The Next Day

Maybe its because the tournament just ended, but Im feeling a bit slow today. I need to ready myself before Elias group arrives, so I quickly made breakfast, and ate.

While I was eating my breakfast, a slime suddenly appeared in the room, teleporting over the table. It was a s.p.a.ce slime, a slime that could use dimension magic. It spit out an envelope on the table, then it left just as quickly as it appeared.

Thank you for delivering it.

Its about yesterdays incident [Ryouma]

After taking a look at the summary on the envelope, I found out that it was regarding my request to gather information about Matthew and the Tamer Guild. I broke the seal and read its contents. From that I found out that things have developed far more than I could imagine. My eyes glued themselves to the letter as I continued to eat.

on the post script, it read, The slime researchers are doing fine. I didnt really ask for this extra tidbit, but Im grateful nonetheless.

While I was reading the letter, the gong which I use as a replacement for a door bell rang, indicating that Elia and the others were here.

Already!? [Ryouma]

Panicked, I gulped down the remaining bread and bacon egg with a gla.s.s of water, then I teleported outside, and invited Elia and the others inside. The girls were dressed lightly, just like on the day of our duel.

Sorry for making you wait. [Ryouma]

When I greeted them, the girls quickly realized that I wasnt the same as usual.

Ryouma-san, is something the matter? [Elia]

Im fine, Im fine. I just forgot the time because of a letter I was reading. [Ryouma]

Letter? Could it be about the tamer guild? [Riera]

Eh, how did you know? [Ryouma]

Riera glanced at the others before speaking.

Well, we saw you writing the letter yesterday, right? And besides, an incident like that would naturally cause a commotion. [Riera]

Ahh, well thats true [Ryouma]

If the contents of the letter are true, then its not really strange for them to know. In any case, I should invite them inside, then Ill ask them whats going on in the town.

The contents of the letter could be split to two main parts. One, was in regards to the guards movement after arresting Matthew, and the other was in regards to Matthews punishment.

Apparently, after the guards arrested Matthew, they forcefully investigated the tamer guild. There were already a lot of problem regarding the tamer guild. One matter was obviously its unnecessarily rowdy members, and then theres the issue of the aide who suddenly went missing. So when Matthew was caught, the guards used that as a pretext to investigate the entire guild.

As a result, they found out that Matthew was involved in a whole slew of other crimes, and that the shady aide was apparently connected with the dark guild. At that, the guards arrested the two people who, despite paper saying otherwise, were the current leaders of the guild.

Details surrounding the charges were not publicized, but the part about the guild working with the dark guild to make money off illegal goods was.

The illegal goods were confiscated from the members. As for the members who didnt acquire said goods on their own volition, they were made to explain what happened and return the item to prove their innocence. Originally, these goods shouldve been handed over to the guards alongside a written report. But what happened instead was that Matthew and his cronies hid the goods, and then they gave them to the dark guild to make a profit.

Incidentally, the magic tool that Matthew used in the tournament was apparently something that he obtained after threatening a conjurer from outside to hand it over to the guild and pay up.

If it was someone from Gimuru, things mightve gone differently, but with the conjurer being an outsider, he was afraid of Matthews t.i.tle as a tamer guild branch guildmaster, so he just quickly left as soon as he handed over the magic tool along with the money.

Going back to the topic.

With all these added up, the odds Matthew would be given the death penalty was high. Having realized that he could no longer escape, he decided to confess and cooperate with the authorities to crack down on the criminals, and reduce his sentence. (Mainly in regards to his bosses and the people he knew to be doing something similar.) Even though Matthew was so brazenly refusing to give up this late in the game, I actually surprisingly found myself admiring him

But with how big everything has become, with Matthews scandal and the tamer guilds, its likely his request will simply be drowned out. Not to mention, even if he does get his sentence reduced, hell still be getting a life sentence. In the near future, hell be thrown into the capital gaols, never to see the light of day again.

With the winds blowing against the tamer guild growing fiercer than ever, the troubling ones have already ran away. It seems therere also some people amongst the partic.i.p.ants of the tournament who are involved. Finally, the letter ended with these words, More and more of these sort of people will probably appear from now on.

