Chapter 45.2

Chiyu Mahou Chapter 45 Part 2

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Ark Girdle .

He’s a knight guarding the castle gate that possessed a main protagonist’s traits .

He’s a good-looking guy but in a different sense from Kazuki-kun… .

“However, I’ll have to leave my post for a bit . ”

“Eh?”

What did he mean?

As I was pondering on what Ark-san had said, the man himself straightened his back and said,

“This unworthy Ark Girdle will assist Usato-sama from the Rescue Squad on his journey . ”

His voice resonated with optimism .

“………Eh?”

“Hahaha, I’m surprised too . After all, I was only relayed this message just yesterday at the castle . ”

Of course I felt shocked . After all, to decide a retainer just yesterday was quite fast . As expected of Usato-kun, he was shrewd . I’m a little resentful of the fact that he got someone of such high caliber as well .

No, he probably noticed it himself . . the fact that Ark-san had the qualities of a main protagonist .

“Fuu, as I would expect from Usato-kun . It’s my complete loss… Ark-san, please look after Usato-kun . ”

“Yes!”

While feeling a complete sense of defeat, I walked towards town . Usato-kun should be fine if Ark-san is with him . Unless Usato-kun faces an overwhelming enemy, he should be fine with that strong body of his . In addition, there was also Amako who could foresee the future . He’ll definitely be okay .

Actually, his party was on the level of an impenetrable iron wall . How would you defeat it?

I was the one who felt the most troubled . . I would be headed to a country with hot climate that held strong beliefs towards the heroes . The country is called Calmerio and it was really far . . it felt troublesome in many ways . There were problems with being too popular!!

“…No, I shouldn’t be feeling depressed . ”

From what I hear, I should be able to gain their support . Since I was a hero, I had to be the one to go in our current circumstances .

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I had finished my training for the day and I was currently present in front of the clinic on the streets . The gazes in my surroundings directed towards me felt warmer now . Well, I used to carry Bluerin all the time on the streets so I guess it was quite the difference .

For now…

“Hello there . ”

I gave a greeting as I lightly knocked on the clinic’s door and opened it . As always, this place felt similar to the Rescue Squad’s facilities and the surroundings were clean as well . It felt like it had been a while since I came here… As I was having those thoughts, I could a pitter-patter sound of footsteps making their way towards me . Before long, a girl that I was familiar with had appeared before me .

“Welcome to… Wait, it’s Usato-kun . ”

“Hello there, Uluru-san . I came here today to meet with Olga-san… Is he busy?”

“Nope, it’s alright . We don’t have many patients today . It’s a good day . ”

A good day, huh . A day without many patients meant that weren’t many wounded or sick people… Indeed, it’s a good day . While following Uluru-san who was in a good mood and smiling, I told her my reasons for coming here .

“Hmm, Big Brother’s healing magic huh… Yeah, I think it’s a good idea . After all, that’s his only redeeming trait . ”

Uluru-san was unexpectedly strict and harsh on Olga-san . No, maybe she was originally like this?

“But leaving my brother aside, Usato-kun sure has becoming amazing . I heard about it . You exchanged blows with Rose-san, right?”

“Eh? That’s not right . ”

“Eh? That’s… Ahahaha, now that I think about it… There’s no way anyone could exchange blows with—“

“She was just punching me at me . ”

“You didn’t… die?”

It didn’t make much of a difference either way . Even if I did spar with her, I would still be the only one receiving punches . I’ve been focusing only on defense and did my best to avoid that one blow .

“But really, I did my best . But you can think of it as Leader taking it easy on me . After all, I’m still alive… But why do you know about this?”

“… . Aha-haha, I heard a strange scream while I was by the Rescue Squad and I caught sight of you having a fight with Rose-san . ”

So from there, she thought I was having a fight with Rose… Even though I was simply clinging onto my dear life . I even remember begging for my life to Rose at one point . Even so, we resumed the training .

“Even so, it sounds like you went through quite a lot… Ah, this my brother’s room . ”

“Thank you very much . ”

Uluru-san knocked on the door and said out loud that “Usato is here . ”

After a short moment, a voice came from the other side of door and told us to enter .

Upon entering the room, I could see that there wasn’t much furniture and could see the figure of a man sitting on a chair .

“Even though you fell sick, sorry for not visiting you, Olga-san . ”

“I don’t really mind, I’d rather people visit me when I’m energetic . ”

Uluru-san’s brother, Olga Fleur . He’s a healing magician who was anything but average just like Rose and ran a clinic . He was the person I would ask to teach me .

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“I see, you’re asking me about healing magic before you go on your journey…”

For the time being, I explained to Olga-san about the current situation of how I would be sending letters to different countries . Olga-san was pondering on something but it didn’t seem like he would refuse .

“However, I don’t think it’s really necessary for me to teach you anything, you know? Usato-kun, you’ve already become a healer that’s even more amazing than me . ”

“Even so, I want to ask you because Rose is in the forest right now . ”

“Y-yeah… After all, I don’t have a strong body like you… Healing is all I’ve got . ”

Olga-san said so as he folded his arms and looked troubled . Uluru-san raised her hand and started to give advice to the troubled Olga-san…

“Well then, how about comparing our healing magic together as a test? You don’t mind right, Usato-kun?”

