Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 2] by You Fuguruma

Author:You Fuguruma
Language: eng
Format: epub

As they continued their search, the party stopped a few times so that Linus could gather things like mushrooms and strange wandering jellyfish.

“That said...” Linus uttered with a wry grin, “I can’t help but wonder if everything has run into the cavern’s depths.”

He wasn’t just talking about the plant life that was rooted to wherever it was located—the party had come quite a ways but had yet to see much in the way of magical beasts, including the mandrake, which could walk on its own power. It seemed that perhaps the overharvesting had scared the inhabitants of the cavern and forced them to flee into the deeper parts of it.

“Oh, this isn’t good,” said Nils. “They might have done exactly that—take a look.”

The next gathering spot they reached had, fortunately, not been uprooted. However, there were noticeable holes in the ground around it. Each hole was about three or four centimeters wide, and soil from them dotted the ground, leading deeper into the cavern.

“Oh... Are these mandrake marks?” asked Shiori.

“Yes, that’s right. When they sense danger, they uproot themselves and run to somewhere safe. The mandrake is quite a cowardly creature.”

“Oh... Is that so...?”

Shiori still couldn’t quite grasp the concept of a cowardly plant that could walk somewhere safe on its own. Having come from a place where magical beasts did not exist, such a thing was completely perplexing to her, even if it was just part of everyday life for Alec and the others, who were born and raised here.

“All the same...something isn’t quite right. I sense something odd,” said Linus, carefully observing the area before pointing up at the ceiling above them. “That nest up there contains cellar birds. They’re very aggressive, but they haven’t come down at all.”

Shiori looked up to the stone roof some ten meters above, to a bird’s nest built from branches in a craggier section of rock. It was a cellar bird nest. The cellar bird was a medium-sized bird-type magical beast that most commonly made a home of dark places like caves and underground ruins. They were about fifty centimeters in diameter, and were often traded for their meat and eggs, which had a very unique scent. It was something of an acquired taste, but in certain gourmet circles, the cellar bird was quite precious.

“I would have loved to take at least one home with me, but it’s not happening if they don’t leave their nest,” said Linus.

As a talented archer, Linus could easily have disturbed the nest to force the birds out, but the nest was made with materials that stunk quite badly—a means of warding away intruders. If he slipped up while trying to get their attention, it might end in a reeking tragedy.

“Whether it’s mandrakes or other magical beasts, it’s clear to me those birds are worried about something, and that’s why they’re not coming out. It doesn’t make sense. It’s been weeks since the overharvesting, right?”

“You think there could be some other reason the creatures here are on guard?”

Everyone turned to look into the deeper darkness of the cavern.

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