Chapter 486 Bitter mory
In the dining room of the mansion, I’m enjoying a ho-cooked al for the first ti in a few days. However, Haru is currently sleeping. The one who cooked the food was none other than Nell. Yes, it’s delicious. And brown. And aty.
「How is it?」
「It reminds of our adventurer days. But it’s even better than that ti.」
「Deris, you’ve gotten better with your words. Well, I don’t mind it.」
After eating all the at on the plate, I take a cup of gobu tea to help with the digestion. Being healthy is my current obsession.
「By the way, what did Haru and the others do after that?」
「They took a bath, ate a lot, and collapsed on the bed together. I guess they reached their limits even though they were taking turns. Chinatsu, who would normally be heading off to work for the knight order, collapsed without even having ti to think about it.」
「You’ve been making them do that for the past few days? What kind of hell is that…?」
「We are going to send them to hell, right? Then, isn’t it better to let them experience hell in advance?」
What a muscle-brain theory. However, it’s a little frustrating that she’s not wrong. Also, it seems that they have grown rapidly during this short period of ti.
「So, how did it go over there?」
「Oh, about Vakala’s trial?」
「No, about the Eldesothing Empire.」
「It’s Elderado Great Empire.」
「The na of the country is not important. Deris, different from the matter of the trial, you had bad feelings about that country, right? I’m just wondering if you were okay going to that country.」
「Well, it was more like a stress reliever for to be able to harass―― wait, hmm? Did I ever talk about Elderado to you?」
「You didn’t, but as your wife, I sohow understand. Did you notice how your eyebrows go up for a mont every ti Elderado is ntioned?」
「…… Seriously?」
「Well, it’s hard to notice if you don’t look at Deris’s face all the ti. Let’s see, it’s probably before you et … maybe around the ti you t Alezel? Isn’t it fine to tell about it now?」
「Seriously….」
I’m sure it’s mostly intuition, but she’s getting the right answer. This is why won’s intuition is scary. Especially, Nell’s intuition is esper-like.
「Well, it’s not sothing interesting, so I haven’t told you about――」
「――Deris, it’s a story about you, so it’s not useless even if it’s not interesting. At least for .」
「…… Okay, I lost. This is the story of when I just transferred to this world.」
It was less than 20 years ago, but I was a teenager, so it was more than ten years ago. I, who probably used to live in Japan, stood in the middle of the wilderness of the Dai continent. I had no mory and only had my clothes on, and I was just standing there without understanding the situation.
「Was it so kind of summoning? Like the one used by Joseph to summon Chinatsu and the others?」
「No, it was a little different. In their case, the summoning was done by a summoner, even though it’s a taboo. In my case, it seems that I was spirited away. Maybe I should say, I accidentally fell into a hole that miraculously opened up? Well, in short, I ca to this world by the whim of the world, not by the intention of an evil demon king, a god protecting the world, or anyone else. In addition, perhaps due to such an unorthodox thod, I had lost all mory of myself. In a sense, this Deris na is a fake na. I don’t even know my real na.」
「How should I put it, that was unfortunate….」
「Actually, that’s where the real misfortune began.」
I was only a young man who had lost his mory, and I was stunned by a scene I had never seen or heard of. I knew nothing about this world, and I was thrown there without warning. When that happens to a human being, there is only one thing to do. Ask soone for help. At that ti, I spotted a group of carriages in the wilderness. I rushed at them at full speed and shouted for help while waving my hands.
「But the guys in the carriages were slave hunters from Elderado, and I was captured easily. They must have found my otherworldly clothes and other small belongings unusual, so they stripped of all my possessions. I wonder where my clothes and belongings from that ti are now….」
「Is that true? Looking at Deris now, I can’t believe it at all.」
「Even I had tis when I was inexperienced. I was adapted to this world to so extent when I t Nell. Well, I guess you could say that I am the person I am today because of that bitter experience.」
「Hmm, I see. It’s getting interesting. So, what happened next?」
「Eh, is it interesting? Really…?」
I was caught by the slave hunters and was taken to sowhere with a cloth bag covered head. I was naked, it was really cold, and all I could hear through the cloth was the sound of soone sobbing and the wheels of the wagon running on the ground.
After that, I was allowed to drink only lukewarm water, and we continued to travel by carriage for several days. After moving from place to place, we finally ended up in the imperial capital of Elderado. Moreover, it was the imperial castle. However, it was not above ground, but an underground prison. Even though I was released from the cloth bag, there was hardly any light, only the light from a crude candle at best. At this point, I was in a pretty lethargic state, but when I saw the place I ended up, I was even more disheartened. I an, that place was clearly not normal.
「The situation was getting worse and worse, huh? Was it still getting worse?」
「Sadly, it was still getting worse. That was exactly the bottom of my life.」
Around this ti, Elderado was collecting slaves using illegal ans. So were kidnapped like , and others were brought in as criminals. There were many purposes, but none of them were good, such as drug experints, training partners for modified monsters, and the project to enhance humans. I didn’t know what they were going to do to at the ti, but I knew that once I was let out of prison for those purposes, I would never be allowed to co back. In fact, no one ever ca back after being let out of prison.
However, maybe it was a blessing in disguise. I gained power, although imperfectly, after being transferred to this world. To be specific, I was level 3. Also, there were quite a few slaves in prison. They were probably used as disposable experintal materials, but it ant that I had so ti before my turn ca around.
So, at this ti, I made a desperate effort to live, which was so unlike . I asked my dead-eyed prison roommate about the systems of this world, and I trained my abilities with limited information, environnt, and ti. When pushed to the limit, people can really show their real strength. Thus, I was able to reach level 4 in a few weeks. I might be slow compared to Haru, but I think I did pretty well in that environnt. I had no ntor, the food slled bad, and there are other problems―― but the turning point ca. It was the fateful day when I left the prison, not to be used for their goal, but to escape for my freedom.
That day, when my turn finally ca around, I pretended to be weak in prison. I ignored everything even when called, acting as if I couldn’t even get up on my own. The mont two Elderado soldiers unlocked the cell and approached to carry out was the mont to fight. I succeeded in killing them quickly and with surprisingly calm composure, even though it was my first battle and I was dealing with humans. I’m glad that they were just ordinary soldiers. By that ti, my roommate was gone, and no one would ever find out. Borrowing the equipnt of the soldier, I escaped the prison in the darkness. ‘Now, this is where the real thing starts,’ I fired myself up.
『…… Well, uh, I-I’m not soone suspicious. I-I’m telling the truth.』
After I fired myself up, I made a blunder that I encountered soone around a corner. However, the one who said that was the other party.
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