Oneshot (1/2)

Other World Travel Diary by a Relatively Peaceful High School Student

I have memories of my previous life.

That being said, I wasn't an important person like a hero or royalty.

I was a normal kid born from a pharmacist and a hunter.

Even though I lived there, I didn't remember the name of the house in the village on the countryside or the village's name itself.

If it's just the name, there were only the exchanges between a villager and the old peddler. Besides that, no one ever mentioned the name of the village.

Unlike this world, magic and alchemy were widespread in my previous life.

My mother was a pharmacist specializing in alchemy and my father was a hunter who hunted monsters using the wind magic he was skillful with.

When I was a child, my mother and father taught me alchemy and magic, but I only used a portion of it.

Also, the effectiveness of alchemy and magic in this world-

「Alright! It extended by 5mm compared to last time!」

I looked down and when I saw that the copper wire had turned gold 3cm from the tip, I struck a guts pose1 and grinned.

「Mama, (big) brother let out a creepy weird loud voice again」

「We can't help it. That's how boys behave during p.u.b.erty. Absolutely don't open the door without knocking, okay?」

Hearing the conversation between my middle school-aged younger sister and my mother, even though I sustained critical damage, I couldn’t help but grin while looking at the copper wire's tip.

Even though I haven't verified it, according to my previous life's knowledge this is to referred to as Au on the Periodic Table of Elements, aka pure gold.

Because the amount of mana needed to trans.m.u.te properly in this world was too thin, after several months of painstakingly collecting it ----I created almost one gram of gold.

Good thing I persisted since that time I got into it, as I happily noted that the amount of gold gradually increased little by little each time.

Even though I knew that having a part time job will give me more money, having an ability that no one else has is more appealing to me.

「Rai! If you don't hurry up, you'll be late!!」

-----Oops, that was close.

As I stored the copper wire inside the drawer, I pulled the smartphone from the charger, picked up the bag I had tossed at my feet, and leapt out of the room.

「I'll be there!」

Now, let's enjoy the peaceful yet boring high school life today!

Tendou Rai, 17 years old. He was a second-year student in a public high school in a local town away from the city.

He was far from having a harem to match his light-novel-protagonist like name. The only conversation he had at most was as a cla.s.smate and far from having any girlfriend. Though minor club activities in the occult research club included a cute sempai and big chested kohai, neither of them was a weirdo and flags never appeared at all.

Though he was trying to keep calm by thinking about his novel-like self-introduction, it seems it was impossible to do that any longer.

「No matter how you look at it, this is a forest……」

While I was exploring the bas.e.m.e.nt of the old school, I tripped on my own foot. Then, went rolling on the slope, and exited out of the stone building straight into the nearby lights. That's how I got to be in the forest.

「If it's senpai, she's going to say ”HERE WE COME OTHER WORLD!” with excitement 」

Even though normally she's a quiet and beautiful person, she will completely changed if it's about web novel.

――Pin

「Mail ringtone?」

I pulled out my smartphone from my chest pocket and confirmed it.

「There's a signal.」

Even though there was only one bar, it's properly connected.

The mail came from my kohai and the content seems like they'll worry if I don't go back.

I replied by telling them the truth as for how I reached here. But the replies were a cold ”Chuunibyou, Otsu” mail from my kohai and a ”I'll listen to your adventure later. A good souvenir should either be a dragon's fang or a gold chunk the size of a human head” message from senpai. And then the messages stopped.

They're good club activity companions.

I looked up to the sky and there was a sun just above it.

I checked the smartphone for the current time. It was 4pm. Even if you see the mail header, the incoming time was not off by a few minutes.

「It really looks like an another world.」

If I'm an overly paranoid person, I will say the sun is just painted on the ceiling. But I can tell that I'm not on the Earth I know.

There is a reason.――

「ALRIGHT! Pure gold made from 500 yen coin completed!! It's about 30,000 yen with one piece ―― as I thought, having an abundant mana is different.」

―― It's probably another world since this world has a lot of mana.

「Sacrificing one-yen coin and screw, it's on to trans.m.u.tation for sapphire!」

Though the components of sapphire or corundum are aluminum element and oxygen, it wouldn't be sapphire with just those.

With iron element taken out from the screw, a blue color came out.

Since the shape of a one-yen coin is no good, I transformed it to drop type during trans.m.u.tation.

「Alright. Though the diamond failed, this one went well.」

「Let's make trial and error later on, making diamonds from a piece of wood.」

――Pin

「Oh no, I have part-time after this.」

I forgot that today's part-time s.h.i.+ft is from evening to midnight.

When I replied that I wanted to take a day off due to poor physical condition, they wanted me to contact them in advance. They were worried about attention and poor physical condition as the contents they replied. The heart of the beautiful store manager is wonderful.

