episode_0042

Sky City is the background of the female protagonist’s hypnosis brainwashing game.

It was a night game equipped with an incredible system that naturally presented scenarios that suited your tastes by analyzing the results of the propensity test received during installation.

It is a world that works hard to send the female protagonist to a bad ending even if she does nothing and stays still.

In Sky City, where even the slightest mistake can turn you into a brainwashed combatant or a humanoid, it’s not like I haven’t done anything.

That was the reason I tried to learn magic.

If I had entered a casual, all-ages online game, I would have leveled up by completing newbie support quests, but it was impossible.

There were no old people who coveted newbies and used sleeve stuffing, and there were no cash items that destroyed the dungeon even if a new character entered, turning them into honeycomb blood with just one hit.

It was a world without heavy billers who threw their nearly useless lightsabers on the street in exchange for a frilly dress.

From the day I was able to tear off a pile of herbs with my hands, the frequency of being nominated by adventurer parties has definitely increased.

I still don’t know how it works, but I still have enough income to ask the convenience store Humanoid to warm up my lunch box in exchange for the chunks of cheese that monsters drop.

Meeting Master was truly a coincidence.

When we went in, they asked us to split the herbs in half, but after we went in, they thought it was unfair and asked us to give them all away.

At first, I had no choice but to do it. There was a huge difference between a porter and an adventurer, even if they were F-class.

I wanted to use the special service of the succubus sex shop, but I barely held back.

With the little money I saved, I bought a smartphone, which people in another world call a communication terminal.

I hung my smartphone around my neck like a body camera. Of course, I installed the silent camera app. The second thing I purchased was an auxiliary battery.

It was truly a cool and eerie feeling. I decided not to tolerate it any longer.

Even though it was the first day I met Master, nothing special happened.

As always, I was on my way back after reporting on an adventurer party whose contract details had naturally changed before and after entering.

People liked it because it increased their side income, not knowing that the scene where they held a knife to their neck and said it was a joke was being filmed in real time.

Most people with Sky City citizenship are registered as heroes, so it was clear that the adventurers in the video were from the fantasy world.

I followed the proper procedures and filed a complaint at the police station. A lawsuit was also filed in court.

Although he was not a citizen of Sky City, he was cooperative from Sky City’s perspective as E-class adventurers were released into the market.

In Sky City, where problems are solved by one person disappearing, it was only a matter of time before the adventurers who were threatening to bring back a few more herbs disappeared due to threats and attempted murder.

-Ah?! Gu…rolled over?!

The scene that caught my eye was simple.

I am a wizard. An elf girl dressed like a wizard stumbled and fell on the road.

Of course, the glass case I was carrying was scattered on the floor.

-Huh?!

A black glass bead came out of a rather large case.

I lay down on the road and held out my hands as hard as I could, but it was no use.

The glass bead was rolling vigorously toward the sewer hole.

There were a lot of people as it was a street, but they passed by, ignoring the elf girl who was lying face down.

It was clear that he didn’t want to get caught up in troublesome things like asking for help because he was ruining things even more.

Even though I was harassed by true adventurers every two days and always wore a body camera around my neck when entering a dungeon, I thought that I should not let my emotions dry up.

I turned on the body camera and checked if CCTV was installed on the street, but it was not too late.

It was because I felt sorry for the girl who was lying face down and watching her precious glass beads go into the sewer.

There really was no other reason.

I caught the rolling black crystal ball. I rolled on the asphalt as hard as I could and it was dirty, so I just wiped it off with the clothes I was wearing.

Since I was going to get dirty when I entered the dungeon anyway, I did it without much thought.

I put the crystal ball that had become moderately transparent into the case and returned it.

-Go…Go…Go…Go… Ah?

Blue eyes. Hair that is closer to shiny silver than white.

Although I was crying because I suddenly fell, I had the impression that this is what it would be like if I had a cute younger sister.

I’m not sure if she was an elf, but she stroked the silver hair of a girl with protruding ears and then tried to leave.

I didn’t intend to ask for anything in return for not only finding my lost wallet but also picking up a bead.

On the contrary, because I only met truth adventurers, I went in and out of the courthouse as if it were my own home, and my devastated mind seemed to feel a little better.

-Ja.ja…ja! Phewit?!

I found out later that he was surprised that my happily smiling face suddenly distorted even though I only asked him to wait a moment.

Because the crystal ball was broken because of you, it seemed like I solved it right away because it wasn’t something that asked me to ask.

-Hey…Hey! I was just trying to say that I was sorry for picking it up!

This time, instead of patting my head, I gave him a thumbs up and turned to continue on my way.

My wrist was grabbed.

Although there was a prejudice against her as a wizard, I felt the fragile strength of the elf girl who fell and cried while walking safely.

