episode_0073
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“Ugh… .”
After a few close fights, I was the one who fell on the floor.
I didn’t use large-scale magic or skills because the building might collapse, but even without that, Wu’s combat power overwhelmed me.
My level was higher, but the number was so small that it wasn’t enough to close the gap in experience between her and me.
As I stood up, wiping the sweat from my eyes with my sleeve, I saw Wu’s face bent over and out of breath.
Even though I didn’t win, I felt a little pride in the fact that I did well enough to make her feel like it was too much for her.
“… It’s been a long time since I had a battle like a battle. Next time, I want to fight outside, not inside.”
“Did you get caught?”
I was planning to do my best not to be found out, but it seems I couldn’t fool her eyes.
“You used small-scale elemental magic other than transformation magic or fire magic. Isn’t it because you’re worried about this building burning down?”
“Yes. If the building burns down while everyone is sleeping, there is no such thing as a nuisance.”
“It’s common sense in a strange way. No, calling this common sense is just weird. Anyway, I enjoyed your skills.”
I smiled bitterly when she said that we should fight outside next time.
Just as I used less magic for fear of affecting the building, she also avoided using large-scale techniques.
A technician would have been able to blow up a long wind or two like in a famous animation.
In other words, he won against me, a wizard, even though he blocked all of my ranged skills and only used melee skills.
As expected, it seems that there is still a long way to go to overpower Wu, who has lived his entire life on the battlefield, in a simple battle.
“Anyway, you said the royal capital was burned down. That must have been a delightful sight. I wish I had seen it in person… .”
Wu clicked his tongue and rolled his eyes, as if his hatred toward the first warrior had not cooled down yet.
“Would you like to go see the pile of burnt debris?”
“Seeing things like that doesn’t give me any inspiration. However, the story is different if you guide it yourself.”
“In short, you want to date, right?”
“Date? What is that?”
She tilted her head as if asking what it was, probably because there wasn’t a dating custom where Wu lived.
After briefly signing the meaning, she blushed slightly and continued speaking.
“… It’s a date, so it’s not that bad.”
“If people in the world found out that you had a date looking at the wreckage, they would point fingers.”
“If you want to do it, do it. I will tear it all to pieces.”
“Is that true too? But wow, this date has a rule that at the end you have to go into an inn that looks like a castle and smell each other’s body odor――.”
I couldn’t finish my sentence and was cut off by a sharp wind that suddenly blew.
Wu’s kick was as sharp as a blade, and it seemed like it could sever a person’s head, not just a horse, if he tried to do it.
“My ears have been going dark lately, so I guess I heard something wrong. What did you say?”
“I want to smell it!! Let me take charge of it!!”
“… Huh.”
Wu let out a small sigh, as if he hadn’t expected it to come out so shamelessly.
It’s something that can’t be helped.
You can bend your will with violence, but you cannot bend your beliefs.
When I moved forward, determined to receive Woo’s fierce kick, she spread her arms out as if she had given up and told me to come back.
“… It wouldn’t be cool to keep getting rid of it. Come.”
“Really?”
“If you don’t want to see me turn away in shame, come quickly.”
My clenched fist is shaking.
It didn’t seem like there would be much time left before it swung towards me.
Before my fist was even swung, I rushed towards Woo as if to tackle him, and ran into his warm arms.
He was trembling with shame, perhaps because he was so ashamed of the fact that someone else was crying and smelling his body odor, but he soon calmed down and accepted me.
Hardness and softness.
I was gently embraced by arms that had two conflicting textures at the same time.
As I closed my eyes and buried my face in her arms, like a child playing with his mother, I was filled with her strong body scent.
The reason I came to this shitty world was to live my life looking straight ahead as if I was being chased by someone.
There was no one I could trust, and I was busy living alone right now, so when I came to my senses, there was only an emotionless familiar who was like a doll by my side.
Was that why?
It was like that before I was possessed, but after that, I started to like other people’s body odor.
When I smell someone else’s body odor, I feel very reassured because I feel like there is someone else next to me.
In the last episode, I didn’t have a chance to entrust myself to someone else and savor this happiness.
I was so happy that I had found someone I could trust, even if it was too late, that I was in her arms and was bewildered.
“… Ooh, I’m going to sleep in today.”
“… It’s too late to go back. Make sure you sleep in her bed today.”
“Can I continue like this?”
“Even if I tell him to fall, he won’t fall.”
