Chapter 52
Inside a Strange
Room
Translator : PolterGlast
I thought, "This
is Yuko's room," but to actually call it Yuko's room might be misleading.
It might be more
accurate to say it's the room that Yuko, when summoned to the country of
Soleil, would stay in here in the capital city of Kasei. So, Yuko hadn't been
summoned to Soleil after all. If she had, the room wouldn't be this dirty, and
Ichi and the others wouldn't be this excited, huffing and puffing. They were
just dying to clean, and they were conversing as if licking their lips, saying,
"See, see, I told you it was an interesting place."
Apparently, San,
desperately suppressing his slime instincts, thinking, "I can't monopolize
such an amazing place~~!" had escaped from here and headed to the inn. So
that's what he meant by "interesting."
"...Sorry, but
you can't clean this place."
While watching Ichi
and Nii tossing San upward, saying, "Seriously, San is the epitome of a
slime~~," I apologized. San was then slammed onto the ground, dropped. The
three of them stared up at me in astonishment. They seemed unable to hide the
shock of being rejected. My heart ached terribly. Because if the room suddenly
became sparkling clean, it would be suspicious beyond belief...
Weighing the risk of
the Mirror of Foresight and Veda finding out against the ease of this entry
route, the latter clearly had a higher risk. Veda might be searching for the
escaped San right now, but "the darkest place is under the lamp," so
hopefully, he wouldn't think we were this close. It was wishful thinking, but
we could slip in quickly and slip out quickly. With this, we might be able to
manage.
"...But was this
really okay~~!?"
I couldn't raise my
voice, but while hugging and comforting the sniffling Ichi and the others with
both hands, I was increasingly losing confidence in my decision. In other
words, this was the enemy's stronghold. Well, not really the enemy or anything.
But at the very least, they weren't my allies.
We could still go back
to the city using the same route we had taken. But while we were hesitating
like this, Veda might come. My growling lasted only a moment. "It's
fine." Lotus placed his hand on one of the two swords at his waist and
said quietly.
"If we're found,
we'll just run. I can handle escaping with you guys."
To him, who was saying
we should go quickly rather than escape with regrets, I gently clasped my own
hands and murmured.
"...L-Lotus... you're
so handsome... I love you...!!"
"Yeah,
yeah."
This wasn't the time
for a silly lovey-dovey moment.
Although the room was
dusty, it didn't seem like a place that had been completely abandoned to the
point where no one ever used it. There was no explanation in the game as to why
Yuko used this room, but rather than Yuko's room being connected to the World
Tree's branch, it might be more accurate to say that a room connected to the
World Tree's branch was made into Yuko's room.
If it was a room for
important people, I would think it should be kept cleaner, but even though a
password and knowing the exact location were necessary, it was still an
unguarded route connecting the Magic Tower and the outside. The current
situation might be that they couldn't let ordinary maids and workers into the
room.
Even now, the room was
furnished enough that if someone suddenly came, a quick cleaning would make it
presentable. Opening the closet, I found several robes hanging there. The
jet-black robes were the ones I had seen in the city and when looking at the
tower from the outside; they were the uniforms of the Magic Tower. With these,
we might be able to walk around for a little while.
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