Chapter 4: The Saint"s mark
At the age of five, Sanctine was in the garden in the orphanage and was scattering the petals of a white flower one at a time. During the break where she finished studying magic and theology, she didn"t find anything to do particularly, so she was doing flower divination. The thin fingers of the director stopped her hand like that.
"Okay, such a thing isn"t suitable as a child chosen by the G.o.ddess"
"Yes, director"
As Sanctine said, she abandoned the flower that lost most of its petals. The director smiles at her straightforwardness, takes Sanctine´s hand and takes her to the orphanage. At this time, if there was a mistake, it would be that the director did not preach the affection for life, "Please stop because flowers are poor". It was about when Sanctine celebrated the age of twelve and ended the consecration to become a hero. She accompanied five priests and headed to get rid of a huge bear monster that appeared in a certain mountain.
"『Ice spear』"
The whole body was penetrated through Sanctine´s attack magic, which turns moisture in the atmosphere into a myriad of a spear and the gigantic bear exceeding 4 m in length disappeared.
"Excellent, Sanctine-sama"
To the tremendous magical power of a girl who is a lot younger than their age, the priests send a praise while shivering inside. There was not any problem so far. However, a small bear appeared from the nest hole behind the collapsed gigantic bear.
"It’s a child?"
A priest had a slightly unexpected face, but it was not a surprising thing. A monster is an ordinary animal that bathed in a lot of magical power and transformed into an abnormal figure. When the atmospheric magical power increases concentration by some factor, the animal that was there happens to become a monster. Even the huge bear who was knocked down now and was the mother of a child probably changed from a bear to a monster. The small bear was not demonating, but looking at the murderers who killed its mother, it raised a heavy groan.
"If you grow like this, you will attack people from resentment"
That"s why the oldest priest pulls out his sword. But, stopping him, another priest called out to Sanctine.
"Sanctine-sama, that cub is also an enemy of human. Let"s get rid of it as a hero"
It was a hara.s.sment from a priest to young girl who is far younger than him.
"Hey! This kind of challenge to a hero!"
The oldest priest scolded him and tried to interrupt but it was too late.
"『Small Rock』"
By the magic spelled by Sanctine, a stone released at a speed exceeding a slingshot shoot smashes the small head of the bear. Sanctine laughed softly at the priest who was solidified stunned.
"Is this okay with you?"
"......Ye, Yes, as one would expect from hero Sanctine-sama!"
The young priest said that with a drawn face and stopped his trembling hands and praised her. That act itself that removed the root of the future is definitely right. However, if there was a mistake, n.o.body told him that it would be grieved to a young girl, it would have praised the victim of life. At the age of 13, when a young woman started to see the beauty as a woman, a gift reached Sanctine. It was a remarkable dress for b.a.l.l.s and red shoes, a reward for a certain n.o.bility, who got her to defeat monsters in his territory. Sanctine wears it on a trial basis and welcomes Cranklum who came back to the mansion with it. The cardinal also warned with a gentle smile.
"Such gorgeous clothes are not suitable for you as a holy lady, you can"t wear it again"
"Yes, Cranklum-sama"
Sanctine immediately took off the dress and shoes and burned it with her own magic. Cranklum"s judgment, which fears that the value as an advertis.e.m.e.nt tower will be lowered as a result of the scandal that she was already aware of her fame as a saint, "Was it awakened to a fascia?" "A man of your choice was made" he doesn"t know if it was so. However, if there was a big mistake, he would have never praised a beautifully dressed adopted daughter as the foster parent. Knowing the life of Sanctine like this, many people feel mercy on her and sympathy for her being unhappy. They say "There is no freedom", "Brainwashing education was done", "There is no love of parents". However, that is only the impression of others" selfish values. Because Sanctine was satisfied. To the reality that she was chosen and existed, a child loved by the G.o.ddess, a immortal hero and a dirty saint──
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On the outskirts of the Kingdom of Tigris today, treatment and live performance was done by Reno and the usual sales time was started.
"Today"s products are a lottery"
Shinichi said so and put a large box on the desk.
"The lottery costs two silver coins, D prize Reno-chan postcards, C prize Reno-chan mug cup, B prize Reno-chan mini-plaster image, and A prize......the stage costume of Reno-chan!"
"""UOooo───!!"""
Having the checked costume listed, young fans of the fan club gave a cheery like shout.
"This is the only thing I can do!"
"Wait, commander, there is a high risk that this kind of lottery doesn’t contain a prize!"
There seems to be fraud in the hand anywhere in the world and someone raised his voice. However, as Shinichi expected it, he gave a smile of surplus.
"If you are in doubt...... you can draw until it is empty"
"""There is such method huh!"""
The bad humans who have money gathered together make a cry of satisfaction.
"Then I will draw fifty times with a one gold coin!"
"Oops, first priority is given to fan club members, but you can withdraw once, please rearrange again when they finish drawing"
"What"s the point!? Inappropriate, then probability is better if you later draw......no, if you get hit first, there is no original......"
"Leader, I will go first"
"Oops, this guy is lucky, secret Reno-chan"s handshake ticket"
"Really serious!?" Yashaaa!"
"There are also secrets!?"
"As soon as this happens, I will draw a lot more than once!"
Shinichi didn"t stop smiling in the form of fans who paid 2 silver coins (about 2 thousand yen in j.a.panese yen) liberally and raised cries of grief.
