“My magic is too strong.”(aya)
“Yeah, that’s true.”
The scene changes.
We’re still in front of a fire but the places we’re sitting at are different.
That time, we sat while facing each other but now, Aya was sitting beside me.
Her expression was smiling so I think she’s happy.
I wonder what time does this memory belonged to——-
“When it becomes a melee, I end up dragging everyone in it as well and if I start paying mind to that, I start having troubles with a single Orc.”(aya)
“Well, Aya-chan blows her fuse whenever you get backed to a corner.”
“……..was there a need to say that to my face directly?”
“Aya-chan sure is weak when you get cornered.”
When I said that, Aya puffed her cheeks and got angry. After talking to her for a few times I understood but it’s really fun to tease Aya. She gets angry but she doesn’t hit me like she does with Souichi. She simply puffs her cheek and starts sulking.
Because that’s too cute, I end up teasing her more. And as I kept on teasing her like that, I started to feel as if she were my younger sister. I don’t really have a younger sister but if I had I might have talked to her like I did with Aya, I think.
It’s weird if I say so myself but after talking to Aya like this I became better at conversing with the other youths as well.
My feelings to protect them since I am their elder still remain but I started to fight together with them or rather, I depend on them sometimes. Anyway, I feel that I became to fight alongside them rather than simply go away alone to the front.
I wonder what kind of change of heart this is.
“…..Aya ‘chan’ again.”
“You’re younger than me after all.”
“mouu.”
Seeing her expression that suits her age and not some stiff title like Hero or Godslayer, even I feel happier.
As I laughed, she got angry at me again. Puffing her cheeks she glared at me strongly.
She won’t attack me like with Souichi but her expression is clear.
But since that seemed even more amusing, I ended up laughing more. Even though she’s a magician at a level that I could never reach, her actions show that she’s definitely younger than me.
“Isn’t it because you’re too focused on flashy magics?”(renji)
“That may be so but……since my magical energy is too great, even with a little imagination, it turns into something excessive.”
“Oh right, you consulted with Utano-san as well right?”
“Yes.”
Utano-san. A person who wished to be able to use all kinds of magic.
Certainly, she’s also a magician but almost everything else is different from Aya.
In contrast to the magic of this world that comes from imagination, Utano-san can simply use any magic directly as long it is recognised as an [existing] magic.
Basically, it’s similar to the magic in games, RPGs, ADVs, and STGs. (T/N: I have no idea what ADV or STG is. Adv is probably short for ’Adventure’ but I’m not sure.)
And Aya’s magic is like this worlds, using imagination and magical energy to manifest it.
Rather just being of different types, they are two completely different things.
Even though both are magicians, there’s not just a wall or gap between them but a whole cliff.
“Then how about manifesting it in some other form rather than just flames or lightning?”(renji)
“Like rocks or something? Then, I’ll probably make giant rocks rain.”
“……..What the hell, that’s scary.”
“I still am working hard everyday you know?”
As expected of the magician that possess the highest level of firepower amongst us. The vector of working hard is so completely different, I ended up sighing.
Even though, here I am still getting desperate when killing a single monster.
“No, how about imagining something more simple? Not just flames, ice or rocks.”(renji)
“What should I imagine then? Even if I imagine a kamaitachi it’ll turn into a tornado, you know?”(T/N: google kamaitachi if you don’t know what it is. It’s basically a sharp wind.)
“Like I said, why is it always something so violent………no, something even simpler.”
“More simpler?”
As she threw dry wood into the fire, her black hair shone crimson from the fire.
Finding that magically beautiful, I averted my eyes.
What the hell am I thinking about a child who’s almost half my age.
“Something like a pitfall, or using vines or plants to restrict the opponents like in the movies.”(renji)