It’s really beautiful, but because of that, I think the adventurers around here will get in the way.
“Let’s go there!” [Adventurer1]
“Hurry, catch it!” [Adventurer2]
“Ah!?” [Adventurer3]
“Hurry! Before it gets eaten!” [Adventurer4]
The adventurers entered the swamp, and they struggled with the rimel birds for the grell frogs.
While the rough men were being bathed in mud, I saw the sight of obscured frogs with the same reddish color as the swamp, be caught by men with a net barehanded... and it felt extremely sweltering to watch.
At a time like that, two young men prepared some musical instruments by the side of the swamp.
“You two watch carefully, those guys are about to try taming a rimel bird.” [Rheinhart]
One of the two men began to play a flute. His instrument looked like a recorder. But, unfortunately, he isn’t that good.
As soon as the music ended, the rimel birds all simultaneously sang. The noise the birds made were as if they were laughing and mocking the humans.
According to the information I received from Caulkins-san, when the rimel birds do not acknowledge your performance, they’ll release a warning sound. And that warning sound is extremely unpleasant.
So it’s like this, huh? Certainly, it’s not something pleasant to hear… But I guess this is something that happens often, since the adventurers who are trying to catch the grell frogs aren’t minding it.
“I think you two already understand, but yes, this is a failure. Like this, he won’t be able to tame one. You can try again as many times as you want, but if you try too many times, they’ll end up attacking you, so it’s better to just do it once. And at most, twice.” [Rheinhart]
While Rheinhart-san was explaining, the other man began to play the flute. This one’s worse than the other one… This time, before he even finished playing, the rimel birds already started laughing.
I guess he got mad when he heard that, because he took out a short sword that looks to be for self-defense.
As the man entered the swamp, he moved towards a rimel bird.
“Not good… don’t let your guard down.” [Rheinbach]
“Ha!” [The four guards.]
At Rheinbach-sama’s words, the four guards stepped forward. Even Sebasu-san and Rheinhart-san was vigilant. And the madam went near me and Elia.
“Gua! Hi, Hii!!” [Man]
I wonder if it’s because it felt danger to the man who drew close to it that it fired off the wind magic ‘Wind Cutter’. In any case, that attack only lightly grazed the shoulder of the man, but the other rimel birds also looked at the man. At that point, the man’s anger from a while ago vanished, and was instead changed to fear and panic. The man quickly began to run with all his strength. And the people around him also began to run.
Behind the man, several rimel birds fired off ‘Wind Cutter’ at his back. Their accuracy apparently wasn’t that good, and they missed. But the man became desperate as he ran.
“Don’t be like that guy. The rimel birds are gentle, but they’re not weak. If you do something like that, you’ll be hated, and they’ll attack you.” [Madam]
Said the madam as she warned me and Elia
… That guy is coming over here… that’s not good!
When the man got to the edge of the swamp, he relaxed for a bit, causing him to stop moving for a moment. There, a rimel bird fired off its ‘Wind Cutter’. That attack grazed the man’s leg, causing him to become unable to run. When we saw that, Camil and I both casted our magic at the same time.
“ ‘Earth Wall’ !! “ [Camil & Ryouma]
A wall made out of earth was erected between the man and the rimel bird. But in order to chase after the man, the rimel birds fired off several dozens of ‘Wind Cutter’. The surface of the wall was scraped off, but it was able to stop the attack.
At that, they stopped firing off the ‘Wind Cutter’, but in the next moment, they all began to chirp.
“Kuke! Kuke!! Kuke!!! Kuke!!!!”
“Kyaaa!” [Elia]
“Gu!?” [Rheinhart]
“This is!?” [Ryouma]
“Everyone, be careful!!” [Rheinhart]
Everyone suddenly began to hurt. And once Elia began to shake, the Madam and Sebasu-san hurriedly went to support her.
What’s going on!?
Looking at my surrounding, I saw that the adventurers were also in pain even though they shouldn’t be able to hear this sound well. Some of them even began to crouch and scream as if they’d lost their minds.
I can also feel some magic power accompanying the voice, so I guess the cause must be this cry.
When I searched for the location of the magic power and the sound, I immediately managed to find the culprit. Looks like it’s somewhat similar to my wind magic, ‘Big Voice’, in that it also manipulates the air to make the sound louder in the surroundings.
Then in that case, all I need to do is stop the oscillation of the air.
“ ‘Silent’ !” [Ryouma]
Aiming at the source, I fired off my magic. At that moment, the sound stopped, and Rheinhart-san and the others stopped hurting.
Effective… but painful.
The other side was causing the oscillations to increase with magic, while I did the opposite with my own magic. We’re both doing opposite things, so the victor will be decided by the one who has more control. If I lose focus, the sound will come out again.