Vol 1 Chapter 2.3 (1/2)
Author:
Fujima Miya ふじま 美耶
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan
Editor, Proofreader:
So-Chintzy
Volume 1
Chapter 2 Monster Subjugation at Camiazure
Part 3
When I opened my eyes, what I saw was a dirty ceiling.
It seems that I lost consciousness during the treatment. The cause for it must be the mana exhaustion. The dizziness, as if the whole world is spinning around, and the dazzling white world that I saw in my last moments were scary. I need to be more careful from now on.
I slowly got up and stretched my body. Uhm… There is nothing wrong with my body. For now, my stomach is very hungry. I even have confidence that I can eat an extra large serving from the school cafeteria.
What should I do if the mana doesn’t recover? I need to properly check my status, right?
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— Reene Kanzack —
HP ：413／586
MP ：764／764
Race ：Human
Age ：22
Job ：Magician
Attribute ：【Light】【Fire】【Water】【Earth】【Wind】【Void】
Skill ： Search・Hide・Mapping
t.i.tle ：『Black Healer』『Another World Traveler』
Current Status ：□□□
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Thank goodness. It has been fully recovered. Sleeping at the inn will recover everything. Thank you my Game’s Brain.
Hm? Hasn’t my max MP slightly increased? It must be because I have been using my magic nonstop during these past three days, right? There is also the possibility of my max MP increasing due to level up.
Though, it might be because I kept using it up to exhaustion. If this is true, then I don’t like it. Since I don’t want to see that white world anymore. If this is true, then I will put an end to it right now.
But you know, this might be surprising for me to say. However, it has been three days already since I first came to this world. Today is the fourth day. I think that I will stay in this world for a lot longer. How can I be so dense? I will need to say farewell to the slow life[1] for awhile.
I got down from the bed and exited the room. The villager-san then brought out my meal. It is a simple meal, but I am really thankful for a warm meal. Thank goodness that this is a world with delicious foods.
After eating the meal, I was thinking about going to outside a bit to see how things were going on, when Cyan-san visited.
「Good morning, Cyan-san.」(Reene)
「Good morning, Reene. Does your body feel fine now?」(Cyan)
「I’m already alright. Thank you for being worried about me.」(Reene)
「Reene. Do you know why you lost consciousness? 」(Cyan)
「Umm… It must be because I used too much mana, right?」(Reene)
「That’s right. If someone uses too much mana, then they will faint like what had happened to Reene yesterday. Mana exhaustion is an extremely dangerous situation, Reene.」(Cyan)
「Umm. I had expected that I might collapse if I used magic like that. But even so, I couldn’t just leave that many injured people untreated.」(Reene)
「Reene, please listen properly. When the mana had almost been exhausted to its limits, your body felt unsteady, right? If you keep using it like that, then you will faint just like yesterday. Then, the any extra mana used above the limit will be compensated by burning the magician’s own life force, so using magic after reaching your limits could cause you to dry up completely and die.」(Cyan)
Drying up completely? Uee… What’s that? How scary.
「Please know your own limits, Reene. If Reene had died from exhaustion back then, do you know how much regret we would have, having taken an oath to always guard you and to accompany you to the nearest village? How much we were worried about you? What it means for a Knight to break his oath? You must have known this better, right?」(Cyan)
Whoaa, Cyan-san is awfully angry.
His speech is calm and isn’t that intense in tone and words. Even so, how can it be this impactful?
That’s right. The 『Arms』 inside that black mist. The moment they disappeared inside that mist, they became dried up. Perhaps, mana exhaustion might be like that? But if they exhausted mana like that, then does that mean that the magicians who performed the summoning are no longer alive?
I don’t want to die like a mummy.
Anyway, Cyan-san’s scolding is just like a school teacher. No… It’s rather, like a mother. Yes. From now on, I will call Cyan-san MotherOkaa-san. Since if I called him like that directly to him, he might look at me coldly, I will just stealthily call him that inside my heart. When I was thinking this, Cyan-san sent a really cold look to me.
Gulp. Is he, an esper?
「I am sorry for causing you to worry. Since the situation yesterday was so horrible, I couldn’t restrain myself.」(Reene)
「We are always putting our lives in danger. So we are often in such horrible situations like the one we had yesterday. Meanwhile, a Healer is a precious existence. Since they are few in numbers, naturally each one of them will also carry a great burden of responsibility. Do you intend to collapse in the middle of treatment?」
That’s right. Since I can see the MP, I could a.s.sess and calculate my mana usage to just barely above the limits and avoid mana exhaustion, but when I thought about it again right now, it is really a dangerous situation. After all, I didn’t know that I could die if all my mana was used up, you see.
……That’s right. Everyone ought to act according to their respective role.
But even though I am supposed to be a Healer in this place, I crossed the limits and fainted, and in the end, caused trouble for other people.
Since it’s my occupation, I must know my limits and precisely stop before reaching it. Even if I didn’t do any healing that time, it will be alright if I heal them after sleeping for one day and recovering my entire mana.
Furthermore, Cyan-san and Van-san had said 「We swore to protect you with our lives.」 Even so, if I ended up dying, then it will make them break their promise.
Uwaaa, I am the worst. Even though I had been thinking that the me who was working hard was cool.
Anyway, from now on, I will properly pay attention at the remaining MP quant.i.ty. If I use the MP to the limit, then I might die if monsters attack me after all.
I will retain about 100 MP as much as possible at all times, and even if there are a lot of injured people like yesterday, I will absolutely stop when I become light headed.
「Un. I reflected on my reckless behavior. I had spread myself too thin.[2] I need to perform my duties properly on the things that I can possibly do. I won’t do any reckless actions like this again. Cyan-san, I am sincerely sorry for making you worry.」(Reene)
「It’s fine if you have understood. Reene, you are a Healer. A precious Healer is always being sought anywhere. However, you must by no means exceed your limits when giving help. This must seem unfair to you, but please listen properly to this. Imagine, there is a lot of injured people. The Healer is just Reene alone. There are also no ethers or anything to recover your mana. Your own mana isn’t sufficient to save everyone and many injured people remain. The people that you don’t heal will die. This situation might be what could have happened back then. You will have to let someone die to save someone else. The families of the deceased might bear a grudge against you. The guilt of letting someone die might be unbearable to you. Even so, Reene, you must not kill yourself. If you die, then the numbers of precious Healers will decrease by one and this might cause people, who could be saved by you in the future, to die.」
So that someone could live, I need to let someone else die. Cyan-san’s words are painful.
Eh? Isn’t this a Fantasy Kingdom? Shouldn’t Another World be more enjoyable? Shouldn’t it be using cheats to work, creating a reverse H[3], earning income with modern’s knowledge, and having a fun life?
This is wrong. This is, after all, reality.
There are people living in this world normally. Since I am in this world, this is the reality.
Then, this is also a place where death is always around the corner than the peaceful j.a.pan.
If for example, there are two people being poisoned, and my mana is only enough to detoxify a single person.
I will have to save one person, and let the other die.
If it is between an unknown person and Cyan-san, then I will help Cyan-san without any hesitation. After all, I am an egotistical person. I want to help people that I know rather than unknown people. I want to help people that I care about rather than a person that I barely know.
Then, what if it is between Cyan-san and Van-san? Which one will I save, which one will I let die? This is impossible. Impossible, really impossible. I can’t choose either one.
Th-then, what if it is between Cyan-san and a really important person like the Prince? Everyone will be obliged to save the Prince? Can I let Cyan-san die? No, I don’t want this either.
I couldn’t do this. But even in such a situation, I must not use magic by exchanging my own life force.
I need to prepare a sufficient amount of Ethers. I need to put a lot of them into my Item Box. Then I won’t need to fear that kind of situation.
