I was Rosa, a magician and adventurer.
I was an adventurer along with Blitz the leader, Ran the wizard, and Glimos the swordswoman.
We worked in many different places and traveled to many different places.
We were completely lost.
"Where is this?" ()
"We get lost" ()
"Sorry." (Glimos)
Ran explained the situation to my cry, and for some reason Glimos apologized.
"It's not Glimos' fault." ()
"This was also wrong because Blitz asked us to go to another port city." ()
"No, I don't think anyone would have objected." ()
We were not lost in the royal capital, the city, or the forest, but we lost track of where we were in this world.
We often went to various places rather than staying in one place. This time, after finishing work in the town of Mileela, I headed for a new town and came to Crimonia through a tunnel with a stone bear statue. After that, I freely went to the royal capital and various other places while earning money.
Sometimes we would take requests from desert towns. At that time, we also met Yuna-chan, who we had worked with to subdue thieves in Mileela town.
At that time, I was both happy and surprised to have met someone I knew so far away.
That Bear could even move through the desert.
Even after I was reunited with Yuna-chan and we parted ways, I continued to travel to many different places, even crossing deserts and moving around to many different cities. Then we arrived at a large port town by the sea.
This port town was different from Town of Mileela, it was lively and crowded with people.
However, if the Kraken were to appear, there was a good chance that many people here would lose their jobs, become lost on the streets, and become obsolete.
Looking at the sea made me feel nostalgic for the Town of Mileela.
Since we had come a long way, we thought about going back at least once, so we asked if we could go to the town of Mileela from this port, but no one knew about the town of Mileela.
It would have been easy to take a boat from here and return to Town of Mileela, but it wasn't that easy.
However, they said there were ships that went to other port town.
"If it's in that port town, they might know about the Town of Mileela, so why don't we go there?" (Blitz)
At Blitz's words, we boarded the ship as escorts for a merchant ship, since we could earn money on the road and got free shipping if we escorted ships.
Apparently, there were pirates at sea, but the chances of being attacked were low. So, I thought it would be an easy job, but unfortunately, we were attacked by pirates.
The ship allowed a pirate ship to approach, and we boarded the pirate ship and fought to protect it.
Blitz and Glimos fight in front, while Ran and I fought from behind, supporting them with magic. The pirates also flinched from the unexpected counterattack. Although they had a large number of people, they were not very powerful.
However, being on a rocking ship was troublesome.
When I ran, I lost my balance. When wielding a weapon, I couldn't hold my ground and lost my balance.
Ran and I were just shooting magic from behind, so it was okay, but Blitz and Glimos were having a bit of a hard time when they got on the ship.
We worked together to reduce the number of pirates by defeating them one by one.
Just when we thought we could protect the ship if things continued like this, the ship we were on took action to move away from the pirate ship.
By the time we noticed it, it was already too late, and we were too far away to jump.
We screamed, but the ship moved away from the pirate ship, leaving us behind.
They forced the pirates on us and ran away.
We tied up the pirates, negotiated with them, got the ships moving, and headed for the port town.
Unfortunately, along the way, the weather changed, a storm broke out, the ship's sails broke, and we were left adrift.
We were surrounded by ocean and couldn't see land, and just when we thought we were going to die, we were rescued by a passing fishing boat and somehow managed to reach the port town safely.
We handed over the captured pirates and thought we were safe, but this port town was not the one we had departed from, just a small port town.
There was no trade with other cities, and there were no ships to go to the port town where we set sail, let alone the town of Mileela, so we tried to negotiate but it was impossible.
We lost our way home.
And worst of all, we couldn't use the money we had.
We researched this place while selling things we had and earning money at the adventurer's guild.
This country was small and few people knew about other countries. We had some information about the guild, but we couldn't find a way to return.
We decided to head to the capital of this country to find a way to return home.
We thought that if we were in the capital, we might be able to obtain information that would allow me to return to our home country.
We moved while escorting horse-drawn carriages that moved between cities.
As we were escorting the carriage for the first time, a monster appeared. We got off the carriage and fought the monster.
While we were fighting the monsters, the carriage that we were guarding ran away, leaving us behind, as if using us as a decoy.
I would like to ask if it was a custom in this country to use people who were guarding people as decoys and run away.
