Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! Volume 7 [Complete] by Hiiro Shimotsuki

Author:Hiiro Shimotsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Ten: The Reason

“So she’s decided not to, huh?” I mused. “It’s probably because...” I trailed off and exchanged glances with the members of the Blue Flash crew in turn.

“Because of Aina, huh?” Raiya said, finishing my sentence.

“Shiro, where are Stella and Aina from?” Nesca asked.

“Aina told me they used to live in the Republic of Aptos. I looked at where it was on the map and it’s really far from here,” I said.

Nesca considered this. “I see.”

“Stella sure is amazing, isn’t she, meow?” Kilpha marveled. “Coming all the way here when Aina was so little, meow.”

“Moms have to be strong,” I agreed.

Stella loved her husband, but she loved her daughter even more.

“I don’t get it. Why can’t Stella go look for him because of Aina?” Patty asked with a pout. “Th-That makes no sense! The normal reaction would be to go there!”

There was some logic to Patty’s reasoning. Stella had learned that her supposedly long-deceased husband was actually alive, so why was she hesitating? She had to go look for him. In the little fairy’s mind, that was the obvious course of action.

“Miss Patty, ma’am, only those without responsibilities are able to do such a thing,” Rolf explained to the confused fairy.

“Responsibilities?” she echoed.

“Yes, responsibilities,” Rolf continued patiently. “In this case, little Miss Aina is Miss Stella’s responsibility.”

“Aina?”

“Indeed.”

But in spite of Rolf’s explanation, Patty wasn’t getting it at all. Observing her confusion, Raiya scratched his head and said, “Patty, you’ve never left Ninoritch before, have you?”

“She came to the royal capital with me when I went there,” I reminded him.

“Oh, right, yeah. But what I mean is you’ve never taken a proper trip to another hume nation, have you? Crossing borders and all that.”

“A-And? Is there something wrong with that?” the little fairy snapped back.

“Hey, hey, no need to bite. Listen, Patty. Traveling is super tough. There are towns out there where robberies and murders are just part of daily life,” Raiya explained.

Patty’s jaw hit the floor. It had been a whole ordeal when bandits had suddenly shown up near Ninoritch, but the idea that there were towns out there where they had to deal with that sort of stuff every single day was utterly terrifying.

“Patty, this world is much bigger than you think. On this continent alone, countless races coexist with one another,” Nesca said, looking her disciple in the eye. “There are fairies and humes, of course, but there are also beastfolk, elves, dwarves, lizardfolk, six-limbed folk, ogres...” she reeled off. “And that’s not even all of them. But all of those races have their own nations, towns, and other settlements.”

“Yup, yup! Even if you’re just restricting it to hume nations, there are still so many of them, you don’t have enough fingers on your hands and toes on your feet combined to count them all, meow,” Kilpha added. “And in the more dangerous parts of the continent, around one in five towns is like what Raiya described, meow.”

Well, I can tell you one thing: I sure as hell don’t ever want to set foot in one of those apocalyptic-sounding hellholes.

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