(Kukukuu, although it is cheap, mostly it is a cheap cost of 0 yen, just by showing a big fish called costume, this is a bombardment, it is a boring business)
(Please don"t let the gesture 『Memorable』 drip)
With a friendly grin on the surface Shinichi has a wicked smile in his heart and Ceres breathes out a familiar sigh.
(But if Maou-sama knows, he will be angry, that you´re selling a costume worn by Reno to such pervert pigs?)
(Ceres, I said 『Reno-chan´s stage costume』, but I have not said a word that it has been used!)
(Sleazy)
Everyone thought it was a fraud, but if they are young people, they are likely to even bat new items on the altar. Fortunately, it was a young girl taken by her father who got the costume. She was delighted to have the same appearance as her favorite Reno-chan, so she won"t be condoned.
"I have not done the lottery operation......but after all there is a G.o.d"
"There is no G.o.d in this world───!!"
In contrast to Shinichi who is impressed unexpectedly, the leader who was pulling a total of three times and got D prizes only was crying. Shinichi also gazes at the shadow of the building where he left off, as he watched the young people from the fan club taking their leader away.
"Today you came"
The saintly Sanctine wore a robe and disguised herself as she is watching here. As antic.i.p.ated to actively obstruct as a truly Shinichi, because the youth group and the people of the city are restrained, the present place has stayed at peace just like this.
"Are you going to tell her a savage again?"
Shinichi shakes his head to Ariane, who is asking anxiously.
"No, let"s stop today, if it pushes too much, it"s counterproductive, sometimes people will be more concerned about who they pulled"
That"s right, just looking at the saint and laughing with a grin, he immediately turned his back.
"......Shinichi, you are quite accustomed to this kind of thing"
Ariane is jealous and inflates the rhinoceros but Shinichi returned a smile of self-flee to her.
"My knowledge is a selling of books and internet, I haven"t learned from real experience, so I"m not confident at all whether it is effective"
"Is that so?"
"That"s right, Ariane was the first girl I talked to"
"I’m the first…. ehehe......"
Ariane´s head becomes red and she smiled to the slightly embarra.s.sed words from Shinichi.
(Is that also a book sale?)
"Hey, Reno-chan, shall we go home soon?"
I dare ignore the thought of Ceres and speak to Reno who was talking with the minstrel.
"Yes, I understand"
"Well, tomorrow as well please"
The minstrel waving to Shinichi, left his lute in one hand.
"He, what did he say?"
"Yes, he feels lonely if only one song, so he would like to add more songs"
"Ah, I thought about it though......"
Shinichi scratches his temple as if he was in trouble, before he takes out the smartphone from his pocket. Shinichi was already summoned to a different world and he has already been around for a month and the battery has already been out. But, fortunately he brought the charger together, so he has succeeded in forcibly feeding the power plug with the magic of 『Electric shock』. Thanks to that, he let Reno-chan and the minstrel listen to the music that was in his smartphone, so that he could open a live performance like this──
"It is going to break soon and I am afraid......"
At first, although Shinichi imitates 『Electric shock』 by imagining the same 100 volts as the j.a.panese outlet, he doesn"t know if it really goes well and it is not surprising no matter when it will break. This smartphone was one of the few testimonies that he comes from Earth, and even Shinichi who didn"t care about things very much, he could not abandon his generous feelings.
"Well, I guess this is a place to use. Well, after returning, I will let you have a special training on songs and dancing of new songs!"
"I will do my best!"
Shinichi leaves the town with Reno who jumps up spiritedly. The Saint has been staring from the shade of a building at them till they vanish.
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Shinichi who came back to the demon king"s castle by Ceres´s 『Transition』 magic began practicing new songs in Reno"s room after dinner and break.
"Then, remember well"
"Yes"
"Certainly"
Shinichi first takes out his smartphone and launch the installed application while showing it to Reno and Ceres who sat next to each other. It was a sound game that let you enjoy idol singing and dancing and which was forcibly recommended by a geek friend to Shinichi.
"I didn"t think that a day will come when this will be useful in a different world......"
Shinichi starts the game while holding a subtle emotional thought. The content is an ordinary sound gauge which pushes the flowing mark at a good timing, but the key is that the character of the 3DCG model sings while dancing. In the case of music alone, there were many other MP3 datas, but this game was the best for visually remembering the idol dance.
"If you saved idol live video, it was better, but"
"Hawa~, Mikan-chan is cute~"
Reno was crazy about the screen of the smartphone, next to Shinichi who advances the game without making a mistake while thinking.
"Look, closely. You both memorize it?"
"It"s perfect!"
"There is no problem in terms of fine-tuning"
Because the battery is almost empty, Reno and Ceres nodded deeply so that Shinichi can turn off the power of his smartphone.
"If you forget, you can remember with 『Search』"
"It"s a fake-hearted magic, this one"
"Can you tell it to the person who developed it?"
Shinichi returns a bitter smile, facing a disgusted face mixed with praise about 10% from Ceres.
"Even without teaching the 『Search』 magic separately using the brain and memory mechanism, Ceres could make a proper magic like 『Perfect memory』 isn"t it?"
"Well, it takes time to consolidate the image, but it is probably possible"
This maid tells Shinichi with an normal expression, but if an ordinary magician listened to it they would be scared. Modifying reality according to your own image by magical powers - It is easy to put words into the magic mechanism, but how difficult is it to construct the 『Mind』clearly? For example, it is easy for modern j.a.panese who are aware of "sight of people flying in the sky" in animation and movies when it is told that "imaging oneself flying in the sky" is imaged. However, as an ordinary person of a different world ovum, he suspected that "there are no wings and a human can"t fly in the sky", it was difficult even to imagine. No matter how much magical power is present, the phenomenon that cannot be imaged can"t be activated as a magic, as its suspicion fails the magic of 『Flight』. However, Ceres is rich in imagination, so she can change every image into a magical reality.
