In a Different World with a Smartphone Chapter 415: Assemble, and the Garrison.

Alright, lets get going.

I passed through the opened [Gate], and stepped on Eisengard soil.

After myself, Yumina, Suu, Elze, Linze, Yae, Hilda, Sakura, Luu and Leen all passed through the [Gate] and arrived in the forest where the Sacred Tree is situated. Pola too, on a side note.

We stopped there and waited for a while.

How is it?

Nothing for me. Nothing I can feel, at least.

Same here.

While lighting moving their bodies, Elze and Yae replied. Everyone else also doesnt seem to be feeling under the weather or anything like that. No, Pola, you shouldnt be affected in the first place, okay.

I dont feel anything off about myself as well. There is some sense of discomfort, but its only at the level of having ate something disgusting earlier.

The purification of this area has progressed quite a bit. Although were fine with it already, my sisters should probably stay home and wait a bit longer.

Fuwah, its sure gotten big-no~

Suu looked up at the Sacred Tree standing tall behind us. Not even a shadow of the formerly tiny sapling remained there; its current form is so tall my neck hurts from looking up at it. How many dozens of meters is this thing at?

Its already leaps and bounds above the Frame Gears and the trees around it, and its appearance totally fits the atmosphere of being the Lord of the Forest now.

The sparkling is beautiful.

Thats, true.

At the place where Sakura and Linze are looking at, magic particles released by the Sacred Trees leaves during the purification process glitters in the sky as they flow away together with the wind. True, that is pretty nice-looking.

Your Majesty, as well as everyone else, this way.

The knight orders vice-commander Nicola-san, who had arrived here earlier, called out to us as we were staring at the Sacred Tree in silence.

When we entered the large tent that was set up, the sight of the commanders and vice- commanders of other countries knight orders sitting down at a round table greeted us. Our knight order commander, Rain-san, is also present.

They were neither discussing strategies with difficult faces, nor arguing back-and-forth between each other.

Rather, they were actually drinking tea and having pleasant chats with each other in a rather lax atmosphere. Well, when I entered the tent, they still all stood up and saluted me, though.

Hows the current situation?

So far, nothing. Those Frame Gear-type variants Fakes, was it? We are still being attacked by them. As theres not a lot of them, were repelling them while taking rest in turns.

Belfast Kingdoms vice-commander, Neil-san answered. Following that, Lestia Knight Kingdoms vice-commander, Franz-san opened his mouth.

The only worry we have is whether advanced-classes would attack but

Aah. I dont think advanced-classes would come all the way out here. Or rather, they wouldnt appear all of a sudden like before, at least.

Really? And why is that?

The advanced-classes that have appeared so far are visitors, so to speak. They appear in random locations throughout this world by travelling from another one. We have been detecting the location beforehand and attacking them there so far. Which is to say, they cannot appear in a pre-determined location by their own will. And this time, the variants attacking this place are all ones born inside Eisengard, in other words natives. Even if advanced-classes were to attack, they wouldnt do it by crossing dimensions, but will normally move here through this land.

If they do come, theyll no doubt do it very slowly from the direction of the golden palace near Eisengards capital, Eisenbrook. The advanced-classes are as slow as their humongous size would indicate. Theres the surveillance camera left by Bastets group on the Eisen Tower in Eisenbrook too, so they would definitely be noticed before they arrive here.

Its possible that the other side are sending things like Fakes our way because they know that too.

Having said that, negligence is forbidden. Things like a scouting unit and regular surveillance and patrols should still be necessary.

Yes. The people of the [Red Cats] have undertaken that role, so we are fine on that regard.

Rain-san told me thus. Nias group did that? Hee, thats unexpected Why do I feel like theyll ask something from me for this later on.

As if reading my thoughts, Nicola-san continued speaking.

In exchange, they wanted Your Majesty to make a bathing house here once you arrive.

Forget later, they asked for something already! No, well, I get it but still!

A bath, is it. Its good, right? I do understand the feeling of wanting to work up a good sweat.

This place is rather humid, after all. Its especially bad during the when the heats up.

Our knight order has a not-insignificant number of female knights, so petitions like that have arrived as well, to be honest

Hei hei Ill make it, alright. Since the commanders and vice-commanders of other countries also expressed their wish for one, Ill finish this up before dinner. It really is tough if they cant even sweat out properly.

Then we will go help with the cooking.

Saying that, Yumina, Luu and Suu went out of the tent and headed towards the food distribution centre with a hearth set up in it.

