Otherside Picnic, Volume 1 by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa [MIYAZAWA, IORI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

7

“...Looks like I can use my phone.”

“You’ve got bars, yeah.”

I looked at my phone in disbelief.

The tent we were led to was a messy space with a simple bed, a table, and folding chairs. Trash from rations and crushed water bottles were scattered around, making the tent look more like a ruin. What had happened to the people who once slept here?

We sat side-by-side on the simple bed, looking at our phones. Toriko was looking at my phone, even though she could have just tested her own.

“Just one bar... Oh, now it’s three. It’s not stable, but it looks like we can get through.”

“Hey, want to try making a call?”

“To where? And who?”

“Kozakura.”

“Kozakura-san, huh...”

Kozakura was apparently a researcher of this world, so it was true she might be able to help. The thing was, I had only met her once, so I had no sense for what she was like. I wasn’t big on the idea.

“I don’t know her number. You call, Toriko.”

“The thing is, my display’s all weird.”

When Toriko showed me her screen, I was surprised. The display was completely corrupted, and even the icon images were a mess.

The first time I met Toriko, my smartphone got messed up after it took a dip in the water here in the other world. Toriko’s screen looked like it had done just that, as the text was unreadable. Did a font like that even exist?

“You remember her number?”

“Yeah. It’s 090—”

After punching in the numbers as she said them, for lack of any better option, I heard a dialing sound mixed with static.

“Sounds like it’s going through.”

“Put it on speaker phone!”

The dialing sound echoed through the tent.

“Is this okay...? The major just told us not to use our phones.”

“He was just acting. You know, acting.”

“This isn’t that kind of easygoing situation! He’ll get mad at us for this.”

“Neither of us is one of his subordinates, so we should just do what we want. He didn’t forbid it anyway... He just said, ‘I would advise you not to.’”

“Well, sure, but...”

There was a loud burst of static, cutting me off.

“...Yes?”

“Uh, h-hello! Kozakura-san, is that you?”

“Who is this?”

The curt reply flustered me.

“I-I’m, uh, Kamikoshi, we met before. D-Do you remem—”

“Oh... Sorawo-chan?”

“Y-Yes!”

I was relieved she hadn’t forgotten me.

When we met face-to-face, I was misled by her appearance as a small, thin girl who looked like she belonged in middle school, so it hadn’t occurred to me at the time, but over the phone I realized Kozakura had a surprisingly deep voice. Was she still sitting in that poorly lit study, surrounded by the glow of her multi-monitor setup now?

“What is it? Did something happen to the other idiot?” Kozakura asked irritably.

“I’m right here,” Toriko interjected.

“Okay, then. What do you want? Hold on, where are you calling from? What is this noise? It’s annoying.”

“Sorry, I think the signal’s bad.”

“Tell whoever’s behind you to pipe down!”

“Huh?”

I turned around despite myself; we were the only ones in the deserted tent. While I was confused, Kozakura pressed me.

“And?”

“Um, err...”

“Kozakura, we’re calling from the Otherside.

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