Translator: P411
Editor: Shizukuku
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Chapter 168 – Maintenance Synchronization Rate
The roar of the beast made my body freeze.
His gaze was entirely fixed on Akakatabami-san.
Vidello-san put his hand on his sword, and Crash also looked grimly at Jhal Gar-san.
“Jhal Gar!”
“Invaders will be eliminated!” Jhal Gar-san shouted, still looking straight at Akakatabami-san. Then, the pressure around the area suddenly intensified and Akakatabami-san’s equipment was torn to pieces.
“It’s beyond expectation! Evacuate from there at once!”
The bird chirped, still sending messages, but Akakatabami-san’s HP had already been cut in half with that single blow.
“None shall get through here to my brethren!”
“I won’t! And what’s with his brethren?! I was just told to check the magic here!”
“Do you think I don’t know just how many times you have tried to force open a path to my brethren?!”
What?! Could it be that what Akakatabami-san did under Vil-san’s instructions was to create a path?!
It was no wonder he got attacked!
“Vil-san! If a forced invasion of the beastmen’s village is today’s part-time job, I’ll never do it!”
I shouted, looking at the bird, and the bird immediately chirped back.
“Absolutely not! That is the central connection point between our worlds, so if the magic there becomes unstable, players, including you, won’t be able to log in stably. That’s why it’s necessary to regularly charge it with magic to synchronize with the frequency of our world! It’s not my intention to open the path to the beastman’s village!”
“Really!”
Did that mean that the path to the beastman’s village is connected to this pedestal? That must be the reason Jhal Gar-san was stationed here on top of it to protect the path.
It was the very place we shouldn’t have touched.
“Akakatabami-san! Take this!”
“Thanks! My bad, but I’m out of here. I’ve been the only one being targeted the whole time. You all better get out of here soon, too!”
I threw a high potion to Akakatabami-san, and the moment he received it, he quickly ran out of the place.
The moment the door closed, the heavy pressure in the air was lifted. (PK: there’s a door?? All I remembered was they’re in a cave. XD )
I slumped down on the spot. Jhal Gar-san definitely had boss-level strength. It reminded me of the monster I met in Sette’s forest.
I breathed out a sigh in relief and Vidello-san also finally removed his hand from the hilt of his sword.
“Jhal Gar-san…”
When Crash called out to him, he responded back with, “Hey, bro. Sorry to startle you. That guy from earlier, he kept coming here trying to open the path. Well, he can’t get through as long as I’m standing here, but if the path opens even a little bit, it’ll be really bad.”
Scratching the back of his head, he looked at us in an apologetic manner.
“That person was not trying to open the path, but he was doing maintenance here. If he doesn’t do regular maintenance, we won’t be able to come here.”
“…Well, this place is connected to a lot of places. It’s connected to the young pharmacist’s place too.”
Jhal Gar-san answered casually, but my eyes were wide open in surprise.
“Eh, wait. Does that mean the place where Vidello-san’s mom returned back to her world was here…?”
When Vidello-san and I looked at each other, the bird on Crash’s shoulder began to fly around Jhal Gar-san.
“The stone statue is really talking… What my mother said was true after all…”
Jhal Gar-san looked up at the bird suspiciously as it flew around, chirping continuously.
“Are you flying today too?” asked Jhal-Gar-san and he reached out his hand towards the bird.
The bird was firmly caught by his hands and he looked into it.
“I finally caught you, you fake. You were always flying around when that other fake came too. What the hell have you been up to? Depending on your reasons, there’ll be no mercy.”
The bird was chirping hard with all his might at Jhal Gar-san, who was threatening him with a growl and glaring at him.
I wondered what this view was like on Vil-san’s monitor. I was a bit curious. He was getting a close-up of Jhal Gar-san.
“It seems that by matching the wavelength of our world with the magic of this world, we’re able to come here. That’s why if we don’t send someone here once in a while to refill the magic to synchronize the wavelength with the other world, we won’t be able to come here, so this was a necessary procedure,” said the bird. But I didn’t really understand what it meant though.
“Magic and wavelength? You mean this? This entangled thread? They move sometimes and get tangled up.”
Jhal Gar-san looked into the empty air and gazed off into the distance, as if he was tracing something.
None of us could probably tell what was there, but I was sure Jhal Gar-san could see some sort of thread of wavelength.
The moment he moved his fingers like scratching in the air, the bird chirped loudly in his hand.
“Amazing! That action alone increased the synchronization rate. What did he do?”