(It is problematic to defeat people with that rich imagination......)
When Shinichi made a bitter smile, Ceres hid her big breast with both hands and an expressionless expression.
"Please don"t make me a delusion as I´m dressed in idol costumes"
"Do it, I"ll do it if I can do it!"
As Shinichi is shouting, Ceres sends her grudge as usual and lowers her head towards Reno.
"Well then, I will let you enter the work of the lyrics"
"Please do it"
A smile returned to the cheers of Reno, Ceres left the room. If you sing the j.a.panese lyrics as they are, the meaning does not convey to foreigners. However, when it is subjected to translation magic, the phrase of the word changes so that "Whole roast" becomes "Bibinna", and a mismatch from music occurs. In the first place, since the song of the smartphone is a j.a.panese song from the 21st century, the expression which cannot be transmitted to a different world person even if the translation "You who met by the commuter train" is mixed. So, it was necessary to rewrite the lyrics for otherworlder and Ceres who was rich in imagination and superior in geniuses was in charge of it.
"When you leave it to Ariane, it is likely that you were about to spit sugar from your mouth......"
"I think Reno was pretty good"
Although Reno desperately follows a follow-up to the far-reaching eye, from the point where the question mark is attached to the suffix, it was convincing.
"Well, as the lyric is formed, let"s start the dancing practice"
"Yes!"
In line with Shinichi"s clapping hand, Reno dances slowly while remembering the video of the game she saw earlier with 『Search』. Unfortunately, the convenient magic of "Move your body according to your own memory" was that Reno couldn"t imagine an image, so she had to practice regularly and learn it with her body. However, she herself enjoyed even that.
"One more time, please!"
Rhythmically turning and jumping are repeated, sweat floated on the forehead, but Reno´s face has a nature and smiling face. Not only her father the demon king, but also Ceres and other demons tended to pamper her, so it was fresh and interesting to learn something with difficulty. When Shinichi was looking at such a happily laughing Reno, who wanted to keep dancing forever, he noticed that her breath was rough after about an hour and he stopped the dance lesson.
"Okay, this is enough for today"
"Haahaa......is it over?"
"You don"t have to overdo it, because you"re still tired of the treatment and the live performance"
To Reno who still seems to work hard, Shinichi laughs gently and gave her a towel.
"Here, you sweated a lot so go take a bath and then sleep early"
"……Yes"
Reno smiled with a slightly dissatisfied face and tried to leave the room, but immediately stopped and shook the first sleeve.
"Hey, Onii-san lets go together!"
"……Huh?"
"Is it not okay?"
Reno looked up with wet eyes and Shinichi nodded unintentionally, but he felt thousand slices around his neck.
"No no no, it"s a no!"
"Why?"
"Look, Reno is a girl, I"m a guy, right?"
"I have bathed with my dad a couple of times already, so why not?"
"No, Maou-sama is your father......"
While Shinichi explains so, he wonders as he can"t see a feeling of shame from Reno.
(Although she looks like ten years or younger, her actual age was certainly 14 years old)
The demon races have a life expectancy twice as long as humans, but they seem to grow slower by that amount.
(Nevertheless shame and girls" gender difference is due to education of Maou-sama......)
From the viewpoint of Ceres´s reaction, there is no doubt that there is a sense of shame to s.e.x similar to humans. Only Reno is thin because she lived with demons and s.e.x education wasn"t done and there were no men of the same age around her so her consciousness of embarra.s.sment didn"t grow.
(After all, I must manage somehow......)
In the meantime, as a hidden object of the idol strategy, there was an aim to establish opportunities to contact with the same age girls and girls who do not hold back without knowing Reno as the daughter of the Maou, but in a position where they are patients or fans, it doesn"t reach a friend relationship.
(Somehow I need to persuade Maou-sama to persuade ordinary kids to come to the castle, somehow not being a pervert......is it even possible to build it even in elementary school? There is no way that the demons studies, and if they are going to trade with humans from now on, at least they are impossible to add and subtract......)
It was bad having thought in that way. When he noticed, Shinichi was standing in the changing room as Reno pulled his hand.
"Hey, older brother take off your clothes quickly"
"Owaa!? I understood, I will take it off myself!"
Before Reno who was in the form of a towel pulled off his clothes, Shinichi gave up and started to take off his clothes. Then wind a towel around his waist and opens the door to the bathhouse. A large stone bathtub was set up and it was filled with warm hot water.
"Okay, there is no one"
In the absence of people in bathroom, Shinichi touched his chest with relief. Originally, there was no custom for a demon to take a bath, as the body dirt was dropped entirely by bathing in 『Cleaning』 magic. Well, if you can stand as a j.a.panese lover who likes to take a bath, it is this bathroom that Shinichi took care off and let it build in this castle. A large public bathhouse was built on the first floor because the bath was popular also for most demons, except cats and others who do not like water, so this small bathroom is dedicated to Shinichi.
(Even Maou-sama, if I´m seen by Ariane or Ceres, will I die......)
Not knowing Shinichi"s heart that took off cold sweat, Reno was breathlessly soaking in the bathtub.
