A Little Trouble Keeping Up

"Something was wrong! Of course something was wrong!"

Lan Qingyou patted the deck.

"The name of a Dungeon and the name of a continental region—those are two places that seem completely unrelated, yet they have the same name. Don't you think that's suspicious?"

"What's suspicious about that? Duplicate place names happen everywhere."

"Honestly, it'd be strange if a city didn't have places with the same name."

"Then how do you explain the name Leviathan?"

"Huh?"

"Leviathan is a monster from some obscure Blue Star mythology. Seeing it suddenly show up in a place like this is bound to make you feel disoriented, isn't it?"

"So?"

Vivian understood less and less of what Lan Qingyou was talking about.

When Lan Qingyou saw the look of innocent foolishness in Vivian's eyes, she rolled her eyes.

"Tsk! When you get down to it, who names cities?"

"People, obviously. Who else could it be? Have you gotten senile after living forever?"

Vivian shot back after Lan Qingyou rolled her eyes at her.

It seemed, however, that she hadn't considered that she was a long-lived species herself.

In a way, the boomerang she'd thrown had hit her squarely.

"Then who named the regions in this other world, the Dungeons, and even the monsters?"

"Well... it should be the World Will, I guess."

"Exactly. The World Will."

As if delighted that Vivian had hit the nail on the head, Lan Qingyou clapped her hands excitedly.

"Since we were sold off to Karim by Blue Star's planetary will, the Will of Karim World knows things about our world because it's been in contact with Blue Star."

"Then it used Blue Star's knowledge to name these places and monsters."

"If that's the case, it explains why the monsters have the names they do, and why some regions share