The Little Witch’s Daily Struggle – Chapter 468

Chapter 468 – Time Difference

“Uh?!” I stopped, pulling Amelia along as I was about to take her to the tavern. It didn’t work? What did that mean?
“How long do you think I’ve been trapped here? It’s been several months. I’ve investigated everything there is to investigate. I’m being targeted. Others might be able to leave here and wake up, but I can’t escape.”
Amelia also lowered her voice. When she put on the beak mask, it seemed to change her voice, making it indistinguishable between male and female.
“Wait! You said how long you’ve been trapped?” I asked, surprised, realizing there was something inconsistent with her words.
“Over two months, almost three months. Haven’t you guys noticed I’ve been gone for so long?” Amelia asked.
“Huh? B-but, you’ve only been in a coma for three days!” I asked, astonished.
“Huh?!” Amelia was also shocked. We simultaneously realized a problem: the time flow here was different from the real world!
“Amelia, is there a time difference between the Dream World and the real world?” I asked.
“It is said that some places do, but I’ve never experienced it before when I came here,” Amelia replied.
This meant that she had entered dreams and visited Robin Town before, and at that time, Robin Town had normal time flow.
She had only been in a coma for two or three days in reality, but she felt like two or three months had passed here. And it was about two months ago, precisely when others were trapped in the dream, that it matched perfectly. The time difference was about one day in reality equals one month in the dream.
This means that those people had only slept for two days, almost three days, in reality. If we could resolve this quickly, their bodies might still be saved.
Moreover, if this was the case, we actually had some time, and Jayad didn’t need to rush home. This bizarre time flow difference was actually beneficial to us.
“You mentioned being targeted and being unable to leave. What exactly is going on?” I asked again.
“I discovered it before. It’s not that this area is cursed. It’s actually because of me. The whispers in the dream have been calling me. That unknown existence has sealed this area and blocked the connection between reality and dreams. I cannot leave the dark forest,” Amelia said.
“So, what exactly is that unknown existence?” I asked, confused.
“A god. I don’t know which god is playing a prank on me, but only a god could do something like this. Humans cannot resist gods, so I can only wait and see what its intentions are.”
Amelia’s words were filled with pessimism, even a sense of resignation. She felt like an ant, trapped in a glass box for a biologist to research and observe, completely unable to resist, and could only continue her life as usual in this terrarium world.
“Alright, that’s all I have to say. I have to get back to work.” Amelia finished speaking, then turned to continue calling the townsfolk to move the medicine. Knowing that the time flow was different, she was no longer in a hurry.
“Tsk! There’s no other way, Older Brother Jayad. We’ll have to think of a way to break this seal ourselves. First, we need to determine the nature of the seal,” I said.
I was different from the people in this world. They were filled with reverence for gods, believing them to be inviolable. Whatever they did was like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, and it was better to go with the flow.
But I was different. I came from a world without gods. I didn’t have that kind of reverence they held.
Even if gods truly existed, even if their existence was far beyond the concept of living beings, it wasn’t impossible to resist. After all, many ants could kill an elephant.
The current problem was that Amelia wasn’t fully cooperating with us. I was certain she knew more. After all, we had only been here for a day, but she had been here for two months.
Setting aside everything else, the amount of information she had received from the whispers alone was something we couldn’t obtain by asking around bit by bit. After all, this was likely the culprit communicating directly with her. It was as if Amelia had already met the kidnapper, and we were still investigating why he kidnapped Amelia.
The information gap bothered me greatly, but Amelia’s willingness to cooperate was very low. While it couldn’t be said that she resisted communicating with us, she was very passive and didn’t believe we could save her at all.
While we were still hesitating, several figures suddenly surrounded us from who knows when. The one at the forefront was a young girl. “Miss Parul, we have come to invite you to visit.”
My heart leaped. When did we get surrounded? And the other party was clearly prepared, having unknowingly blocked all our escape routes.
My hand had already gripped my magic wand, and Jayad had also clenched his Ruby Shortsword.
“Miss Parul, please don’t be nervous. We mean you no harm and will not hurt you. We just wish to invite you both to visit,” said the young girl at the front.
How did she know my name? And her clothes were somewhat familiar. Also, her voice sounded like I had heard it somewhere before, and there was a strange sense of closeness, making me feel she wasn’t an enemy.
“Ah!? I-is that you! Are you Shaga?!” I exclaimed, recognizing her. The main reason was her loose, slightly Egyptian-style clothing, which was too distinctive. It looked proper on an Insectoid, but on this girl, it appeared too revealing and skimpy.
There was also that pheromone that made me feel close, which was another standard for my judgment. On the other hand, the voice, which should have been the easiest to identify, only sounded somewhat similar. Due to the different vocal organs, the timbre had changed significantly.
“It is I, Miss Parul. The Queen of the Insects invites you to visit.” The girl smiled with a friendly closeness, although her smile had a slight “smiling but not really smiling” quality.
“Wait a minute, I never told you my name, did I? Also, why have you changed into this appearance?” I was so surprised that I didn’t know what to ask. I didn’t even ask the most important question: why did the Queen of the Insects want to invite me?
“As for names, it’s easy to find out with a little investigation. Of course, you might be using a pseudonym. Please forgive any impoliteness,” the girl said to me.
“As for why I’ve changed into this appearance, it’s because I’ve used mimicry. This is one of the more useful forms when conversing with outsiders. We look rather… unappealing to outsiders.”
The problem was that I seemed to have only used my real name when talking to Amelia. Other than that, only Older Brother Jayad called me by my name when he addressed me. Both of them were people I trusted implicitly.
This meant that the Shaga Insect Race must have eavesdropped on my private conversations to know my name. I didn’t know how much they heard. I suspected that my purpose for coming here and my plans had all been overheard.