I hate myself for being too eager to help.
Honestly I kind of expected this kind of development so I was going to shrug it off, but departing on the very same day was too much.
Luckily I was attending a boarding school, and also, my parents are pretty lax.
Simply by saying “I’m not coming home this year” is enough for them.
I then started preparing but when I looked at the clock, there was only one hour left until the promised time.
Fantasy had already encroached on my reality.
First of all I packed a torch, smartphone, a change of clothes… Aaah, whatever, I don’t care!
Along the way I got irritated and just packed at random and left the dorm just in time for the departure.
“We~ll then Yuu-kun. You know about RPGs, don’t you?”
She made to have an intellectual impression by wearing narrow glasses and a suit, but despite her going for the college professor look, well, her appearance feels more like a female teacher.
“Well, it would be much stranger if I didn’t know, right?”
When I heard that it had something like a ‘travel gate’ I imagined a more dungeon-like house, but it turned out to be a normal 2-storied detached house.
When I entered high school I started living in the dorms, but I heard the single-mother Sakurai family just moved in in their entirety. This is the first time I stepped in their house since I came here.
“Rather, I thought I could hear more about Arina being a Hero.”
“So your stance is to not take any questions, huh”
Emiko-san, with her wavy hair swinging and her lips colored with lipstick, apologized. The scent of some quality perfume lightly floated about.
… Just how did this ero-beauty give birth to a plain child like that.
“Yuu-kun, have you ever cleared a fantasy-style RPG?”
“Okay. So I won’t need to explain much about the genre. Can you lend me your smartphone?”
Emiko-san took my smartphone, then attached a cable onto it and connected it to a PC. She seems to be installing some app into it.
Even though I didn’t really want to tamper with it since it’s not an ordinary smartphone, but a school-provided tool called an ‘E:ID’ containing my electronic student ID, among other things.
“Then, never mind the Hero Arina, do you know what you should do first when you’re suddenly thrown into a fantasy world?”
“No, not at all.”
Emiko-san disconnected the phone from the cord and continued her customizations with a previously prepared component and screwdriver.
“Answer the question please” was her reply, half-ignoring me.
“Umm. Beginning from the starting village, defeat low-level enemies to gather EXP… I think.”
“Though I don’t get what you’re trying to say from the beginning.”
As she was saying that she handed back my smartphone.
The smartphone was put into a strange case and became one size bigger.
The terminal screen was displayed to me in 3D, it was a truly futuristic thing.
“Cool, what’s this!”
I unintentionally blurted out.
“A chance to experiment for my research. I’m glad you liked it♪”
The words [Elixir-Replica System] was displayed on the terminal screen.
“Eluks?” «TN: Elixir-Replica System was written in the Latin alphabet, which he apparently can’t read»
“Waa, that’s really a fantasy-ish name. It’s really got the mood going!”
Emiko-san touched the screen, and more windows appeared.
[Status]
[Skills]
[Items]
[Other]
They were all commands like ones you’d see in RPGs.
I put on the wristband she handed over.
Then I pressed [Status].
Name: Shimoyama Yuuki, Job: High School Student
HP: 100, MP: 100%
STR: 5, AGI: 5, INT:3, LUK: 0
Just like that, my status was out in the open.
“This is the answer from before. If Yuu-kun is going to live in a fantasy world, it’s better to represent reality as a RPG system. It’s putting this world’s [common sense] into a world lacking in one.”
For the time being, I simply nodded.
“I’ve been analyzing Arina’s power for some time now and developed this system. The numbers appearing here denote your own abilities.”
“If I had to say then this is something like the remaining battery power, I think. This remodeled smartphone takes in the ‘mana’ existing in the air automatically as a replacement for electrical power. Then using this…”
Emiko-san then pressed the button labeled [Skills].
[Salamander Cannon 60%]
Those words appeared.
“Use that when you’re in a pinch, okay♪”, she said.
