Reincarnated as a chicken

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Day 15

Last night was a real mess and I didn't even want to think about it.

How did the Timber Wolf King not see the importance in creating an alliance? Had she already resigned to serving under Krull?

It was dawn and I had been woken up by the Agent. This was because of the journey I had today with the sprite.

The dryad had been waiting for me, looking no different from usual. Except this time, she had a pink lily pad on her head.

"Good morning."

'Erh... good morning? Is that a sort of fashion trend amongst the sprites?'

She looked at the lily pad then giggled. She was so refined and lady-like. The opposite of Minerva.

"Um... no. This lily pad is something that allows dryads to move long distances away from their trees."

'Oh? So why do you have it? You're not a dryad.'

"Uh... It may be true that I am a sprite, but it is so that Lady Diane can manifest herself before us at any point."

'Oh-ok. So that woman wants to keep an eye on us, eh?'

"Yes."

She responded without a care in the world. Diane really didn't trust me even after throwing all the responsibility on my shoulders. Maybe I should have tried to run away, but it would be best to get through this. Maybe I would acquire some very useful skills along the way and if I defeated a tyrant, wouldn't that be an insane boost in power for me?

'You said it would take us a full day to get there?'

"Or two, yes. It is quite the journey."

'Wow.'

I thought out loud.

"Did something happen, Hinotori?"

'Oh, nothing really. I'm just amazed by how big this forest is. That must mean there are tons of places to go to and explore, right?'

"Well yes. There are different spots in the West that I am certain you would love to see."

'Oh? Like where?'

"There's the watering hole, the forbidden dungeon, the Murt'ark ruins, the-"

While she was listing, there was one thing that had me excited.

'Wait... What did you say!?'

"The Murt'ark ruins? It's the-"

'No, no, before that.'

"The forbidden dungeon?"

'Yes the forbidden dungeon. As in like a dungeon, dungeon? With gold and relics? And an elder lich zombie skeletons and all that?'

"Oh? So even Hinotori has some sort of common knowledge about the world?"

Usually, that would have been offensive, but considering I am new here, I would just ignore it.

Afterwards, she told me the story of how a certain human sorcerer created a tomb in the west of the forest. Apparently he was friends with Larm and so he was the only human permitted to live in the forest, which was weird considering how much they say Larm hated humans. He later died and his dungeon had been protected by skeleton soldiers ever since.

That must have been the cave I accidentally traveled to when I tried to explore earlier. I wondered what kind of things were down there. If I survived this incident, I definitely wanted to check it out. I also wanted pay-back for what that skeleton did to me. Chasing me out of the cave like some kind of animal. The nerve of that thing.