Chapter 12: Volume 2 - CH 11

In the end, with half a bird left, Satoru got a piece of parchment from Leia, wrapped it dexterously with a leather strap, and threw it into his backpack.

After cleaning up the remains of the fire and preparing for his journey, he let Leia hide in the shadows and cove over to Minerva. Minerva, as if she knew what she was doing, shouted a single roar into the sky and flapped her wings with a flutter.

The early morning air was crisp, but chilly. He checked with Leia, and she said that the season was summer, and even closer to autumn, but it would still be cold in the morning.

However, He soon got used to it. He's not sure if it's because the temperature has risen a bit that He had gotten used to it, or if it's because his magic is acting on its own to regulate his body temperature as usual.

「Leia. I just thought of something.」

『Hmm, what's up?』

「Isn't it possible to turn Minerva into a human through magic?」

『There is a art.........called "Mimicry".........but』

With a little thought, she had an answer, but it's oddly crisp.

『 ....... I'm sorry, my Lord. I can't use it, because It's an advanced form of physical magic.』

「”I'm not very good at physical magic", is that what you said, right?」

Leia had said before that she was good at fire, wind, holy, and reason, and not so good at earth and physical. Although Leia said that she was one of the higher beings in this world, she could not use advanced magic in her weak areas.

『That's right. With my magic, I'm limited to shrinking and expanding.」

Fumu, he thought. At the moment, he was planning to "shrink" Minerva before entering the town. He thought that if she could use mimicry to turn her into a human, it would save him a lot of trouble, but it doesn't seem to be going well.

「Is there a derivative of that, like ......, such as "disguise"?」

『Yes, there are. But disguises and illusions are easy to see through. The mere touch of another person can break them..』

「I see. ......」

Satoru sighed in disappointment. Well, considering Minerva's size, no matter how "disguised" she was, it would be impossible. Is there anything else I can do? Satoru thought vaguely.

And then Leia's frustrated voice echoed from inside his brain.

『What is that? You're not satisfied with just me alone, you want to take Minerva as well, if she can turn into a humanoid?』

In a corner of her mind, Leia thinks that this may be what Minerva is hoping for. Of course, she doesn't say it out loud.

Satoru laughed at her delusional.

「That's not true. First of all, I told you that you don't have the right of veto in such matters.」

「Guru?」

Minerva turned around in response to Satoru's voice, but he smiled gently and patted her lightly on her neck.

『That's true, but ......』

Leia's tone was one of frustration.

Satoru hadn't thought about what Leia had said at all. The races are too different to begin with, aren't they?

「I'm the only one who can get into the town. It's not like I have any bills or anything, so I thought people might get suspicious. I just thought that if I had a woman with me, I might be able to pass myself off as a married couple.」

『I see』

She was convinced.

「I'm a foreigner. I have knowledge and possessions that are not found in this world. If they get suspicious, they might look into that too. I don't want any trouble.」

Leia was inwardly impressed by the fact that he seemed to be so crude, but he was surprisingly thoughtful.

He showed her a measuring tape, a plastic bottle, a mobile phone, and a writing utensil, and it seems that Satoru is paying attention to spreading unnecessary knowledge, regardless of whether he can make such things in this world.

「But the art of "mimicry" ...... is an advanced physical system, huh. Hey, Leia.」

『What is it?』

「Even if you can't, do you think I can use it once I get used to it?」

『That's possible, of course』

An immediate answer came back to him. Considering the fact that he unconsciously and unconsciously controls his body with magic power, She can imagine that Satoru's greatest strength is his physical body. If he could handle it perfectly, it could become a body that could not be harmed, and he would be able to manipulate others with his magic.

「 .......I'll think about it.」

Satoru groaned, rubbing his chin.

『It's the practice of magic.』

「Yeah. I'm an amateur, after all. Please take care of me, sensei.」

Ohhh ......, said Leia's voice in the shadows, trembling. To be honest, it's a little freaky.

「...... What's wrong?」

『I'm, I am is, teacher! My goodness ......!』

Satoru puffed out. The [Immortal King], who lurks in the shadows, seems to be moved by being called a teacher.

