Chapter 365


(365) Side Story: The sky above and the ground below


Translator: Tseirp


Kusunoki Miri did not know where she was above the clouds .


If she could at least see the sun or the stars, she could calculate her bearings but the only window in the room was now boarded up with a wooden board .


The wooden board in the otherwise stylish room indicated that it was a rushed job .


“How was it? It doesn’t look like you ate much today . The chef made that just for you . And today was even a mother-style bento . ”


Daijiro referred to Miri’s recent loss of appet.i.te .


It wasn’t as though she was completely not eating anything but she was leaving more than half her food uneaten .


“There isn’t a chef on this ship . It’s probably something bought from a restaurant and kept in an item bag . ”


“It’s convenient so what’s wrong about that . At least eat the rice . See I even sprinkled on egg and seaweed furikake . ”


Daijiro said and picked up the fried chicken that Miri did not eat from the bento and brought it to her mouth .


After seeing her swallow the fried chicken, Miri slowly spoke .


“That piece fell on the floor just now . ”


“Eh? You’re kidding . ”


“I was kidding . ”


A short silence followed .


“ … Famiris has turned into a meanie . ”


“Anybody would turn mean if locked in such a place . ”


Daijiro sighed .


Then, she ate an octopus-shaped wiener .


“So, Famiris . What was the meaning of that letter? To buy Milky’s book . After seeing that lemonade marble message and checking Milky’s book, I didn’t notice any particular content . It was just a regular BL manga . That was why I allowed it to be sold at the book sale . ” (TL: BL = Boys Love genre)


Daijiro licked her fingers and wiped it with a wet tissue before taking out Milky’s book from her item bag .


Daijiro didn’t seem to hate the R18 development between young men and was looking a little fixedly at the book .


“Of course . There was no meaning to that book . That was just a means to make Onii stay in Mallegory until tomorrow . ”


“Means? For what?”


“12,000 Tsuaobal soldiers will start invading Mallegory tomorrow . ”


“The royal army will attack the capital of its own country!? Is that child the key to stop the invasion?”


“No way . Onii will not be able to stop the invasion no matter what he does . Onii has a different role . ”


Miri said as she opened the seal on the furikake inside the bento box .


“Onii has the role of bringing salvation to this world . The role of avoiding destruction . The role to avoid the end of the world . ”


She said as she watched the furikake spilled down like sand in an hourgla.s.s .


“Wait, Famiris . Your ability to look into the future should only extend to a couple of seconds into the future . But the things you are speaking of now makes it seem as though …”


Daijiro seemed to have noticed something and asked .


“Famiris, how far did you see?”


Miri did not answer her .


Miri looked in the direction out the window .


Although all she could see was the wooden cover .


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Jofre and Elize were currently investigating the mysterious ruins they entered from the bas.e.m.e.nt of Suzuki’s home warehouse . They called it investigating but they were not investigating anything in particular and were just walking around aimlessly .


The ruins which used to be a dungeon still glowed with a faint light even without any monsters remaining so they were able to enter deeper without having any torches .


“Look, Jofre! This looks like an edible mushroom!”


“There are some here too!”


Jofre and Elize picked up red and blue mushrooms .


Naturally, both kinds were poisonous mushrooms .


Jofre and Elize placed the mushrooms they harvested in front of Centaur who was waiting in front of a large door .


Centaur came to help Jofre and Elize a few days ago but for some reason sat in front of that door and did not move since then .


Because of that, Jofre and Elize brought food to it .


Centaur ate the poisonous mushrooms that they brought to it but it still showed no signs of moving .


At first, Jofre and Elize tried to push and pull Centaur to move it but they had already given up and went to have their meal .


Of dried meat .


Anything apart from meat had already been sucked into Centaur’s stomach so all they had left was dried meat .


“It’s delicious Jofre . ”


“Yeah, Elize . But we are about to run out of water . ”


“We have to secure some then . Right, let’s tell Jo about this place once we return . I’m sure Jo would be excited . ”


“That’s a great idea! We’ll call everyone and have a picnic!”


“Picnic!? I’m looking forward to that! We can make sandwiches and rice b.a.l.l.s . ”


“Did you know? Elize . They wrap the rice b.a.l.l.s with a black paper in this country . ”


“Eh? Really? Why must they wrap it with a black paper? Can’t they wrap with red paper?”


“Red paper is out of the question . To the townspeople, red paper signifies that there will be a war soon . ”


“Really!? Then we won’t be able to have a picnic . ”


“Right? So we should use black paper . ”


“Ah, Jofre! If black is better than red, can’t we wrap it with dried meat? Although the meat is originally red, it turned black once it was dried . If we wrap with this, won’t it signify the end of fighting and for everyone to have a delicious picnic?”


“That’s a great idea! But dried meat is hard and not suited for wrapping around rice … right! Then we can just wrap it with grilled meat?”


“Yes, that sounds great, Jofre! It sounds delicious!”


That moment was the birth of the concept of meat-rolled rice b.a.l.l.s in this world .


At that moment .


Elize accidentally dropped the dried meat in her hand in her excitement .


“Ah, my dried meat … eh?”


There was a small b.u.t.ton near the location where Elize dropped her dried meat .


Elize pushed the b.u.t.ton without any sense of wariness .


The large door groaned and started opening outward .


“… Amazing … I wonder if there is treasure ahead?”


“It must be, Jofre! And I hear water!”


“Drinkable water!? Let’s go, Elize! Treasure and water are waiting for me!”


“Okay, Jofre!”


The two of them happily went in .


【Thank you very much . 】


There was the voice of a woman .


Elize turned to look back but there was only Centaur there slowly getting up .


“Elize! We found a spring!”


“Really!? I’m coming!”


Elize a.s.sumed that she was hearing things and ran toward Jofre’s voice .

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