“Synchronization rate? It seemed to increase. What did you do?”
As I was interpreting Vil-san’s words, Jhal Gar-san made a strange face and looked at the bird in his hand again.
“I just fixed this tangled thread. This thread began to appear in the last few years. So this was connected to the young pharmacist’s world?”
“That seems to be the case. But I have no idea how it works though.”
“…Ahh, I see, it began to appear after that human went back…”
Vidello-san stepped forward and responded to his murmur.
“Thank you for everything you’ve done for my mother. She seems to be living well in her own world now.”
He bowed his head and thanked Jhal Gar-san.
It was amazing that he became a person able to say thanks, and just before he said he was alone with a sad face. I love you!
I reached out and tightly grasped his hand.
“Mother…? Her world? …Then, it must be. So the golden bro here was the little life in that person’s belly at that time.”
“What?”
“When that human ran in here, the knight who pursued her happened to spill alcohol on me. (PK: this alcohol was that alcohol given to gatekeepers as a form of encouragement, so it tastes bad.) He tried to drink it, but as he didn’t like it, he accidentally swatted the bottle with his hand.”
Jhal Gar-san tried to imitate the action.
“No matter how I looked at that human, her soul was definitely not from this world, so I taught her the way to go back. She looked pretty weak as she was being chased by something, so I thought maybe she was being persecuted. But that human already had a little life in her belly, so when I told her she would have to give up on that life if she were to cross between worlds, she seemed to give up and decided to stay in this world with that knight. Now I see, bro here is the little life from back then. No wonder your soul is closer to the young pharmacist.”
Jhal Gar-san narrowed his eyes and looked at Vidello-san. His face looked as if he was pleased with Vidello-san’s growth, so it made me a bit happy.
But persecution? Monto-san also said that she had a hard time because of various things that happened to her. I wondered if she ran away from here because someone was going to do something to her. I was sure Jhal Gar-san couldn’t stand to see it, as the incident overlapped with what had happened to his brethren. But this was all just speculation.
If Vidello-san’s mom had returned to her world on the spot because she was fed up with this place, Vidello-san wouldn’t be here. And ADO wouldn’t have been released and I…
I squeezed his hand tighter.
I was sorry that Vil-san was separated from his mother, but thank you Vidello-san’s mom.
I really felt like reciting a prayer here.
“Hey, you fake.”
While I was deeply moved, Jhal Gar-san glared at the bird in his hand.
It looked as if he was about to swallow the bird whole. Screenshot taken.
“Don’t do something so drastic like forcefully filling the pedestal with magic. You guys want to be against me? I’m gonna cut this thread clean. Next time you send someone here, get them to bring some alcohol and pour it on me. I’ll do proper maintenance. Without this young pharmacist, it’s going to take a long time to make his wish come true. (PK: I think Jhal Gar might be talking about Rook’s wish, that dungeon searcher, saving Sara by making a revival potion. Or maybe not? I might be overthinking.) If you properly talk to me, I’ll cooperate with you, so don’t ever do that again.”
“Understood. I’ll keep it in mind.”
The bird obediently replied back.
But that reply appeared in my message box instead.
“He said he would keep it in mind.”
“I see. This bird is empty, so I don’t understand what he’s saying at all.”
An interpreter was definitely needed here. I understand.
After nodding, the bird was finally released from Jhal Gar-san’s hand.
It flapped its wings, like dancing in the sky. After that, it perched on Jhal Gar-san’s shoulder as if it remembered something.
“That’s very helpful. I appreciate it. And I also wanted to thank you for my mother. Though, I have never thought a stone statue would talk. Thank you. Mother said she had no regrets about staying here or coming back thanks to you.”
It was such a pleasant sight to witness the bird continuously chirping at Jhal Gar-san. But his expression indicated that he was looking at something strange. Well, the bird was empty.
After successful maintenance, we left the room.
Outside the door, Akakatabami-san was waiting for us with a sword in his hand. I nearly forgot. Well, there’s a normal encounter with monsters outside the room.
“You guys are late.”
My condolences.
When we, including Akakatabami-san, returned back to Tre with Crash’s transfer magic circle, the moment he let go of Crash’s hand, he crouched down on the spot as if he was totally exhausted.
“How come the hero’s son can also use magic like the dungeon searcher? …I was in a panic, thinking we’re going into the dungeon again.”
With that statement alone, Crash’s favorability of him increased a bit as he realized that Akakatabami-san had also been in a secret dungeon before.
Thx for the ch :3