『Black Healer』. This t.i.tle is more, really more, heavier than I thought it was.
Oh G.o.d, can I ask for this t.i.tle to be changed?
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When I went outside, Van-san was already standing there.
I thought that I needed to apologize properly to Van-san and bowed my head down while saying 「I am sorry for making you worry.」, then I got my head poked.[4] Huuuurts…. It was so strong that it was as if my neck was bending backward. Knights are too strong, mou.[5] I glared with teary eyes at him while rubbing my forehead with both of my hands and then Van-san made a crumpled smile while patting my head with his hand.
d.a.m.n, isn’t this cool? Doesn’t this head patting make my mood rise? This is right on the spot for a dejected heart. This is just like 「The number one action that you want to receive from an Older Brother Character」, a 100 points perfect full mark action that is.
「Hey, have you already heard Cyan’s sermon? …… Well, just like he said. No matter what happens, you mustn’t throw your life away. Don’t make others worry too much.」(Van)
Inside my heart, Van-san is gradually becoming more and more like an Onii-chan[6], while Cyan-san is MotherOkaa-san.
「I will lead you to the headquarters. High Highness had called for you.」(Van)
His Highness? His Highness is the honorary t.i.tle for a member of the Royalty, right? So, someone that important also partic.i.p.ated in this subjugation.
「Yeah, he is the one we offer our swords to. You had already met with him yesterday, right? Fantasma Kingdom’s Second Prince, His Highness Leon.」(Van)
Whoa, could it be that sparkling blondie guy? That Prince-like person? So he is a real Prince.
This is bad. I had displayed too much power in front of a really influential person like the Prince. It is the standard in another world genre that the protagonist 「Doesn’t get close with the Royals」, if they do this then the protagonist will end up being used.
「Does the Prince partic.i.p.ate in the subjugation? Even though it’s dangerous?」(Reene)
「If there is a war, then even His Majesty and His Highness the Crown Prince will come out. His Highness Leon is always in the frontlines together with us. Since the relations.h.i.+p with the neighboring Güselbahn is bad, the skirmishes near the nation’s borders never stop. Since three years ago, His Highness has been leading the Blue Knight Order and has stayed in Coltea to exercise his authority on the border, you see.」(Van)
So there are wars. I don’t like this…… That’s right, Van-san and the others are Knights, so in a war, they will kill people from the enemy nation. Surely enough, they had killed a lot of people, right?
Not against monsters, but battling fellow humans.
Scary.
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「This is Van. I have brought Reene with me.」(Van)
「Come in.」(Leon)
Van-san opened the door to let me pa.s.s. What a gentleman, or so I thought.
「I won’t enter. Have a nice talk, alright?」(Van)
Eh? Van-san won’t enter? Even though I will be talking with such an important person? What will happen if I make a mistake? Won’t I be punished for being impolite? I looked up to Van-san with eyes that transmitted these questions, but he heartlessly closed the door.
When I entered the room, the sparkling Prince from yesterday was there.
He had taken his armor off and was wearing clothes that made the Prince resembles the cla.s.sic-Prince-template even more similar at full speed. A white blouse without any decorations and a long vest-like tunic, fastened not by a belt but with something like a sash on his waist.
Which reminds me, Jin-san also wore a long vest, so perhaps this kind of attire is the norm in this place.
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— Leonhart von Düssel Fantasma[7]—
HP ：910／910
MP ：424／424
Race ：Human
Age ：125
Job ：Fantasma Kingdom’s Second Prince
Attribute ：【Light】【Fire】
Skill ： Command
t.i.tle ：『Golden War G.o.d』[8]
Current Status ：□□□
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He is over 100 years old. He is sparkling and yet his t.i.tle is so gallant. Even though his appearance is completely like the Prince who comes out from a shoujo manga. This person might be a con artist. I must not be deceived by his sparkling Prince-like outer appearance.