“Yes, this is my house now, so I have to bring an eviction application to have it removed.”
“I wonder what on earth you are talking about… .”
We moved to the bedroom, clinging to Woo’s body like cicadas, and laid down on the bed.
Lying down on sweaty bed sheets was not a good feeling to say the least, but being wrapped in her arms made me feel more comfortable than ever.
*****
Early moning.
When I woke up at an odd hour with the sun lazily over the horizon, Wu, who had been sitting next to me all last night, had already woken up a long time ago.
He said that he is not a heavy sleeper and only sleeps about five hours a day.
She said that all the remaining time was invested in training, so it was natural that the difference between me and her was obvious.
“I was thinking about this while smelling Woo’s body odor yesterday. Maybe the culprit who caused this incident is someone related to Hanji?”
“Why do you think that?”
“It’s not fun to read if a new character that wasn’t mentioned suddenly appears.”
To compare it to a mystery novel, it would be like a character who had no significant role up until now is suddenly framed as a criminal at the end of the story.
Regardless of probability, an ending where the excitement dies down is one of the endings that readers most avoid.
It suddenly occurred to me that if what was happening now was a scenario, the culprit would be one of the people who had appeared or been hinted at so far.
“Is that what you thought when you were in her arms?”
“When I am in a safe place, I think more. I think there will come a time in the future when I will often borrow Woo’s embrace.”
“… If I say no, I’ll go to that half-assed girl. do whatever you want. So, who on earth is this person related to him?”
“What I most suspect is a wizard? If you’re a wizard in a hero’s party, you can probably use dungeon-building magic.”
“Nothing strange. However, if you were an ordinary human being, no matter how high your level was, you would not be able to survive until this point.”
“Because there are many jobs that change races. After all, transferring one’s soul to an object… .”
“… Why do you do that?”
“No, I remember seeing something similar recently. Didn’t I tell you about the magic sword before?”
It is unclear whether someone’s soul was given to the magic sword, but judging from the name being hidden, it does not seem to be an ordinary item.
Surely there were four parts that were covered?
“You said there was a wizard in the warrior party over there. Do you know what her name is?”
“I don’t know. A person who has forgotten his own name is unlikely to remember the name of a good person.”
“Oh, come to think of it, you lost your memory, right?”
I forgot about it because I didn’t show it until now.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s something trivial, don’t you remember anything?”
“Hmm… .I don’t remember the name, but I remember being called a witch. Considering that he treated his allies like that, he must have had a very bad personality.”
“Witch… .”
I can’t judge anything based on this alone.
“Is there anything particularly impressive about the warrior party members?”
“It’s not that those guys are lacking, it’s that Hanji is so great that they don’t stand out. Even though there was a level difference of more than 10 between him and me at the time, we were still fighting.”
Of course, Wu was superior due to the difference in level, but it did not change the fact that Hanji was able to compete with Wu somehow.
Wu laughed self-deprecatingly, saying, “I don’t know what would have happened if the levels were the same.”
“Felt You said you defeated Hanji, right? What kind of person was Hanji that you met?”
“Have I met Hanji? I don’t know what the Hanji that Wu saw was like, but the Hanji that I saw was like the devil from a fairy tale or legend. Just by walking, something like a poison spreads and all living things around die.”
“… Miasma?”
“I don’t know how to express it, but it was something different from fraud.”
Would it be better to say that death appears to be walking around in human form?
Just being around them was depleting their vitality like crazy, so all familiars below level 100 died before they could last long.
The spirit was no exception, so I, who was able to withstand it, took the attack from in front of me, and the spirit attacked it from a distance.
“Is that how you defeated him?”
“No, I chose that tactic at first, but I couldn’t endure it because the damage was continuous, even if it was only for a short time.”
Moreover, space charm was practically an instant kill, so I couldn’t even think of doing anything about it.
“So I sent the spirit to the sky in advance and made it fall from the stratosphere. So to speak, it was a meteorite made of spirits.”
Of course, Hanji sensed this and tried to avoid it, but after I persisted, he and I hit the spirit meteor squarely.
Of course, I somehow survived thanks to my resurrection skill, but he was not unharmed.
Even the Demon King, who brought death equally to all things, was merely a mortal before the meteorite that destroyed the dinosaurs.
“Anyway, I think the hero party is involved in this incident. So what you need to find first is… .”
Kasumi holding the magic sword.
The urgent priority is to find her, who was never found at the academy that day.
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