“Are you deaf? Are you not quite awake yet? I said we are at the border. Don’t make me repeat myself.”
Riley remembered that Andal’s cave and the Solia’s border were quite far apart. Still unable to believe it, he shook his head and denied the reality.
“Ah, I see. Am I still inside a dream?”
“Tsk…”
Andal clicked his tongue and shook his head as if he pitied the fool.
“Well, I closed my eyes in the cave. There is no way I would be opening my eyes at the Solia’s border. It is impossible unless I’m dreaming.”
Afterwards, Riley closed his eyes again. Watching this, Nainiae looked anxious. It seemed she was not sure what to do. She carefully corrected what had Riley said earlier.
“Young Master, this is not the Solia’s border.”
“Um?”
“This is Ansyrium’s border.”
Nainiae was saying that this was not Solia’s border but instead the Ansyrium’s border, which was located even further away from the cave than the Solia’s border. Riley had a dumbfounded look on his face for a moment. He then smiled slowly and said,
“Ansyrium?”
“… Yes.”
Nainiae responded in rat’s tail size voice. Riley looked around the forest and found fruit that were known to be found only at the Ansyrium’s region. Riley muttered,
“I see. This place really is Ansyrium.”
Looking at the fruits, Riley appeared to be amused. He scratched the back of his head and said,
“For a dream, it is constructed pretty well in detail?”
Nainiae watched Riley still insisting on the belief that this must be a dream. She looked even more ashamed than earlier. Nainiae lowered her head and apologized.
“I’m sorry, Young Master. I tried hard to recommend that it would be better for us to resolve this without you, but… My teacher is stubborn and I couldn’t change his mind by myself.”
Listening to her tearful voice, Riley forced himself to acknowledge that this situation was in fact not a dream. He couldn’t look more annoyed when he raised his upper body.
“Ugh…”
With a frustrated look on his face, Riley looked at the backs of Andal and Priesia who were having a conversation. He buried his face in his palms and mumbled,
“That son of a b*tch. I should have just left him to die.”
Riley poured out curses at Andal and got up. Watching him, Nainiae tumbled and quickly came next to Riley to dust off the dirt on his back.
“So? Did you find that bastard?”
It seemed resenting Andal was not enough for Riley. He decided to add one more individual to the list. He asked Nainiae with a cold gaze and she shook her head with the look of a sinner on her face.
“No, not yet.”
Riley crumpled his face further and glared at the back of Andal who was walking in the front.
“Someone like him is a majestic existence? Majestic my ass. He is more like a foolish existence.”
At this point, Riley had three choices.
First, he could leave Andal and Priesia be and escape this place with Nainiae back to the mansion. Second, he could help Andal and Priesia and assist in hunting down the purple human named Epidemic. Third, …
“Nainiae, you have blanket in the dimensional space, right?”
“A blanket? I’m not sure?”
It was such a strange question to ask at the moment. Nainiae checked what she had in the dimensional space and carefully nodded.
“I think there is one, but… Why would you want a blanket all of a sudden?”
“Just bring it out.”
Having heard Riley’s order, Nainiae opened the dimensional space and brought out a blanket. She held it in her two arms and waited for the next order.
“Lay it.”
“Lay it? On the ground?”
“Wide. Lay it down wide.”
Having heard Riley’s order about making the blanket as wide as possible on the ground, Nainiae wondered if it would be all right to do this. As ordered, she waved the blanket in the air to have it spread wide. She then had the blanket lay on the ground.
“Is this good?”
Riley nodded to say that it was enough. He haphazardly dusted off his lower body and bent down.
“Young Master?”
The option that Riley chose was the third option. The third option was, ‘Let’s sleep first.’
* * *
There was a man who had his skin saturated in pitch black color. He was screaming in pain as he dug the tunnel.
“Ugh. Ugh…”
He was screaming in pain because of the fire.
“… Uuuk!”