Chapter 2: the last chance a journey of death?
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I'm giving you one last chance. From now on, you must go in the opposite direction from where we are going. There's a town on the other side of the wasteland, through the woods, and you will report to the barracks in that town. Once you've done that, I'll consider assigning you to it.
The princess, dressed in gilded armor, said, pointing to a path leading across the wasteland.
''Well, am I alone?''
Yeah, who else is there?
Do you have any water or food or anything?
"You can lose your equipment and be defeated by a single body. And they can't even follow you, so you just walk down the street. We don't need a bunch of useless bastards who can't do that.
Ninety percent of the princesses are made of rigor, I think, and there is no island to get to.
For me, who always uses escalators and elevators on a daily basis and thinks that if I use the stairs, I lose, this is going to be quite a tough ordeal.
The judge's sister looks at me like she feels sorry for me, but isn't that something bad?
Can't you at least let him have some water?
Oh! How sweet you are, Mr. Chairman.
'Hmph, you'll have to slurp up some muddy water to get there.
d*mn it, d*mn it~ I'm going to make this princess say "gaff" some day.
And so I was left alone and everyone else was rocking away in the carriage.
I was so frustrated that I sang Donna-Donna to them as they drove away in the carriage.
Well, there's no use in sitting still, so I guess I'll walk.
There's a moon shining in the sky that's twice as big as the earth's moon, and I'm not worried about my feet, even though it's a nighttime street.
But seriously, there isn't a single streetlight, and when the moon sets, it will be pitch black.
I don't know how far it is to the town, but we'd better hurry up a bit.
Anyway, first of all, isn't the forest quite far away? Is it just my imagination that it looks so far away?
At any rate, though, it's already a real walk, even if I'm blurting it out.
How much it is serious walking is wearing the jacket that usually stamps on the heel.
However, Japanese style slippers do not take long-distance walking into consideration at all, don't they?
The sole is very thin, and the sole of my foot has become painful just by walking a little.
And it was hard to walk on the dirt road because it was made of pebbles and dirt, unlike Tokyo's beautiful paved roads.
Still, I walked desperately, and I must have walked for more than two hours.
I was summoned in the middle of my third period class, so normally I would have died of hunger because it was long past my lunch time.
After another thirty minutes of walking with hunger and sore feet, I finally reached the entrance to the forest.
It's good that we got there, but it's dark, too dark! The moon has already tilted a lot, and I can only see about 10 meters away.
I can't see the moon from 20 meters away.
But hey, when you get through the woods, you're in town, right? I'm hungry, so we have to go quickly.
So we decided to put our guts into walking, but it's tough, hard, honestly scary, and too scary for a city-bred bean sprout kid.
I felt like I was groping my way through, and it was like a completely haunted house.
After five minutes of walking, I regretted it, wondering why I didn't spend the night outside in the woods.
It was pitch black, so I was walking around only paying attention to my feet, when I heard.
'Gah...'
'What? What, is there something in there?
I looked up in a hurry, and I saw the light in his eyes....
'Wow...'
I freaked out and started to go back the way I came, screaming, and my eyes were glowing in that direction too.
'Gah! Gahhhhhh!
In the blink of an eye, some of them jumped on me, I don't know what they were.
For a moment in the light of the moon, I saw an ugly monster that was the same size as me or slightly smaller.
"Goblins or goblins don't come near me!
"Gah-gah-gah-gah!
I flailed my hands around frantically and tried to get rid of the goblin, but it felt like I was hit with something, and I was hit in the back of the head and easily let go of my consciousness.......teehee.
What the hell, I'm just walking down the street, that evil princess, I'm going to really beat you up.......
The goblin-like monster attacked me and I easily passed out, but I easily regained consciousness.
I'm sure you're wondering why? That's because they're being eaten!
Go! Godd*mn it, let go! Ouch, ouch, stop! I said ouch, ouch, ouch, you bastard!
I've already screamed with all my might.
Not to mention both my hands and feet, and of course, my belly was being bitten off.
Moreover, the flesh is bitten off without any care, so it must be painful.
Aaaaah! Ouch, ouch, igeeeeeee!
