The winds are favorable. And because the waves were gentle, everyone except Ayl and Merumo are fine in regards to seasickness.
At first I was up the mast surveying the state of the sea, using Search Skill to detect whether there were reefs or not, but the concern for reefs disappears as we left the shore, visible on our left, and I ended up just watching the compass.
Seth is also saying, “It’s going well.”
Ayl and Merumo don’t look too good; I don’t know if it will be effective or not, but I gave them a recovery potion, then went to check on Velsa’s state.
Ever since the departure, Velsa has shut herself in the captain’s quarters, performing some kind of experiment.
“What are you doing?”
“N? Aah, just some experiments. I got my hands on some plants from the desert. I’m trying out all sorts of things on them.”
So saying, she put some red liquid on a seed that was on top of a small plate and took some data.
Taking care not to disturb her, I took a magic book we’d gotten as a reward from Riddle-san from the book shelf to read on the deck. The bookshelf and desk and the like were all items we had gotten in the city of Floura.
I actually wanted to have our meals in the captain’s quarters, but we’ll have our meals on the deck for a while. Since it seems Ayl and Merumo are having a hard time.
I read the magic book, feeling the breeze that smelled of salt, and drifted into a tranquil mood.
I can tell there are a lot of monsters in the sea lurking about when I use the Search Skill, but they don’t seem like they’re coming to attack so I leave them alone.
The magic book has things like how to control your magic power written in it, so I try to put it into practice while I read the book.
It seems that magic power has various kinds of properties. I was able to easily picture it one way or another since I use the sticky traps which use a magic circle that uses magic power to add adhesive properties to it.
It said the magic power can do other things, like changing something to have the properties of rubber that can reduce impacts.
However it seems like there wasn’t much use for it and there weren’t many magic users that could use it. The magic book’s author wrote, ‘There could be new possibilities with this kind of magic.’
If there’s a magic circle that could turn magic power into rubber, then the ship can ram into things. Thinking along those lines, I thought up a magic circle in my head. As expected of Magic Circle Studies level 10. Next would be to plaster the magic circle on the ship’s hull when we reach shore, I thought.
“Thinking up something bad again?”
As I’m smirking, Ayl, still not looking well, came over to pick a fight. She’s still feeling really bad, I guess. Her face is blue.
“I was thinking about remodeling the ship a little with magic.”
“Good grief… is there no magic for curing seasickness?”
Ayl asked as she pointed at the magic book.
“I don’t know. Try training your sense of balance while watching the waves.”
Even though Ayl said, “What’s with that?” she went to watch the waves.
Wondering whether I could fish with the sticky traps, I tied the end of the fishing pole’s like to a sticky trap and threw it towards the monsters in the sea. However, the material the sticky boards are made of is a wooden plank, so no matter what I did it floated on the water’s surface. I tried drawing the magic circle on a stone, but the problem this time was that it was difficult to hit a monster.
I passed the time away while experimenting to see whether there was some new way I could fish with it somehow.
I ate lunch after noon. It seems like Ayle and Merumo didn’t want any.
Seth said, “Let’s return to shore on the early side,” and we got back to work again.
We furled the sails before nightfall.
We’re staying the night at the fishing village called Saltiry. It’s a small village without a Merchant’s Guild or Adventurer’s Guild.
After getting off the ship, Ayl and Merumo said, “The ground is still swaying.”
When we asked the villagers, who were staring at our ship like it was something rare, what the village’s specialty product was, they responded with dried fillets of a monster called herringfish. When we went to the beach to buy some, t racks of drying fish were lined up there. We bought 20 of them, since they’re things that look like they’ll keep for a while. Are herringfish something similar to pacific herring? It was terribly delicious when we ate it after roasting it over the fire for a bit.
Velsa bought fruit that we hadn’t seen in Floura. A papaya-looking fruit that the villagers called paupau.
“Save the seeds. I’ll wash them and use them.”
Velsa peeled the fruit, then removed the seed with a knife like she was trying not to scratch it.
