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Chapter 81 : Road to Laserna ・ Day 1 (Evening)

Chapter 81 : Road to Laserna ・ Day 1 (Evening)

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"We will rest here today! Everyone, begin the preparation!"

We had one more break after lunch before we reached our campsite for tonight. Taking out my pocket watch to check the time, I saw it was still a little after 18.00. Summer had a longer daylight so the sky was still bright. The natural light helped us in preparing our meal and setting up our tent for us to rest into.

"I'm going to take out my tent this time."

"Yeah. Please do, Ren."

Sig-san wrapped his arms around my body and helped me down from Oscar. As soon as my feet touched the ground, I went ahead and took my tent and table set from my bag. The three of them quickly helped me assemble the tent and fixed a canopy over our table set.

There were two tents around one big tent that I assumed was Francesca-san's tent. I guess they must be separating the tents for the servant by gender? Not far from where the horses were resting at, there was a tent for the guards.

We decided to set up our tent beside Francesca-san's tent so her tent was protected by the guard and our tent on both sides.

"Excuse me, Ren-dono. About the watch duty during night time..."

"Ah~ I will come as Luce's representative. Ren-chan and the others can focus on preparing dinner~"

"Then I will go to set up [Barrier] around our campsite."

Tad-san came with an apologetic look on his face in which Chris-san immediately volunteered to come as our representative.

During the Calhea quest, I had our tent covered in four layers of barrier and I also did the same when we were on our way back to Pedrell. Back then, we didn't connect the barriers to William and the others in case something happened and they had to run for safety.

But this time, there were a lot of carriages and non-combatant civilians we had to escort. Which was why, even though I would be putting up barriers as per usual, we still needed people to take turns standing watch throughout the night.

"【Barrier】... Okay, I'm done here.」

Just like what I did during lunch break, I drew a line using some tree branch I found and imagined a barrier enclasping us within those lines. This physical line was just a border marker though, even if someone were to step on it and the lines disappeared, the barrier would still be intact.

I wished I could make my barrier more noticeable with a curtain-like shape but currently, my barrier was still colourless and transparent. I had only ever used [Barrier] when we were camping outside so there was no need to make them visible but maybe I should try to add color on my barrier next time I cast it?

"Do you have any requests for dinner?"

I asked Fer-san and Sig-san, who took their time to follow me while I drew lines on the ground. We were on our way back to our tent since I had already finished casting [Barrier].

"I want meat."

Sig-san, who was walking on my right side, said as he gently stroked my head.

Sig-san really loved meat, huh? If he were a rabbit beastman, would he like vegetables more? Maybe a sparrow beastman like Ari-san loved something like rice and peanuts? I will ask her the next time I meet her so I can make her something she likes when I come to her place.

"Sig, you always want meat... But since we had a refreshing lunch today, maybe a hearty meal like what Sig-san wanted would be great?"

Since Fer-san also agreed with Sig-san, I've decided to choose something meaty for our main dish. I wonder what kind of meaty dish I had in my magic bag...