Arc 27: The Reverse World
Chapter 295: The Dinsional Gate Mark-2 and the Color Red
「This is the Dinsional Gate Mark-2. Despite the na though, the design is still fundantally the sa」(Professor Regina)
At the place where the professor points to is the dinsional gate which was installed in the “Garden” of Babylon. Next to original is the identical copy.
It’s a silver arch-shaped “Gate” resembling a miniature-sized France’s Arc de Triomphe. Just like the original — I suppose it’s appropriate to call it “Mark-1”? — there’s a semi-circular ter at the top portion of the arc.
「Those two dinsional gates are linked by space-ti magic and have the coordinate axis of the other dinsion affixed... So umm, it basically ans that they’re connected. If you install Mark-2 in the world on the other side, it should be possible for us to co and go as we please」(Professor Regina)
「I see. So I only need to set it up in a safe place on the other side, right?」(Touya)
Since the gate won’t start up unless enormous amounts of magic are poured into it, soone from that side coming over here is hardly worrying. However, it’ll be troubleso in its own way if the gate itself gets destroyed just because no one else can activate it.
Should I place it in the middle of nowhere that’s perfectly isolated and maybe install a magic barrier in the vicinity?
Ah. It’ll be nice if I can get my hands on the golems of that world and order them to guard the dinsional gate.
「With this, we’ll be able to cross over to the other side as well 」(Linzie)
The Professor averts her eyes apologetically from Linzie, who muttered so while looking up at the dinsional gate.
「Aa~... about that. To tell you the truth, the gate isn’t perfectly adjusted just yet. It still has so limitations, assuming that soone wants to go with Touya-kun to the other side this ti, ~you see」(Babylon)
「Limitations...? Is it the number of people?」(Yae)
Yae asks the Professor. Is the number of people I can bring with limited? I want to take everybody with if possible.
「Rather than the number of people, the limitation is in the total mass of anyone or anything passing through the gate. Umm, converting the weight to our standards, the person aside from Touya-kun has to be almost or less than 50kg ...at 48kg, there won’t be any problems」
Several people froze in place due to the professor’s rciless words. Oi...... what should I do.... with this mood?
There’s an accurate weighing scale in the changing room that I’ve made for everyone in the castle, so everyone should be aware of their own weight.
Without inquiring more into it, I’m not very anxious about the professor’s and Suu’s weight, both of which shouldn’t have any problem since their bodies are still that of a little girl. The petite Yumina, Rin, and Luu are probably safe as well.
Apart from Sakura, who’s expressionlessly tilting her head in puzzlent, the ones whose eyes are being restless are the older girls naly Yae, Hilda, Elzie, and Linze.
Nope, it shouldn’t be strange for 15 to 16-year-old girls to weigh more than 50kg, right? Though I’m not so sure about that either.
I suppose girls in this world are weight-conscious as well, aren’t they...? In comparison to them, young n here don’t seem to mind theirs so much.
「Say, I probably have to find a safe place on the other side first to hide the other end of the dinsional gate, shouldn’t I? It’s kinda scary if once everybody goes to that world right away. Sothing may happen, and we might not be able to return back here」(Touya)
I say sothing vital to them, and the older girls start speaking all at the sa ti as if life has returned to them.
「T-that’s right! We still can’t say for sure that traveling to that world is really safe!」(Yae)
「Yae-san is right! It’s still too early to make that assumption!」(Linzie)
「That’s right! It’s not like that world will disappear if we don’t hurry!」(Elzie)
「W-well then. It ans that all of us going together will have to be saved for another ti...」(Hilda)
I sohow understand what they’re thinking about, but I just keep my thoughts to myself. There are matters that no man must intrude upon.
(Black: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))
Yumina and the others aren’t really objecting on the matter either. It’s probably because they can’t deny that going to the other side is still too early. It’s only Suu who’s a little angry though.
「Well, it’s certainly more reliable to do things that way. Doing fine adjustnts after setting it up first is a safer bet」(Babylon)
The professor nods lightly in agreent. Then wouldn’t it have been better if you’ve just said that right from the beginning? Didn’t you just cause unnecessary and excessive tension?
In any case, I settle the matter aside, store the dinsional gate mark-2 inside “Storage”, and start pouring magic power into Mark-1. Although I had poured so much just the other day, it beca empty after one transfer.
