Chapter 10: Emotional Scars
Translator: ShiroiKaze/Soyokaze Translations
Since we talked about Master’s appearance last ti, this ti we’ll talk about my own appearance.
As is apparent from my status, I have crimson eyes and silver hair.
I’m shorter than you would expect for soone my age (10 years old), and my limbs are thin.
I have a pretty flat chest, and my belly is a bit pudgy. My skin is white as snow.
Right now I’m sealing the attraction aspect of “Golden Ratio,” but when it’s in effect I can boast that I have the lovely appearance of an angel. My black-frad glasses get in the way, but I can’t take them off.
My hair length is about to the middle of my back, and when I wake up I put in into a three-sectioned braid. If I make it too tight, then it feels like my hair is being pulled and it hurts.
My eyes are a deep red, with clarity like a ruby, and a depth that can swallow you.
My clothing is mainly maid-like outfits. The thing is, my Master goes out of his way to buy clothes for , since I can’t go to the village myself, so I gratefully accept them, but…
Now I’ve gotten completely accustod to skirts… accustod to… Waaaaaaaah! (Crying)
In addition, for so reason my Master only buys short dresses, frilly one-piece dresses, cosplay-like robes, and similar styled outfits.
Other than hot pants to sleep in, and spats for training I have nothing pants-like at all.
In the sumr when I walked around in just a tank top and hot pants, a fist ca down on .
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Well now, since then the seasons have co and gone… and it’s winter!
We don’t get much rain in this area, but we do get plenty of snow.
And it’s already piled up… and piled up.
“And so today I’ll be shoveling snow!”
The entrance was already drowning in a deep sea (of snow).
“Over here is already drowning too…”
“Where is “Over here”?”
“Where you just stuck your head out from, Master.”
Right now the only way in or out of the cottage is a round window in my room in the attic.
According to my Master, “If we’re talking about a child’s room, then it would be a room in the attic, right?” is the reason for that decision.
My Master’s head stuck out that round window in the attic. It looked like a coo-coo clock, so it was kinda cute.
“I’m sure with my frail body my honored viewers are wondering “Can you manage shoveling snow?” and other such doubts.”
“And who would those viewers be?”
“You, Master.”
I point squarely at my Master who is observing from the window.
“If you are going to observe, then could you please help out?”
“These types of jobs are naturally the work of the apprentice. I feel that you’ve been slacking off too much with a lot of your work, Yuuri.”
“It’s because I have a weak body, and I can’t help it.”
I pout and avert my eyes.
People are suitable and unsuitable for different things you know?
“Also, I can’t possibly get out from this window.”
“Have you gotten fat, Master?”
“If so, then I should start dieting today. I’ll have my apprentice Yuuri join in doing so.”
“You are thin Master. You are just fine, no problems, none.”
If even my als are decreased, wouldn’t I get even more frail than I already am?!
“Now then, a long deceased magician once said, “As a magician, what you can’t do normally you should do with magic.””
“Didn’t I say that just the other day? Could you not go killing off?!”
“And now I reveal, Snowman #1! I’ll use my [Telekinesis] to control it from afar!”
“Ooooh! You’ve thought of sothing insidious.”
“It’s not insidious. It’s a natural evolution of advanced magic application.”
You’re being awfully rude, Master!
The snowman, with the sounds of scooping snow, is doing a good job of shoveling the snow off the roof. It seems it’s a success after all.
The strength of [Telekinesis] magic techniques corresponds to magic power, so my [Telekinesis] displays an unbelievable amount of herculean strength.
“FUHAHAHAHA, it’s co! Finally my ti has co! HAHAHAHA, FUUUHAHAHAHA!”
–Splat-
“Kyuuu”
~~~*~
“I’ve heard of plenty of people slipping, and falling off their roof while shoveling snow, but…”
“chatter, chatter, chatter…”
“I think this is the first ti I’ve heard of soone burying themselves in snow they were shoveling”
“shiver, shiver, shiver…”
“First of all, could you drink this?”
While I’m wrapped up and shivering in a blanket, Master hands a cup of hot milk with honey.
Aaah, it’s warming up from the inside.
“I’m getting so warm on the inside”
“I’m pretty sure we forbid talking in such a disturbing way.”
After what happened, my Master saved with his [Telekinesis], then he moved the snow at the entrance and shoveled the snow on the roof.
