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There are a total of three places on fire inside Yeongju Fortress.

Stables, granaries, weapons storage.

What those places have in common is that they are located behind Yeongju Castle. In other words, it is the other side of the inner door. It could be said that now was the best time to escape as everyone, both knights and soldiers, headed in that direction to put out the fire.

“Rom! What do you mean!?”

“Stay here.”

“Good! Then let’s go!”

Excessively sparkling eyes, heavy breathing and shaking shoulders due to excitement. My older brother and older sister looked like they were going to die happily even though they were setting fire to their own house.

“Uh, um…yeah. Let’s go…”

I was intimidated by the momentum and slowly climbed onto the horse, and Camel, who was in the lead, bravely spurred me on. Running at full speed, we soon reached the inner gate, which was normally closed, but was now wide open as water was drawn from the well of the outer castle.

I took advantage of the hectic moment to run quickly and easily passed the resistance test.

The problem is the outer voice gate. The outer castle gate, which also serves as a bridge over a deeply dug moat, does not open and close very easily. In addition, some security personnel remain.

So we prepared in advance.

No, honestly, there was nothing to prepare for. Because ‘loading’ was relatively easy.

A giant catapult specifically for siege warfare.

It is so big and high that you can see the outer wall if you climb up the catapult.

It is said that it can be operated with only a small number of people and that magic has been added to produce greater power, allowing it to throw chunks of rock weighing beyond its durability and structural limits.

“……”

It was a groundbreaking idea that I came up with while wondering if there was a way to overcome all the obstacles at once since there were so many difficulties to overcome along the way.

“Rom! What are you doing? Come on up!”

“If they find out you’re gone, they’ll come after you right away!”

The older brother and older sister, who were squatting down where the rock should have been, were laughing and snoring innocently like children.

“…Is this really true?”

“That’s right, so hurry up and come up!”

“Hurry! No time!”

As their hands kept urging me, I had no choice but to sigh and sink into the hammock.

“The landing…can you really trust it?”

“I told you to leave everything to this brother! quickly! I’m coming!”

“There’s no need to rush like that, right? Everyone is busy putting out the fire…”

“There it is! The master is trying to escape!

“Catch it! Subdue it now!”

Delheim’s knights, including their Aurors, were running like crazy.

The grumbling mouth quickly became a mutter.

“Oops! It’s faster than you think! Everyone holding hands, right? Then shoot! Don’t forget to wear Aura around your body!”

Camel, who said that, didn’t even give himself time to prepare and immediately kicked the fixture lever.

With a clattering sound, a huge pillar that looked like wooden chopsticks soared into the sky, and of course, we who were hanging on the end of it were instantly violently lifted up against gravity.

“Wow…!?”

The terrible sensation of my internal organs being pushed towards my lower back due to the tremendous acceleration.

“Puhaaaat…!?”

When we let out our breath after pausing for a moment, we had easily passed the outer wall and were flying like crazy over the territory city.

I can’t even open my eyes because of the headwind.

“Wow…!”

“Ahahahaha!”

“Hey~! Puhahahaha!”

However, my older brother and older sister were holding my hands tightly on both sides and bursting into laughter without any hesitation.

“Now, wait a minute! The way we will land is…!”

“Just trust us, youngest!”

“Go! Camel oppa!”

Fu Chemical. A large amount of mana was released from their bodies.

“Uh, uh…?”

The mana wrapped us in a circle and spread its straight wings wide like a hang glider.

I opened my mouth wide as I felt my body, which had been falling almost vertically, immediately reach equilibrium and move forward.

“This is happening?”

An auror is someone who releases refined mana out of the body to exert physical force, but I never dreamed that this kind of use was possible. No, even if I knew, delicately manipulating mana to surround and support our bodies and control our wings to prevent them from scattering is an art that is impossible at my current level.

“……”

The speed of flight was still frightening, but the mana film surrounding the body completely eliminated the headwinds, so I was able to leisurely watch the fast-passing lights.

“How do you feel, youngest? Is it the best!?”

“Ahahahaha!”

Seeing the two people I like more than myself brings a smile to my face.

Looking down from afar, I saw the walls of the Delheim lord city located relatively close by.

Finally, we left the territory.

“…Good.”

For a while, I held my brother and sister’s hands and enjoyed the seemingly endless flight.

For a long time.

For a really long time.

“…How long will we fly?”

The altitude, which I thought would drop quickly, did not drop much and the speed also remained the same.

“I can’t help it! You’re not making adjustments, you’re just riding the wind! I can control the direction, but honestly, I’m so caught up in the wind that I’m panicking!”

He doesn’t look embarrassed at all.