I think the poor energy consumption is also a characteristic that needs improvent. It does ensure that only I can use this gate, but is that limitation really safe?
When the semicircular board fully opens, a fluctuation occurs inside the gate. A scenery of so wasteland is now being projected.
Mark-2 is still inside my “Storage” and it has yet to be set up. As such, this gate has probably connected to a random location again.
Well, this isn’t a problem since I can transfer to the Holy Capital Allen of Saint Kingdom Arendt using “Gate”.
「I’m off then. I’ll return tomorrow or the day after tomorrow」(Touya)
Considering the deviation of ti during the mont of transfer, I can probably find a place to set the gate up in about a day.
「Please don’t do sothing absurd like you always do, ok?」 (Yumina)
This... I’ve been stabbed by Yumina. No, each ti I do sothing rash, I don’t an to act like that in the beginning. Perhaps I should say that things just simply turn out that way...
「It’s because Touya-dono is being dragged around by his surroundings」 (Yae)
「He often ends up acting in the spur of the mont」(Hilda)
「Don’t poke your head into anything even if there’s trouble in front of you. You hear ? Do you understand?」(Elzie)
「T-then, I’m off!」(Touya)
Following after Yumina, Yae had co attacking with a final blow alongside Hilda and Elzie, so I just escaped by passing through the dinsional gate.
Once I take one more step while experiencing the discomfort of coming through a rubber-like film, I then see the wasteland that I’ve seen from beyond the dinsional gate.
A tall wall of rock can be seen on the opposite side of the rock-filled wasteland. It’s like the Arican wild west that I’ve seen in the movies. It feels as if a cavalry would appear from sowhere here.
「First of all, I have to determine where I am right now... Wow! I ca out a lot further away from Arendt than before」(Touya)
I confirm my location using my map app, and it shows that I’m in the south-eastern side of the Reverse World... If I am to draw a parallel to our world and reverse it, I’m around where the Sandora region is supposed to be. Arendt is located around where Rodoa is, which ans I’m considerably far away.
Oh well. I can still go to Arendt using “Gate” even if I’m very far away from the capital.
(Black: For those who made the sa mistake as I did, the reverse world is simply a mirror image of the surface world. aning only the East and West are reversed. The North and South are still the sa. The reverse world is inverse of the surface world only in the y-axis or longitudinally, not the x-axis)
「Now then. What should I do? I can just set-up the dinsional gate in this place since there’s not a soul anywhere around here......」(Touya)
There’s only a vast wasteland as far as the eye can see. There’s not even a trace of human presence nor are there visible roads in the vicinity. Doesn’t this area seem like a place which any human would hardly visit? As far as our requirents are a concern, this place isn’t bad.
Nonetheless, this place isn’t necessarily safe. After all, magic beasts might be wandering about. I had encountered one when I first ca to this world. Given that there might be monsters like that double-headed dragon wandering around, there’s the possibility of the gate getting destroyed.
I can make an invisible wall enchanted with “Shield” and disguise the gate as a rock or sothing with “Mirage”... It should be safe, but I’m really uneasy about this place nevertheless...
The best place to install the gate would be in the basent of a solitary house... probably. The place itself will beco a camouflage, making the gate safe to outside forces to so extent.
Have soone stay at that house will be luxurious of us, but that’s just impossible... There’s no way I can just say to anyone from this world that “I ca from a neighboring world” and have them cooperate with .
I can just call upon a summoned beast though... But it’ll disappear once I return to the other side. Damn it! I should’ve asked the professor to make one more tank for storing my magic power.
「......In the end, should I just go and get myself a golem?」(Touya)
Thus I finally decide on acquiring a golem after giving myself a flimsy reason. According to Sancho-san, the rchant of this world, anyone could buy a golem even if those golems are considerably expensive as long that person has enough money to pay for one.
「With that decided, it’s now ti to earn money and gather information, isn’t it?」(Touya)
I don’t have any right now. I had gotten money before by asking Sancho-san to buy a golden ingot from , but I gambled all of it in a casino.
...... Co to think of it, I have yet to receive the money for the orichalcum and adamantium that I’ve handed over to the chivalrous thieves “Red Cats”.
Last ti I saw them, I had helped them escape from the knights and ended up parting ways right away... Since I have no money right now, should I go and get their paynt?
