Chapter 208: Ancient Human Language

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After breakfast the girls ran off to shower.

For me, it is not that I mind much — it is not as though the girls smell bad. When Dianeira was hugging me earlier in the morning her scent was sweet.

It is true that there is a slightly salty smell, but personally I do not dislike the scent of the girls' sweat.

But it is not a bad thing for the girls to maintain proper hygiene. In my previous world it was normal for boys not to shower after a football match, and obviously the girls in my previous world would criticize boys for not showering and smelling bad.

But now in this new life I cannot go a single day without washing my body with water and soap. Especially with several types of soaps and shampoos for each part of the body and products for skin and hair care.

And it is not that I need it — but habit is a powerful law.

After the shower, the girls began combat training with Professor Rudelle as their opponent.

And me? Well, my job is to buff everyone and stay safe in the rear guard and cheer everyone on ~.

What else can I do? As the person with the most powerful support abilities, I have to protect myself and back everyone up from behind.

"Ahh... Even though Vremya's support magic has grown again, we still cannot force the old witch to summon her Familiar..."

Magen, who is now sprawled on the ground spread out like a starfish, breathes deeply in exhaustion.

"{Vitality Breeze}" I conjured, blowing from my body as the center a fresh wind breeze carrying fairy dust.

"Vremya just changed her magic chant again ~!"

While blowing the vitality breeze I shot Dianeira an annoyed look.

"Vremya, Professor Rudelle just sent an official letter. In the letter she asks us to secure the objective and an elite group is on its way to relieve us. When the elite group arrives we can leave with the objective..."

"We can finally go home? Great! I have been so bored being stuck on this mountain, YOO!"

"And why do you want to go home when you do the same thing there as here — nothing?"

"Ugh!"

"Do not be so excited. The special elite team could arrive anywhere from one to three days from today."

"UGH!!"

Professor Rudelle mocks Magen.

"So get ready to hand over the objective!"

"Ehhh... Professor, I have already recovered and secured the objective..."

"You have it with you? Vremya?"

"Mm! Do not worry, it is secured." I said, patting my chest.

It is true that just like Magen, I am also eager to get back home.

This entire time we have been in the city of Portus Coillbenn I have not had time to go for a stroll, or enjoy the nightlife, or go shopping.

And now we have to stand guard in this cave until the team that will relieve us arrives.

After spending a day underground, one starts to miss the sun — I do not even know what time it is since everything here is darkness.

"Splash! All right — since Vremya already has the objective under her care, all of you have the duty and obligation to protect Vremya until she arrives safe and sound at the capital!..."

"You do not need to tell us that. I will always be Vremya's shield!"

"Yes! We will always protect Vremya!"

"And I will too!"

"..."

"... I am glad to hear it. Now then — since Vremya has already fulfilled the task of recovering the objective, rest time is over. We are continuing with training!"

"Ehhhhh!!" xN

Professor Rudelle mocked everyone and, kicking them all back into action, plunged them once again into a six-against-one combat.

"Uhh ~ Teacher Rudelle is seriously a monster for making us train this much."

At a moment I estimate to be around six in the afternoon, Dianeira is resting using my legs as a pillow while lying on the upper deck of the spaceship.

After their day of training with Professor Rudelle, everyone went to take another shower since this time they were not only sweating heavily but also covered in rubble from the cave rocks crushed under their attacks and movements.

While the others were showering, I laid a thick blanket over the wood on the outer deck of the ship.

Toward the back, Xuexue is lazily resting doing nothing, and the three kitties Ling, Bing, and Yue have also settled onto the blanket after playing for a while and now seem just as exhausted as Magen and the others.

Since cats hate water and getting wet, I only helped clean them with magic, leaving all four Vorshaans clean and smelling nice.

"Vrem, here." Magen walked over and handed me a plate with a sandwich.

"Thank you."

"Hey! Magen, what about mine?"

"What? Do I have to make one for you too?" Magen crossed her arms and shot back at Dianeira.

