Shortly after leaving the city, I asked a soldier on a horse running side by side.
"How long can you go by horse?" "Hah ... huh. It's about a day from here."
The soldier's eyes, which responded with an ambiguous reply, turned to my feet.
You may have forgotten since a long time, but in the real world, I was an ordinary young man in the city. Of course, there must be no horse riding experience.
If you were just coming to this world, you would have asked a companion soldier to ride a horse with you,
Right now I have a technique that is suitable for long-distance travel, namely "Ice Board". With it, you can travel as fast as other soldiers running on horses.
As you've heard from the soldiers, the first day of departure is on a well-maintained road, so you can go quite fast. From there you will get off the horse and walk on foot.
A dozen Eldafoss soldiers and me were on the request to collect Rixir grass. They carry their own homes, medical supplies, and other emergency food, but they are relatively light-weight except for combat equipment.
The road ahead is rugged and not suitable for carrying heavy luggage. And the food for a while has to be procured locally.
Eldafoss soldiers are equipped with bow and arrow as their basic equipment. Even those with swords always carry short bows. For them, self-sufficiency in the forest is a necessary skill, or it is a natural thing.
For me, my motivation is different from always eating fresh, freshly cooked rice, rather than salty emergency food that is salted for storage. Very grateful.
"──Shirayasha is a great magician." "Well, now I'm eating. I'm confident."
The soldier's words contained a mix of surprise and impression. The atmosphere is similar for other soldiers.
Of course, I was very vigilant at first, but when I embarked on the "Ice Board" and started riding it, it started to change. He seemed to be much softer than the Eldaphos nobles.
Ask about it.
"Our king has commanded you to do an important job. To disdain you is synonymous with disdaining the king's life. I can't turn my life away. "" For that reason, I was vigilant at first. "" Did you notice? "
The soldiers laughed bitterly at my frank words.
"Our loyalty to the king is true, but it was a difficult story to accept the human race of the White House, but you are an extraordinarily powerful person I was able to understand enough in this short time.
Looking at the other soldiers, they nodded. At least you can get along with them while you are receiving this request.
(Well, not perfect.)
Despite some dissatisfaction, I didn't step on it and went on on the ice board.
The night of the first day, which was advanced only by horse. From tomorrow it will be a rugged road with no maintenance. Today it was just before that.
I had a request from the king, so I had a private tent rented out by several other soldiers for myself and spent a very comfortable night.
Although he did not encounter the monsters on the road today, he will step into dangerous areas within Eldaphos tomorrow. It is necessary to develop courage and face in perfect condition.
The soldiers had dinner using the flora and fauna they had hunted, and they said they only had to sleep.
But there was something I wanted to do before that.
After giving a word to the soldiers preparing to go to bed, I left the tent.
After a short walk into the woods and seeing that no one was around, I dropped off my pants.
"What is this. There is a sense of openness in this place?"
Nani: It's probably because they have the custom of using the toilet. It's been a while since I came to a different world, but outside I still feel strange.
Nani: And I've been crazy outside. I'm ashamed to say that. What will I do if my blood is biased, me?
My back was suddenly rushed when I was putting my selfish tsukkomi.
And.
── A chilling sound is heard from around the neck.
"Oops, as expected!"
I saw the "Yaba" extending from my neck reflected on the edge of my sight, and pulled my face.
I know it's coming, and even if I try to prevent it, it's really scary when it actually happens.
Looking at me from the end, it looks like a single arrow is sticking into my neck.
Of course, I'm pinning safely. "Reaction Ice Barrier" is installed everywhere in my clothes, forming a film of ice in response to an external attack and protecting me from lethality.
Arrowheads The flying was prevented by the ice barrier film.
The noise came from the direction of the arrow from the back of the forest, where visibility was inaccessible. It would have been completely unexpected to be prevented. An upsetting sign had reached here.
The sign then hurries away. No need to rush. I was convinced of where it was going.
I break the ice barrier when I grab a frozen arrow halfway.
Obviously, an arrow fired to kill me. Immediately before she was fired, she felt true killing.
I slowly put on my pants again and returned to the tent with a relaxed step.
"No homing ... what was the arrow done?"
A soldier near me approached me, but leaned at my arrow.
"Hey, a little."
I look inside the night camp and find a suspicious man.
One of the soldiers accompanying this request. He was the only man with a much more stiff expression, as other soldiers became friendly while traveling on horseback.
He sits down at the edge of me since I came back to the night camp and is down. I try to keep my eyes off me as much as possible.
I approached him and spoke casually.
"Good evening," "Good evening, how are you doing?"
I'm overtly upset.
For the time being, I presented a single arrow to my man.
"Do you remember this guy?" "... A very common arrow, is that?"
It was a half-expected answer, but it wouldn't help.
I sighed a little and folded my bow and arrow with both hands.
He embodied an ice mallet and slammed right beside the man.
"Huh, huh?"
For a moment, the man couldn't understand what had happened, but screamed enormously when he recognized the reality of a huge ice block slamming right beside him.
"Please answer honestly.
Short, short and cool, I muttered, and I lifted my hammer.
Looking at my eyes holding a hammer, the man's face stains despair. As far as I can tell, I was focused on killing the man in front of me, and my heart passed through to my eyes.
"Bye"
When I put my strength in both arms, I shook the hammer with all my might.
"Oh, I shot !!!!"
Just before the mallet reached the man's eyebrows, a scream resounded in the night camp. It was a confession of sin, not a shout of a sacrifice.
At that moment, I destroyed the hammer. When the ice mass hits a man, it shatters and shatters, and ice debris falls onto the man's body.
── Dosari.
The man was safe, but fell off with his white eyes peeled and blowing bubbles. It looks like she has fainted too much of fear. It was dim and difficult to understand, but the pants were moist because of the rough phase. I don't know.
"I wasn't afraid to answer honestly from the beginning."
When I was amazed, the soldiers who watched the situation stunned came running in a hurry.
Okay, I had no idea how to explain it.