Chapter 252 - Hi-ho Silver, Away!

"Cel! We've finished registering the mercenary company!" A silver haired young lady said while waving a small card towards a tall youth standing in the distance. Walking beside her was a pink haired young women that was curiously taking in the scenery around her.

The youth that was called out to was of course Cecil, and the two girls walking towards him were of course Lucia and Serilla. They were currently in their human guises so they blended well with the other humans around them.

Cecil and the girls had successfully crossed over to the Midgard Continent just yesterday. At the end of Freyen, which was a week ago, they were able to hitch a ride on an airship to fly over the ocean separating the two continents and touched down just yesterday at the largest airport in the eastern border regions.

Just the travel duration between the two continents took over a week to do and this was when the two continents were a little bit close to each other. They had to periodically stop and land from time to time on the small landmasses spanning across the separating sea between the two continents.

This was because they had to avoid all the sea monsters and aerial predators that could potentially cause harm to the airship.

They had just settled in and were staying at an inn just a while ago, but Cecil decided that they should begin their 'journey to the west' right away.

He had Lucia and Serilla go register their mercenary group under the same name as their adventurer party, the Wanderers, before they went about their journey. While he went around the border city that the party was currently at, Hustolte, and began collecting information so that he could finish planning out their travel route.

Cecil had finished info gathering after he paid a visit to the adventurer guild and was currently waiting for Lucia and Serilla to come back with Yuna and Silver.

He was leaning on Silver's broad back when he noticed Lucia call out to him. As for Yuna, the dragon girl was resting inside the wagon right now. It was a little late, but she was currently resting in preparations for the when Cecil and Silver would form a pact.

They should have done this back on Urrgudrasil, but one thing led to another and now they were here on Midgard. It was a good thing that Yuna reminded the boy, if not, Cecil would have totally forgotten about it.

"Oh, Lulu, Seri are you two done with the registrations?"

"Yep~ no problems back there since we've got our platinum adventurer rank to back us up!"

"Well, let's get going then. We've spent enough time dawdling around here. Let's head westward now!"

"He~h? We're going already? And here I wanted to take in the sights!" Serilla quipped up from the side.

Cecil walked over and pinched both of the girls' cheeks before taking the mercenary card from Lucia. He stuffed it into his pocket and began strapping on Silver's harness after waking the large wolf up.

"Hmm~ don't you think Cel's being sweeter to us as the days pass by, Seri?"

"...It's probably because we're going to separate for a while, right?"

"Then that means—"

"He wants to stay close to us as physically possible before that time!"

"Yeah!"

"Hehehe~ I'm going to shower darling with lots of love tonight~"

"Me too, me too~"

While the two girls were beginning to hatch out their obviously e.r.o.t.i.c plans for later, Cecil quickly called out to them from the wagon's driver seat.

"Hey! You two coming or not?! I'm going to leave you guys behind if you don't get on right now!"

"Wait idiot!"

"Darling, don't be so mean~!"

The two girls quickly shelved their thoughts and scurried into the wagon. Once Cecil confirmed that the two were on, he immediately had Silver set off from the city.

He turned to look back at the large walled city and made sure to imprint this scenery in his mind.

'The first city I visited on Midgard.'

Cecil smirked and looked back forward before shouting, "Hi-ho Silver, away~!"

At his weird shout, Silver immediately roared in response and picked up his pace. The wagon immediately shot into the distance and Cecil was laughing wildly on the driver seat, totally not minding the odd stares that the people on the road were giving him.

He also ignored the two hot stares that were currently boring holes into his back. Cecil quickly checked his magic tome and began to properly create their party's travel plan.

"First we'll head to Tempest, after that we should stick to the northern side of the continent and make our way to Regulus from there...we'll be passing by the Machina Reggio Empire and the Inderior Principality."

On the map, there were large spaces that separated each kingdom's territory. He was able to learn that the empty area in between were just vast wildernesses that have monsters and bandits living within them.

These lands were unclaimed lands that the major powers of the Midgard Continent didn't want to capture because it served as a good buffer region that'll let each power know in advance whether another power was going to attack them, if a war so happened to be waged between said powers.

