Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! Volume 6 (eBook)
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7828-5 (ISBN)
Turtle trouble! It's been a year and a half since Sara's trip to the capital with Nelly and company. Sara's back in Hydrangea again, working as an apothecary with her friends and a young noble who calls himself her 'fiancé candidate.' One day, Nelly receives a report of something strange in the town's dungeon and goes to investigate. What she uncovers is a mysterious invisible shortcut in the dungeon's wall, through which monsters from lower floors are escaping to higher floors! The trouble only spreads when monsters begin to escape out into town as well. What's worse, one of these monsters is an enormous beast-a continental tortoise! It's time for Sara to return to her old home of Rosa...and a giant tortoise is coming along for the ride!
Turtle trouble! It's been a year and a half since Sara's trip to the capital with Nelly and company. Sara's back in Hydrangea again, working as an apothecary with her friends and a young noble who calls himself her "e;fiance candidate."e; One day, Nelly receives a report of something strange in the town's dungeon and goes to investigate. What she uncovers is a mysterious invisible shortcut in the dungeon's wall, through which monsters from lower floors are escaping to higher floors! The trouble only spreads when monsters begin to escape out into town as well. What's worse, one of these monsters is an enormous beast-a continental tortoise! It's time for Sara to return to her old home of Rosa...and a giant tortoise is coming along for the ride!
“Anyway, let’s eat. This golden trout quiche is good, and you’re still growing.”
“G-Golden trout...”
“You too, Mona, Heather.”
As the three of them trembled before the luxury fish dish, Sara put a hand to her chest proudly. “Don’t worry. I caught plenty of them on the Dark Mountain, so I’ve still got more. And—”
“Heeey! Sara!”
Sara turned around with a grin at the voice. “Allen! Kuntz!”
Allen and Kuntz were jogging down the path from the mansion toward them. They’d grown even more in the last two years, which did frustrate Sara a bit. Allen still had a rascally quality to him, but Kuntz was practically an adult at this point.
“Better leave the dungeon early if we’re gonna get some golden trout for it!”
“Man, I haven’t had golden trout in a while!”
To Sara’s relief, their comments, at least, were still plenty childish. She pursed her lips. “When was the last time I had a day off? You could have just come gathering with me instead of going into the dungeon like you always do.”
“Well, y’know...”
“Yeah.”
They exchanged a look and grinned. The two of them were tried-and-true Hunters of Hydrangea now.
“Huh? But you’re gathering even on your day off,” Noel interjected as if on reflex.
Allen gave him an impressed hum. “Looks like you’re fitting in, Noel.”
Maybe it was rude to talk that way to a noble he didn’t know very well, but Sara had to look away and grin to herself when she saw the little smirk on Allen’s face. I get it! I get it! She understood exactly how he felt. He was happy to have a junior just like she was.
Allen was fifteen just like her, but although you could register at the Guild at twelve, there weren’t many kids who actually did so. Noel wasn’t a Hunter, but as Sara’s junior, he was basically Allen’s junior too.
“Man, you really do look exactly like Liam,” Allen said out of nowhere.
Noel got a bit of a sullen look on his face. “Do I? My brothers and I all look alike. We take after our mother.”
Sara recalled Liam resembling his father, the prime minister, as well. So his father and mother must have both been attractive people.
“That’s good, isn’t it? I mean, Liam had a nice face, and he was popular, wasn’t he?”
“So I’m...”
Sara cocked her head, wondering how he would have ended that sentence.
“I mean, my brother’s really nice, and he’s popular with girls. I know that, it’s just that...the way he’s so pleasant all the time kinda rubs me the wrong way...”
Sara and Allen were completely taken aback by that.
“I mean, of course I love my brother, and I respect him,” Noel hurried to correct himself. “It’s just that one part of him that I don’t really like. So when someone tells me I look like him, I just...”
“Ha ha ha! I know exactly what you mean!”
This time, Sara almost shot up from the ground. Noel was family, so he could say there was something about Liam he didn’t like, but surely it was rude to agree with him.
“Allen! Don’t you think you should, err...”
“What?”
This blithe attitude Allen had had always been a comfort to Sara, but it could get them in trouble sometimes too.
Allen and Kuntz plopped down onto the ground next to Noel and Allen put his arm around the younger boy’s shoulder, peering into the basket in front of him. Noel froze for a moment, unused to Allen’s friendly attitude, but he quickly smiled bashfully.
Sara glanced over at Mona and Heather, smirking and whispering, “It’s like Allen’s Noel’s fiancé candidate.”
“Huh? You say something, Sara?”
“Nope.” Sara smiled.
“Now, let’s eat!” On her authority as the eldest, their lakeside lunch began with Mona’s rallying cry.
