The mountain is on fire.
We call it a small mountain, but to a city person, it might be more like a hill. The forest is so thick that at a glance it looks like a mountain.
Of course, there are monsters in the area, so we usually never enter.
The forest and small mountains to the northwest are the closest thing to fear in the city of Cardiff.
It’s on fire. Why is it like that?
I wonder if someone took a torch with them.
No, that’s too fast a distance to go searching.
And they wouldn’t have gone to the middle of a hill like that.
Because the Berg Bear are…… Berg Bear?
(«I tried to stop it! But I couldn’t do it!»)
──────What if someone put the fire in a hurry?
Wow, this is how feeling blood being drawn from you body feels like.
Let’s say that’s the fire that the brave man set.
So, in the worst case scenario.
It means that the hero has already met the monster.
Oh…
You….
You’re an idiot.
The next thing I know, I’m running like an idiot.
It was a tree what I saw while I was unaware of my surroundings. (Tl note: Sorry, don’t know how to translate this. 周りが知らない間に木だ、すごいな、記憶がない.)
I hear a rumbling sound coming from my lungs.
Oh, that’s not my lungs, that’s my heart.
I wonder if my arms will float if I swing them upward like this.
Dah, gah, gah.
I’ve fallen super hard.
I think I’m rooted. It’s stuck.
It’s too far away. The thing burning, is it gonna go out?
My legs, from the knee down, I don’t know.
Huh, what? I think I’m panicking.
«Cr….ow…n, fi….re, analysis.»
«────Analysis complete.
Two Kelmels ahead.
Fire range: average diameter of 8 meru.
It’s growing.»
Haha, 8 meru. It’s going to take a whole house.
I have to hurry.
There’s a bear monster and a fire.
It’s a little tough for two brats.
What should I do? What should I do?
I want to go like a horse-drawn carriage.
Wait….. wheels……
«Crown, put gears on my feet.»
«────Instruction analysis complete.
The concept of increased movement speed is defined.
Deprecated action. Due to terrain.»
«Enough. I’ll do it here.»
«Two under each ankle.»
«Crown, spin.»
«────Deprecated action.»
«Spin it.»
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«────Deprecated action.»
«Please.»
«───────────Ready. Start spinning.»
Gigyururururururu!!
I don’t like the sound of it rubbing against the moss and stuff.
Oh, look, it’s fast.
It vibrates a lot, though.
The ground is bumpy.
Oh.
My left shoulder hurts.
I must’ve shifted and hit a tree.
«How far along are we?»
«────Analysis complete, 58 meru, 28 selci.»
«That’s fast. Let’s try again.»
«────Dangerous. Deprecated.»
«One more time.»
«────Dangerous. Deprecated.»
«I’m………….!!!!»
When my partner told me to stop because it was dangerous, I snapped at it.
«I’m not a magician like the others. I can’t use magic skills even! But that doesn’t mean that I can’t do anything today, go home, and just live my life laughing and smiling! I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to do that!»
«────────────»
«……Crown, when I met those guys today…… if I had been more angry, if I had been more angry at them, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. I should have been more angry! It’s just another fight like normal! I was thinking that! But it wasn’t!»
I said, as if I was spitting in the forest at night.
I don’t care now if Wolves comes near me or not.
«And tomorrow, after it’s all over and I didn’t do anything, I’m going to start thinking. «Oh, oh, I want to go back to yesterday, I want to go back, I want to start over.»
«─────────»
«Crown, I don’t always say it like this. If I break a plate, I think I’ll just clean it up later. If I spill sugar, I’ll do it later and sweep it up against the wall. But you know, ────»
Oh, why am I shouting this?
Alone, in the woods, in the middle of the night. To my skill.
«────it’s just for slacking off! For being lazy!
You can’t miss the times when you really shouldn’t put it off!»
I shouted as much as I could.
«»It’s dangerous», «I don’t know how to do it», or «I can’t do it», there are times when those words can’t be used!»
«──────»
«For me, it’s now. If you don’t do this, there will be hell waiting for you tomorrow. I won’t be able to forgive myself!»
Maybe it’s something everyone could forgive. Not to be blamed.
But I would never forgive myself.
«I’m not a good person to comfort myself, Crown…… so don’t give up now.»
I’m a fool, frightened of sinning so────
«I think now, I don’t want regrets!»
«────────»
────Ki ~yuiiiiiiiin!
«You and me, we can do this. Look at this! Fifty-eight meru in one second! That’s impressive! Just one more step, crown! Don’t give up on your current potential, right now!
────Crown! Take me to that place of fire!»
Come on, let’s go, partner!
«────Ready: Over. Anti.
Update priorities for course of action by order.
Self-analysis complete. Standard concepts have been reconfigured.
Pattern frames extracted from past computational measurements.
────────────────Start deployment.»