116 – Out of Car
“… Heard?”
“Yeah… Not really. I heard the numbers.”
A number?
It’s not like the villains were talking in binary,
What number did you hear?
“What number is it?
“That.. X132.. Y12..Z 1.”
“…Wait.”
The identity of the number that Eris heard is,
The coordinates were right there.
“Eris, do you remember what the conversation about that number was about?”
“That… I said I had to move to this place. Otherwise something would close soon…
The person in charge said that he would know, and just skipped it, but… It seemed like something important.”
In order to prevent mental exhaustion for a long time,
I must have kept my sanity by repeating over and over again something that came into my ears.
Anyway, it was information that could be of great help now.
“Grade.”
“… I’m checking it now.”
I turned my head.
Grade opened the map of Merveus that Rem-san had given him.
I was following the coordinates Eris called with my eyes.
And where Grade’s finger finally stopped?
“It’s a mountain.”
Let alone a smart watch,
There are no buildings or place names on the map that Mr. Rem gave you.
It was a mountain that was truly nature itself.
But rather, it’s the rarer the mountain.
“… It’s a premonition of a big fish.”
Precious hemp is hidden.
If the work of ‘baptism’ was possible there,
He must have been an executive of a fairly high position.
Then the value of these unknown coordinates would be high,
At the same time, the danger of the expedition will also increase.
Knowing that fact, Grade secretly looked at me.
“What are you going to do?”
What can I do?
“I have to leave tomorrow.”
The current aspect of the war was going fast,
The time given to us was also tight.
An expedition prepared to take risks in the first place.
“…I have a favor to ask Charlie.”
As much as I came out to do anything,
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**
The next morning.
After waking up early in the morning and kicking Charlie’s chair, who was being treated with utmost care by the maid,
I went back to my room.
-Square.
Grade was using a dagger to cut off Eris’ head.
“…Oh. You cut well?”
“I used to cut Kirna’s bangs often… So I shouldn’t move?”
“Ah…Yes! Thank you!”
To Eris, who cut off her damaged hair and had short hair that barely reached her shoulders,
I handed over the camouflage artifact I just ripped off from Charlie.
“…What is this?”
“Similar to the one Grade is wearing. A camouflage lens.”
“Wow…!”
“As long as the place is Merveus. Just hiding the red eyes will help to some extent.”
Eris was surprised when she saw my golden eyes,
I took someone else’s share just in case.
Looking at the mirror wearing lenses that felt a little foreign body like that.
“Oh.”
“Wow. You look like a human?”
In the first place, since vampires have only red hair and pale skin, there is no difference between them and humans.
It was like seeing a fair-skinned human who hadn’t been outside for a while.
‘…’
Black eyes reflected through the mirror.
‘It’s been a while.’
As much as I’ve lived with black eyes for decades,
It’s rather a landscape you should be familiar with.
“…Awkward.”
“hahahaha. That’s because it was originally red.”
“That’s right…”
Even Seong Jin-ha, who put the lenses in her eyes with a dissatisfied expression from the side, finished wearing them.
Black hair and black eyes with a slight brown tint.
That must have been Seong Jin-ha before accepting Jinjo’s blood.
“… Is it?”
I wonder if Seong Jin-ha himself is quite concerned,
I’ve been staring at the mirror for a while now.
By the way.
“Huh?”
“Elena. Why?”
“…My eye color doesn’t change?”
I looked at Elena in the direction the sound came from.
“It’s real.”
Elena was looking at me with her bright golden eyes squinting.
“…What is it? Maybe it doesn’t apply to elves?”
“It can’t be.”
…No way.
Looking at the mirror, I blew mana into her eyes.
‘Leah.’
Activation of Illusion Eye.
Then, yellow ripples appeared in the eyes that had turned black.
-Paaah!
Soon after that, brilliant golden mana is scattered.
“… This. I guess you can’t even hide mana?”
After listening to my words, Seong Jin-ha should immediately activate Blood Ghost Art.
– Huung!
A dark red haze rose around Seong Jin-ha’s eyes.
… I tried to blackmail Charlie and get him ripped off, but…
This is how it was.
“… I can’t help it.”
What didn’t apply to Elena was,
It’s probably because Elena’s golden eyes have a mana organ, the symbol of the High Elves, applied to them.
“Let’s wear a robe.”
“I guess so.”
“Still. You couldn’t find a robe with a perception-damping spell, right?”
“It can’t be helped. Artifacts like that are usually adult sized.”
It’s too big for a 14-year-old Eris to wear.
So she had no choice but to bring the infant mage’s robe.
