Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 9 - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: 12

9-12 . Bornean Forest

 

Satou's here . You can discern those who like to ride amusement park's vehicles and those who don't from their screams . Different people have different suitabilities of course, but perhaps they can enjoy it because they trust those game machines .

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After we've crossed the mountain range, the airship ark descends on a narrow grassland between the forest and the foot of a mountain .

"Ah~, it's finally the ground . "

"Oh Arisa, wasn't it just half a day long . "

"But, I hadn't thought that it would be shaking that much . "

What Arisa's saying is true .

There were more strange air currents than I thought, so the shaking was worse than I expected . Thanks to [Canopy] magic, we didn't experience the effect of temperature fall and atmospheric pressure change, but since the [Air Control] couldn't absorb the radical change of the air current, I couldn't prevent the shaking .

"E, earth nanodesu . "

"Yes, it's the mother earth . "

As the result, Pochi and Liza look a bit pitiful .

They fall down to the ground with a plop . The eyes of the two are a bit unfocused . I didn't shake the ark this time though . Rather, it might've been better if I supported it to prevent the shaking .

Maybe I should had let them sleep like the horses that I gave sleeping medicines .

Arisa and Mia seem like they had motion sickness, they looked a bit unsteady . I gave them some anti-motion sickness medicine, but it didn't seem to work well .

Nana is operating like usual . Even now, she's poking on a little flower below that's swaying from wind .

Tama seemed like she was really enjoying the unexpected shaking, she was frolic from the beginning to the end that now she's like a child who has just gone to an amusement park, drained of her battery . She's currently sleeping on the grassland with a satisfied smile .

Lulu was afraid and looked like she would get motion sickness, but she screamed, "Kyaa kyaa" as I caught her on my arm like she was riding a jet coaster, she was smiling until the end . I didn't have any objection since her flushed cheeks was cute .

There's still a long time until the nightfall, but since everyone is totally exhausted, I decide to camp here today .

There's no monster in Bornean forest, but there are some on the boundary here . However, there's no particularly strong monster around, so I leave Nana to guard everyone .

I've found the mithril vein I've always yearned for in the mountain range, so I'm going there to mine it . Since the mitrhil vein is quite deep at one kilometer below the ground, I make a shaft until the depth of my goal after using 4-5 [Mud Wall] . I don't know how much will the mithril decrease after refining it, but several tons of it are probably enough . If it's not, I can just come back here .

It's still a while before it's time to prepare for dinner, so I fly around the mountains, gathering things like clays for making earthenwares, stones for building, and rare earth minerals . There are also gold and silver veins, but there are too little gold per square meter area, so I won't touch it . I can just melt old gold coins if I need some .

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There's an unexpected guest when I've returned to the camp ground as the sun begins setting .

Even if I said guest, it's not a person . It's an unicorn living in Bornean forest . Unlike the unicorns in Muno forest, it looks like a zebra with its stripes instead of a white horse .

The unicorn and the hornless are getting along well as they eat the horse fodders I've made myself .

"This is?"

"Mutual love . "

"Two hours ago, it came wandering about and they began to flirt . Riajuu, or rather RiaJUU, die . "

<TLN: The JUU above mean beasts . >

"I won't subjugate or capture it since it's not hostile, but what should we do with it?"

Arisa curses them dejectedly, but please don't pick a quarrel with even unicorns . After telling Liza that she doesn't need to subjugate it, I begin to prepare for dinner together with Lulu .

Tonight I'm making tofu hamburg steak as the main menu per Mia's request . I also make chicken-less chicken rice, potatoes, and custard puddings . I was going to make fried prawns and sausages, but I made fried bamboo shots, and macaronis instead . Finally, I stab the shaped chicken rice with toothpicks adorned with flags, and it's complete .

"You're really diligent~ after characters bento, now it's kid lunches eh . "

"Cute . "

"Peerless and wonderful~"

"Yes nanodesu! If just hamburg is the strongest, it'll be peerless with this many additions nanodesu!

Pochi has recovered enough to make you think her exhaustion a few hours ago is an illusion . Her tail isn't enough to show it as she's even swinging her arms . I'm glad that she's excited, but she could faint if she's too excited .

"Master . "

"What is it?"