With my arms and legs held down and unable to move, I felt what felt like a cheating pull from inside my stomach and looked to see a goblin chomping on my intestines with its bloody mouth.
''Gobbling... gobbling, gobbling, gebo...''
Something warm and raw is flowing back down my throat, and it's probably blood.
No, I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I want to .... I want to .... I want to .... I want to ....
Even though there was no way he could survive after being gutted, he still couldn't help but pray.
Bouchou........
Suddenly, there was a sound like crushed flesh and the goblin's head flew through the air.
What? What happened?
'Gah? Gaggle?
Bshhhhhhhhhhhh.....
The sound of flesh being crushed continued to drown out the quizzical goblin cries.
I could also see a goblin being skewered on the head with something sharp.
Kasha.........Kasha.......Kasha......Kasha....
After the signs of the goblins clinging to my body disappeared, it was a group of skeletons that appeared.
Even more powerful demons........what the hell is that, it's a dead end......I let go of my consciousness again.
chirp, chirp, chirp........
The next morning I woke up to the sound of birds chirping.
'Ah, so this is the famous 'morning chun', well, you had fun last night............oh, hey!
I jumped up with a self-blurred plunge that surprised me, and I was surrounded by a group of skeletons in a circle.
'Ooooooooooooooooooooh, what's going on here? Somebody explain to me what's going on?
"You have your answer, my lord.
Wow, he answered--
A single skeleton is kneeling in front of me, surprised by the voice that suddenly resounds in my head, and one skeleton is kneeling in front of me.
''Uh........is it you who just answered?''
"Very good, my lord.
Apparently the voice in my head is some sort of telepathic speech by Skelton.
'My Lord?'
I pointed to myself for confirmation, and Skelton nodded with a cackle.
''We have followed My Lord's orders and are protecting you.''
Well does that mean...does that mean that I called you all out?
"That's right, my lord.
The skeletons nodded again, I don't know why, but they seemed to have a grin and a satisfied smile on their faces.
There were eleven skeletons surrounding me, with seven goblin corpses stacked a little further away.
The wounds and stuff, they're so raw and gross.
According to the skeletons, they were knights who lost their lives in an ambush near here a long time ago.
He was wandering around, unable to come to terms with the regret of not being able to protect his master, when he received my rescue order and defeated the goblins.
But I've never used magic before, and last night, when I was judged for my magic power, I was even told that I was a 'failure'.
"If you summoned all of us without even being aware of it, Master Kent must have exceptional necromantic abilities.
It's a bit ostentatious to be called "My Lord", so I decided to have him call me by my name.
It's a bit of a compromise to be called 'sama', but that's a compromise, isn't it?
Incidentally, the person answering the question on behalf of the skeleton is Reinhardt-san, who was the divisional leader when he was a knight.
''What attribute of magic is necromancy?''
''Although necromancy is a dark magic, it's not a very common magic since there are very few mages with dark aptitudes themselves.
''It's a dark attribute after all. If that's the case, was it the right reaction for the 'Crystal of the Magic Eye' not to glow?
''No, with a quality as great as Master Kent's, the Crystal of Magic Eye would definitely be dyed black.''
'But the Crystal of the Demon Eye was still transparent, how did that happen? Was it broken?
''Well, I wasn't present for Kent-sama's magic power judgment, so I don't know...''
It's a surreal picture of Skelton twisting his head around and thinking.
'I mean, I forgot something important, what am I doing with my life?'
That's right, last night, I'm sure I was bitten off by the goblins last night and dragged out to my intestines, but I'm still pinching myself after a night.
Well, the uniform I was wearing is torn to shreds and I look like a bloody rag, but my body is unscathed.
By the way, I was desperately hungry when I woke up, so I asked the skeletons to pick some nuts for me.
One kind looks like a mango but tastes like an orange, and the other kind looks like a banana and avocado added together and divided by two.
At first I was confused because the appearance and the taste didn't match, but the freshly caught fruit was so delicious.
"From what I've seen, Master Kent has been using healing magic on himself.
Reinhardt-san answered, but he looks somewhat unsure of himself.
''Healing magic is a light attribute, right?''
