An Incompetent Explorer Who Failed to Make His High School Debut but Mastered Being a Human Being

Episode 285: Lucky as always

 I rely on my intuition to advance through the fog.

 The fairies who fled earlier seem to be keeping a certain distance and keeping an eye on us. Fortunately, as I sensed earlier, there are no signs of hostile creatures such as monsters.

[ Eee ~ i!! ]

[ Toryaa!! ]

[ Mumumumu!! ]

 I can hear the fairies shouting from afar, but I wonder what they're doing.

 Oh, maybe they're dancing around us.

 I'd like to see it even if it's just once.

"Amane, you're straying to the left. Go a little more to the right."

"Here?"

"Yeah, that's about right."

"Nanami, this way."

"Ah, yup, thank you Onii-chan."

"Shia ... is fine."

"Nn. Fuu-kun, no problem if I stick to you."

"Rei, don't go that way. Come back here."

"Eh, oh, I'm sorry."

 After walking for a while, due to poor visibility, everyone's direction of travel deviates, so I make corrections each time.

 Amane and Rei should have already maxed out their intuition and five senses, so they're probably either teasing me or trying to play around with me.

 Even if they don't do all that, I'll do it properly. And their acting is so good that it's almost like they're not acting. If they're this good, I think they can do well in the entertainment world.

[ Huh? ]

[ What's going on? ]

[ Why don't you hesitate? ]

[ Isn't it strange? ]

 As I head straight for the goal while thinking about silly things, I can't understand what they are saying, but I can hear the fairies forming a group and conversing in whispering voices.

 What happened?

[ This time I'll show you illusions!! ]

[ I see, there was that hand. ]

[ Do it, do it. ]

[ Okay ~ !! ]

 The fairies disperse again as if the story is settled somehow.

"Eh? Papa?"

 A few minutes after the fairies start moving, Nanami utters those words.

 Nanami calls only one person Papa.

 It's my and Nanami's father.

"Eh?"

 I unintentionally look around, but my father is nowhere to be seen. There's no way there's a dead human being out here, so it's reasonable to think it's a hallucination or something.

"Nn. Fuu-kun, wait."

 Next, Shia calls me and starts walking in a different direction from where I am.

"Ah, Oji-san, what happened?"(TN:Amane's talking to her uncle.)

"Ah, ah, ah, Onii-chan, Onee-chan!!"

 Amane starts walking in a different direction, and for some reason Rei starts walking in the opposite direction while shedding tears.

"Somehow, it looks dangerous. I'll blow it away."

 I wonder if the fog is giving everyone some kind of hallucinatory effect, so I throw punches lightly in all directions so as not to hit anyone.

 The wind pressure lifts the mist around us and opens my view.

"Eh? Huh?"

"Fuu-kun?"

"What happened to me?"

"What have I been doing?"

 Everyone seems to come to their senses as soon as the fog disappears. It seems that the fog is even endowed with hallucinatory effects.

 For some reason, it seems that everyone except me was trapped. It seems that it was the kind of hallucination that takes place regardless of the level. Perhaps it is an occult existence that originally existed on this earth, unrelated to the dungeon, so it may not be possible to prevent it with level or status.

 For some reason, I was lucky that I didn't get caught.

 I'm lucky as always.

 I'm not sure if it took several minutes or several hours, but I continue walking while blowing away the fog.

"Uwaa ~ n."

"That person is strange."

"Why don't you hesitate?"

"If this continues, they'll go to the village."

 By that time, the fairies have expressions of having given up, and after flying around here and there, they fly away in the direction we are heading.

 The flying figure is fantastic, so it's totally fine.

 As we proceed in the direction the fairies flew, several signs appear in front of us.

"Stop!!"

 Someone shouts at us.

 Maybe we entered someone's territory. I don't know where this is, so it's quite possible.

 I think we should follow the instructions.

"Let's stop."

 Everyone stops at my direction.

"Who are you guys!! Where did you come from!!"

"We came from Stonehenge!!"

"Idiot!! You shouldn't be able to pass from there!! You guys stay there and don't move!!"

"Understood!!"

 A man-like person asks us who stop, so we answer honestly because there is nothing to hide, and a tone of surprise resounds from the other person, and we follow the instructions as they are.

 As we wait for a while, I realize that multiple bipedal shadows are gradually approaching us from where we were heading.

 I prepare myself so that I can move at any time.

-Zaa zaa zaa zaa zaa

 The sound of footsteps gradually grows louder.

"Are you serious!?"

 And then, the shadows become thicker and thicker, and what appears from the other side of the thinning fog are humanoid creatures that look exactly like a fantasy race, with pointy ears and beautiful looks that are the standard in other world stories.

 We open our eyes with surprised expressions.