Chapter 12: Majority - 1

Armelia mumbled her answer.

“Mm. That was a slip of the tongue. It’s nothing, don’t mind it.”

“Yes. Sure.”

“……Don’t people usually ask again out of courtesy?”

“No. I really won’t mind. I’ll actively make sure I don’t, for as long as I live.”

Maybe it was my imagination, but Armelia’s shoulders seemed to droop a little.

As expected, she was a princess who was fun to tease.

We kept moving forward for another two hours.

At this point, darkness wasn’t the problem anymore—it was that our stamina was running out.

Aina’s backpack had a fairly large blanket inside.

“It gets cold at night, so we might lose body heat. Use this to sleep under.”

“It’ll barely fit two people, though?”

“I don’t need it.”

“You’re giving up something that’s yours? Are you really the same person who tried to kill us before?”

Aina ground her teeth.

“Surviving this quest matters more to me than killing you two. And you’re both way weaker than I am, so it’s more important for you to conserve energy.”

“Hm. How kind of you. Are we taking turns on watch duty?”

“No. I’ll stand guard. Staying up one night isn’t that hard.”

That was quite the service.

Then Armelia spoke.

“This blanket might actually fit three if we squeeze. Come in.”

Aina grinned.

Then she raised her third finger high and said,

“Shut up and sleep, before I tuck you in myself.”

And so, we walked another full day like that.

While gauging the remaining distance in her mental map, Armelia suddenly spoke.

“At this pace, we should arrive in two days.”

“Really?”

“Yes. At the very least, we won’t take longer than a week.”

“That’s a relief. I just wish we knew how many people have reached the rock by now.”

At those words, I spoke to the diary book.

‘Diary book, how many people have passed through so far?’

[Do you think I’ll answer just because you’re asking slyly like that?]

‘Tch.’

[If you’re that curious, why not check the future? You still have points left.]

As if I didn’t know that.

I was hesitating because I wasn’t sure if that information would even appear in any of the future entries.

[Even if it’s a Future Diary, it’s still all written by you, Mason. Wouldn’t it help to think about your own writing habits?]

My writing habits, huh.

I folded my arms and thought.

No matter how tired or busy I was, I’d never skipped a diary entry.

But that didn’t mean I always sat down properly to write each one.

Sometimes I just scribbled down the key things I had to remember or any unusual events that had happened.

‘And in those cases, I always filled in the details in the next day’s entry.’

For this second quest, I barely had time to breathe—we were racing straight toward the goal.

If it were my future self, I probably would’ve just jotted down a few words about the important stuff until the second quest ended.

‘Then once everything was over and I had time, I’d go back and write it all out properly.’

The second quest lasted a week, but it ended the moment the majority of participants reached the destination.

How many days would it take for the majority to arrive?

If I’d woken up near the cliff, it’d take three days.

Judging from the size of the forest, if someone had started from the edge, it would take about a week.

So roughly... if I looked at an entry about five days after the start of the quest, wouldn’t it be over by then?

[After all that reasoning, it sounds like you’re just guessing.]

‘Quiet. Just show me.’

[Understood.]

Whirr.

The diary floated up.

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