Chapter 1731: Nighttime Founding Festival with Shallow Vernal ①

After watching the sunset, the nightscape and the meteor shower at the clock tower, we went outside the tower. Whether it was Laguna-san’s good response or the Gods following up, I was relieved to find that there wasn’t as much confusion around as I thought it would be.

[Kaito-san, what do we do after this?]

[Ah, that’s right. It’s already night, so if Shiro-san doesn’t have anything else you want to do, should we go to that onsen inn……? I don’t know where it is and I don’t know what the place is like, so if we can’t have dinner there, it might be better if we eat somewhere else first……]

In fact, I’ve already been around this Founding Festival for two days, so I’ve had enough of it. When I went with Alice, we mainly focused on street stalls, and with Shiro, we centered around events and more elaborate things, so I don’t have any further desire to explore anything else at this point.

If Shiro-san has a place she wants to go, I’ll go there with her, but if there’s nothing in particular, moving on to the onsen and taking it easy sounds like a good idea. Even if they don’t provide food, there are various things in my magic box, so that isn’t really a problem.

[I understand. I checked and it looks like they’ve also finished preparing the onsen inn, and we can have our dinner there, so let’s move on.]

[Ah, yes. Alright…… Checked? Checked with who?]

[To the person I dispatched to prepare the onsen inn.]

Ahh, I see, did she have Chronois-san or the other Gods prepare it for her? In that case, I guess that would mean it’s something different from the onsen she created in the Sanctuary before.

It’s just, there’s something that kinda bothers me a bit. First of all, that way she said “prepare the onsen inn”…… It sounds as if they were making it from scratch, but there are many people who could do something like that if they wanted to, so there isn’t any particular problem with that.

What worries me is that “also” attached to the onsen inn. I may have been simply thinking too much and this thought was a result of Shiro-san’s phrasing, but that word, that kinda implies that they had prepared something else, doesn’t it?

……Does that mean they’ve also prepared the onsen that inn was attached to? If that was just it, that would be great……

[……Shiro-san, just to confirm, where is this onsen inn?]

[Somewhere a bit far from this royal capital. As we’ll be moving there by teleportation, that distance isn’t too much of a problem.]

[I see, so it’s within Hydra Kingdom…… I am concerned about whether communications with Laguna-san went smoothly, but there’s something I’m more concerned about at the moment…… Are there other preparations besides the onsen and the inn?]

[Mt Fuji.]

[………………Hmm?]

I think I heard something strange just now. When I asked about whether she had anything prepared besides the onsen and the inn, she said Mt Fuji? Is such a fantastic answer even possible? But sadly, I remembered that the being before me is someone who can make even such powerful words a reality.

[……Errr, Shiro-san? By Mt Fuji, you are talking about the mountain, right?]

[Yes. It’s the stunning and luxurious view that Kaito-san had talked about.]

I see, it’s something she picked up from our conversation huh…… Are Laguna-san and Chronois-san really gonna be alright? No, I do feel really sorry, but I never imagined things would turn out this way either.

It was supposed to be just small talk about onsen…… but I see, she actually had a Mt Fuji prepared huh……

[Ahh, but Shiro-san? Even if you had a Mt Fuji prepared, you can’t really see that in the onsen at night……]

[I had it made to be visible.]

[……???]

What is this, I feel like a lot of question marks have been floating around in my head since a while ago. A Mt Fuji visible from the onsen even at night? What, did she make that onsen absurdly close to the mountain…… No, doing that wouldn’t allow us to have a spectacular view, so I don’t think she would adjust it in that direction.

In that case, was she making it so that Mt Fuji is glowing? I mean, when she said “she had it made to be visible”, does that mean she also commissioned someone to create that Mt Fuji? Someone who knows what Mt Fuji is, and can arrange it to be visible even at night in a short time…… Someone like Eden-san? H- Hmmm, I don’t know. At any rate, I feel uneasy about all this, but I won’t know until I see it once, so let’s just go there and see it ourselves.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [The situation is so surreal that even Kaito seems to be confused.]