‘…I don’t know why Charlie has a baby wizard robe.’
Because I don’t really want to know,
She quietly put the grove on Eris with her bobbed hair.
“Ah..! That. Thank you!”
Did you take a shower with Elena before cutting her hair?
With the smell of high-quality shampoo, it smells like a child’s sweet flesh.
“Come on. This is just in case.”
Finally, to be seen as a dwarf,
It was finished by attaching a small dagger or memorization to the inside of the robe.
“So you’re leaving right away?”
“Uh. This might be the last time we’ll have a proper meal or maintenance, so haven’t we all forgotten anything?”
– Nod.
I had already packed a sumptuous breakfast and a backpack of any possible preserves.
‘Then now…’
It was time to depart for the unidentified coordinates.
**
I came out of her mansion while being greeted by Charlie, who was wearing a cast on one hand and had a strangely happy expression on her face.
It’s been about 2 hours since we started riding on a wagon to a remote mountain road.
-Purruleung!!
-… Has arrived.
Out of the luxurious wagon,
It must have rained all night, so the mountain road on the floor was quite damp and greeted us.
“… Good job. Let’s go now.”
“Then excuse me.”
-Hee hee hee!!!
As the carriage led by the coachman Charlie had attached to it returned to the tumultuous road,
Despite the sun rising, they were placed in a gloomy forest.
“Grade.”
“…Maybe something like this?”
Grade, who looked at the smart watch and the map in turns,
I pointed my finger at a location slightly away from the target point.
But…
“Isn’t this area all flat?”
“… It wasn’t flat on the map.”
Except for the luxuriant trees around,
It was unbelievably flat for a mountain road.
Actually, it’s located on the outskirts, right?
It wasn’t even that far from the borders of Merveus.
Just then.
“…Rye.”
I turned my head at the quiet voice,
Elena was looking somewhere.
“Helena?”
“… The gate.”
“What?”
Activate the fantasy eye immediately at Elena’s words.
– Ugh!!!
‘…Crazy.’
All nearby mana waves,
It was swirling dizzy as if it was being sucked somewhere.
A scene as if a helicopter had landed on a playground with millions of threads.
I walked out as if possessed by something along the scenery where the threads were being sucked.
Five minutes like that.
10 Minutes…
Let’s walk for 15 minutes to experience the experience.
“… What is this?”
– Ugh!!!
-Ugh!!
– Ugh!!!
A huge portal,
There is a gate.
It was vibrating in a large clearing where all the surrounding trees had been cut down.
‘Gate induction device.’
Dimension’s main technique that succeeded in taking out part of the gear nose.
In an empty lot the size of a huge soccer field,
There were scattered traces of someone’s life, such as tents and scattered boxes.
“… At this amount, there must be at least a thousand people.”
“A thousand people?!”
“It depends on the length of time I spent there… But the amount of food is too small for the size of the tent.
I think I went back after being on a trial for a while.”
A large-scale creature emerged from the gate,
I settled for lodging here.
As if that alone was quite a shock,
The children all froze at the giant gate.
“…”
Except Seong Jin-ha and me.
-Jerebuck.
Seong Jin-ha, who had been looking at the gate without saying anything, moved her steps.
Toward the third gate nearest you.
“… Jinha?!”
“It’s dangerous..!! I don’t know what kind of monster there is!”
But.
Here, I also slowly walked out following Seong Jin-ha.
“…Let’s go.”
I,
I knew where this gate led.
Even Elena and Grade, who were embarrassed at first,
Soon, holding Eris’s hand tightly, he cautiously followed me.
– It’s okay.
Soggy!
Only the sound of ironclad boots stepping on the rain-soaked ground can be heard.
‘… I’ll have to change my clothes first.’
Step by step,
As soon as I took a step, I reached the gate.
-Zeeing!!!
Let’s take it one step further,
With a bit of dizziness, the scenery in front of my eyes was distorted.
But what greets us after crossing the gate is a large clearing with trees cut down similar to the one we passed earlier.
“…What?”
“Isn’t this a dungeon…?”
Of course it’s not a dungeon.
I opened my mouth to the confused children.
“…This is it.”
At that time.
-Wheeeing!!!!
“Kyaaah!!”
“…Something just passed through the sky…!”
A metal bird flying across the sky with the familiar sound of motors.
Its identity was none other than an airplane.
“It’s Earth.”
Yes.
The place where the gate is connected is,
A parallel world between the novel and the world I lived in.
The dimension of mankind who escaped from ‘Merhem’.
It was Earth, Seong Jin-ha’s hometown.