Chapter 449: Running Out of Food
Travel was rather uneventful for a few days. Which Elmo was glad for. So much had been happening lately that it was nice to have nothing happen that added to the worries that were currently going through his mind. Especially the likelihood that he was potentially considered a kidnapper simply because he'd travelled out of here with Kim's army.
He knew the accusations were completely bull, provided they were correct on who it was that had been 'kidnapped.' Although, he hoped that it wasn't an actual kidnapping, as he didn't want something like that to happen to anyone.
While Elmo wanted to get to the capital as quickly as possible, he also hoped that their food supply would hold out. As the venison that they'd had the library's cafeteria to cure was nearly out. Though, Elmo had to admit that it was a lot better than what they'd been able to do to any of the meat that they'd gotten from hunting.
However, from the talk he was hearing from the others, they might just bypass the capital altogether. Despite the need of resupplying their food, if nothing else.
So, as they set up camp when they could see the capital in the distance, Elmo wondered if maybe he should bring that subject up. He wasn't sure it would be a good idea, especially with how it seemed to him that the general decision had been made about that already.
Yet, at the same time, he couldn't help but worry that if they didn't stop in the capital, they might not be able to get anything to in ways of resupplying their food at all. Especially since he was pretty sure that they didn't have any of the currency that this world accepted and the flower's teeth that they'd acquired might not be able to be sold in a smaller village.
"Uh, so will we go into the capital tomorrow?" Elmo asked, fully convinced this was a bad idea even as he spoke.
"Why? Give them a chance to accuse the rest of us that we're accomplices to what you and your group did?" Elwin retorted.
"No need to be so direct," Owen commented. "I'm sure he has a reason to ask that." Owen then turned to Elmo and added, "Right?"
Elmo nodded, still unsure what needed to be said. "I was thinking that we'd need to buy more food. You know, in case it takes longer than we expected to get into the dungeon."
"Really?" Jonas asked, yawning. "It should only take us a single day to get to the village from the capital, then it should take another day to get to the dungeon. Why shouldn't we think that it'll take longer than that?"