My Daughters Have Regressed - My Daughters Have Regressed chapter 162
162 – Children and the Nymph Bandit #3
162 – Children and Nymph Bandits #3
“Sand! Naru is a sand fairy!”
“No.”
“Hi-Hi! How did you know!”
A few hours after entering the desert on a camel.
When we decided to take a short break after making a temporary tent under the scorching sun, Naru looked around and shouted.
“Amazing! There is nothing but sand!”
As Naru said, all around was sand.
If you imagine a desert where golden sand curves into hills and flows gently, you can get a rough idea of what kind of place I am right now.
“Oh wow… !”
At that time, Naru ran towards the sand dune as if he had discovered something.
Then, she started digging in the sand using her hands like paws. Hina and Cecily, who saw this, also joined Naru in digging in the sand.
Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, Passsssuk.
“… No, how much sand are you guys digging?”
Passuk, Passsuk, Passsuk, Passsuk, Passsuk, Passuk, Passsssuk, Passsssuk.
The children were crazy about digging in the sand.
It seemed as if an excavator digging sand had possessed the children and taken control of their souls.
What on earth is going on?
The scorching sunlight and the sight before my eyes made me feel dizzy.
Just as the sense of reality began to fade, Naru, Cecily, and Hina finally dug something out of the sand and lifted it high at the same time.
“I found something strange!”
“That’s cool… !”
“Fossil…”
Fossil.
It was like that.
As Hina and her children she said, this was a strange yet wonderful fossil.
The shape was round, just like a snail, or like a clam, but hard.
Brigitte saw that and laughed as she accepted the fossil.
“This is an ammonite fossil. They say there was an ocean in this mysterious desert at least 10,000 years ago. That’s why fossils of sea creatures are sometimes discovered.”
This place was the sea.
Even though I was stepping on the sand myself, there was a part where I couldn’t believe it.
Ten thousand years…
It was certainly a long enough period of time for the sea to become a desert.
Brigitte said.
“At the center of this desert was a kingdom called ‘Babylon.’ It is an ancient kingdom with an inland sea among beautiful grasslands. It was destroyed in one day. It’s because of the ‘Great Destruction.’”
Like Phrygia and Uruk a thousand years ago, great destruction seems to have occurred in this desert land. Did the ancient kingdom of Babylon also try to summon Nocturne?
When I was curious, Brigitte was very kind and slowly explained.
“I don’t think I was trying to summon Nocturne. But it’s clear that something went wrong and the sea eventually evaporated and became a desert. And the place we are heading to is a pyramid built 10,000 years ago.”
It was just as Brigitte said.
We were visiting a pyramid that had recently risen above the ground due to an incident that occurred in Phrygia.
Relics from 10,000 years ago suddenly appeared in this world.
To be honest, I was also very interested.
Wouldn’t there be a great treasure?
Maybe I could find something like the treasure of an ancient pharaoh.
Thousand-year puzzles, legendary cards such as Osiris’ Sky Dragon, etc.
“I’m looking forward to it.”
Zek-.
At that time, Brigitte pulled Naru’s shoulder, who was touching the sand.
Then he brought his ear close to her and whispered.
What on earth are you trying to whisper?
Soon, Naru laughed, probably because he was tickled by the whisper.
“… Find the most expensive treasure!?”
“… Hey, how can you say that out loud?”
Brigitte frowned at Naru.
Now it looks like Brigitte gave orders to Naru, “Find expensive treasure.”
What kind of command is this?
Salome, who was elegantly combing Hina’s silky pink hair, burst into laughter.
“Do you think you can beat Hina by saying that? “It is our team that acquires the most expensive treasure and becomes the crony.”
I see.
Because I was quite perceptive, I was able to figure out what the situation was right away.
Each mother seemed intent on heading to an ancient pyramid and sending her children on a treasure hunt.
And the mother of the child who obtained the most expensive treasure becomes the crony—isn’t it the same rule?
“Hina… I won this match… I will take the leadership position…”
Hina also seemed to be motivated.
The three children I watched these days also had a ‘leader’ position, and it was usually Naru. I don’t know how Naru is being a leader, but she was like that anyway.
Is it because your voice is loud?
Usually, things like street leaders are done by kids with loud voices.
“Mmm… Then, this Sifnoi will be a fair judge… ! This Sifnoi promises a fair review more than anyone else… !”
Sifnoi, who had been silent for a while, also smiled sinisterly and showed enthusiasm. But that only lasted for a moment, and Sifnoi once again fell on the camel like a melted marshmallow.
“When does an oasis appear? ? Because this Sifnoi is a nymph of ditch water… In a desert without water, you lose your strength…”
It was the first time I learned that nymphs lose their strength in the desert. As Sifnoi said, we were exhausted from continuing to walk under the blazing hot sun.
Fortunately, the humidity was low so it didn’t feel sweltering, but it was still hot.
Naru, Hina, and Cecily had so much stamina that they didn’t look like they were tired at all, but the adults like Brigitte, Salome, and Garrot looked a little tired.
Garrot said.
“According to the map and compass, the oasis will soon appear. “It will appear in about an hour.”
It was indeed as Garot said.
After about an hour, a small oasis appeared.
* * *
The oasis had a circumference of about 10m.
If it was quite wide, it was wide, if it was small, it was small. About 20 households gathered around the oasis to form a small village.
