C142 Weaklings.
C142 Weaklings.
The magic light spread across the entire continent at a dazzling speed. The town was built in a hurry. Adventurers and merchants from Alien World came to this legendary land filled with gold to collect and plunder anything valuable.
As for the word sustainable development, it had been a few hundred years since it was mentioned.
This small town called Bentham was hastily built in that era. But because it was located to the north, it was close to Harrenbrook Mountain. This place was unlike most of the Palewhite Region, where there was no land suitable for rapid cultivation of magic plants. It was also a certain distance away from a big city. Over time, after the first batch of explorers collected the magic plants that had accumulated over thousands of years, this town gradually declined.
Later, during the exploration of Harrenbrook, Bentham had once welcomed a short period of good days. However, after Barents's death, no one dared to venture deeper into this mysterious mountain range. The hotels and bars in the town closed down one after another. Until now, there was only one hotel left that was still struggling.
It was the one Riko and Meiko were currently in.
Moreover, the owner of the last inn was an old man without a son. It seemed like he would not be able to live for long.
"Do you have any impression of this place?"
Walking on the orderly grid shaped street, Riko tilted her head and said to the person wrapped in armor beside her.
"Yes."
The armor nodded its head and made a metal clashing sound.
"And I remember there were two more hotels here when I came"
Riko originally wanted Meiko to throw the armor and shield in the room and put on the usual attire at home to go out. But Meiko was determined not to. After a round of negotiations, she finally decided to leave the shield in the room.
And that shield was too heavy. Even if Riko used all her strength, she could not move it. She completely did not know how Meiko easily lifted it up. Until the blond Shield Knight easily lifted Riko up with one hand.
Most of the buildings in Bentham had not been repaired for a long time. There was no one in the originally bustling streets. The streets were built with heavy wood that was unique to Plane in Palewhite. Even after thousands of years had passed... They had yet to collapse. However, the paint on the outer wall of the house had been peeled off for a long time, and no one had painted it again. This caused the entire street to be filled with a dull and ice-cold grayish-brown color. Many of the windows of the houses were shattered, and in front of some of the doors sat an old man who was in his twilight years. He stared at the sky with his dim yellow eyes.
Even though it was a sunny day, the small town in Bentham still had a heavy atmosphere that could not be dispersed.
The footsteps of the two girls echoed in the street, as if they were the only sound.
At night.
Because Riko had predicted beforehand that this place might not have anything to eat, she brought a pile of food and raw materials from the mainland. She even carried two pots. Luckily, the pocket of the robe Master God gave her could fit a lot of things. Otherwise, Riko would not have been able to bring these things with her.
The time in the solidified storage space was still, or rather, it could be said that... There was no such thing as "time" in the storage space. Therefore, all living things could not be stored inside. In other words, Riko could not possibly take out a living fish that was still alive and kicking from her pocket. But she could take out a fish that was actually quite fresh even though it had been dead for two months.
Riko finished eating.
It was very early in the night because there was a huge Harrenbrook Mountain across the west. The people of Bentham could never see a normal sunset. They could only see the sun slowly sinking into the horizon. The remaining afterglow was still hovering in the sky. It was only after a few hours that the last bit of remnant light finally disappeared. In Bentham, the sun sank into the western mountains and squeezed out the last few rays of light. After that, the sky would quickly dim and the starry sky would appear in the sky.
In addition, Riko slept very late yesterday, so she turned off the lights early and laid on the bed.
The dark room was silent for a moment. The Harrenbrook Mountain outside the window was still entrenched in the shadows, like a huge and evil black dragon.
"Riko?"
For some reason, Meiko suddenly asked.
Riko replied with a voice.
"Do you feel that I treat you as a substitute for that person?" Meiko asked tentatively.
Riko was stunned for a moment.
She really did not think about that. She shook her head, but then she realized that Meiko might not be able to see in the darkness.
"I don't think so."
Even if Meiko really thought of her as a substitute, it did not matter. Riko thought that in the past, even if she wanted to be someone else's substitute, she did not have the qualifications.
It was really good to have Meiko around.
"That's good. Riko is unique." The blond Shield Knight replied to her.
"Am I special?"
Riko looked at her hands in the darkness and whispered.
"Because you are you. You are different from others."
Riko suddenly had an impulse to cry.
She pulled the blanket over her head and curled it into a ball.
"Meiko, I was not a unique person in the past."
Riko rubbed her eyes and there was a sobbing tone in her intermittent voice.
"If I did not appear here, if I did not have this sudden power, I would probably have died a long time ago, right?"
"But even if I was this lucky, I was still very afraid. I was afraid that I would suddenly be robbed of everything I have now. I was afraid that I would be forced to leave your side and return to my previous world. "
Meiko silently got up from the bed and grabbed Riko's slender hand and carried her into her embrace.
"It is alright."
Meiko softly said.
"If that day really comes, no matter how far away you are, I will save you. Furthermore, I will beat up that bastard who threw you back!"