“No problem . ”

“Then, let’s do it!”

“You’re not going to ask for my opinion… Hahaha . ”

I released my healing magic from the palm of my hand before Olga-san who was smiling bitterly and Uluru-san who was smiling cheerfully . Just like when I did this test with the crystal before, the same pale green light appeared .

Uluru-san’s healing magic seemed to be thicker than mine but the colors weren’t too different . However, Olga-san’s was…

“…As expected . ”

Dense . There was no transparency at all . It was completely green . Compared to Rose though, hers was a much darker green than Olga-san’s .

“Olga-san, how do you usually refine your magic power? I seem to always get this thin green color when I do it…”

“It’s the same for me . I don’t do anything different from you two . My magic is a little different . . it’s something you’re born with . ”

“Born with…”

“However, this dense healing magic is effective at curing diseases . In exchange, I get a much weaker effect from casting healing magic on myself… Ahahaha . ”

—Perhaps the denseness of healing magic can tell you what it can heal?

I looked towards the usual magic I released from my hand and slowly clenched it to form a fist . The light dwelling in my fist remained the same color it has been since I first started using this magic in this world .

“As far as I know, using healing magic to heal diseases is different than using it to heal injuries . Basically, you’re healing them from the ‘inside’… Got it? You’re not curing them of their disease, you’re healing them of their disease . ”

“…I don’t really get it but I guess I can assume that Big Brother’s healing magic is at least one step ahead of mine?”

“Let see… I guess you can think of it like that way, I don’t think it’s wrong . ”

Compared to my healing magic, it was definitely one step ahead…

Rose could probably help me in some way but I felt like this was something that I had to learn for myself . If I take into consideration of the difference between me and Olga-san, it was the denseness and the color . If I were to be able to match those, wouldn’t I be able to heal diseases as well?

From what Rose has taught me, she would…

“……”

—For now, I should try to concentrate my healing magic instead of trying to expand it .

I suppressed the overflowing magic from my palm so that the light wouldn’t escape when I enclosed it . From there, I poured more power into my palm . My thought process was like… Maybe I could just increase the amount of magic power in one area to increase its thickness . Even I knew it was such a simple and plain idea .

However, I could feel some sort of change as the magic power inside me started to travel like electricity .

“Usato-kun, what are you doing?”

“Eh? I just wanted to add some more magic power . ”

I took my eyes off my hand and kept on putting more magic power into it . The green-colored healing magic’s light gradually started to become a darker color . Maybe I could do this… The moment I was thinking so, Olga-san who took a peek at what I was doing suddenly took a hold of my hand .

“Usato-kun! Stop what you’re trying to do right now!!”

“Eh?”

Don’t tell me that I succeeded!? —At that instant, the overflowing magic and light in the palm of my hand… Was scattered with fresh blood .

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“Haah…”

One hour had passed since I tried to put more magic power into my hand .

My magic did become a denser color at that moment . But afterwards, it might’ve been that my hand couldn’t handle the amount of power… But my hand had ruptured with blood . It’s not like my hand exploded but just that there was a cut and blood flowed out from there .

I was surprised to learn about this kind of development . Of course, I healed my wound with my own healing magic shortly afterwards .

I realized it as I was healing myself but it seemed that what I tried to do was quite dangerous . Uluru-san wanted to try it too but was harshly scolded by Olga-san . I could understand where he was coming from though .

“When you increase the concentration of magic, it will become denser and have different properties . ”

Olga-san started to teach me a bit more about these rules . He also taught me that as the color became darker, it would become harder to heal myself . I should take into consideration that demerit .

In fact, I noticed it too . I tried to heal myself with that denser healing magic but I wasn’t able to . Olga-san was naturally born with denser healing magic and even he had a lot of trouble when it came to healing himself . I could somewhat understand these results .

“It was something worth trying . ”

I felt like I would be able to grasp it by repeating this process . I suspect that this was how Rose and Olga-san were able to quickly heal people . It would be difficult to heal people with diseases but up until now I thought it would be impossible for me .

I should make sure to use a safer amount of magical power when I attempt this again .

For that purpose…

“It seems like I’ll need to do some training . ”

I gathered my healing power once again to form a denser color .

This new type of training was just perfect since I would be able to do it anywhere . But I didn’t want to inconvenience these two again in case my hand got splattered with blood again… I should head back to the training grounds .

But as I was walking home, I looked back to see…

“Usato-kun!!”

“Oh, if it isn’t Senpai…”

I could see Senpai who was smiling and waving her hand towards me . She rushed over towards me with a happy expression and started to excitedly talk,

“It’s a bit sudden but how did you notice Ark-san’s main protagonist traits!?”

“Just what are you talking about?”

It really was sudden, Senpai .

—Well, I was thinking of quickly returning home to try to this new training but I don’t mind hanging around here for a bit longer . Senpai seemed to be acting really unreasonable right now… No, it was just the usual .

“Please wait a moment… Fuuuh—hahhhh… Alright, I’m ready . ”

I took in a deep breath and released it .

“Is it that bothersome to talk to me, Usato-kun?”

“There’s no way that’s true . ”

Only a bit .

Well, I really don’t mind talking with her though so I didn’t say it out loud .