Episode 4.1-2 (2/2)
”If the door is locked, Jericho wouldn't be able to go buy his favorite snack, don't you feel sorry for him?”
”The ape... the ape magic beast, is going out, to buy food, himself?”
”He's got his favorite stores, you know.”
”Won't someone steal your medicine if you let the door open?”
”I mean, there's no lock to begin with. If you're worried about the pots on shelves, I've put some tricks on them. Those can't be taken out.”
”What about the herbs in the garden. Anyone could break those hedges if they just so wish.”
”All the herbs in my garden are difficult to handle. Nobody else would purchase them. Besides, most are toxic, anyone who gets in the garden would experience the time of their life. Both thieves and neighboring brats have all figured that out. Oh and just for your information, Jericho is in charge of watering those plants, see.”
”The ape is taking care of herbs huh.”
The two walked to the east gate.
That's fine and all, but Shira is wearing casual clothes no matter how you look at it.
However, Lecan did not inquire her about it.
”Well then, listen. Once we get out of the town, my lesson about herb gathering will take about 20 days. So, if you go straight from the gate for about five thousands steps, you'll find a shallow river to the left. Could you wait near that river.”
”Got it.”
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He did as he was told.
Lecan waited on the shallow river bank for a while but he got bored and thus started doing maintenance on his weapons.
Soon after, a female adventurer went down the bank.
A young beautiful woman.
She's wearing slightly exposed easy-to-move clothing, with a short sword hanging on her waist.
The woman ignored Lecan as she got to the riverside, scooped water with her hands and washed her face.
Lecan finished tending his weapons, stood up and called out to the woman from behind her.
”You're late. So where are we going now.”
The woman turned around to him with surprised look on her face.
”Hold on there. You, do you know me?”
”Did we not just part ways earlier. Have you gone senile, Shira.”
”No uh, my appearance should look completely different than before though.”
”I had seen that form when we first met.”
”You, you were a bearer of magic eyes?”
”Magic eyes?”
”Ah no, let's talk about that later. Over here.”
Shira began to run. Her speed was ordinary at first, but as they got deeper into the forest with no worry of being seen by other people, she gradually accelerated, and eventually reached a terrifying speed. Lecan followed after her easily at first. But as they ran and ran without taking a break, his fatigue accumulated and he eventually struggled to run well. They took a break once in the afternoon, but Lecan hadn't recovered his fatigue yet. He frantically chased after Shira who kept running relentlessly. And when his stamina was about to reach its limit, Shira finally halted.