CHAPTER 28 {Great Flame}
The one who woke up first was Sati. Because Masaru was sleeping before her, she felt relieved. But when she glanced over, there was Elizabeth. In the opposite site stood Angela. What happened? For the time being Sati woke Masaru up.
[Masaru-sama. Masaru-sama.]
With a small voice she called while shaking him.
[N…. nn.]
[Masaru-sama, it’s morning.]
[N…. aa, Sati, good morning.]
Masaru got up.
[Good morning, Masaru-sama. And what’s with this?]
The bed was full. Since when?
[Umm… At midnight, Elizabeth and Angela came, and said they wanted to sleep together.]
Said him with a low voice.
After Sati thought a bit.
[Do Elizabeth-sama and Angela-sama like Masaru-sama too?]
[These two like me? There’s no way that’s…true?]
Because Elizabeth covered up her stealing a march, Angela just came too, which resulted in sleeping together in one bed. The sake also had a little responsibility. However, when I saw yesterday’s conduct, could it be that they view me favorably? It’s not strange to think about that.
Even though it’s to cover up her intention, it’s unthinkable to sleep in one bed with a man that you don’t even like, but I didn’t think that far.
[Is that how it is? What do you think?]
[Just wanting to sleep together means she likes you. Tirika-chan is also like that.]
Is that so?
No, wait. If I get too carried away, it will be that. It will be the ‘Let’s just be friends’ flag. I had to make sure of the circ.u.mstance carefully. While I was thinking that, Angela woke up. She opened her eyes and got up.
[Good morning, Angela.]
[Ah… Masaru. Go, good morning. U, um. I will wash my face.]
With some noise she got up from the bed, which caused Elizabeth to wake up.
[Nn.. what is it….. so noisy.]
She turned over in a daze, her hand creeping to my direction. A, wait, that was! I hurriedly woke Elizabeth up.
[Elizabeth, Elizabeth! It’s morning, wake up!]
[N~, a little bit more…. Narnia.]
[Hey, I’m not Narnia. Wake up.]
Elizabeth opened her eyes. She was still half asleep. She stared blankly at us.
[Good morning, Elizabeth.]
[Good morning, Elizabeth-sama.]
Elizabeth stretched her body, and yawned while greeting us. And then she moved to leave the room.
[Let’s get up too. You wake Tirika-chan up.]
[Yes, Masaru-sama.]
I have a lack of sleep. When you sleep together with a girl, isn’t it fine if the development turned into more like ‘kyaa kyaa’ or ‘ufufu’. What’s with that tension? Because I couldn’t turn over, my body was hurting. I want to relax today….
I made egg sandwich with the remaining mayonnaise for breakfast. And then, the standard soup and salad. I had to ask Sati to make mayonnaise again.
During breakfast, Angela was quite embarra.s.sed and averted her eyes from me. Even though we said sleeping together, that was five people. And we didn’t touch each other at all. Even so, is it still embarra.s.sing? Somehow, her image was different from the usual Angela. Like, her cuteness was three times more? She stabbed a knife in my hand, and taught me magic strictly, but she is a cute girl without any doubts. I want her to be this way all the time!
Elizabeth didn’t mind it too much. She filled her mouth with sandwich deliciously. She had already worn her black robe. Yesterday’s gown was so cute, though. If I ignored her strong personality, she was so cute that I wanted to pat her head. Rather than talking about other people’s attire, she should do something about her black robe.
After having breakfast, Angela immediately left.
[You get it? Before I return, you absolutely can’t teach Masaru magic!]
[I will take Tirika-chan to the guild, what will Elizabeth do?]
[Well, I want to practice magic in the morning.]
[No, you will get scolded by Angela.]
[You’re wrong! It’s me. When subjugating the dragon. I couldn’t do anything right? That’s why I thought I should develop a new spell.]
[Hee… what kind?]
[It’s a wind high ranked spell. I will strengthen Wind Storm.]
Elizabeth did her best too.
[And won’t Masaru come along too? I will get scolded by Narnia If I come out from the town alone.]
[Okay. Well, let’s take Tirika-chan home first.]
Because we would go outside of town, I and Sati prepared our equipment. Sati happily showed her equipment to Tirika-chan, and Elizabeth was obviously ready with her black robe and could go anytime.
[And then I burned my finger.]
[Ahahaha. You think about stupid things. If it’s like that, it’s not good. If the distance increases, the effect of the magic will wear out.]