“Even without measures, there has to be a degree! And if you go in this direction, there is nothing but the Great Forest of Fleeminim! Turn around!”

“Ah, I see! good! Then turn towards the nearest territory!”

“I’m sure I’ll be able to beat the chase. If I had known it would be this simple, I would have used this method to escape!”

We continued to fly while listening to my sister’s grumbling.

The direction is east. It was smaller than the Delheim territory, but it was still a small to medium-sized territory called ‘Pinella’.

***

Of course, it was impossible to fly to the Pinella estate, which was a few days away, even by carriage.

After somehow landing, we had no choice but to head there on foot.

“…Is this why you have a hard time when you leave home..”

As I trudge along the endless plain and sigh, Dahlia slaps my back.

“It’s okay, it’s okay! It will work out somehow!”

“Ha…so how long does it take to get to Pinella territory?”

“Umm, two days…no, maybe one day?”

“…Is there food?”

“Well, you can hunt in moderation.”

“In this plain?”

“Ahahaha! don’t worry! Even in a plain like this, there are surprisingly a lot of things to eat!”

“…things like that?”

“Huh?”

Where I pointed, there were quite large rabbits grazing on the grass on the plains, and unusually, they had horns on their foreheads the size of a middle finger.

“Oh, you’re a horned rabbit? That’s delicious!”

“What an intuitive name…”

“Let’s catch it! Oppa!”

“I was still watching. Let’s see… Oh, there’s something good at the moment.”

Carmel picked up a random rock from the ground around him, put an aura on it, then stretched his strengthened body as far as he could and threw it with all his might. It was as if my entire body was being squeezed out for dialysis…yes, if I were to compare it, it was like a catapult.

“Good!?”

A death that resounds faintly.

The horned rabbit, whose head was literally exploded after being hit so hard, died.

The nearby rabbits are so startled that they fall into the nearby holes.

“It was good. Just one of those will be enough to keep you going until tomorrow evening, right?”

“What are you talking about? Who are you going to put that little thing on your nose?”

“Huh?”

“The youngest. What are you talking about…Ah! Puhahahaha!”

Camel hyung, who was speaking as if he was puzzled, burst into laughter while holding his belly button. My older sister was also looking at it blankly.

“Ah! Maybe that? Ahahaha! Hey, that’s why it’s fun to take a guy around who doesn’t know anything about the world.”

He said that and burst into laughter.

“What is it? Why are you smiling like that?”

I felt like I was becoming a laughing stock, so I pouted my lips and my older sister quickly grabbed my lips and dragged me away.

“eup!? Oooh!”

“Stop talking nonsense and follow me. Then you will find out.”

As I was walking with great strides and a frown on my face, I couldn’t help but widen my eyes as I saw the rabbit growing bigger and bigger.

“eup, wuh-eup!?”

“Shall I let you go?”

“Ugh!”

“Hehe, I understand. Now.”

“Puha! what is this? Are my eyes strange?”

“Ahahaha!”

“Puhahaha! Wow, cute guy!”

The two people burst into laughter again, but I was too busy being shocked.

The distance from the horned rabbit’s body was farther than I thought, and the closer the horned rabbit got, the bigger it got. It was an illusion of perspective.

“What is it…are my eyes strange?”

Even when I rubbed my eyes, the size of the rabbit did not change.

“No, a rabbit is bigger than a wild boar?”

When I looked up close, I could clearly see the texture of the large muscles underneath the leather, and it wasn’t cute at all. If I were to kick it with that leg, it would easily fly about 10 meters away.

As I was dumbfounded, Camel took out a dagger from his waist and started skinning the horned rabbit.

“I’ll help you, brother.”

When Dahlia stepped forward with her dagger drawn, I, who had been dazed, came to my senses and drew my dagger.

“Uh, uh…I’ll help you too. What should I do?”

“Cut off my legs. Just cut it whole and take off the skin.”

“Is that okay?”

“It’s okay. Even though I have to drain some of the blood…it’s still delicious just to eat it.”

“Umm…I understand.”

The release work was completed quickly.

This is because we are not professional butchers, so we put an aura on our swords and cut them down, regardless of whether there were chunks of meat stuck to the skin or not.

“Now let’s bake! Let’s bake it all and take it with us until tomorrow to eat.”

“…so ignorant.”

“Hahaha! Isn’t that another romance, youngest?”

“But oppa. What about water?”

” Now that I think about it, I didn’t think of that… Uhm… Well, I guess I won’t die if I don’t drink water for a day. ”

Camel, who had split a whole tree from a distance, skillfully started a fire and started grilling the finely chopped meat on the branches.

