21 Episode 20 Brawls and Explosions

I was awakened by the evening bell. But from here on, there are plenty of lodgings along the way, so there's no need to live day and night in reverse.

I could continue sleeping like this, but I was hungry and wanted to see the city, so I decided to go outside.

Sometimes it's good to go into a store that you see without asking anyone.

So I decided to have a meal at a bar-like place that I saw near the inn.

It was a bar-like place, different from the ones I've been to so far.

I went up to the owner and ordered the first dish I saw, "Estard".

It was not as fast as the restaurants in Ayn, but the food was served on the spot. Although the place is noisy, it seems to be a quiet place to eat compared to Eyn. It seems to be more comfortable in a crowded train than in a room with only two people.

Is the difference in speed due to the large number of menus?

When I sit at a random seat and eat a stew that is neither good nor bad, the people around me become noisy.

I looked around to see if I had done something wrong, but it seemed that I was not the center of the commotion.

Two large adventurer-like men diagonally behind me were glaring at each other. I don't want to disturb their quiet meal.

Suddenly, one of the men strikes the other. The other man catches him, but they both lose their balance and fall toward you.

The other guy catches him, but they both lose their balance and fall towards you. You can't let them fall on you, so you sit down and reach out to push the guy back, putting all your strength into it. Magic would be a bad idea, of course.

And the man who was about to lose his balance towards you is blown to the other side, both of them together.

But they didn't blow off horizontally like in the manga, they just fell about a meter away.

I stand up and say to the men.

I get up and say to them, "Hey, I don't mean to bother you, but if you're going to fight, could you do it outside?

What the f*ck!

Don't interfere in our fight!

...... Are you mad? Why are you so angry with me?

Oh, because you got blown up. That's annoying. Do you want me to just shut up and let some guy fall on me and crush me?

I don't know if that's a good idea to say to a drunk. ......

If you want to fight, go ahead, but please do it outside.

Just as I'm about to say this, one of the guys hits me. But it's too late. He's no better than a green wolf, a maggot.

I grabbed his fist and twisted his arm. I can't use ancient martial arts, but it's enough to subdue a drunk.

Just as I was thinking this, the other one came at me. Doesn't the law of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" exist in this world?

Come to think of it, it may not have been widely applied even on Earth.

Anyway, since my arm was blocked, I had no choice but to kick him. Before he hit me, I gave him a kick in the midriff.

"G...... back......

The man fell to the ground. There were groans and cheers all around. Before I knew it, a crowd had formed around me.

After a little while of thinking about what to do with these guys, the sparse crowd broke up and a man wearing the same clothes as the guards came out and took them away.

Would you like to accompany me to the guard station?

What? Isn't that self-defense?

What kind of unreasonable thing is it to get involved and then be taken away?

I think it's self-defense, but I haven't seen the situation, so I need you to follow me.

"No, this customer was just eating a normal meal and got caught in the middle of it. I was watching him closely.

The owner of the restaurant defended me. The owner of the restaurant defended me. The people around me said, "Yes, that's right.

The shopkeeper defended me. We need to make sure you're not a bandit.

Guild cards are useful. I wonder if the rampaging adventurers will become bandits.

The guard checked his guild card, wrote down his name, handed it back to me, and left.

He gave me the card and left. I've never seen you around here before. Are you an adventurer or something?

"Yes, I'm an E rank adventurer.

Yes, I'm an E rank adventurer. I don't need my gear in town, so I keep it at the inn.

"That's a lot of speed for an E. You have a promising future. I'll give you a gift in return. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you. Do you have any recommendations?

He recommends a dish called "homed". I liked the name better because it was simpler and clearer.

I ordered it, and it was pretty good. However, it was just a slightly different flavored version of the Gulgong set meal in Eyn, and I didn't feel much difference from city to city.

It was only a three-day trip by horse, so I guess it was natural.

Now that I'm full, I'll go back to the inn and go to bed, as I feel I didn't get enough sleep.

I was awakened by the morning bell. I thought there might be some negative effects of the change from day to night to a normal life, but there were no problems. It seems that my body has become more adaptable since I came to the other world.

After eating breakfast, I asked the guards for directions, and they told me to go straight from the north gate, turn left at the end of the gate, go out of the city, and go straight down the road to Ellera. Ellera is in the mountains, so it may not be physically straight, but it is a straight road.

I've been running lightly from Ein to Tubai, but from here on I'm going to try to run almost as fast as I did when I fought the Metal Lizard, or even faster than I did then, at a speed that would use up all my strength quickly on Earth.