''How true, in addition to the light attribute, there are those who can use the water attribute as well, but when it comes to healing wounds that reach the internal organs, the only thing I can think of is light-attribute healing magic. Normally........
'Normally... does that mean an unusual water magic might have been used?
''No, it's not like that, it's said that the dark attribute and the light attribute magic are conflicting, and normally, someone with an aptitude for the dark attribute can't think of using the light attribute magic.''
The skeletons around them seem to be listening to what you have to say, and the sight of them all nodding their heads together is a bit cute.
''May I have a moment? Mr. Kent.
'Yes, okay, um...'
Basten, my troop leader.
I'm sure it's subtly different, but since it's a bone, it's hard to distinguish between individuals.
''This is a guess, but perhaps Kent-sama has both light and dark attribute magic aptitudes that cancel each other out and the 'Crystal of the Magic Eye' didn't react.''
Oh, if you ask me, it sounds like...
The skeletons are also slamming their fists into their palms and nodding crisply as I see it.
''But wouldn't that mean that one of them would have a reaction if both magic powers weren't balanced at exactly the same strength?
When I questioned them, the skeletons twisted their heads again in unison and started to think.
Yeah, this is pretty cute.
"Either both are exactly the same and balanced, or they didn't react because they are unexpected attributes that have both attributes, and in any case, it's certain that even the 'magic eye crystal' couldn't make the decision.
'Yeah, it's more natural to think that he didn't react because he wasn't expecting it.
I thought it would be a useless hazing, but this paves the way for another cheat.
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I'm giving you one last chance. From now on, you must go in the opposite direction from where we are going. There's a town on the other side of the wasteland, through the woods, and you will report to the barracks in that town. Once you've done that, I'll consider assigning you to it.
The princess, dressed in gilded armor, said, pointing to a path leading across the wasteland.
''Well, am I alone?''
Yeah, who else is there?
Do you have any water or food or anything?
"You can lose your equipment and be defeated by a single body. And they can't even follow you, so you just walk down the street. We don't need a bunch of useless bastards who can't do that.
Ninety percent of the princesses are made of rigor, I think, and there is no island to get to.
For me, who always uses escalators and elevators on a daily basis and thinks that if I use the stairs, I lose, this is going to be quite a tough ordeal.
The judge's sister looks at me like she feels sorry for me, but isn't that something bad?
Can't you at least let him have some water?
Oh! How sweet you are, Mr. Chairman.
'Hmph, you'll have to slurp up some muddy water to get there.
d*mn it, d*mn it~ I'm going to make this princess say "gaff" some day.
And so I was left alone and everyone else was rocking away in the carriage.
I was so frustrated that I sang Donna-Donna to them as they drove away in the carriage.
Well, there's no use in sitting still, so I guess I'll walk.
There's a moon shining in the sky that's twice as big as the earth's moon, and I'm not worried about my feet, even though it's a nighttime street.
But seriously, there isn't a single streetlight, and when the moon sets, it will be pitch black.
I don't know how far it is to the town, but we'd better hurry up a bit.
Anyway, first of all, isn't the forest quite far away? Is it just my imagination that it looks so far away?
At any rate, though, it's already a real walk, even if I'm blurting it out.
How much it is serious walking is wearing the jacket that usually stamps on the heel.
However, Japanese style slippers do not take long-distance walking into consideration at all, don't they?
The sole is very thin, and the sole of my foot has become painful just by walking a little.
And it was hard to walk on the dirt road because it was made of pebbles and dirt, unlike Tokyo's beautiful paved roads.
Still, I walked desperately, and I must have walked for more than two hours.
I was summoned in the middle of my third period class, so normally I would have died of hunger because it was long past my lunch time.
After another thirty minutes of walking with hunger and sore feet, I finally reached the entrance to the forest.
It's good that we got there, but it's dark, too dark! The moon has already tilted a lot, and I can only see about 10 meters away.
I can't see the moon from 20 meters away.
But hey, when you get through the woods, you're in town, right? I'm hungry, so we have to go quickly.
So we decided to put our guts into walking, but it's tough, hard, honestly scary, and too scary for a city-bred bean sprout kid.
