Episode 34.11 (1/2)

After seeing Eliza off, Zoltan pulled out a chair and sat on it.

”Lecan. Sorry for the trouble.”

”It was trouble for sure. But, forget that. Nark!”

Nark's hurried footsteps resounded. From over the kitchen, aka his living space.

『Want some fermented stuff?』

Lecan spoke in the language of his previous world.

『Yeah. I'll have one.』

Zoltan replied back in the same language.

Nark came over.

”Get us fermented liquor. Two cups. Also some snack to go with it.”

Nark skillfully took a liquor bottle and metal cups, then he brought them along with beans and dried fish on plates.

”Sonny. Sorry but fetch me a wooden cup will you. I prefer that.”

”Oh, then change mine too.”

Nark replaced their cups and went inside the kitchen. He must be making something.

『Cheers.』

『Cheers.』

『I almost yelled out loud when you were on your way to this inn earlier.』

『Same went for me. I had never felt that sensation in my life before. However, it was clear to me that there was someone from my homeworld in this inn. Had no idea that sensation actually existed.』

『Guess that's how it feels when someone from our world is close by.』

『No, that's not it.』

『Hm? What do you mean?』

『I've come across other people from our world, yet that sensation never surfaced. Although those guys were not adventurers.』

『Would a non-adventurer jump into a <Black Hole>?』

『That's not it. Apparently a huge <Black Hole> suddenly showed up in a forest before their eyes and they fell, or more like they got swallowed in it.』

『Hee. Didn't know that could happen.』

『That earlier sensation is probably because we're both adventurers, depth-walking ones. That's what it feels.』

『I see.』

『I've met dungeon-diving people from another world different from ours as well, and they too did not have the kind of feels you have. So that thing earlier probably only occurs between dungeon adventurers from the same world.』

『You sure have met with lots of folks.』

『Been here long after all.』

『How many years?』

『Well now. Think it's a bit over 50. Can't say I remember.』

『What? How old are you again.』

『More than 80, should be almost 90.』

『You don't look the age at all.』

”Descenders get a slightly longer lifespan. Even more if you dive in dungeon depths.”

”Oh, you're back to this world's speak huh.”

”This one's easier for me now.”

”Thanks fer' waiting. Looks like things are livenin' up here eh.”

Nark brought a meat dish he made. Three kinds of meat roasted over fire with a spicy garnish.