Then we start fishing.
Roxy has a wealth of experience.
What I mean is, she looks so cool.
Sitting on a chair I made with earth magic, with one hand on the rod, her eyes focus only on the water surface.
In that pose, she looks just like a monk in meditation.
Then when even the tiniest vibration reaches her hand, she will pull the rod.
Although at the beginning she swung empty, but by this point she's far in the lead.
"Roxy-san is so good at this."
"When I was traveling alone, I had to learn to catch food on my own."
"Oh yeah, in his travels, Ruijerd-san caught fish as well."
"He can fish?"
"No, with a spear, he just stabs the water, and comes back with two or three fish--"
Norn sits by Roxy's side, making casual conversations.
Still a bit wooden, but the mood is there.
"Ah, Norn-san, you got a bite. Try to pull!"
"Eh, Eh! oh, oh! Ah.."
"This happens pretty often. Bait it and try again."
Norn keeps losing focus and managed to let another one go.
But Roxy seems to be enjoying herself, with a topic relevant to her, her mood visibly brightens.
"Haha, Onii-chan. You don't look so good there. Something wrong?"
Aisha is in her best shape.
Although she swung empty a few times, she already caught 3.
"Don't forget, we promised that the loser has to listen to the winner's commands."
Earlier, I accepted Aisha's challenge to see "who will catch more fish," but so far my results are 0.
Looks like I'll lose.
Well, doesn't matter if I do.
But, even though we are both beginners, why is the gap between us that large?
Aisha is great no matter what she does.
"Only stuff within my abilities."
"What should I choose? Hold me tight all night and whisper sweet nothings like 'Aisha is cute'? Or maybe the stuff you do with Roxy-ane and Sylphy-ane?"
"No perverted stuff. Dad will get mad."
"Don't bring dad into this-"
She might say that, but in the end she'll probably ask for something expensive anyways.
Well, losing is fine.
I can let my sister win this time.
No.
Isn't this a chance to show myself off as the cool older brother?
Rather than a gentle, unreliable brother, I want to be a strong and reliable one!
"Aisha, I'll now show my true form."
"So you haven't been taking it seriously?"
"Haha, from now on, I'll use my Demon Eye!"
"Ehh, that's cheating!"
Whatever you say.
This is my true form.
It might be just a second into the future, but that should be enough for me to demonstrate the overwhelming skill gap between us.
I open my Demon Eye.
And focus on my float.
"Fiiish!"
A swing honed through daily sword practice.
Wrist strength enhanced by an artificial limb that ignores any resistance.
With a bit of force I pull up the hook.
"Oh! It's a big one..?"
I hooked a boot.
"..."
Boot exists in this world too?
Well, this creek sits downstream from Magic City Sharia.
People often come to it to wash and fetch water.
So sometimes, for whatever reason, a boot falls in and gets lost.
Or maybe further upstream somewhere, an adventurer lost it, and it traveled downstream. That is possible too.
"Onii-chan..."
Aisha looks at me in shame.
No, let's change our thought process a little.
This isn't a boot.
That would work.
Yep.
If I think about it, this looks like something else entirely.
Yep.
Looking carefully, isn't this a fish?
Indeed, calling it a fish isn't completely unreasonable.
It looks like a fish no matter how you look at it.
It looks like nothing else besides fish.