Chapter 22

“It’s coming….!”

The moment my father’s voice echoed through the car, Renji-san and my father jumped out of the car as if they were being repelled.

“Oh, hey! Papa!”

“Itsuki stay in the car.”

The father released the barrier as he said so.

He could only produce two Silvates, so my father could not continue to fight while putting up a barrier..

Renji-san is standing behind him.

“Itsuki-kun, take care of Aya.”

“Ah, ha, yes!”

I couldn’t help but nod in agreement.

The two of them get out of the car and stop, staring in one direction.

But they don’t stand still for anything.

My father pulls out his sword and strengthens his right arm.

He also uses magic on his left eye in a more fluid manner.

Is it night vision magic?

Renji-san, on the other hand, made a guiding thread silvate in the shape of a square and threw it toward the ground.

“……?”

What is it going to do?

As if to answer my question, the ground that the guiding thread silvate was touching instantly turned into a bog!

“……?!”

Can magic be used like that!

As I was stunned, I was poked on the shoulder.

“Itsuki-kun. I’ll turn off the lantern.”

“Uh… Right.”

That was what my father had instructed me to do.

If a monster attacked and he and Renji-san went outside, he told us to turn off the light in the car.

The moment Aya turned off the lantern, our surroundings suddenly became pitch black.

But as my eyes became accustomed to the light, I could faintly see the two of them by the light of the waxing moon.

But it was still dark. It was too dark.

……That’s it!

As if imitating my father, I made lenses in front of both eyes with the guiding thread silvate and gathered light by “trait transformation”. It’s just a night vision scope.

However, the magic was a great success.

At once, I could see the scenery around him.

“…… Itsuki-kun.”

As I stuck to the window, Aya-chan squeezed my clothes.

I turned to her and took her hand.

“Don’t worry. Both Renji-san and papa are strong.”

“……Yes.”

The moment Aya nodded her head in agreement, the bear came out of the mountain.

I gulped …… involuntarily at the sight of it.

It’s 3m…… long, no, it’s 5m long!

It’s bigger than a normal car!

Of course it’s a monster, so it must be out of the ordinary.

But the bear is so big that mental fear prevails.

“What’s wrong, Itsuki-kun?”

“Here it comes ……”

In the car, I say this in a whisper, and Aya-chan’s grip tightens.

When I hold it back so as not to make a sound as much as possible, the tension rises to the point where I forget to breathe.

A moment later, just as the bear is about to move toward the car we’re in.

“Gummo! 』

It fell into the bog.

A moment later, my father, not wanting to miss the opportunity, kicked the ground and slashed the bear.

The bear’s head wasn’t cut off.

“Soichiro, it’s shallow.”

“I know.”

Kicking the ground, my father flipped.

The moment he was about to strike the bear in the back, the bear’s entire body was covered in hair.

“……?!”

It was a reflexive action.

I used “trait transformation: Hard” to create a wall in front of the car.

With a slight delay, the bear’s entire body explodes.

Like a bullet with iron needls, it scattered all around!

Gah! The needles pierce the defensive wall I’ve put up and make a dull sound.

It’s acting like a hedgehog!

Hedgehogs don’t shoot all their quills, but I can’t help but think so.

It seems I wasn’t the only one who was caught off guard by the bear’s behavior, as my father and Renji-san also stopped for a moment in reflexive defense. Taking advantage of that moment, the bear ran away!

“You can’t let it get away!”

Renji-san extended his guiding thread silvate, but the bear jumped into the mountain before he could do so. The magic that Renji-san unleashed slammed into the trees and crushed them into tiny pieces.

“We’re going after it, Renji!”

“All right.”

The two of them looked at us in the car as they said that.

“We’ll be right back.”

Aya-chan and I could only nod in agreement.

But Renji-san, who was watching us, raised one hand in the air and gave us a sign that said, “Okay,” and disappeared into the mountains.

“That was awesome…”

“Yes. I wonder if Dad and Soichiro-san are okay…..”

“They’ll be fine. They are strong.”

We were alone in the car, and we talked about it as if it was something else.

“The explosion stopped just now, was it your magic?”

“Yes, that’s right. My wall magic.”

“It’s amazing! You can already use such magic!”

Unlike the anxious face from before, I was shown a sparkling gaze and I suddenly felt like I wasn’t bad.

“I know with practice, even you can use it.”

“Really? But I’m not good at magic.”

When I saw Aya-chan looking troubled, I said to her “It’s okay” and continued.

“I’ll teach you next time if you want.”

“Eh? Really?”

“Of course!”

I’m indebted to Renji-san.

I’d like to repay him for his kindness.

And teaching is also a good way for me to review myself.

I remember hearing about this in my previous life when I was a high school student, when “active learning” was all the rage. Well, I stopped using it as soon as I entered college.

“When will Dad and Soichiro-san be coming back?”

“Hmmm? They haven’t gone that far.”

I was about to continue, but I fell silent.

I had to be silent.

“Itsuki-kun?”

“Shush!”

I covered Aya’s mouth with my hand and looked outside the car.

There was a wild boar.

A huge boar.

The tusks were huge, about three meters long.

It wasn’t as big as the bear I saw earlier, but it was comparable in size.

“……!”

There was no doubt. It’s a monster!

But why is it here?

From what I’ve heard, that bear is the only monster in this neighborhood.

That’s what we heard, so both my father and Renji-san left us to go after that bear. Besides, if there were other monsters, they would have been caught in my father’s barrier. Even though there shouldn’t have been ……!

“…… Itsuki-kun.”

“It’s okay, Aya-chan.”

In the moonlight, the boar’s figure was clearly visible from inside the car.

The boar’s eyes were fixed on us.

“I’ve already killed it.”

As soon as I said that, the boar that had been staring at us fell to the ground.

“Eh? How? Why?”

“Aya-chan, stay in the car. I’ll check around.”

But I can’t rest easy.

I had to watch our surroundings.

I put my hand on the car to get out so I could look around more easily, but Aya pulled my hand.

“Wait! I don’t want to be alone!”

“…… yeah. Come on, then.”

I couldn’t argue with her reasonable opinion, so I got out of the car with Aya-chan.

As soon as we got out of the car, we were met with multiple stares.

“Huh?”

Looking around us, we saw owls and deer watching us.

Not only that, but the trees nearby were moving.

Probably more than a dozen of them.

All of them are weak monsters of the “first rank,” but when they gather together, it’s a bit spectacular.

“……hmmm.”

I’m going to have to ask my father to explain the situation to me later.

“Hey, Itsuki-kun! There are monsters! All around us!”

“Yes, I know.”

I’m already moving my hand.

But it’s okay.

I stretch out my silvate to catch the monsters looking at us.

“It’s all over now.”

In an instant, I cut all the monsters.

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