Dimension Wave: Volume 6 (eBook)

Aneko Yusagi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7084-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Even after the Merchant of Death disappeared, Kizuna and his friends continued preparing for the upcoming Dimension Wave. Under Kanade's guidance, Kizuna honed his combat Cooperation Skills, while Kanade's all-in defense build made the party stronger than ever.
But the event is far harsher than expected, and the players are pushed to the brink-that is, until Sheryl, determined to make up for her last failing, unveils a secret plan to turn the tides.
That night, they uncover a new skill brought by the update. But before anyone can celebrate, Kanade, L'Arc, and Therese mysteriously disappear. Certain it's just another event, Kizuna returns to his peaceful fishing-until he gets called upon for a different skill set.
Soon, he finds himself in the same frontier that took his sister. He takes up farming, mining, mentoring a disciple, and even keeping an exchange diary. Wait, whatever happened to his laid-back fishing life?

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Prologue: A Cozy Party

Alto was gone.

At first, I had assumed he’d gone out shopping or something; I was sure he’d check in with us sooner or later. But it never happened... Romina seemed to notice something strange when she tried to contact him.

So that greedy Merchant of Death’s finally shown his true colors and turned tail... Or so I thought. Turns out, that wasn’t what it was.

“Hey, Kizuna,” said Romina. “Could you try reaching out to Alto for me? I tried calling, but the response was strange.”

“Huh? Don’t tell me he finally snatched our assets and made for the hills.”

Honestly, it wouldn’t have been surprising to me.

“Or maybe he got into something speculative and took a huge hit?”

I can see it. It’ll be a nightmare if we end up having to sell the castle and island rights to pay off his debts. We’ll have to chase that man to the ends of hell, and I’ll be joining in on that execution dance this time. Right, we’ll have to drag him somewhere where we can spawn-kill over and over again.

“It’s entirely possible with that guy—I won’t deny it. He did have a hand in all sorts of things, and I’m not sure if you guys ever saw it, but he’d give ridiculously long lectures to anyone who wasn’t pulling their weight.”

No, I didn’t know about that one.

I did help out with the crab industry, but all I really contributed was labor, and honestly, I left most of it to the Pekkles.

“Just yesterday, he was griping over how the money in the treasury’s gone down by a bit and how our supplies are disappearing. Said he was going to track down the culprit. I figured he was going to ask you about it today.”

When you really get down to it, I don’t know what Alto’s been doing these days. It sounds like there’s so much money and supplies flowing he can’t even keep track of it... But is that really all right?

“That said... He had me do a few checks before he vanished, so I have a grasp on things. Nothing’s gone wrong with the castle treasury. The warehouse, on the other hand... Well, it sees a ton of traffic, so I couldn’t keep an eye on everything.”

To summarize, the moment Alto saw his calculations weren’t adding up, he had Romina double-check for him. The money hadn’t gone down since then. If this was supposed to be some criminal vanishing act, he would have taken the money.

Since he didn’t, it was natural to assume it was something else.

“Have you gotten any strange invoices lately?”

“None. We just can’t reach him, and only him.”

Is he finally showing his true colors?

“Got it. Hey, Alto.”

With little choice in the matter, I sent Alto a private chat request.

“Error. The person you are trying to contact has either turned off their device or is in an area without reception.”

Umm, I’m getting déjà vu here.

That said, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the wording was a little different from what I remembered. Something was different, but it had been so long that I could hardly remember the finer details.

Regardless, back when I was trapped on Cal Mira, it was something like this.

Right, the “this individual” part seemed new to me...

“Is something wrong?”

Shouko walked up to me as I was chatting with Romina.

“Yeah, Romina opened up a chat with me because she can’t find Alto anywhere, so I tried giving him a call.”

“Hmm?”

Taking a page out of my book, Shouko sent a private chat request of her own and got the same message back.

“It’s similar to the message I got when I tried to contact you back when you were trapped on Cal Mira.”

“Right?”

“So it’s the same for you guys, huh...”

Had the man been summoned somewhere, just like I had? Just when things were getting hectic with the next wave knocking on our door? Not that I had any right to complain about that, I’d summoned people at inconvenient times myself.

“What’s it like if you’re on someone’s block list?”

“I have never been blocked myself so I do not have firsthand experience, but supposedly, the message says, ‘You cannot contact this recipient at this time.’”

