Chapter 1621 Lost High Elf ②
Chapter 1621: Lost High Elf ②
I brought Fors-san to a cafe with a chic atmosphere. I thought that since Fors-san is an Elf, it would be better to bring her to a wooden cafe, one brimming with nature, but then, I also thought that there would be many such places in Rigforeshia, so I just chose to bring her to a brick cafe.
……Well, there’s also the fact that this was simply the closest……
[Good gracious, what a nice atmosphere this place has. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but you really do have great taste. The fact that you can easily choose places with this kind of ambiance shows how experienced you are in the field of romance. I’m older than you in age, but I guess experience is important in this kind of thing.]
[Haha, thank you…… So, Fors-san. In the first place, why did you end up in Symphonia’s Royal Capital when you were planning to head to Hydra Kingdom? Did you simply have business to attend to over here?]
I was almost bewildered by how extremely poor her sense of direction is, considering she was supposed to attend Hydra Kingdom’s Founding Festival, but ended up here in Symphonia’s Royal Capital…… but upon closer recollection, she did say how she headed to Hydra Kingdom ahead of time for another errand, so there’s a significant possibility that she got lost and ended up in Symphonia’s Royal Capital for the sake of that errand. n0𝗏𝑒𝓵𝗎𝓈𝔅.𝗰0𝕞
[No, my errands ended in the neighborhood of my house though? Ah, I suppose you have misunderstood me. Simply because I’m reclusive by nature, even stepping outside of my home is quite unusual for me. Since I was going to go out of my home anyway, I decided to do my errands outside on my way to the Teleportation Gate leading to Hydra Kingdom. Well, that was what I was planning but……]
[That’s strange, isn’t it? If you were acting according to those assumptions, you wouldn’t have had the need to leave Rigforeshia in the first place, right?]
[After quite a long time, I managed to get out of the forest, but I had apparently ended up near the side of the forest opposite of Rigforeshia, where I saw a different road. So, if I tried to go back to the forest and return to Rigforeshia, I would most likely get lost in the forest again. If that’s the case, if I walk along the well-developed road, even if I don’t arrive in Rigforeshia, there’s a good chance I’ll arrive in another city or town. Then, I would either ask for directions there or use their Teleportation Gate if available.]
[……There’s some stuff I’d like to throw a tsukkomi about, I understand your logic. Certainly, if you walk along a main path, you will eventually reach a relatively large town or a city.]
[Yeah, and that’s how I arrived here…… a big city.]
[Wait a moment there. How far do you think it is from Rigforeshia to the Royal Capital…… There should be several big towns before you get here, right!?]
[Well, even I find it strange, but the first place I arrived at really was Symphonia Kingdom’s Royal Capital. Well, I think I know the reason why it happened. I was walking along the road, you see, when I found some materials that might be useful for my research, and I got so absorbed in collecting them that I got off the road. A slight incident it was.]
[Rather than just a slight incident, isn’t that totally the main reason why you got lost!?]
Deviating from the main path and heading straight to the Royal Capital, a distance equivalent to crossing multiple mountains…… Moreover, for her to actually manage to completely bypass all the towns and cities in between and reach the Royal Capital, she’s quite skillful at getting lost. I now understand what Neun-san meant when she said she thought it was like Fors-san was getting lost on purpose.
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Serious-senpai : [Even though her speed is slow, it was a distance that even Anima took without sleep and rest.]