It even served as a large border between each kingdoms and it was also neutral area where there were no laws. Cecil and his party would have to pass through numerous numbers of these areas before arriving at Midgard's western regions.

He just hoped that in these 'lawless' regions, no trouble would come knocking on his door. Cecil wasn't afraid of trouble, but since he know had a destination that he needed to get to as soon as possible, he didn't want any hindrances to pop up on their journey.

He was a little unsettled at the fact that the journey might take a whole year or two. The continent was vast and this was the time he roughly calculated after he compared his over 6 month long tripe from Fauxe Village to Angla City.

Cecil himself should be considered pretty lucky. When he was first transported into this world, he happened to land in the western regions of Urrugdrasil. If he had somehow landed in the eastern regions of Urrugdrasil, then he wouldn't have even set off on a journey to find his family.

The journey from Fauxe to Angla city took him over 6 months...and from his estimate that was his travel time that spanned maybe a fourth or a fifth of Urrugdrasil. They did waste time on the road because of training and all, but it still took a pretty long while.

He also didn't have a wagon or mode of transport at the time. Cecil and Lucia did ride on Silver for most of the journey, but they weren't traveling as lightly as they did now and Silver wasn't as strong as he was presently.

Urrugdrasil was larger than Midgard by only a little, so taking that into reference Cecil calculated that it might take him a year or 2 to reach the western regions of Midgard with their current travel conditions. He was fretting at the thought that by the time he arrived in the western regions 2 years later, his sister and maybe even his family will have long since moved out of the area.

He couldn't be sure about this and it might just be an unfounded worry on his part, but he wanted to hasten the trip since the thought of being able to meet up with his family was making him pretty eager and anxious at the same time. It's been almost 2 years since he's last seen them so it was understandable that he misses them a lot, despite him not actually showing it outwardly to the girls.

Cecil knew however that he had to keep himself level headed. If he rushed the journey, then he and his party might find themselves in a dangerous situation someday. He quickly packed his magic tome and moved inside of the caravan.

Just as he was about to call out to Lucia and Serilla, he was suddenly pounced on.

"Hey—!"

When he felt something invade his mouth and the silver hair in his vision, he knew that a certain someone had just assaulted him.

"Muah, ehehe~ took you long enough to come back in!"

"My turn~ my turn~"

Cecil immediately blocked Serilla's face with a hand and said in exasperation, "Save it for later, dammit! Behave first and let's discuss our travel route!"

"Ehh~ darling, no fair~"

Cecil gave Serilla a quick kiss before he easily slung both girls up on his shoulders and sitting them down on the couch. He sat himself opposite of them and placed his magic tome on top of the table in between them.

When he looked up, he noticed that the two girls were no longer in sight and immediately felt a weight on both his shoulders.

"...you two..."

"Yes~?"

"Hm~"

"GET A GRIP ALREADY!"

After putting the two girls in line, Cecil immediately began discussing their travel route. After the girls got the gist of things, Lucia immediately said, "Hm~ this journey will take a long while!"

"Exactly, I predict that it'll take us 1-2 years...maybe more..."

"A-are you okay with that Cel?"

"I'm fine with it and I don't want to rush things. If we hurry too much, we might miss something or worse, find ourselves in a dangerous situation."

"Yeah, that'd be pretty bad."

Cecil nodded and began stroking Lucia's hair. She was currently resting on his lap while Serilla was clinging onto him from the side. It wasn't the position to be holding such an important talk, but the girls were basically just listening to Cecil's plans at this point.

They'd follow wherever he went and didn't mind not having to plan anything out with the boy. It was a new continent for them as well, so they would have no idea what to do or where to go anyways.

"What I'm more concerned with, is that are you two okay with this? This is a going to be a 2 year-long journey... If you guys wanna turn ba—"

Before Cecil could finish, Serilla had planted her lips onto his. She didn't like it when Cecil began talking that way so it was a pretty good way to shut him up while at the same time she was able to enjoy herself.

"Stop with that, okay? You should know by now our answer!"

"Okay..."

"Ehehe~ let's continue that."

"Continue what?"

"This!"