And we shall participate in repelling the variants-degozaru.

Yae, Hilda and Elze called out their Valkyrias, Schwertleite, Siegrune and Gerhilde from the [Storage] spell on their rings and headed off to the battlefield.

Well put up a simple barrier in the surroundings, I suppose. Theres more than just the variants in this place, after all.

The remaining three, Leen, Linze and Sakura flew away on Linzes Helmwige (flight mode) which she called out from her [Storage]. Since the influence of the Godslaying Poison will show itself if they go too far away, that barrier will probably only cover a short range of our surroundings, I guess.

Now then, I should get on with making that bath. A mixed bath will most likely be bad, so Ill have to make one for each gender too.

I entered the forest and looked for a suitable open space. Theres plenty of those around, to be honest, possibly because of all the battles that occurred around here. I started moving away the trees that have fallen on the ground here and there. This is a grand case of

environmental destruction, isnt it

For now, this should be fine.

First, I dug up the place that would become the bath using earth magic. Ive made an open-air bath once at the [Silver Moon]s main shop before, too. Im used to this. I can use the tranfer pipes for the water, and the drainage systems perfect too.

Oops, since theres a lot of guys here, I gotta make the male bath bigger. And the female bath needs to be made carefully so they dont complain about it later.

Alright. Lets get this done with.

After rolling up my sleeves, I started cutting the fallen trees around here to get the wood Ill use to assemble the bathtubs.

Oooh, this is great! Its pretty authentic-looking aint it! As expected of Touya!

Nia, who went out to scout together with the [Red Cats], raised a voice of joy looking at the open-air bath. Isnt that right, isnt that right. You can praise me more, you know.

However, um The open roof and walls are good, but wouldnt this place be completely visible from a Frame Gear?

The [Red Cats] vice-chief, Est-san asked while looking up at the open sky thats visible from the bath. Of course, there are no problems there too.

Theres visual-interference magic casted on this bath itself, so when someones inside the whole bath can only be seen as a patch of trees when viewed from outside. Dont worry.

Even after hearing my words, the girls still decided to go out for a bit and check on it from outside. As I expected, they only saw the illusion of a maple forest. I wonder if they dont trust me?

This isnt something that can be turned off with a switch or anything, right?

Obviously not. If I did something like that Id die for real, you know.

Norn, who brought the black [Crown] Noir with her, spoke that; does she think Im suicidal? Like Ill have the guts to do something like that when the fiance group is here as well.

If youre that worried, Ive prepared large towels so use those. Theres also swimsuits if you want them.

Its not like this is a hot spring back on Earth, so Im not gonna tell them things like dont wear a towel into the bath. In terms of hygiene, Ive enchanted [Clean] on it to activate every set interval, so its fine.

Im actually rather curious about why you have that many female swimsuits with you-ssu ga

Ah~, I was just thinking about that t

Alright, do enjoy yourselves!

I immediately retreated to run away from the [Red Cats] cadres Yuni and Yuri.

No, its not what you think, ok? Those were just stuff thats mixed in among the huge amounts of prototype clothes I received from [Fashion King Zanack]s Zanack-san, and I definitely did not buy them myself, ok!?

The surroundings of the Sacred Tree, which has already turned into a proper garrison, has tents set up all over the place and knights spending their time here and there.

Its rare to see knights of different countries interacting with each other like this; there are ones who crossed swords with each other, ones who talked about their birth countries, oi wait, the hell you doing trying to pick up girls in this kind of place? And well, you can see a lot of different things like that.

There are also scenes of knights from the eastern continent lecturing the ones from the western continent (former Reverse World) whos not used to riding in Frame Gears.

And even while these things could be seen here, a few kilometers away, skirmishes with variants and Fakes are continuing even right now, giving this place the air of a battlefield.

I entered one of the tents inside the garrison grounds.

Anything new?

Nothing significant. The variant attacks are still continuing as before, but theyre just variants from the surroundings that have gathered over here; theres still no reactions from the golden palace.

Wearing a headphone-type communicator on her ears and facing a monitor on standby, the manager of the [Garden], the maid uniform-wearing Cesca turned around and replied.

Could they have perhaps still not noticed us-dearimashou ka?

Nope-, they should have. Theyre not stupid enough to not realize that the [Godslaying Poison] disappearing would be bad for them.

The jumpsuit-wearing [Workshop] manager Rosetta and [Hangar] manager Monica spoke while looking at the same monitor.

