Dimension Wave: Volume 5 (eBook)

Aneko Yusagi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7082-1 (ISBN)

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With the Demon Lord Invasion event behind them, Kizuna and his friends can finally catch a break. Surely things will be peaceful for a while after such a major event. And so, as they wait for the next update and everything it'll bring, it's the perfect time to clear out some unfinished quests and side content. Between cooking, fossil excavation, checking the public square, and spending time with friends, there is no shortage of fun things to experience. All seems to be going well...until a certain something catches Kizuna's eye. Kanade-his sister in real life-is seen entering a worn-down tent, looking much worse for wear than when he left. While Kizuna and his comrades have been off enjoying their adventure, what kind of situation has Kanade been stuck in...? Could she be...homeless?!

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Prologue: Of Boats and Bobs

The day after the Demon Lord’s invasion. As the sun rose and the morning mist lingered in the air, we set off into the wetlands. Despite how that may sound, it wasn’t all a complete slog thanks to the wooden bridges that spanned various places.

“Last night, I searched for all the quests we could accept in town,” Shouko said. “There are quests to defeat fifty Giant Purple Toads and fifty Big Brown Slugs, both of which I assume inhabit these wetlands. There is also one requiring us to defeat five unidentified large monsters said to dwell here.”

“Boss monsters, I daresay,” Yamikage surmised.

Tsumugi added, “It looks like there’s a mine here too.”

“Yeah,” I said, “there was one in the last place too. We’d better go and check if the materials we can get here are any different.”

“Hey, I like quests as much as the next guy, but blatant fetch quests don’t really do it for me,” muttered L’Arc.

“Right? I’d love to do something a little more interesting,” said Therese.

It was all rather uninteresting for quest lovers like L’Arc and Therese. That probably explained why they kept trying to stick to me—seeing as I always seemed to find the strange ones.

“We might as well hunt some other monsters while we’re at it,” I concluded.

“Oh, but there was a perfect one for you, little lady. You should go have some fun with it.”

“Did you find something interesting?”

“There was a guy saying he wanted someone to go fish up ten whitespotted char.”

“Char, huh.”

What did char look like again...? I thought over it for a moment. It wasn’t like I was actually a fisherman in real life. I knew all the common ones by heart, but sometimes I couldn’t remember which fish was which by name alone.

“I daresay,” said Yamikage, “that’s just what you wanted, milord, since you were so adamant on catching salmon.”

“Why’s that?”

“Whitespotted char are part of the Salmonidae family, I daresay.”

Oh, so in short, they’re related to the salmon I’ve been searching for!

“If I am remembering right, I daresay they put up a good fight,” she went on. “They’re apparently popular in sport fishing.”

Yamikage was surprisingly knowledgeable, even when it came to fish I knew barely anything about.

“I daresay I’ve eaten one before. Compared to salmon, it was a tad watery.”

Hmm...that’s good to know.

“So you already found your first lead on that salmon, huh?”

“It’s just in the same family, but it’s a start.”

On a sidenote, while preparing salmon as sashimi or something raw like that, it’s highly recommended to properly handle it for parasites. Fortunately, Dimension Wave didn’t seem to have parasites or anything of the sort, but if you went out of your way to take proper precautions anyway, the success rate of a dish still went up. You couldn’t just slice up any fish, plate it, and call it sashimi. There was more to it than that.

“Aight, I’ll do my best to fish up some whitespotted char. I’ll catch a whole bunch and whip up some char meunière. How’s that sound?”

“Sounds like a gourmand’s dream. I’m counting on you, Therese.”

“Yeah, yeah. It’s a shame we don’t have any alcohol to go with it.”

“Okay! Now we’ve got an excuse to get bro fishing! Let’s do this!”

And so, we used the wooden bridges to make our way across the wetland.

“The footing here is worse than I thought,” said Shouko.

I nodded. “We’ll need boats to reach the deeper places.”

We were using our mount pets to move around for mobility’s sake. Perhaps it was to be expected, but it quickly became evident that Yamikage’s ride was amphibious.

How enviable.

Brave Pekkle’s mount was in a similar position—a white chick with pink-tipped feathers that glided elegantly along the water’s surface. Would it have been rude to point out that he didn’t even need it? I mean, he was a Pekkle. He could swim.

As for mine...maybe I’d have better luck if I just switched over to the small boat, I thought as I rifled through my inventory...

“Huh? My mount can equip a boat.”

