Chapter 29 - Disposed Hero (2/2)

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Buchi~

I tug on the vines I’ve got from the ruins.

I’m entwining two vines together to ensure it’s strength.

I pull on it again so that I could check its strength.

[This strength… should be okay.]

I tie the vine around the opening of the leather bag.

Tightly…

I hang the vine over my shoulder.

[Okay, this looks good.]

This makes it that I’m wearing the leather bag over my shoulder.

This seems to be easier to carry than holding it with one of my hand. (T/N: so, the leather bag doesn’t have strap. I thought it had one already.)

I still have some leftover food and drinks.

These were now inside the leather bag.

[Well then, shall we depart?]

Before I went to bed, I soaked a part of my uniform with tea and used it to wipe my body.

Thanks to that, I could feel that my skin is a little cleaner.

I walk out of the room.

[Along with the fact that I’ve reached this part of the ruins… I’d like to believe that the ground above is closer now.]

I walk through the ruins area where any signs of monsters appearing have disappeared.

There must be a slope somewhere here that should lead me above this place.

When I was scouting here before, there’s something I saw that brightened me up.

[There are subtle traces of human hands here on the road and along the walls… hmm?]

It was about time I come out of this ruins.

In the shade of the darkness, where vines were tangled together…

Around there… isn’t there something in there?

A deep hole that looks like it’s leading somewhere.

It’s at that time I’ve noticed it’s existence.

The passage towards the top of the ruins was hidden behind the vines.

I scratch my head.

[It seems that I’m not attentive enough…]

I should be careful not to overlook something like this again.

I pass through the vines.

What I found there is a jewel I’ve been familiar with.

[The twenty-fifth room, huh…]

I inject magic energy into the jewel.

The door opens up after I injected it with enough magic energy.

[………..]

Did I just use 5000 MP for this door?

It seems that this place is different from the other doors.

I step into the room.

I smell something like flour.

Covering my mouth with my hands, I proceed inside the room.

The leather bag illuminates throughout the room.

This is quite a lonely place.

It’s quite obvious, but there’s no sign of life here.

The furniture installed here is almost the same as the other rooms.

This may not be a special room after all.

Or rather, can this room be considered a failure of a room with that kind of MP expenditure?

However, I’ve found something.

It’s a skeleton wearing a robe.

I turn my leather bag towards the skeleton.

With the wall against its back, the skeleton is sitting cross-legged.

[I see… this one’s a skeleton of a disposed person who frantically tried to climb out of here. Good work in reaching here, or so I want to say… I mean… it must have been really difficult, right?]

I tried to part away the robe.

The bones around the stomach were severely broken.

Did he lose his life because of this injury?

After offering a small prayer, I started rummaging around the skeleton’s luggage like how I’m accustomed to do whenever I see corpses.

And there, I noticed an old parchment that has fallen near the hand of the skeleton.

[Now that I think about it, can I even read the letters of this world?]

I place the leather bag nearby as I spread out the old parchment.

I run my eyes over the parchment.

[…it’s readable.]

I breathe out a sigh of relief.

It’s good that I can read this.

It seems that summoned heroes like me were able to read the letters of this world.

[Well, what does this say…?]

“Is there anyone who would be able to read this in this disposal ruins? Ah, let me introduce myself first. My name is Angrin Berthrad. People used to call me “The Great Sage Angrin”. However, I feel like the one they used to call me was better. I was used to be called—“

[Eh?]

“The Dark Hero, Angrin.”