Volume 1
Chapter 35
I Met an Old
Man
Translator : PolterGlast
【Runa's POV】
I messed up. I got
carried away and left before asking for detailed information.
Why do I keep losing
myself like this? I thought I had matured, but I’m still immature, am I?
"Sigh…"
I sighed and walked
through the forest I had arrived at.
Since I didn't have
any information, I had been maximizing the range of my magical perception and
expanding the search area as much as possible, but there were no significant
results.
Where are the ruins? I
should have read more detailed materials about the location. I put it off
because I thought I wouldn’t be moving my base for a while, but this is the
consequence.
Looking back on my
actions, I felt regret and anger. I know I shouldn't be dwelling on it, but I can't
stop myself from repeating it in my head.
It's a bad habit of
mine to dwell on regrets.
After walking for
about ten minutes, I stopped at a certain spot.
It wasn't that
something caught my magical perception or that there was a change in my visual information.
I just felt a sense of
discomfort.
The forest in front of
me was ordinary. There was nothing strange about it. But that's exactly what
felt strange.
What is this?
I stepped forward in
the direction that felt the most discomfort, which was straight ahead to my
left.
"───!"
As I walked a little
further, I felt like I entered a space where the air was much denser than the
outside air, and then my visual information changed drastically.
The place that I
thought was a dense forest had turned into a space with only short grasses, and
there was a log cabin standing in the middle of this forest, with two wooden
chairs and a round table placed nearby.
On one of the chairs
stood an old man with long white hair and a long white beard, wearing dirty white
clothes.
"This is…"
"Hoho? I never
thought I would have a visitor here."
The old man was
surprised to see me, and although he didn't move his body that much, he seemed
to be smiling very happily at my arrival.
"………."
I observed the old
man.
An old man who built a
house in a forest full of magical beasts and was sitting there leisurely,
sunbathing. He's clearly not normal.
I have a feeling that
it would be better not to get involved if possible.
But I'm lost right
now. The forest is too deep to see the ruins even from the sky.
I want to get to
Kushina as soon as possible. So, maybe I should ask this old man about the
ruins.
I think I have to be
very careful though.
"Hey, old
man"
"Hoho, what is
it?"
"I have something
to ask you"
"Hmm"
The old man looked
interested and put his right hand to his chin hidden by his beard.
"I want to know
where the ruins are in this forest. Do you know?"
"Oh, I
know."
"───! Then, can you please
tell me?"
"Now, now, don’t
be in such a hurry. Here, sit down here and have a cup of tea."
When I looked closely,
I saw two white teacups and a white teapot on the round table.
I was annoyed by the
old man's nonchalant gesture, even though I knew it was pointless.
"I'm sorry, but I
don't have time for that. Can you just tell me where the ruins are?"
"What are you so
impatient about? If you're in such a hurry, you won't be able to get what you
want."
"───Ugh... S... Haa...
Haa..."
I was about to say,
“You know nothing” but I swallowed my words.
The old man is right.
It's true that if I rush things, I won't be able to achieve anything. So, I
took a deep breath to calm myself down.
But I still don't have
time for tea.
"I was a little
too hot-headed, sorry, old man. But you see, I don't have time now. I'll have tea
with you properly after I've taken care of things. So for now, just tell me
where the ruins are."
"What a cold
thing to say. Why don't you stay a while and listen to an old man's
rambling?"
Oh no, this old man.
He is probably that type. Even if I sit down on the chair as he says, I won't
be able to find out what I want to know. He's the type who will prioritize what
he wants to say and will avoid answering what he has to answer.
It would be much more
efficient to search the forest desperately than to listen to such useless talk.
I have a magic perception that allows me to search a wide area at once. I can
use my time more effectively if I keep searching.
“I'm sorry, old man. I'm going.”
As I was about to turn
my back on the old man───
“Now, now, wait a minute”
I felt an image of my
body being pierced by something.
“───Ugh, haa, haa, haa”
I involuntarily
pressed my chest because of the overly intense imagination, but my emotional
turmoil didn't subside.
What was that... just
now?
“What's the matter, young lady? It's as if you've just
seen your own death.”
I turned my gaze back
to the old man.
Could it be that this
was the old man's doing?
...Come to think of
it, there was something like this in the documents. In magic, there is
something called a unique space where you can manipulate your magic power to
create a space that is advantageous to you.
When I entered this
place, I felt a strange difference in the air. If this space is the old man's
space───.
“Hohoho, don't make such a scary face. You'll ruin your
pretty face.”
“……….”
“How about it? Why don't you sit down there for a
while?”
I'm being told
implicitly that I should listen to him or else he can kill me anytime.
I reluctantly sat down
opposite the old man.
“Hoho, very well. Now, where should I start…”
Damn it, why is this
happening? Why is an old man like this here? Why is this happening!? I want to
go check on Kushina as soon as possible!!
I ended up being held
back by the strange old man.
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