486 - - Episode 484 The buds have sprouted before I knew it...

The banquet, which was difficult to determine whether it was a celebration of a new house or the unveiling of , ended without incident, and the dispute between Sylphy and Dine was settled.

The party went well, and the dispute between Sylphy and Dine was settled. They went to the land of the living as Sylphy and Dine told them, and added more fish to the waterways, and Ruby and her friends are now absorbed in improving the curry and eel bowls they have newly learned.

The Great Spirits, who now have a home of their own, are working to enrich their private space, arranging furniture and coordinating it according to their own attributes.

There is no doubt (to me) that soy sauce is a wonderful seasoning, but it is interesting to see how just a few more houses and new seasonings have brought life to this peaceful paradise.

In such a paradise, while keeping an eye on Belle and her friends who are playing and Gina and her friends who are training at a little distance from the house, I make a plan to fulfill my next ambition.

Yes, a plan to make miso soup.

I had a hard time deciding between this and gingerbread for orcs, but I decided to go with miso soup first, if I consider gingerbread for orcs as a set meal.

Besides, as long as the miso soup is completed, I don't have to bear the sadness of ...... that grilled fish and hot white rice, which are delicious by themselves, would be more ...... if there were miso soup.

Now that miso has been completed, the ingredients needed to make miso soup are dashi (Japanese soup stock) and ingredients. But we have a certain idea of what we need to make miso soup.

Dashi is niboshi (dried sardines) and kombu (kelp). Ingredients are simply wakame seaweed and leeks.

I was tempted to try a pork miso soup with a few extra ingredients or a miso soup with mushrooms, but I think you should enjoy a simple miso soup at first. Next, I'll make tofu from scratch and make miso soup with tofu.

Now that I've perfected soy sauce, I can start making chilled tofu and deep-fried tofu. My dreams are expanding. Let's immerse ourselves in Japanese food for a while.

"Ah!"

As I was fantasizing about a happy future with my cheeks loose, Marco came running toward me, sounding as if he had just remembered something.

"Marco, what's wrong?　What's wrong?"

"There was. I'm sorry Master, Lee told me to tell you later, but I forgot.

By "Sensei Lee," you mean Mr. Lee, Marco's body art teacher, right?　I'm not that close to Mr. Lee, and I can't imagine what kind of message he would have for me.

Oh, man, I'm getting nervous. I wonder if this is how I feel when I have a parent-teacher meeting with my kids.

"Uh, what is it, an emergency?"

It's been a while since we came back from the labyrinth city, so it would be pretty bad if it was an emergency.

"Emergency?　I think not. Well, you know, the master wanted to give us the reputation of a spiritualist, right?"

"Uh, yeah. Yeah, but what?"

Is it too late to ask?

"Is that going to be a problem?"

Excuse me?　Marco is tilting his head while popping his chemomimi, which is cute, but what he is saying is quite shocking, don't you think?

What?　I'm getting noticed as a spiritualist, and Gina and the others are at the forefront of the labyrinth. The reputation of the genie is on the rise, isn't it?　What do you mean?

When I asked Marco for more details, he told me that it had become quite troublesome.

It seems that the stock of necromancers had risen in the adventurers' guild in the labyrinth city because of our success. At the same time, it seems that I'm being treated as a dangerous person, but let's put that aside for the moment.

Because of the success of not only me but also the child Marco and the others, more and more adventurers in the labyrinth city are taking in spiritists as their friends.

And since these adventurers are aware of the dangers of the necromancer, they are working together with the intention of nurturing the necromancer and allowing him to make mistakes. This is a very good thing.

If the spiritist grows up smoothly and plays an active role, a wonderful heartwarming story will be born and we will be in a perfect circle, but things don't work out that way.

Even though the level of the genie is raised thanks to the cooperation of the friends, the communication with the genie is not right, so the failures do not disappear.

As a result, I think that the genie is useless after all.　I heard that there is a subtle suspicion that this is not the case.

The suspicion is not yet at the stage of cutting off the party, but if the current situation continues, it is said that it is only a matter of time before they are cut off.

I was taking it easy, thinking that the reputation of the genie is gradually improving because of our success, when I found out that the genie is being reevaluated and is about to be branded as an unfavorable job once again.

If that happens, the reputation of the spiritist, which has been crawling on the ground, will be plunged down to the bottom of the earth.

The most important thing to remember is that you can't just go out there and get a job and expect to fail.

Normally, it would be more reliable to select people who have talent as a spiritualist and bring them up from scratch, but it seems that our reputation is about to take a nosedive and we have to think about educating existing spiritualists as well.

Well, let's take measures so that the buds that have been growing will not be crushed. First of all, we should gather ...... Sylphy and the others for a meeting.

Oh well, I was about to devote myself to enriching my diet. .......

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"So, what do you think we should do?"

I called Sylphy and the others to explain Lee's story and ask for their opinions. Experienced Great Spirits are nice and dependable, aren't they?

