The moment we arrived on the first floor, I felt the temperature quickly rising.
It was a gust of hot air.
However, maybe because the humidity is low, but it doesn't feel all that sticky.
I heard that the desert stretched out around the surroundings of the ruins.
Then, I can understand this heat as well.
The first floor was made well with stone the same as the ruins in the forest.
If there was something you could call a difference, it would be that there's no ivy on the walls and roof, and there's sand piling up in the passage.
There's almost enough sand that you can barely see the floor.
And, there's a number of footprints still remaining.
It better not be those of Orsted.
If we end up running into him, I'll have to surrender in a dogeza.[2]
There were four rooms.
I wonder if the layout of the ruins is the same.
Inside of one of the rooms, there was a thick white mantle and a canteen deposited.
...As I thought this should be something that belongs to Orsted I'm sure.
"The footprints, what should we do, should we try and erase them."
"Is it that one Orsted? I think it will be fine but.."
But, it's scary.
I wonder if we should leave a note or something.
With Nanahoshi's referral, I've made usage of your teleportion magic circle. We will make sure to keep to the obligation of confidentiality, so please do not get angry. Something like that.
...Since we don't know when he'll come, unexpectedly the probability that he doesn't find out might be high as well.
There's the possibility that the note itself might be the snake in the bush.
For the time being, I'll avoid going with that.
After that, we investigated the rest of the ruins, but naturally we didn't run into Orsted.
After investigating the rooms we went outside.
It was hot outside.
It wasn't warm.
It was HOT. [3]
The breeze blowing across my face hurts.
In front of my eyes was the scenery of sand dunes spreading out that I've seen a number of times in pictures in my previous life.
It's a desert.
However, the sun has started to set.
I'm sure it will be night very soon.
How did it go, was it better to walk around in the desert at night?
Or since it's below freezing at night, was it no good to move around?
I wonder if it's fine to apply that sort of common sense to this world as well.
...If I remember correctly, there are many monsters in the desert that are active at night.
Moving around in the darkness, I'm sure getting surprise attacked by monsters would be dangerous.
"Elinalise-san, what should we do?"
"Even if we started walking now, we wouldn't cover very much distance. It's a bit early, but let's sleep in a place with a roof."
It became that we would be staying over night in these ruins for today.