Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Wayward Journey, Volume 12 by Yuuya Kusaka

Author:Yuuya Kusaka [AKITA, YOSHINOBU]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter XII: An Old Man with No Story to Tell

The building sat alone and inconspicuous in the forest. Its walls were a muddy green that blended in with the moss and mold growing here and there. Just looking at it gave you a sense of its immense age.

All they could really see under the night sky was a hazy silhouette, but they could make out the general outline of the building. The walls were gradually illuminated by the pure white light of sorcery. The swaying fairy lights spilled over the surface of the walls like water.

Looking up at the camouflaged building, Orphen muttered to no one in particular, “Is this it?”

“Ugh...yeah.” The tearful reply had obviously (was it obvious?) come from that researcher. His name was Nosapp, Orphen thought he recalled. He was still hanging upside down from a tree branch.

...No. Orphen said to no one but himself. That wasn’t quite right.

Nosapp had followed them this far by leaping between tree branches. As if his feet were naturally drawn to them.

No, that wasn’t quite accurate, either. He wasn’t clinging to the tree branches. Each time he moved, the branches swayed. Upward. And they bent under his weight. Upward. He was entrusting his weight to the branches so that he didn’t fall, but—not to be too repetitive—it was high up in the sky that he was in danger of falling toward.

In other words, it wasn’t that he was hanging from the tree branches, but that he was standing upside down on the underside of the branches.

Gravity is reversed...? That was all Orphen could think. He didn’t know what it meant, though. Lost in thought, Orphen looked back toward the building.

At a glance, it almost looked like an inverted square pyramid with its head buried in the ground. It was pretty large, but because it was green and the branches of the trees extended up around it, it would have been hard to spot from above. Orphen realized that was why he hadn’t noticed it from up on the cliff. The building had no windows or anything that looked like a door inside.

...No. He repeated to himself. He had realized it earlier. There was a small opening near the base of the upside-down pyramid that a person could probably fit through. It was like the entire building had simply been turned upside down.

“I’m guessing...?” Orphen pointed up at the hole as he spoke to Nosapp.

The researcher nodded. “Yeah, I came from there. From there, down the trees...”

“Thought so.”

“We can’t... climb up there, can we?” Dortin murmured.

There were plenty of ways to do so, but Orphen frowned and looked around. He looked at both of their faces and shrugged his shoulders. “I could make it up there on my own somehow. What about you two?”

“I’ll wait here. I leave my brother in your hands.”

“I don’t really want to go back up there...”

Dortin and Nosapp both answered him swiftly.

Sighing, Orphen waved his hand at them. “Yeah, that’s about what I was expecting. Well, whatever. I don’t mind not having anything holding me back.

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