"I see. It would be a shame to leave it as it is.

"Yes, it would be a waste if the children of the floating spirits have less chance to grow up.

Sylphy and Dine seem to agree with me.

"Didn't you say before that you were going to form a clan of spiritists or something to raise spiritists?　Then why don't you do that?"

I think Nomos remembered what I had said before. It's true, but .......

"It's true what I thought before, but my disciples have their hands full with Gina and the others. I'm too busy to start a clan right now."

There's nothing I can't do, but I don't want to spend all my time just building a clan and training spiritists. If possible, I would like to devote my time to making the best use of miso and soy sauce.

I'm hoping that Gina and the other members will eventually become full-fledged professionals and raise a lot of spiritists.

"Isn't that just too much trouble?"

"Ugh...... no, there's a little bit of that too, and I can afford it while I'm in paradise, but it's true that I'm kind of busy in the labyrinth city."

Nomos gives us a sober and stern rebuke. But it's true that I'm busy.

I'd like to take it easy in the labyrinth city too, but somehow I have more things to do in addition to my original errands.

In fact, the next time I go to the labyrinth city, I'll have more things to preach to Marie. I can't afford to make a clan in such a situation.

"Well, putting aside whether Yuta is busy or not, shouldn't we think about training a spiritist?"

Even Vita suspects I'm busy. It is true that a day in the labyrinth city can end with nothing to do. But that's because I set my own days off, not because I'm slacking off for nothing.

People will die if they work too much, so vacations are important!　Well, I don't think it's possible to be overworked because of Vita. .......

But I guess we have to raise them as Vita says. We don't have to nurture them all the time like Gina and the others, but we can give them some kind of a simple training course.

"If we teach them how to communicate, we have to put a limit on how easy it is so that it doesn't spread, right?　What are we going to do?"　

Spirits, especially floating spirits and lower level spirits, are pure, and if a method that allows them to borrow power easily is spread, it may be misused. That is indeed unacceptable.

I have thought of various ways before, such as asking the spirit king to terminate the contract if the secret is divulged, but this is it!　I couldn't think of a way to do it.

"Well, ...... it's hard to make all humans keep secrets in a hurry. Then, it might be safer to educate the spirits who have a contract with a genie magician instead of educating the humans.

It's a little sad that humans are so underappreciated. But then again, we have done a lot of things, so maybe it can't be helped.

But, educating the spirits.... Sylphy was mumbling and thinking about it, but what is she going to do?

"Yuta. Think of a useless chant to go along with the basic attack and defense, and exaggerated gestures to go along with it. Well, in terms of bells and whistles, I'd say wind bullet, wind blade, and wind wall.　If you can use at least those three things, you're not completely useless."

Hmm?　Does that mean that the chanting is camouflage and the gestures tell the spirits what to do?　And then, we make the spirits memorize the movements to prevent misfires.

Unnecessary chanting and exaggerated gestures may be a safety valve to make it harder for the spirits to abuse their power.

"But, that would be too different from what Gina and the others do, and even if the chanting and movements are spread, the spirits can't learn them, so won't that cause problems later on?　Also, what if you're contracting with a floating spirit that has little or no self-awareness?"

I feel that it would be a problem if the techniques learned in my course do not produce the same results when they are taught elsewhere.

"We can tell them that Gina and the others' techniques are secrets for their direct disciples. I'm sure some spirits will learn chanting and movement on their own if you repeatedly show them by example.

Sylphy, that's appropriate. Is it because you are only thinking about not to ruin the reputation of the spiritists in the labyrinth city?

Well, we don't have much time, so it's a good thing that the reputation of the labyrinth city is not damaged.

"What about the spirits who have no self-consciousness?"

"The first time Yuta met a floating wind spirit, he was too unconscious to even make a contract with it. If he is contracted, he has at least the consciousness of an animal child, so we have to make him learn it over and over again.

Ah, that marimo-like floating spirit. That girl must be difficult.

The awareness of an animal child ...... is like trying to get a puppy to learn how to do hands?　It's going to take a long time. .......

"What if I can't remember?"

"I guess we'll just have to make them give up, won't we?　But, well, if the jutsu has been activated, even if it was a misfire, he is probably reasonably aware of it, so we can manage."

I see, if your level of consciousness is just barely contracted, it would be difficult to even activate the technique. If the contracted spirits are at a level where they are welcomed and nurtured by the party, it seems that the consciousness of the contracted spirits will not be a problem.

"I understand. Then I'll think about some of the chants and moves."

Since I won't be using it anyway, it might be fun to think of some kitchen chants and moves. No, adventurers risk their lives, so I'd better not play any tricks on them.

"Oh, may I have a word?"

Just when I thought I had a rough idea of what to expect, Dolly, who had remained silent until then, raised her hand and entered the conversation. Was there something I wasn't thinking about?