To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 8 (eBook)

Itsuki Mizuho (Autor)

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2023
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8811-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The orphans Mary and Metea want to join Nao's party as adventurers, so Nao and his friends decide to bring them along and explore a dungeon so that they can gain first-hand experience. However, although it's their first time embarking on such an adventure, the young sisters display an unexpected form of strength. The dungeon that they explore is a strange and mysterious one in which the environment changes with each floor. The bond between the members of the Meikyo Shisui party, both old and new, will be put to the test!

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Prologue

“Nyan, nyan, nyan!”

Metea seemed quite happy as she waved her tail in time with the bumps and jolts of our horse-drawn carriage. She was sitting next to me in the coach box, and periodically she leaned forward to look at her surroundings. There was nothing wrong with her being full of curiosity, but her movements made me feel a bit uneasy, so I picked her up in my arms and set her on my lap, then wrapped one of my arms around her waist to make sure she wouldn’t fall off.

“You sure seem happy, Metea,” I said.

“Yeah! It’s my first time seeing stuff outside of town!” Metea was beaming.

I breathed a sigh of relief. “I see. Well, I’m glad that the weather is good today.”

In spite of Metea’s good mood, I still felt a bit vexed about recent events as I looked up at the sky. The authorities had successfully put an end to the chaos that the Holy Satomi Sect had caused in Kelg, but the cult had left a lot of tragedies in its wake, including the death of Mary and Metea’s dad. The sisters could have entered an orphanage, but they had decided to tag along with my party even though that meant leaving Kelg. As a result, we’d taken the sisters with us on our horse-drawn carriage, but there was another destination that we had to visit before we could return home. As a courtesy, we had presented ourselves at the Adventurers’ Guild in Kelg to inform the branch master that we were departing. As Diola-san had predicted, the branch master had tried to convince us to stay, but we’d firmly declined his offer. Luckily for us, he seemed to understand the reasoning behind our refusal to a certain extent, so he’d dropped the subject right away. However, he did request that we instead accept a quest to meet Viscount Nernas at Pining, the capital city of the viscounty.

Apparently the reason my party had been offered this quest was that we’d accomplished a lot as adventurers. We had been key to the successful counteroffensive against the last redoubt of the Holy Satomi Sect, and we were also the ones who had captured Satomi herself. On top of that, we had retrieved the family heirloom sword belonging to the House of Nernas. According to the branch master, the viscount wanted to meet us in person at least once, so he had issued a quest to the Adventurers’ Guild. Adventurers enjoyed a lot of freedom, so we technically could have ignored the quest, but only a pack of fools would go out of their way to antagonize both the guild and the lord of the domain that they lived in. The guild had also offered to let us rent a horse-drawn carriage on the cheap, so we had accepted the quest without any hesitation.

It was probably Metea’s first time riding in a horse-drawn carriage, so I decided I should check if she was getting motion sick. “Do you feel uncomfortable or need to go to the bathroom, Metea?”

“I’m having a great time!” Metea responded in a high-spirited voice.

However, in response to her younger sister’s voice, Mary poked her head out from the interior of the carriage.

“Met, make sure you don’t cause any trouble for Nao-san, okay?”

The sisters were actually the main reason we had decided to travel in a carriage. After a few days of recuperation, they were able to get around just fine—apparently beastfolk could recover from injuries very rapidly as long as they had a lot of food—but it was a fact that they had suffered some serious injuries, especially Mary, who had lost multiple toes. Her toes were showing some signs of recovery thanks to Haruka and Natsuki’s magic, but it wouldn’t have been a good idea to make her walk long distances until her feet were fully healed.

“Don’t worry, I’m being a good girl!” Metea waved her hands energetically as though to whisk away her sister’s concerns, but...

“Really? Isn’t she acting a bit too wild?” Mary asked, directing a dubious expression at my arm, which was wrapped around Metea’s waist; I was struggling to keep a hold on her.

“Ha ha, it’s fine,” I said. “What about you, Mary? Do you feel okay? Feel free to speak up if something is the matter.”

“Thank you very much, but I’m okay,” said Mary. “You provided us with new clothes, and they feel very comfortable...”

“I’m happy that I get to wear clothes that are pretty and clean!” Metea flapped her sleeves happily.

“Is it really okay for us to have these?” Mary asked. She smiled but seemed slightly awkward as she touched the fabric of her own clothes. “It’s my first time wearing clothes that aren’t secondhand...”

