Chapter 14 – Men and Women Who Become Magical When They Do Naughty Things #4

Before parting ways with a fixed pot, we set a few rules.
It was a rule to be followed while carrying out quests together.

The first rule is to forbid breaking out of a fixed pot.
I cut it off and set it to one month, so you shouldn’t disband the party on your own during that period.
If there was no special reason, we decided to spend a month together.

The second rule is about mana training.
Can I ask the other person to do dirty things to accumulate mana for a month?
On this matter I have firmly decided.

“Forcibly attacking the opponent is prohibited. Let’s do lewd things after mutual consent.”
“It’s good because it’s a sound rule.”

After this we set the final rule.

“If you have any questions, I told you to ask me anything, right?”
“Yeah, I’ve just become an adventurer. I’ll probably owe you a lot in the future.”
“Originally, I was just going to give you an answer, but after thinking about it, I think I’m losing too much. I’m not a parent, so it’s hard for me to teach you everything, right?
“A price…?”
“Let’s do this. If you get more than 10 questions about adventurers, do my favor in return. It’s a light request, so there’s no need to be too nervous.”

I said scratching the back of my head.
In fact, I couldn’t help but feel unfair on my part for continuing to hand over information with my bare mouth.
Even so, the knowledge I knew as an adventurer was what I gathered by going through all sorts of hit-and-runs alone.
I acquired knowledge by selling my feet and sometimes even giving money.
It’s a bit cheesy, but you can’t pass on knowledge for free.
I’ll have to get a small ‘price’ in exchange for the information.

“Well, nothing is free in this world. To learn something you have to pay for it. But I have a question about the price you mentioned.”
“What?”
“You’re not going to do anything weird to me, are you?”

Rebecca crossed her arms and looked at me reluctantly.
I said shrugging her shoulders.

“What if you do?”
“Don’t do anything too weird.”
“There’s no need to be nervous. You’re going to ask for a ‘simple favor’, no matter how strange it is?

I bent my thumb and forefinger to form a coin shape.

“Just give me 5 coppers. Instead of not accepting the favor, just ask for 5 coppers. We’ll use the money as public money for our fixed party. We’ll use it in a way that benefits both you and me.”
“Hmm.”

Rebecca hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement with her.
Five coopers wasn’t too much money to pay.
Moreover, it is said that it is used for public money, not for personal gain, so it is not a completely losing proposition from Rebecca’s point of view.

“Okay. About 5 coppers.”

Rebecca accepted my offer without thinking.

“So the rules are all set? Anything else to add?”
“As for the other rules, you can stay together for a month and add as needed. Let’s get along well in the future, Rebecca.”

I smiled and reached out to Rebecca.
Rebecca shook my hand with a shy expression.
This is the moment when a two-person group of bronze adventurers was formed in front of the library.
It’s called a bronze party, so it looks fucking weak, but what’s the matter?
The fact that you formed a team with like-minded people is what matters.

‘What will happen to this party after a month?’

Already a month later, I started to wonder about the future.
Will Rebecca still be at the party after being with me for a month?
Because she can’t hold a heartless person.
If she wants to leave, she’ll have to let go.

‘I’ll have to be careful with my actions for a month.’

I went back to the inn while thinking about this and that.
Rebecca had her own inn, so naturally Rebecca and I diverged in different directions.

*

It happened when I entered the inn room and lay down on the bed.
I ate dinner, so I was thinking of taking a nap or hitting it for a long time.
A plan to sleep soundly until late at night, have a late-night snack with beef jerky, then lie back in bed and go to dreamland.
I thought it was a perfect plan, but I couldn’t sleep well even with the blanket over me and closing my eyes.
Feels like you forgot something.
It bothers me that I seem to be forgetting something important.

‘What am I forgetting?’

I was lost in thought as I stroked the horns on my head.
After thinking over and over again, I remembered something I had forgotten.

“Ah, magic training!”

I immediately kicked off the blanket and got out of bed.
He almost missed out on the most important magic training of the day.
I practiced magic in the morning, but I can’t skip evening training.

“Sex.”

I went outside muttering meaningless sex.
In fact, when I think about it, I thought magic training was not very different from sex.
If it’s fun and fun from the position of doing it, wouldn’t that be sex?
That’s why I recently had a lot of fun practicing magic.

The place to practice is, as always, an alleyway.

Street west of the city of Joensuu.
A place where abandoned abandoned buildings are gathered.
It is said that in the past, a large-scale construction plan was carried out under the supervision of the lord in this town, but it is said that the plan was abandoned for some reason in the middle. Thanks to this, the west street had an atmosphere like a ghost town with abandoned abandoned buildings.
That means that there is no one to stop me from practicing magic missiles.
I set up a block of wood on the floor and started making hand signs.

“Magic Missile.”

The glowing sphere of magic power flew through the air today as well.
I relieved my stress by shooting magic missiles.
Of course, there are very few magic orbs that can hit a block of wood.
Most of them just miss and hit the floor in vain.
After practicing shooting for quite some time, I got tired and decided to take a break.
I approached the seat where there was a block of wood and sat down with my buttocks on the bare floor.

It was when my messy head cleared up a little.
I inadvertently cast my gaze toward the block of wood and found a curious trace.
They were hollow holes caused by the collision of magic missiles.

“What?”

Holes the size of coins were grouped together in a circle around the block of wood.
Even during the last training session, the place where the hole was formed was very irregular.
However, today’s hole had certain rules.

