Kujonin Chapter 28

Kujonin
Author: Hanakuroko
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"Leave Teyl to me!"

The shipyard's boss, b.o.l.l.o.c.k, said to me, who had boarded a boat. I had immediately magically remodeled the small, old boat that had been in the shipyard and was given to me.
The Lord had made me, Velsa, and Ayl wanted, so we were in a considerable hurry. Teyl already has no relation to me, so it seems she's not wanted, but I'm a little worried about it. Even so, she has a new husband to protect her, so I'm relieved.

"Sorry I can't attend the wedding, Teyl."
"Ee, it's alright. More importantly, take care."

Teyl said as she grasped the Communication Bag that I made. If the preparations are made, then we'll set off immediately. Although I said it was 'preparations', it's just loading the luggage onto the boat. The boat given to us is about as large as a yacht, so rather than it being old and dirty, there wasn't anything in particular that I could see wrong with it.

"In the end it seems I didn't part with Ayl."
"Were you intending to separate from me? Even if I had won the compet.i.tion and boarded the ship, I have the intentions to stick with Naoki. Maa, take care of me from now on too."

Ayl said, striking me on the shoulder.
As we were about to take off, the shipyard's works and the townspeople, as well and Teyl and b.o.l.l.o.c.k of course, waved their hands.
"Have an 'ichigo-ichie' journey! Treasure your encounters!"
Teyl smiled, waving her hand.

We begin our journey with the boat heading straight east. The wind was favorable. Seagull-like monsters were flying with us since we set out.
When we had continued for a while, a hole opened in the bottom of the ship and water came coming in. We tore of a plank and stopped it up. The Lord's ship might come chasing us, so I drew a magic circle that produces water currents in the stern of the ship, raising the speed.
While repairing the boat, the boat continued onward, the three of us did other little things, like securing a place to sleep. I cleaned the kitchen and installed the heating magic circle. The bottom of the toilet floor had fallen through, so I made a door for the floor. You're completely visible from the outside, but it can't be helped for now. Honestly, I feel like no matter how many hands we have, it wouldn't be enough. Lunch are the sandwiches we had brought with us that Teyl made.

Crash-!

All of a sudden the boat hit something and we were grounded.

"Oi, oi, we crashed right away!?"
Ayl yelled.
I quickly reinforced the boat with a reinforcement magic circle.
Thankfully, what we had run aground of was a sea monster, a kraken, so with a light magic circle and Ayl's sword attacks, we killed it. We harvested the squid ink and tentacles and such, but the meat wasn't that tasty.
There was practically no damage to the boat.
The next thing that attacked us was the wind.
We had spread the sails, but in an instant they tore and the rudder became useless.
It would take some time and trouble to fix, so with it like that I pour magic power into the magic circle, and we continue with just the current. Around when the wind calmed, there wasn't a shadow of land anywhere in our surroundings. It was the horizon in all 360 degrees. I looked at the map, but I have no idea where we are.
Relying on the compa.s.s, we head east.
If we keep going for a bit, we should see an island.
However, even before we reached that island, we were a.s.saulted by a large amount of jellyfish monsters called echizzen. I removed the cracked frame of a round window within the ship and drew a wind magic magic circle on the window frame.
Attaching a rope, I threw it into the sea and the window frame floated on the sea surface. Having it rotate slowly enough to not move the ship, it amusingly sucked in the echizzen within the water and then launched them, swirling, into the sky. When they were launched upwards, Ayl, slash slash, cut them down.
Their tenacity towards life seems to be weak, so the echizzen disappeared among the sea's seaweed. After a while, while we were hunting echizzen, we saw a land shadow on the horizon to the east. As we got closer to the island, as expected the amount of echizzen increased.
It plugged up the window frame, so I retrieved the window frame.
I drew and added to the magic circle and, once again, threw it out to sea.
From the window frame a tornado-like wind rose up and the echizzen were flung across the sky.
I had made a path all the way to the island, so we quickly moved the boat forward.

We scurried until we reached the island.
The island was, as per expectations, a dense jungle; strange monster calls and the footsteps of confident monsters can be heard.