“Oh…”

To be honest, I didn’t expect much, but the sight of it turning golden brown and the savory scent of the oil flowing down it irritated my salivary glands.

Even though I cut it, the meat was so thick and large that it took quite a long time just to cook the first piece of meat.

“Okay, youngest first. It’s hot so be careful.”

“Thank you. Where…”

Rabbit’s legs are cooked to a delicious brown color and shiny just before burning.

I gulped down my saliva, swallowed it, and took a big bite.

“Mmm…mm!”

“Is it delicious? Hehe. Strangely, it tastes better when you eat it outside.”

“I guess it’s just because I’m hungry? Come to think of it, we flew for quite a long time.”

“Is that so? How about anything?”

Without even having the presence of mind to respond, he greedily ripped into the meat.

My older sister and older brother looked at me happily and munched on the meat in a familiar way.

After a while.

After a satisfying meal, we started walking towards the Pinella estate again.

A crude cloth made from rabbit skin was filled with cooked meat.

***

So…to conclude, we were able to arrive at Pinella territory in about 24 hours.

After a forced march of walking and walking without sleeping.

I never imagined that a distance that would take a day meant that I would have to walk and walk.

“……”

“……”

“……”

We were speechless.

Just a faint smile on his face with the satisfaction of having accomplished it with a tired face.

I also threw away all the horned rabbit meat I had. It was too much to eat in one day and I got sick of it quickly.

“Let’s find accommodation first. I want to wash.”

“Agree… Ah, let’s eat first before that. I want to eat something real.”

“I’m not really hungry…ah! If you’re eating at ‘Pipe-Playing Sunset’, I agree!”

Sister Dahlia, who suddenly regained her energy, shook my shoulder with sparkling eyes.

“Ugh, what, what is it?”

“It’s the most famous restaurant in the Pinella estate! Even if you don’t know anything else, you must go there!”

“Huh, is there a famous chef?”

“Of course! You really don’t know!? This is where the famous genius Vanessa is the chef! There is a rumor that the royal family sometimes comes and eats in secret!”

“…Vanessa?”

I flinched for a moment.

The reason is that the same name also exists in the collectible characters of the ‘Different World Beautiful Girl Training Program’.

“No, no, wait…”

He is a genius chef from the Kindre Empire and even has the same name.

Is this all a coincidence?

“…Let’s go.”

“Do you want to try it too? Good idea. Well, even if you said you didn’t want to, I would have dragged you along!”

After saying that, Dahlia walked down the streets of Pinella, jumping up and down as if she had never been tired.

“Hoo…”

Even though ‘Flute Playing Sunset’ was a restaurant that only served food, it was a large building with over 5 floors. The light-reflecting stone and antique wood are in perfect harmony, making it look like a mystical tree.

It would have seemed even more so if it weren’t for the crowded crowds.

“Up to the 2nd floor, it is a general restaurant that anyone can use, the 3rd floor requires reservations, and from the 4th floor, only nobles can go up. Of course, the place we are going is the 5th floor, the top floor!”

“…Do you have money?”

“Of course!”

She put her hand into the pocket of her waist belt, rummaged around for a moment, and then pulled out a heavy pouch that was clearly larger than the pocket.

Was that a subspace pocket?

“Take me to the 5th floor! Here’s the seal!”

When I showed the ring with the family seal to the guard guarding the entrance, the guard looked at it closely for a moment and bowed his head politely.

“Welcome. You can use the stairs over there.”

The moment I stepped onto the apparently luxurious-looking part of the two-part staircase, the stairs began to move on their own.

“Oh…? What is it, escalator?”

“Huh? What is an escalator?”

“Oh, no…nothing…”

It must be magic after all.

It looks like they wasted a lot of money on this staircase, perhaps because it was for nobles.

“Welcome. Let me show you where you are.”

We comfortably went up to the 5th floor and a neatly dressed waiter guided us.

There were about thirty tables inside, but only a few of them were occupied and people were enjoying their meal quietly.

“Hello. The chef in charge of today’s course is Vanessa.”

A few minutes after I sat down and waited, a woman with dark red hair wearing a pure white chef’s uniform approached me and bowed politely.

The cool, wide-open eyes seemed like they might look fierce, the pointed nose looked haughty, and the red, plump lips were extremely desirable. She is a beautiful woman with an overall languid and lazy look.

Although it is a little smaller than its Camel brother, it is tall and its limbs are long and nicely stretched out.

“…Haha.”

He’s a little younger than I remember, but it’s clear.

This is Vanessa, one of the collectible characters from the mobile game ‘Beautiful Girl Training Program’.