Chapter 4 – Peel Carrots, Shiva!!

The elf with purple hair asked me again with a trembling voice.

“Master… Is that right?”
“Yes? Master?”

What is this elf talking about all of a sudden?

Are you saying I’m the owner?

Has the elvish interpretation function gone?

Or does the word master in the elven language have another meaning that I don’t know about?

However, in the next moment, those unnecessary worries completely disappeared from my mind.

“Hey… Master!”
“Wow?”

When she came to her senses, she was sobbing and hugging me.

Never did I do anything.

In the first place, I am still tied with a tree trunk, unable to do anything.

In other words, it means that it was embraced by me on its own.

“I-over there…”
“Master! Master…!”

As if she had reunited with an important person she hadn’t seen in a long time, she called me master over and over again and patted my shoulder like a cat.

What the hell is going on?

Why did she greet me like this, calling me master when I was supposed to be seeing her for the first time?

No, I didn’t like such trivial questions.

Because I had already completely evaporated my reason at her dizzying collection and touch.

A sweet scent wafts from her hair.

The feeling of the breast touching the pit of the stomach is very soft.

She knows what’s going on with her.

The important thing is that this elf gave me permission first.

The fall with Aricia was an accident of force majeure, but this is not like that.

Not even life is threatened.

If only I could release this tree trunk that is holding me back…

Oh?

For some reason, the tree trunk was already loose.

Is this also the influence of this woman?

No, that doesn’t matter anyway.

It is important that you have regained your bodily freedom.

The freed hand begins to move little by little.

Then, as if it was natural, my hand moved toward her body.

In my current position… Would be an ass too

Okay.

It’s instinct.

A woman I had never seen before was hugged by me first.

Wouldn’t it be easy enough to naturally put my hand on her hip?

If it were me, of course, I wouldn’t have such crazy thoughts, but now the reality I’m in is abnormal.

The limits in my head had long since been lifted.

Okay. Are you okay.

It was this woman who touched me first…

This is self-defense anyway!

I don’t know what the justification is for.

“Huh!”

I took a deep breath of her sweet sip and cupped her luscious ass with both of her hands.

No… It was the moment I was about to do that.

Kirik… Click!

“Hey?”

My hand passed through empty space and hit the place where my precious part was.

When his hand hit his already lightly erect groin, intense pain surged through him.

“Keep…”

So I rolled around on the floor for a while.

“…”

Huh?

Floor?

I hurriedly looked around, enduring the pain.

A familiar place where you’ve lived for years.

It was my room.

“Back… Back?”

***

Soon after I regained my reason, I was able to grasp the reality bit by bit.

“As expected…Was it a dream?”

I immediately denied that self-talk.

Absolutely not.

Because there can’t be such a vivid dream.

And above all… There was evidence in front of my eyes that it wasn’t a dream.

“I hope this will come along…”

I picked it up that was lying on the floor.

Purple apples… Fruit that looks like it.

This is the guy who was at my feet.

For some reason, this was rolling around the room with me.

If everything up until now had been a dream, this wouldn’t be here.

In other words, what happened before was never a dream, but a reality.

… I guess I need to sort things out once and for all.

“…”

I took a vitamin from my pocket and chewed it without water.

I’m not particularly health-conscious.

A few years ago, I received a call from a girl who was my classmate.

He was the kid I once had a crush on.

No way? I went to see her with her heart, but her purpose when she called me was none other than a multi-level product sale.

The thing I bought at that time was this vitamin.

I said goodbye to the memory of my first love, buying her vitamins in bulk.

Surprisingly, the vitamin itself was a fine item.

If you eat it raw, the sour taste rushes in and it is perfect for waking up or changing your mood, so it has become a habit to carry and eat it all the time.

Awakening my mind with the sour taste of vitamins, I placed an antique watch and a purple apple side by side on the desk and crossed my arms in thought.

Two doubts.

One is that the cause of what went over and came back is still unknown.

It’s almost certain that this antique watch, a memento of my father, is related, but… The problem was not knowing the exact operation method.

Another question is, how did the purple apple come over?

If you think about it simply, since it was in contact with my body, you might assume that it might have come over together, but…

If that was the case, the elf holding me should have come over as well, but that didn’t happen.

Is it the difference between things and people?

Well, actually, the second question is not very important right now, so let’s skip it.

Now, too, the priority is to uncover the secret of this antique clock.

I took another look at the watch, checking carefully to see if I had missed anything.

Come to think of it…

When I was in the other world, I must have heard a faint sound like a second hand… Why can’t I hear it now?

Where does this difference come from?

