Chapter 423: Arc 3, - 39: Midnight Musings
Horse hooves against dirt and brush was not the usual noisy clops the blonde was used to; more so when the horses had six legs and some features of a household cockroach.
Fortunately, she was seated on hay on the back of the cart, not having to face them and the setting Sun only aided in that endeavour.
After a long silence, "I mean, I didn’t realize when we got isekai-d, we’d be you know, actually real? We died in an accident and what if our brains got recovered and we were uploaded into a supercomputer that simulates life or something?
It makes less sense we just got transported into another world for real, come on, you gotta be on my side for that!"
Jotou glanced over to her travelling companion sitting opposite her and slanted her head to the side, "So let me get this straight; you couldn’t make sense of the things in this world and how you got here.
And instead of investigating further and keeping an open mind, you decided to make up your own conclusion and just kept going? Just in absolute denial of all the evidence around you?"
Ben groaned into his armoured palms.
"Yeah, maybe you can stop acting like a douche now."
"Dude, I’ve like... oh man... I gotta skip town for my reputation at this point. I mean, I gotta test out if they’re actual people first," he reasoned.
"So you’ve entered the bargaining stage?"
"I’m not grieving man," his eyes poked out from in between his fingers.
Jotou spotted the Adventurers Guild in the distance before dusk had turned to night. "I’ve been meaning to ask you, do you ever take off your armour? I’ve not seen in you in normal clothes once."