There’s an inn at the village, so we’re staying the night at the inn. It’s 5 copper coins per person, with breakfast included. I don’t want to spend too much money, but it can’t be helped with Ayl and Merumo still having a hard time.
In the dead of night, I heard someone screaming from the forest opposite the sea. When I went with Seth, who was sleeping on the bed next to me, to see what it was, there was a leopard-like monster. It’s called a patcheopard. As for why I knew what it was called, an adventurer-like man carrying a torch came running, screaming,
“It’s a patcheopard-!”
I scattered sticky traps on the ground and lured the patcheopard in.
Running in with quite the force, the emerald-eyed patcheopard got one leg stuck on a sticky trap I’d laid and fell. Trying to get the sticky trap off, it got another leg stuck to the trap, and as it struggled, using its mouth to get at it, its cheek also got stuck. With its front legs and head caught in the sticky trap, the patcheopard was just a large cat.
Seth tied up its hind legs with a rope, robbing it completely of its movement, and lifted it to his shoulder, returning to the village. I asked whether Ayl wanted to dismantle it or if Merumo wanted to tame it. Both of them replied, “No thank you,” as they sleepily rubbed their eyes, so we went to where the people in the village had raised a bonfire and gathered around it and handed it over, telling them to boil or grill it as they pleased.
They seemed to be dumbfounded, but it’s probably best to leave the decision of whether to raise it or dismantle it to the people who live in the area.
The next morning, we ate breakfast at the inn and then set sail.
3 days after that, Ayl and Merumo have gradually gotten used to the ship. Velsa began to write a thesis, and my fishing plan had changed to making a magic tool that lets out a large sound in the sea.
Before nightfall we went in towards shore, stopping at a nearby village to report to the Adventurer’s Guild or Merchant’s Guild if they had one.
4 days after departing from the village of Saltiry. Velsa has gone and done it.
In the midst of her experiments, a vine plant with thorns, similar to a rose, suddenly grew and the vines grew throughout the ship. Ayl and I slashed the vines trying to curl around the sails, preventing the sails from being torn.
“Sorry, sorry. I didn’t think there’d be a plant that had such a great affinity to it.”
So saying, Velsa came out of the captain’s quarters without a single scratch.
“What did you do!?”
“I extracted the component from the mushrooms from Marcus-san’s place and tried giving it to the seeds of the passhiflora that grows in the grasslands and forests and it suddenly grew all at once. I think, perhaps it sucked mana from the atmosphere…”
Velsa explained apologetically.
“Did the other plants not show this kind of growth?”
“Yeah; as of now it’s only this one.”
Velsa’s always bullish on the money front, but failing at her main occupation seems to have made her depressed.
I asked Velsa what the purpose of her experiments is while all hands peeled off the vines, and,
“I thought that we’re going to need feed if Merumo raises monsters. If we raise plants on the ship then we’d be able to overcome that, right? And if we can raise monsters, then my research as a monster researcher can progress.”
It seems like she had a proper reason. There wasn’t anyone who blamed Velsa.
That day we lowered anchor to pass the night on the ship for the first time.
After all, the sun had set by the time we disposed of the vines and cleaned up. I have the Search Skill so I would be able to guide us to follow the coast without hitting the reefs, but there might be a day after this where we can’t disembark onto the shore, so today ended up being practice while it’s still safe for that kind of situation. Night on the sea could be different from the day, so we have alternating watch shifts.
“They say that sea monsters become active at night.”
Captain Seth said.
In fact, when the sun set and it got dark, I felt that the sea monsters in the area had increased. We’re completely surrounded when I take a look with the Search Skill. I can even see the sheet of spray raised by a black monster leaping. Furthermore, there are ghost type monsters walking along the surface of the sea. They’re taking on the forms of people that had died at sea, but confused by the confusion bell, they begin to kill each other. From what I could see, dead people are killing each other, so somehow I feel like I’m watching an incomprehensible scene.
I also tried out the spherical magic tool the let’s off a loud noise.
