After Fer Noevir explained to me while slightly complaining, he seemed to calm down.
“From now on, I’ll be doing a lot of things, but I’ll take care not to drown in power… My apologies for not being able to say outright that I’ll absolutely not do so though…” [Ryouma]
“I can’t trust someone who says something like ‘absolutely’ so carelessly. It’s more than enough for you to think of keeping my advice to the best of your abilities.” [Fer Noevir]
“Thank you very much. I’ll continue to do my best from now on.” [Ryouma]
After hearing those words, the usual light began to shine.
“Looks like the time’s come. I’ll give you one last advice. There is an abnormality awakening in your body… but it’s not really something that rare. It’s limited to otherworlders from earth, but more or less there is an inclination similar to yours.” [Fer Noevir]
By abnormality, he’s referring to how I went into this realm and went off with a divine tool, right?
“Is that true?” [Ryouma]
“I haven’t identified the cause, but there are also people in the past who were able to do things that should normally be impossible. It just so happens that you happen to have a similar inclination for some reason. It’s precisely because Gayn and the others have a precedent that we know there’s nothing wrong with your body or your mind. There were also other people who had that inclination, but there weren’t any one who suddenly died or went mad.” [Fer Noevir]
Come to think of it, Kufo mentioned of a saint dying and removing all diseases from this world. That’s definitely not something that a person should normally be able to do.
…I haven’t really been minding it, but I wonder if I was actually concerned? Since I’m actually quite relieved now that I’ve heard of these words that were spoken just now.
“Thank you for telling me that.” [Ryouma]
At the same time I gave my thanks, the light wrapped around me, and I was brought back to the chapel.
I wonder if my voice reached him. I don’t know the timing for leaving so I’m quite anxious.
What I was thinking might have come out on my face since Toll and the others told me, “You’re making a strange face you know. Is something the matter?” To be honest, I completely forgot about these three…
After that, I tricked the three, and after waiting for a while, the woman who was in charge of the kids, thanked me along with the rest of the kids for participating. Looks like there’s no debut for my magic and scavenger guys here. It’d be faster if I used those guys, but the kids are doing their best to clean up, so I can’t just bring out the slimes just because they’re more efficient. So I just brought out the normal tools, and swept like a normal person along with everyone else.
The sweeping took until afternoon. After we cleaned the church, we had sandwich for lunch. After that was time for the candies that Rick was looking forward to. We were given a pouch with a ribbon tied to it. Inside were four pieces of cookie. All the kids ate here, so I tried eating it too. The baked sweet smelled good and had just the right sweetness. It also had the strong fruit smell of something like jam added onto it. It was delicious.
After we finished eating the sandwich and the cookies, all the kids formed groups and started playing in the garden. At the same time there are those who seemed to be looking at the entrance of the church, waiting for something.
I get the kids who are playing, but what about the kids who are waiting for something? So I tried asking Rick and the others what they were doing.
“What are you guys doing?” [Ryouma]
“We’re waiting for uncle!” [Rick]
The one who answered first was Rick. But that answer only told me that you’re waiting for someone.
“After sweeping, there’s an uncle who comes every time. That uncle teaches us swordsmanship and how to fight.” [Toll]
“How to fight?” [Ryouma]
Hearing Toll’s explanation, apparently there’s a former adventurer who drops by after the kids finish sweeping. That person doesn’t just donate to the church, but also hopes for the orphans who live in the church to be independent when they grow up and have to leave, so he teaches them how to fight free of charge. In other words, a volunteer. And because it’s possible to learn how to fight for free, there’re also kids who admire warriors who join the sweeping on the day of the church’s cleaning.
Even if you say it’s practice, taking into consideration the age, it’s not at a level where it can be considered much. At least looking at from mine or any adventurer’s perspective, but that can’t be helped.
“I get Rick, but why do you two want to train?” [Ryouma]
Rick’s a naughty boy so it doesn’t feel weird when he wants to join the training. But as for Toll… well he doesn’t strike me as that sort of person. Is it just because he’s a young boy that he admires adventurers?