"I always cook!"

"Vremya always cooks — you do it sometimes and you always complain. Vrem, here."

This time it was Xifia who replied. And Xifia also walked over and handed me a glass of juice.

"BAH! You two are so ungrateful." Dianeira with an offended expression wiggled like a worm, rubbing her cheeks against the skin of my thighs.

"If you want a sandwich, get up and make yourself one."

"No! If I get up I know I will lose my spot."

"BAH!" Xifia made a disgusted gesture at Dianeira.

"Pervert." even Kara only let out one dry word.

"That is right! I am supposed to be Vremya's fiancée. Why are you the one lying on Vremya's legs?"

Everyone turned to look at Magen. Even the professor, who is a little further away at the table with ingredients to make herself a sandwich, looked over at her student and goddaughter.

I have to admit that even I was surprised. Normally Magen does not show interest in these things and tends to be a little clueless about such matters.

"Since when are you and Vremya engaged?"

"Ehh... Mom sent the letter to celebrate an engagement dinner to Vremya's family..."

"Is that true?" Xifia turned to look at me.

"Uhnm... Yes, but no date has been set yet — we have been busy, we are in the middle of a mission right now..."

"Oh, that is right — the matriarch of the Aigilas clan had mentioned something to me. It seems Kyrias Boir Corinth has not fully agreed yet and the engagement dinner has been delayed by a month."

Professor Rudelle walked over with a sandwich in her mouth.

Even though I have not paid attention to these things, by now there have already been three or four engagement proposals that have arrived at the house. Well, knowing my mother it is normal for those engagements to keep getting delayed.

"Vrem?" Magen turned to look at me with a lost expression.

"There is nothing I can do about that..." I did not know what to say.

Even though I am not against those engagements — I mean, all the girls who have been promised are truly beautiful, Magen is very cute and has her own charm despite her clumsiness. But I do not want to enter into a marriage either.

I mean, I am still very young to be thinking about marriage. Even though the sum of my years across both lives is more than forty, a man even at a hundred years old is still far too young to get married!!

Even though I have never paid attention to these engagements. Mom will always reject them, and if she cannot reject them directly she will find ways to string them along and delay indefinitely.

"So since you are not engaged yet there is no problem with me continuing to use Vremya as a pillow ~~"

"NO! Me too!" Magen without thinking stuffed the rest of the sandwich in her hand into her mouth, threw herself onto the blanket, and rested her head on my left thigh.

"What do you think you are doing?"

"What does it look like?"

"You!!!"

Then, Dianeira and Magen began to fight, shoving each other with their heads and hitting one another.

Somehow, on my outstretched legs, my thighs had become a battlefield.

The two girls moving around caused their hair to tickle the skin of my legs, making me feel an itch.

pufft~ puuft~

"OW!" x2

"Enough, you two!" I flicked both girls on the forehead with my index fingers.

"They hit me because of you."

"You started it!"

"Uhnm?" I shot Magen and Dianeira a look and both of them covered their mouths with their hands.

"By the way, Vremya — why have you had those ancient language books out for a while now?" Xifia, who had sat down beside me on the blanket, asked.

"Oh ~ these? I noticed that the written language on the ship has similarities to ours — I mean, I know our language comes from this ancient human language, so I want to learn to read the records on the ship..."

Then, showing her some words in the ancient language book and my notebook with some similar words, I was able to translate a few phrases I had seen in the engine room and on the map displayed by my bracelet.

According to the historical record books of the other kingdoms such as the dwarves and the forest elves, humans appeared in the world approximately one thousand years ago. Enough time for the human language to blend with the languages of the other races in this world through contact — such as through the need for trade and so on.

So it is no surprise that the original human language was lost long ago, with only a few of the original words recorded and others that have survived to this day.

At least with Nao here I can learn the original language of this ship much more easily, rather than going in blind and spending a great deal of time on research and linguistic analysis.