The Branded Female Fencer

Muscade was the only one with a land survey. Even for that muscade, it was a long time ago. Besides, at the time, I just moved and trained as I was guided, and I didn't explore. There was little land to explore. Besides, there are also many deep rifts and protuberances in the earth, many places where we cannot proceed as we think, so much so that we lose all direction.

"Which way are we headed?

"Don't lose your sense of direction. I can't see the sun clearly."

"Lisa's sensors don't work well either. Is it the nature of the land"

"Oh. The Mountains of Fire can be a strange force field. Look down there."

Where it was getting hotter, Muscade urged him to look under the rift. There was a river that glowed red far below.

"What's that?

"River of Fire, is it? I read it in a book."

"Exactly. You know the head closet. That's what the rocks are melting and flowing, and I call it Magma. There are so many things beneath the ground that they are a source of warming the earth. The Mountain of Fire is where it erupts."

"Flow, go back underground somewhere?

"Isn't that right? I've never seen it before."

"That's amazing enthusiasm. And the smell is terrible. If you sniff all the time, you're going crazy."

Lisa was pinching her nose. My people agree with her.

"Sure. I'm going to feel bad smoking all the time."

"Speaking of which, they say Mountain of Fire produces toxic air. You don't have to stay long in that sense."

"But with the terrain in it, I don't know which way to go"

"Hmm. Then let's ask the residents"

"Residents?"

Approximately his strange companion, Alphilis once approached the trees around him. And when I looked up the tree for a moment, I was talking against one of them.

Hey, wake up.

"... ga?

"Roar."

"Isn't that Trent? I didn't realize..."

Lisa looked remorseful, but Alphilis was talking to Trent in the wind where it blows. Trent slowly opened his eyes that looked like ours, but he was slightly dull in motion and reaction to whether he woke up where he was sleeping in the first place.

"I'm sorry about the rest of the day, but can you tell me where I can get to where people are?

"... ga... guga"

"Yes, yes. Where the water and food can be replenished. Do you have any idea?

"... giga... g"

"Hmm. Would that take a day to walk?

"Gagi."

"You're in trouble."

As Alphilis looked in trouble, Trent, who had gradually awakened, was shaking with a touch. It seems to be making some claim by offering its branches to the Alphilis.

"What, what? If you don't have water, you can split my fruit, but instead... better."

"... now I thought I heard some very anxious words..."

Approximately to Lisa's apprehension, Alphilis began to pluck the sword and chop off its branches when he shook his neck vertically several times at Trent's say. Some stood for a moment wondering if the battle had begun, but Trent is quietly made alphilic but remains. Besides, Alphilis also looked like he was waving his sword around his nose, choosing branches to slash.

Waiting For a while, when he struck down several branches and Alphilis put his sword on him, he discussed something again with Trent, and when Trent let him shake himself all the way around, he put on some of the fruit of a man's head, and Alphilis wore it. And Trent departed, hastening somewhere.

Alphilis waved off that trent, returning with fruit.

"I got it. This is delicious fruit, isn't it? What is it, Krimla?

"It's definitely the fruit of Crimla, but... what have you done, now?

"I negotiated with Trent to share the fruit. And you told me where you were going?

"So, why did you do the pruning thing?

"I'm going to have a date with her. But I'm going to be a little sleepy and late for my appointment, so I think I was in a hurry. I was actually going to go after the branch withered or something myself, but I did it for you instead if I didn't have time. Well, what about a barber?

"I have that habit in Trent... and I'm going to feel dizzy"

Lisa was holding her head back, but it was an act familiar to Alphilis and the witches.

"Oh, that's something else, isn't it?

"No, not many... but you're surprisingly a sociable creature in the absence of humans. Because the nature of Trento depends on the surrounding environment, in the woods where there are many battles, evil Trento grows and vice versa, where there are those who manage it properly, Trento of a serene nature grows. Sometimes in the rich, sunny woods, the Huge Trent is worshipped like a patron god and acts as a resting place for creatures"

"When you're an intelligent individual, you even read books. I used to get people to play."

"No, that's just what I've never heard of. There were no such individuals in the swamps where I lived."

"Hmm, do you mean that an intelligent individual is born affected by something? Interesting."

The witches were giving a lot of opinions, but for now, the fact that Alphilis got it from Trent was enough to moisten their throats. If you drill holes and sip the contents so that they creep through, even this number of people is likely to have two or three days of moisture.

The Alphilis turned their steps toward the roar of the Mountains of Fire. Trent said it seems impossible to descend into a straight line because this area has cracks to surround it loosely. It was taught that there was a better place for people to live than through the other side of the Mountain of Fire. If you walk, you will arrive there for a day even on human foot.

When the Alphilis arrived at the foot of the Mountain of Fire, they decided to rest there. The mountain isn't even that steep if you proceed to bypass it, but because of its size, it could have taken time and strength in addition to your thoughts. Following Trent's advice, they found their stronghold where there was still a mountain behind them, like a rock shelf. Trent says this mountain is constantly repeating small-scale eruptions, so sometimes rocks fly because of eruptions. The Alphilis chose a place where they could protect themselves because it would be dangerous to hit them directly in the head while they were asleep.

"You have very little food."

"Whether you bring portable food or not, one meal is the limit. Tomorrow it will be tough if we don't make it to the settlement."

"Shall we explore the area and see if there are any creatures that are likely to be eaten?

Alphilis and Muscade also shook their heads at Renatica's suggestion.

Continued