“However, if it’s this bad over here, then I’m a little worried about Mareba village, you know…?”
Mareba village is the pioneering village at the base of the mountain.
They have 12 households of 3 or less.
Mr. Gusta’s magic tool store is also in that village.
It’s a small village, but since my Master’s best selling magic tools are sold there, they get a lot of foot traffic and the economy is surprisingly good.
“If it’s only to the degree of a barn breaking it would be fine and all”
“Shall we go and check out the situation over there?”
–pikuri
“Yuuri, you could co…”
“No, I’ll stay and watch the house.”
I responded before my Master finished speaking.
Since it’s a village, there will probably be a lot of people there.
I, who is on the path of a shut-in, could not possibly deal with eting that many people so suddenly.
“… I see.”
It looked like my Master wanted to say sothing else, but without another word he began preparing to head out.
“Well then, I’ll go check on the village, so I leave the house to you. I’ll probably be back in the evening.”
“Yes sir, take care.”
“While you’re here, continue shoveling the snow.”
“Roger that. Well then-!”
My Master, who holds the title of “Wind”, can use a spell to fly through the air. The cheating bastard!
The person himself said, “Compact the air to make a foothold, then after kicking off and jumping from that, collect the air currents and updrafts to accelerate. Rather than flying, it would be more accurate to call it running through the air.”
By the way, I tried to do that, but adjusting the air power was too difficult.
After suddenly jumping 10,000 ters up, I imdiately contracted altitude sickness. Due to the air pressure difference, blood blew out my nose and ears, and I fainted.
In the middle of falling back down, my Master caught , and I apparently avoided death, but…
When I ca to, my Master held in a princess carry, and we were in the middle of heading back to the cottage.
It beca sothing like a scene of a beautiful girl held by a knight, but I was sticky with blood running out my nose and ears. Could you please read the atmosphere and wipe the blood off for ?!
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Now then, since I was asked to take care of shoveling the snow, let’s get right back into it.
This ti I’ll avoid getting buried by climbing onto the roof, and use [Telekinesis] on the snowman to shovel the snow.
Shovel… Shovel… It cos down again… And piles up…
“There’s no end to this! I’m getting tired of this, so it’s ti for food!”
The snow would intermittently climb right back up, so now matter how long I stand out there, it would never end.
I went back inside, and while having lunch, I considered what to do next about it.
“Geez, I need a more fundantal solution for this.”
I had bread with cheese and ham (from the keratos), along with so milk.
Keratos at is good without getting used to it.
There’s no bad sll, and it’s easy to digest.
“If I want to imdiately lt all the snow around I could use a [Heat Ball]… No, that’s no good. I’m as utterly careless as my Master says, so I would probably subrge the cottage or cause so other horrible accident.”
I’ve recently beco aware of my own carelessness, so let’s deal with this carefully.
“After all, it would have to be at the level of evaporating the water… No, I can already see my own future of turning into barbecue that way.”
Hmmm… chew, chew.
“I know, what about [disassembling] it? It’s a solution that only soone who has the knowledge of modern society like can do!”
Snow is, after all, water. If I disassemble it by running a strong current through, it’ll turn into a clear and harmless form of energy!
I’ll make sure I’m well grounded so that I don’t electrocute myself, and the result will just be hydrogen and oxygen. Completely harmless.
Hydrogen is light, so it’ll escape to the upper atmosphere, which ans there shouldn’t be any risk of explosion either right?
“With that decided, let’s get right to it. If I rember right, the construction for a magic circle to run electricity through sothing is…”
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Back on the roof, I imdiately give [electrolysis] a try.
Studying the magic circle for an [Electric Current], and constructing the spell to ground myself took a lot of ti. It’s almost snack ti now.
“Alright, well then… “O Lightning, obey my will and quickly run through”!”
My grounding is flawless. Looking at my surroundings, the snow is lting and disassembling.
In the blink of an eye, the snow on the roof was gone, and I start working on the snow around the house.
“Perfect, perfect, at this rate it probably won’t even take an hour to finish this.”
All of a sudden… I feel like I’ve forgotten sothing.
“Hum? My preparations for this operation should have covered everything, but…”
I pat myself down a bit to confirm that I haven’t forgotten anything. Next I check my surroundings– And that’s when I noticed smoke coming from the chimney.