"Hawa~, I revive~"
"Hahaa, words of an stinky old man"
Shinichi smiles and enters next to Reno. As a trainer who has a skeptic but an ordinary sense of ethics, although it is a child, taking a bath with a girl can be a little depressed, so Shinichi´s worries about it.
(Reno is tired and there is a chance......)
Because the bathtub was made so big that the demon king could enter, there was a danger that the tired Reno would go to sleep and drown. Even if she dies and is revived with magic, whether it is calmly understood by the head, if the word "Child drowns" is crossed, Shinichi ´s heart could never be overlooked. Reno smiled and told him without knowing his inner feeling.
"I relax like this with older brother for the first time in a while"
"Is that so?"
"Yes, recently I was busy preparing songs and preparing for sale, and before that you went out to get food"
"Ah, was that so......?"
After being summoned to this different world, Shinichi was always very busy so far, so there were not many opportunities to relax. He might have spent time alone with Reno when Ariane and others aren"t around.
"I know you´re doing your best for me and I am very thankful for that, sometimes I want to talk like this......?"
Shinichi smiled and stroked the wet head of Reno who seemed to feel sorry seemingly and looked upward.
"Reno is a child, so you can be more selfish, right?"
That said, Reno has a bitter expression that isn"t childish.
"Older brother"s happiness is pleasant......but because I said I want to eat delicious things, we have a fight with humans by my selfishness"
"............"
Shinichi lost his words and thought whether Ren was concerned about it.
"So, Reno is trying hard with healing magic and singing, to reconcile with humans!"
That was the reason why Reno was clamoringly scared. Endless battle with the immortal heroes who attack the demons who came into the human world, the war between humans and the protection of the G.o.ddess. Even if there was no malice, guilt feeling that she was the one who pulled the trigger for fighting. And, it is the first work called idol, given to herself who couldn"t do anything until now and leaving it to Shinichi and Ceres. So Reno didn"t complain, even if she was tired and kept trying hard.
"......Reno is a good person"
Shinichi didn"t talk about poor comfort and so on, obviously just telling her what he thought and stroking the little head of Reno again.
"Hawawa~, it is ticklish"
Reno said that and is still stroked on the head, while looking comfortably.
"By the way, can I ask something?"
"Yup"
"What kind of place is 『Earth』 and 『Nihon』 that Shinichi lived at before?
"Well, l have never talked about it in detail"
"Yes, I can hear from that song 『Sumoho』, that there are lots of great things!"
Shinichi thought for a while and replied to Reno who has shining eyes.
"In a word, it is a world where science developed instead of magic"
"『Science』?"
Regardless of the human circle, Reno has been heading back because magic people were able to use magic that everyone can use conveniently, since science and technology had stopped at an ancient level or less.
"Yes, science. I can talk with a wonderful person, flying in the sky with an airplane, eventually breaking through the atmosphere and go to the universe and do a variety of things"
"What is the difference from magic?"
"It"s a tough question"
Recalling the famous dialogue that highly advanced science cannot be distinguished from magic, Shinichi unexpectedly smiled.
"Well, I guess there is no difference from magic, as science develops further, miracles that were impossible only with magic can easily happen"
It also converts stones into atomic bombs, transforms them into a gold block, performs s.p.a.ce transformation by quantum and even makes the dead resurrect.
"Science......"
Shinichi liked science and studied it thoroughly compared with other subjects such as English, that alone had a knowledge amount that a high school student need. However, he didn"t have the dream of becoming a scientist. To be exact, he gave up but didn"t threw it away though he had it. He wasn"t smart enough to become a scientist but didn"t give up on his talent. The purpose that he wanted to be a scientist. He knew it was impossible no matter how hard he worked because he studied science. Even if science stepped into the magical realm, such as to resurrect children who drowned and cremated many years ago - to regain the human whose information on the brain cells "memory" is lost, such as G.o.d Deaf is never impossible.
"............"
"Older brother?"
"No, nothing"
To Reno´s voice, Shinichi shook off his thoughts.
"Well, thanks to magical science, it was a good world to eat enough delicious things"
When Shinichi left the blessed j.a.pan, there was a miserable area that will be defeated in this different world, but he doesn"t bother to talk about it with Reno"s dreams.
"Do you have plenty of delicious things!?"
"Yes, ice cream, parfait, omelette, curry and rice"
"It is easy to understand and it seems to be delicious just from their names"
Shinichi laughs and explains the dishes to Reno who starts to drool.
And in a rambling talk, Reno slowly started rowing.
"Parfait......chocolate, I want to eat it......"
"I will carry you to your room, so you can sleep"
"......Yes.....thank, you......brot......her"
When Shinichi gently talked to her, Reno closed her eyelids and began to breathe quietly. Bringing out her little body from the bathtub, Shinichi thinks by putting his hand on his chin.
"Well, how do I wipe her body without looking at her naked body?"
"How about bashing your eyeb.a.l.l.s?"
"That"s a good idea - not a good idea! ......Eh?"
To the brown arms that stretched from the side, Shinichi turned around reflexively and solidified. Looking at it, Ceres, who only wore a towel was crouching in front of Reno unquestionably.
"Ah, emm, Ceres, you should have been writing the lyrics, since when are you here?"
"Since I heard Reno-sama"s voice saying to take a bath, I"ve been using 『Transparency』to be ahead of you"
"What!?"
"Of course, it is to monitor whether you will attack Reno-sama with your animal desires"
"I wouldn"t enter if I do such a thing!"
If Ceres is watching Reno, Shinichi shouts crouchley, saying he didn"t need to enter with Reno in the first place. However, the brown maid brilliantly ignored it and gently lifted the body of Reno who fell asleep.
