Rising from the Slum City of Reincarnation in Another World ~ Gathering, Hunting, and Living a Slow Life by Eating - Chapter 72

Rising from the Slum City of Reincarnation in Another World ~ Gathering, Hunting, and Living a Slow Life by Eating

Chapter 72 To Exis Falls.

Saturday.

Ding, dong, ding.

The sound of the bell resonates loudly.

Ah, in this area, we’re close to the Raffalier Church, so the sound of the bell can be clearly heard.

“Munyaah, Ed, morning? I love Ed.”

“Myaauu, I also love Ed, munya munya.”

As Minya half-awakens and snuggles closer, Ciel also chimes in, sensing the affectionate atmosphere.

Minya’s affectionate attacks are in full swing again today.

“Alright, Minya, Ciel, it’s morning.”

“Yes, our Savior.”

“Yeah, Ed-kun, I want to sleep a bit more, myaau.”

I manage to wake them up somehow and quickly prepare a simple breakfast.

Though I say simple, it involves stir-frying beans, taro, dandelion greens, and other ingredients together.

I also have some simmered taro, boiled butterbur, pickled ginger, and other side dishes prepared in advance.

I add ice to the barley tea, turning it into iced barley tea.

The temperature is already soaring this morning, and it’s getting hot.

“Now that we’ve had breakfast, let’s go to the Exis Falls with Lania.”

“Huh? Exis Falls? Is that where the bridge is?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Got it. I’ll follow you, Ed-chan, wherever you go.”

“Meow meow meow, I’ll follow Ed-kun too.”

The loyalty of these two is quite high.

I can’t help but think that if this were a game, the flags for their capture targets would already be raised.

“Lania-chan.”

“Yes?”

“We’re going to the forest today. Get ready with your equipment.”

“Yes, yes! I’ll prepare it right away.”

Today, we’re a little earlier than usual.

The falls are a bit far for children’s legs.

We have to walk with all our might.

As a party of four, we advance through the slums on the map chip of an RPG.

In the clearing of tree stumps, we continue forward while doing some gathering.

Today, we’ve come across some Eldertake Mushrooms. It’s a good start.

We’ve reached the boundary between the forest and the area where humans have cut down trees. From here on, there are only stumps and shrubs. It suddenly becomes a forest.

This is the frontline of deforestation, but since the residents of the slums have mostly finished building their tents and makeshift houses, deforestation is almost halted at the moment.

“Now, let’s offer our blessings.”

“Yes.”

Minya raises her staff in her left arm and extends her right arm to the right, preparing herself.

At some point, we started emulating the salute of soldiers, where they place their right hand flat against their chest, fingers extended horizontally, for a few seconds. We do the same, forming a fist with our right hand and holding it firmly against our chest, watching over Minya.

Minya begins to make the sacred mark.

“Raffalier-sama, please protect us.”

-Blessings descend upon us.

There’s no other way to describe it but as blessings “descending” from the heavens.

This is the nature of this world, a kind of magic.

“Now, since today’s not an exploration day, let’s just check if there’s anything interesting among the grass right in front of us. Ignore everything else.”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

All three of them respond positively.

As declared, they focus on moving forward without paying much attention to the surroundings.

When you concentrate on walking, you can actually move quite swiftly.

Even though we say we’re advancing through the forest, there are nuances to it.

Sunlight filtering through the trees.

The sound of leaves rustling against each other.

Birds chirping.

We can sense the atmosphere of the forest.

Today seems peaceful. We’re grateful for that.

If it were unusually quiet or unusually bustling, it would indicate some danger.

We walk. We just keep walking.

Our destination is Exis Falls.

You might think it’s closer to walk along the road.

If we continue on the Eltria Highway and turn along Exis Bridge, following the path along the Exis River in an L-shape, it would take longer.

So it’s actually faster to cut diagonally through the forest from the beginning.

Furthermore, walking along the cliff below the riverbank can be difficult as there are places where there’s hardly any riverbed below the cliff.

Even walking along the cliff above the river, there are sections where the cliff bends to the left or right, posing a risk of falling.

The shortest and safest route is actually to diagonally traverse Exis Forest.

However, the disadvantage is that we may lose our sense of direction.

Let’s proceed as straight as possible, taking note of the direction of the sun.

“Gobgof!”

It’s a goblin. Just one. I’ll handle it.

“Fire.”

I quickly defeated the prey of Lania’s shortened incantation of Fire.

I’m just watching, and then I’ll dismantle it.

I take out the magic stone.

As always, it’s a beautiful magic stone.

“Kiiii, kiiii.”

It’s an unfamiliar sound, but it’s a deer.

There are a few of them, and they look at us and make alerting sounds.

Two of them pass right in front of us.

They are slightly larger than us in size.

They have antlers.

The antlers of males are large, while those of females are slightly smaller; there are differences like that.

They have a brown coat with spots and their bellies and rear ends are white.

Then I hear “Kiiii, kiiii” from the opposite side as well.

A herd of deer, making sounds, passes through from the left side to the right side, sandwiching us in between.

“Deer meat…”

Minya mutters sadly.

“Well, our goal this time is Exis Falls.”

“That’s true, but I wanted to have some meat too.”

“If we come across any on the way back, we can try hunting. But we don’t even have bows and arrows.”

“That’s right.”

It would be difficult to hunt deer by charging in with a sword, Minya. You need magic or bows and arrows, at least.

Zaaaahhh!

I hear a sound. It’s the sound of water falling.

“It’s close. Is it around here?”

“Did we reach the waterfall?”

“Yes.”

Minya asks me a question, and I answer.

We slow down our walking speed and approach the waterfall.

Since the right side is downstream, we go around from the right.

The land around here is mostly flat, with the northern side gradually rising a little. Strictly speaking, it’s not entirely flat land. The foothills of Mount Helhorn, which towers to the north near the Eltria Highway on the southern side, gently spread out. Those foothills transform into the Exis Forest. Along the way, there is Exis Falls.

As we descended a slightly steep slope, it turned into a river below. Only the soil in the river section has been eroded, creating a narrow valley.

Mount Helhorn erupted in ancient times, during the early stages of recorded history, shaping this entire area. That’s why the land here has a relatively new topography.

If it were an old river, the valley would have been wider, forming river terraces. However, the valley is narrow, with a width that is just slightly larger than the river.

“Wow, it’s a river!”

“Well, it’s a waterfall, so it’s natural to have a river, right?”

“That’s true.”

Minya expresses surprise, I provide an explanation, and Lania agrees.

“Meow.”

Ciel, who was lagging behind, meows. It seems they were frustrated that they couldn’t participate in the conversation.

As we reached the riverbank, we found ourselves in the bottom of the valley, with the magnificent Exis Falls right in front of us.