When thrown, the instant it hit the sea’s surface, KIIII—N; that sound rang out. It seems that it’s not that loud to a human’s ears. I can tell I threw it, but if it also made the sound of an explosion and it woke Ayl and the others while they’re sleeping, then it’s possible I’d get beat up.
“What’d you do?”
“Ha-!”
Ayl is right next to me, startling me to death.
“You scared me. What, weren’t you sleeping?”
“Nah, I couldn’t sleep for some reason. It seems like everyone else isn’t sleeping either.”
When I look, everyone’s out on the deck, looking in the direction I threw the magic tool.
They probably can’t calm down with monsters in the vicinity. I wonder if it’s something like survival instinct.
“Uwo-! President, what kind of thing did you make?”
Seth said, pointing at the surface of the sea.
Fish monsters that had fainted from the sound were beginning to float to the surface.
Velsa and Merumo use the sticky boards with just the string attached to them from my failures and retrieved the monsters.
“Heave ho; the catch at night is big isn’t it?”
Ayl said, looking at the mountain of fish monsters on the deck. We killed all of them and put them in the item bag.
We’re just dealing the final blow and putting them in the item bags, but it took up until dawn. A fog hung over the sea.
Just when I was thinking it was time to sleep, I picked up something strange on with Search Skill. A gray dot was being washed closer this way by the waves. When I looked with my naked eye, a small boat was drawing closer.
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know. But the person in it doesn’t seem to be alive.”
Pulling in the small boat and checking inside, there was a middle-aged man dressed in well-to-do clothing slashed from shoulder to chest, dead. The interior of the small boat was covered in blood, and there were traces of him being slashed with a blade in the bow of the ship.
It would be fine if we acted like we didn’t see it and left the small boat carry the remains in it away, but if this man has a family waiting; thinking like that, I found it pitiable. I don’t know what happened, but this has to be a murder.
Raising the corpse to the deck, the small boat might also be needed as evidence, so I pulled it up with a rope.
“Let’s head to shore once the fog lifts.”
“Guess we have to.”
“It would be good if this person has acquaintances there.”
And that’s how things turned out.
The winds are favorable. And because the waves were gentle, everyone except Ayl and Merumo are fine in regards to seasickness.
At first I was up the mast surveying the state of the sea, using Search Skill to detect whether there were reefs or not, but the concern for reefs disappears as we left the shore, visible on our left, and I ended up just watching the compass.
Seth is also saying, “It’s going well.”
Ayl and Merumo don’t look too good; I don’t know if it will be effective or not, but I gave them a recovery potion, then went to check on Velsa’s state.
Ever since the departure, Velsa has shut herself in the captain’s quarters, performing some kind of experiment.
“What are you doing?”
“N? Aah, just some experiments. I got my hands on some plants from the desert. I’m trying out all sorts of things on them.”
So saying, she put some red liquid on a seed that was on top of a small plate and took some data.
Taking care not to disturb her, I took a magic book we’d gotten as a reward from Riddle-san from the book shelf to read on the deck. The bookshelf and desk and the like were all items we had gotten in the city of Floura.
I actually wanted to have our meals in the captain’s quarters, but we’ll have our meals on the deck for a while. Since it seems Ayl and Merumo are having a hard time.
I read the magic book, feeling the breeze that smelled of salt, and drifted into a tranquil mood.
I can tell there are a lot of monsters in the sea lurking about when I use the Search Skill, but they don’t seem like they’re coming to attack so I leave them alone.
The magic book has things like how to control your magic power written in it, so I try to put it into practice while I read the book.
It seems that magic power has various kinds of properties. I was able to easily picture it one way or another since I use the sticky traps which use a magic circle that uses magic power to add adhesive properties to it.
It said the magic power can do other things, like changing something to have the properties of rubber that can reduce impacts.
However it seems like there wasn’t much use for it and there weren’t many magic users that could use it. The magic book’s author wrote, ‘There could be new possibilities with this kind of magic.’
If there’s a magic circle that could turn magic power into rubber, then the ship can ram into things. Thinking along those lines, I thought up a magic circle in my head. As expected of Magic Circle Studies level 10. Next would be to plaster the magic circle on the ship’s hull when we reach shore, I thought.
