Chapter 30: 15 year old Inglis and the Town ruled by a Highlander
About ten days had passed since they left Ymir. The journey from the fortified city of Ymir to Chiral the Royal Capital would take a little less than one month. So far, they had traversed around one-third of the journey, and their trip was going well——not!
「Mm~! So tasty~ ? Going on a trip is fun, we can eat a lot of tasty food in so many different places!」
The town of Nova, where Inglis and Rafinha were currently at, was a town close to the mountains, so there were plenty of wild fruits and vegetables to harvest. Rafinha smiled blissfully when she devoured a slice of pie fully packed with fruits and raspberry jam. The town’s specialty raspberry desserts and sweet treats were all lined up and piled on the diner table Inglis and Rafinha were stopping at. This was merely the amount left over after they had wolfed down enough for several adult men. Customers from other tables were, of course, casting a startled look at the pair but they were already used to this kind of attention, so this hardly bothered them at all.
「Rani, honestly, aren’t you eating too much?」 「But Glis, you eat just as much as I do.」
It was just as Rafinha said, the silver-haired girl was stuffing her cheeks with pie just as quickly as Rafinha. She just couldn’t stop herself when there was so much sweet, delicious food in front of her. While she had been quite fond of eating back in her previous life, it had never been up to this degree. And she hadn’t liked sweet food as much either.
However, after being reborn as Inglis Eux, she had developed quite the sweet tooth. Was this due to being in the body of a female? If so, this was definitely one of the few enjoyments she didn’t have in her past life. 1 Dressing up and admiring oneself, smacking one’s lips when eating sweet treats, being in a female body was definitely enjoyable at times. 2
「That’s true, but… this is really a crisis.」 「What is?」 「The travel fund. If we don’t ration out one meal a day after today, it won’t hold until we reach the capital.」 「EEeeeeehhh!! But that means we can’t enjoy the foods in the places we visit next!」 「That’s right. That’s why I told you, you’re eating too much…」 「Then how about this? We take the shortest route and don’t visit any—」 「That’s an absolute no! We have to visit the town of Arlman!」
It was a little detour from their trip to the Royal Capital but there was a town Inglis really wanted to stop by no matter what. She had planned this from the very beginning as part of their journey to the capital. If someone were to ask her what was there in the town of Arlman that Inglis just had to visit, it was the carcass of the strongest magic stone beast that laid there.
Apparently, around more than 50 years ago, a Holy Knight partnered with their Hyrule Menace had defeated one there. By all means, she wanted to see it with her own eyes. She wanted to feel the strength of that Prisma. She might not learn anything from it but there might be remaining traces of its might. That meant that she just had to go there and see it for herself.