Hnngghh… another dream of the past…
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This soft sensation...
I slowly open my eyes…
“Asagao!~ Good morning!”
“Alstroe?”
“Ehehehe!~”
“WAH!”
“What’s wrong?”
“Aren’t Higan and I supposed to be on night duty?!”
“Hmm? You two fell asleep.”
“Eeee…”
That’s right. I told Alstroe and master that we want to take on a night duty. Higan and I don’t want to rely so much to the two of them so we ask them to sleep.
We decided that we will stay awake for the whole night. I think we were able to stay awake for a really long time…
“Umm…where’s Higan?”
“She is sleeping on my other lap.”
“Ah…how long have we been sleeping?”
“Hmm… I don’t know but, you two fell asleep after four hours.”
“Ehh?!”
“Hnngghhh….”
Higan wakes up and Alstroe greets her like how she greeted me.
“Ah…we fell asleep…sorry”
“Yeah…sorry…Alstroe…”
“I don’t mind!~”
“Wait…Alstroe…”
Something is off…
“How did you know we fell asleep? You didn’t sleep too?”
“Un. I was worried.”
“That’s….it means you already knew this would happen?”
“Yes.”
That feels really bad…We volunteered ourselves for night duty to keep watch. What’s more embarrassing is that Alstroe expected this.
What if Alstroe-nee and master did really sleep while we fell asleep too and monsters attack us?
I take a peek at Higan, she seems to think about it too. We don’t have any excuse for this.
For the past month, Alstroe and master would stay on guard every night while Higan and I sleep comfortably inside the tent.
I never saw Alstroe and Master sleep at night. They don’t have any rotation too. How can they keep up with that?
Alstroe may take a nap at day time but that’s only for two to three hours. Four hours at most. It’s also the same with master.
“Don’t knit your brows over something stupid like that, my idiot disciples.”
“”Master?””
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“Either way, Miss Alstroe will stay awake at night because of her vitality. On the other hand, I will stay awake because night time is where my magic power surges that it won’t let me sleep.”
“But master, even if you say that, the fact that we volunteered ourselves for a night du--!”
“For gods sake! Listen here! Do you think your immature and tiny bodies of a whelp can endure a tasking job of staying awake at night?! I don’t think so! Night is made for children and adult alike to sleep. Sleep is necessary, especially for children to grow up healthily! Do you really think that bodies of yours are up to the task?! Do you?!”
“”No…””
“SEE?! I, myself, is really old and I need no more sleep, Alstroe-sama on the other hand…”
“?”
“Hmm…”
“”??””
“Miss Alstroe, I think you should also sleep with these two blockheads.”
“Why?”
“Well…why not? I mean, would you rather have me sleep with them?”
“Would you rather take a trip to hell?”
“See?! What I mean is! Isn’t it fine if I alone, take this night duty job?!”
‘Would you rather have me sleep with them’ is a really indecent misunderstanding that came out from your mouth, master. And to think we get a preaching about importance of sleep to the guy who gave us torturous physical training…
Anyway, Alstroe-nee agrees to master’s proposal. Master makes a fair point to be honest. And to think that he actually said that his magic power surges at night…
Master started calling us idiots too…
We wrap things up and ready ourselves because right now, we will venture a forest. Master already told us about it.
This is the Forest of Fantasma… it has a lot of ghost in it. No magical beast in there but, the forest itself is a maze but master told us that he already knew the way.
He also said that he is going to the city inside the forest because he wanted to visit a friend of his.
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“GYAAAAAAHH!!!”
“Alstroe! Calm down!”
“Fufufu~ Alstroe is certainly cute!~”
“There’s something that definitely touched my shoulder!!!”
“Alstroe…how many times should we tell you, we are inside of that kind of forest, expect a real GHOST to touch you.”
“EEEHHHHH!”
Alstroe is clinging to me. This is rare. I never thought Alstroe dislikes ghost or rather, she is scared of them.