Soon I realized that the round rim of the watch was oddly reminiscent of a sawtooth shape.

Come to think of it, this part… Didn’t you go back?

Right before going to the other world, I definitely remembered that.

… Let’s go back again

Kirik…

“Clothes?”

Really go back

With a sound similar to winding a spring.

When I listened again, I heard the sound of the second hand, just like before.

There is a distinct feeling that something is working.

“…”

But that’s all.

As before, there were no strange phenomena like going to the other world.

“What a difference… Ah!”

Come to think of it, there was one big difference.

Unlike earlier, he did not wear this antique watch on his wrist now.

In other words, if you turn the gear while wearing it… Is it possible to go back to that world again?

I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure it is.

Once again… Shall we move on?

“…”

In fact, the answer was already out there.

I’ve had that kind of experience… Is there a man who won’t go over again?

But it is also true that it is dangerous.

In fact, at first, I went over without knowing anything and almost died from a mad boar.

More than anything else, the problem is that you don’t know where it will appear when you go over again.

It’s fortunate if you go to the last place you were in, the Elf Village, but if you’re unlucky, you might end up in the middle of the rugged forest again.

At least… A minimum level of safety needs to be secured.

I turned my gaze toward the purple apple.

The fact that this apple came together… Obviously, the opposite is also possible.

In the first place, if only the body was moving, I would have already been naked in that world.

In other words, it is definitely possible to move with things.

Having gone crazy, I began to think about what kind of items I should take with me.

Do you want a weapon too?

It would be best if there were firearms such as guns, but there is no way for me, a normal person, to get them.

Reserve army training has also been completed.

In the first place, even if you force yourself to steal a gun, ammunition is limited.

Guns are too much.

Among the weapons that ordinary people can get enough, are there any that can be used?

It should have enough weapons to handle at least that wild boar I encountered.

But no matter how much I think about it, nothing comes to mind.

Besides, even if I had such a weapon, I doubt I would be able to handle it well in real combat.

Okay. The premise that weapons should be prepared in the first place was wrong.

If it were a common otherworldly creature, it would acquire a special ability at the same time as it transferred and use it to fight.

I don’t have that.

It was wrong for me to try to fight monsters myself.

There’s no way I can deal with monsters with something like a gun.

I am not the main character in the novel.

Instead of thinking about fighting the crisis, we should think about avoiding the crisis itself.

When the thought reached that point, something flashed.

I looked at the antique watch again.

If my guess is right… There may be ‘some’ features that we haven’t discovered yet.

Soon, I was able to confirm that my guess was correct.

“Do…!”

I haven’t tested it yet, but I’m sure.

In one word, the way this antique watch transports its wearer to another world is like winding it up.

By turning the outer gear of the clock, the mainspring is wound, and during the time that the mainspring is maintained, it is in a state of being transferred to another world.

The reason why I suddenly returned to my original world was because the mainspring had already returned.

Then… Could there be a device that forcibly resets the mainspring?

If there was such a device, it would be possible to return at the desired timing, so it would be good for avoiding a crisis.

So I looked for it and it really was there.

There was a cleverly hidden switch in the pattern on the front of the watch.

When I lowered the switch, with a clicking sound, the remaining time of the mainspring was initialized at once.

Good.

With this, even if a moment of crisis comes, you can immediately return to the original world.

If access to the other world was free, there would be no need for grandiose preparations.

“The problem is the first verification…”

Everything is just a hypothesis until it’s verified.

After all, you need to risk your life for the first time.

I was tinkering with my antique clock and thinking about it.

Is this really worth risking my life for?

“…”

Soon, I leaned back in my chair and shouted at the ceiling.

“It’s a carrot, Shiva!!”

It was a life without any value or worth.

Lovers and friends… At least, I don’t even have co-workers.

His only blood relative, his father, is now dead.

Suffice it to say that there is nothing left of me now.

At least, while his father paid for his living expenses, he was able to live by doing nothing.

Soon you will be unable to pay the rent for your apartment properly.

Even if I died suddenly one day, no one would be interested.

I have no intention of lamenting my situation.

What would you do if you were born and lived like that?

Yo… Life is not special anyway, shouldn’t you do what you want to do even in times like this?

You can’t start anything without a first validation anyway.

“Just in case, I’ll have to pack this much.”

After putting on my outerwear like when I was going out, I roughly packed something to eat in my bag.

In the worst case, even if you can’t come back, make it last for a few days.

“Then… Shall we go?”

I put the antique watch on my wrist again.

And after taking a few deep breaths… I wound the mainspring of the clock.

Then, as expected, the scenery in front of me changed in an instant.