Chapter 97 (1/2)
Chapter 97
Chapter 97: The Power of a Geomancer ( 2 )
Rando-san was drained after her first zo a short break
“Hey Momokawa?” said Rando-san, her face awfully serious
“What’s up?”
Maybe she wants to talk to soet used to blood and gore that quickly
“I think I just got a new spell”
“Huh, WHAA!?”
She got a new spell after that easy-mode tutorial with du arot out of it was Blackhair Bind
No, well, Blackhair Bind is pretty good and allIt’s my all-purpose curse at this point
“Nice, congrats, Kyoko” said Nonomiysan“So what’s it called?”
“It’s uh, Tera Sagitta”
“Huh” I said finding it curious“Isn’t that supposed to be the most basic one?”
Class Rep has Ice Sagitta and Souitta and those were part of their starters so this Tera version has to be in the same class
“So? You gonna try it or what?” said Nonomiysan
“Do I have to?” coic anyway”
“Come on∼ just do it, I’m curious now∼”
“Ah, fiiine” And so, Rando-san was pushed into trying out her now spellShe put her arms in front of her, not exactly hyped about itI was curious too, so I shut up and watched
“Tera Sagitta”
There was a vwoomp, then a thump, then after a few snaps and cracks, there was a loud crash
One of the thin trees in front of us suddenly had a hole in the middle of its trunkIts structure coht in front of uess as to how, but I almost didn’t want to believe it
“Wow, that was some crazy firepower, Kyoko!” cheered Nonomiysan
“Huh, wait, I did that?”
“Yes, you! That stone flew super fast!” Nonoht, has much better dynamic vision than me it seemsI couldn’t even see a blur
“Now you can finally fight with us too!”
“I can? Huh, I can… I actually feel a little scared now”
“You’ll be fine∼ Kill a few zoet used to it in no time!”
“Huh, uys out a little”
It’s a basic but effective attack spellOur party didn’t have a e who could actually attack after allI’er help than she thinks
“Momokawa,” Rando-san said to me, “thanks”
“Yeah, congrats on getting a good spell, Rando-san” I replied, having heard as probably her genuine gratitude… but it’s strange, isn’t this kind of, weird?
“Come to think of it,” started Nonoonna becouy, Momokawa?”
“I, guess so” Right, of course I am
I’et past your starters, I got big headed about itLike, finally, there’s someone weaker than meFinally, someone that even I, a weakass Shaman, can teach the ropes
I’d sort of gotten into a high, and I apologize
“Alrighty!” I said chipperly“Let’s go all out with trainingThose zo to them!”
“Uhh, Momokawa, don’t be too hard on yourself” said Rando-san in a worried face
“I’m perfectly fine!”
“Then what’s with those tears?”
“Sand in my eyes!!”
Don’t worry, Rando-sanI always knew you had potentialI’ht to the party anymore
“Come on, you two, onward!” I co time
“Geez, I get it I get it” Rando-san followed afterwith a spoiled child
“Pfft, real mature, Momokawa” While Nonomiysan held off an obvious chuckle behind us
NopeI’m not jealous at all!
“Hey∼ we’re back∼”
“Ah, you’re back, hoas it?”
“Kyoko totally killed it”
“You’re kidding!?”
The first round of the “Rando-san special level-up course” ended with results far surpassing expectations, and we’d returned to the fairy squareNonoht to Yoshi+zaki-san, her fellow Gla down the fort, and was excitedly reporting on our day
“Not joining them?” I said to Rando-san
“Yeah, nahI need sleep firstLots of it”
“Low on mana?”
“Not that, I’”
“Not that, I’”
“Ah, makes sense, it was your first time in live combat”
I’d been periodicallysure all day, but Rando-san never even started to run out of mana no matter how much earth and stone she conjured upSo, understandably, the reason she’s so tired has to do with the physical strain on her body fro around in addition to thefirst battle
“You look fine” She said to me
“Yeah, just a little tired fro”
“You were running around”
Including that first 50 meter zos like jiras suddenly popping out of pools or the nus
“Yeah, well, I’m used to it”
Though I did have a tendency to panic, I ithin a reat if the difficulty stayed at this levelIf possible, I’d like to avoid life and death battles entirelyI seriously don’t want another Higuchi battle
“Heh” Rando-san s”
“I think you’re a lot stronger at this point”
Not even flattering, I e multiplied instantly
After the proverbial level up using the trip wire and spikes trap, we had her keep firing shot after shot of Tera SagittaAnd as a result, siitta, Rando-san’s stone arrow also beca its jobActually, I think in terher than it’s ice based alternative
The ‘arrow’ created by this spell is siitta, a conic stone, while much shorter and more slender tooIt’s really better described as a rifle shell than an arrow
So anyway, these arrows fly at treet to have superhue and shell size is also un, unfortunatelyShe can shoot once every 5 secondsBut once she gets good at it, I’m sure that interval will become a lot shorter and her accuracy will also improve with ti
It’s sort of OP, if I’ honestRando-san just needs a few seconds to cock her gun, but otherwise she has practically unlimited bullets
Makes you wonder, why in the world did the God of geoitta into her starter skillset? She obviously needed the bullet spell earlier than Tera Kris Sagitta, what is essentially a spell for growing bamboo shootsIs this God actually duals are just not his type?
