Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Magic, a Runaway and Trouble

“Mom and I have always been running from the spirit hunter, the fire demon Genuoduolasu. Dad died trying to protect us. We were powerless and could only run away to the human world. My mom died protecting me and bought me some time to run away. I stopped to catch my breath at a brook and that was when you came over to say h.e.l.lo. You then saw the demon, grabbed my hand and desperately fled to that big old place. Then you got hit by his h.e.l.lfire.” As she finished talking, her tears streamed down her face. I guess she was remembering the terrors in her past.

“Oh right, what is your name?” I tried to change the topic to lessen her terror. Then again, I really didn’t know what her name was.

“Silent Water.”

“Silent Water? That name sounds really pretty, it suits you.” She blushed again. I felt like she was way too shy.

“Ahh~~ anyways. You can live in my home… No no no, I do not have any hidden intentions. I am just worried about you because it is dangerous outside. You also do not know anyone so you should stay here for now.” It really was dangerous here. Even if there was no demon threat. The spirit slave sellers would go crazy when they catch sight of her.

Silent Water hesitated. Then she said: “Then, I’ll be in your care.”

“Alright. You should go take a bath now.” I look at the torn and tattered clothing on her body.

“I don’t know what to eat tonight… I should go and buy her some clothes first.” I mutter.

“Take a bath?” Silent Water’s voice pitched higher as she quickly shook her head.

“Yeah, take a bath.” What’s wrong?

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“Why are you acting so weird?” I don’t understand why Silent Water stiffened and clasped her hands together.

“Uh… if you don’t mind, you can change into my clothes.” I hand her a sweats.h.i.+rt.

“This… is my first time… that I have taken a shower with a guy, so… if I do anything wrong, please forgive me.”

“Eh . ! ? What.. did you say?” I listen to her every word 20% more carefully than I normally do.

“I said… this is my first time… taking a bath with a guy…” Silent Water slowly whispered every word out.

“No no no, why? Why would you be taking a bath with me?” My voice trembled as I picture what she said in my head. Her snow-white body appeared in my imagination and I felt kind of dizzy. What a strong impact….

“But, that was not what you meant?”

“No, no, I did not mean that. Girls and boys cannot bathe together.”

“Ah, cannot bathe together.” Silent Water sighed in relief. Did she think I was a bad guy? Although I cannot be considered a good guy either.

“Your face is kind of red, do you have a fever?” Silent Water’s expression had changed. Did I really see a flash of disappointment across her face when I told her that we cannot bathe together?

“My face?” I rub my face. It was really hot, dang it, am I really that low? I only imagined it for a while… ah, I feel kind of giddy.

“Okay, here is the switch, this is the towel, this is.. I should go.” By now, I felt really guilty in front of this beautiful. I am such a b.a.s.t.a.r.d, to insult her in this way. I quickly ran out of the bathroom and took my wallet and phone with me as I went out. I walked to the entrance towards my bicycle.

“Eh? Where’s my bike?” I could not find my bike that I usually left near the entrance. Did it get stolen?

I stared blankly at the entrance for a while until I realized what was going on. I mutter: “Oh right, this is a different world. I don’t own a bike in this world… Usually I stay at home and never go out. I only go out to buy groceries and help Takahas.h.i.+ at work anyway.

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“d.a.m.n.” I kicked the little pebbles on the ground. “I don’t own a bike and the road is really long, how unlucky.”

In my original world, aside from walking to school, I always traveled by bike. Not having a bike here is really inconvenient.

However, the me without a bike discovered a lot of new things as more and more people appeared on the road before me.

Although the road didn’t change much, the buildings practically multiplied. There were spirit selling stores, magic book stores, magic item stores, and weapon stores. There are also people who were wearing long mage robes. If this was in my original world, if it wasn’t at the cosplay section of Akihabara (j.a.panese Electronic Street), they would get stared at as if they were exotic animals or aliens.

I stopped in front of the women’s clothing store. Today is Sunday so there are tons of people here. Or should I say tons of girls in here. I saw Kamiki Kuji, my cla.s.s monitor. I know she saw me but she did not bother to greet or look at me. Whatever. She was a spiteful girl so I did not want to have anything to do with her anyway.

The shop was full of young women. I was the only boy in here so I was somewhat embarra.s.sed. Why aren’t there other guys here buying things with their girlfriend? I randomly picked some girl clothes and left… to go to the male restricted section… of the underwear area…

I immediately bought a few pieces, checked it out, and rushed out of the store. I saw amus.e.m.e.nt in Kamiki Kuji’s eyes and I know that by tomorrow, everyone would know that I bought women lingerie.

I sighed: “ I would never have thought that in my new life I would be labelled as a pervert who buys lingerie.”