On the monitor, the figure of the golden palaceseen through the viewpoint of the surveillance camera placed on top of the Eisen Towercould be seen.

The eerie sight of the golden skeletons milling about near the place made it look reminiscent of a B-tier zombie flick. Theres no zombie here, only skeletons, though.

It is possible that theyre planning something-no.

Just like what the [Alchemy Building]s manager, Flora said, that possibility is high. Our opponents should know what will happen if this continues. Theyll most likely do something in the near future.

For now, keep up with the surveillance. Help with the Frame Gears maintenance as usual too, Rosetta and Monica.

Haa Masters rough at using us as usual-dearimasu.

Thats right thats right-. Show us some anime as reward, anime.

I acquiesced to the demands of the maintenance duo whos booing me, and promised to show them some mecha anime after this is all over. Its more like I was made to promise that, though. After that, the two of them left the tent in great spirits. In a sense, theyre easy to deal with, I guess?

Master, I want some hardcore S&M maid vi

Not a single thing for you, you pervert maid.

I sent a bitter glare to Cesca who pressed towards me with her nostrils flaring. And this girls as tough to deal with as always.

Although I still feel a bit bad, this much should be okay; feeling that, I called Ende over from Brunhild. Since hes steadily becoming Takeru ojiis dependant, he should feel the effects to a degree as well, but hes still a valuable fighting force.

Im also counting on him to do something about that Phrase general guy called Zeno in the golden palace, too.

I called Ende on my smartphone and asked him to get ready before opening a [Gate].

Immediately, Ende came out of the [Gate], followed by Mel, Rize and Nei. Of course, I had the three of them wear their human disguises since itd cause a commotion otherwise.

You called us a lot earlier than I thought; are we charging in already?

Nope, not yet. I just wanted to have you guys here beforehand in case anything happens.

I answered Endes question. I did plan to call them later than this, so yeah. My fault for giving them the wrong timeframe.

What a nice smell!

Mel-sama, this is the smell of curry!

Plus the smell of fried pork too Conclusion: katsu curry.

While I was talking with Ende, the three Phrase girls behind him caught the delicious smell drifting about in the garrison currently So its katsu curry, huh. Im impressed they can tell that much.

Ive prepared a tent for you guys just in case, so feel free to use it. You are free to do what you want until the operation begins, but just dont get into trouble with the other knights, please.

I got it. And Touya, Im sorry but

The food distribution centre is that way.

Sorry, but they wont calm down until theyve eaten once theyre like that Everyone, it seems the distribution centre is that way Areh!?

When Ende turned around, the three girls were already running towards the food distribution centre, leaving nothing but a gust of wind where they originally were.

Wai-! You girls move too fast!

While panicking, Ende dashed out and chased after the three girls.

How to say this, those three Well, Ende too, for that matter; arent they kinda turning into idiotic characters? They used to have this sort of cool or stoic air when I first met them.

I guess theyve fallen after learning various kinds of mortal pleasures Well, they look a lot more human now, at least.

As I saw the four of them run off, a high-pitched *hyooom* sound reached my ears, and I looked up to see Linzes Helmwige lowering itself in the air.

Sakura and Leen got out of the cockpit. Pola fell off too. Uh, dude, your necks bent. I know youre a stuffed toy, but are you alright like that?

Linzes Helmwige has its cockpit made widely, due to the fact that when it transforms, the space available would become smaller.

As a result, two extra girls (and a stuffed toy) can fit inside on the rear seats without issue.

Weve finished making all the barriers. Normal magic beasts shouldnt be able to approach now.

There were also some flying-type variants, so we shot them down.

I was the one who shot them down, though.

Linze got down as well behind the boasting Sakura.

There are several dozens of Fakes coming here from the direction of, Eisenbrook. They should be here in another thirty minutes, or so.

Got it. Ill pass that along to everyone. Thanks.

Receiving Linzes report, I opened the map on my smartphone. Before, it was blocked by the effects of the [Godslaying Poison] and was useless, but now, as long as its within a purified environment, its somewhat usable again.

Search. With this location as the center, any Fakes as well as variants.

Searching Search complete. Displaying.

The image was projected into the air. Theres quite a bit of them.

Until the assault on the golden palace Basically, until the time when Moroha nee-san and the others can stay here without issue, well have to protect the Sacred Tree well.

Ill ask Ende to bring out the Dragoon and help out too.

Now then, lets start the counterattack.

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