I felt like I was groping my way through, and it was like a completely haunted house.
After five minutes of walking, I regretted it, wondering why I didn't spend the night outside in the woods.
It was pitch black, so I was walking around only paying attention to my feet, when I heard.
'Gah...'
'What? What, is there something in there?
I looked up in a hurry, and I saw the light in his eyes....
'Wow...'
I freaked out and started to go back the way I came, screaming, and my eyes were glowing in that direction too.
'Gah! Gahhhhhh!
In the blink of an eye, some of them jumped on me, I don't know what they were.
For a moment in the light of the moon, I saw an ugly monster that was the same size as me or slightly smaller.
"Goblins or goblins don't come near me!
"Gah-gah-gah-gah!
I flailed my hands around frantically and tried to get rid of the goblin, but it felt like I was hit with something, and I was hit in the back of the head and easily let go of my consciousness.......teehee.
What the hell, I'm just walking down the street, that evil princess, I'm going to really beat you up.......
The goblin-like monster attacked me and I easily passed out, but I easily regained consciousness.
I'm sure you're wondering why? That's because they're being eaten!
Go! Godd*mn it, let go! Ouch, ouch, stop! I said ouch, ouch, ouch, you bastard!
I've already screamed with all my might.
Not to mention both my hands and feet, and of course, my belly was being bitten off.
Moreover, the flesh is bitten off without any care, so it must be painful.
Aaaaah! Ouch, ouch, igeeeeeee!
With my arms and legs held down and unable to move, I felt what felt like a cheating pull from inside my stomach and looked to see a goblin chomping on my intestines with its bloody mouth.
''Gobbling... gobbling, gobbling, gebo...''
Something warm and raw is flowing back down my throat, and it's probably blood.
No, I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I want to .... I want to .... I want to .... I want to ....
Even though there was no way he could survive after being gutted, he still couldn't help but pray.
Bouchou........
Suddenly, there was a sound like crushed flesh and the goblin's head flew through the air.
What? What happened?
'Gah? Gaggle?
Bshhhhhhhhhhhh.....
The sound of flesh being crushed continued to drown out the quizzical goblin cries.
I could also see a goblin being skewered on the head with something sharp.
Kasha.........Kasha.......Kasha......Kasha....
After the signs of the goblins clinging to my body disappeared, it was a group of skeletons that appeared.
Even more powerful demons........what the hell is that, it's a dead end......I let go of my consciousness again.
chirp, chirp, chirp........
The next morning I woke up to the sound of birds chirping.
'Ah, so this is the famous 'morning chun', well, you had fun last night............oh, hey!
I jumped up with a self-blurred plunge that surprised me, and I was surrounded by a group of skeletons in a circle.
'Ooooooooooooooooooooh, what's going on here? Somebody explain to me what's going on?
"You have your answer, my lord.
Wow, he answered--
A single skeleton is kneeling in front of me, surprised by the voice that suddenly resounds in my head, and one skeleton is kneeling in front of me.
''Uh........is it you who just answered?''
"Very good, my lord.
Apparently the voice in my head is some sort of telepathic speech by Skelton.
'My Lord?'
I pointed to myself for confirmation, and Skelton nodded with a cackle.
''We have followed My Lord's orders and are protecting you.''
Well does that mean...does that mean that I called you all out?
"That's right, my lord.
The skeletons nodded again, I don't know why, but they seemed to have a grin and a satisfied smile on their faces.
There were eleven skeletons surrounding me, with seven goblin corpses stacked a little further away.
The wounds and stuff, they're so raw and gross.
According to the skeletons, they were knights who lost their lives in an ambush near here a long time ago.
He was wandering around, unable to come to terms with the regret of not being able to protect his master, when he received my rescue order and defeated the goblins.
But I've never used magic before, and last night, when I was judged for my magic power, I was even told that I was a 'failure'.
"If you summoned all of us without even being aware of it, Master Kent must have exceptional necromantic abilities.
It's a bit ostentatious to be called "My Lord", so I decided to have him call me by my name.
It's a bit of a compromise to be called 'sama', but that's a compromise, isn't it?