"Please be relieved because I wont talk about this matter to anyone"
"Is it okay for one sugar candy sold in Tigris, for a big silver coin?" "No one said that it"s time to push out a pocket fee"
"You don’t need it?"
"Let"s receive it if it is a piece of gold coin"
"Gumeme......!"
To Ceres who has requested ten times with a sudden face, Shinichi returned a brux as if he knew it. While having such an interaction, Ceres leaves the bathroom. However, before turning the door, she looked back and told Shinichi what she remembered.
"By the way, this is the first time that I exposed my skin to a man"
"Eh……"
"Take responsibility, please?"
Just after saying it, she laughs gorgeously and gently closes the door. After hearing the clattering noise and confirming that she went out of the changing room, Shinichi turned back to the bathtub, shouting in hot water so that n.o.body could hear it.
"That trick is cowardly!"
When exactly is Ceres serious and where is she joking? Even if the light of science shines up to the end of the universe, Shinichi understands deeply that there won"t be a day when a man can understand a woman"s heart.
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"This was a big hit again......"
As usual, they visited the outskirts of the Kingdom of Tigris while carrying goods for goods sales on a loading platform and were surprised at the sight that has changed. The wooden construction stage used for live performance and the changing shed were all disastrously broken. Moreover, a ominous warning was written with goat blood or something, saying 『Cursed one, get out of this city』.
"What a terrible thing......!"
"There"s no need to think about who the culprit is"
While soothing Ariane who gets angry with an shaking fist, Shinichi looks around. Among those who were surprised to see the broken stage, there was a man who turned his back with a lonesome smile when he turned to just one of them. When Shinichi 『Searched』 in his brain, that person was disguised as a commoner, but it matches the face of a priest who was in the enclave of the saint.
"I will beat them down"
"Wait, wait, there is no need. Its rather convenient"
Shinichi stops Ceres trying to chase that suspicious man. At that time, a familiar voice was heard from people.
"What"s on earth is this!?"
The familiar fat figure wearing a headband and a happi coat is the leader of the youth group. When he saw the stage that was ruined in vain, he rushed to Shinichi´s side.
"Shinichi-dono, this as expected......"
"It"s normal to think of the G.o.ddess´s followers"
Shinichi talks to the people who gathered, but unfortunately there are no witnesses. However, everyone of the people was thinking of the same criminal as Shinichi.
"Ah, because we became Reno-chan´s customers, they´re doing such a bad hara.s.sment!"
"Even if it was the church of the G.o.ddess, it was an increase in medical expenses. It"s bad, isn"t it?"
"I don"t know if it"s because they want to get rid of the demon king, but they don"t even think about the lives of ordinary people......!!"
Complaining up until now, a bad air comes into play. However, a young hard voice blew it away.
"Everyone, don"t get angry! Even if we don"t have a stage, I"ll do my best to treat and sing!"
"Reno-chan......"
Although it was supposed to be Reno who was hurt most by breaking the sunny stage, those who were rough looking at Reno who appealed to them also regained their smiles.
"Yes, she can sing songs anywhere"
The minstrel who had been coming for a while also said that and encouraged everyone.
"Leave the stage to us, we will fix it in a day"
The tough miners also showed their support and were cheered on,
"Yeah, I"m getting a stage!"
"""Do you need a helping hand?"””
All the perverts that were all crawling on the ground asked.
"Now Reno-chan, sing and take us as stappingladder!"
"Ah, but you"re getting hurt......"
"They"re going to be treated by a little girl, or rather they just want to pay for it!"
The ice-cold maid casts magic on the herd of pigs trying to see the under Reno-chan´s mini skirt.
"『Strong wind』"
"Buhiiii!"
"Now, the filth has been cleaned, so let"s start the treatment"
"Y,Yes, please"
To the pervert youths afflicted by the wind magic, the people only sent a glimpse of gaze and no one felt sympathy.
"Huu, it is a very fresh experience to be treated crudely by the maid"
"You didn"t learn your lesson"
Shinichi put out his hand with a wry smile to the leader who has a face that seems to be happy rather than angry. The leader accepted Shinichi´s hand and stood up with a small voice.
"But Shinichi-dono, I don"t think that the G.o.ddess believer are going to retire quietly"
"Do you also think so?"
"Um, it"s because they´re more vengeful than snakes and they´re more malicious than mother-in-laws"
"That"s probably right"
It is a religion that has immortal heroes who attack until they win. The G.o.ddesses and her followers will be obsessive.
"But the leader also seems to dislike something about the G.o.ddess"
"You see it?"
"The priests who are trying to block the treatment and live are just getting blocked or chased. They"re beaten on the spot, so I don"t know if you have a grudge"
It"s not because the leader is an enthusiastic fan of Reno, but Shinichi felt that there was a personal grudge that they wanted to hara.s.s the G.o.ddess believers. The leader wailed as he thought, as he thought, that he had no idea.
"Ah, it"s clear to me. But I"m sorry for the unreasonable backlash"
"What?"
"My deaf father pa.s.sed away because he was ill and couldn"t be healed with healing magic"
The G.o.ddess priests have said that there is no way to cure it, just like the lifetimes and they have only cast magic that eliminates the pain.
"There is a little weirdness, my father received healing magic from other magicians, but the healing magic seemed to have worsen the disease"
"The healing magic makes the disease worse......"
