The Man Picked up by the Gods Volume 1 Chapter 9

“What is it?”

“That’s right.”

“So, from rock to soil, and from soil to rock, take those two processes and turn it into one, and with that image please use your magic… if you do this, the rocks in the area affected by your magic will turn to soil… and the soil, remaining as a soil, will along with everything else become a rock… It should be decided before hand how big the rock that will be formed will be… In my case I have my slimes carry it away, so I chose this size.”

The man gave a nod to show he understood. Then, he went to a nearby rock and tried it out, after which, while the sizes were a bit off, he was able to splendidly turn the soil and rock into a size that could be moved.

“Ha! It really works! Although I need to get used to it before I can manage the size of the rock and the amount made properly, the magic consumption seems to be lower than doing things separately. Thanks, Ryouma-kun.”

“Welcome home! You did a good job! Ryouma-kun!”

“Eh! Ah!”

“I’m sorry! Are you ok!?”

“Ye, yes!”

“What’s important is your safe. By the way, the meal has already been prepared, will you being having your meal, now?”

“Can you eat? It’s not good to push yourself, you know?”

“Ho… it seems you’ve used quite a bit of magic, though.”

“Yes”

“That’s great”

Around that time, the food was brought over and we all began to eat. Then, Elialia said this,

“Ryouma-san, how much magic power does Ryouma-san have?”

“I don’t know…”

“Based on my body’s state and my intuition”

“If one gets used to it, then there’s no problem.”

Rheinbach-sama began to explain.

“In a normal family, one would go to the church on their 10th birthday and receive a measurement of their status. At that moment, based on the magic power of a person it will be decided whether that person can become a magician in the future or not. For us, nobles, we do it on the fifth birthday so we can start with training early. However, Ryouma-kun, your magic is probably not low. Since you were able to use magic consecutively, like that, without cutting off your magic power, you should be in possession of a significant amount of magic power.”

“It’s possible you might have around the same magic power as Elialia.”

“?”

Why would Ojousama be happy? While I was thinking that, Sebasu-san noticed and explained to me.

“Ojousama possesses an enormous amount of magic power. Given her position, from a very young age, she has received special treatment. Because of that it became difficult to create friends that would be able to talk to her easily.”

The ojousama looked, at me, and then explained herself.

“… Even though for this country’s royal court magic practitioners, at most, a magic power of a little over 60,000 can be considered to be strong. But, my magic power is 200,000.”

200000, huh? This ojousama, she wouldn’t have happened to have been reincarnated from Earth, would she? The gods did mention that there are people who received cheats and were sent here before.

“I see? Aren’t you shocked!? It’s four times that that of a royal court magic practitioner, you know!?”

Even if you tell me that, I’m also a cheating bastard… so…

“Not really.”

“Why?”

“I won’t!”

“There’s no such thing! I’m…”

“Eh?”

“That’s… but…”

I wonder if something happened in the past.

“Then… Ojousama, am I scary?”

“I’ve… killed many people, you know? In total, I’ve killed 30 people… I’ve also killed animals… also killed magical beasts… on top of all that… I killed someone worth 700 small gold coins… even if it was all for the sake of living, the fact that I’ve killed is true”

Ah… right, I’ve killed… If it was Japan I’d be a murdering demon. I don’t think what I did was wrong though, if I hesitated I would have died. But still, the fact that I’ve killed is the truth. In other words…

“The person called Ryouma-kun in front of Ojousama… is a person who possesses the power to kill that many people… is Ojousama scared of that kind of me?”

“Is that true...?”

“Really? Is that really true?”

“Uu, uuu…. gusu”

Right after I said that, Ojousama cried.

Eh!? Wa–wait a moment, calm down… my voice isn't coming out! I’m not even stuttering, or smattering… Not a single word is coming out! Wait, this isn’t the time to be thinking something like that! While I’m thinking these things, won’t Ojousama cry for real!? I made a 12 year old cry… me who is actually a 42 year old uncle… what should I do.

After that, until the Ojousama stopped crying I wasn’t able to do anything. Right now, her eyes are still red but, Ojousama had already stopped crying.

“Ryouma-san”

My head’s still a little confused but, I responded to Ojousama. I still wasn’t able to say anything yet, but I looked at Ojousama’s direction.

At that, she lowered her head deeply and, giving her thanks to me, she said this.

“Thank you very much. Because of Ryouma-san’s words, my heart has been put at ease. And…”

Ojousama took a huge breath.

“Wont’ you be friends with me?”

After saying that. I barely managed to muster a reply to that.

“If Ojousama, is fine with it… then I’d be glad”

“El, ia”

… Ah, whatever. Elia’s happy and there’s nothing wrong. In this case, trying to change the situation rather than letting it take its course would be uncouth. 

Chapter end