In most of my battles, I'll need to buy time due to my magic consumption limit. Of course, you can buy time to save your spells while fighting, but if you can run away, you can do so more safely. I've never run out of breath in this game, but it's important to know how fast you can run.

You don't want to run out of energy when the time comes, and you don't want to waste your time by preserving more energy than necessary.

Fortunately, it's a very important road, and most of the high-risk monsters in the vicinity have already been dealt with, so there won't be many dangerous monsters along the way (though it's dangerous for merchants and other ordinary people, of course). In addition, the path is surrounded by a 30cm high grassland, so you have good visibility. So I decided to keep running until I got out of breath, and take a break when I got out of breath.

I kept running. The scenery flew by so fast that I felt like I was on a roller coaster, but I didn't care. On the way, I saw a merchant and a man in a carriage who seemed to be his bodyguard looking at me, but I didn't care. After running until noon at a speed so fast that I thought it was safe to run on the highway, let alone on a horse, I discovered a surprising fact.

I'm never tired.

After eating lunch in the middle of a grassy field as far as the eye can see, I thought to myself, "Maybe I'll get tired if I carry a load or something.　I thought, "Maybe I'll get tired if I carry a pack or something on my back," so I put on my armor, took my sword, and tried to run with a slightly too-well-burned green wolf.

I slowed down, but I didn't get tired even in the evening. There was no point in slowing down unnecessarily, so I decided to put them all away.

It was getting dark by now, so I kept running and decided to stay at an inn I found about half an hour later. The inn was a wooden two-story building, not very big, with the same appearance as the one we saw on the road. It might be a chain restaurant.

Next to the building, there is a space surrounded by a fence that is rather large for the size of the inn itself, and there is a horse-drawn carriage.

At the entrance of the inn, there is a sign saying "Tubai Herrera No. 9. The inn is located at both ends of the road, and it must be a chain since it is numbered. It's much more efficient than having individual lodgings on the road.

When I entered, an old man who seemed to be the owner spoke to me.

Welcome. Would you like a room?

What room? How much do you charge?

The old man pointed to the price list. The old man points to the price list.

Price list

Private room: 2,000 yen per night, half board included

Sleeping room 400 Tel per night, no meals

150 per meal

Parking: 500 Tel per car per night

Oh, it doesn't have to be an inn, does it? You just need to provide security.

It's probably cheaper than hiring additional adventurers to guard the place at night.

It would be nice to be able to organize members on the assumption that everyone is awake during the day.

I chose a private room because I wasn't really in need of money.

The meal was some kind of hard bread and smoked meat.

There is nothing to do at night in this world. After a day of running, I fell asleep thinking again that I was living a healthy life. I don't know if it's healthy to run for half a day at a speed faster than a car, and then continue to run with a charred corpse of a six-legged wolf.

I woke up to the sound of bells, much higher than usual.

I hadn't thought about how to get up in the morning, but it seemed that the inn was preparing a bell for me.

I ate breakfast - the same menu as dinner - and left the inn to start running again.

The road gradually became more wooded and slightly uphill again.

It's not quite a mountain yet.

But I could see the outline of a mountain in the distance.

By the time we ate lunch, we could clearly see the towering mountains.

After finishing lunch, we started running, and after a few hours, the grassland we had been running on turned into a forest. Although it was a forest, the density of trees was not very high, but it was quite different from a grassland.

This is the only road that has been cleared of vegetation and made into a path. It is not particularly paved with stones, though.

The slope is getting tighter. It could be called an uphill climb.

Further on, the path turns. The path is made to be diagonal to the slope. If you were on foot like me, it would be fine, but since the road was made for transportation by horse-drawn carriages, it must have been made at a lower angle.

It would be possible to take a shortcut by going off the road, but there was no need to risk it and save time.

It was getting dark, so I went up the slope for about an hour looking for a place to stay, and found one. It was Tubai Herrera No. 20.

The food was exactly the same as the food I had twice at No. 9. I wonder if people who travel by carriage eat that for ten days straight.

I went to bed thinking about this, woke up, and started running again today.

However, after about 30 minutes of running, the tentacles detected a strange reaction.

It's probably people. There are seven of them, but for some reason they are moving away from the road in the forest. The speed at which they are moving doesn't seem like adventurers.

The party composition is also strange. Focusing on the tentacles, I could get more information, but there are six adults and a boy or girl, and the boy or girl is not moving by itself, but is being carried.

Maybe they're bandits.