Chapter 131 Report And Various Verification Work
"Hey Mother, can you take a look at this?"
"Let me see."
The day after returning to Ensgard, I had breakfast and then decided to go over yesterday's report. I took out the new water server-type detox Magic Tool with added features that I received from Corbett-san from the Space Attribute magic storage (inventory) and started explaining.
"So, there are 10 keyholes in this part."
"Mhmm."
"If we consider the amount of Oso (Dreadful element) in Swiglefen as 1, then Watterhill is 3 times that, so we move it to two places off. It can be set to operate up to 4 times, 5 times, or a maximum of 10 times."
"Hoho."
"Well, in our world, when we want to express some of these 10, we usually use the terms like 'percentage' or 'how much out of 100.' It's about the proportion, you know?"
"Oh, I see. Percentage, like how much out of 100. It's about the ratio, right?"
"Have you heard that far?"
"Pupupu."
Maya-chan is smiling. Did Privia-san know already because of her?
"Then, let me explain in percentages. For example, this. It's water taken from Swiglefen Lake. How many are there, Maya-chan?"
I took a bottle out of my inventory and placed it on the table. Maya-chan must be using her 'appraisal' skill to assess it with her eyes.
"Hmm, maybe around 4 percent?"
"No way. Such a tiny amount can have that much?"
"That's right, Mother. How about this one, Maya-chan?"
The next bottle contained a pitch-black liquid that seemed to absorb even light.
"Umm, 100 percent, for sure..."
Since it didn't look very pleasant, I quickly put the bottle away.
"Thank you. This one is taken from a river flowing outside Watterhill. So?"
"Hmm, around 1.1 percent?"
"I see, so it was roughly three times more accurate. Well then, Maya-chan..."
Maya-chan takes out a bottle.
"Yes. This one... from the water channel in the courtyard, right, Maya-chan? The water before the stagnant part."
"Yes."
"Then, how many are there?"
"Well, I already checked. Actually, it's 2.3 percent..."
"No way."
"Is that true?"
"Yes, brother, mother."
"More than double the amount in Watterhill, huh..."
The water that looks transparent is not just that. No wonder Mylavirna-san has those symptoms. It means she originally couldn't have lasted a year, right?
"I'm sorry about Myla."
"No, it's not anyone's fault, mother. And can you lend me that bottle for a moment, Maya-chan?"
"Sure."
I'm in charge of the water from this lake. What I took out of the inventory was a holy silver staff entrusted to me by Privia-san.
"Touch this with this, and 'Detoxify'. How much did it go down by?"
"Um, just under 1%?"
"Is that true, Maya-chan?"
"Yes, just like Maya-chan said. By the way, with this staff, I can do tricks like this, mother. And 'Detoxify'. Did it disappear now?"
"Yeah, it's at 0."
"Amazing..."
"It's not a big deal. Maya-chan, you took it from the surface, right?"
"Yeah."
"If you take it from a little deeper, it should be even more concentrated. Probably close to 100% at the source of Oso at the bottom of the lake. However, if the water flows into the reservoir, it's about 6 times more contaminated than Swiglefen. Detoxification is possible at the sixth position of this Magic Tool."
"...I see."
"Yes. After this, Maya-chan and I will examine things other than water, like meat, vegetables, and soil, to see how contaminated they are, mother."
"That's helpful. Really, thank you."
"This is also Watterhill's and our mother's country, after all."
"Yeah, it's the country of the person who will become Mahiru-chan and Asaya-kun's mother."
"That's right. I don't think we can solve Oso's problem from the root."
"Tatsuma-kun, Maya-chan."
"Yes."
"Yes."
"I feel sorry for forcing my son and daughter to do something like that. It's not something that can be forgiven."
"It's okay. Right?"
"Yes. Maya and the others don't have parents anymore."
"That's right. And I had a pretty lonely life because I didn't have a family."
"Work, liquor, and playing on repeat, brother?"
"Don't say that. ...Well, but compared to that time, I feel like I'm having more fulfilling days, you know?"
"I see. Maya too, thought it was just about magic and stories, but Maya is having quite an exciting day. I don't know about Mahiru-chan and Asaya-kun, though."
"In the end, if it weren't for the Oso poison, if I hadn't been invited to the guild, I wouldn't have desperately raised my Healing Attribute magic. Then I would have probably been killed by that noble guy and died..."
When I see Rosalier-san, she looks like she's feeling complex emotions and looking down. I think she must be unable to deny something. It's because it's true that I was targeted by Howri-something.
"Risleyria-san lent me her spellbook, so I did have to learn any cursed magic."
"Cursed magic?"
"Yeah. It's just magic that repeats the set spell over and over again. If you don't undo it, it will keep repeating even if you die. It's really like a curse."
"Oh wow..."
"Yeah. In fact, it's still active all the time. It keeps casting 'Resurrect (Resurrection Spell)' every 10 seconds."
"Huh?"
"It does help increase mana, though."
"Brother"
"Yeah?"
"How much mana do you have right now?"
"I haven't been paying attention for a while. Let me see... Wait a moment."
I activated the calculator on my smartphone and started recalculating. I converted 123D to decimal.
"Um, 4749?"
"...Huh? 4749? What's that, a ghost?"
"Before leaving Daioraden, it wasn't even over 1000, you know."
"No, no, no, that's weird, isn't it? Maya, it's 437, okay?"
"Huh?"
"Even though Maya is more than double Mahiru-chan and Asaya-kun, like easily 10 times, what's going on?"
"Oh, you know. Like I said earlier, 'I've been continuously casting the highest level Healing Attribute magic for 24 hours. So, my mana is subtly decreasing, but the spell itself is always successful.'"
"Could it be that the rumor was true?"
"Rumor?"
"Yeah. That there's a ghost that won't die even if you kill it. Maya thought there might be people of that kind of species..."
"Oh, that's probably me."
"Really?"
Maya-chan shifts her pleading gaze to Rosalier-san, but she just looks atonished.
"I didn't say this, but you know, I've actually died a few times. Like, yesterday, I heard Centrena is really resistant to cold, so I kind of pushed her to see how high she could go, and I ended up getting frozen damage and dying in the air."
Yeah, I messed up there. Centrena was fine, but I didn't expect that my life would keep decreasing in the freezing temperatures and that I would actually die from accumulating damage. I totally forgot about my need to keep healing. But I don't think I was able to keep up with Centrena's upward speed.
"...A ghost is coming!"
"Uh, that's kind of creepy."
"Yeah, no doubt. In a way, Tatsuma-kun is like a monster."
"Brother, are you alive? You're not turning into an undead, right?"
"I'm alive, but seriously, