Chapter 24: The Reward for Saving the Princess

When I thought about it.

Coco, are you there, Coco?

I looked behind, and shouted towards the outside of the cave.

*BataBata*I heard footsteps. Coco who I left behind outside entered.

Yes, Coco is here

That, Ill leave it to you

I pointed at Ruby.

Coco is also a girl. It would be better to leave it to Coco to do something with the princess with her messed up look.

After thinking for a second, she nodded with a troubled face.

I understand

She said that, and went where Ruby was.

I faced my back from that, and tried to not look.

After a while*Za*, *Za*I heard the sound of that.

What sound is that?

I took a glance through my shoulder, I saw Coco digging the ground.

Coco? What are you doing

Yes, I am digging a hole

A hole? Why are you digging for a hole?

It wouldnt be buried if I dont dig a hole desu yo?

Dont bury her, dont bury her!

I let out a loud voice.

She wouldnt be buried desu ka?

Dont bury her! I meant it as fix her clothes

Ah

*Pon*, Coco clapped her hand.

Is she really thinking of burying her, this girl.

I faced back again. This time I heard sounds of clothes being worn properly, so I was relieved.

It is finished

n

I looked back. Rubys clothes were fixed.

I approached her, and casted magic.

Float

Rubys body floated up.

She floated with her lying posture.

I pushed her softly, and as if to slide on ice, Rubys body floated in the air.

Wah, amazing

Want to do it, Coco?

Un!

Coco nodded very happily.

I changed with her. Coco stood where I was standing,*TsunTsun*poked Ruby.

Ruby hovered and slide.

For the meantime, I thought of bringing her to the town.

un

Before going out the cave, Ruby woke up.

I looked into her face from above.

You woke up?

This isha,hya!

When I met eyes with her,*Don!*Ruby pushed me back with her both hands while raising a scream.

Ruby with an adult body, and me with a childs body.

Normally, it wouldve been me who was pushed away, but.

Hyaaaa!

It was Ruby who was pushed away.

Because she was floating in mid-air with the magic of Float, she flew away with the recoil of pushing me away. She went inside the cave with a decent speed.

*Don* *Dosa*

It sounded that she hit somewhere, and fell to the ground.

Kyaaaaaaaa!

And soon after that, I heard a scream. I entered inside thinking what happened, and Ruby was screaming to the corpses of the bandits that was on the ground.

Most of them were burnt black, but one partfor example, a head burnt only half of it, was still there.

It was scene that you would scream at normally.

T-This iswhat is the meaning of this

I defeated them

It would become troublesome instead in child-mode, so I talked normally.

Y-You did?

Yeah

No wayarent you a child, doing

Blaze Needle

I used magic.

Aimed at the boulder in Rubys side, the needle of flames pierced it from three directions.

The boulder was pierced through, and went in flames. Ruby was looking at that and me back and forth.

T-This isadvance level flames magic Are you saying that you used that?

Was it an advanced level magic? I just knew that its power was high so it was convenient.

Would you like to see it once more?

no, its enough jya

Ruby regained her composure very quickly.

A bit surprisingly, she was composed very fast.

I will say my gratitude. I am Ruby Savoya. I am the first princess of Savoya Kingdom

I know. I heard you talking with the bandits before I saved you

I see. But why, is a child like you in here?

I heard it from a man called Adriano

Mu!

Ruby wrinkled her eyebrows. There was unpleasant colors on her expression.

Did you remember him running away

He ran away in front of me. Its very embarrassing of my ignorance thinking that I could trust that man

I see. Well, that doesnt matter. What I want to say was it was because of that, I came to save you

I was saved jya. I will surely return this gratitude. In the name of Ruby Savoya

Ruby stared straight to me with strong eyes and declared.

It looks like that royal members and nobles likes to say, in their name just like this huh.

Well, I guess I could expect rewards with just that.

You are a magician that had deciphered a Grimoire right

Yeah. About a thousand, I can use

A thousand you say?!

Ruby was surprised.

That much huh

I used magic without saying anything.

Fire Ball, Fire Laser.

Icicle, and Diamond Dust.

Big and Small, Wind Cutter and Dress Up.

Theres no rules, I was using it from the ones I remembered.

I used more and more magic, and Ruby was surprised more and more.

When I exceeded a hundred, she couldnt close her mouth, so I stopped.

Well, about this much

A-Amazing

Ruby who was surprisedthis time she didnt come back that fast.

After showing a weird face(it was still beautiful though) for a minute, she cleared her throat, and returned her expression forcefully.

You, are you affiliated somewhere

Affiliate? No not at all, why?

I didnt understand what the meaning of that, but Im not in any organization-like group, so I denied clearly.

Then, to a court magician

I dont like that

I refused clearly.

The truth is, its not like I really didnt like it, but with this flow, I remembered Adriano so I didnt like it.

Mu

Ruby hesitated. It was an expression concerned of what other gratitude she can give other than that.

It couldnt be helped, so I suggested.

Hey, in Savoya Kingdom, how many Grimoires are there

Grimoires huh? Im not sure how many is there, but tens of thousands

Let me show all of them

After saying it, I started getting excited.

Tens of thousands of Grimoirestens of thousands of magic.

Excited, I was.

Are you alright with that?

Ruby accepted casually.