Though I felt quite guilty towards myself for skipping, it seemed like I'll be restless and probably fail at my part-time job even if I hurried, so I decided to skip the part-time job.2

「――ahhh!」

I heard a faint human-like voice.

Even though I strained my ears once again, I could only hear the leaves of the forest and the tweet of the birds. 3

「Ehhhh, I think it's better to use wind magic in this case……」

When remembering the knowledge of my previous life, I muttered a spell from my previous life.

『〈Oh wind, gather under the guidance of mana. Oh spirit that sleep with the wind, gather here around the person who came from far away. (Choukaze Shuuon) Wind Invitation Sound Collection 〉』

Though the spell reeks of chunibyo, I was certain that was what I remembered.

I haven't used this since it'll worry my parents as I got this mind in this life. I still remembered the words from my previous life.

「Kyaaaa~ the silver scale wolf is coming!」

「Marienne4, don't make a noise. It will expose our location.」

It was a female voice. Though the first person seemed to be panicking, the second person sounded quite fierce.

「Alsena5-sama, there's also a gold one behind.」

The third person was a male. But my interest was piqued due to the mention of gold and I went straight after it.

There was a 'Silver Scale Wolf' in my previous life. It was a normal prey, for father and I also hunted it. There was a large-sized one called 'Gold Scale Armored Wolf' in the upper species or within its variants.

It was so tasty that my cheeks fell.

―― I have to hunt it.

I picked up a big stone under my feet and then ran towards the direction of the voice.

It seemed pretty far, so I casted body strengthening and sped up. I remembered father used body strengthening to chase in the mountains.

It was a technique to amplify the physical ability by circulating mana in the body. As father said, it was a basic for any hunter.

「Trans.m.u.te, trans.m.u.te.」

Unlike silver scale wolf, gold scale armored wolf produce barrier with mana. I used alchemy to change the stone to penetrate it. It instantly changed to a throwing weapon: ”Toukiba”. The shape looked like a kunai.

Though I couldn't train fast like this in my previous life, I could do it with this abundance of mana.

Since I saw an interesting tree fruit as I moved, I picked one as I pa.s.sed by.

「Found it!」

Under the cliff, in the forest 60m straight distance, I saw a man and a woman wearing armor.

It looked like there were seven or eight heads surrounding the three of them, while a gold scale armored wolf stood behind them.

It seemed that they had a habit to tire out their prey before they made an attack

I often saw it used with deer and wild boar.

「Ah, oh no.」

The big-breasted woman tripped down due to the root of the tree and fell. The man who was running to the front ended up being caught in it, and was also thrown into the back of the bush.

With such a perfect chance at hand, the silver scale wolves jumped toward them, one after the other.

Although just wearing armor that only protected their vital point, it could block the attack of the silver scale wolf without using any magic.

「Marienne, Raz6!」

Before the leading woman looked back, the golden scale armored wolf showed up.

Even so ―― she was beautiful.

Normally, you couldn't see the facial expression of someone at a distance. But thanks to the body strengthening magic, you could even see the eye color and eyelashes.

The beautiful lady called Alsena pulled out her silver sword.

―― Hmm?

The beautiful lady attacked the silver scale wolf by swinging down the sword, but the sword broke with a slight *kakin* sound.

If you slash without circulating mana into the sword, of course the sword will break.

Even if it was an emergency, that was too much.

Their appearance were those of professional. Are they mercenaries or soldiers??

「Guaaaaa!」

I could hear an intense scream from the inside the bush. An impatient expression showed up on the face of the beautiful lady.

「Iyaaaaaa!」

The big-breasted person screamed.

Could it be that they really are in trouble?

I crushed the sleep inducing watermelon that I picked up while moving and used it as a magic catalyst.

『〈Oh wind, gather under the guidance of mana. Oh sleeping spirits in the drop of watermelon. Let the people and beast gently sleep with the wind. (s.h.i.+rube Nemuri Sofu!) Sleep Inducing Blast! 〉』

The wind carried the mist around, spreading the sweet scent of the watermelon to the vicinity of the beautiful lady.

「As I thought, the gold wolf didn't sleep.」

In front of me, everyone crouched down and fell asleep with the exception of the gold wolf and the beautiful lady.

「Wha-what's happening?!」

Surprisingly, the beautiful lady stayed awake

「I came to the rescue, too.」

I threw the toukiba imbued with mana toward the gold scale armored wolf whose movement was dulled

I won't miss at this distance!

「Hit!」

The toukiba that was stabbed between the eyes of gold scale armored wolf penetrated the skull, and went straight through the rock behind it

「―― Huh?」