Leia is definitely an expert when it comes to magic. She probably has a lot of knowledge that she has accumulated over the years. There is no one better to be a teacher than her.

However, Leia has spent over 200 years in the labyrinth without any contact with people. Because she had no contact with people, she had no opportunity to be called "teacher" - which is probably why she was so impressed by it. When I think about it, I feel a little pity.

「...... Please don't be a Spartan, okay?」

『I won't do that. It's just that I'm glad you said that, but ......』

It's hard to say.

「Hmm?」

『No matter how you look at it, I get caught in the fact that my students have an unusually large amount of magic power」

「There's nothing we can do about that.」

As a teacher who teaches students who have a lot of potential, you can feel your own powerlessness very keenly. But there is nothing the student can do about it.

It's been an hour or so since they took off, enjoying the feeling of the wind gently blowing on Minerva's back.

The forest had broken up, and Satoru could see what looked like a human-made road, so he guided Minerva to gradually lower the altitude, making sure that there was no sign of people around.

「It's time to walk.」

『Mm.』

He landed softly. It's not a fully maintained path, but it's a solid one. There are only a few trees and short grass in the area, and no sign of people.

Leia said that there are not many adventurers who come to this side of the mountain, as there are many dangers, including flying dragons. From the condition of the road, she added, it would take about an koku to walk the rest of the way.

『Since this is a good opportunity, why don't we practice some magic while we're at it?』

「Yeah, I guess so.」

Leia crawled out of the shadows, and posed.

「Leia-sensei's magic lecture」

「............」

Satoru looked at Leia, who held the wand in her hand and puffed out her chest in a pompous manner, with an extremely cold stare. Leia's cheeks puffed out as she met Satoru's gaze.

「My Lord, you're not get into the mood!」

「You......I'm gonna put you up」

He's not so light-hearted as to go along with such flirting.

Leia's shoulders slumped, a little pouting, and she twirled her wand around.

「Let's start with a demonstration of "shrinking"........Hey, Minerva. There is nothing particularly dangerous about this, so just shut up and accept the my art.」

Minerva looked down at Leia with a grunt, as if she understood or not. Fuhh, Leia breathed and recited a spell in her mouth.

「"Shrink (Small)."」

Minerva's body shrinks as if she were irradiated by a secret tool from a certain national cat-type robot animation, the Small Light.

Satoru couldn't help but exclaim, "Ohhh!" It was amazing to see Minerva's body, which was more than 10 meters long when her wings were spread out, shrink to scale.

Eventually, Minerva's size dropped to about 30 centimeters, and she finished shrinking. Minerva may or may not be aware of her condition, but she's missing a lot.

Leia checked Minerva's size and stared at her hands.

「......It's smaller than I expected. I knew it was magic power.」

He said it was about a tenth of its original size, but it certainly seems to have gotten a little smaller. However, if it was too small, it would be a problem, but this level was within the acceptable range.

Satoru nodded yes, and held out his hand to the smaller Minerva.

「Come here.」

「Kurururuo!」

Minerva squealed in a high-pitched voice, different from the heavy bass sound she had been making so far, and climbed into Satoru's hand. Satoru then led Minerva to his left shoulder. Her nails almost bite into his shoulder, but as usual, it doesn't hurt. When he stroked her neck with the back of his fingers, Minerva made a pleasant noise in her throat. It's cute when she's this size.

"Enlargement" and "shrinking" are often talked about together, but they are completely different, Leia emphasized.

"Enlargement" can be done by pouring magic power into the imagination to make it bigger, while "shrinking" is to pour magic power into the imagination to compress it. It seems that it's very difficult to imagine compressing while pouring magic, and it's easy to accidentally try to pull out the magic power.

「Now, I'm going to ask my Lord to demonstrate your magic as well. ......」

Leia looked at Minerva on Satoru's shoulder and nodded her head in a cute way.

「Let's leave the qualities aside for now. ...... Is it easy to imagine water first?」

「Water? Why is that?」

The reason why she dared to choose it among the four elements of earth, water, fire and wind.

「Oh, not only my Lord, ...... but also creatures will shed water from their bodies.」

Leia's voice was whispery and gradually became a whisper as she turned her gaze in the direction of the day after tomorrow, her cheeks turning red. However, Satoru could hear her clearly. And he clapped his hands.

「Ah, I've already poured into your virgin pussy twice, haven't I?」

「That's why stop it! Don't say that!」

He chuckled at Leia's reddening face, which was indeed a delicacy. He patted her head.

「All right-all right. And?」

「Imagine it. Right, imagine letting the water fly from your fingertips. The reason I said water first is because it's easier to imagine the water flowing off. I'll show you an example, so watch this.」

Leia then pointed her index finger at the wall and held her thumb to the side. In a pose that resembles a sidearm strike, she sets her target on a standing tree.

「"Water Splash."」

Instantly, water gushed from Leia's fingertips. The powerful water that comes out when she squeeze the outlet of a water hose pours into the tree.

"Oohhhh" Satoru clapped his hands. Leia received the applause and her expression changed to one of pride.

「I've added a few words to make it easier to understand. If you're a me, this level of magic can be activated without chanting or even putting words on it.」

「I know what chanting is, but putting words on it?」

「Ah......By saying the name of the art, you declare its activation, or something like that. Whether you say it or not, my Lord should try it too.」

Hmm, Satoru twisted his head.

「...... okaay」

「Imagine this. Imagine water gushing from your own fingertips.」

As he was told, Satoru drew an image in his mind of water gushing from his fingers. He imagined it with the amount of water Leia had shown him, pointing his index finger at a tree and holding it as if he were firing an empty gun.

「...... Bang」

Instantly, water gushed from Satoru's fingertips. Just. It wasn't the amount of water that Leia had shown me earlier. It was a huge column of water, one meter in diameter. To Satoru's surprise, the water stopped flowing from his fingertips after about five seconds.

「Ohh...... Oooohhhhhhh???」

He look at his fingertips. There's no change, it's the same old finger. Next, he looked at the standing tree he was aiming for. Already, there was no standing tree. The water pressure was so great that it seemed to have uprooted the tree and blown it away.

Leia held her head down and let out a big sigh for good measure.

「I knew it. ....... My Lord can't control it.」

She can't help but be dismayed by the predictable outcome. She put her hands on her hips and gave a little lecture.

「Magic is all about imagination. What level of imagination did you have for the "water hammer" that you just saw?」

「About the same as yours.」

Satoru imagined the amount of water when he squeezed the water hose. Nevertheless, the result was just like that. The amount of water was like a release from a water storage dam. There was too much of a gap between his imagination and reality.

「Isn't it? You aimed for the same level, but the result was that. It's like a broken water pipe that can't be adjusted. ...... Do you understand this example?」

Satoru nodded again and again.

「Ah, I understand. Water supply, huh ...... So there's one here, too.」

After saying this, Satoru wondered if he had made too much of a fool of the world. As shown in a certain hot spring manga that was popular for a while, water supply already existed in the ancient Roman era. This world seems to be a bit more medieval than the Roman era, so it is natural for large cities to have running water.

「Anyway. If my Lord don't learn how to control your magic, it's too dangerous.」

「I'm sure I'll work it out eventually.」

「Na-i-ve. That's naive, my Lord.」

Leia raised her willow eyebrows and pressed Satoru. Satoru took a half step back at Leia's overly serious pressure.

It is said that the issue of the balance of magical power contribution in a formula is one of the basic principles in the use of magic in this world. For example, in the case of "Burning Hell Road", which combines fire and earth, 87% of the magic is fire and 13% is earth, which requires fine control.

There is a good reason why magic is established as a systematic science.

Most of the time, it is only when you add effects such as "perpetuation" or "spell-breaking" to each core technique that it becomes a technique. For example, if you were to cast a "disguise" spell without a mixing effect, the effect would appear and then disappear.

Depending on the combination and talent, for example, a person who has an advanced talent in fire but no talent in earth cannot use "Burning Hell Road".

Even so, I heard that you have to learn the basic control through imagination before you can talk about it.

In Satoru's case, his soul is too huge, and the amount he can release is correspondingly large. Normally, he can only release a little bit at a time, but with practice he can expand it, but it's quite the opposite.

「Don't think too much about it. Imagine, perceive the flow of magic, and let it out. ......」

「The flow of magic power. It's hard to be aware of it.」

He had never imagined that he had magic, so it wouldn't make sense to him to be aware of the flow.

「That's the thing. I don't mean to be crude, but it can be semen, it can be urine, it can be anything. They are conscious of the need to come out, pass through the body, and then release.」

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When he was told this, it finally hit home for Satoru.

「Ah! That's what happens when urine passes through the urethra.」

「...... That's the only explanation that makes any sense for my Lord」

Leia muttered in amazement. You're the one who explained it that way, he replied, It is said that the magic teacher that Leia studied under when she was very young explained it to her.

「That teacher was a man, right?」

「I know exactly what you mean. He was a wizened old man.」

It's just that the length of the urethra is different between men and women, so men are more aware of it.

Satoru breathed, "Hmm". No matter what, he now know that he can use magic too. He still have a little bit of disbelief - or rather, reluctance to believe it, but when the results are so clearly shown, He can't help but be convinced.

At any rate, the only thing he left to do was to get used it for a while.

「...... Let's give it a try.」

Satoru straightened his posture and began to do some image training. He held his right hand as if he were firing a blank gun.

Imagine letting out a little piss and then stopping.

Leia shook her head from side to side as a gush of water shot out of the manhole pipe.

「Still too much.」

The next image is of the semen oozing out.

"Ohhh," said Leia, her voice filled with admiration.

「Oh, that's good.」

But there's still too much. That's the amount of water around the hose that hasn't been turned down.

It's hard to lower the image any further than that - Satoru uses his imagination.

「Wait a minute. ...... Maybe, just maybe...」

He slowly throws his hand out in front of him, backhanded, as if he were throwing a Frisbee, to let a drop of water flow out from his fingertips.

A thin stream of water gushed out with great force. The amount of water was almost exactly as Leia had shown him.

「Ohhh. It's perfect.」

Although he didn't feel any particular consumption of magic power, Satoru still went limp and compared his fingertips with the traces of water.

「Th-This is really hard to control!」

「That's a luxury problem. Most people would be too busy trying to expand their magic power.」

Even though she said that, Satoru didn't want to have this power.

He's only trying to control it because he want to adapt to this world to some extent, so he doesn't want to be called extravagant.

Leia has always told him that imagination is important. However, the problem is that there is a gap between their own imagination and reality, so they have to reconcile that.

「As for my Lord's task, ......, let's see... "Waterball"」

Leia used her magic to make a sphere made of water float in her palm. It's about the size of a basketball.

「Let's start by making sure my Lord can make a "water ball" this size at any time.」

She said that the "water ball" she made was just harmless water and could be thrown away without any problem.

Once you've gotten used to it, you'll have a knack for making all four spheres the same size, including the earth ball, fire ball, and wind ball. The first stage is complete, Leia explained.

The earth ball, like the water ball, is just sand and can be thrown away. However, the fireball is simply dangerous, so it was given a condition that it must be in a place where there is no sign of people and where fire is allowed. As for the wind sphere, since wind has an indeterminate color and shape, the size of the wind sphere can be determined by covering it with sand made of earth.

The rest of the physical, spiritual, holy, and logical skills would require classroom training.

However, he was taught the rudiments of logic, the "undoing of spells," separately. In simple terms, this is a magic that removes magic, and when practicing, he was told to use this art to remove magic if it becomes dangerous in size.

「Remember, it's important to imagine. If you pay attention to the difference between your imagination and reality, you can quickly get an idea of how much you can do with your imagination.」

「Hmm ......」

「Whenever you have time, imagine, practice, and fill in the gaps between your imagination and reality.」

「All right, let's give it a try.」

It's going to be a long road, though.

With Leia once again in the shadows, Satoru begins to walk, making a number of "water balls" and scattering them around the area. After many attempts to get a sense of the size Leia indicated, he found that the image of a drop in his palm finally calmed him down.

「...... I honestly can't do any better than this.」

When he told Leia exactly what he had pictured in his head, a dismayed voice came back from the shadows.

『It's not even close to impossible. What is that disparity?』

「Even if you say that, I'm in trouble too」

Satoru shrugged his shoulders.

In the case of ordinary people, it is said that the size of the ball imagined in their minds and the size of the real ball become the same only when they have the qualities of intermediate level and can actually use intermediate level. When a person with an intermediate level of ability is at the beginner level, the size of the ball they imagines in their mind will be two to three times larger than the size of the real ball.

『In the case of me, I imagined a 'water ball' of that size, a ball large enough to hold in the palm of my hand. I imagined it to be a little smaller than what I had imagined, and it turned out to be just as big as I had calculated.』

「...... Oh, yeah, you said you were gaining magic power.」

『Indeed. To be honest, I'm happy about it. If I use the same arts I've been using in the past with the same imagination, they will be more powerful than before. It is necessary for me to get used to controlling it.』

So it's not all good, huh?

By the way, Leia told him that not only did she easily grasp the image of the size of the water ball, but she was also able to create a thousand of them. She said that it was more frightening to make 1,000 water balls and not see any change. For Satoru, there was no sense of fatigue.

In the case of the general public, even those who have intermediate qualities and can actually use intermediate will only be able to make 100.

「 ...... I've been trying not to think about too much.」

『What?』

「If I were to ......,For example, let's say. The mountain you see behind you - Galmul, right? I wondered what would have happened if I had imagined a water ball of that size.」

『That's .......』

Leia was also rapt in the shadows.

At this point, Satoru's full power is completely unfathomable. Thinking of Satoru's magical power, it would be possible for him to actually create water with a volume as large as the mountain of Galmul. No, on the contrary, he might be able to create a water sphere that could fill up this divine earth. If that happens....

「I'm not going to do anything dangerous like that.」

Satoru's voice was filled with a sense of self-concealment.

(...... I mean)

Satoru thinks in his heart.

(......I guess I shouldn't think about a situation where I'd have to use all this magic power.)

He's not going to tell Leia.

In response to Leia's dismay and surprise, he is slowly coming to understand that he is the strongest cheat in the world. Depending on how he uses it, he may have the ability to destroy this earth, or even the entire planet. In Satoru's mind, this awareness is turning into conviction.

Even though he is aware that he has suddenly become stronger, it is not because he is in control of himself. It's because he doesn't want to, and of course, he doesn't have the slightest intention of doing so.

However, if others knew that Satoru had that much power.

Those who have too much power are to be feared.

――Even if he doesn't have any harmful intentions, if they feel that he is a potential threat, they will try to eliminate him, as Leia said in her speech about her and the labyrinth.

Even Leia is like that. That's why he can't tell her.

Surely she knows that.

『Come to think of it, what kind of world is my Lord's world?』

Leia's voice, blatantly change the topic.

(......, you've figured it out, haven't you?)

Even though he felt that way, he dared to join the conversation. He thought vaguely about how he should explain it.

「There was no magic, science was developed, and there were various machines that used electricity ...... and artificially created lightning. It was a world where you could live conveniently without magic.」

Magic has always been close to Leia, ever since she was born. So she thought it was a natural power that exists in every world, but there is a world where magic doesn't exist - honestly, it's hard to imagine.

「Science has probably created a lot of things you can't imagine. Yes, in the most common form, a lump of iron can run on the ground or fly in the sky.」

『Huh? Running is still somewhat understandable, but flying? What's the difference between that and magic?』

Indeed, if you don't know the principle, science is just like magic. "Ah," Satoru replied, thinking of an explanation.

「There are many kinds of medicines. I guess you could say that they're trying to figure out how to combine them into energy.」

『Energy?』 (TLN: Energy = エネルギー)

「......Uh, that's hard to change into Japanese (kanji). Vitality ...... Hmm, that's different. Power, I guess」

Isn't there something better? Satoru thought about what he had on hand, and pondered. What he took out was a measuring tape.

「You saw this.」

『Hmm. In the world of my Lord, it is a device to measure the length of things.」

When he checked the weights and measures, he found that the length of the wand was one foot, so he actually measured it.

Satoru gave a small laugh.

「Unfortunately, this thing is not a machine. But it does take a machine to make it, though. For example, is there such a thin steel in the world?」

He pulls out the measuring tape and shakes it up and down. It's a cheap, flimsy measuring tape, but you can still see that it's made of steel.

『No......Once again, it's very thin.』

「Right? And there's a trick to this thing, you can stop it when it's stretched out a certain amount.」

He clipped the tape measure to the end of the 50cm stretch and let go of the end of the tape measure. "Ohhh," Leia's voice went up. When the clip is removed, the tape measure rewinds and snaps back to its original state.

「For example, this power to return to the original state is energy. Combine various medicines, produce a large amount of energy, and make use of it. ......In my world, people have landed on the moon.」

『On the moon!? When you say "moon," you mean that. It's the moon that's floating in the sky!』

「Yeah.」

Leia's sullen voice echoed in his brain, and Satoru frowned.

He recalled the scene from last night, thinking that there were two moons in this world.

「Of course, there are weapons that distort the use of energy, blowing up entire cities, and poisons that kill thousands and thousands of people at once. There is a gap between the rich and the poor, and the development of science and technology has made a difference here and there. There were also wars for trivial reasons.」

Leia, who was in the shadows, could not see the expression on Satoru's face as he spoke haltingly. This is a weakness of hiding in the shadows. She can imagine that his face must be calm, but secretly filled with emotion.

However, the tone of Satoru's voice brightened.

「The country I was in was peaceful. There were no outspoken wars, no killing of people. Of course, I've never killed anyone, either.」

『Hou』

The tone of his voice was cheerful, but at the same time Leia was slightly concerned.

The journey to find Leia's mentor, Yarth, may be easy to say, but the journey will be difficult. Satoru's naivete, having never killed anyone before, might make the journey even more difficult.

However, somehow, Leia thinks that Satoru is already aware of this possibility. She can tell from time to time that he is kind, but also has a harshness that separates him from the rest of the world.

And Leia's imagination is not wrong. Satoru's heart is in the right place.

Perhaps her fears are unfounded. Leia puts her fears aside and changes the subject.

『My Lord is a hired security guard, right? I have heard that you have a sister and no other relatives.」

「That's right.」

Satoru took out his cell phone from his pants pocket and opened the screen. On the standby screen was a picture of Satoru and a cute little girl about seven years old.

『Wow, what a cute little girl.』

「Right」

The older brother's idiot.

Leia can see the standby screen on his cell phone because they share the same senses and see the same things.

「My sister――It's called Alice. She's smart and good-natured.」

He is a full-blown idiot.

「Nowadays, there is an orphanage ...... where the government and the town take care of children who do not have parents, and she is there.」

He stopped speaking for a moment. After a pause, she hear Satoru's sad voice.

「And maybe she's crying.」

Leia chokes on her breath. No doubt, it's definitely Leia who's making the girl cry.

「Alice lost her parents, well, my parents, too, right after she was born. She grew up in an orphanage, and I'm the only family she's got. I only get to see her once in a while, but she still loves me very much. It's a shame to think that I'm making her cry. ......」

As if to spit out, the tone of his voice filled with sadness and regret, Leia also felt as if she were about to be torn apart.

『I'm sorry』

That's all she could squeeze out at last.

Satoru giggled softly

「I'm not angry anymore. Well, I guess I don't have a choice. It's just bad luck.」

Leia is unable to reply to Satoru's resigned voice.

「I'm going home. ......」

When Satoru's voice was filled with determination, Leia realized that she was truly sorry for what she had done to him, and her resolve was renewed.

My role is to protect and guide my Lord.

「Oh. The town is coming into view. I think we can get some food in town today.」

Leia's vision tuned in to Satoru's voice, which changed the atmosphere, and they both saw a small town.

For Leia, it was the first time in two hundred years, and for Satoru, it was the first time in human society.

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