Nana is looking at me with eyes that look very dissatisfied . Since Nana seems like she would go on a rampage, I've restrained her with [Magic Hand] ahead of time . It's unfortunate that there's no tactile sensation .

I've made everyone's shares properly this time . Nana also has one of course . I've especially added all three kinds of the flags for Nana's plate . She probably won't rampage now .

"Keen insight . Praising master for having made something truly wondrous . "

I'm glad that Nana is also satisfied . Arisa grumbles, "I'm not a kid . ", but it seems it's just spoken words .

Since I feel sorry for them if there's no meat, I pile up wyvern karage on another plate . I use wyvern meat that I've pickled with liquor soup since yesterday . I hear Liza is saying, "It's even more delicious than yesterday . ", so I'll use seasoning for wyvern meat from now on .

With this kind of menu, it's easy to tell their habits of eating food; Tama starts from her favorite ones, while Pochi and Mia start from their least favorites . Although the food on the large platter are Pochi's favorite too, so she's eating it .

"Satou, delicious . "

"Nn . "

I reply Mia who's unusually speaking using two words by mimicking her .

To Mia who firmly demands another helping, I serve it . Pochi and Tama who have finished eating earlier after battling for karage with Liza present their plates while saying, "Another~", "Another nanodesu . " when they see that scene .

When the big pot that I've prepared with chicken rice becomes empty, everyone is full as they sprawl on the sheet for sleeping while patting their stomaches .

I leave the cleaning up to Liza and Nana as I begin to make a simple electric fan .

Even though we're beyond the mountain range, we shouldn't be located that far to the south, so we've become a bit sweaty, I'm making the fan to make our sleep more pleasant . By the time I realized that I could just use [Air Control] to create some breeze, I had completed the electric fan .

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The next day after breakfast, I asked Mia the way to enter Bornean forest, but since she had never gone out of the forest, she didn't know .

Then, I guess I should ask someone who knows .

I search Mia's parents, Lamisauuya, and Lilinatoa from the menu and mark them . Now then, I guess the one I should contact is the mother .

I invoke [Telephone] magic with Lilinatoa as the target . This magic won't be properly invoked if the other party doesn't want to talk . It's good that it can't be used to attack with prank calls .

"Who?"

The reply is a voice that sounds exactly like Mia's . Only I can hear this voice . It's certain since I've tested it with Lulu and Pochi before .

"Pleased to meet you, I'm Satou, a human . I'm sorry for calling you with magic--"

Right at then, Lilinatoa-san's voice cuts in .

"My!　Satou-san you said?! Are you the one Dohar's mentioned?　That's right isn't it! Then, perhaps you've brought Mia along?　You've brought her right?　--"

She's talking like a machine gun, just like Mia is when she's drunk .

I'm made to listen to her for five minutes straight without any chance to talk back . Looks like they know my name from Dohar-san's message . I'm glad the words that Mia's said in the dwarven hometown like "Mutual love", or "Eloping", aren't taken seriously by them .

In contrast, the letter from Seryuu city's manager-san, Yusalatoya, hasn't arrived yet . It seems Dohar-san employed magic transmission which made his message arrived first .

They're going to pick us, but they don't know our position, so I shoot a fireball to the sky as a signal .

A little while after the fireball has disappeared, two elves appear from the forest that has been divided in front of us .

They're wearing green clothes like the elves in the picture books .

""Mia""

"Laya, Lia"

Parents and child who call each other with their names are hugging .

Really, this is quite a moving scene .

Arisa is pulling the sleeves of me who's being moved as I watch the reunion .

What? Even though it's at the good part?

"Hey, they're Mia's parents right?"

"That's right . "

"But you know~"

I understand what Arisa is trying to say .

Mia's parents look like they're only slightly older than Mia, they look younger even compared to Lulu . They seem to be a race who grow slowly, Hayato will be delighted .

The father's face looks exactly like the elf manager-san at Seryuu city . They might be blood-related, their population is few after all .

"Satou . "

"Thank you . "

"My, Satou-san right? You're Satou-san aren't you . You're younger than I thought?　You're young aren't you--"

I greet the parents whom Mia introduces .

Nevertheless, the father seems like a taciturn person like Mia . There's no middle way between this couple, it's really hard to talk with them .

We're going to enter the Elves' hometown as we're invited by Mia's parent .

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