The day after the fight, I woke up with no shirt in my bed at End Town, feeling fully invigorated compared to how I felt when I passed out.
Sitting beside , the princess slept with her arms crossed against the edge of the bed, with Yoru resting next to her.
("Did they spend the whole night here?") I thought as I tried to stand up quietly, but the princess woke up at the slightest sound of rustling.
"Ichiro, how are you feeling!?" she exclaid as she grabbed my shoulders.
"I-I’m feeling good!" I said a bit nervously.
The princess let out a sigh and sat back in her chair. "I was so worried when you passed out..."
"I just used a lot of MP, not a big deal..." I said, trying to downplay the situation.
"It wasn’t just the MP!" she said while grasping the end of the bedsheets tightly.
A small tear ford under her eye. "Your back was hurt too..."
Reminding that I had suffered an injury, I tried to look at my back to see if I had any scars, but the princess told that they managed to heal them before they could leave a mark.
"It was my fault. I’m sorry..." she said, the tear now rolling down her cheek.
At that ti, when we got hit by the dragon serpent, I thought that she felt bad that she had simply positioned herself in the wrong spot. But as she cried for my well-being, I realized I was mistaken.
The reason she almost cried on the battlefield was because I got hurt, and the reason she stayed with throughout the night, healed my wounds, and cried again in the morning was all because of .
"Sorry, I didn’t an to worry you..." I said as I wiped her tear with my thumb.
The princess sniffed. "I- I thought you were mad at ..."
"Huh? Why would I get angry with you?" I asked, genuinely confused.
The princess looked down in embarrassnt. "After you protected ... Your eyes showed so much anger... I thought you would hate ..."
Reminiscing on the events that had transpired the previous night, I did rember getting quite angry, but my feelings were never directed toward the princess.
"I wasn’t angry at you, princess... I just..." I stopped myself, thinking carefully about what I was going to say.
The princess stared at intently, waiting for my answer.
"Thinking that you could get hurt made angry, I guess...." I said, turning my gaze around since I felt a little embarrassed.
("God, this is so dumb... Why am I getting embarrassed when talking to the princess? I’m not actually a kid, so why!?") I thought as I rubbed my head in frustration.
The princess stayed silent as her cheeks turned a little red. Although, anyone would blush if soone uttered those words to you. At least, that’s what I thought.
The tension was released once the maids opened the door, telling us to co down for breakfast. I noticed Vespera wasn’t around, and the princess told she had been taking care of the potato farm with the villagers.
It was a job that I should have done, but since I didn’t wake up, Vespera took the task and went ahead to complete it for .
Just as we finished eating, my companion returned from the farm, telling us the potatoes had already grown thanks to the magic we infused in the soil. When I went out to check them out, I noticed a massive group of villagers standing around my house.
Between them were the knights and adventurers from the previous night, who had co to my ho to see how I was faring.
After greeting everybody and showing them that I was perfectly fine, Jackson told that the town would be throwing a party in celebration.
Barbeques had beco a thing, and while I obliterated the head of the black dragon serpent, leaving nothing behind, the body was still salvaged and butchered, giving us tons of at to distribute.
The celebratory bbq lasted throughout the entire day and night.
The people were able to try the new potatoes we had been growing along with the serpent’s at, which was surprisingly good.
By nightti, the plaza in the center of the town had a group of musicians playing the instrunts I had made for them.
It was a group of village kids who wanted to beco bards but could never study music other than self-teaching.
When I created those instrunts, I made them because I saw them on the streets playing with barrels as drums and knocking on iron surfaces with sticks like a xylophone. That’s why I thought about making the real deal for them.
However, listening to them at that mont, I realized they had a natural talent for music.
They were playing much better than when I introduced them to the instrunts, and their peeling hands showed how much effort they had put into practice themselves.
As we listened to them play, the princess turned to ask if we had more of those instrunts in town.
I answered positively and told her that I had created a dozen of each. Not only that, but the craftsman in town also made their own and sold them.
She asked if we could send one of each to her parents since she thought the royal bard would love to play a new instrunt.
Curious, I asked about what instrunts the bards in the capital liked to play, and she told that lots of them played the "fler," which was a flute, the "ringer," also known as a mandolin and the piano.
"Wait... did you say piano?" I asked, knowing that was the only instrunt she ntioned with the sa na as in my past world.
The princess confird what she said, and noticing my interest in it, she said she would ask her parents to send one to town. However, I only knew how to play a few songs, so I didn’t think it would be worth it, but she still insisted.
The next day after the celebration, I used the delivery tablet in my house to send the instrunts to the royal family as a gift.
The princess also sent them a letter, telling them about the events that had transpired in the last couple of days while Reinar wrote to his family in Glorya.
A day later, we received a response from the king. From what he said, the bard loved the new instrunts and holed himself in a room to practice as soon as he received them.
He also ntioned that he would be sending us a piano. However, it was too big for my delivery tablet to teleport safely.
My tablet worked by having an invisible area around it, and anything inside of that area at the ti of teleport would be sent to the other connected tablet. This allowed to use the tablet to ship items like food crates, instrunts, tools, and money.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t possible when it ca down to sending sothing much bigger than the invisible area the tablet covered.
I pondered if I should have made the tablets larger, but there was no way for to know that I would be receiving a piano with it.
The tablets were ant to be easy to carry, so if I had made them more prominent, it would have been sowhat of a hassle to take to the other cities. Either way, I was thankful and excited to see what sort of piano they would send.
Of course, it would take a while for it to arrive all the way from the capital, so before we could get even more distracted, we returned to our routine.
During our training, the princess approached .
"Hey, Ichiro... What was that spell you used to kill the serpent?" she asked, seemingly interested in the answer.
It was a kind of magic that I hadn’t taught her since I barely knew how to do it myself. The only reason I learned it was thanks to Kyoko’s journal, or I would have never thought about using the energy of the stars on my magic.
I explained to her that it was apparently called "Night Magic," and while the spells could only be used during nightti, they were extrely powerful and destructive.
I also told her of the variant "Day Magic," which could be equally destructive, but I hadn’t tried many of those spells since that required to train during the day while everyone was out and about.
The princess listened to my explanation attentively, almost as if she was taking notes with her mind. Realizing the hazard, I told the princess to absolutely not practice that kind of magic in town.
Out of all the different types of magic I had used, those two were at the top as the most dangerous, next to the "mory magic" I used to erase the goblins’ victims’ experience.
("Shooting one of those stars here would raze half the town...") I thought.
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