CH 279

“We’re now five members going to the deep woods.”

“Yes, that’s right. We have a few more things to prepare.”

When Sophie and I were alone at night, I asked her if she had any objection to Carina’s participation, but she seemed okay with it.

“We’ll leave the day after tomorrow.”

“I understand.”

Tomorrow we will see Bequa and the others off. The day after tomorrow, we will prepare what we need. Then we will leave the day after tomorrow.

“Good night.”

“Good night.”

With that, I went to sleep. The day after tomorrow, I’m going to be busy…

“I still want to go, too…..”

“Don’t worry about it.”

Bequa said with a frustrated look on his face even as he faced the carriage back to his country.

“By the way, can I ask you what you’re going to do?”

“No problem. What I’m going to do is prepare for the tournament to determine the new king.”

To prepare for it, Bequa and Urza, who are men of royalty, have to return to their country.

“Do you think you can win?”

“There are stronger guys than me, but they won’t participate, so I think I can win.”

“Eh?”

The ones who are stronger than Bequa, by the way, are the beastmen from the families that have been the king’s guards for generations. The current king’s guards are said to be stronger than Bequa.

“No, I thought the strongest one would be the king…?”

”Because no matter how strong he is, he can’t become king if he doesn’t enter the tournament.”

It seems that even the beastmen, as expected, do not make a person king who does not have a strong will to become king and lead the country, no matter how strong he is.

“Yes, I’ll leave this with you, Zeros.”

“Oh? A crystal?”

Some kind of round, translucent crystal was given to me by Bequa.

“Take it out of the magic ring for ten minutes every three days or so, and If you need anything, you can communicate with it and talk to me.”

“What? You’re going to give me that?”

This is a superior version of the magic ring that Sophie and I took with us when we went to the deep forest. Moreover, being able to talk to each other would be quite valuable. It would be at the level of only a few in the country.

“I’d like to join you guys as soon as the preparations for the tournament are finished.”

“I see…that’s your goal. I understand. I’ll take good care of it.”

“Thanks.”

I put the magic tool in the magic ring. I must be careful not to break it.

“See you later, Zeros! I’ll win this time! Carina! You don’t have to be a good girl! You can bother Zeros as much as you want, absorb all kinds of things, and become stronger!”

“Yes!”

“Thank you, everyone! Good luck, Carina!”

“Yes!”

Thus, the carriage carrying Bequa and the others left the royal capital.

“See you all tomorrow at the training grounds.”

“Nn.”

“I know.”

“Okay.”

And then we made plans for tomorrow, and then we broke up, even though it was still a little early today.

“Oh, by the way, how are we going to get to the deep forest?”

I asked Sophie. Last time it was just me and Sophie, so we were able to go with transition. But this time there were five of us. Sophie’s transfer would not be able to carry us all at once.

“Can’t you use your spirit magic to transfer us?”

“Wait a minute.”

“Yes.”

I decided to check with Yug to see if it was possible.

“Yug, can you hear me? Is it possible? 』

“I think we can do it with five people at the same time, but it’s not very efficient. Considering the distance, I think 1km is the limit. 』

“Thank you.”

“of course—.”

I told Sophie exactly what Yug had said.

“The distance is limited, but it’s good that all of us can be transferred at the same time. If that’s the case, we can run to the deep forest area and then transfer.”

“Hmm? Running?”

“Yes. If we rent a carriage, it would be unnatural to ask them to drop us off suddenly in the middle of nowhere. I don’t want it to be known that I entered the deep forest illegally because of that. Also, even if we buy a carriage, there’s no place to put it. It would be inconvenient to leave it in the deep forest and have one or more people escorting it at all times. Also, if we put it somewhere that’s not in the deep forest, we cannot take care of the horses. Buying a carriage for disposable use is inefficient.”

“I certainly understand what you mean, but running to get there…. Well, I guess we’ll get there faster than by horse-drawn carriage.”

And the next day the five of us went shopping. I had heard in a previous life that shopping for girls is a long process, but it wasn’t. We were buying things pompously and immediately, even if we didn’t know if we really needed it. And because there was no hesitation, it was quick. That’s why we bought so many things.

“Then we will meet at the south gate tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m.”

And after we finished buying what we needed, we broke up.

And we’re off to the deep forest tomorrow.