“It’s not bad for girls to fight too, you know? I might get involved with some strange guy in the future, and I need to look after Rick too.” [Reni]
“As for me, my mom told me to train my body a bit… I never intended to slacken that much though.” [Toll]
“It’s because your personality’s so girly! If you train then you can become manlier!” [Rick]
“Y-Yeah…” [Toll]
I see… Or rather, Toll, aren’t you just being pushed around?
As I thought that, the surrounding children grew noisy.
“He’s here!” [Kids]
“Uncle!” [Kids]
“The scary uncle came!” [Kids]
Hearing that, I looked towards the entrance. And just as they’d mentioned, a man with a scary face was there, heading over here.
“Oi! Who said my face’s scary!? That was uncalled for!” [Scary Uncle]
Shouted the man as he walked over our direction. It was the guild master of the adventurer guild, Wogan. Apparently by uncle they meant Wogan-san. The surrounding children seem to have already gotten used to Wogan and they didn’t flinch at Wogan’s loud voice. Rather, there were even some kids who clung to him.
While he was wrapped up with children like those, our eyes suddenly met.
“Oh? Ryouma. What’re you doing here?” [Wogan]
“The store’s closed today, so I thought I’d walk around the town to spend the day, but then I heard about the church’s cleaning day, so I figured I’d participate. I thought an opportunity like this where I could be a part of the community and mingle with the others was a good thing.” [Ryouma]
“Well that’s certainly a good thing… Oh, right. Since there’s still some time, how about you go and help me for a bit.” [Wogan]
“Help?” [Ryouma]
“Yeah, come on, lend me your ear for a bit…” [Wogan]
After a while, I found out that he apparently wants me to help out with the training.
In the open area where children are gathered and separated according to ranking as they practiced their foundations, I took out from my ‘Dimension Home’ twenty scavenger slimes.
“Good! Today we’ll do something more practical for your training! Ryouma!” [Wogan]
“Right.” [Ryouma]
“Everyone! Today you’ll have these slimes as your opponents!” [Wogan]
“The wounds will be treated with healing magic, so please don’t hesitate, and go all out.” [Ryouma]
I think the ones who’ll be injured are the kids though. After all, I’ve been training the slimes until now, and they’ve also learned the Taijutsu and physical attack resist skills. Plus their opponents are just using wooden swords. With a child’s strength to boot too. Yep, the slimes probably won’t get hurt at all.
In any case, I had the slimes focus on dodging, and ordered them to only use their body slam for their attack, so the children should be safe. Body slams will only be able to trip people over at most after all.
“Ryouma, is it ok!?” [Rick]
As Rick asked that, I replied with a, “No problem.” At which Rick expressed that he wants to go first. That wasn’t a problem, so Wogan let him.
Rick wielded the wooden sword that children used. But his eyes were a lot more serious compared to the other children.
The scavenger slime didn’t attack and instead waited for Rick to attack first. Rick looked on at the unmoving scavenger slime, and ascertained his aim. And then he swung his sword downwards. But because he’s mostly only studied the form, his swing was wide open, and he had plenty of openings. But above all else, he was slow. He’s a kid though so I guess it can’t be helped… And as expected, the scavenger slime was able to dodge it.
Frustrated, Rick continued to attack at the slime. And in his frustration, his form gradually fell apart, until he completely forgot it and started just swinging his sword wildly. That went on for a while until Rick started tire. And when he brought his sword up, the slime took that opportunity and rammed its body into him perfectly. He’s not hurt, but because he was lightly pushed away, Rick fell on his tushy.
“That’s enough! Rick, your body’s still too small, and you also haven’t done proper training yet, so it can’t be helped that you lost. But you shouldn’t let the blood go to your head just because your sword missed. Just now, except for the first one, everything was a mess and you were full of openings. Next time, you should focus on making each movement as clean as possible.” [Wogan]