I suddenly felt very tired. I dragged my tired body into the supermarket and bought some food and water. I also bought household items that Silent Water would need; such as toothbrush, towels, etc.

When the bill arrived, I incidentally saw underwear on a counter. I suddenly felt that I would be better off dead. If I knew that they sold underwear here, I would not have went into that store full of women and bought underwear. I swear the girls there had an abnormal look in their eye as they looked at me with an “Is this guy really buying underwear?” sort of expression.

Exhausted, I went home.

In just one day, I had my first experience with death, my first fight with a demon and won. I also bought women’s underwear for the first time, even if it was under the strange gazes of the young women there…

Ah… I don’t want to live anymore… eh? Weird. Since when was I so concerned about the opinion of others? Before the change, I would not have even cared… no… the previous me would never have had to buy that sort of underwear. The reason why I would care about what others think was probably because that was what the me of this world thought. He probably wanted other people to think highly of him and cared about what they thought of him.

As I pondered over this useless problem, I had already arrived home. At this time, the sun had already touched the mountain top.

By the way, what day is it today? I remember that before I died, the sun was already setting. Why had the sun only start to set here?

I took out my cellphone and looked at the calendar. —- June 3rd, yesterday? How weird, I went to school today and clearly remember that it was Monday.

Did the s.p.a.ce travel generate this time difference and let me go to another world’s yesterday?

Oh~~ well, I do not care about Einstein’s theory of relativity since I don’t really understand it. I don’t even want to understand it anyway. As I stand in front of my entrance, I wondered about this unimportant reasoning. I have already traveled through to this world, who cares if I do not know what time it is? Maybe this world’s nerdy me caused this problem.

If I think about it, the two mes of different worlds are completely different. I don’t like studying but I know how to do housework in that world but it is the complete opposite in this world.

Deep in thought, I opened the door. I saw Silent Water on the sofa in my sweater.

After her bath, Silent Water looked like a water lily, beautiful. She was the only girl I have ever laid eyes upon, aside from Satsuki.

Although I knew she was a beautiful girl, but it still surprised me. She had rosy skin and there was a mysterious feeling when I look at her blue black hair. It was a fascinating feeling. In the sweats.h.i.+rt, she looked more energetic than before.

As soon as she saw me come home, she went over to the entrance and said: “Welcome back.”

Silent Water was so polite, and I have never been welcomed back before!

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I gave all the bags to Silent Water and turned on the TV. After a while, I was relieved of my “I want to die” feeling and suddenly remembered that I wanted to learn magic.

Magic is the conversion of spiritual power. Unless someone is very skilled, magicians usually use magical items to cast spells. Magic items can convert spiritual power with the minimum amount of energy lossage but if it was a really good magical item, the magic spell could become more powerful.

I remember that I had a special magic wand given to students by the school in my bedroom drawer. I ran to the second floor and opened my room. My room was basically a small library. The room of about 60 square meters had 6 or 7 shelves filled to the brim with books.

I opened my desk drawer and it took me a while to find the school’s magic wand. In this world, ‘my’ spiritual power was too low and ‘I’ could not cast any kind of offensive magic. So ‘I’ bought an expensive wand that could conjure up a small tornado. That was how I pa.s.sed my high school entrance exam.

The black stick in my hand looked like a chopstick. It was even the same size. I weigh it in my hand: “Why is thing so light? Don’t tell me it was just an ordinary stick.”

No matter what, other people have used this stick to cast magic. I should also be able to use it too then.

Since I have defeated that Superior demon, I had a newfound confidence in my heart.

I look at the table and opened a black magic book. I could not help but laugh: “Ah, the nerdy me, since you can’t do it, I will help you complete your journey.”

I found an easy transportation spell, a small wind spell and waved the stick in my hand. As I recited the magic spell…

Nothing happened.

This must be a mistake. I tried again and…

A “pfft” sound was heard and the magic wand started to emit smoke.

“f.u.c.k.” I threw the magic wand onto the floor. “Am I getting trolled?? I have already beaten a Superior demon!”

I stepped on it a couple of times. Then I angrily sat in the chair.

G.o.ddammit, isn’t it just a little magic spell? I close my eyes as my heart struggled.

“Imagine the magic that you want to cast in your head and make it become real.” I try to not think about the little reminder written in the magic book’s appendix and tried to imagine a tornado circling around me, with me at it’s center.

It had not even been a second into my fantasy when I heard “peng peng peng, bang bang bang” sounds coming from all around me. The sound of things cras.h.i.+ng against one another.

I open my eyes and find that the book shelves, desk, bed, wardrobe, clothes, and other things were continuously colliding in front of me, no, in a circle around me! Is there wind wall?

Did this mean that I succeed?