Sara thought back to the time they’d spent gathering together in the capital. Back then, Sara had thought of Mona like the president of a school club, and that hadn’t changed. She looked over each person around the basket in turn. Their little club had only been three people then, but they had a new student and two classmates join this year, so it had grown to six. That meant Sara wasn’t the newest member this year. It was fun to imagine things that way.
“I don’t even get to eat golden trout all that often. It’s delicious!” Noel cut up the quiche on his plate with a fork, while Allen ate with his hands beside him. It might have been impolite, but this was a picnic, so Sara didn’t fault him for it.
“We’re gonna finish all of it while you’re taking your time with your manners over there.”
“Well, I don’t want that...” Noel hesitantly picked up a piece of quiche with his hands and tossed it into his mouth. “Ish’s gud.” He chewed and swallowed. “I think it’s been about three years. I remember it ’cause everyone was making such a big deal about how long it’d been since they’d last been able to get ahold of some.”
Allen glanced over at Sara. “You think it was the stuff you sold to the Guild, Sara?”
“Oh, back then?”
It was a bit strange to think that the golden trout Vince had convinced her to sell to the Guild back then had ended up in Liam and his family’s stomachs.
“Sara, this is amazing!”
“What is this? What is this?!”
Mona and Heather were clearly enjoying themselves.
“See? There’s benefits to knowing an Invited, aren’t there?”
“There really are. We’re getting special treatment right now for sure.”
Sara was happy to hear it. Back when she’d told them she was one of the Invited, Mona had playfully told her to give them some special treatment down the line. Sara had found their lighthearted reactions incredibly comforting, and neither of them had changed in the year they’d been apart.
In addition to the golden trout, they had all sorts of tasty morsels whipped up by the chefs at Ri’s mansion. When they’d finished everything, they put away the empty dishes and took a little postmeal rest.
“We’re gonna do a little more gathering this afternoon. What about you?” Sara asked Allen and Kuntz.
Kuntz, who had been tossing stones in the lake, turned back to her. “We’re going back to the dungeon.”
“Again?”
They sure were passionate.
“I mean, yeah. Nelly and Chris are both down there.”
“Right. The dungeon’s been weird lately or something? She hasn’t been taking many breaks ’cause of that.”
“Nelly? Well, she is the vice guildmaster.”
“Kuntz, do you know what’s going on?”
At times like these, it was best to ask Kuntz. She could just ask Nelly herself, but there was a chance she wouldn’t get much out of her since Nelly was so bad at communicating.
“Well, there was the thing with the seven-colored swallowtails two years ago, right?”
“Yeah.”
Sara had gone into the dungeon herself to help out back then.
“The habitats of the monsters inside the dungeon have been slowly shifting since then, with monsters that are supposed to live on the lower floors coming up to higher ones. All the veteran Hunters are talking about how they can’t rely on their common sense training anymore.”
“Huh.”
Since Nelly and Allen were the standard Sara judged things by, she didn’t have a great sense of what monsters belonged where, but hellhounds, for instance, were supposed to be pretty strong, and they were showing up on the first floor now according to Kuntz.
“You’ve been to the dungeon, so you remember, right, Sara? Between floors, there’s a safe zone, and it’s safe because monsters can’t get in.”
“Yeah?”
“She doesn’t get it...” Kuntz muttered before turning his whole body to face Sara. “So how are the monsters getting to the higher floors? If they’re not just appearing out of thin air, then they’ve got to be getting past the safe zones in between floors, right? But they shouldn’t be able to do that.”
What if you were resting in a safe zone and a hellhound from a lower floor suddenly came out of nowhere? Sara finally understood the gravity of the situation.
“So the safe zones are weakening?”
“We don’t know. At least so far, no Hunters have come across any monsters inside a safe zone.”
So they knew something that shouldn’t be happening was happening, but they didn’t know why.
“It’s dangerous right now, so they want...” Kuntz paused there and smirked. “They want stronger Hunters to be in the dungeon as much as possible, culling monsters and observing the situation.”
When Sara had first met Kuntz, he was only a step or two above being a rookie, but with all that he’d experienced in the last few years, he’d built up quite a bit of confidence.
“I see. Pretty impressive.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
She left it at that for now. It was impressive. Allen and Kuntz were definitely the strongest of the younger Hunters in Hydrangea.
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.8.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! |
| Illustrationen | Kaya |
| Übersetzer | Kaya |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Schlagworte | camping and survival • female protagonist • found family • isekai light novel • lighthearted slow life • magic and monsters • money grind |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7183-7828-9 / 1718378289 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7183-7828-5 / 9781718378285 |
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