Chapter 5.05 (1/2)

Chapter 5. Welcome to the summoner’s school. (5)

“You seem to be very talented in summoning.”

I saw someone familiar as I ran from annoying individuals, so I said that as a greeting.

“Ah, right…”

Jackpot! Right, there’s no way I’d forget someone I was with for three straight years. See, unlike main characters, I don’t actually have face blindness.

The joy I felt when I saw the surprised little kid was simply indescribable.

-Are you a lolicon? Do you want to get arrested?

[No, it’s because her clothes are different.]

I suppose people were right when they say clothes are like wings. The girl looks like she’d grow up to be a fine lady in the future. The white dress she were just gave off a more positive vibe as compared to the cheap black costume from the Organization.

-Is it fine to be like this? You’d be screwed if you got caught.

[In a situation like this, you have to be as bold as possible.]

I started acting like a wise scholar with a wide grin on my face. Plastic surgery does not exist in this world. Of course, there are illusion magics that change what you might look like, but those get discovered quickly.

But since I have an extremely common face that’s pretty hard to recognize, it’s fine for me to not disguise myself too much.

If I grow out my beard a bit, add some white hairs, add a bit of wrinkles, and change my angry face into a kind one, then oh my, it’s Nicerwin Ein.

Since I didn’t use magic, there’s no proof that I’m fake. And with the help from the elves, I was able to create a perfect alibi, one of the most foolproof ident.i.ties I had ever made. There may be some that may get suspicious of Nicerwin Ein, but there’s no way anyone would connect him to Naruan.

In any case, the girl in front of me was someone who contracted Sutr! Even though the demon’s power is restricted, she should still be qualified as an S-rank.

What does that mean? It means that she’d be the perfect poster girl! If we just put her face on the front gates, we’ll have an influx of new students.

“Is she that good?”

The person who seems to be her father… mm… no, probably her relative, spoke to me in curiosity.

Is she talented? How the h.e.l.l would I know? I’m just trying to get her because she contracted a demon. But of course I didn’t say anything like that.

“Very talented indeed… She probably can contract with a very strong beast.”

“Ah, she already contracted with a different beast.”

“Mmm… she did it too early.”

Yeah, I know. Who the h.e.l.l do you think contracted her?

“…Yes… too early.”

“Early?”

“Yes. There’s no way I wouldn’t have noticed if she got a suitable beast for her. There’s two things that could’ve happened… she either formed a contract with a weak beast, or the beast she formed her contract with is too strong for her right now. It seems to be the latter, in my opinion.”

“H, how did you?!”

How did I know? Well, since the contract is kind of bulls.h.i.+t from the start, the demon’s just not able to utilize all of its powers. There’s two kinds of bulls.h.i.+t contracts when it comes to summoning, and one of them is when it’s initiated by a summoned beast. In this case, the beast takes away the summoner’s soul, and the beast becomes able to use all of its power. The other bulls.h.i.+t contract is initiated by the summoner. In this case, the summoner loses nearly nothing, but the beast is unable to use most of its powers. This is especially the case if the summoner is weak! Well, the kid is quite talented, so it should be fine, but there’s no way she’d be able to control Sutr properly yet.