Just as I was about to pull the boat out of my inventory, that shield-shaped “equip” icon on my Library Rabbit mount lit up. That had to mean it could equip it.

“It’s a pet, but it can equip a boat?”

I tried equipping the boat to it just to see what would happen. And then, the small boat appeared right in front of my Library Rabbit and it hopped aboard. Its staff...was replaced by a paddle.

“A ride riding a ride,” L’Arc chuckled. “He’s really looking the part, at least.”

“You’ve got a perfect ferryman!” said Therese.

I was struck speechless. How exactly am I supposed to react to this?

“So he holds you in one hand and rows with the other, I daresay.”

“Yeah...looks like it.”

What a surreal setup. Let’s try moving around a bit.

Controlling it was the same as on land—I just had to concentrate on where I wanted to go, and my mount would row me there with the paddle. It was nice that I didn’t have to move it myself. And strangely, I felt pretty balanced.

The speed seemed to be around the same as Yamikage’s kappa mount.

“Is this the special ability of your pet, milord?”

“Hard to say.”

Incidentally, Tsumugi’s dog mount could handle the water to some extent and was able to cross the marshes with a doggy paddle.

As for Sheryl’s otter... Well, it could swim, obviously. It seemed to move just as well on water as on land, and with the way Sheryl was sitting on its back, she probably couldn’t even feel a difference. On the other hand, Shouko’s cat, L’Arc’s horse, and Therese’s mole couldn’t enter the water at all.

“There seems to be quite a bit of variation,” I said.

“Well, maybe they can hop in a boat like yours, bro?”

“Yes, perhaps,” said Shouko. “Sheryl, would you mind helping us with that later?”

“Okay.”

Sheryl happily agreed. We’ll have to gather the materials after this.

Just as we were trying out a few things, there was a heavy rustling...something large was crawling toward us through the morning mist.

“Looks like it’s monster time.”

“I shall take the lead! Let’s start with a Drain, I daresay!”

Yamikage angled herself at whatever it was and fired off her Drain—a spell she’d been using less frequently as of late. A satisfying, meaty sound filled the air as the spell hit true.

I followed it up with a swing of my fishing rod, hurling my lure at it. The lure soon struck and caught nicely.

Though we hadn’t been able to make it out at first, the monster that emerged turned out to be a Big Brown Slug...a monster that, well, looked like a giant slug.

“You’re on!” I psyched myself up.

“Here I come!” Shouko declared as she rushed out.

“Uh-huh...” Sheryl capped it off.

Before long, everyone had rushed out to attack the monster.

Since we had crossed through a new checkpoint, this monster was a bit tougher than those in the previous region. However, everyone had pretty much gotten the hang of combat, and they were well equipped. Add their high proficiencies to that, and they were able to dispatch the Big Brown Slug without any difficulty.

The battle lasted only a few minutes.

“Just forty-nine to go,” I said.

“So it seems,” Shouko replied. “And then, we’ll have to deal with the Giant Purple Toads too—let’s take care of this quickly.”

“All right! Let’s make sure this counts toward the total.”

“I wouldn’t mind if more came at us, I daresay.”

“Let’s finish up and observe the little lady.”

“Yeah!”

“You don’t need to watch over me. And if you want to finish up here, should I trigger a Fever?”

If I used my Fever Lure, it would guarantee a feeding frenzy.

“I’m good with that,” said L’Arc.

“Me too!” Therese concurred.

“We don’t have to go that far! Don’t just go along with those two, I daresay.”

All right, all right. So that idea’s been rejected.

“As a sidenote... I guess we’re all fine with slugs and frogs, huh?”

From my experience, most girls didn’t like those sorts of creatures, but Shouko and Yamikage seemed perfectly fine. Tsumugi? She was my real sister. I already knew she could stand pretty much anything that wasn’t the bug that dealt psychic damage.

“’Twas just a big slug, I daresay. Frogs don’t bother me either.”

Ah, right, she did say she’d prefer to have one of those as a mount instead of what she got. Maybe she sees them as ninja summons.

“I don’t particularly dislike them either,” said Shouko. “Honestly, you won’t get far in battle if...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Dimension Wave
• Illustrationen: Aneko Yusagi
• Übersetzer: Aneko Yusagi
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Fishing • gender-bend • laid back • Light Novel • Siblings • Slice of Life • vrmmo
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7082-2 / 1718370822
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7082-1 / 9781718370821