet back Gran, there’s no use just standing here We can talk while alk Let’s move”
Gran tilted his head at Luru’s words, and voiced his doubts
“…It’s weird Are you really seven? It feels like I’ to someone older than me”
In truth, if you included his years as the de was correct
But the reality was that Luru was no older than seven years old
Granso ier people are typically of lower station, hence use polite speech But Luru has been speaking as an equal, and his last line was kind of imperative]
Because of that, Luru obediently apologised
“Really? My bad I’ll take care”[Note: Still not using polite speech]
However the apology itself sounded so
Gran frowned even iven up, said,
“… Like I said… Well, whatever Let’s go”
And like that, Luru and Gran began to walk
The insides of the ruin were surprisingly bright, and not much moisture could be felt in the atmosphere
The ceiling of the ruin itself glowed softly, and the floor was stable and sound
While gazing at the equipment in the ruin, Gran let out a voice of admiration
“This is aets so into this stuff now”
“What do you mean?”
“Well… This light included, aren’t there a whole bunch of Magus Machines installed here? With this level of technology, succesfully analysing just one of these things would make life a lot more convenient!”
“”You can’t find this stuff in large towns?”
Luru hardly ever left his village and when he did, he had only gone to the neighbouring town at best, so he still hadn’t ever set foor in a large city
Because of that, he wasn’t well versed in the level of technology in cultural capitals, and thought to ask Gran to find out
“Well… It’s not like there’s not, but there aren’tlike this one Not only that, the mana consumption isn’t a joke and hardly any of the periods of time But it seems this ruin is different Anyway, thousands of years have passed at the least, but they’re functioning even now… I dunno how they’re built, but they’re pretty a tools huh…”
Frouess that the level of technology circulating in this era was quite primitive
His father Patrick had a few Magic Tools, but according to his father, the capital had more of them to an extent, but it seemed that they couldn’t mass produce so many that you’d find them in just any old marketplace