Chapter 17: He's Chasing After Me
「What's that?」
As I raced out of the city, I stopped my gait upon discovering a strange item.
It was a kind of "road," starting from the previous city and heading off somewhere.
Was this some sort of path?
And yet, no one passed by that "road."
Curious, I approached it to get a closer look. The "road" was made of two iron poles laid on the ground parallel to each other, continuing past the horizon. Perpendicular to these two iron poles were wooden boards that came one after the other, far more than I could count.
Both sides of the "road" were covered with small bits of gravel. Why would they use something so difficult to walk on? Gravel was the archnemesis of human and horse feet.
「Does that mean this isn't the main highway?」
I tilted my head to the side as I pondered this mystery.