Kino no Tabi:Volume8 Frontispiece1

“Land of Roads” ~Go West!~

“This is such a great road, Kino.”

“Yeah……”

“I say road, but it’s actually more of a highway. It’s my first time running through a road with such a clean surface, solid pavement, consistent width, gentle curves, and nice sceneries on both sides.”

“Me too……”

“I’d give this country’s people a pat on the back just for making something like this.”

“Yeah…… You sure can’t get enough of it Hermes.”

“It’s just the way I feel. The truth is I feel like praising these people if I managed to meet them face to face.”

“Yeah……. That would be nice, if only it can be done……”

“Why?”

“I wonder……. The reason why everyone in a country would die……. No one can tell me. Because there’s nobody here, there’s no one to ask……”

“Well, yeah. ――Even so,”

“Even so?”

“I can’t see the end of this road. We’re just going blindly and waiting to slam into something. They should have at least made it so that the western wall can be seen.”

“Yeah……. Indeed. We’ve been running nonstop since the day before yesterday……”

“If you don’t arrive at the gates by the end of the day, you’ll be violating the three-day stay rule.”

“That’s why I’m pushing myself hard……”

“This is such a great road, Kino.”

“Yeah……”