The idea itself was no good huh. That’s right when she threw the knife, the target was really close. Still it would be good if you taught me that sooner.
[I forgot. If it was high price metal, it could last for a longer distance, it won’t work to use it on a regular arrow. And then you can use wind magic to accelerate the arrows speed.]
What a useful wind magic. It could fly, it could become shield. It is possible to use it by two systems of the wind and the thunder.
[That’s right. Wind magic is the strongest magic system!]
I don’t know if it was the strongest, but the defense and offense sounded pretty balanced.
After we arrived at the guild, we came out from the hall and went to the room in the inner place. It was the place where Drawin’s office was located.
[Oo, Masaru. Thank you. Tirika, was it fun? Is that so. That’s good]
[Onee-chan, Masaru, thank you. I had fun.]
[Onee-chan?]
[Yup, she become a little sister.]
[Wahahaha. That’s good! But little sister huh? Aa, sorry that I laughed.]
[Tirika-chan, you can always….. um…]
Sati glanced at me. She probably wanted to say she can come and sleep together again, she hesitated to say it because her position as slave.
[That’s right. You can come again anytime. Because you are Sati’s little sister, that house is also Tirika-chan’s house.]
[Un, I will come again.] Said Tirika-chan while nodding.
We bid our farewell, and when we come out from the guild hall, we got involved with a hoodlum adventurer. While walking lightly, Sati b.u.mped into adventurer.
[That hurt, pipsqueak. What do we have here? Wearing a cute clothes. Are you still an adventurer?]
Not good. It’s the usual hoodlum template. With a terrible face he had, trying to threaten us.
[Gahahahaha, doesn’t it suit you. What a competent adventurer oi!]
Sati certainly looked like a child playing while looking like an adventurer. When I tried to show my courage to help her, and apologize, Sati didn’t feel especially angry about it.
[Ah, does it suit me? Is that true?]
Asked her happily. She must have been happy about the compliment, and didn’t cared about anything else.
[N, aaa. Well it does suit you…. But…]
The hoodlums got dumbfounded with at the unexpected answer. They thought she would cry with their intimidation. They didn’t think that she would become happy.
Another adventurer came after hearing the commotion.
[What, you’re all bullying children, huh.]
Though Sati was small, Elizabeth and I were small too. Each one of the adventurers was so big. By the way, Elizabeth immediately hid behind my back to avoid trouble.
[I was bad with fighting. And it’s not like I can fire my magic at the guild, right.]
With her strong personality, Elizabeth has brought trouble several times, but recently she’s been remembering to be docile. If she fires her magic and gets caught, she would be lectured and get a penalty. The experienced ones talk. Even though she gets mad, if she comes out, trouble would occur without a doubt. She understood because she experienced it several times.
[No, they didn’t bully us. These people praised my clothes-desu.]
How positive.
For Sati who got bullied from childhood by getting told things like ‘you’re useless!’, ‘you are a bother!’, ‘you trash!’, this level of bullying is nothing. Just a talk with a little threatening tone. Furthermore, for Sati who had bad eyes until now, she didn’t understand people’s facial expressions. She didn’t understand that she was threatened.
[Aah, that’s right, it suits you?] said a hoodlum.
[Aah, you are indeed cute. It suits you.][You are cute, so cute.]
The gathered adventurers praised her one by one. Sati was happy.
[Thank you very much! My name is Sati, I just became an apprentice adventurer yesterday. Please take care of me.]
Said her with a beaming smile on her face and bowed her head.
[So you’re called Sati-chan!][You are so polite.][You are so cute.]
So popular. Sati, what strong nerve she had. I thought that she was more like a small animal though.
One of the adventurer noticed me when I erased my presence.
[Oh, isn’t it wild rabbit hunter. You all, he is a dragon slayer, you know.]
[Eh? This kid is?]
[I heard he is an excellent fire mage. If you make him angry, all of you will become cinders, you know?]
No no, cinders you said. Just how brutal do you think I am? It’s not like I couldn’t do it though. Two of the hoodlums became afraid when they heard about me being a dragon slayer. By the way, it’s not like everyone who partic.i.p.ated in the subjugation had been t.i.tled as dragon slayer. Crook and Silver, people who had not actively fought didn’t get that t.i.ttle.
There was a bar that adventurer gathered, and that kind of information was exchanged there. The information of the investigation team subjugating a dragon and coming back, it obviously spread right away. Because Masaru didn’t drink sake that much, and he didn’t approach the places that rough adventurers gathered as much as possible, the information was poor.
