NOVEL NEXT Episode 20: Fascinating JK
I managed to calm down the high school girl and listen to her story.
It seems like she’s still on guard, so she crouches inside the shelter and looks at me with frightened eyes.
“Ah, I… I’m Ichihyakuno Chigusa…”
“Hello, I’m Sojiro Himuro. This time, my Musubi was very rude… No, I did something that felt bad too, so I’m sorry, Ichihyakuno-san…”
Chigusa lowered her head and gave a half-smile with a gloomy face.
“No, I’m the one who couldn’t defend myself and resisted in vain, so now I have to show you something so unsightly. I’m embarrassed, I want to die, I want to hang myself, I want to cut my stomach, I want to jump on a train.”
“Let’s stop increasing the number of deaths.”
Let me stop using negative words for a moment. scary scary.
Then I suddenly realized.
“Ichihyaku-san, you just said “to the train.” Could it be…”
“Yes, I’m Japanese. I-I don’t need to be treated so politely, so please just call me that. It’s scary, scary, scary…”
“It’s too servile, so it’s hard to call.”
“Oi, please call me!!”
“Boohoo”
The high school girl burst into tears and disappeared into the darkness without a word.
“…Chigusa, I’m not going to do anything, so it would be helpful if you could calm down a little more.”
He regained his serious face and called out again.
In any case, she really was a high school girl.
It’s surprising to meet someone from another world in the depths of a forest like this.
“Do nothing…? Really…?”
“I’m Japanese too. Am I from another world in this world?”
She really looks like a normal high school girl.
He has black hair and dark eyes, and is Japanese. With her sailor suit and black cape, it looks like she’s going to see a girl like this at a school festival.
However, she looks a little jumpy and her curly black hair hides her downcast face, so it doesn’t look like she’s going to be there on Halloween.
“Hehe, hehe, otherworldly people…same…”
“It’s the same. There are surprisingly many people from other worlds.”
When I casually said that, the high school girl smiled fearlessly.
“Huh, oh, you’re new to another world, aren’t you?”
“Indeed, it hasn’t even been a month yet…”
“Huh, is that so…Even though it looks like this, I’ve been here for three years already? It’s still my first time in another world, so I might not know it, but being a person from another world is extremely rare.”
“Huh?”
Chikusa came out of the simple shelter.
He suddenly becomes talkative and talks a lot.
……yeah? Has it been three years?
“Then that JK uniform is just cosplay…”
“Hmm…I don’t remember graduating.”
I guess so.
“By the way, in this world, it is common for bodies that have absorbed magical power and holy energy to age slowly or undergo physical changes.”
“It’s definitely the first time I’ve heard of it. You must know a lot.”
I was a little worried, but this kid talks a lot. it was good.
“In other words, am I still a JK in body and mind? Oh, and just in case? I’m also a cheat-class magician? I’m a famous A-rank adventurer, something like that? Hehehe.”
Bassaa! Chigusa said, flipping her cloak.
I see, she’s some kind of amazing magician…
“Why would a child like that end up in the shelter I built?”
“Wow… this was my brother’s… This is the strongest tent that is strangely strong…”
Chikusa suddenly becomes flustered and steps back.
“Well, just because it’s the legendary “Forest of the Divine Tree,” I didn’t expect it to be full of monsters like that… somehow this field doesn’t go well with me… Dark magic is stable with surprise attacks, but prediction and detection are not. There are too many monsters of this type…I think this is a save point…”
“Dark magic…? I think you said ‘Thousands of Nantoka’ earlier…”
“Ah, tsk, Chigusa Shadow Manipulation Technique. That’s the technique. It’s popular in this world. It’s an informal summoning.”
Chigusa grows a little octopus leg.
“Is it popular…? That’s right.”
Nyaru?
Well, the trends among young people are changing.
“In the end, why did Chigusa come to this forest and shut herself up in a shelter?”
“Ah, that’s… in three years, a lot has happened…”
“various”
When she said this in return, tears suddenly flowed from the high school girl’s eyes.
I began to tremble, dripping sweat and tears like a waterfall.
“…Even if I’m a secret person like myself, I’ll be fine if I use magic cheats in another world, so I’m going crazy, but then I get caught up in court politics, asking strangers for marriage, visiting people at night, etc. I’m a secret person, and I’m proud of being attacked. They say things like that, women are scary, it’s the same as school, adventurers have no communication skills, you can only play solo, and if you turn around and come to the Divine Tree Forest, the enemies are too strong and too rebellious.”
“Sorry, I don’t really understand, but I’m sorry.”
I’m scared, so please stop.
Chikusa crouched down holding her head.
“When I was suddenly attacked, I put the underwear I had just washed on my shadow clone and used it as a decoy, adding some smell to it and that’s why it appeared like that…”
“ah……”
Chigusa looks up and looks at me.
“Isn’t your brother’s weapon too strong? That octopus leg is supposed to be really strong, but since he got knocked out in one shot, I thought it was over for me…”
“It’s not a weapon, it’s a tool. It’s a sacred treasure that can make that shelter…”
“Oh, thanks to that tent, I survived. My cheat ability is ‘Maximum Aptitude for Dark Magic,’ but I can’t build a tent…I won’t leave my tent anymore. I’ll make it my second home. It’s scary.”
It’s hard for me to say something to the high school girl who said something strange, but I have to say something.
“Um, actually, I just came here to dismantle the shelter…”
“Oh, no! I-I finally found a house with a roof that can stand up to monsters…!”
“What about tents?”
“I was eaten by a monster in two days…”
“Maybe I should have gone home.”
“I’m lost…”
“……food is?”
“If I eat it, I get attacked, and if I buy it locally, I get a stomach upset…I feel like I’m about to die…”
If you look closely, you can see that the high school girl is quite haggard.
…Oh my god. This kid has almost no survival skills.
If you’ve reached the point where you’re going to lose your stomach, you’ll probably die from dehydration in the near future, even if you only have water.
Even if you don’t destroy the shelter, if you leave it here like this, it’s as good as abandoning it.
It hurts my conscience to let a high school girl from my hometown die.
“Um…if you don’t mind, would you like to come to my campsite?”
“―――――――― Let’s go!!!!!”
That’s what happened.