“Thinking up something bad again?”
As I’m smirking, Ayl, still not looking well, came over to pick a fight. She’s still feeling really bad, I guess. Her face is blue.
“I was thinking about remodeling the ship a little with magic.”
“Good grief… is there no magic for curing seasickness?”
Ayl asked as she pointed at the magic book.
“I don’t know. Try training your sense of balance while watching the waves.”
Even though Ayl said, “What’s with that?” she went to watch the waves.
Wondering whether I could fish with the sticky traps, I tied the end of the fishing pole’s like to a sticky trap and threw it towards the monsters in the sea. However, the material the sticky boards are made of is a wooden plank, so no matter what I did it floated on the water’s surface. I tried drawing the magic circle on a stone, but the problem this time was that it was difficult to hit a monster.
I passed the time away while experimenting to see whether there was some new way I could fish with it somehow.
I ate lunch after noon. It seems like Ayle and Merumo didn’t want any.
Seth said, “Let’s return to shore on the early side,” and we got back to work again.
We furled the sails before nightfall.
We’re staying the night at the fishing village called Saltiry. It’s a small village without a Merchant’s Guild or Adventurer’s Guild.
After getting off the ship, Ayl and Merumo said, “The ground is still swaying.”
When we asked the villagers, who were staring at our ship like it was something rare, what the village’s specialty product was, they responded with dried fillets of a monster called herringfish. When we went to the beach to buy some, t racks of drying fish were lined up there. We bought 20 of them, since they’re things that look like they’ll keep for a while. Are herringfish something similar to pacific herring? It was terribly delicious when we ate it after roasting it over the fire for a bit.
Velsa bought fruit that we hadn’t seen in Floura. A papaya-looking fruit that the villagers called paupau.
“Save the seeds. I’ll wash them and use them.”
Velsa peeled the fruit, then removed the seed with a knife like she was trying not to scratch it.
There’s an inn at the village, so we’re staying the night at the inn. It’s 5 copper coins per person, with breakfast included. I don’t want to spend too much money, but it can’t be helped with Ayl and Merumo still having a hard time.
In the dead of night, I heard someone screaming from the forest opposite the sea. When I went with Seth, who was sleeping on the bed next to me, to see what it was, there was a leopard-like monster. It’s called a patcheopard. As for why I knew what it was called, an adventurer-like man carrying a torch came running, screaming,
“It’s a patcheopard-!”
I scattered sticky traps on the ground and lured the patcheopard in.
Running in with quite the force, the emerald-eyed patcheopard got one leg stuck on a sticky trap I’d laid and fell. Trying to get the sticky trap off, it got another leg stuck to the trap, and as it struggled, using its mouth to get at it, its cheek also got stuck. With its front legs and head caught in the sticky trap, the patcheopard was just a large cat.
Seth tied up its hind legs with a rope, robbing it completely of its movement, and lifted it to his shoulder, returning to the village. I asked whether Ayl wanted to dismantle it or if Merumo wanted to tame it. Both of them replied, “No thank you,” as they sleepily rubbed their eyes, so we went to where the people in the village had raised a bonfire and gathered around it and handed it over, telling them to boil or grill it as they pleased.
They seemed to be dumbfounded, but it’s probably best to leave the decision of whether to raise it or dismantle it to the people who live in the area.
The next morning, we ate breakfast at the inn and then set sail.
3 days after that, Ayl and Merumo have gradually gotten used to the ship. Velsa began to write a thesis, and my fishing plan had changed to making a magic tool that lets out a large sound in the sea.
Before nightfall we went in towards shore, stopping at a nearby village to report to the Adventurer’s Guild or Merchant’s Guild if they had one.
4 days after departing from the village of Saltiry. Velsa has gone and done it.
In the midst of her experiments, a vine plant with thorns, similar to a rose, suddenly grew and the vines grew throughout the ship. Ayl and I slashed the vines trying to curl around the sails, preventing the sails from being torn.