I thought she would visit and drink some water and rest in the cool shade, but she ran into an unexpected problem.
“Hey, nymph… !”
The residents of the oasis were furious when they saw us. How on earth did this happen?
As I was puzzled, a man with dark, wrinkled skin and a white turban on his head pointed at us with a long cane and said.
“Take the nymph and go away! “We don’t even have a shadow to give you!”
It was a very hostile place for nymphs.
Sifnoi grew at this sight.
“It’s a very nymphophobic town… ! Sifnoi, I haven’t done anything bad in this village, but I can’t believe I’m being treated like this… , I’m so angry… !”
It was easy to understand anger.
Due to Sifnoi’s anger, the villagers began to tremble and some even shed tears. Not knowing what had happened, I asked the old man holding the cane.
“What’s going on?”
“This is an oasis village. I make a living by digging for “Sugar rocks” Here in the Wanli Desert. But a few days ago, nymphs came… “They stole all the sugar we had!”
It was an amazing story.
The nymphs came in and stole all the sugar.
Salome clicked her tongue at this terrible story.
“It’s the work of the nymph thieves. I guess a band of nymph thieves passed through this village. Inspiration. Do you remember how many days ago that was?”
“It’s been two days!”
It was two days ago.
The residents of Guernsey, who had not been able to recover from the shock and fear of that time, were still trembling with fear when they saw Sifnoi.
Also, tension was revealed to children like Naru, Hina, and Cecily.
“There are a lot of nymphs!”
“Seeing as they don’t have pointy ears, they seem like just children?”
“Actually, I don’t know!”
It would be best to calm everyone down first.
I spoke to the people.
“I am Judas, and these people here are my wife and daughters. Sifnoi here… , It’s like a porter, so you can just ignore it.”
Did my explanation work?
People muttered the name among themselves, saying “Yuda-rae” Or “Yuda.” Soon, an old man in a white turban holding a cane frowned and spoke to me.
“This village can no longer tolerate you. I heard Judas is a tough guy? Isn’t he the wicked man who stole Marduk’s princess? He said how good the princess was…”
Oh my, wasn’t it a good thing to reveal Judah’s name?
However, they seemed to mistake me for Herod, a former Jew.
“Herod, a former Jew, is dead.”
“I know. Herod was a very bad guy. How good the previous sultan treated him. That orphan abandoned his grace and ended up doing evil things…”
It was unexpected information.
Herod, the ancestor of Judah, was from the Marduk Empire.
It seemed like the people of this village especially hated him for kidnapping the princess.
“I am Herodias’ daughter.”
At that time, Salome stepped forward.
Then the people who were looking at Salome said, “She really has pink hair like Herodias…” ” ” .” She nodded, saying, “The eyes and nose are exactly alike.”
“Come in. We, the people of Oasis Village, cannot afford to treat Herodias’ daughter poorly. The fact that we live in this place digging for sugar is all thanks to his merits!”
After all, blood ties, regional ties, and school ties are like cheat keys that work anywhere in the world.
We were invited to the village chief’s large tent and were finally able to hear many stories.
“Everyone in this town was a former slave. But Princess Herodias gave us freedom and the opportunity to stay in this oasis. “He is a very good person.”
Salome’s mother, Herodias, said to be a very good princess.
I’ve never met her in person, but judging by her her kind heart her her her, I wonder if her her attack power her she has at least gone beyond A+ level and reached S level.
Brigitte also muttered quietly as if she was very surprised.
“But why is she such a kind person’s daughter like this…” ” ” Evil! “You must have pinched my side!”
“What do you say?”
When Brigitte and Salome start bickering-.
Jethro, the chief and grandfather of this oasis village, looked at Hina and laughed. Hina’s appearance resembles that of Princess Herodias in her childhood.
“She’s a very cute kid. I see. She said that the princess’s daughter was getting married again and had a child. Time flies so fast. Did something called “Great Destruction” Happen not long ago? We all saw a pillar of black light piercing the sky.”
The black pillar was visible even in this distant desert country.
It was complicated to explain, so I just said, “It was resolved well.”
Then the village chief Jethro stroked his beard and nodded.
“I can’t explain it anyway. For commoners like us, the attack by the nymph thieves is a bigger event than a catastrophe like a great annihilation. As I said before, the nymphs took all our sugar.”
This oasis village is said to be a village that sells high-purity sugar by mining sugar rocks. A rock of sugar. Is it like rock salt?
“This… Sugar of such high purity… Hey Sifnoi, all the sugar I’ve ever eaten feels like fake… ! Hehe… !”
Sifnoi, who tasted the sugar from the sugar rock, was shaking as if he had been on drugs. Other nymphs must have reacted like that.
So, they took all the sugar that was the basis of life in this oasis village. This was a huge disaster for this small village, so it was natural for people to tremble in fear upon seeing Sifnoi.
“Was there a gray-haired child among the nymph thieves?”
“There was she. He was a very cute kid. He said It wasn’t a nymph, but it did look like one. “Once you see a child like that, it’s not easy to forget.”
“Where has everyone gone?”
Instead of answering my words, the village chief looked far to the south.
As I was following that line of sight and looking toward the southern sky, didn’t a skinny hand grab my wrist?
“Please be careful. There is a story that has been handed down to our desert peoples. The story is that there is a truly terrifying monster living in the desert pyramid!”