Sounds like a generic block message to me.

But what I saw when I tried with Alto was different. For him, it was that he had “turned off his device or was in an area without reception.” If he’d just hightailed it after blocking anyone and everyone, then something wasn’t adding up.

“His business partners have been blowing up my inbox, and none of them know where he is. I’ve been handling them instead.”

Well, running a smithy had a business side to it, so Romina could fill in to some extent.

“What about the Pekkle-o-meter?”

Any of the guild’s Pekkles that hadn’t been assigned to work under individual players could be managed through the Pekkle-o-meter. The devices came in limited numbers, and surely Alto had treasured his.

“I found the one Alto carried around tucked away in the castle storehouse.”

He even left the Pekkle-o-meter behind?

I was growing more and more concerned.

“Just where did he go—or rather, where was he summoned to...?”

“Going off the situation, he was probably caught up in some event or other.”

“How troublesome...”

“As long as his businesses didn’t go under... Romina, can you handle it for now?”

“Sure thing. I’m no Alto, and I can’t spread myself that thin, but I’ll do what I can to keep things afloat.”

When all was said and done, we had no way of contacting Alto. I went ahead and relayed the news to everyone.

“Sir Alto had quite the network,” said Yamikage. “I daresay, I imagine his friend list was a lengthy one too.”

“If he was summoned to a settlement for his skills, then our Alto is in real high demand, huh?” Tsumugi added.

Pretty much... He’s a pretty reliable merchant, in that sense. But does that mean he’s going to be putting me on the scales against whoever the new guy is, next time we meet? Seeing who he’s going to use? Knowing Alto... Yeah, no worries; he’ll probably choose both of us. He’s a greedy merchant, after all.

“This is how everyone disappeared, right?” Kanade asked.

Everyone nodded.

“I had a rough time, getting ignored, I daresay.”

“I heard rumors about that,” said Therese. “About poor Yammy. There were people who wouldn’t shut up about calling her the Reaper. L’Arc was grumbling about it.”

Oh, them... Shouko’s former party members. I hadn’t seen them around since the last time we kicked them out, so I didn’t know what happened to them. Therese must have been taking care of Yamikage along with L’Arc.

“Such disgraceful people,” Shouko concluded.

“Well...” Therese replied. “Let’s pray that they’re repenting, wherever they are.”

“Anyway, the bottom line is that Alto won’t be around. For now...all we can do is prepare to overcome the wave.”

It felt like we’d just been doing whatever we pleased for a while now, but our preparations had actually come a long way. We’d already cleared out the old hunting grounds and raised our Energy cap while we were at it; we probably wouldn’t have to worry about that for a while.

If the wave wasn’t coming, we’d be focusing on Mikakage’s quests right around now.

“It should hit tomorrow or the day after. Alto’s not around, but we’ll get through it!”

At my big sister’s rallying cry, we all shouted back a hearty “Yeah!”

Then, “Ah,” Therese interrupted. “I got a call from L’Arc. We’re joining a different party this time.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. L’Arc’s got to pull his weight, or he’ll be in hot water once we get back to real life. Relationships sure are a hassle. Aaah... I wanted to see all the fun events with Kizzy.”

“Yeah, I don’t see myself running into one of those anytime soon. Just forget about it and go.”

“Fiiine. See you later. Let’s play again sometime.”

And with that, we saw Therese off.

†

“Sheryl, are you in?”

I shouted into the workshop that she’d holed herself in for days. Sheryl lifted her head, registered my presence, raised a hand, and put her work on hold before walking over.

“Welcome back.”

“Glad to be back. Did you hear anything from Romina?”

Romina had said she’d tell Sheryl, but I asked to make sure.

“Yeah,” she nodded. “Revenge.”

“You sound motivated, at least.”

She hadn’t left the workshop these past few days, instead opting to grind out all the crafting skills that had fallen behind. But despite all that nonstop grind work, it was good to know she was still up for a fight.

“Have you reached a good point in your work?”

“Uh-huh... Doing some prep.”

...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Dimension Wave
• Illustrationen: Ryo Ueda
• Übersetzer: Roy Nukia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: gender-bend • laid back • Light Novel • Shield Hero (AU) • Siblings • Slice of Life • vrmmo
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7084-9 / 1718370849
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7084-5 / 9781718370845