Well, I knew that's not all. We had been an escort many times before we came here. Some of them were kind. Some people gave me a lot of escort fees even though we didn't have anything.
There were good people and there were bad people. All we could say was that we were unlucky.
After defeating the monsters, we walked along the road and took turns sleeping at night, but we were sometimes attacked by monsters.
Although we were tired, we decided it would be better to move, so we started moving as soon as the sun rose. At that time, we were lucky enough to be picked up by a horse-drawn carriage heading towards town.
He said he was going to the town to sell vegetables from a nearby village.
As a courtesy, we were given a ride in the carriage.
Because we couldn't sleep after fighting the monsters, and because we were tired from walking, we all fell asleep in the carriage.
When we were woken up by the man in the carriage, the carriage had stopped at the entrance of a town we didn't know.
We thanked the man who took us into the carriage and got off, and the carriage entered the town.
The rest of us decided to go into the city to gather information.
I asked the gatekeeper the name of the town, but it was a town I didn't know.
If the chain of lost children had reached this point, I could only think that we were cursed.
Then, at the entrance to the town, I was told various things that sounded like advice, so I tried to ask them back, but someone was entering the town from behind us, so I couldn't ask any questions and was forced to go inside.
"Where is this?" ()
"We get lost" ()
"Sorry." (Glimos)
Ran explained the situation to my cry, and for some reason Glimos apologized.
"It's not Glimos' fault." ()
"This was also wrong because Blitz asked us to go to another port city." ()
"No, I don't think anyone would have objected." ()
We shouldn't have escorted a ship in that port town.
If that ship hadn't escaped, this wouldn't have happened.
"We have to cross the desert" ()
"We have to leave the port town." ()
"There's no point in saying it now. If we move forward, a path will surely open up for us. If we don't give up, we'll definitely be able to return." ()
The Blitz's optimism might at least be a saving grace. It was better than getting dark.
But I didn't think it was easy.
No matter how many years it took, we would return.
"If I can't go home anymore, I'll have no choice but to live here with Blitz." ()
"Wait, what are you talking about?" ()
While I was thinking positively, Ran started saying something outrageous.
Blitz won't marry Ran.
Because it's me...
"Rather than that, let's talk about the future. It hasn't been decided that we can't go back yet." (Blitz)
Blitz, who couldn't read the atmosphere, said crazy things.
I casually looked across the street and saw a girl dressed as a cute bear walking.
"Oh, I can see a hallucination of Yuna-chan walking over there." (Rosa)
It seemed like I was mentally depressed to the point where I was having hallucinations.
A mysterious girl I met in the town of Mileela. Although she was dressed as a cute bear, she was a very strong girl.
I had been to many countries and cities, but I had never seen a child wearing clothes like that.
So I thought it was a hallucination.
"I also see someone who looks like Yuna walking." (Ran)
Ran said while looking in the same direction.
It seemed that Ran was also tired and was hallucinating just like me.
"The animal that girl is holding looks like a bear. I want to meet Kumayuru-chan and Kumakyu-chan. I want to make them fluffy. I want to hug them." (Ran)
The girl was holding an animal.
Indeed, as Ran said, what the girl dressed as a bear was holding something that looked like a bear.
"It looks like Yuna herself to me." (Glimos)
It seemed that even Glimos was finally seeing a hallucination.
There was no way Yuna-chan would be in a place like this that she didn't know.
"Everyone is tired. Let's rest at the inn." ()
"No, isn't that really Yuna?" (Blitz)
Even Blitz said something like that.
"You guys, look carefully." (Blitz)
Once again, I saw a person who looked like Yuna-chan walking in the opposite direction.
Dressed liked a bear. That plumped belly. She was a girl with such a cute face.
I ran.
The closer I got, the more I knew.
There was no doubt about it.
It was Yuna-chan.
"Ah, Yuna-chan!" (Rosa)
I hugged Yuna-chan.
"Rosa-san?" (Yuna)
"Wow, it's Yuna-chan. It's really Yuna-chan." (Rosa)
Yuna-chan looked at me with a surprised face.
Without a doubt, this was the Yuna-chan I knew.
Yuna-chan was confused, but Ran followed me and hugged her.
"It’s really Yuna." (Ran)
"Why are you both here!?" (Yuna)
That's my line.
Why is Yuna-chan here?
Author's Note
Blitz and his party were lost when they met again.