"That"s why my father died in the middle of the age of fifty. He was laughing at the destiny, but I wanted him to live a little longer with his foolish son"
Even if his father could live, the leader couldn"t enjoy it, though he said so laughing and deceiting, but he couldn"t hide the loneliness in his eyes.
"So, you hate the G.o.ddess teaching?"
Shinichi was dubious, as the youth leader wasn"t as cheerful as always. Then, the leader hid the voice further while stroking his protruding belly and muttered.
"If it really couldn"t be cured, I would have been convinced......"
"In other words, they didn"t cure it?"
The leader nodded deeply when Shinichi questions with a glance whether there was evidence.
"The disease which my father had is easy to develop by living long, as the majority seems to develop it if becoming seventy years old"
In that sense, it is not uncommon for the disease to be known as "the G.o.ddess"s life expectancy」 and the person who died of the disease is buried without any resurrection.
"But the Pope and the Cardinals who are at the top of the church have never heard of this disease"
The current pope is about 90 years old and although the lifespan of the pope is expiring, there are no rumors that he is suffering from illness. The four Cardinals, aged between fifty-seven and seventy-year-olds, are eagerly aiming for the occasion of being pope, with no one known as sick.
"Even when we understand the past history, we cant find any heavyweight of the church who died of an incurable disease"
If this question is asked, 「It is because it is a hero who was bestowed with the holiness of the G.o.ddess」, a priest will reply. But──
"In fact, knowing how to cure it isn"t easy to understand"
If the leader gets sick as young as his father......he smiles self-indulgence as he wonders if he wants to get rid of such fear and wonders how to treat it. However, Shinichi didn"t laugh at it and was thinking with a serious expression.
"What happened to your grandfather?"
"It was his stomach. He had a loss of appet.i.te because of pain and was getting thinner and thinner"
"Did he happen to love alcohol or cigarettes, or did he eat all the meat without eating vegetables?"
"That"s right. He had a splendid belly not defeated by me because he loved alcohol"
A great deal of diseases was found in Shinichi"s mind and the leader was wondering why he understood it. Burdened with heavy drinking, probably with stress at work, it is a disease that is more likely to develop among the elders. That is──
"Is it cancer?"
The leaders´s grandfather"s probably died of stomach cancer.
"Can cancer be treated?"
"I"m not sure, but I think it"s no wonder that healing magic didn"t work"
Cancer cells are cells in which a gene is damaged and an abnormality appears. Normal cells are controlled in number according to the gene = body design chart. For example, in the case of injury, normal cells proliferate and occlude the wound, but once the wound is cured no further growth occurs. However, cancer cells are broken in their control, and they grow endlessly, killing even the person themselves.
"If cancer cells are the cause, healing magic can also explain the deterioration"
It is thought that healing magic is based on the patient"s gene and cures an abnormality of the body such as injury or disease. That is why if it is cancer, the cells although it is damaged, if it is a cell with the patient"s own gene, it may not be judged as “abnormal”.
(If I have accurate knowledge of cancer cells, I might be able to get rid of it and if I have magic of the demon king"s cla.s.s, I might be able to cure it with force......)
A magician who doesn"t know the mechanism of genes and can only cast ordinary magic, it is not unreasonable to make it worse. The leader asked with a serious face he had never shown before.
"Shinichi, can you cure the disease called cancer?"
"Ah, yes. If I cure the bad parts of the cancer and apply healing magic, it should probably cure it"
There is probably no surgeon who can perform cancer surgery in this different world, where healing magic is useful. However, it would be possible to use a cure treatment in which the area around the affected area is completely removed, and then 『Complete Healing』 is used to grow only normal cells. Such a explanation is difficult for foreigners who don"t have medical knowledge, and the youth group leader couldn"t understand even half. However, there is only one clear thing.
"......After all, did the G.o.ddess let my father die?"
His voice was horribly cold as he forgot the lingering tone. It is the G.o.ddess religion who even does autopsy to raise the accuracy of healing magic. Given the longevity of the top of the organization, they will be reluctant to cure cancer. The patients who suffer from cancer like the leader"s father and a lot of others have been deserted. Possibly, by the monopoly desire that comes from elective thought that it is only good to overcome cancer and enjoy longevity.
"......Forgive me"
The leader shook his face with anger so much, but he saw Shinichi´s surprised expression and immediately returned to his usual state of surprise.
"Even if you"re young, Shinichi won"t be knowledgeable. It"s a matter of sickness, it"s a live production, it"s full of wisdom for the first time"
"Well, I´m a scholar who looked like this and studied for more than a decade"
Although Shinichi was just a student, it is a fact that he is a stranger who is called a great sage when compared with the knowledge level in this world. Respecting the knowledge of the earth too carelessly, the leader laughed at Shinichi, who was forced to deceive him.
"You a scholar? Do you really want to be a tutor?"
"It"s bad, but now there are important students"
Shinichi says that and looks at Reno. The treatment just ended, and it was about to start the live event.
"Yayaa, I won"t miss this!"
The leader of the youth group rounded up to go for support, but last left one word.
"Anyway, be careful of the movement of the G.o.ddess followers"
"Ah, I will take care"
After running to the youth group and seeing off the figure of the group leader who will send ale to Reno all together, Shinichi smiles at the stage that turned to rubble again.
(Saint, if you do this, you lose your human heart and you seem to be more frustrated that you don"t even know that the demon king"s defeat is far away......kukukuu, it"s a good trend)
An angry and emotional opponent is easier to control than a calmer one with a better face. So Shinichi, who is pleased with the progress of the operation, has made one big mistake. It"s because he is on the side of Reno, he knows her well. There was no consideration of the possibility that there might be someone who would hate her more than someone who had been throwing out countless bad things.
