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Volume 12 Chapter 5 Part 11

Reassured, I followed after Roxanne

While doing this, move along the coast.

「Is that it? 」

When we moved to the coast, there was certainly an island off the coast.

Or rather, since it is continuing, then it must be an archipelago.

Does this mean that you can follow the island and go to Grineer?

「Yes. It seems like it would be good to move around the islands. 」

Sherry comments matter-of-factly.

It sounds good, but how are we going to move from island to island?

It seems pretty hard, but I can’t help it.

We move around the island.

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In the case of an island of a certain size, fly around the island several times.

「Kuh. Are we going there? 」

「Looks that way. 」

Warping around the island is harder than moving to the mountain on the other side.

But the view is certainly nice.
Will we cross over to an island where you can’t see the beach?

We have no choice but to cross.

Can we cross?

We have no choice but to cross.

「It doesn’t matter anymore. 」

I opened the warp portal again. Roxanne jumped in without saying anything, so it should probably be fine, so I followed her.

It was okay this time.

But if I keep doing this, I will have an accident someday.

「I can’t see anything from this island. We need to move to the other side. 」

Even if you cross the island, it’s not the end, you have to look for the next island.

If it is a small island where you can see the other side, it is fine, but if it is a large island, you will have to move, which is hard to do.

In front of me is probably the island we just came from, but there’s no use going back there.

This takes a lot of time.

It doesn’t end at the day of the day, and it doesn’t end on the next day, continuing on for several more days.

I managed to warp without an accident somehow so far.

If there was an island like that on the other side of the horizon, it would have been packed.

A few days later, we arrived at a slightly larger island.

「This place is pretty big. Could it be that we’ve finally arrived in Grineer? 」

Did I mess up because I unintentionally raised a flag by saying that out loud?

No. everything is going to be fine.

There will be no such thing.

「Un. I wonder about that. 」

Sherry’s cold-hearted opinion is now terrifying.

「Well, we have no choice but to go. 」

I used warp to get us further.

「Ah, please wait a minute. There is a road that people must have travelled on. 」

After moving by warping several times, Roxanne noticed it on the way and stops us

It looks like people have really passed through it, or rather, it has a line that looks like an animal trail.

I don’t think it’s a kind of trail that a wild boar would leave behind.
「Since the branches do not get in the way of a considerable height, it may really be a trace of someone passing by. 」

I see.
If it really was a wild boar, then it would be around th waist-height at most.

Her rational opinion is reliable like always, unless it was a human-sized boar, of course.

If monsters were able to pass through here, then it is possible that the trail will continue from the Labyrinth to some kind of human settlement.

「It continues over there. Let’s go. 」

「Okay. 」

Prompted by Roxanne, I warp.

「Master, there it is. 」

After warping several times, we really ended up at the human village.

A few houses can be seen beyond the gap in the forest.

oh.

Have we reached Grineer at last?

There are some people there. Or rather, Elves.

「I’ll leave this to Rutina then. 」

「I understand. 」

「Please do. 」

With Rutina in the lead, we descended into the village.

「Can I please have a minute? 」

「X X X X X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「X X X X X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「X X X X X X X X X X X X X X. 」

Rutina speaks with the locals.

They didn’t seem to understand Brahim.

However, she understands the local language that they are speaking in.

「X X X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「X X X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「I see. It doesn’t look like this is Grineer. 」

After talking to them for a long time, Rutina tells me her conclusions.

「So it’s a bust then? 」

「Yes. It would seem so. Grineer should be two or more stopovers from here. It also seem that one of the further stopovers was also abandoned because of the Labyrinth that appeared there as well. Since contact with our side has been cut off, it seems that there is no longer any need to forcefully maintain the stopover point. There are no labyrinths nearby, and people can still live here, so they simply remained here. 」

It’s not just one stopover from here, huh?

Well, if it’s close, you can’t lose contact just by destroying the relay station.

With Tarikau also abandoned, the need to maintain the stopover points closer to Grineer also diminished.

A Labyrinth appeared there, so that one was also abandoned, and after two or three stopovers have been abandoned like that, it’s no surprise that no one could no longer make any contact with Grineer.

「Is that so? 」

「They also said that they lived here all their lives and are prepared to die for it. 」

「I see.]

Well that’s right. It would be difficult to maintain the ecosystem in such a small human settlement.

「X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「As long as they kill the monsters that try to attack them, they don’t have to worry about things such as food. Even if a labyrinth were to appear nearby, they say that would still be able to subjugate it if it had only 50 floors. 」

They are tough people.

「X X X X X X X X X X. 」
「X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「X X X X X X X X X X. 」

「Since the stopover is far away, it seems impossible to go island-hopping. It seems that there are no adventurers here who can cross over to the next stopover or Grineer. Until a few years ago, Once or twice, relatives or acquaintances visited them once or twice a year, but ever since more stopover points became abandoned, that stopped being the case either. 」

「I understand. 」

「What are we going to do now? 」

「Go back home for the time being. 」

「Yes. 」

Now that we reached this place, maybe someone from the Grineer side will come and take us there with them? But personally I wouldn’t count on it.

I don’t know when someone like that would come, and we cannot afford to wait here god knows how long.

Maybe no one will come at all.

It would be nice to say that the search on this route is up to here, but if there is a different route, then that would complicate things, but only if there were multiple ways of reaching Grineer.

After passing through the Labyrinth on the way, I returned to our home in Quratar.

「It’s going to be difficult to move forward. 」

「I agree. 」
「If there were multiple routes to get to Grineer, this wouldn’t happen. But the search for such aroute right now might be a dead end. 」

Sherry seems to agree.

I’ve made it this far, but it’s still going to be difficult to contact Grineer.

「Yes. That’s right. I think that for now this much is fine though. 」

Does Rutina also agree?

Maybe she doesn’t want to see it as helping Elder Cassandra, but rather as a simple way of completing a request for a quest giver?

「Well, that’s fine. Let’s not go see the old lady until the next time. That would be all for today.」

「Yes.」

「Rutina, should I remove your equipment for you? 」

「Y-Yes. 」

I don’t care about Grineer. I would rather do something like this.

I put it on, take it off, put it on, and take it off and put it on again.

This is repeated daily.

Life is all about putting on and take off whenever and wherever there is a chance, right?

Life is both long and short, so you should spend it putting it on or taking it off.

Wear it, take it off, wear it, take it off, wear it, take it off.

This is the basis of happiness.

Putting it on is good fortune.

Taking it off is good fortune.

And putting it on again is an even greater fortune.

〈To be continued in『A Harem in the Fantasy World Dungeon Volume 13』.〉