Incidentally, the person answering the question on behalf of the skeleton is Reinhardt-san, who was the divisional leader when he was a knight.
''What attribute of magic is necromancy?''
''Although necromancy is a dark magic, it's not a very common magic since there are very few mages with dark aptitudes themselves.
''It's a dark attribute after all. If that's the case, was it the right reaction for the 'Crystal of the Magic Eye' not to glow?
''No, with a quality as great as Master Kent's, the Crystal of Magic Eye would definitely be dyed black.''
'But the Crystal of the Demon Eye was still transparent, how did that happen? Was it broken?
''Well, I wasn't present for Kent-sama's magic power judgment, so I don't know...''
It's a surreal picture of Skelton twisting his head around and thinking.
'I mean, I forgot something important, what am I doing with my life?'
That's right, last night, I'm sure I was bitten off by the goblins last night and dragged out to my intestines, but I'm still pinching myself after a night.
Well, the uniform I was wearing is torn to shreds and I look like a bloody rag, but my body is unscathed.
By the way, I was desperately hungry when I woke up, so I asked the skeletons to pick some nuts for me.
One kind looks like a mango but tastes like an orange, and the other kind looks like a banana and avocado added together and divided by two.
At first I was confused because the appearance and the taste didn't match, but the freshly caught fruit was so delicious.
"From what I've seen, Master Kent has been using healing magic on himself.
Reinhardt-san answered, but he looks somewhat unsure of himself.
''Healing magic is a light attribute, right?''
''How true, in addition to the light attribute, there are those who can use the water attribute as well, but when it comes to healing wounds that reach the internal organs, the only thing I can think of is light-attribute healing magic. Normally........
'Normally... does that mean an unusual water magic might have been used?
''No, it's not like that, it's said that the dark attribute and the light attribute magic are conflicting, and normally, someone with an aptitude for the dark attribute can't think of using the light attribute magic.''
The skeletons around them seem to be listening to what you have to say, and the sight of them all nodding their heads together is a bit cute.
''May I have a moment? Mr. Kent.
'Yes, okay, um...'
Basten, my troop leader.
I'm sure it's subtly different, but since it's a bone, it's hard to distinguish between individuals.
''This is a guess, but perhaps Kent-sama has both light and dark attribute magic aptitudes that cancel each other out and the 'Crystal of the Magic Eye' didn't react.''
Oh, if you ask me, it sounds like...
The skeletons are also slamming their fists into their palms and nodding crisply as I see it.
''But wouldn't that mean that one of them would have a reaction if both magic powers weren't balanced at exactly the same strength?
When I questioned them, the skeletons twisted their heads again in unison and started to think.
Yeah, this is pretty cute.
"Either both are exactly the same and balanced, or they didn't react because they are unexpected attributes that have both attributes, and in any case, it's certain that even the 'magic eye crystal' couldn't make the decision.
'Yeah, it's more natural to think that he didn't react because he wasn't expecting it.
I thought it would be a useless hazing, but this paves the way for another cheat.
I'm giving you one last chance. From now on, you must go in the opposite direction from where we are going. There's a town on the other side of the wasteland, through the woods, and you will report to the barracks in that town. Once you've done that, I'll consider assigning you to it.The princess, dressed in gilded armor, said, pointing to a path leading across the wasteland.''Well, am I alone?''Yeah, who else is there?Do you have any water or food or anything?"You can lose your equipment and be defeated by a single body. And they can't even follow you, so you just walk down the street. We don't need a bunch of useless bastards who can't do that.Ninety percent of the princesses are made of rigor, I think, and there is no island to get to.For me, who always uses escalators and elevators on a daily basis and thinks that if I use the stairs, I lose, this is going to be quite a tough ordeal.The judge's sister looks at me like she feels sorry for me, but isn't that something bad?Can't you at least let him have some water?Oh! How sweet you are, Mr. Chairman.'Hmph, you'll have to slurp up some muddy water to get there.d*mn it, d*mn it~ I'm going to make this princess say "gaff" some day.And so I was left alone and everyone else was rocking away in the carriage.I was so frustrated that I sang Donna-Donna to them as they drove away in the carriage.Well, there's no use in sitting still, so I guess I'll walk.There's a moon shining in the sky that's twice as big as the earth's moon, and I'm not worried about my feet, even though it's a nighttime street.But seriously, there isn't a single streetlight, and when the moon sets, it will be pitch black.I don't know how far it is to the town, but we'd better hurry up a bit.Anyway, first of all, isn't the forest quite far away? Is it just my imagination that it looks so far away?At any rate, though, it's already a real walk, even if I'm blurting it out.How much it is serious walking is wearing the jacket that usually stamps on the heel.However, Japanese style slippers do not take long-distance walking into consideration at all, don't they?The sole is very thin, and the sole of my foot has become painful just by walking a little.And it was hard to walk on the dirt road because it was made of pebbles and dirt, unlike Tokyo's beautiful paved roads.Still, I walked desperately, and I must have walked for more than two hours.I was summoned in the middle of my third period class, so normally I would have died of hunger because it was long past my lunch time.After another thirty minutes of walking with hunger and sore feet, I finally reached the entrance to the forest.It's good that we got there, but it's dark, too dark! The moon has already tilted a lot, and I can only see about 10 meters away.I can't see the moon from 20 meters away.But hey, when you get through the woods, you're in town, right? I'm hungry, so we have to go quickly.So we decided to put our guts into walking, but it's tough, hard, honestly scary, and too scary for a city-bred bean sprout kid.I felt like I was groping my way through, and it was like a completely haunted house.After five minutes of walking, I regretted it, wondering why I didn't spend the night outside in the woods.It was pitch black, so I was walking around only paying attention to my feet, when I heard.'Gah...''What? What, is there something in there?I looked up in a hurry, and I saw the light in his eyes....'Wow...'I freaked out and started to go back the way I came, screaming, and my eyes were glowing in that direction too.'Gah! Gahhhhhh!In the blink of an eye, some of them jumped on me, I don't know what they were.For a moment in the light of the moon, I saw an ugly monster that was the same size as me or slightly smaller."Goblins or goblins don't come near me!"Gah-gah-gah-gah!I flailed my hands around frantically and tried to get rid of the goblin, but it felt like I was hit with something, and I was hit in the back of the head and easily let go of my consciousness.......teehee.What the hell, I'm just walking down the street, that evil princess, I'm going to really beat you up.......The goblin-like monster attacked me and I easily passed out, but I easily regained consciousness.I'm sure you're wondering why? That's because they're being eaten!Go! Godd*mn it, let go! Ouch, ouch, stop! I said ouch, ouch, ouch, you bastard!I've already screamed with all my might.Not to mention both my hands and feet, and of course, my belly was being bitten off.Moreover, the flesh is bitten off without any care, so it must be painful.Aaaaah! Ouch, ouch, igeeeeeee!With my arms and legs held down and unable to move, I felt what felt like a cheating pull from inside my stomach and looked to see a goblin chomping on my intestines with its bloody mouth.''Gobbling... gobbling, gobbling, gebo...''Something warm and raw is flowing back down my throat, and it's probably blood.No, I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I don't want to ... I want to .... I want to .... I want to .... I want to ....Even though there was no way he could survive after being gutted, he still couldn't help but pray.Bouchou........Suddenly, there was a sound like crushed flesh and the goblin's head flew through the air.What? What happened?'Gah? Gaggle?Bshhhhhhhhhhhh.....The sound of flesh being crushed continued to drown out the quizzical goblin cries.I could also see a goblin being skewered on the head with something sharp.Kasha.........Kasha.......Kasha......Kasha....After the signs of the goblins clinging to my body disappeared, it was a group of skeletons that appeared.Even more powerful demons........what the hell is that, it's a dead end......I let go of my consciousness again.chirp, chirp, chirp........The next morning I woke up to the sound of birds chirping.'Ah, so this is the famous 'morning chun', well, you had fun last night............oh, hey!I jumped up with a self-blurred plunge that surprised me, and I was surrounded by a group of skeletons in a circle.'Ooooooooooooooooooooh, what's going on here? Somebody explain to me what's going on?"You have your answer, my lord.Wow, he answered--A single skeleton is kneeling in front of me, surprised by the voice that suddenly resounds in my head, and one skeleton is kneeling in front of me.''Uh........is it you who just answered?''"Very good, my lord.Apparently the voice in my head is some sort of telepathic speech by Skelton.'My Lord?'I pointed to myself for confirmation, and Skelton nodded with a cackle.''We have followed My Lord's orders and are protecting you.''Well does that mean...does that mean that I called you all out?"That's right, my lord.The skeletons nodded again, I don't know why, but they seemed to have a grin and a satisfied smile on their faces.There were eleven skeletons surrounding me, with seven goblin corpses stacked a little further away.The wounds and stuff, they're so raw and gross.According to the skeletons, they were knights who lost their lives in an ambush near here a long time ago.He was wandering around, unable to come to terms with the regret of not being able to protect his master, when he received my rescue order and defeated the goblins.But I've never used magic before, and last night, when I was judged for my magic power, I was even told that I was a 'failure'."If you summoned all of us without even being aware of it, Master Kent must have exceptional necromantic abilities.It's a bit ostentatious to be called "My Lord", so I decided to have him call me by my name.It's a bit of a compromise to be called 'sama', but that's a compromise, isn't it?Incidentally, the person answering the question on behalf of the skeleton is Reinhardt-san, who was the divisional leader when he was a knight.''What attribute of magic is necromancy?''''Although necromancy is a dark magic, it's not a very common magic since there are very few mages with dark aptitudes themselves.''It's a dark attribute after all. If that's the case, was it the right reaction for the 'Crystal of the Magic Eye' not to glow?''No, with a quality as great as Master Kent's, the Crystal of Magic Eye would definitely be dyed black.'''But the Crystal of the Demon Eye was still transparent, how did that happen? Was it broken?''Well, I wasn't present for Kent-sama's magic power judgment, so I don't know...''It's a surreal picture of Skelton twisting his head around and thinking.'I mean, I forgot something important, what am I doing with my life?'That's right, last night, I'm sure I was bitten off by the goblins last night and dragged out to my intestines, but I'm still pinching myself after a night.Well, the uniform I was wearing is torn to shreds and I look like a bloody rag, but my body is unscathed.By the way, I was desperately hungry when I woke up, so I asked the skeletons to pick some nuts for me.One kind looks like a mango but tastes like an orange, and the other kind looks like a banana and avocado added together and divided by two.At first I was confused because the appearance and the taste didn't match, but the freshly caught fruit was so delicious."From what I've seen, Master Kent has been using healing magic on himself.Reinhardt-san answered, but he looks somewhat unsure of himself.''Healing magic is a light attribute, right?''''How true, in addition to the light attribute, there are those who can use the water attribute as well, but when it comes to healing wounds that reach the internal organs, the only thing I can think of is light-attribute healing magic. Normally........'Normally... does that mean an unusual water magic might have been used?''No, it's not like that, it's said that the dark attribute and the light attribute magic are conflicting, and normally, someone with an aptitude for the dark attribute can't think of using the light attribute magic.''The skeletons around them seem to be listening to what you have to say, and the sight of them all nodding their heads together is a bit cute.''May I have a moment? Mr. Kent.'Yes, okay, um...'Basten, my troop leader.I'm sure it's subtly different, but since it's a bone, it's hard to distinguish between individuals.''This is a guess, but perhaps Kent-sama has both light and dark attribute magic aptitudes that cancel each other out and the 'Crystal of the Magic Eye' didn't react.''Oh, if you ask me, it sounds like...The skeletons are also slamming their fists into their palms and nodding crisply as I see it.''But wouldn't that mean that one of them would have a reaction if both magic powers weren't balanced at exactly the same strength?When I questioned them, the skeletons twisted their heads again in unison and started to think.Yeah, this is pretty cute."Either both are exactly the same and balanced, or they didn't react because they are unexpected attributes that have both attributes, and in any case, it's certain that even the 'magic eye crystal' couldn't make the decision.'Yeah, it's more natural to think that he didn't react because he wasn't expecting it.I thought it would be a useless hazing, but this paves the way for another cheat.