Yuki poked her head out of the carriage beside Mary to offer some words of encouragement. “Don’t worry, we sewed those clothes ourselves, so they didn’t really cost us any money!”

Yuki was the one who had put the most effort into making our clothes, so her words carried a lot of weight.

Haruka also poked her head out to chime in. “The two of you are going to be traveling with us, so it would actually be a problem if we didn’t provide you with proper clothes. On that note, feel free to tell us if anything’s the matter, okay?”

“I can’t think of anything right now!” Metea exclaimed. “Oh, um, actually, I feel a bit hungry, so...”

Mary puffed her cheeks up. “O-Oh, Met, please!”

Haruka laughed lightly. “Tee hee, we don’t mind. It’s better for us if you voice your thoughts freely like this. We’ll let the two of you know if and when we want you to be patient for a bit, but for now, let’s take a break and eat lunch. Nao, stop the carriage when you find a good place.”

“Sure,” I said.

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Not too long after my exchange with Haruka, we stopped our carriage a short distance from the highway and began preparations for lunch. We laid picnic blankets out on the ground, lined up some food we’d been storing in our magic bags, and gave our horses water and fodder. There was no need for us to cook anything here, so we split up the work among everyone in our party and finished our preparations in a few minutes.

“All right, it’s time to eat,” said Haruka.

“Okay,” said Mary. “Met, get back here!”

“Okay!”

Metea was squatting down and observing something on the ground a ways away from us, but she hustled over after Mary called out to her. She sat down next to me, and I used a wet towel to wipe her hands off. The Purification spell would have been better, but for some reason, I felt like a wet towel would probably make her feel better. That was probably just a fixed idea of mine owing to my Japanese background.

“Thanks!” said Metea. “Can I eat now?”

“Yeah, feel free to dig in,” I said.

“Yay! Mm, there’s a lot of meat today as well! I’m so happy!”

Metea was the first one to grab for the sandwiches. We’d made these sandwiches to cater to Touya’s tastes, so the one Metea picked up was as big as her face, but she happily devoured it.

“Met! You should wait for—”

Mary raised her voice as if she was going to scold her younger sister, but Haruka cut her short and patted her head, smiling gently. “It’s fine. Feel free to start eating whatever you want as well, Mary.”

“...Um, okay,” said Mary. “Thank you very much.”

Mary was a bit more hesitant and reserved than Metea, but she chose the same kind of sandwich her younger sister had, devoured it in exactly the same way, and then grinned.

“Hmm. Those sandwiches are a bit too heavy for me. I’d like something lighter,” I said. “Let’s see...”

“What about something like this, Nao-kun? It’s delicious,” said Natsuki.

Since I was vacillating about what to eat, Natsuki recommended a sandwich that was half the size of the ones Mary and Metea were eating—in terms of both the bread and meat—so I took it from her and bit into it.

“Thanks,” I said. “Mm, yeah, it is delicious.”

Natsuki smiled. She was eating the same type of sandwich that she had just recommended to me. Rather, Touya and the sisters were the only ones eating those huge sandwiches. I wouldn’t have minded trying those right after some strenuous physical exercise, but they were a bit too heavy for an ordinary lunch.

“By the way, Mary, you two belong to the cat subspecies of beastfolk, right?” Yuki asked.

“Yes, that’s what our dad told us,” Mary replied. “It’s not something I’ve really thought about very often before, though.”

There probably wasn’t any very deep meaning behind Yuki’s question, and Mary had answered just as casually, but Touya had a slightly confused expression on his face.

“I see,” said Yuki. “Your striped tail is really cute.”

“O-Oh, thank you for the praise,” said Mary. “I am proud of my tail, so...” She stroked it, although actually, she seemed a little bit embarrassed.

I smiled when I saw that, but I was a bit curious about the expression I had seen on Touya’s face, especially since he hadn’t said anything, so I whispered, “Touya, is there something that bothers you about what you just heard?”

“Nah, it’s nothing too important, but my Appraisal skill actually displays her subspecies as tiger, not cat.”

“...Really?”

“Yeah,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2023
• Reihe/Serie: To Another World... with Land Mines!
• Reihe/Serie: To Another World... with Land Mines!
• Illustrationen: Itsuki Mizuho
• Übersetzer: Itsuki Mizuho
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: childhood friend • Game elements • Isekai • Light Novel • Magic • Reincarnation • Survival
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8811-X / 171838811X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8811-6 / 9781718388116