Chapter 49: E-Rank Adventurer Party (3)
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I sent the envoys back.
After I sent them away, I walked back to the Demon Lord room. Only the sound of a couple of fairies giggling and my footsteps echoed throughout the cavern. It took roughly an hour to reach the Demon Lord room, so it was a 2 hour round trip.
The two hours didn’t feel that long to me. For starters, there was the fact that I was deliberating about how I was going to deal with the adventurers, and it was also because I had gotten accustomed to the fundamentally slower perception of time in this world. I arrived back at the Demon Lord room before I knew it.
“…….”
Laura was seated on a boulder in a corner of the room and silently reading a book. The boulder had a red blanket acting as a cushion on top of it.
The pleasant sound of pages being flipped echoed throughout the room each time she used her index fingers to turn a page. That corner space had become a world of its own with only a red blanket and the sound of a single book. Time would slow down every time she turned a page of her book.
She then abruptly raised her head. Our eyes met. She opened her mouth as if she knew I would be standing here for a long time and as if she was naturally bringing up another topic in a conversation that had been ongoing.
“What did the humans say?”