Skeleton Knight, in Another World

On the second floor of the mansion of Daiki, the elder house of the inside, one of its large rooms was a dining room with a kitchen next door, and the large wooden table placed in the centre already had the earlier faces in its seats.

Arian and Chiyome sit next to each other, and at their feet a ponta obsessed with a meal served on a plate is rocking the tail of a large cotton wool. Ariane was stroking her cheeks loose to such a ponta appearance, as she combed the hair on the top of her head.

He takes off his armor, which he wore until earlier, takes his seat through his sleeves on a feather like the ethnic costume dressing that the Elves wrap around, and tongue drums at the breakfast served in front of him.

I noticed Chiyome looking at the strange thing from the side, and I turned to you as I wrapped it around the bread.

"What's wrong, Lord Chiyome?

When asked so, Chiyome has a complex look on his face for some reason.

"No, it only looks immortal (undead) when I look at it again like this, but it feels slight or very odd that it's a normal dining landscape..."

Having said that, Chiyome stares at herself ahead of her, cheeky with a skeletal model made up of bones all over her body.

The darkness in the orbit of the skull is shaken by something like a pale light, its origin without guts, skin, or muscles, but if you eat things, you feel the flavor, and the food you swallow disappears somewhere. If you see that strange creature in front of you, let's say her thoughts are both extreme and extreme.

I stayed in the avatar of the player character of the game I was playing when I came to this world, but the avatar I was using at that time was not that of a person, but the body of this skeleton that I changed to a special avatar.

"I can't see the indestructible (undead) characteristic filth of death in Ark... Chiyome knows that, right?

To Chiyome's strangely emotional words, it was Arian who bought the defense from the side and stroked Ponta's head obsessed with bait until earlier.

"I don't see what the Elves call" the filth of death, "but I certainly don't feel the unpleasant smell of death characteristic of the immortal (undead) or anything like signs..."

Chiyome tilts his neck as he slightly hikes that little nose.

"And because I scratched sweat in the morning exercise, I don't want to find an undead to take a morning bath. How do you say you scratch sweat with a bone figure?

Arian blurred in a slightly dazed tone, calling out to Chiyome, who was sitting beside him with his gaze pointed at him with a giddy.

Chiyome nodded lightly at the voice, and she turned her gaze to look up at the other side as well.

I look away and drop my gaze at myself as I shed sight of them.

I do have a body that doesn't scratch sweat, but after exercising, is it still because it's a long-standing habit to want to use a bath or shower?

Even the skeleton to Arian cordially and politely preached the wonder of feeling renewed and being healthy by taking a bath, Grenis appeared from the back to the dining room with a piece of paper.

And the paper in her hand, she gives it to Arian.

Paper never seen in the city of the people seems to be in normal use in the elves. A slightly larger piece of thick paper depicts something like a map by a unique pattern.

"This is the map showing the journey to the Dragon Crown Tree (Road Crown) and the way in the cave. I think I know the way to the cave, but for once."

When Arian nodded at her explanation and received the map, she began to look through the details written on the map.

Chiyome hasn't changed his expression, as usual, but I can see the cat ears on his head moving pimply if he cares about the map details.

Grenis refers to the dragon crown tree (Road Crown) as a large tree that rarely grows around the dwelling of the finest species of dragon species known as Dragon King (Dragon Road), a tree that has been affected by the vast magic of Dragon King (Dragon Road) for many years and has hosted spirits and degenerated objects.

The land beside the Dragon Crown Tree (Road Crown) is known for its special properties, and according to what Dylan, the elder in this room, told me, there exists a fountain that will have the effect of lifting every curse ahead of us.

The reward of the recapture of the Elves captured by the people, that is where this fountain is, and it seems that Arian's map shows the way to the fountain.

Tomorrow, when you are ready for your journey, you are scheduled to head to that destination.

Whether the efficacy of the fountain is authentic or not, even if it is authentic, how effective is it in fulfilling the curse of the body of this skeleton of yours? It's all still a stage of possibilities, but it's also likely that spending time with this body will create some inconvenience, and it's worth a try if you can try to solve it.

"It's been a long time since I've been to this cave. I didn't know the back of that cave was a way out of the mountains..."

Ariane leaks such a voice as she admires, eagerly looking at the map.

Apparently, she has made several trips to the cave that leads to this destination.

"Oh, has Lord Arian ever visited a cave that serves as a way out?"

"Yeah, my sister took me there a couple of times when I was still a warrior apprentice in here. You can take many of the magic crystal stones that power the magic props..."

It was Arian speaking to remember what happened at the time, but when his eyes narrowed as if he remembered something, he leaked a voice that slowly pointed his gaze toward him.

"If Ark is going to take regular baths at home, he might as well go to this cave and fetch some Demon Crystals."

Jitty Arian's gaze penetrates relentlessly.

Apparently, they're charging me dark for fuel when I take a bath. Unlike modern society, baths are quite a luxurious substitute in this world that consumes firewood demon stones even to boil water. If you want to have a comfortable bath life, you can't possibly say no to her suggestions.

And it's not my dream to carry it well, and if the curse is broken, I can use my own skin for water.