Ehehehe.
I never thought too that Alstroe would be so cute while being scared and all teary eyes while shaking!
“I’m sorry for this Miss Alstroe, from the entrance, it will take us about four hours to get to the city, until then, please endure it.”
“UEEEHHHH!!??”
“Un, Alstroe, we can’t have you breaking trees or worst, destroying the whole forest.”
“FUEHHH?! Asagao, that’s mean!”
“And I’ll tell you to Cecille.”
“Eeeeep!”
“Why are you so scared of ghosts anyway?”
“EH? It’s because I can’t hit them!”
“Well, of course…”
You need to use a magic of soul weapon to defeat it. Alstroe-nee is a rare Ki user so she definitely doesn't have a way to defeat a ghost.
It’s another story if someone gave her an elemental enhancement.
“Asagao, Higan. How are you two fine with all these ghosts around?!”
“You’re asking us that now Alstroe…”
“Alstroe, there are a lot of ghosts in the Fox Manor you know. I am in friendly terms with the ghosts there so I am pretty much used to them. When a guest comes, they will sometimes play prank to them. I also treated them as a friend….”
“As for me…I really don’t like being by myself…I don’t like things that could hurt me too…but ghosts are different…they can’t harm you… and when there’s a ghosts around…even if I am alone…I feel like someone is there for me…”
“These idiots, isn’t just because you two are just lonely that you treated ghosts as a friend?!”
“”EHHH?””
“Uuu….”
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After Alstroe endured the four hours trip inside the forest, we arrive at the City of Niflheim…
The guards though…aren’t those Dullahans?! The headless riders of the underworld or something…
We approach the guardsmen…A.K.A, the dullahans…
“Hola aventureros!”
“Hola! I am Mrothgir, the amigo of Governor Gria!”
“Ah! I know you! You are indeed the friend of gobernador! Please come in!”
“Gracias!”
What?
I feel like my face is blanking because of the conversation that erupted in front of me. No less it's a conversation in foreign language from my world.
“M-master!”
“Oh? I haven’t told you? This friend of mine is really eccentric. He is the ruler of this city, a vampire. And this city is the city of the undead. It’s really popular because of its foreign culture. “
“Yeah…but…that…weird language earlier…”
“Oh? He is a reincarnator. I really don’t know the details about it but, he really never hides that fact. The language earlier is something he popularized. Most undead here can speak both that language and our language.”
“…”
“Everyone on the continent knows that he is a reincanator. Well, part of it is because he is a true ancestor too. He was also a candidate to be a demon lord, but sadly, he blew it purposely.”
“…”
“Don’t worry. I am fluent in this language too. If you want, I’ll buy you a book for this language.”
“…”
“Asagao?”
What?!
I look at the sidewalks…there are undeads such as…ghouls, a burning horse or something…a walking pumpkin lantern, zombies who looks really intelligent and many more.
There is one thing prominent to them….they has these curvaceous moustaches…
Also, when you say City of undead, you would imagine it is something like a dead silent city… this city however, is booming with life with all these undeads! The signs too…are those…are those….
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We arrive at the Mansion of the Governor…
When the maids…the maid looks normal….saw master…they immediately let master in and we were escorted to the guest room.
The room however is filled with…a drum? A hat with pointy top and something like maracas…
Honestly….what is this reincarnator guy looks like?!
“Mi Amigo Mrothgir! It’s been a long time!!!”
“Como estas mi amigo Gria!?”
“I am fine! What is the occasion you visited? Also, I’ll speak to your native tongue since these hermosas chicas can’t understand it!”
“Oh, I see. Then, I am here for the usual!”
“I see, I see! Let me introduce myself to these chicas!”
He got close to us.
“I am the governor of the City of Niflheim! A vampire, a True Ancestor. Gria Hellbeing, A reincarnator, nice meeting you ladies!”
Really now…