Chapter 29- School Expedition (4)

“Itsuki-kun. What was that broadcast I just heard…..?”

“Um, that was …….”

I was asked by the teacher as we ran right past the monster that had been completely stretched out to get to the staff room.

I was at a loss for an answer.

I didn’t know what to say or where to start.

Would she believe me if I told her that there are monsters in this world, that there is magic, and that I was born into a family of exorcists who use magic to exorcise monsters? I doubt she would believe me. ……

At least in my previous life, I would never have believed such a thing even if a child told me.

I don’t know.

The teacher can see the monster from earlier, and she also sees Nina-chan’s magic.

Maybe she would believe me.

“Sensei… What did you think when you saw that strange man earlier?”

“That person whose whole body is twisted, right? I thought he was cosplaying something.”

Well, that’s right.

It’s a common sensibility to think so.

I wonder if I would have been shown something like that in a previous life and thought, “That really was a ghost!” I doubt if I would have been like that in my previous life.

“There are a lot of strange people in the world. I was being followed by one of them.”

“You’re talking about the person from the broadcasting room right?”

I nodded.

I don’t know if you can really call that a person.

“She said that you did something to her little sister. Did you play a prank on her?”

“Prank ……. Umm.. that’s what it is…..”

I’m a first grader from the teacher’s point of view.

She thought that the only thing a elementary schooler could do to offend someone was a prank.

The teacher’s words, which would never have come up if she were an exorcist, were new to me and I was a bit confused.

But speaking of that monster’s little sisters…. maybe it was those two who liked cubes and balls, but I think it was my father and Irena-san who exorcised that one, not me. It’s not even a matter of recrimination.

As I was running thinking that, Nina-chan pulled me by the hand.

I turned around to see what was wrong, and she was looking at me with a very worried look on her face,

“Hey, Itsuki. Are you okay?”

“Yes. I’m fine, Nina-chan.”

“ But, Itsuki, Right now…your magic…”

“Don’t worry about it. I really am fine.”

I did my best to smile at Nina-chan.

It’s times like this that make me uneasy.

That’s why I’m sure Nina-chan is also worried.

We can’t go out of the school building, monsters are roaming around, and I can’t use my magic.

Of course I would be anxious.

That’s why I tried my best to put a smile for Nina-chan face so that she would feel less anxious.

To be honest, I was scared too.

I can’t use magic.

Even the low-level monsters that came out earlier, the “first rank” monster, I can’t exorcise it now.

And yet, I’m being targeted by a monster of the “fifth rank.

It would be crazy not to be scared.

But if Renji-san and my father had been here, I’m sure they wouldn’t have ended up just being dismayed and upset.

So, while cheering Nina-chan up, we headed for the staff room.

When we arrived at the staff room, it was, of course, empty.

The desk was littered with tests, papers, and other such things, as if the teachers had suddenly disappeared from existence in the middle of their work.

The teacher strode in with accustomed gait and headed for the steel storage cabinet by the wall.

“Good. I found it…..”

Saying this, the teacher took out a tool box that looked like it could be sold anywhere.

She took out a hammer from there and showed it to us.

“Let’s break the window with this. Wait a minute.”

The teacher then took out a roll of duct tape from the same shelf.

Then she began to put it on the windowpane.

“When you break a windowpane, you can break it safely if you put a piece of duct tape on it before you break it.”

“I didn’t know that….”

I had never heard of that before.

If I ever get a chance to break a window again, I will give it a try.

I just hope that opportunity never comes again.

While I was thinking about this, the teacher finished putting the duct tape on the window of the staff room and hit the windowpane with all her might.

She doesn’t hesitate, does she?

I thought she seemed like a quiet person, but she might have been under a lot of stress from the situation. As soon as the teacher’s hammer struck the windowpane, there was a cracking sound, and I was sure I heard the windowpane shatter.

When the teacher swung the hammer down again, the sound was even louder.

The teacher swung the hammer down again, and the sound was even louder. Like this.

The teacher peeled off the duct tape and found the completely broken glass sticking to the tape. And the night wind was coming in through the window frame where the glass was missing.

I see.

Because she put the gummed tape on, all the pieces stick to it.

It’s a learning experience.

No, there will never be a time to make use of it.

But the window glass was broken.

If it is broken, we can go outside.

“Itsuki-kun. Nina-chan. Come here. It’s dangerous, so I’ll hold you.”

The teacher said as she carefully shattered the pieces of glass left on the window frame.

The teacher picked us up and took us outside.

Oh, thank you.

The teacher then took a chair from the teacher’s office and used it as a scaffold to get out.

“I wonder if we can go home now.”

“I don’t know ….”

I could only reply to Nina’s mutterings.

We were definitely out of the school.

The time was 17:00 when I checked the clock in the staff room a while ago.

The full moon is in the sky.

After being shown something like this, I couldn’t believe unconditionally that I could go home just by getting out of the school.

Still, the fact that I was able to go outside was a big progress.

“Anyway, let’s get out of the school. Then those strange people would be gone.”

Without using the word “monsters,” I indicate my next move.

If we believe the words of that “fifth rank” monster, the only place where monsters are released is inside the school building. And considering the fact that the main body was also using the school’s internal broadcasting system, it must be camped out in the broadcast room.

Considering that, the outside of the school should be safe.

“Yes, that’s right. If we go outside, maybe Mom will come to our rescue……”

Nina-chan nodded.

The teacher’s face was still uneasy, but she probably thought it would be more dangerous to stay at school.

