Drifting
The next day
Me, Wince, Yukikaze, and Olasha were waiting in the guest room.
"Excuse me. I have brought them."
The woman Olasha calls Aritote brought the two people.
"...Um, thank you for your help!"
The first words they uttered were gratitude.
Olasha responds to this
"No need to thank us, we had our own reasons for helping you."
"Um... what can we do for you?"
"We will decide that later. First, we need to know who you guys are."
"We…?"
"That's right, where did you guys come from? You weren't born on this continent, right?"
The appearance of the two of them was, to be fair, creepy.
The unnatural color of the body reminds me of a poorly made doll.
"Well, I guess we came from a place called Tuega, which is far from here."
"What is Tuega?"
"Probably where we lived."
I can't help but interrupt the conversation between them.
"What do you mean perhaps?"
"Well, it seems like me and No. 4 failed the transition surgery, so we had a memory lapse"
"What is that transition surgery?"
"I don't know the details, but that's what they do in Tuega when we turn 10 years old."
"Then you failed that transition surgery and were dumbed on this continent?"
"I think it's appropriate that we were abandoned."
"Tell me what you remember."
"Besides us, there were about 20 other people who failed the transition surgery, so..."
He? She? Summarized the story
It is said that those who were judged to have failed the transition surgery were pushed out of Tuega.
Tuega is a huge building that can be seen from afar.
It is said that the place where they fell was an empty sea.
Correction
The sea is said to be filled with a large amount of floating debris.
Most of them were drowned people.
Of those who died from exhaustion within a few days, only two survived.
They made a raft... mostly out of corpses.
And they drifted with the dead bodies
They survived by eating the corpses.
And they arrived on this continent.
"I'm surprised you made it here alive..."
"Do you know the location of this place called Tuega?"
Apparently, Yukikaze is more interested in that.
"Um, I think it’s in the direction from here where the sun sets in the summer."
"Summer, somewhere between west-north and west-northwest of this continent."
"Eckezacks bypassed the Holy Kingdom on the outside, right?"
"Yes, but they've never found such a building. Do you know how far away it is?"
"Sorry. I didn't measure the distance."
"I see, it can’t be helped, there wasn’t anything that could be a landmark, right?"
"Yes"
"How many days were you adrift?"
"Probably 16 to 18 years."
I can't believe it.
The other people also have that look on their faces.
Did they survive on only corpses for such a long time?
"Are you feeling okay? The corpse was rotting, right?"
"Rot?"
"Yes, rot. Decomposed."
"...What do you mean by decompose?"
Hmm?
They don't know what decomposition is?
"Um, microorganisms eat the corpse and it becomes smelly and loses its shape?"
"…You mean like meat?"
"Yeah, yeah."
"No way. There's no way a human could fall apart like that. They're not meat."
Isn't something strange?
It doesn't fit together.
"Shiro, I've got some business to attend to."
With that, Yukikaze immediately leaves.
She probably moved to solve various questions.
For now, it's probably best to wait until Yukikaze figures things out.
When I looked at him, Olasha nodded and started talking.
"For now, I'll let you relax for a while. If there's anything we want to ask, I'll call you then, so please relax."
"Yes, thank you"
"Aritote... No. 1, No. 4. Um, I wonder which one is which?"
"I'm No. 1."
"………"
"Um, King?"
"Master"
Olasha suddenly turns to me.
"Eh, what?"
"Please come up with a name for the two people that we can easily understand."
"…Do you think it's a pain in the ass to call them by numbers?"
And for some reason, I ended up naming the two of them.
The one who answered. No. 1, Shirufi
The one who remained silent. No. 4, Serufi
Their names
"Why did I have to come up with it?"
"Thank you, Shiro-san!"
Shirufi happily expressed her/his gratitude to me who was confused about various things.
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