-Gya…Gya….As a wizard…if you…could help me just a little bit…help me…ummm! Can you please help me? Bye!

-Wizard?

Since we were both wizards, I heard incomprehensible words asking me to help you.

Whiiing! I planned to listen to the story until the end even if I didn’t have to cry because the wizard’s hat that was lying on the road was crushed by a Humanoid taxi and turned into non-woven fabric.

-W…I’d like you to guide me here…if you could please!

The elf girl, whose pronunciation was slightly off, didn’t know what to show, so she held out some folded documents and a card key.

He was a high-class man who tried to bring in Sky City by permanently leasing a magic tower building… but he was actually an archmage who was wandering around on the streets because he could not be explained how to use a communication terminal.

That was my first meeting with Master.

****

In order to recruit wizards from the fantasy world, we went into a building built like a modern magic tower.

The first question I asked the elf girl was a slightly aggressive question about why I was a wizard.

The slightly nervous elf answered that it was because he touched the crystal ball with his bare hands.

Since I denied being a wizard, the topic naturally turned to my constitution.

At that time, there was speculation that I might have a constitution that only allowed me to tear up a pile of herbs with my hands or use a computer mouse, so there was no reason to refuse.

We came to the conclusion that the rules of this world seem to be ignored to some extent because they did not go through the proper reincarnation process.

It was explained that it was not a glass crystal ball, but an expensive magic stone, and that if an ordinary wizard touched it hastily, it would turn into an ordinary stone.

-Um…well…it’s not an insult! Are you saying you have nowhere else to go?

-Usually I find accommodation for porters, but… right?

Sky City provides permanent rentals of large studio apartments for adventurers and heroes, to the lowest class F, and apartments to class D heroes, but this did not apply to porters.

Food was the biggest expense, but a significant amount was also lost on the cheapest porter accommodation.

-Well…then this…this place is really lucky and awesome! Because Hyunwoo is smart! Joe…Wouldn’t it be nice if I could help you out?

-Mya… I also teach you mya method! Instead, come as an assistant sometimes! Uh…how do you feel?

When we moved all of our small belongings, strange people came to visit us.

He was a conman who came to deceive an elf girl who knew nothing, claiming to be the manager of a building permanently leased in Sky City to recruit just one teacher.

After contacting the magistrate who had already registered the speed dial for the truth adventurer case. I deliberately took my time.

I received such a proposal when criminals being sold to the retail exchange became invisible.

That’s how I became a disciple of the genius archmage.

****

As expected, learning magic failed.

On the contrary, even though he kept apologizing and saying that I was not good enough, I was able to feel that I was sufficiently considered.

The smart teacher even considered the possibility of no mana at all.

He brought me a rare grimoire that increases my maximum magical power by a fixed amount just by holding it.

It didn’t have any effect, but I felt it.

The occasional class I took went from learning simple bolt magic to more basic magic stone processing.

Since I knew it wouldn’t work, it was just a time to chat while helping with the magic stone.

Rather, it was more about letting me live in a building given to me by my teacher on the condition that I stay in Sky City than the magic.

When I reported the Megacorp Hero Association, they said they would prove my identity and helped me.

-If you can be the assistant to a master who is so great that he is called a wise man in the kingdom…

-Wouldn’t Sky City try to recruit you under the same conditions?

-Huh?!

-Instead of going and buying it in person, from now on, order it using a delivery drone.

-Would you please take a look at that dog?

Although he has many shortcomings, he is a teacher for whom I am grateful in many ways.

At the teacher’s house, for the first time in a while, I placed a radish knife on a red rubber basin and put on rubber gloves.

Instead of radishes, I grabbed a magic stone and sliced it with a knife. There was no need to concentrate or use magic power to cut.

Thanks to its unique constitution, the magic stone, which should have turned into crumbly dust upon impact, was cut like a radish. It was said that it is best to use it when the cut cross section is exposed as much as possible.

I also remember my teacher wanting to ask for something the day after I became his student, but he was still hesitant about whether it would be okay.

“It looks like the matter has been resolved well!”

“So the busy work is all over?”

“Uh…wait a minute.”

I checked my smartphone. To be precise, a program connected to the Megacorp Hero Association’s server was executed.

[Well… and… how can I say… that I learned the joy of being used as an object?]

[Right… Isn’t that right? Because things are convenient… Association… Sigh… As long as I can meet the Master’s demands, that’s enough.]

[I decided that as long as there was a master who used me with care, that would be enough.]

I checked Supreme Fox’s real-time updated log details. The person I was talking to was a hero from Team Fox’s Tail.

As Supreme Fox, he had a permitted life schedule, but he also had to carry out orders given as a member of the Association, so A001 was scheduled to return late in the evening.

“Ugh…right?”

I decided to have lunch delivered.