arukuhito Isekai Walking: Volume 3 Magic Nation Eva - City Arc

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7183-5254-4
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Isekai Walking

With new companions picked up in the Holy Kingdom, Sora and his party continue on to the Magic Nation of Eva, where they hope to meet up with Chris and Rurika. The city of Majorica is host to both the Magius Academy of Magic and a dungeon-a mysterious labyrinth of unknown depth from which monsters and treasures spawn. The team spends a lot of time getting to know their new city-touring the academy, learning the plight of local orphans Elza and Art, and trying out dives into the dungeon-but a mysterious girl in a library hints at an imminent threat hanging over the town. Will Sora and his friends have to rise to the occasion again?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arukuhito

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yu-nit

Ellis, Elizabeth

Leseproben

Prologue

The shelf was lined with all kinds of boots. I was trying to decide which pair to buy. There was too much variety, and form seemed to be as important as function. I couldn’t ask the shopkeeper for help, either, because they were currently dealing with another customer.

The choice would have been easy if I’d been buying a pair for myself.

“What about...those?” I proposed, pointing at a white pair.

“Master, those are weird.”

The shooting down had been done by Hikari, a young girl with dark hair and eyes. She’d been a spy for the Kingdom of Elesia sent to monitor me—a guy summoned from another world to become a hero—and through an odd chain of events, we’d ended up traveling together.

It wasn’t one of those friendships-born-from-battle things or anything like that. It was just that I couldn’t simply abandon her after I learned about her situation.

Hikari had become more expressive since our initial meeting, but she was still awkward in many ways. In particular, she wasn’t afraid to let loose with a beaming smile when she was eating a food she liked.

“Sora, how about these?” said Mia, holding up a pair of boots.

Mia normally had long, eye-catching golden hair, but due to an incident in the capital of the Holy Kingdom of Frieren, she’d dyed her hair black and cut it to shoulder length. She was using contact lenses to darken her eyes as well. Because of that, she and Hikari looked a bit like sisters when they stood side by side.

Back in Frieren, Mia had been prepared for authentication as the nation’s Saint. However, the machinations of a demon had cast doubt upon her status and led others to try to kill her for blasphemy. The truth had eventually come out and Mia’s reputation had been restored, but there was still a chance demons might try to kill her again. Therefore, she’d let everyone but a few select members of the Church believe she was dead and come traveling with me instead.

That last part had been Mia’s choice, of course. I didn’t force her or anything, okay?

“These have sturdy soles, but they’re light, so they’re perfect for you, Mia,” Sera said as she took the boots from Mia.

Sera was a feline beastfolk whose cat ears and tail drew attention in any room she entered. Apparently beastfolk themselves were a rather rare thing.

I’d met her at the Howler Slave Company in Frieren’s capital, where I’d paid quite a large sum to buy her. This was because I’d previously met two female adventurers named Rurika and Chris who had been searching for her. She was very closed off with me for various reasons, but after I’d told her I knew her old friends, she’d opened up to me...a little. I think.

The one thing the three girls had in common was that they all wore collars in different designs. The collars were an indication that they were slaves, and I was currently master to all three of them. In my defense, let me just say that I never forced them to do anything against their will. The only order I’d ever given them was to keep the fact that I was an otherworlder a secret.

Once Mia had the equipment she needed, we’d need to buy supplies for the journey to our next destination—the border city, Cite. These were mostly ingredients for cooking.

“Master, can I go to the stalls?” Hikari asked.

In response to this, the spirit Ciel drifted out of my hood where she’d been sleeping. She plopped down on Hikari’s head and looked up at me with round, expectant eyes.

Most people couldn’t see spirits, but for some reason, I could. I’d made a formal contract with Ciel when she joined me on my travels. Hikari and the others couldn’t see her at first, but they had started being able to do so after our slave contracts were forged. I wasn’t sure what principle was at work there, but nobody seemed to mind, so I decided not to worry about it.

My affirmative response to Hikari made Ciel start flapping her ears in celebration. Mia laughed in amusement at the sight, while Sera tried to hold back a smile.

Hikari quickly headed for the stalls, with Ciel rushing to keep up with her.

“I guess we should join them,” I proposed. There was no telling what might happen if we left those two to their own devices.

We ended up buying more food than just four people could eat, but that wasn’t an issue, since I could just store it with my dimension spell, Item Box. I’d maxed out the spell’s level, meaning it could now preserve foodstuffs indefinitely without any decline in quality. It was a skill any traveler would long to have.

After the buying spree, I stopped by the adventurers’ guild and checked for messages from Rurika and Chris, then hit up the church to send a coded message letting Cardinal Dan know that Mia had chosen to travel with us. Then we went back to the inn and called it an early night.

The real journey for the four of us and our animal friend would begin tomorrow.

We’d traveled to Roille City from Tenns Village via wagon, negotiating a ride with a merchant I’d met in the village. I’d originally thought about walking, but I decided to hold off on that until we got Mia the right equipment. From here to our next stop, the border city Cite—en route to our final destination of Majorica in the Magic Nation of Eva—it would normally have been faster to take a wagon. Unfortunately, all the Cite-bound wagons had just left, and it would take several days until the next group set out. We could have just waited, but we decided to head out tomorrow on foot.

This worked better for me personally, thanks to the effect of my special skill Walking: “Never get tired from walking (earn 1 XP for every step).” But while I’d been debating with myself whether it was all right to put the others through that...

“Mia, if you wanna keep journeying with our master, you’d better build up your stamina,” Sera had chimed in.

To this, Mia had responded, “Ah, I’ll walk. I’ll definitely walk!”

I’d been worried she might have been making promises she couldn’t keep, but I checked with Hikari and Sera and they reassured me that she wasn’t. And with that, it was decided that we’d walk.

“Good night, then.” I put out the magic lamp, and the room went dark. I could still use my Night Vision skill to see if I wanted to, but there was no need for that right now.

Soon enough, I heard the sounds of sleep all around me. I closed my eyes as well, but there was one other thing I wanted to do before I slept.

I mentally voiced the words “open status” and saw my personal stat sheet appear in my mind’s eye.

As I looked over my stats, I thought about all the people I’d met since I first arrived here.

Immediately after being summoned to this world, I’d been deemed worthless and driven out of the castle to live on my own. After that, I became an adventurer and met a lot of people, the most memorable of whom were Rurika and Chris. We’d traveled for a while before parting ways in the stopover city of Fesis in the Kingdom of Elesia.

We hadn’t gone further together because of a vague feeling of foreboding I’d had...which had turned out to be accurate in the worst way possible. I’d contracted with the spirit Ciel soon after that, so I wasn’t too lonely. And in the days since, I’d steadily acquired even more new companions.

Traveling with Hikari and the others was so much fun, and the time I spent with them was something worth treasuring. I’d been reminded of that all over again when I’d had to travel alone from Frieren’s capital, Messa, to Tenns Village with just Ciel. The scenery around me had seemed just a little duller during that time. Even though it had...