“Oh, da–!? The fireplace!”
That’s right, oxygen is a burning accelerator.
And hydrogen is a burning agent. When you disassemble water, those simple substances are highly flammable.
In addition, to keep the room warm I had put so extra logs in the fireplace… There are a lot of other easily burnable things inside too.
In a panic, I cancel the spell, and when I began focusing my magic on the wind to blow away the oxygen—the cottage imdiately exploded and burned…
My body, along with my consciousness, was blown away.
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“Mm… hmm…?”
Upon opening my eyes, I looked up at a familiar stone ceiling. It seems I’m in the cottage’s basent.
There are four rooms in the basent of my Master’s cottage.
One is a refrigeration room for food. One is a freezer room for long-term storage. One is a storehouse for books and materials. And the last one is an empty room.
“Is this… the empty room in the basent?”
“It seems you’re awake?”
Now that I take a good look, it seems I was being held by my Master while wrapped in a blanket.
“Uh? Uwaaaah?!”
“Stop flailing, calm down. You were on the verge of death after all.”
I was reflexively flailing to push myself away, but he easily ended up catching .
Now that I ntion it, there’s a feeling in my body that’s itchy, fuzzy, and… warm?
“Goodness… When I got back to the cottage, it was blown away and there was nothing but wreckage. You were buried in the snow and dying, so I was pretty shocked. What happened?”
“What…? Now that you ntion it I—”
What have I done? I finally rembered.
My master’s ho… The place I was staying at…
That’s right, the only place in this whole world I loved and could sleep in.
My Master’s ho, and the place where my heart could feel comfortable.
The place without anyone to give bad mories, or painful mories, or even scary mories. That place is…
“Aa, Aaaa…. Mas-ter…. I, am, so, sorry….”
Realizing the severity of the situation, my body trembles uncontrollably.
Out of fear, I can’t even look at my Master’s face.
My tears overflow, and my vision gets distorted.
“I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry! I’m so SORRY! I’m so SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! I’M SO SORRY! …”
I got down on my hands and knees, and seed to bounce up and down as I pressed my head against the cold stone floor.
“I, Master, your ho I… destroyed it… I beg you, I’ll do anything, so please, don’t, kick, , out!”
With my body still cold, snot and tears running down my face, I beg for forgiveness.
My throat clogged with fear, I beg for rcy.
“I… dun wanna be kigged out ov ‘ere!”
“He- hey…”
“I’m begging you. I’ll do anything, if you tell to lick your shoes, then I’ll lick them. If you tell to take care of your crotch, then I’ll take care of it. If you tell to be your slave then I’ll gladly do my best as it, so…”
“Calm down, just calm down!”
I desperately beg for forgiveness on my hands and knees.
–on my hands and knees? That’s actually a bit misleading. I just couldn’t bring myself to get off the floor.
I’m still scared of looking at my Master’s face, and I can’t see it with my forehead against the floor.
This is one of my usual simple mistakes. After blowing up my own ho, nobody would say “Oh well” and let off the hook.
When will he say “Get out”? … Those words will spell my ruin.
When I leave here, I won’t be able to live a normal life.
If I have another encounter like three years ago, then I won’t be able to handle it.
“I’m begging you, Hic… Don’t kick out… sob… Please let stay here…”
“–You really think I’d do that to you?”
“… huh?”
Unbelievable words.
I was looking for them, but still, words I couldn’t believe.
“I’m the one who asked you to shovel the snow. And also, it’s not like nobody has ever accidentally burned their house down. What happened today was “Sothing like that” right?”
“Uu…”
Saying that, my Master gently strokes my head.
As always it made my body stiffen. But, that hand which is offering forgiveness is warr than usual…
“Indeed, having the house destroyed is a problem, but, well, everything important was stored in the basent. I’m glad you weren’t seriously injured. No, that you got better quickly I suppose?”
“… Uuuu…”
When I raised my head, there was my Master’s troubled, but gentle face.
“Well, try to be more careful next ti. Alright?”
“… Uu… UWAaaaaaaAAAaaaaAaaaaaa!”
At those words of acceptance… The turbulent delight, craziness, and other emotions I didn’t understand swept away. Entrusting myself to my Master’s chest, I cried.
It has been three and a half years since I ca to this world. For the first ti since coming here—I voluntarily touched soone and cried out loud.
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