[E, um…..]
[Aa, no. Our Sati b.u.mped into you, my apologies.]
[A, ah, un. It’s nothing at all.]
[Sati, let’s go.] I said while pulling her hand, and we left the guild.
I sighed. When it was just me alone, I secretly mobilized and erased my presence, though I really don’t want to involved with something like that, as expected it was existed. (TN: ああいうのには全く絡まれなかったけど、やっぱいるもんなんだな, didn’t quite understand)
(EN: I think he’s talking about the situation with the hoodlums. He means that, when he’s alone, he hides his presence to avoid conflicts like that.)
While I was thinking I needed to be careful, I looked at Sati who became high spirited and stopped thinking. Well, she settled her own circ.u.mstance. Sati might unexpectedly become a big-shot.
Elizabeth might have something to say about what happened earlier. She muttered something.
[Even I, if I wear something cute like that, surely…]
First of all, do something about that black robe, Elizabeth. I won’t say it, though.
We went out of town.
[And, what should we do?]
[I was thinking about that now!] Said Elizabeth.
[Actually, I wanted to strengthen mega thunder, but I don’t have enough magic power.]
Therefore you wanted to strengthen wind system.
After she shot [Mega Thunder],she couldn’t say she was fine.
[Is there no way to increase magic power?]
[Steady training, and inside the makyou there is a fountain of hyper magic power water, I was told that if you drink it, your magic power will increase.]
Hyper magic power water? So suspicious.
[T wind mage of the Hero’s party powered up that way, you know!]
It’s knowledge from legend! Furthermore it was a story from how many years ago, right!
[Either way, it’s not something we can do now.]
Let’s think about it a bit. Not increasing the power, what about increasing the number.
I first showed the [Fire Wall].
[Fire wall, what about it?]
[Un, it just to that extent if it’s just one. However, how about if it was several.]
And then I chanted {fire storm}. Activated it. There were several fire pillars rising. I used my control to spin it like a vortex. Well, the result was fine, I guess.
[Wooooh!]
She got surprised. I also felt surprised the first time I saw it.
[Isn’t that something amazing? I got surprised a bit. But why didn’t you use it before?]
[If I used something like this, I might set the forest on fire.]
[I guess that’s right. But several, huh….]
Elizabeth folded her arms and thinking.
[Well, is this how it’s done?]
She chanted. This time, the spell was detailed.
[Thunder!!]
Though compared to mega thunder that was quite small, two lightning bolts fell on the gra.s.sland.
[It can be used.]
[Thunder is so cool. I want to learn it too.]
Isn’t that right? Said Elizabeth with triumphant look.
[If I fired about ten of it, I wonder if that dragon would be stopped.]
It was a direct hit at the head that time. If it hit the body, it might be possible.
[Won’t it be perfect if you shoot around 20?]
[20, you say… Well, let’s name this spell thunder rain.]
Though you said rain, it was just two. I offered magic tea to Elizabeth while thinking that.
[Oh, thank you. How thoughtful of you.]
Suddenly I thought, how about instead of casting multiple fire pillars, I concentrate all the magic power in only one? Yes, let’s do this.
[I too want to test something.]
I keep the magic power of fire storm as it is, and concentrated it at one point. Yup, the image was something like that. I began the first spell, and because the power was high, I carefully strengthened the image in my head.
I began the chant. I charged the magic power. Image it. Image it. The chant completed. I activated it.
Doon!! With that sound, there was a large fire pillar that raised to the sky. About 20 meters, maybe higher. And then, after several seconds, the fire pillar disappeared. Somehow it was larger than what I thought.
[Somewhat it’s that, huh. It’s a spell that has few uses, though.]
I thought so too. Though it was a large blast, it spent too much magic power, so I can’t fire it continuously. Well, because it was gaudy, I would use it at least once. But still, even an amateur can create a new spell, huh. For now let’s name the new spell {Great Flame}.
[Let’s continue the special training!]
And then Elizabeth, who become excited, collapsed after increasing the thunder until seven.
[Pull yourself together! Here, concentrated magic tea!]
[U, guho, gefu, gefu]
c.r.a.p, did she cough because she choked on the tea!? Get a grip, don’t die Elizabeth!
[I won’t die!]
She hit me with a whack.
When we got back to the city, we got scolded by the gatekeeper soldier.
[The fire pillar can be seen from here, you know. Didn’t I insist that If you want to practice magic, you should do it further?!]
I’m sorry.