Chapter 195: Monsters are Coming!

[A/N: We are just a few more golden tickets away from reaching another milestone!]

Perhaps because such washing machines were lined up, the scene of the laundry seemed to him like a coin laundry appearing in old American movies.

(No one there.)

The inside of the laundry was unmanned, but several washing machines were moving making sounds. Laundry took about thirty minutes, so many people did not wait in the laundry until laundry ended and came to pick up later.

"After laundry ends, recover your own clothes within ten minutes... or something."

He read aloud one sentence written on the wall poster. If clothes that finished laundry were left in the washing machine, it would be a nuisance to other users, so such a caution was posted.

The washing machine that also had the function of dryer was a type he had never used. But since the usage was also written on the wall poster, he was able to do laundry without problem.

(Until laundry ends, what to do? Being here is idle too, go back to the room?)

While looking at his own laundry rotating inside the washing machine, he considered.

(Shall I get some night wind and breathe outside air.)

He had been in the bathroom for quite a long time. Perhaps because of that, he had become in the mood of wanting to breathe outside air.

He left the laundry, went up the stairs through the route taught by Crio, opened the hatch and went up to the night deck. Now that the sun had set, the temperature was lower than daytime, and though it was a summer night, he did not feel the heat much.

Since air was flowing while sailing, it was as if in refreshing night wind, and for him the mood was good. Lights were installed at various places on the deck, and the large searchlight illuminating the direction of travel was also lit, so even though night it was not to the degree of dark.

The night scenery could not be seen well because dark. He activated the skill of night vision that could maintain vision even in dark state.

Then, in his eyes the scenery of the desolate night wilderness spreading beyond the dust was reflected. It could not be seen as well as bright daytime, but unlike so-called night vision devices that made vision all green, color discrimination was also possible.

The vast wilderness and the forms of rocky mountains drawing strange ridges that could never be seen in Japan were reflected in his eyes.

"Really, another world..."

Moving the wilderness at night riding a terrestrial ship was a first experience for him. He had been getting used to this world, but faced with the scenery he saw for the first time, he became conscious again that he was in a foreign land called another world.

Even though soundproofing magic was working on the ship, the sound of jet flowers echoed reasonably. It was not quiet, but seeing the desolate scenery, he suddenly felt loneliness.

(Lumia and Monica, around now... what are they doing?)

The Lumia and Monica with whom spending the night had become natural rose in his head. Despite having just separated from the two, at having overlapped bodies with Liz and Uraka right away, he felt a little guilt.

The women and friends left in Aquila, the newly met women. Worries regarding Virgo he was heading to from now, and the people of Iron Maiden in life crisis such as Ebony and Ivory...

While the scenery of the night wilderness flowed, various things rose and disappeared in his head. As if foam floating on the surface of a flowing river.

The strong summer sunlight continued to roast the devastated land. That was why the distant ground surface area appeared to him to shimmer due to heat haze.

Where he was was on top of a container loaded on the front deck of the Gadalbarooha. Together with the deck crew members, he was monitoring the surroundings.

On top of the container, white parasols and deck chairs that had not been there yesterday were placed. They had not been used for a while right after departure, but from around when the sunlight became strong yesterday too, sunshade parasols had been installed.

Using parasols and deck chairs in daytime monitoring work of terrestrial ships was a fairly ordinary thing. Parasols and deck chairs were also used during rest, but basically they were prepared for deck crew to use in monitoring work.

Parasols and deck chairs were installed on the container around the center of the front deck. Deck chairs were usually two, one facing right since for starboard monitoring, the other facing left since for port monitoring.

However, now for him one deck chair had been increased. He was in the middle of port monitoring work together with Crio.

He was in the usual camouflage combat uniform, Crio unlike yesterday was in khaki combat uniform.

"Continuing to sit is tiring too."

Sitting on the right next to him and continuing monitoring together with Crio, he spoke.

"Better to stand moderately and move the body. Of course, while continuing monitoring though."

Crio continued.

"Otherwise the body stiffens and such, and when the time comes the body doesn’t move properly."

When the time came meant the case of receiving an attack from monsters or bandits.

"Then, maybe I’ll move the body a little."

He stood up, came out from under the parasol, and began stretching. After moderately loosening joints and muscles, he showed movements of unleashing punches and kicks one after another.

"Rare, not twenty-four forms but doing forty-eight forms."

Looking at his movements, Crio leaked an impression. Twenty-four forms and forty-eight forms were forms of basic movements connecting basic techniques... skills of martial arts.

Originally forty-eight forms was the official one, but since there were many techniques not used much, the simplified version twenty-four forms was made. Currently, even if forty-eight forms was taught at least, martial artists who continuously trained it had become the minority.

Most martial artists continuously trained only the twenty-four forms.

"Why forty-eight forms again?"

"I was recommended by the instructor of Aquila’s martial arts gym."

At Crio’s question, he answered. Incidentally, the instructor was Lolo.

"Me who is not blessed with aura power, better to train forty-eight forms and become able to cover the weakness of aura with the variety of usable techniques."

"Not blessed with aura power, at that age level 18, you’re in the blessed class, right?"

In the case of martial artist adventurers, the strength of aura was basically proportional to level. He at under eighteen years old level 18 could be said in the class of strong aura relative to age.

"For about half a year after becoming an adventurer, I stayed at level 1."

Hearing his words, not only Crio but the other deck crew member who had been eavesdropping behind also floated a surprised expression.

"Ah, native skill was a dud?"

The other deck crew member asked him. A pale-skinned sharp-eyed woman who suited silver ponytail, wearing khaki combat uniform.

A plainly arranged face, age around twenty. Height not to the degree of Uraka or Liz, but higher than him and Crio, slender and good style.

Since a swordswoman, a sword sheathed was placed on her knee. The sheath had a belt and could be carried on the back or worn at the waist.

"Well, something like that."

"As expected, actually me too."

"Marisa too!"

The silver-haired swordswoman was named Marisa. She said she discarded the surname when becoming an adventurer, and did not have one.

In this world people without surnames were not rare.

"Now it’s become a usable skill, but in the initial stage there was the demerit of hard to raise level, and at first I struggled."

"Me too."

"What skill? If fine tell me... n?"

Right after Marisa asked, the ground around thirty meters away left front of the port began to shine. Not only Crio and Uraka but Marisa also noticed the abnormality and looked at the shining ground.

On the ground, one white shining magic circle that easily exceeded ten meters in diameter had appeared.

"Summoning mine! Monsters are coming!"

Uraka on the bridge also noticed the appearance of the magic circle and conveyed information inside the ship using the voice tube. Immediately the alarm horn rang and issued a warning to the entire Gadalbarooha.

"What’s a summoning mine?"

Since it was a word he did not know, while generating aura and making his body shine, he asked Crio.

"It’s a trap that activates magic summoning monsters when stepped on or passing nearby!"

While generating aura, Crio answered him.

"With a magic circle of that size, a big one is coming!"

As her words said, from inside the magic circle, as if using a serif and an actor rising onto the stage, a monster appeared. A gray huge monster with the appearance of a dog or wolf boasting a huge body exceeding an elephant.