She nodded as did Nina-chan.

So we headed out of the school gate and headed to the field to go outside.

“……Eh?”

Nina-chan, who was the first to go out onto the ground, froze.

Next, when I saw that scene, I stiffened involuntarily, and the teacher behind me stiffened in the same way.

“Welcome! Kisaragi Itsuki.”

How can I explain the scene before my eyes?

In a word, monsters were playing in the schoolyard.

On the jungle gym, three giant eyeballs were playing. On a swing, a monster with only arms was clapping his hands. On a cloud ladder, a spider-like monster was building a web that was intertwined between the two, and above all, dozens of monsters were playing soccer on the ground, kicking monsters in the same way.

And in the center of it all stood a woman.

“You’re late. A man who makes a woman wait is not popular.”

The tattoo on her upper body was a big mess.

No, not a tattoo. If you look closely, you can see some kind of pattern.

It’s a pattern, a creature-like pattern, that is crawling around on the surface of the monster’s body.

“I’m tired of waiting. I’m really tired of waiting, Kisaragi Itsuki.”

The voice was clear even though we were in the center of the field.

The voice is so clear that you would think it was right in front of you, even though she’s a few dozen meters away from us.

“All of you here are my sisters, my lovely sisters, gathered here to avenge my sisters who were exorcised by you. We are all here to kill you, Everyone. Yes, to kill you!”

With a bang, the monster stepped on the ground.

At that moment, all the monsters on the ground turned towards us at once.

Each and every one of them was a small monster.

If I could use magic, I could exorcise them right away.

But no. Now, even one of those monsters can be fatal. ……

“Don’t get carried away just because you can use magic a little bit, you little shit! If you can’t use magic, you’re just a kid. You know that, don’t you?”

She stomped over and over and over again as if she were stamping on the ground.

“This is a “closed world” where human magic is sealed. This place was prepared for you only to make you suffer and kill you miserably. Now, I should let my resentment fester…..”

At the monster’s words, I involuntarily looked at Nina-chan’s profile.

Because I thought that the monster’s words were wrong.

Because just now, Nina-chan was using magic.

She said that she sealed human magic, but it was only my magic that was sealed …….

Hmm? No, is that what you mean?

“I won’t forgive you if you cry and apologize and crawl on the ground and ask for forgiveness….”

The monster in front of me just now certainly said that.

But Nina-chan’s magic is human magic, but technically the magic itself is used by fairies.

That’s why it couldn’t be sealed. I see.

So that’s how it works.

It sounds like a bug in a video game, but I still saw an opportunity there.

“I see. you sealed the person’s magic.”

“Yes, I did! To kill you unceremoniously.”

It is true that “Kaijutsu ” and ” Shijutsu” are both manipulations of magic power, not magic. The reason I was able to handle them in this world is because they were not magic.

I see.

I see.

My head fills with understanding.

At the same time, I get a little bit high with a flash of a possible way out of this situation.

“Nina-chan. Sensei. I need you to step back for a second.”

“Itsuki?”

“Itsuki-kun ……?”

Without waiting for their reaction, I stepped forward.

And for beginners in the art of coagulation, they practice by putting magic power in the side of a doll or stuffed animal.

If that is the case, then….

Perhaps it is possible to do the opposite?

Can’t I prepare magic power as a container and substitute an existing one for the “nucleus”?

If I did that, even a beginner like me could create fairies, couldn’t I?

After thinking about it, I think.

……I’ll never know until I try it, right?

That’s right. If I don’t try, I’ll never know.

I don’t know if it will work, and I wonder what I will do if it fails.

But Nina went ahead.

She was almost self-taught and became able to use fairy magic.

Just looking at it makes her hyperventilate, but she still managed to exorcise the monster.

I think it’s amazing. I think I need to learn from her.

So I’m going to give it a try.

I took out Raikou-douji’s relics.

A relic of the “sixth rank” monster that still retains the crystals of magic power even after death.

What will happen if I use it as a nucleus?

What will happen if I make a container with the magic power I have that surpasses the monster in front of me, that is, the magic power equivalent to the “Sixth Rank”?

The guiding thread silvate that I created surrounds the relic of Raikou-douji, encloses it, and creates a human form. The world was distorted by its magic power.

What makes this possible is the amount of magic power of the seventh rank.

The female monster who was watching this didn’t hide her bewilderment and spoke up.

“What are you doing all of a sudden….?”

But no matter what she say, it’s already too late.

The humanoid I created was blacker than the darkness of the night and extended two horns toward the sky. The tall physique, the armor-like shell, and the strong muscles that support it.

And all of this is completed as soon as the magic power explodes!

“I am back! Resurrection! 』

A voice rang out.

Purple electricity ran toward the approaching monsters, and in an instant the monsters exploded.

The monsters who had been watching from afar were seen to be frozen in place.

No wonder.

A “Sixth Rank” that surpasses that of the “Fifth Rank”.

It was a reproduction of that.

“It’s been a long time, Raikou-douji.”

“Yes, it has been a long time, my Lord. 』

“…… My Lord?”

“You created me. If that is so, then the child is my Lord. 』

So that’s what happens when you’re a fairy, huh?

I was convinced, and Raikou-douji knelt down to me.

“Now, you may command me in any way you wish. 』

If that’s the case, I’ll be quick.

“Nina-chan, Sensei, and I will not be harmed in any way.”

I could make a reversal.

“I want you to run wild, Raikou-douji.”

“Gyoi!!”

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