I was an active duty soldier who had been discharged from my previous life.
During my 26 months of military service, I did quite a bit of shooting training.
Thanks to that, I could easily understand what the holes in the floor meant.

‘Looks like there’s an army of bullets.’

Shotgun.
It means a certain shape in which the points of impact are gathered from the target. The denser the group, the higher the accuracy, and the more spread out, the lower the accuracy. Even now, in my case, there is something that can be called a group of bullets made on the wooden floor.

“Oh oh-.”

I looked at the floor and let out a voice full of joy.
Doesn’t the fact that I have an army of bullets mean that my accuracy has increased compared to the last training?
It was only now that I felt the worth of coming to the alley every day and shooting the orb.

So how can I hit the target?
Unlike a gun, it can’t do click fixes, right?

I was happy for a moment, and I was lost in thought as I looked at the wood block. Maybe if I thought about it a little more, I might be able to find a way to dramatically increase the hit rate.

I got up and circled around the block of wood on the floor.
The act of spinning around in place was a habit I often did when I was deep in thought from my previous life.

‘Try moving the shooting point to the side a bit? If I do that, I think it will miss even more.’
‘How can I fix the arm that shoots the sphere? Shall I catch it with my other hand?’

A method came to my mind and I decided to try it out immediately.
Under the same conditions as before, he set up a block of wood and retreated a certain distance from the target.
A sphere of magical power appeared on the palm of my hand that had been sealed.

If you think about it calmly.
When I ejected the magic sphere, my palms always recoiled.
At the same time as shooting the sphere, force is applied in the opposite direction.
It was natural for the accuracy to drop as much as there was recoil, so a way to reduce this was needed.
That’s why I grabbed the wrist of the arm that shoots the orb with my other hand.

“Suck-.”

Think of it like shooting a gun.
I thought of the gap between my middle and index fingers as a sight seat.
I stopped breathing as much as possible and placed a piece of wood between my fingers.
It was the moment when I imagined that there was an imaginary aiming point on the surface of the block of wood.

Phut-!!
I fired a magic sphere.
Then an amazing phenomenon happened.
The magic sphere, which had been sluggish and missed, hit the center of the block of wood accurately.
The amount of impact delivered at once shattered the wooden blocks.

‘Done!’

Of course, you can’t be satisfied with just one guess.
You don’t know how you got it right by chance.
I repeated the firing drill without being vigilant.
I matched the wooden block on the floor with a magical sphere.

Phut! Phut! Phut! Phut!
The magic sphere did not hit all the wooden blocks.
Still, the hit rate increased.
If you shoot 10 shots, it’s only about one or two misses.
A hit rate of 90% can be said to be a sufficient passing score.
Even when playing an RPG game, if the reinforcement rate is 90%, it is like pressing a button without breathing.

“Hee hee,hee hee.”

In the middle of the night, not me, I started laughing like someone possessed by a demon.
It was because he was happy that his magic skills had increased.
From today I am no longer a poking wizard.
It evolved into a much more useful marble wrapper.

‘I’m not your heir anymore, Mr. Clem.’

I thought I would be able to get a good night’s sleep tonight.

The next day, I met Rebecca in front of the Adventurer’s Guild.
Because we promised to meet in advance to carry out the quest together.
Rebecca was waiting for me in front of the guild building early on. Rebecca’s red hair was a little rusty, perhaps because she hadn’t been awake.

“I’m here, Luke. Can we go get a request now? Since it’s a fixed party, we move together.”
“Wait a minute. I have something to show you before going into the guild.”
“Hurry up and take it out. Oh, I’m going to sleep.”

Rebecca, whom I met early in the morning, had low blood pressure.
Probably not the type to wake up early.
However, I had a trick to revitalize the atmosphere.
It is the Magic Missile that dramatically improved its accuracy yesterday.

“Look closely. I’m going to fire a magic missile.”
“Isn’t that a magic that shoots marbles from the palm of your hand? Why are you showing that here?”
“It’s very different from the Magic Missile you’ve seen. You can call it Magic Missile 2.0 now. You can look forward to it.”
“Under-?”

Rebecca makes a silly face.

“Is there a stone beak over there? I’ll match that with a magic sphere.”

I pointed with my finger at the boulder that jutted out from the stairwell at the bottom of the building. What
It was a stone beak that people who entered and exited the Humga Guild often stumbled upon.
It was a needlessly large stone beak, but there were always accidents because there was no one to remove it.
Indeed, it is the Midgard continent where selfishness prevails.

“Magic Missile.”

I shot the magic sphere at the stone beak.
I aimed delicately, so I didn’t miss anything.
Quick! The stone beak hit by the magic sphere was neatly shattered into fragments.

“He hit the little target well, even though he didn’t hit a single shot when he fought the kelpies on the lake shore.”
“I’ve figured out how to match orbs. Isn’t that great?”

I put a lot of strength on my shoulders and shrugged.
Then, he raised his head and looked at Rebecca.

Did you overdo it?
I was worried about what to do if he was sarcastic.
I just wanted to show that my skills improved.

But Rebecca didn’t laugh at me.

“That’s great. Congratulations, Luke!”

Rebecca patted me on the shoulder and smiled brightly.
A pure smile without any negative connotations.
The moment I saw Rebecca’s smile, I was slightly moved.

I never thought the day would come when I would be celebrated by others in a heartless different world.
It was something I couldn’t have imagined when I was traveling as a solo adventurer.

Is this the warmth of a fixed party?