“Sorry, sorry. I didn’t think there’d be a plant that had such a great affinity to it.”
So saying, Velsa came out of the captain’s quarters without a single scratch.
“What did you do!?”
“I extracted the component from the mushrooms from Marcus-san’s place and tried giving it to the seeds of the passhiflora that grows in the grasslands and forests and it suddenly grew all at once. I think, perhaps it sucked mana from the atmosphere…”
Velsa explained apologetically.
“Did the other plants not show this kind of growth?”
“Yeah; as of now it’s only this one.”
Velsa’s always bullish on the money front, but failing at her main occupation seems to have made her depressed.
I asked Velsa what the purpose of her experiments is while all hands peeled off the vines, and,
“I thought that we’re going to need feed if Merumo raises monsters. If we raise plants on the ship then we’d be able to overcome that, right? And if we can raise monsters, then my research as a monster researcher can progress.”
It seems like she had a proper reason. There wasn’t anyone who blamed Velsa.
That day we lowered anchor to pass the night on the ship for the first time.
After all, the sun had set by the time we disposed of the vines and cleaned up. I have the Search Skill so I would be able to guide us to follow the coast without hitting the reefs, but there might be a day after this where we can’t disembark onto the shore, so today ended up being practice while it’s still safe for that kind of situation. Night on the sea could be different from the day, so we have alternating watch shifts.
“They say that sea monsters become active at night.”
Captain Seth said.
In fact, when the sun set and it got dark, I felt that the sea monsters in the area had increased. We’re completely surrounded when I take a look with the Search Skill. I can even see the sheet of spray raised by a black monster leaping. Furthermore, there are ghost type monsters walking along the surface of the sea. They’re taking on the forms of people that had died at sea, but confused by the confusion bell, they begin to kill each other. From what I could see, dead people are killing each other, so somehow I feel like I’m watching an incomprehensible scene.
I also tried out the spherical magic tool the let’s off a loud noise.
When thrown, the instant it hit the sea’s surface, KIIII—N; that sound rang out. It seems that it’s not that loud to a human’s ears. I can tell I threw it, but if it also made the sound of an explosion and it woke Ayl and the others while they’re sleeping, then it’s possible I’d get beat up.
“What’d you do?”
“Ha-!”
Ayl is right next to me, startling me to death.
“You scared me. What, weren’t you sleeping?”
“Nah, I couldn’t sleep for some reason. It seems like everyone else isn’t sleeping either.”
When I look, everyone’s out on the deck, looking in the direction I threw the magic tool.
They probably can’t calm down with monsters in the vicinity. I wonder if it’s something like survival instinct.
“Uwo-! President, what kind of thing did you make?”
Seth said, pointing at the surface of the sea.
Fish monsters that had fainted from the sound were beginning to float to the surface.
Velsa and Merumo use the sticky boards with just the string attached to them from my failures and retrieved the monsters.
“Heave ho; the catch at night is big isn’t it?”
Ayl said, looking at the mountain of fish monsters on the deck. We killed all of them and put them in the item bag.
We’re just dealing the final blow and putting them in the item bags, but it took up until dawn. A fog hung over the sea.
Just when I was thinking it was time to sleep, I picked up something strange on with Search Skill. A gray dot was being washed closer this way by the waves. When I looked with my naked eye, a small boat was drawing closer.
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know. But the person in it doesn’t seem to be alive.”
Pulling in the small boat and checking inside, there was a middle-aged man dressed in well-to-do clothing slashed from shoulder to chest, dead. The interior of the small boat was covered in blood, and there were traces of him being slashed with a blade in the bow of the ship.
It would be fine if we acted like we didn’t see it and left the small boat carry the remains in it away, but if this man has a family waiting; thinking like that, I found it pitiable. I don’t know what happened, but this has to be a murder.
Raising the corpse to the deck, the small boat might also be needed as evidence, so I pulled it up with a rope.
“Let’s head to shore once the fog lifts.”
“Guess we have to.”
“It would be good if this person has acquaintances there.”
And that’s how things turned out.
