Manowa Chapter 2

Let’s Fly

Editor: Dre

“Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!”

“Uwa, Uwa, Uwawawaaa!!”

Kazane's own and another girl's screams overlapped with each other.

“Yaaaaaaaaa!!!!!”

“Uwa! Wait! Don’t point your blade at me! Don’t come here!!”

“Aaaaa!!!”

“Calm down Yumika! It’s me! Kazane!”

“Uaaaa!! Eh?”

After hearing her name called, the hysteric girl who swings her short sword around finally meet Kazane’s eyes, who was continuously falling back and evading her attacks.

“Eh? Kaza…ne?”

“That’s right, it’s me. So please lower your weapon, okay?”

The girl with tears in her eyes, Yumika, doesn’t understand what has happened in front of her, she tilted her head.

“Eh? Eh?” and she looks at Kazane.

“Why are you here?”

“That’s my line though…”

Kazane feels relieved as Yumika finally put down her short sword.

“I thought the goblins were back.”

“If you really intent to perform an ambush, look ahead properly. That was dangerous.”

While complaining “Seriously!” Kazane laughs, and Yumika also starts to smile.

Perhaps because they meet a familiar face, they lose some of their tension. And then Kazane finally looks clearly at Yumika's figure.

“Leather armor, dagger, and a s.h.i.+eld. It seems your equipments were prepared normally.”

“Now that you said it, are you coming here to suicide?”

Yumika looks at Kazane once more, and somewhat feeling at a loss while she asked back.

“No.”

Tank top and shorts. It’s as if she is going to mountain climb with only a pair of underpants, thought Yumika.

“Binding play?”

“I am not that M.”

I know what you want to say…Kazane thought, but she didn’t say anything. Savage play doesn’t suit her taste.

“When I woke up I am already in front of this ruin.”

While being amazed, Yumika's respond was only “Hah?”.

(Perhaps Yumika is the reason why there are a lot of goblins.)

As she found out that it might somehow be the gap of game mechanics, Kazane feels somewhat refreshed.

“Errm, wait a sec. Do you mean, you came here just now?”

While being confused with Kazane’s words, Yumika asked.

“That’s right. But it seems different for you.”

Dagger, leather armor, and a small s.h.i.+eld as big as saucepan lid, also herbs sticking out from the rucksack at her back, it seems that they are medicinal plants. No matter how you see it, she must have prepared before coming here.

“I was here for a week already, errm, which means?”

"Dunno?" Kazane tilts her head.

“Well, if this is a dream then it would be possible.”

As she said that, Yumika's gaze towards Kazane turns into pity.

“What is it?”

“I was also thinking like that.”

Receiving that straight answer, Kazane groaned. If this is really a dream then Yumika’s words is nothing but nonsense, but even so…

(In any case, whether this is a dream or reality, there’s nothing we can do but to test it out)

With a change of mood, Kazane's thought returns to her first goal.

“Let’s wrap the small talk for later. When the door open, we must run."

“Can we?”

Yumika showed an amazed expressions.

“Right. Didn’t you enter with that thought in mind?”

“I was thinking of doing hit and run tactic in front of the door until all of them are annihilated.”

“…Uh uh.”

Are you part of the muscle brained faction? Kazane muttered in her heart.

According to the tutorial quest instructions, you should break them apart and kill them one by one, but there are players that gather goblins at the ruin and bulldoze through them until all of them are annihilated. Those kind of players gained the nickname of muscle brained faction, but of course Kazane is not a person who can’t read the mood and said it in front of her face.

“But when I saw the real thing I felt afraid. While I was thinking on how to escape, you came.”

“I see. Well that explains your state before.”

There’s no way she will win like that.

“Ugh.”

While she laughed from hearing Yumika’s groan, Kazane starts to walk into the ruin's interior.

(First, I need to…)

Inside was goblin’s dwelling. Walking the pa.s.sage according to her memory, she reached her destination.

“The door is…unlocked”

“Wait, what is this place?”

Yumika who follows behind her, asks.

“You don’t know?”

“I didn’t enter this far when this was a game.”

Oh, so that’s why, Kazane consented.

To finish the quest in Signa Ruin you’ll only have to pick floating stone at the entrance. After fighting the goblin boss your vitality would be close to the bottom, that’s why players who has surplus energy and tried to sweep through the ruin were just a few in number. Since it’s a ruin far from town and there’s rarely any need to come here, this ruin is one of ruins that were easily forgotten.

“This place looks like Goblin’s Kitchen”

When the door opened, p.r.i.c.kling smells of rotten meat can be felt.

“Uuh.”

Yumika grimaced.

Leaving Yumika behind, Kazane enters the room. Since the interior of the room is as disastrous as she thought, she could feel something in her stomach boils again.

(I have no time for this.)

But this time she managed to successfully holds her nausea, without paying attention to the source of the smell, she walks into the inner part.

“Yes, there is it!”

Then after she found her objective, she took what can be taken and she ran outside without so much so as to look aside.

“Fuah!”

