Chapter 45 - Periodic Report (1/2)

“Aaaaarrrgh!! Are we there yet?”

It had been about two weeks since they left Fiminan when Akari spoke up.

“Fuyune, the next location for the purification, will still take us a week of traveling. Please bear with it.”

“I haven’t slept properly on a bed for a long time, and my skin has gone rough from traveling at night!! Even the number of villages we stop by has decreased! How much longer will we keep on doing this!?”

“Until the journey ends.”

“Haaaa!? Are you serious!? So, you’re going to make me live like this till the journey ends!? I can’t believe you!!”

“……”

“N-now, now, Akari, there’s just a bit until this trip ends, right?”

“Yuto……”

“When you finish purifying the last 2 sites, you will be the savior of this country. And, then, they will thank you after this time. So, let’s be a little more patient, shall we?”

“If that’s what Yuto says……”

Veins popped up on Syltina’s temples as she smiled at Akari, who said this and became docile after being comforted by Yuto.

Syltina clenches her fist at Akari’s behavior.

“Don’t hit her. I’m begging you, don’t hit her, okay?”

“Ahaha. You’re no fun, Al. It’s not like I’m going to hit her.”

“That’s right. Yes, that’s right, isn’t it? In that case, won’t you please lower your fist?”

While Akari and Yuto had entered a world where only the two of them existed, there was Alhart frantically trying to stop Syltina from raising her fist.

((And, that’s how we are right now.))

“Ahahahaha!! You guys must have it rough!! Thanks for your hard work!”

Even the sighs seemed to come through in the images projected by the Magic Vision as Clarina laughed and thanked Syltina at the same time.

((Geez, I thought it was a different person……))

“Sorry, sorry. But, I’m glad things seem to be going well. If this is the case, then, the purification will finish exactly by the end of the war with Rulan Kingdom.”

((Yeah. It looks like the war is finally going to start, so we’ll have to move even more carefully from now on.))

“Oh, and by the way, it seems like the Knights have started to hang around Manrinia, recently. I think they’re probably waiting for you so they can carry out their orders to take you to the King as soon as they find Al-kun and Sylti.”

((Heeh. But, we won’t be arriving there until the end of the war.))

“Well, they’re in there just in case you don’t get caught, right? I think their first choice is Fuyune, where Sylti and the others are headed to now.”

((Ahh, that’s right. I wonder what I should do……))

“Shall I go? I’ll set up an invisibility barrier for you, okay?”

((No, it’s fine, but it means you can see from there, right? We’ll be fine, but the Saintess and the Prince are likely to make a fuss……))

“Ahh, I see. It’s troublesome, isn’t it?”

Just as the 2 were thinking of a good way to go around their dilemma, a man calls out to them.

“Umm, should we go?”

Possessing black hair and black eyes, the bespectacled man was one of the men who came back with Clarina to The Dipterous Sword’s encampment near Manrinia 2 weeks ago.

((And you are?))

“Nice to meet you, Syltina-sama. I am Keyhart, an officer serving in The Special Command Force.”

((Ahh, from Fara’s unit…… Nice to meet you, I am Syltina. So, um, what did you mean about coming here?))

“We, The Special Command Force, are a unit under the Knight’s Commander. And, because of our extraordinary ability, the members of the squad belonging to the Special Forces have the same authority as the Squad Commander. In other words, we can issue orders to them if they are ordinary soldiers.”

“I see. So you guys will lead those soldiers off before they run into Sylti and the others in Fuyune.”

“Yes.”

((That’s a very good suggestion, but if you go to Fuyune from there, won’t we arrive earlier than you?))

“If that’s the problem, then hey, don’t I have Myra?”

((Aahh, I see.))

“Then, I and two others will come to meet you.”

“Understood.”