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On the same day, the live event ended safely without any incident that the stage rebuilt by the miners was broken again. And usual goods sales is started.
"Today, it"s a bag that contains three of Reno-chan"s Bromide, 30 normal ones and 1 rare piece"
"That means, at least buy eleven bags for the completion!"
"No, don"t you need dozens of bags if you think twice?"
"Its filthy! Demons, devils, evil G.o.ds!"
"OyaOya, you don"t have to buy it if you don"t like it, but as small note......the rare one is Reno-chan wearing a wedding dress"
"I will take thirty bags please!"
With the j.a.panese style of irresistible random inclusion and the rare item commercial law, Shinichi deprives the youth group of money today as well. However, the ill effects of the overly-rich collection business law were also beginning to arise.
"This stupid son, put out his hand to sales money!"
"Take it off, dad, even if you know the man is going to lose!"
"You spend money for such a little girl, who is more important to you, she or your lover?"
"Wa, wait, my lover and idol are different......"
Adolescents who are too addicted to Reno have been splurgeous and have begun to cause family collapses.
"......Shinichi, are you not willing to destroy the kingdom of Tigris?"
"......Hmm, maybe I did too much"
Seen with white eyes from Ariane, Shinichi reflect a little regret indeed.
"I made enough money, and if people in the city hated me, I will be overturned at the end of the day. Will I accept the refund?"
Shinichi goes to the arbitration of those who are in trouble and instead Ariane and Ceres become the sales workers. Meanwhile, Reno-chan was resting beside the stage because she was tired of treatment and the live event. A girl comes running to her.
"Reno-chan, a letter from a stranger"
The girl said that and offered a rolled parchment.
"A stranger?"
"Yeah, I was asked to give it to Reno-chan"
"Who?"
While Reno was leaning her head, the girl waved and ran away. She couldn"t help it, so when she opened it, something was written there in human language. Reading it with translation magic, Reno was surprised.
"This is a big deal!"
──My mother is suffering from a serious illness. Her condition is bad enough not to be able to be taken outside, can you come to our house for treatment? If this is known, I will be blamed from everyone around, so please come alone without letting your companions know. Along with this request, a map of the place you should come to was drawn. It is a juvenile wolf that can be seen immediately if it is an adult and it is a text full of holes that even a child may be suspicious. However, Reno was a too innocent and pure child who was loved and protected by the demon king and grew up without knowing things of bad faith. So Reno believes in the content of the letter and headed to the place on the map so it won"t be noticed. She arrived at the section where the stone houses are densely packed. However, even though it is a residential area in the daytime, she cant hear the noise as if it were paid by people. However, Reno knocked on the door of the house specified on the map without noticing a strange thing.
"Excuse me, I"ve seen your letter"
In response to her voice, the front door opens slowly. As soon as she entered the dimly lit house with a temptation, the door was closed with a rattling noise.
"Huee!?"
A couple of hands extend to Reno"s body, who is surprised and turned around and her hands and feet are immediately tied up. Then a beautiful girl appears in the dark before her who is tied up and rolled on the floor.
"Nice to meet you, Reno-san"
"Are you the saint?"
Reno responds with enthusiasm to the figure of Sanctine and the priests behind her. Sanctine smiled, lifting the end of her mouth to Reno´s reaction that the situation is not understood yet.
"I wondered why you didn"t leave this town even though I warned you so much"
"Eh, eh?"
"You knew that it was our threat to break the stage"
"Ah, emm......"
Reno reacts to Sanctine, who smiles but has a scary atmosphere, with a slight frightening.
"Where is the sick mother?"
"……What?"
"I"m the sick mother who wants Reno to cure her"
The priests laughed at Reno"s appearance with a serious face.
"Young girl, it was a trap to lure you, that was all a lie"
"Eh, was that right!?"
Upon hearing the explanation of the priest, Reno looks surprised. After that, she smiled from the bottom of her heart.
"Then, there is no sick mother"
The figure that rejoices innocently is just the smile of an angel──
"......Saint"
The words of a young priest broke Sanctine"s reason. She changed her smiling smile and jumped over Reno, strangling her thin neck with both hands.
"You, why are you......!!"
The future didn"t become a word. Sanctine didn"t know why she hated Reno so much. No, even though she knew the truth, she might just deflect her eyes.
"Sanctine-sama, please stop!"
The young priest who was stunned by the devilishness of the saint screams, reaching for Sanctine´s shoulder. The moment she saw him doing so from the edge of her eye, Sanctine jumped away from Reno, as she avoided his hand.
"Keho, Kehoo......"
Looking down at Reno who coughs painfully, Sanctine asks the priests.
"What do you think we should do with this person?"
"Again, we should hang her dead body on the gate to make an example"
"No, we should cut her into small pieces and feed her to the dogs so that she cant be resurrected"
The young priest change his complexion because of his coworkers who speak plainly and miserably.
"Don"t do anything there......"
"Shut up! This person disturbed our n.o.ble mission of defeating the demons, that child is an apostate who defies the G.o.ddess"s will. Even if she is a child, don"t be lenient"
"But if we do something cruel like that, doesn"t it produce a crack that is unrepairable between the Tigris people and us?
"Mumuu......"
Extreme priests shut up without responding back to the young priest"s true argument. One person who had shut up until now suggested it.
