Waiting in the Flower Field & First Experience

It had been exactly fifteen minutes since I started walking through the desert where an oasis stretched out.

“…It’s hot.”

I felt as though I would melt beneath the blazing sunlight pouring down without so much as a patch of shade.

I wanted to plunge into the oasis beside us and swim around in its waters.

But Acard had adamantly warned me that the oasis water was practically poisonous sludge, rotten after hundreds of years, and that I would die if I went in, so it remained nothing more than a pretty but useless sight.

Unlike me, who dragged my bat along while panting, Acard walked along just fine despite wearing that thick armor.

“Aren’t you hot…?”

After naturally tossing him the bat so he would carry it, I asked how he could endure this overwhelming heat.

“I’m just enduring it.”

Instead of learning some hidden secret from a famous restaurant, I gained information I never wanted to know: he was enduring it through sheer stubbornness...