The source of this information was none other than Crais-san who entered the guards, so its definitely reliable. Of course, he didnt tell me everything, but thats only expected.

Save for the informer being Crais-san to protect him I divulged the contents to Elia and the others. When I did, they all simultaneously took a deep breath.

Ojousama, may I borrow a rimel bird? While I do believe that the guards mustve already sent a messenger, Id still like to send a report to the duke just to be safe. [Sebasu]

I understand, Ill prepare it now. [Elia]

As Elia began her preparations, Sebasu-san took out a small golden envelope along with a set of writing tools, then he started writing his report.

Putting those two aside, I asked the remaining four girls.

By the way, what happened to the town? You mentioned theres been a commotion [Ryouma]

Theres a group thats transporting a lot of magical beasts from the second town, right? [Miyabi]

The roads congested thanks to them, and the guards by the north gate even had to help. [Mich.e.l.le]

Rumors of the tamer guild have also become the talk of the town, so you can hear people talking about it everywhere. [Kanan]

Even now some of the guards are still interrogating the people of the tamer guild. [Riera]

Itll probably take a while before things can calm down As for me, people know me, so I think Ill be fine, but Well, whatever happens, happens.

Besides, its not my fault, and theres nothing I can do about whats already done. As I was thinking that, Sebasu-san and Elia finished sending the letter. Now then, I should start the training.

We started off with some light running. This was nothing new for the girls, they did this sort of exercise regularly too. The goal here is just to warm up the body. After that, I split the girls into two groups. Kanan and Riera for swordsmans.h.i.+p, while Elia, Miyabi, and Mich.e.l.le, for magic training.

First, I took the sword team and Sebasu-san to the bamboo thickets in front of the house. There, I took out the heal slime, the big s.p.a.ce slime, a mimic slime thats mimicked my image, and three iron slimes, totaling to six slimes all in all.

Alright, lets start the training. First, take these. [Ryouma]

I handed an iron slime thats transformed into the shape of a sword to Riera, and another two of those to Kanan.

The first part of your training is Bamboo Cutting. As the name implies, the both of you will be cutting the bamboos here. It might seem simple, but cutting one cleanly isnt easy. And also [Ryouma]

With a flick of Exchange, I took out my katana, and slashed it at a nearby bamboo diagonally up to the right. The bamboo was immediately cut, but with its support gone, the upper part of the bamboo inclined, falling toward me. Twisting my body to the left, I dodged. Then as I took a half step back, I cut the falling bamboos tip to smoothen it. Without breaking my momentum, I followed up with another swing, and I lopped off the other end of the now standing bamboo.

Leaving the edges sharp is dangerous, so its best to cut them off.

Well, as you can see, sometimes bamboos would fall like that. And they can likened to an attack youd need to defend or dodge.

Theres a heal slime on standby so you dont have to worry about wounds. Also, the iron slime swords can recover itself, so theres no need to worry about the swords wearing out, and you can dedicate all of your focus to cutting bamboos.

Oh, and the mimic slime and the big s.p.a.ce slime are just here to gather the cut bamboo. You dont have to worry about them. [Ryouma]

Im having the slimes gather bamboo, so I can make some charcoal later. But I also gave them instructions to defend the girls in case a magical beast comes out.

I dont think youll be able to cut them at first, but Im sure youll eventually be able to as you get used to it and get stronger. [Ryouma]

The two girls were full of resolve as they nodded. Then they distanced themselves from each other a bit, and then they started cutting at the bamboos. Kanans attack only managed to peel the bamboo, but Rieras was at least able to dig halfway in.

Anyways, this training area is right in front of the house, so I can still see them from a distance.

Sorry for the wait. [Ryouma]

Ryouma-han, will Kanan and Riera be fine? [Miyabi]

Theyll be continuing that for a while. Lets start your training while theyre doing that Ah, but before we start, Ill have to explain something real quick. [Ryouma]

The main goals of the magic teams training is to improve their ability to sense magic and their ability to manipulate it. In order to achieve that, Ill be teaching them a new magic and a personally created magic of mine.

After that, I asked them their respective specialized attributes and the magic they wished to learn. Elias specialties were fire and ice. She could use neutral magic although she doesnt specialize on it. Her issue is on control.