「Ummm, “Red Cats”~, umm」(Touya)
I search for their leader, Nia. Right now she’s in a country nad the Strain Kingdom. That place, which near the town of Carne, is close to where the group was last ti in the Saint Kingdom of Arendt.
She’s not in the town itself though. Although they’re chivalrous, they’re no different from a band of thieves, so they may not want to draw excessive public attention to themselves.
I zoom in on their location, and it appears they’re in the forest. Looks like there’s a thin stone wall-like thing in that place, but... the indicator says “Dwuzu Fort Remains”. They‘re probably using an abandoned fort as a hideout, but I don’t understand the detailed layout of the facilities just by using the map search of my smartphone.
I searched for the other “Red Cats”, but there are not even 30 people altogether. Aren’t there quite few of them right now? Are they in the middle of an operation or sothing?
Well, it doesn’t matter. For the ti being, I should go to them.
“Gate” isn’t usable because the place that I’m going to is sowhere that I’ve never been to before. It may be possible to use “Teleport”, but the destination can’t be determined very accurately since it’s too far away. If I unskillfully teleport to sowhere else, I could end up above so river or inside a house. It’s impossible to do a transition if there’s sothing in the way because transitioning inside a wall or sothing similar is also impossible.
In the first place, “Teleport” is a transition magic that’s not suitable for a long distance travel.
However, the location is inside the forest, so it should be fine to so degree, right? I try scanning the surrounding area, but there’s no one else in the vicinity aside from the mbers of the “Red Cats”. Therefore, teleporting to that place won’t be a problem for even if I’m seen by soone. Every mber of the “Red Cats” already know about my transition magic. Well, let’s do it while practicing “Teleport” at the sa ti, okay?
The direction is... that way, right? The distance... according to this map is... this much....
「Teleport」(Touya)
The surrounding scenery instantly changes from a wasteland to a forest. Because I had transitioned with a 10-centiter difference above ground, I lost my footing for a mont there, but I sohow did manage not to fall down.
「Mmm...... So it’s impossible to do it in one go, huh? As expected」(Touya)
Looking at the map, I see that the fort is still a few distances ahead from here since I’ve appeared several kiloters away from it.
It didn’t go as well as I’d predicted. As for how the transition feels like, it closely felt like throwing a wastepaper into a garbage box located several ters in front of soone. Although it might be possible to do a transition accurately if I get used to it, I still can’t do it as of this mont.
Well, it’s fine. The fort is already close to where I am right now. I‘ll just transition inside the fort with the next “Instant Movent 《Teleport》” for sure.
I’m thinking if it’s fine to just suddenly appear inside the fort, but I think it’ll be fine if I teleport right in front of Nia, their leader. I confirm her location with my map app, and it seems she’s in a place that looks like the courtyard of a fort. That area will do fine.
Without thinking very deeply about it, I do an “Instant Movent 《Teleport》” close to Nia.
In hindsight, that was a mistake. Let’s just say that it’s my negligence due to getting used to the transition magic...
「Huh?」(Nia)
The target location isn’t inside the fort courtyard but inside a room. Even though I say that it’s a “room”, it’s not the usual room, but rather, inside a big green tent.
And standing in front of is Nia, the leader of the chivalrous thieves “Red Cats”.
「..................」(Nia)
Her eyes open very wide in shock and look toward . Her red twintails are untied and are lowered straight down.
The hand that’s lifting her shirt stops moving and her short pants are laying at her feet. Her lower half only has a small red underwear.
It’s quite obvious that she’s in the middle of changing her clothes...
「Yo-o......u......！」(Nia)
「Ah-no-wait. It’s a misunderstanding. This is an accident ~you see」(Touya)
...I can sohow hear a rumbling sound to a certain extent, as Nia’s face is getting steep bright red in anger and shyness.
It seems this tent was placed inside the courtyard, and she seems to be changing her clothes here. The map search function didn’t display much of the details such as the tent and whatnot.
Looking at Nia who is approaching with a bright red face and a fiendish smile, I steel myself while looking at her grasping right fist.
「Any last words...? Ahh?」(Nia)
「Ah......」(Touya)
「Ah？」(Nia)
「Red is sowhat flashy, I..... think?」
The mont I said that Nia’s wonderful right straight hook lands on my jaw. Though I could dodge it, it was my resolution as a man to resign myself and accept her punishnt. A punch that’s strong enough to cause a brain concussion... Well, I receive that punch and collapse where I’m standing.
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