"So how about smashing her face? If they look at her ugly broken face, the people of the city will be disillusioned and return to our hand"
"Ah, that"s good!"
"She can cure anything with magic so this will be ineffective, so is it appropriate as a punishment for a child who is too mischievous?" "If she learnt the weight of her sin is enough to treat her injuries, this person will also realize the mercy of the G.o.ddess. It"s a good idea"
"............"
The other priests are delighted to see the young priest who is scared and cant utter any words. He grabbed the poker that was next to the fireplace.
"Give my weapon a holy flame, 『Bestowed flame』......Sanctine-sama, please take this"
With a thin finger, Sanctine firmly received the hot and glowing poker influenced with magic and looked down on the little girl lying on the floor.
"Ah......it is......"
Reno was shaking with fear for the first time from the black hostility. She can"t even cast magic and resist, therefore she tries to escape desperately with her hands and feet tied up. However, she was soon overwhelmed by the wall, losing her refuge.
"Why do you do such a bad thing......?"
"............"
Sanctine doesn"t answer anything to Reno who looks up without tears in her eyes. However, the girl who took the worship of the people from her, a so beautiful girl looks only at her, while bringing in a mysterious excitement, she slowly brings the poker close.
"Reno-chan!"
Kicking the front door open, Shinichi jumped in. He ran as he could, and covered Reno to protect hers. However, Sanctine"s hand, which had only seen Reno"s appearance, didn"t stop and she pressed the burnt poker on his shoulder.
"Gaaaaa────!!"
With a bad smell of burning meat, a cry of torture echoes from Shinichi´s mouth.
"Older brother!"
"You, why are you here!"
What they are doing is that, in front of the priests, the guards who have become blood are thrown out. The culprit who changed the six priests into rags was the brown skinned maid, Ceres, who stood in front of them at the door and looked around the room with her golden eyes burning with anger.
"You did it"
The moment she caught sight of Reno who was crying, Ceres casts a spell with fiery eyes and a cold voice.
"The black dragon that holds the bottom of the earth, lend me a piece of your breath, and make all these enemies, become dust──"
"That"s bad!"
Ariane, who appeared from behind, claps her hands and clogs Ceres"s mouth, who apparently casts a dangerous magic. Shinichi endured the severe pain and shouted for the girls who would like to do so, as he felt sensitively that the saint was trying to cast attack magic.
"Understood! We"ll leave the city, we won"t disturb you anymore, so please forgive us"
Having said that, I scolded my forehead against the ground while I was scolding Reno and apologized.
"You, think I will forgive you for such a cheap apology──"
"Hey, stop!"
A relatively sober priests grasp the priest, who doesn"t care about his fellow blood. Both the maid standing at the entrance and the girl who holds her down have released magic power that causes their whole bodies to freeze. When it comes to fighting, the hero Sanctine, apart from any other, could see that the priests would be killed to such an extent that they couldn"t be resurrected.
"Sa, Sanctine-sama, this fellow also says and let"s forgive it with a generous heart"
"............"
Sanctine doesn"t answer the priest who propose with a shaking voice. However, when she saw the face of Reno who was crying only once, she threw away the poker and walked out to the front door. Ceres and Ariane sent a sharp hostile look, but the saint pa.s.sed through blindly and left with the priests who had a dying companion. As the footsteps moved away, Shinichi raised his face as he hugged the little body of Reno who cried.
"I"m sorry, Reno-chan. Such a scary thing happened because of me"
"It"s not Shinichi-oniichan´s fault......more than that, older brother"s shoulder!"
Seeing Reno thinking of him, Shinichi was relieved and released his embrace while feeling like crying. In the meantime, Ceres applies healing magic to heal Shinichi´s burned shoulder.
"Now, what about Maou-sama?"
"He isn"t aware of it. After the end of the show, he was doing his daily routine"
"Really……"
For the time being, the worst situation is prevented and Shinichi feels at ease. If the demon king saw the current scene, the kingdom of Tigris would have disappeared altogether rather than the saint alone.
"It was really good to be in time"
When Reno left the side of the stage, she wasn"t visible in Shinichi´s eyes, but the small fans noticed. When they wondered what Reno is doing, they followed her and when they see that Reno entered this house, they thought it was suspicious and quickly turned back. By that time, Shinichi and others were aware of Reno"s absence and the children came to the place they were looking for, heard the story, and flew literally here with Ceres"s 『Flight』.
"Where did they go? I won"t forgive them for making Reno-sama cry and kill thema million times"
"I can"t forgive them this time!"
Ariane was seriously angry as well as Ceres who was dangerously intimidating. Shinichi returns a selfless smile to the two girls who lift the bag.
"......After all, it was because a pretty young girl was besides me, I thought that they didn"t want to do something too bad"
Shinichi isn"t a feminist, but there is no taste for wild girls. So, he wanted to do a nice service if possible.
"But, there is no mercy to spend on those who make the super cute Reno-chan cry"
While speaking with a low voice, Shinichi wear a smile on his face. The G.o.ddess religion has the G.o.ddess"s justice and there is no intention to deny all of it. However, in order to defeat the demons, they collect magic power without thinking about people"s lives, increase the cost of medical treatment and apply pressure, burning the face of a child and make an irreparable wound, etc. It was an unforgivable s.h.i.tty act.
"Let"s show them, there"s a living h.e.l.l that was made for them sc.u.m" (literal : there’s a waste h.e.l.l for waste people )
Under the hidden face that Reno didn"t see, Shinichi had an expression of anger like a demon.