Chapter 14: Takaya's Talent

"Hmm, this boy is ..."

　Hentai Lolicon Mazo ojisan (Takaya arbitrarily named him in his heart), Rudra, the guild master of "Searat", heard Takaya's evaluation from Roar and had a doubtful look on his face.

　While stroking the beard stored on his chin, his eyes were sharp as he observed Takaya as if he were suspicious. It's a big difference from when he was excitedly being kicked around by the little girl with elf ears.

"Huh, you don't trust Takaya's words, do you?　Takaya may look unreliable on the outside, but he's actually quite awesome. He said he collected this magic stone himself.

　Meirir handed Rudra a magic stone with a sour look on her face.

　It’s the most beautiful magic stone collected by Takaya. The clearer the stone, the higher the purity, and the more valuable it is.

"... What do you think, Feria"

"I always think, master, your difference between work and non-work is too big....... "

　The elf girl beside him sighs loudly at Rudra, who is in full work mode.

　By the way, as I was introduced by Roar earlier, she, Feria Is the number two in the guild after Rudra and is said to be a genuine elf. She has straight blond hair and dark green eyes. She has no feminine bumps yet and looks like a little girl.

　However, her age seems to be over 200 years old. What a different world.

"If you're skilled enough to collect the rare red magic stone, you can usually feel something. Well, it's difficult to judge if you have the skill of "root" type, For the time being, I have no choice but to examine him ...... first.”

　Saying this, Feria took out a piece of old paper from the drawer of Rudra's office desk.

　Is it about the size of an A4 paper? In the center of the paper, a character string that Takaya could never understand was engraved in a circle.

"This is a tree paper ... It's a paper that measures the degree of potential sleeping in a person. Takaya, this will show us the" tree "inside of you. Put your finger here."

"Uh, tree ...?"

　There have been some incomprehensible stories flying over Takaya's head since he came here, but for the time being, he has no choice but to do what everyone says.

　Takaya put his finger in the center of the circle, as Feria told him.

　The moment he did, he felt as if his fingertips were burning.

"Don't worry. It just sucked some of the bioenergy flowing through you. Look at it."

"ah……"

　The character strings engraved on the paper showed a mysterious movement.

　When I thought that the ink spread randomly around the circle as if it were bleeding, I found that it was gradually being drawn into "something".

"Is this ... a tree?"

"Yes. The tree paper is a way to tell what kind of potential a person has in the form of a tree. It will tell you if you’re good at combat, if you’re good at magic,... and It shows you how far you can reach. "

　I don't know what the shape of the drawn tree should be, but I do know that it should be a beautiful large tree.

　And that Takaya's "tree" will never be that way.

　The proof is that the black ink that leaked from him, even a while after he put his finger on it, didn’t settle into a neat shape at all, it just kept crawling on the bottom half of the paper like a worm.

"Huh? Dike. Isn’t this strange?"

"Yeah ... that's right. It's weird, this movement."

　Meirir and Dike, who noticed something raised their voices.

"What do you guys mean?"

"Oh, you don't know Roar?　Normally, when you put your finger on it, it forms a shape pretty quickly.　It's like, "Here's what you're capable of”.”

"Well, I guess so. For a piece of paper, It usually presents the reality quite clearly. ......"

　However, Takaya's tree paper still can’t measure his ability.

　It's as if it’s complaining that it can't shape his true "tree" within the bounds of this form.

"Uh, Feria-san ... what should I do?"

“………”

"... Feria, san?"

　Although Takaya calls out several times, she is stuck with her eyes wide open staring at Takaya's paper.

　And so was Rudra, the president.

"-Hey, Roar, Dike, Meirir ... You guys might have picked up a hell of a guy."

"—It’s as Rudra says ... I'll look into it a bit more just in case, but this boy named Takaya may have ridiculous talent."

　

　The two tops of searats’ serious gaze were focused on only one boy, Takaya Nagami.

"Yes……?"

　The dark daily life of a boy who thought he was a shadow and couldn't be anything. That was about to change when this event in the otherworldly city of Bay Road occurred.

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