A woman whom I t by chance seems to be soone who used to play the role of Hero. She’s a little petite, about 150-ish cm tall, and wears clothes similar to kappogi.
She has black semi-short hair and wears a headscarf. At a glance, she looks like the proprietress of a set-al restaurant or a tavern.
If she played the role of Hero back then, she must be older than , but she looked younger with her baby-faced appearance. I would believe her even if she claid she was 20 years old.
[Uwaaahh~~ I see, a child from my howorld finally ca to my store…… Co on in, co on in, let’s not talk while standing around here.]
[Eh? Arehh? I thought you weren’t open yet……]
[That’s right, but if you’re Japanese, then that’s a different story! I’ve always wanted to talk to a child from the sa howorld…… Ahh, I was running my mouth off here, but are you busy perhaps?]
[N- No, there’s no problem.]
Even when one looks at her from the side, the woman saying this with a bright smile on her face was clearly excited. Indeed, even if she were the one who played the role of Hero in the previous decade…… the decade before Mitsunaga-kun, it would be her first ti in 12 years or so that she would et soone from the sa world, so it may be inevitable that she would be excited.
As I had such things in mind, the woman urged into her restaurant. The interior of the restaurant was sowhere between a set-al restaurant and a tavern, with counter seats and the like.
She recomnded that I sit at the counter, so I did, and the woman placed a glass of water in front of .
[Well then, let introduce myself again. My na is Mizuhara Kaori, and as you may have already noticed, I am a Japanese who was invited to play the role of Hero at the Festival of Heroes 12 years ago.]
[I’m Miyama Kaito. Pleased to et you, Mizuhara-san.]
[Ahh, you can just call Kaori. Many people in this world don’t have family nas, so it’s more often that I’m called with my first na. I’ll call you Kaito-kun too.]
[I understand, Kaori-san.]
Kaori-san was cheerful and felt pleasant, and I could tell that she was sincerely happy to see , even with the emotions conveyed through Sympathy Magic.
[……Rather, with the atmosphere you have, I just called you Kaito-kun because I thought you were younger than …… but you didn’t play the role of Hero before or sothing like that, right? As expected, you don’t look like you’re in your 40s……]
[Ah, yes. I’m 22 years old.]
Well, I feel a bit iffy regarding my age, since I’ve been back in my world for 2 months, which was equivalent to a year and 8 months in this world, so the number of days that have passed since my last birthday is oddly off, so I feel like I can say I’m 23 years old already…… Well, for the ti being, I guess I’ll just say I’m 22.
[Ahh, good, you really are younger than …… but, hmmm? Arehh? That’s strange…… As I recall, the last person who played the role of Hero was different from Kaito-kun, wasn’t it? N- No, my store was busy when the Festival of Heroes happened and I only managed to watch the events a little bit, so I’m sorry if I’m mistaken.]
[No, you aren’t wrong. I wasn’t the one who played the role of Hero……]
When I told her that I wasn’t summoned to play the role of Hero, but that three people, including , were summoned by accident, besides Mitsunaga-kun, the one that was originally summoned to play the role of Hero, Kaori-san had a look of deep astonishnt on her face.
[Ehhhh, t- there was a summoning accident!? S- So that happened…… M- Must be rough.]
[Arehh? You didn’t know about that huh.]
[Unnn. Commoners like won’t be able to hear stuff like that.]
I see, now that she ntioned it, even if the story about us may have been passed on to the nobles and people with high status like them, I suppose ordinary people wouldn’t know that there was a summoning accident that happened in the first place.
[Well, I’m really having fun in this world, so I’m rather glad that I was caught up and got summoned.]
[I see, I’m glad to hear that.]
[Ahh, Kaori-san. Since we’ve gotten acquainted, why don’t we register each other’s magic power in our hummingbirds?]
[H- Hummingbird?]
Kaori-san had a gentle smile on her face, but as soon as she heard what I said, her face stiffened.
Arehh? Was I being too sudden……? Would it have been better to ask her that when we got to know each other a bit better?
[……Kaito-kun, you see, you do know it, right? That Magic Tools…… They’re expensive.]
[E- Errr……]
[Even though they only had an SMS function, Hummingbird magic tools are more expensive than smartphones……]
[……You’re right.]
[Moreover, almost no one I know here has that Hummingbird magic tool, so I don’t have it either.]
It seems like I had perceived it wrongly. Because I didn’t know anyone around who didn’t have the Hummingbird magic tool, or didn’t have it and couldn’t use the Hummingbird magic tool, I thought it was common for everyone to have it, just like how everyone had smartphones back in my forr world.
However, just as Kaori-san said, considering the cost performance, it may be a magic tool that’s rather out of people’s grasp.
For example, among the people who are close to that were like commoners, there are Sieg-san and Luna-san…… but thinking about it again, one is a forr Deputy Commander of the Knight Order and now the Head of a Duchess’ Guards, while the other is a forr top adventurer and now the personal maid of the Head of a Duchy…… both are definitely in a position that makes them more than just average people.
Even when she’s like that, Luna-san seems to have a lot of money, and as for Sieg-san, she may have been sending “about 70% of her monthly salary” to Rei-san and Fia-san, but I don’t rember seeing her in any situation where she is in need of money outside of the Six Kings Festival.
Well, from Sieg-san’s point of view, she started sending money to Rei-san because she felt guilty about the fact that Rei-san had to quit his job as the Court Mage. Rei-san and Fia-san think it’s unnecessary, but Sieg-san is also quite stubborn about this matter, so she continues to send money to them.
……Even then, Rei-san and Fia-san had secretly told that they had been saving that money without touching it.
“It’ll be used at Miyama-kun and Sieg’s wedding”, or so Rei-san told .
Well, leaving that aside…… It seems that we need to correct the discrepancy, as there’s a subtle discrepancy in our financial sense. Kaori-san’s financial sense is probably the sense of an average person.
[No, of course it’s not that I can’t afford it, but there are lots of magic tools I’d rather have than those.]
[Ahh~~ You an like a magic box?]
[Unnn, that’s right. As expected, as a restaurant owner, acquiring a magic box is my top priority…… but they’re expensive. Well, I did manage to have one though.]
Saying this, Kaori-san took out a pale orange magic crystal…… which from the looks of it, seems to be quite low in purity.
[This is only about the size of a small wooden box, but it’s still more expensive than that fridge-like magic tool they have here. I really want one big enough to hold all of my ingredients, but I can’t afford it.]
[I see.]
[……By the way, do you have a magic box, Kaito-kun?]
[Y- Yes, well……]
[Can I see it?]
[……Here you go.]
I had no reason to refuse, so I brought forth my magic box from my palm and showed it to her, to which Kaori-san backed away with a look of astonishnt on her face.
[A- A- A- A black one appeeeeeeared!? Eeehhhh, this is the first one I’ve seen one of these outside of a magazine……]
Serious-senpai : [Now that he ntioned it, just being able to work for a Duchy in the first place makes the maids in Lilia’s mansion pretty elite, don’t you think?]
? ? ? : [Well, if you were to exclude his kouhais, this would certainly be the first ti he t a real commoner.]
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