Chapter 42: Dynamic Good Evening from the Window
Translator: Soafp
The border city located between the Belhalt Empire and the Kingdom of Kisirika.
There lived a certain father and daughter there.
“Dad!! Don't die!!”
“……Sor…ry……Please… forgive this father… for leaving you… all alone……”
“Dad!!”
That was when it happened.
“All right, here we go—BAM!! A dynamic good evening through the window!!”
“Eek!? W-what!? Who are you!?”
A man burst in through the window.
He wore jet-black clothes and a skull mask, making him look extremely suspicious.
A large scythe rested on his shoulder, and silver chains were wrapped around his entire body.
Faced with the sudden appearance of such an obvious intruder, the girl became wary.
Though she was not even ten years old, she stepped forward to protect her father. The suspicious man looked at her and burst into loud laughter.
“Fuhahahahaha!! Nameless girl, when asking someone's name, proper manners dictate that you introduce yourself first!!”
“Uh, um, I—I am—”
“Oh, hold it right there, young lady!! I am terrible at remembering people's names, so there is no need to introduce yourself!!”
“W-what is your problem!? First you say I should say my name, then you say I don't have to!! And anyway, are you a robber or something!?”
“A robber!? How rude!! It is true that I smashed a window and entered, but being called a robber just for that deeply offends me!!”
Normally, smashing a window to get inside would more than qualify as robbery, but the overly high-spirited man failed to notice.
The girl glared at him and spoke.
“We don't have any money!! We're so poor we can't even buy medicine to cure my dad's illness…… Please don't take anything more from us……”
“Fuhahahahaha!! Fear not, young lady!! There is only one thing I shall take from you!!”
“……I see. So you've come for me……”
The girl's father understood.
Surely, the masked man before him was the Grim Reaper, come to take his life.
Quietly closing his eyes, the father prepared himself to accept his death, apologizing in his heart for leaving behind his young daughter—
“I know not what misunderstanding you have, but what I am taking from you is your illness!!”
“Huh?”
The girl's father was enveloped in a warm light.
The body that had felt as heavy as lead suddenly felt light.
He sat up on the bed and checked his condition.
“What… what's this? My illness is gone? And this heat welling up from deep inside my body—what is it……?”
“Dad!? You're up—are you really okay!?”
“Yeah, I feel completely fine. No, more than fine—I feel better than I ever did before I got sick!!”
“D-Dad? Dad!?”
“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!”
The father began emitting an overwhelming aura, and the frail, emaciated body he once had rapidly transformed.
Muscles swelled so much that the clothes he was wearing tore apart.
“Hmph!!”
“Dad suddenly got super buff!? H-hey!! What did you do to my dad!?”
“Huh? Dunno.”
“What do you mean!?”
The father stood on the bed striking various poses, while the girl panicked.
Watching them out of the corner of his eye, the man muttered to himself.
“So this happens just from using a normal Extra Heal together with Mind Up? Nothing like this happened when I tested it on myself……”
Mind Up.
A spell that merely interferes with the target's mind to restore their mental energy.
And yet, for some reason, it had created a ridiculously muscular man.
The situation was so absurd that even the one responsible was baffled.
“Maybe it's some kind of synergistic effect. Mental magic still has plenty of room for research……”
“Hey!! Stop mumbling to yourself and turn my dad back to normal!!”
“It's fine, mooki!! Dad's never felt this energetic, mooki!! From tomorrow I'll work and work and earn tons of money, mooki!!”
“Dad, you didn't talk with that weird ending before, did you!?”
“That's not true, mooki. Dad's always been like this, mooki.”
The girl shuddered at the sight of her father, who had become a muscle fairy, and begged the man who caused it.
“P-please, really, really turn my dad back to normal. This version of my dad is kind of scary……!!”
“Mooki!?”
“……Fuhahahahahaha!! It's probably only temporary!! He should be back to normal by tomorrow morning!!”
“Really!? He'll really go back to normal, right!?”
“Indeed!! ……Probably!! Surely!! There should be a possibility that he might return to normal!!”
“!?”
The man's vague answer made the girl gasp.
As she rushed toward him in a panic, the man had already turned on his heel and leapt out the window.
“Fuhahahahaha!! Farewell!! Take care!!”
“H-Hey, wait!! You weirdo!! Turn my dad back!! And leave money for fixing the window!!”
“Worry not!! The window has already been fixed!!”
“Huh?”
She glanced at the window, and for some reason the glass was not broken—it looked just as it always had.
“H-Hey, at least tell me your name!! I might sue you if something happens!!”
“I am No-Name!! Oh, and no serious retorts like ‘that's still a name,' please!! Well then, farewell for real this time!!”
“H-Hey!! At least let me thank y—he's already gone……”
His figure vanished into the darkness of the night in an instant.
The girl stood by the window, staring into the dark.
“W-what was that, seriously……?”
“I'm sure he was a servant of the spirit who helps people in need, mooki.”
“The spirit? Like the one from old tales who gave power to the hero?”
“That very spirit, mooki.”
“I don't like the idea of someone like that being a spirit's servant…… also, Dad, please stop saying ‘mooki.' Seriously.”
“Mooki!?”
Early morning.
When the sun had just begun to rise, I returned to the Great Tree Pavilion and met up with Luu on the balcony.
“Welcome back, King Ask!!”
“Luu, I'm back.”
“……King Ask, did something good happen?”
“Oh, you can tell?”
It was my first time doing street healing as No-Name, and I'd made several interesting discoveries.
First was mental magic.
When used together with ordinary healing magic, it seemed to produce unexpected synergistic effects.
Since he looked mentally exhausted too, I tried combining them as practice, and he turned ridiculously muscular—it surprised me as well.
The other big gain was learning about the power residing in the great scythe.
“Luu, this great scythe is amazing.”
“How is it amazing?”
“When you strike something with it, no matter what it is, it gets restored to its original state. I only found out by accident, though.”
The border city had many patrol guards, making it hard to wander around freely.
But while knocking away guards who got in the way, I noticed that when the blade of the scythe accidentally hit a guard's dented helmet, it instantly returned to normal.
As expected of an artifact—what a terrifying ability.
With this, I can break as many obstacles as I want while healing without worrying about property damage.
“Fwaa~. Good morning, Ask-kun. What are you doing on the balcony? And who is that child?”
“Ah, Lidiel-san. Good morning. Let me introduce her—this is Luu. She's the maid who works for my sister.”
After introducing Luu to the newly awakened Lidiel, we decided to have breakfast together, since we were all getting hungry.
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