"Uhm! Then let's say we collect the Demon Crystal Stone and the Rock in that cave as well as the bath bill"

When I grabbed my fist and showed that intention and replied without one or two, Arian, who was half-eyed to the side to look at it, sighed heavily.

"True, why do you like baths so much..."

One word leaked in Arian's unspeakable condition dares to silence him.

"Then you can take your travel gear with you in the basement and get ready for tomorrow."

Ariane and Chiyome take their seats, signaling that Grenis will hit his hand.

Ponta, who was obsessed with breakfast until earlier, was also licking her mouth and fixing her hair, but she followed her at her feet by spinning her little four legs because she was following them downstairs.

The basement of the mansion was provided with an entrance to hide on the back of the first floor of a giant pillar distributed in the centre of the great tree, and when the door was opened, the spiral staircase continued downward in such a way as to follow the pillar.

Even the stairs leading to the basement do not have the same shady atmosphere as seen in the basement of the previously infiltrated Lords' Mansion while the lamps of the magic props are arranged at equal intervals.

Pushing open the slightly heavy wooden door at the end of the descent to the bottom, there was a narrow location and various supplies arranged on the shelf.

"By the way, what do I have to take to prepare and do my journey?

Looking around at the various items arranged, she turned to Arian, who stood at the head and fished for the items in the room, showing her hand in this direction.

"For now, if you're gonna dive into a cave, you need a handheld lamp, right?

That being said, what she had handed over was a handheld lamp, as we often see on Earth called 'Lantern'. What just fits in the glass case section in the center was an object made up of several crystal columns with a picky switch underneath it.

If you twist that switch, the crystal columns in the glass case start to sparkle and emit light as if it were a light. That was quite a fantasy mind-blowing, fantastically worked demon prop.

"Oh, this is amazing"

"'Crystal light (crystal lamp)', right? The lamps created by the Elves are quite luxurious because of their strong lights and durability. Only some wealthy people have it."

As I was playing with the shadow painting with the light produced by the lamp's demonic props, Chiyome, who came beside me, added a description of the lamp.

Given the little-illuminated oil lamp that I've often seen in people's cities, I'm convinced that this lamp is a luxury product that doesn't even take a pull on a lantern that glows with electricity. I was surprised to hear from the back that I was thinking about my plans for the future with my heart that it might be a good idea to purchase magic items created by these Elves when I made a paragraph.

"Hey, can you help me out without skipping?

Turning around, Arian, slightly swollen cheeks, pressed the other two lamps in his hand and a leather sachet stuffed with something gleefully into his other hand.

"Oh, I'm sorry."

A peek into the contents of a leather sachet closed with another string I received as I received the lamp apologizing to her is packed with sandy objects that randomly reflect the sparkling purple light.

"What do you use this for?

"'Demon Stone Fuel (Manafio)', that's what fuels demonic props. Finely crushed stones and crystal stones, mostly used by the Elves in their magic props."

Questioning with no one as they looked at that strange purple sand in their hands, Chiyome, who had stopped aside and peered in, gave us a commentary again.

"It produces a fairly high amount of magic, but it seems to require a high degree of skill to use that power steadily, and can only be used with the demonic props produced by the Elves. If you use this with people's demonic props, you risk breaking demonic props, exploding with bad, magical outbursts, etc."

Listening to that commentary, thinking it was like jet fuel, Arian in front of him had a proud look against his big chest for some reason.

The Elves seem to have been praised for their high technical skills.

"What is it, Lord Arian?

Speaking with such an unfamiliar bare gesture to Arian, he rushed back to his usual expression and left a word, "It's nothing," and moved toward the back shelf.

Looking at Arian's hindsight as he looked out for what he might need for his journey in front of the back shelf, he found something familiar on the shelf in front of him as he threw a question at Chiyome, next to him, taking various placed items in his hand.

Golden currency packed in a hemp bag. That is placed in a picture on the shelf, emitting a dull light with the lights in the room that illuminates it.

Picking up one of them and looking at the crest they depicted, I could see that it was the gold coin of the Kingdom of Rhoden.

"Oh, that. It's part of the gold Ark stole from the Lords' Hall. Your father said you should put it away for a few minutes when Ark got into something."

Arian, who stopped the preparation hand and peered in from behind, tells such a revelation by keeping an eye on the gold coin at hand on the other side.

"Oh, so this will solve the cost of fuel for the bath"

That's what I said when I just came up with the name. Looking back, I saw Arian shrugging her shoulders with a smile on her face.

"Why are you burning so much passion for the bath... If you're Ark's arm, you can get a demon stone for the fuel you use for your bath, right? There's no other use for money?

I often do my hand on my chin to silence that Arian's words.

Indeed, he said that the demonic stones used for bathing, etc. would suffice if he hunted the warcraft with swords, magic training, etc., and that the demonic crystal stones would be available in the caves he was going to head to.

There is also a weak need to go out of your way to buy demon stones with money. When that happens, it's still a good idea to buy all the elf magic items and stuff that make life more convenient when it comes to spending money.

Fortunately, there have been handouts with the Elves, and when you set up a base somewhere, it's still a top priority to introduce bath facilities with this money.

Strongly so determined, he sighed heavily when he told Arian about his future prospects and made him listen. As for myself, it was an extremely serious prospect......

With such interaction without any other love, the preparations for the journey to the fountain proceeded steadily.