Chapter 61
Two Saints – 61
“Kaider, Nyran . Calm down . Edwy, would you please stop the train?”
“Stop the train! Do you mean to appease the monster!? No! We will increase our speed and escape them . ”
Maki raised her head and pleaded with him . But Edwy tried to do the opposite . Outside, there were one, two, no…five gazers .
“We don’t know what effect it has on your body every time you calm them . Edwy is right . ”
“Aeris, you may say that . But you’ll continue to separate us from the monsters, won’t you? Besides, we won’t know how far we can go unless we experiment . ”
“Still, you are not even prepared to face them now . This dungeon might be very different from the last one!”
Aeris said hoarsely . Chiharu spoke quietly .
“Stop the train . ”
“But…”
“Stop it . ”
Kaider and Nyran sighed .
“Edwy, do as they say . We’ll protect them . ”
“…Very well . ”
By the time that Maki and Chiharu got out of the train, there were over 10 gazers waiting for them . Not only that, but four-legged monsters were also walking out of the darkness . Chiharu and Maki tried to walk forward, but Kaider and Nyran stopped them . They felt the excitement of the monsters as well as nervousness . They were all worried .
“What happened? You’re all so far from the dungeon . ”
Chiharu said to the gazers .
Dungeon . Don’t know . We were born here . We saw many bright things and things that ran .
“So you were born here . ”
Yes . I want to return .
“Were you all born here too?”
Maki asked the four-legged monsters .
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Yes . In this wide space . We ran when the bright things were gone . But we have had enough .
“I see . ”
Maki and Chiharu looked at each other .
“Then come here . ”
And then, one by one, the monsters silently turned into magic stones .
“Are there any more?”
“No, I don’t sense any . ”
Chiharu said as Maki looked around . Now, it was finished .
“We’re done here . Let’s go . ”
They both said . Kaider, Nyran, and Edwy looked at them with pained expressions .
“Are you all right?”
“Hmm? We’re fine . ”
“But this isn’t something you get used to . ”
“Yes . But the fact that we can do this…”
Maki said with a laugh .
“…Surely, it means that we should do it . ”
“Should do…”
“At least, as much as we are able . ”
Chiharu said as she patted Nyran on the back .
“Now, let’s go . The next train will catch up with us . ”
“That’s true . We should hurry . ”
They stayed silent for quite a while after returning to the train .
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“Maki, Chiharu . How do you feel?”
Aeris finally said .
“Yes, I feel fine . ”
“If anything, I feel quite refreshed . ”
Maki said as she shrugged her shoulders .
“I…”
Kaider began as he stared at the ceiling .
“I knew that you two were doing that every night . ”
Maki and Chiharu looked surprised . But Edwy and Aeris did not .
“Since when? Kaider?”
“After the incident at the mirror lake . ”
Chiharu muttered in shock .
“So, from the beginning…”
“Why didn’t you tell us, Chiharu…”
Aeris asked sadly .
“You’d be worried . ”
“There must be more to it than that . ”
“Nyran . ”
Chiharu looked downward .
“I felt sorry for the monsters . ”
“Sorry for them?”
“You all don’t understand . But the monsters never hurt us . They don’t suck our lifeforce . They just want to return to the miasma’s circle of life . ”
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“Circle of life…”
“I think that happy life like humans and dwarves roam this world . But in this world, miasma also has a life and roams . ”
“But, still!”
Edwy let out a shout .
“We’ve always been taught to hunt dangerous things . Things that drop magic stones . How can we allow you two to approach such a danger?”
“I knew you would say that . But…”
Chiharu looked at Maki and nodded .
“There’s something I noticed while traveling in the dwarf lands . There was a monster that was lost . It was tired and wanted to go home . And it was only us who could quietly send it back . ”
“I’ve never heard of a monster that was lost…”
Edwy said . Then Nyran opened his mouth .
“Well, we saw it . So I will believe that there are monsters who are lost . ”
“Yes, thank you . ”
Chiharu said . Then Maki added .
“I’m sorry that we kept it a secret . But there is something else I want to talk about . ”
“What? Maki?”
Kaider answered .
“The monsters here weren’t from the dungeon . ”
“What? What are you saying?”
“They were born here . ”
“That’s impossible . ”
Grudo had been silent up until now, but he suddenly muttered .
“Indeed, this chamber was here from before, and we just connected the railway tunnel to it . However, it is still not a dungeon . Besides, this is so far away from the shadow world . Monsters appear in dungeons because they are close to it . ”
“So, there were never monsters here before?”
“Well, there were, rarely . However, if what you say is true, then this railway is in danger…”
Grudo looked pale .
“Amia said he either fled or hit monsters with his tail when encountering them . So maybe monsters do appear in caves naturally . ”
“Maki, that’s rather important information you are saying there…”
“How often have monsters been spotted?”
“Just once every few years . ”
“In that case, we can just come here now and again and calm the monsters . ”
Everyone looked at Maki with exasperation .
“Surely it is not that simple… Is it that simple?”
“Are you sure?”
Grudo and Aeris asked .
“Well, it did make us very sad at first . But we’re fine now . The monsters are happy to turn into magic stones . We wouldn’t want to go and do an entire dungeon, but it’s not much trouble to meet lost monsters and return them to the circle of life . ”
Maki said . And then Chiharu continued .
“So…”
“So?”
“If that’s to be our job, we want to get paid . ”
This was most surprising . Maki burst into laughter .
“Well, you won’t have to hire Adventurers, right? So…”
“Chiharu, you…”
“You can’t eat if you don’t work . But you should be paid for work . ”
Chiharu said with a smile . Edwy remembered something as he saw that Kaider and Nyran were speechless . Yes, Chiharu had always been like this . When she had talked with his father about the magic stones . It had been very amusing . Edwy chuckled at the memory . Aeris and Grudo now looked relaxed .
“Very well, Chiharu and Maki . We will discuss it with the king . ”
“Hey, Edwy . Are you sure?”
“It’s fine, Kaider . The king will understand . He knows that the Saintesses are very independent . ”
It wasn’t about the reward, but about their safety . The Midland people seemed to feel that the discussion had ended satisfactorily, but Kaider and Nyran were not convinced . And like that, the train continued on to the merfolk island .