Then, there was one other person, the one who gave the order to move out. He stood beside the sofa where the Sparkly was sitting. He might be acting as the Prince’s bodyguard.
I tried to see his status. His name is Luke Briar, 128 years old. The commander-san of Blue Knight Order. His skill is 「Steel Armor」[9], his t.i.tle is『Gale of Steel』[10] too. This person has 999 HP. Perhaps it has reached the counter stop?[11] Then does this mean that the human’s stat limit is 999?
「My name is Reene Kanzack. I am sorry for being late to introduce myself. I am deeply sorry for troubling your side by losing my consciousness.」(Reene)
「It’s fine. We are helped by thy skill. Thy barrier skill and the spell to stop the ground’s shockwave are praiseworthy deeds. Suzaugoterus’ defeat was all thanks to thine aid. Furthermore, I heard that thou had rescued the dying Knights as a Healer. I am thanking thee as the Second Prince of Fantasma Kingdom.」[12](Leon)
「I am glad to have been of a.s.sistance.」(Reene)
「I have heard about thy circ.u.mstances from Van and Cyan. To return home, thou will certainly need some funding. If thou likes, won’t thou come to Coltea? I want to officially employ thee as the Knight Order’s Healer.」(Leon)
It’s here! If this keeps going, I am in danger of being involved in his affairs. If I am employed in the Knight Order, then I will be recruited for war. It’s rather fine if it’s to battle monsters, but I absolutely don’t want to go to a place with human opponents. I am, after all, a person who will eventually return home. So I must not be too deeply tied down by something like a country or the likes.
Even more, not long ago, I had experienced personally how harsh the occupation of a Healer could be.
「I am grateful for the kind offer, even so, I am still inexperienced as a Healer. I actually realized this yesterday. My expertise is still too insufficient. For that reason, I could not do such an important job. However, this might be a brazen request, nevertheless if it is possible, could I accompany along with you until reaching Coltea? I think that I want to become an adventurer in Coltea while raising money for the preparations to return home.」(Reene)
If I become an adventurer, then I can go to many places. To investigate things related to summoning magic, freedom to move is essential.
「I see. Thou wants to be an adventurer. This is also a good thing. However, it is quite regrettable to not utilize thine Healer’s skills. How about this, if thou feels inexperienced, then it will be a good thing if thou can gain experience. Would thou like to work only two days each week, not at the Knight Order, but at Coltea’s clinic as a Healer? On the other days, thou could work as an adventurer. And then, I want thine help when we go to subjugate monsters just like yesterday.」(Leon)
Hmm, I think I need to accept these conditions.
Since what I did yesterday was so conspicuous, if I refuse everything, then I might be confined.
There is a risk for being involved. There is also a risk of being imprisoned if I run away. That’s why I want my position to have just a teenie-weenie distance between us. So that when I know how to return, I could make a prompt escape.
A Healer in a Clinic is just like being a town’s doctor, right? It’s alright since the work burden doesn’t seems to be heavy as it’s only for two days. I understand, Sparkly. You have done a splendid job in pus.h.i.+ng and pulling me.
Although, are there seven days in a week? If a week is four days, then that means that I will be working for half a week. Uuun, I can’t ask. I can’t ask: how many days does a week have? Well, perhaps it will be the same as j.a.pan.
「Yes. If it’s only these conditions, then even I could do it.」(Reene)
The Prince Sparkly smiled when he heard my answer, then he sent a look at the commander-san beside him. Commander-san brought a small box from a nearby table and handed it over to the Prince.
「Reene, these are for thee.」(Leon)
The Prince took out something wrapped by a cloth from the box and unfolded it in front of me.
There were three 500 yen sized gold coins[13] placed on the cloth. Although I called them gold coins, but rather than gold, they were copper? It was reddish. A copper that has dull aluminum-like tinge.
「I heard that thou didn’t bring anything to this place. This is just a trifling amount, but this is a reward for your support in this subjugation.」(Leon)
This was the first time that I have encountered money since I came to this world.