Even though the outside is also humid, the inside is like a h.e.l.l.

“Wait, don’t come out so suddenly, Kazane!”

With much vigor, Yumika raises her objection.

“Well it can’t be helped, who wants to stay in that kind of splatter house.”

Said Kazane while trying to put her breath in order.

“That bad?” …Kazane ignores her question (what is inside is not something that should be mentioned), and the spoil she held in her hand falls into the floor.

“Sword and spear?”

A dirty, long sword and a relatively new metal spear, and the other things are two black b.a.l.l.s.

“Can you use this Yumika?”

“Yes?”

Kazane took the spear and gave it to Yumika.

“Uwa, heavy.”

Since the weight is far heavier than her own dagger, she sluggishly carries it.

“Even so, you seems to carry it just fine.”

“All my bonus stats goes to strength after all.”

As I thought, muscle brain… Kazane mutters in her heart.

“Well, if you can then use it. It won’t make much of a difference in battle potential if used by an amateur, but it should be better than a sword.”

“Since this place is narrow, I can’t swing it though.”

“Don’t swing it. Thrust it!”

Kazane instructs her.

“I know, I know.”

Yumika thrusts the spear, creating shuu shuu sounds.

(That’s right. She really can use it well.)

If her status is not enough then it should be impossible to equip it. But even if her skill is lacking, just with thrusting it can still be used in battle, well it seems that it’s a needless worry.

“Then after we have collected weapons, are we going to sweep them in one go?”

Yumika inquires with an uneasy tone. Even though the equipments were improved, she still strongly wish to avoid battle.

“Well... I want to leave that as the last possible choice…”

But Kazane denied that thinking, with her hand movements she urged Yumika to come while they advance to the inner part.

“If you played this game then shouldn’t you heard that this ruin is created to manufacture floating stones?”

While continuously walking, Kazane asked toward Yumika who followed behind her.

“Yeah, I know that much. It’s the fuel of dragon s.h.i.+ps which would be ridden at the final stage right?”

Hearing her answer, Kazane nods.

“Right now that function is lost, but it doesn’t mean that it can’t be used at all.”

“To ride on floating stones and run away?”

Kazane shakes her head.

“Incorrect. But close.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well…”

After advancing through the pa.s.sage until the innermost part, Kazane opens the door.

“Great, just like in the game.”

“Where is this?”

The inside is different from the pa.s.sage, Yumika realises that fresh air is flowing there. The reason is that there’s no ceiling.

“Blue sky.”

Unusually, Yumika said it happily.

“Well then.”

While ignoring Yumika who is gazing at the sky, Kazane opens the window through “Command Open.”.

“What are you doing?”

“Yumika, why do you think the floating stones can float?”

“Isn’t that because originally active flying magic was recorded into magic stone, then it was changed into pa.s.sive magic?”

Flying magic that actually needs to be used continuously, trapped into magic stones and stabilized. That’s floating stone.

“Correct. That means, in this ruin we can learn flying magic. We can put flying magic in magic stones or we can learn it ourselves.”

Kazane opened her status window and a.s.sign initial bonus point.

“Flying magic is intermediate magic, but if it is to be used only for a short period of time, even with my initial status, plus putting all initial bonus statuses into wisdom, then it can be used.”

Adds 10 points to 8 wisdom.

(eh?)

I have 11 bonus points.

(Why do I have 1 extra?)

I look at my other statuses and see that my level increased to 9.

(So it’s because I leveled up. Perhaps I defeated the one at the entrance?)

Most likely because of panic, she didn’t notice the level up notification…while thinking like that, since she feels anxious about her magic power, she adds 1 bonus point and press the OK b.u.t.ton.

[[Flying skill acquired]]

At the same time, she opens her spell acquisition window.

In automatic skill acquisition area, as long you meet the requirements you’ll learn that skill.

“How is it?”

“It’s a success.”

While answering Yumina who questioned from the back, she remember that they haven’t formed a party, and so she send a party invitation. Realizing that, Yumika opens her window and accepts it.

“Ah, yeah. Accepted.”

Now the window shows two statuses. One of it is Kazane’s and the other is displaying Tachiki Yumika.

“With this we can escape, right?.”

“Even so, my magic power might only be barely enough. Please be careful so that we won’t fall while landing.”

“Roger.”

After she listened to Yumika’s answer, Kazane nod,

“Skill: Fly. All party member.”

She starts it up with voice command.

“Uwaahh!”

“Th-this!”

Then the two rises up to the sky.

Name                              : Yuihama Kazane

Occupation                      : Adventurer

Equipment                       : Clothes

Level                                : 9

Vitality                             : 23

Magic Power                   : 17

Strength                         : 8

Agility                              : 9

Endurance                          : 8

Wisdom                          : 18

Dexterity                        : 9

Spell                                 : [[Fly]]

Skill                                   : [[Goblin Language]]

Kazane                           : By the way I haven’t noticed goblin language

Yumika                           : What a clumsy girl

Kazane                           : The next one is finally counterattack right?

Yumika                            : If we don’t fall and die though