CH 24

[Even if He was a User of Body Strengthening Magic, He was a Weirdo as I Expected]

When I woke up, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

Apparently I’m lying in bed.

“Have you wake up? I’m sorry, if I was careful, Frick-sama wouldn’t have been harmed…”

I looked to Noelia, who realized I have woken up even before I opened my eyes.

“Noelia~. I’m sorry~, it was my fault for teasing the boy. So, let me in~.”

From outside I can hear Gawain’s voice and the sound of door being knocked. This seems to be the bed in his main building.

“Gawain-shishou, your prank to Frick-sama is too much. Please reflect outside for a while.”

Noelia flatly refused Gawain.

Nevertheless, Gawain had a physique with unmatched agility and superhuman strength right.

To think I couldn’t shake free from him.

“Noelia…who is Gawain-sama? I don’t think he’s just a blacksmith though…”

“Gawain-shishou is a person who is extremely adept in Body Strengthening magic. I have also mastered it, but it is a kind of magic that I am not good at… I was thinking of teaching it to Frick-sama after you’ve done learning support magic.”

Body Strengthening magic… It was the first time I heard that there is such a magic.

I knew about attack magic and support magic to some extent because mages used them pretty often.

“What kind of magic is that?”

“It is literally a magic that strengthens one’s body. Gawain-sama has found that he can use magic to strengthen the muscle strength needed to raise his blacksmithing arm. It seems that he has been called a “weirdo” because he’s been using Body Strengthening magic to increase his strength to inhuman degree, but if it’s just that…”

“Strengthening your own body… is it different from support magic?”

“Yes, support magic is a magic that affects other people or people within range, but Body Strengthening is a magic specializing in strengthening only the mage himself… The Body Strengthening magic created by Gawain-shishou is a magic that is called heresy by mages who don’t need much physical strengthening.”

Certainly, if it’s average mage who doesn’t need to be in a close quarter combat, rather than spending their magic power on physical strengthening, it will be better for them to choose attack magic or support magic.

I can understand why the mages called it a heresy.

“Heyー, Noelia! You’re slighting the Body Strengthening magic I created, rightー. I can hear it y’know.”

Perhaps he heard Noelia’s voice, Gawain was making a ruckus outside.

“Gawain-shishou always used Body Strengthening magic…I should mention that the reason why I put up a Wind Barrier before was because it is also measure to prevent injury due to skinship with him. The fact that Gawain-shishou is a weirdo is undeniable, it was my fault for not telling Frick-sama because I was afraid of giving you a strange preconception about him.”

Noelia bowed regretfully as if saying that all of this is her fault.

“It was a good experience.

I’ll also have to use Wind Barrier from now on, right.”

It seems it would be dangerous if I receive ‘that’ many times after all.

I have to protect my own self.

“I recommend doing so. You were liked by Gawain-shishou after all. Therefore, I’m sure the sword will be made at materials cost. He will only forge a sword for someone that he likes after all.”

“Haa…Is that so? He only forge a sword for the person who had received that baptism, huh… Now I understand why Gawain-sama’s sword wasn’t circulated widely.”

“Meiss said that when my father was young, he managed to dodge ‘that’ and then knocked him down.”

“The young Frontier Count-sama was amazing…he managed to dodge that, huh.”

The movements of Gawain who rushed with his magically strengthened body are unpredictable, and once caught you wouldn’t be able to escape from his superhuman strength.

If I can gain that much physical ability, Body Strengthening magic may be able to strengthen my swordsmanship.

It seems to be worth learning.

“Noelia, can you teach me Body Strengthening magic after I request Gawain-sama to make me a sword? I want to try it myself.”

“It’s fine…but, I’m poor at imagining strengthening the body…I think I can activate it, but I can’t feel any change to any part of my body, so it’s hard to explain it.”

When it comes to magic, Noelia would talk anything about it with bright face, but apparently it seems that Body Strengthening magic is in the magic category that she is not good at.

“Frick! If you want to use Body Strengthening magic, I can teach you y’know~. I’ve heard from Lloyd’s messenger that you have a tremendous amount of magic power. You’ll be able to use it in a week.”

Gawain, who was listening to us from outside, was noisy.

With that much strength, he should be able to easily destroy the door of this house and enter…

Ah, he doesn’t want to destroy the house, huh…

Wait, I don’t care about that.

An out-of-place thought came to my mind, so I hurriedly dispel it.

What’s more important is, is it okay to learn Body Strengthening magic from him?

After all, my master is Noelia.

“He said so. But, is it okay?”

“He’s the best person in using Body Strengthening magic…but he’s kind of like ‘that’… It’s just, I think he’s better at teaching Body Strengthening magic than me. Even I became able to use it.”

I can see that Noelia is also worried about whether to entrust me as a disciple to her weirdo master who has various problems.

Hmm~, I know he’s not a bad person, but there’s ‘that’ after all.

However, if I can use magic that can raise my physical ability, I may be able to temper my swordsmanship more thoroughly.

I have to learn it even if I have to close my eyes to some problems I guess.

“Well, I’ll do something about ‘that’.”

“Well then, I’ll also stay to supervise Gawain-shishou. If something happens to Frick-sama while learning magic, it would cause a loss to the world after all.”

“Eh? No no no, it’s okay一一”

At the moment I said so, I heard a loud flapping sound outside.

This sound is the flapping sound of a wyvern! A wyvern of Yasuba’s hunting ground has come here!?

“Noelia, it’s a wyvern! Hide here, I’ll go save Gawain-sama.”

“Ah, no, Frick-sama. This sound is probably一一”

I picked up my sword placed on the side table, removed the bolt of the door, and went out of the house.

Then, what were there are Gawain and a wyvern.

“Yo, I’m going to Lloyd’s place for a while to say, “Your daughter will take care of me”. You can freely use the foodstuffs to make dinner. I’ll be back for dinner after all. Well then, please watch over the house okay~”

Gawain who was saddling the wyvern only told me that much, then he got on the wyvern, which started flapping again, and Gawain’s figure flew toward the direction of Youg Hannotes where we came from.

I could only stand in a daze seeing off that figure.

Really me, is it really okay to request that person to make a sword that will be your partner and learn magic from him…?

Thus, while I had the weirdo blacksmith Gawain make me a sword, I decided to learn the Body Strengthening magic.