Goodbye, Overtime! This Reincarnated Villainess Is Living for Her New Big Brother Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 6] by Chidori Hama

Author:Chidori Hama
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: Journey

The Yulnova Duchy was far from the capital.

The trip took two weeks by carriage—an entire month in total to make the round trip. In other words, we’d spend half of the summer break on the road! Under these circumstances, not going home for the summer sounded like a much better option.

Thankfully, there was a quicker alternative: boats!

If we went up the Serno River, the large river that flowed through the capital, and continued to sail through one of its branches, we’d get to the duchy. Apparently, the wood we sold in the capital traveled along the same route.

During the Edo period in Japan or the medieval times in Europe, people had proceeded the same way. In fact, rivers had always played an important role in human history across the globe. Civilization had flourished on the banks of the large rivers which were used to distribute goods and transport people.

Still, it was less convenient to sail upstream. The ships of this world weren’t equipped with engines so they couldn’t do so very fast. As such, the trips still took several days...usually. The good news was, the empire did have a few special vessels that could sail much faster—high-speed ships. They were manned exclusively by sailors who could control either water or wind magic. There were several such ships in the empire, but they each traveled designated routes, so the Yulnova always used one named the Rapidus to travel to the duchy.

Such a peaceful and effective use of mana!

While that was my first thought, I later heard that using mana to speed up ships was a practice born in the empire’s navy. It was kind of similar to the robotic vacuum cleaners of my previous world, which had also been created from military technology. It seemed like people were the same in every world, creating peaceful, cutting-edge technology based on things that had initially been developed for military purposes.

I looked at the slender hull of the ship anchored in the harbor. It was round and fairly flat, and I couldn’t help but be reminded of robotic vacuum cleaners once more—specifically of the many adorable videos of cats riding on top of them.

Alexei, who was escorting me as usual, noticed me staring and asked, “Ekaterina, are you scared of ships?”

He misunderstood!

“Not at all, brother,” I rushed to answer. “I was just remembering the first time I boarded one, when I came to the capital. I didn’t feel nauseous at all, and it was rather pleasant. Besides, I could never be scared with you by my side!”

“I see. We’ll sail for three days. If you start feeling sick at any point, let me know at once. I’ll arrange a different means of transportation.”

“Yes, brother. I shall do as you say.”

Alexei’s neon blue eyes were as gentle as they always were when he looked at me.

I can tell he’s as obsessed with me as ever! Thank you!

While he’d offered to change means of transportation if I wanted to, nothing else was as fast and practical as a high-speed ship.

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