Chapter 88 - Underwater Flight

Afternoon in the next day.

Without going to the Grimoire Library, I was reading Grimoire in the mansion.

And the reason behind that was, Balthazar would stick to me and wouldnt go away.

It would be troublesome if it was blown off altogether with the Grimoires and repairing it back, so today, I didnt go and remained at the mansion.

And right now, Balthazar is lying her head on my thigh.

Rather than letting me, she is the one doing it.

She placed her head on my thigh while Im sitting on an air sofa, and relaxed leisurely.

Shouldnt be the other ways? I thought, but.

Ufufu

She was making a content and happy face, so I let her do what she want.

Lucio-chan. Whats that?

This? Its a Grimoire with theBall Poolmagic. The story is quite interesting, but the magic spell might be most useful as a party trick

Balthazar had a question mark in her head.

While lying down with her head on my lap, she dexterously tilted her head.

What do you not understand?

Magic? Grimoire?

Un? I explained yesterday that you can learn magic by reading Grimoires right

Bal, she doesnt remember you know?

You dont remember huh. Well! Thats about it pretty much. ThisI mean, reading Grimoires like this, you can learn a magic spell for each book

Lucio-chan already learned it?

I just finished reading now

Show me the magic

Yeah, its alright

Its a magic that doesnt have the minimum versatility, but it might be good as a party trick.

I put down the Grimoire, and casted the magic.

Ball Pool

Hekuchi!

The instant I casted the magic, Balthazar sneezed again.

She sneezed with her head lying on my lap, without letting the gate do anything, the Demon Kings magic powers hit my face directly.

I expected it, and I also have countermeasures.

And ignoring that, the magic malfunctioned.

It was originally a magic spell that creates a ball of water with 3 meters in diameter

Its a magic that would just create water and the power of the magic would make it a sphere, and you can play inside that.

And that, with a malfunction, it covered the whole mansion.

Balthazar seems to be suffering.

The water covered us together with the mansion.

Adaptation

Hekuchi

I casted magic that would make one adapt to water.

Her magic powers hit my face, and a part of the water was blown off.

The sphere lost its shape for an instant, but immediately returned back.

Its magic that has that effect.

It hurts, it hurts, Lucio-chan

On the other hand, after sneezing, Balthazar panicked on top of my lap.

Her appearance of panicking although she can speak normally was very cute.

Calm down, it should be okay already

Fue? Ah! Its true

Balthazar calmed down. She raised her body, and looked at her hands.

Water?

Yeah, its waterun?

I noticed the strange thing.

I reached out my hand, and I moved it in the airor rather in the water.

I felt the water resistant. It was like in the waterI feel the resistance just like when moving my hand in a bath.

I got a little surprised, it shouldnt be like this.

TheAdaptationmagic that I casted just down should be a magic that makes one move like theyre in land.

Being able to breathe of course, one should also be able to move normally, ignoring the water resistance.

I can breath, but I feel the water resistance

I looked at my hand, and looked at Balthazar.

This malfunction was probably because of her sneeze earlier.

Theres no problem breathing, but its hard to move like this.

My bad, Ill recast the magic right now

Look, look

Balthazar moved her arms and legs.

Not in land, but in water.

She flapped her limbs lifting her body upand floated up.

Bal, shes good at swimming you know?

Was that so

Lucio-chan wants to swim too?

Let me think

Its an irregular, but since it already happened, I think it could also be enjoyed like this.

I followed Balthazar, and flapped my limbs.

And doing that, I floated.

I imitated the movement of breaststroke.

Uwa!

I became too fast, and flew up to the ceiling.

My head hits the ceiling.

Ouch

Lucio-chan, you okay?

Yeah, Im fine. Were inside the water, so we float a lot huh

I tried moving a lot.

We can breathe and talk, but other than that, it feels like were within waters.

Its troublesome diving down, but its easy to float.

Meaning, the situation right now.

It feels like were inside a pool where we can breathe freely.

Uffufu

Balthazar swam around the room.

She was like a mermaid, and it was fun watching her.

Lucio-chan, lets go outside

Yeah

Together with Balthazar, we went outside through the window.

A giant sphere pool was covering the entire mansion.

We swam around the mansion.

We also went to the back side of the terrace where we cant normally go to.

Papa!

A voice calling me.

The one who came out of the mansion was Christinathe Spirit of the Grimoire, Chris.

Chris floated in the air just like us, and flew towards us.

This is bad, Papa, the Grimoires are all soaked in water

I see. Ill do something about it later

Is it okay?

Yeah

That is already within my expectations.

It would be easily solved by casting repair magic to the whole mansion.

Although, during that, I need to do it in a place where Balthazar isnt around.

no, it might also be interesting taking a look at what kind of malfunction would occur when shes around.

Ne, ne, Papa, who is she?

Chris asked about Balthazar.

Before I answered, Balthazar answered instead.

Bal is Bal you know?

Im Chris. Nice to meetyou?

Saying that, Chris looked at me.

Her appearance of tilting her head, was like asking can I get along with her?.

You should get along with each other

Un, please take care of me

Chris reached out her hand.

Balthazar tried to shake hands, but she passed through the translucent Chriss hand.

You still cant be touched huh

Hurry up and read lots and lots of Grimoires okay? Papa

Ill do my best

The more I read Grimoires, the more would Chris materialize.

Im reading Grimoires with the goal of someday, she would completely materialize.

I know, Papa, Papa, I have another thing to report

Un?

Coco-chans panicking around there

Said that earlier! Where is she

I asked Chris Cocos whereabouts. Chris showed a clueless face for an instant, and guided me.

Coco was found on the other side of the mansion.

Coco was doggy paddling trying to get out of the water but it seems like she cant do it very well.

It seems like shes suffering because she could swim but couldnt take a breath in between.

Ah! She lost consciousness.

I swam in the air in a hurry, going towards Coco.

Adaptation

Hekuchi

I heard a sneeze from behind, and the magic powers directly hit the back of my head.

I knew it. Thats why I properly put a magic barrier on Coco.

In a moment, PuCoco spat out water.

It was as if the spouting of a whale.

Spitting out water inside the water, it was that kind of an interesting scene.

A-re? Where is this place?

You woke up

Mastera-re-re, right now, I saw Okaa-san waving her hands across a river right now

Coco tilted her head, no matter how you look at it, isnt that a near-death experience.

Ne, that right now, how did you do it?

Balthazar asked.

n? Right now, I just normally usedAdaptationmagic.

But when I was thinking of that, Balthazar wasnt asking me, but Coco.

Coco was confused, looking at Balthazar and me alternately.

I asked Balthazar.

By right now, you mean, Cocos swimming style?

Un

Its dog paddle, you want to try it?

Un

Coco, can you teach her?

Yes, I understood

Her master said it, so Coco got relieved, and taught Balthazar the dog paddle style.

Balthazar learned it immediately.

Together with Coco, the two of them flew around the mansion using dog paddle style.

And to that, Chris also joined. Chris was flying in the air and her movements are smooth, but she was at least making the dog paddle pose.

Afternoon.

The four of us swam inside and outside of the mansion, horsing around.

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