Second Arc: Kastal Queendom.
Chapter 18 (chapter t.i.tle at end)This is the second day of our trip in the carriage. We are having dinner now. Our meals are completely in the hands of the two slave girls. Sakura and I are completely useless, even though we have skill. Hey, skill! You should work harder.According to Mio, her skill is high. Maria also has skill, but she has no experience, so she starts by helping Mio. However, due to Maria’s good memory, she becomes skilled enough to serve us food she’d made by the second day.
[Master! How was it? Delicious?]
Mio’s eyes shine brightly as she asks. She has a mental age of about 24 years, but sometimes, she still acts like an eight-year-old girl.
[Uh… This croquette. It is delicious.] (TL note: agree. I’m confident in my ability to make croquettes.](Ed: The original line was “I said so. I’m confident in my croquette.”)
>Right now, we have bread (bought), croquettes, vegetable soup and tamagoyaki for food. (TL note: they are something unnatural to have during the trip.)(Ed: I tend to agree, especially since I don’t think they have any kind of refrigeration — unless their has the ability to keep things cold.)[Well… Sakura-sama’s magic is amazing because she can make a kitchen!]
[More accurately, she just made the room.]
Sakura smiles awkwardly when Mio praises her.
That’s right, I have Sakura create new magic from excess MP.
The first is “Wrap”. It is a type of magic that allows us to move instantly. With a little modification, I succeeded in lowering the MP consumption and chanting length a little. It is possible to use it in two ways: without chanting during the combat which uses more MP, or with chanting which has a lower MP usage.
It seems as if we didn’t get a skill from Saladin, so it’s necessary to chant when we use . However, considering the process of magic creation, it is necessary to have support.The second is “Portal”. This is a type of magic that allow us to teleport to places where we have been at least once. Of course, this doesn’t include our former world. More precisely, we can return to any place we’ve set “Portal” to in the past. In short, we can’t return to the capital, but I won’t go near that place at all anymore…
The third is “Room”. This is the magic that Mio praised. In short, it is the magic that creates a door to a different dimension. The room itself is nothing, but I put all of the cooking tools we bought before we left town as well as the water tank in there, so it is easily became the kitchen. This door can also be stored in , but I still can’t put a living being inside. Does that mean I’ve found a loophole for it? The door for the “Room” can be opened from inside the carriage. There are other rooms, too, but I will explain them later.We have two kinds of transfer magic now, which also means that “Transfering” is very important to us.
In game, we are usually able to move around the world freely by the end. If not, it would be hard to move the scenario forward. However, I can’t put this in town because there might be something preventing me from doing so…
Wow! I really got off the topic. This world is like a game, but we’re not in the game. Honestly, I don’t want to wait, so I want high-speed transportation as quickly as I can get it. However, travel with a carriage is normal. Besides, we don’t even have a clear destination and we might need to fight with demon, too. Above all, we would be in trouble if we couldn’t do any sightseeing, too.
After having a conversation with Sakura and others,”Return to our original world” isn’t our first priority, so our three main goals after leaving this country are: sightseeing (40%), strengthening ourselves (30%), finding a way to return to our former world (10%) with the rest being for other purposes. Our current objective is hearing a story from elf storyteller and asking for the method for returning to our former world.
[[[[>]]]]Since our meal is finished, we prepare for camping. Since Maria and Dora don’t know about this custom, I teach them and set the rule to say “Let’s eat!” (or “Itadakimasu”)when we start eating, and “Thanks for the food!” (or “Gochisousama”) when we’re finished eating.
It seems we will arrive at the next town during the day tomorrow, so our first carriage trip will soon come to an end.
[Jin-sama, your bath is ready.]
After Maria told me, I head toward the bath. Of course, it is in another door via [Room] inside the carriage. The bathtub (of stone) can easily be made by earth magic and put in the room. Sakura and Mio requested it after they took a bath at the hotel.
In short, we can cook our meals in the kitchen and take baths in the bathroom after having a meal. This makes me question myself and wonder “Are we still traveling?”. Oh, the bathrooms are separated by s.e.x, too.
I step out of the bath and slip into a sleeping bag inside the tent. Although I can make a bedroom with “Room”, we don’t have enough materials on hand to do so. Besides, isn’t parking the carriage and leaving the horses alone while we stay inside “Room” an example of illegal parking? Are we really traveling?
The next day, we caught sight of the town named Iiraluke at around noon, just as I predicted.
I will explain a bit about the Kastal Queendom now. As its name suggests, this country is ruled by queen. Almost all direct descendants of the royal family are woman. Although they are fundamentally the same as those in Erudia, they aren’t as showy or gorgeous. Instead, they simply prefer function more than value.
If Erudia is Europe in the Middle Age, then this counrty is culturally more j.a.panese. Although there seems to be a piece of clothing like a kimono here, it isn’t very common.
If I forget the fact I hate royal families, I really like Kastal.
[We’ve finally reach the border of this d.a.m.n country.]
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[Okay, I know. Let’s have a meal first.]
>It seems this dragon is completely hooked on food. Hmm… Is a dragon’s food that bad?
A : It is bad. There is no concept of cooking in the first place since a dragon form can’t use cooking tools.
[It is already noon, Master. Between Erudia and Kastal, where do you want to eat?]
[Kastal.]
[An immediate answer… Jin-sama, do you hate Erudia that much?]
[Do you still need to ask?]
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We arrive at the gate on the Erudia Kingdom’s side. The pa.s.sing fee is 1,500g per person. Anyway, this is the service tax for entering and leaving the country. By the way, we still need to pay another 1,500g on the Kastal Queendom’s side, too. In addition, we have to show them some kind of a certificate.
1,000g is for leaving one country; the next 1,000g is for entering the city; and the last 1,000g is for entering Kastal Queendom.
[Well, then… Let’s go sightseeing!]
[Ah, Master. Beds! We need to buy beds.]
It seems Mio wants a bed.
Certainly, we might find a good equipment shop for furnishing our “Room” in this town.
[That’s right. Although we have “Room”, I don’t think everyone can fit in there.]
[Then we should buy one and let everybody take turns using it.]
It seems Sakura also agrees on the purchase of a bed. Well… just having one around will make our travel become more comfortable.
[For a normal merchant, isn’t it normal to take a bed during a trip?]
In short, we have the same luxury of a bed that n.o.ble and royal families have when they travel, right?
While we are talking, we arrive at a hotel. I searched for it using