Anyway, that doesn’t really itta and can now, finally get on her two feet as a e
“Momokawa, come here a bit”
“Sure”
Tendo-kun was sitting at the fountain, as usual, conte whether he should have another saged in talking about the events of the dayAnd at a corner little away from there, Rando-san and I sat down to talk
“I wanted to say thanks” Rando-san began
“Didn’t you already?”
“For the ic lessons yeah, but this one’s… for Julie and Marie”
RightOf course she’d notice
“You talked to them about me, didn’t you?”
“You talked to them about me, didn’t you?”
“I didThey weren’t exactly hiding the fact that they were avoiding you”
I don’t know if they’d always been like this and I just didn’t notice, but having been in the sa was off
Rando-san, Nonoether in the classrooal fashi+onSouirls aside, they were the irls in our class
And since the tieon, the other two never once tried to strike up a conversation with Rando-san
“This ht sound harsh to you, Rando-san, but you were kind of like dead weight for the to do all the fighting, I mean”
I can syood
I wanted to at least have everyone other than Tendo-kun be on friendly terth, I can easily i in disaster at some point down the line
Our targets are the powerful boss monsters that await us at the end of every zoneAnd aside froht off swarhout the journey
It’s imperative that we can trust our backs to each other to overcome these arduous ordealsAnd that trust isn’t earned by shutting up and going with the flow, as I’ve painfully understood first hand
Which is why, I mustered up the few morsels of cootiate with the Glaroundwork
The relationshi+p between the three girls had suffered a woundBut leaving it to fester would only make it worse, up until it's too late
So I, being a neutral 3rd party, took the chance to ain as a favor, but yeah
“It’s not about thatWell, it’s also about that, but that’s not the point” She let out a h and said, “It’s cause they both like Tendo”
A bit hesitant, I asked, “Were you and hi out?”
“I just talked to hiet jealous of that too; most of them can’t even talk to him normally”
That makes senseUnlike So with anyone and everyoneIf he doesn’t care about you, you’re practically invisible
“So were Nonoirls?”
“No, they had boyfriendsJulie was dating a guy frouy”
Not surprising considering their looksIt’d be odd if they were single
“No, just that they were saying how it’d be crazy not to fall for Tendo-kun”
I don’t kno serious they were about their old boyfriends, but so long as those bfs aren’t part of our class, they’re now so of the far pastWe’re here now, in another world with ic and monsters, separated from Earth at a dimensional level
“Personally, I’ out with TendoMaybe all three of them can become an item too, who knowsPoint is, I’m not after Tendo”
“Then isn’t it fine to just tell the for them?”
“Yeah… but it goton him too”
But isn’t that fine? Sure, if Rando-san had tried hard and beat a bunch of ittafroured out all that and soed to beat monsters and survive with that shi+tty selection of startersNot to even mention, she’d be scared out of her ith practically no way to defend herself, in addition to the anxiety fro
“Yeah… but it goton him too”
But isn’t that fine? Sure, if Rando-san had tried hard and beat a bunch of ittafroured out all that and soed to beat monsters and survive with that shi+tty selection of startersNot to even mention, she’d be scared out of her ith practically no way to defend herself, in addition to the anxiety fro
“Me and Tendo did at least talk before; Julie and Marie, not at allSo I thought that Tendo would at least protect me tooBut just because he did, it didn’t s for him… but I couldn’t really leave his side either… Haha, I must sound like a real bitch”
Rando-san could’ve also fallen for Tendo-kun and the three of them would’ve had to settle it like normal love rivalsBut that wasn’t the situation and if she tried to distance herself fro her friends’ love, she risked endangering herself
She’d die if she left, so she maintained the status quo, which inevitably led to the silence between friends
“I don’t think it’s your fault Rando-sanBut I also think you three should’ve at least talked to each other about it”
It’s funny how easily they accepted my requestI’m sure they didn’t really want to hate Rando-san, but either side couldn’t bring it up
“Yeah, we messed up”