She selected [Item] → [Store] and a laser beam came out from the edge of my smartphone. She pointed it at my backpack and after several seconds the backpack disappeared.
The [Items] display now shows [Backpack], [Change of Clothes], and [Chocolate].
“I was in a hurry, seems to have gotten in by mistake.”
Strapping the smartphone on the wristband makes for a simple adventuring set.
“… Oh my, look at the time. I have a very important meeting to go to today.”
“You said there was no time but it was because of your personal business!?”
“Eh. You’re not going to see your daughter off!?”
… the smartphone and all, it looks like this mother-daughter pair went with the premise that I’ll be coming along.
“Huh, that reminds me, where’s Arina? She’s not here.”
While we’re having this conversation, the lead actor Arina wasn’t present.
Are you dumb or what.
We’re not going out shopping you know.
“Well then, as for Arina, I’m Coun Ting On You, okay! Ciao☆”
Lightly waving her hand, Emiko-san rushed outside.
Being single for such a long time, she must be clearly putting her guard up, huh.
Well, it was probably too much for a little boy to understand a woman’s charm.
Huh.
Like what the Demon King actually was, or if there were things like monsters, or how we’re going to actually depart to begin with…
“Awawawawa!”
Her mother said she was getting ready, but she’s still wearing the circlet and sailor uniform.
“I, I’m sorry! I overslept!!”
I’m so angry I think I’m popping blood vessels on my head!
“I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry! I was enjoying my birthday too much yesterday I couldn’t get much sleep. I, I’ll lick your shoes and all so please forgive me.”
“Noo! Saying it’s a hobby is… ――――ahー.”
It looks like I made her realize her own inclinations.
“I’ve never heard of a Hero waking up to her masochism right before setting off, you know. Seriously, you.”
“Oi cut it out!! ENOUGH!!”
“T, ttttttt that’s right, we don’t have time! Get your shoes and follow me to the basement!”
With that Arina took my hand and led me down to the basement.
――hm?
“… Arina, are you wearing perfume?”
“Well, you smell like Emiko-san.”
“No, well, it’s just a faint scent so it’ll be fine…”
“A, anyway, w, we have to hurry.”
She ran down to the basement.
In the basement, there is an egg-shaped ‘mechanism’ somewhat larger than me.
*Wham*, *wham*, it sounded of heavy moving parts.
The surface of the egg is marked with the letters [A・R・N].
“I, is this the ‘travel gate’?”
It looked like a SF machine you probably won’t see outside of a certain well-known theme park, it only made my worries grow.
“Don’t worry. Mother taught me how.”
If possible I wanted Emiko-san herself to do it.
I guess the procedures for adventuring are the same everywhere, huh.
Pi… PiPi… *gakon*
The surface of the egg opened wide vertically.
Uwaa, what’s this…
So―scary―
“N, now the preparations are complete! It’s finally finished.”
“Are we going to jump into this?”
Uwaa, no way.
“Yosh! Let’s go!”
“…, let’s go!”
“Yuu-kun?”
I replied with nothing but noncommittal responses, so Arina gazed at me.
………..
“…… N …NOT A CHANCE!”
Yuu-kun getting scared is…
A, Arina is stupid huh.
B, because Arina is stupid…!”
Dammit, I guess I have to do it.
“Yes!”
“Come with meeeeeeeeeeee!”
I!
Jumped in!
The machine!
Blue sky and refreshing wind.
A clear flowing stream, and a rolling water wheel powered by that stream.
I can hear goats bleating, *baa~*
… In this 100% absolute boondocks of a village entrance, I asked Arina.
“A, aaaaaaaaaah, uhmmm, ummm…”
“I’ll lick your shoes so please forgive me!”
My strength drained because of the Hero-sama who immediately made an epic fail, and sat down on the spot.
Firstly, this place is Occa village.
It was immediately after this that we heard rumors of repeated kidnapping incidents on the highway to Ivan Castle.
Chapter end
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