121 – The Waterlon... Got Smashed?
Posted on July 30, 2017 by crazypumkin
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” Yes yes yes, a little more to the right! ”
Selphy yelled happily.
” Eh? Where? Where? ”
Zen, who was blindfolded, helplessly moved one step to his right.
” That’s too right! Go back a little! ”
This ti, Zen moved back too much. He was like the fox. Without thinking, I let out a chuckle. I once read a tale from Aesop’s Fables, which talked about a dog and a cat fighting over a piece of at. A fox nearby then suggested using a scales to split the at equally. The crafty fox then began to eat away the excess at in order to balance the 2 pieces of at and ate it all up in the end.
Helpless Zen was amusing though. He seed to had gotten cocky and regardless of how Selphy’s instructed him, he had moved in a totally direction from the waterlon.
I opened my mouth as the corners of my lips curled up.
” Zen, take a step towards your right around 10cm. Yep, that’s it. Now raise the bat in front of you.... swing it clockwise at a 15 degree angle! ”
I gave Selphy a ‘how’s that’ look.
Hehehehe.
You need detailed instructions like this for it to work. It was this kind of mont that made felt alive! Viva knowledge! Totally different from the temporary knowledge one gained by cramming all they can the night before an exam!
...Ouch! Stop throwing rocks! How childish!
I am a fair and just person who will not let children just because they were young. Although there was no victory or defeat for waterlon smashing.
It’s just in the heat of the mont.
As per the rules, I spun Zen around, who was blindfolded, before starting the ga. This was a ga for others to lead the blindfolded person towards the waterlon and smashing it, but the spinning around in the beginning was enough to ssed up one’s direction sense.
But I seed to had spun him one too many tis. I got excited and spun Zen until I think I saw stars. I can’t helped it, this was the first ti one of my dreams ca true so I got really high.
” Right there! ”
As Zen slowly swung his bat around, I gave a yell when his bat reached the top of the waterlon. Zen nodded at my instructions and raised his bat.
” Ah....! ”
He fell. Zen fell splendidly.
” *chuckles* ”
A chuckle escaped from my mouth. Even laughter could be heard from Selphy standing beside .
Seriously! How scary was his ability to make one laugh?! Oh, Zen! There was no other way about it. I am truly convinced. The god of laughter loved him. He must had divine protection or favor with the god.
All the way up till he swung the bat was perfect. But it seed like he used to much strength in swinging the bat that he slipped on the mat. And he splendidly did a beautiful fall. The kind where one landed on one’s stomach.
Not to ntion him falling perfectly on top of the waterlon. Gravity was certainly doing it’s job.
” Zen, so, sorry. I should have secured the mat firmly. Are you okay? ”
I apologized to Zen, holding on to both my stomach and my laughter. Zen, who was still blindfolded, raised his head to where my stomach was and laughed sheepishly.
” I’m okay! I guess I used too much force. ”
But since Zen didn’t looked like he was in pain from hitting his stomach, I guess there was no harm done. That’s great. But I was still the one at fault for not securing the mat.
” I’ll heal you just in case. 《治癒》. ” [TN: Chiyu]
I cast a healing magic on Zen’s stomach. And at the sa ti, restored the smashed waterlon. Seeing that, Zen had a weird expression on his face.
” To used the legendary healing magic like that... ”
On a waterlon. Not to ntion it was just for fun. I knew he was thinking about all that but please, wasting food was a big no-no. 1 grain of rice hold 7 gods.
Ah, but this world doesn’t had that many gods. Just one. That grandpa. I wondered if he already shaved off his beard.
” Well then! I’ll go next as an apology! ”
Taking the blindfold over from Zen, I blindfolded myself. And was then spun around by the both of them.
Yep.
I must had spun Zen around too much the first ti. Because I was spun around quite a bit. But , who possess [cheat], this was nothing. I imdiately regained my bearings.
Too bad! I am really good at waterlon smashing!
Eh? How did I know about this since I had never played this ga with anyone before? Don’t ask! You already knew, don’t you.....
” The waterlon is...... here! ”
I pointed my bat.
” Wah!! You’re aweso!! ”
I heard Zen’s voice. It seed like I pointed in the correct direction. Well, I can sense it’s presence.
Living things in gas or manga were often depicted to had a [presence] but here, [presence] ant using sound or the wind as a way to feel what’s around you.
On other (previous world) words, the sixth sense.
By using the reverberation of the sound, I could determined where soone was going as they moved.
But a waterlon had no presence.
Yep.
Because it can’t move.
If it did, it must had been possessed.
So why was I thinking of this? I am an idiot, I apologized. I felt like sensing [presence] since I was blindfolded to see if I could sense anything.
” Hmmm.... ”
Then how do I sense stuff that doesn’t move? There was this thing called [mana] in this world. Everything in this world possessed mana, which was how I sensed it.
Normally, mana given out by vegetation was so weak that it could hardly be sensed. But, I had my [cheat].
But, since this was a ga, it wouldn’t be fair. So I shall stop sensing. Although I could also produced sound and tried to use that to determined the place of where the waterlon was at... Nah.
The fun part of this ga was to get lead around by your friends as you played together and not really that the smashing part.
And so, I readied myself and waited for the both of their instructions.
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