Miyabis are fire and poison. She doesnt have anything shes particularly bad at, but she also doesnt have anything shes good at. Thats a problem in and of itself.

Mich.e.l.les mostly earth and poison. But because she has All Attribute Affinity, she also wishes to study other attributes. Since thats the case, well work on fire today. I also have a magic we can use for training thatll also be useful in day to day life.

Having made my mind, I had the three girls wait for a bit while I took out three slimes and a large barrel from inside the mine. I filled the barrel with water. And then using earth magic, I created 3 containers about the size of a small pot, and distributed them to the three girls.

Whats this for? [Mich.e.l.le]

As Mich.e.l.le asked with eyes overflowing with curiosity, I explained their training.

What Ill be teaching to you three today is the fire magic, Heat, a magic for the purpose of heating things. You will be using this to boil water. And these three slimes will judge the temperature of your water. [Ryouma]

I took each of the three slimes and placed them before the containers. These small slimes are known as the hotty slime. Theyre flame slimes slimes that can use fire magic that evolved after being submerged in water for an extended period. Now, they can use both fire and water magic.

Hotty slimes generally prefer water about the temperature of a hot bath. Most of time, they could be seen floating on water theyve heated to a level they like. Or if not, then thats probably because theyve a.s.similated with the water and cant be seen. They look similar to normal slimes, but theyre smaller and are a bit more watery.

During winter, I can put them inside the futons to warm them up. But back when theyd just evolved, they kept spurting hot water while I was sleeping, so the futon would be super wet by the time I woke up, making it really cold.. If it werent for my resistance to cold I wouldve probably shriveled up and died.

But thats not really relevant right now

This Heat is relatively easy to use. Just imagine your fire attribute magic power mixing with water, heating it up, as your magic power flows into the wand [Ryouma]

The fire-attribute magic power is concerned with heat and not with fire, so theres relatively more fire-attribute in the magic power in the air during summer time or in hot places. In the same vein, the reason why the temperature of water can go up is because fire-attribute magic power is actually being added to it. But if you put too much magic power in, the temperature will be too hot, and if too little, then the water will remain cool.

Which is why youll need to control the amount of magic power you release in order to keep the temperature within the hotty slimes preference. In this way, youll get used to controlling your magic power. [Ryouma]

After finis.h.i.+ng the explanations, I drew water from the barrel, and filled up the containers. With the hotty slimes beside the containers, the preparations were complete. Once the temperature meets the requirements of the hotty slimes, theyll enter the container themselves.

For a container this small, it wont even take the magic power required to cast a single elementary spell. The three girls were shocked when they heard that, but magic power being efficient heaters was never a joke. After I demonstrated how to do it, Elia and the others began their training.

Not enough? [Miyabi]

Its hard to hold back [Mich.e.l.le]

Ah I put too much in again [Elia]

The three girls quickly learned how to cast Heat, but the control after that was difficult. The hotty slimes are hard to please, so no ones succeeded yet, but the one doing the best was currently Mich.e.l.le, then Miyabi, and then at the last, was Elia.

Elia even boiled the water once out of the five times she tried. The magic power required is just too small, so shes having a hard time And then theres also the fact that the containers about as big as a stockpot, so she really has to manage the amount of magic power put in. As various aspects of their abilities were being challenged, the training continued.

TL Note:For those whove voted for KmF, please note that I will be working on the series with Sylvie, and will be translating it according to release date. (AKA authors post order). Its the way the author intended it to be read so thats the way well roll.

For more details please take a look at the lastest chapter: CLICK HERE

For Sylvies site the translator I will be working with you can check it here: CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT SYLVIES WEBSITE

Finally, please take note in case you guys think that the next untranslated chapter is still ways off that a new chapter will be released in the next release this Sunday. (I wont set a schedule for now as Im still fixing my schedule IRL.)

Also, V4 STATUS END & Characters which list Ryoumas current skill and the characters introduced in V4 has been translated. Its the chapter before this one. Im mentioning it here because I translated it after I posted this one, after I posted this one, so you mightve missed it. Yes, its the post before this one.