Meanwhile, Tenma in the forest was still down. But just as Tenma's bag seemed to move, Shiroumaru emerged from inside, checking the area and coming out. Slarin was also attached to his back.

　Shiroumaru licks Tenma's face, but there is no reaction.
　He looked at Slarin to see what was going on, but unexpectedly he felt the zombies coming towards him.

　Shiroumaru cooperated with Slarin, and after putting Tenma on his back, Slarin got on his back and left the scene, pinning Tenma and Shiroumaru together.

　However, as they moved away from the zombies, they naturally moved away from the fort as well.

　After riding along the perimeter of the forest for four days, they found a river and near it Shiroumar and Slarin decided to dismount the heavenly horse.
　Slarin would occasionally take water out of his bag for Tenma to drink, but they decided it was better to let Tenma rest in a safe place.

　It wasn't until three days later that Tenma woke up.

'Is this... dad, mom?'

　And Tenma looks around with a blur in his head.
　Nuh, Tenma almost turned over involuntarily at the white thing that appeared in front of him. When he looked closely, he saw that it was Shiroumaru. Shiroumaru licks his face while wagging his tail.

　By the time I managed to pull Shiroumaru away, my mind began to clear.
　Oh, my mom and dad were killed. Just as my mood was about to sink to the bottom with that thought, Slarin pulled away a bit and spat out something... it was the blackish metal that grew on the dragon zombie's shoulder.

'Eek! What are you spitting out?!

　The sinking feeling was drowned out by the surprise that outweighed it, and Tenma made a strange noise.

　If Slarin had a face, he would have decided to make a grand smug face. Somehow, he's acting like he did it..........
　Anyway, thanks to Slarin, Tenma, who was able to relax a little bit, used the search, but it seems that Kukuri village was out of the scope of the search.

　There was no sign of demons or large beasts around, and this seemed to be a safe zone.
　Just as I was about to relax, there was a sudden reaction to the radar floating in my head.

''It's close! Who are you to completely refuse to give a sign until you're this close!

　He hurriedly took up a fighting stance and braced himself, but a closer look at the radar's response showed that it was from inside the river.

'From the river! A demon!

　As I readied myself, the water rose and a fish appeared.

"We can't fight you, so please don't attack us.

It spoke!

　I was so surprised that I let go of the air barrettes as soon as I could... but...

Touche!

　and shouting "Brilliant! The fish that jumped and dived into the duck was actually a giant carp that was over 3 meters long.

"Carp!

That's right, carp. Everybody loves Mr. Karp!

　In the blurbs with

No, I'm more of a hawk.

　I replied.

'What do you say?'

　And a weird Hiroshima dialect? Since we've been talking at

You're from Hiroshima?

　And I asked him anyway.

No, I'm from Niigata!
Hiroshima, wrong!

　And then he had to do a strange rambling. However, the audience, Shiroumaru and Slarin, naturally, did not laugh.

''Hmm, are you the one who was reincarnated before, Namitaro?

Oh, you know what I'm talking about. So you're one of the reincarnated ones!

　Apparently, it was the Namitaro I heard about from the God of Creation. However, I had a few questions, so I decided to ask them.

'How can you talk? And how old are you? I thought you were dead?

Don't ask all these questions at once! I'll answer you, but...

　He answered the question by saying.
　He said that he could speak because he had lived for so many years in his previous life that he had a certain amount of wisdom, so he was able to speak during his reincarnation. His age doesn't seem to have been counted since he was over a thousand, and he was fished out soon after his reincarnation, but when he was fished out, he went on a rampage and ran away. I don't think he even said that the God of Creation was dead for sure.

''No~ This is the first time I've ever talked to someone, including in my previous life!

I've never talked to a fish before either...

　I muttered to myself, but he ignored me. Namitaro tells me something I haven't heard. According to him, he was also called 'Midori' in his previous life, he lived in a pond on top of a mountain, his friends were drawn in a fishing manga and he returned the guys who seemed to have been influenced by them, he had a cute girlfriend in Sougyou, and other unimportant things.

'So, why is Tenma here?'

　He asked me if I wanted to know what happened in the village, so I kind of let him tell me what happened in the village. By the time he was done talking about it all, I was able to put some things in perspective. Namitaro, who had been listening to me quietly, tried to wipe his eyes with his pectoral fins, but he couldn't.

What a sad story. "What a sad story, what a lot of work you had to do.

　He tried to climb onto the land, speaking in a fake Kansai dialect, and I stopped him, hitting him with a pebble, and then he started to climb onto the land.

Where am I, by the way?

　I asked. Namitaro said, "Ouch," but I ignored him.

I don't know where the Kukuri Village is," he said, "but I've only just started living around here, so I don't know where it is. I'll ask you," he said.

　And looking at the sky.

Hey, little guy!

　He called out to a little sparrow-like bird. The little bird landed right in front of Namitaro and chirped and chirped. Namitaro said, "Mmm-hmm, yeah, yeah, I see.

'Thanks, Chi-chan! I found out that this place is about 180 km away from Kukuri village.

You see now?

　Apparently Namitaro can talk to little birds, and when I was suspicious I was told it was an ability given to me by God.

'I heard that Chi-chan's friends came back from Kukuri village a while ago, but I heard that all the people who were at the fort the day before yesterday morning went somewhere else.

　He told me.

'Well, what do we do now?'

For now, why don't we just go where the people are, or go after the people in Kukri village?

　I had no desire to go to Kukri village without my parents, and I didn't want to be in a place under the control of the Earl of Huisto Frontier, which had helped to cause this.

　I didn't want to go to the village of Kukri without my parents, and I also didn't want to stay in a place that was under the control of the Haust frontier county, which had contributed to the cause of this event.
　Therefore, I decided to leave the Haussian Frontier Count's territory and head for the big city outside of his territory. When I told him about it.

Well, maybe that's a good idea. It's one thing to get away from a hard place.

　I wondered why I was being consulted by a carp, but it was a secret.

Since it will be getting dark soon, we should camp around here today and leave in the morning. If you follow this river, you'll pass through the frontier county in the morning.

　When I asked him about it, he told me that this river goes all the way down to the sea. I heard that Namitaro goes down the river once every few decades and moves to another river to go to the sea.

　We camped by the river that day. We had a simple dinner of dried meat and vegetable soup and bread.
　My body didn't accept meat, so I gave it to Slarin, and for some reason Namitaro wanted it too. Even though I gave him meat, he complained that it didn't taste good, so I put a pebble on it. By the way, Shiroumaru had brought a deer by himself, so I drained the blood from the deer, skinned it, dismantled it, and lightly grilled it for him.

　The next morning, when we were getting ready to leave, Namitaro gave me a few dozen magic nuclei and stones as a parting gift. He had been collecting them somehow from upstream every once in a while.

'Take care, Tenma. Let's meet again when you have a chance.

Oh, you take care of yourself, Namitaro.

　We exchanged words and I walked away.




'So, why are you following me?'

　Thirty minutes into the walk and still Namitaro swims in parallel.

'No, well... sort of?

　The exchange of "I don't know what to do" went on for ten days until we left the riverfront.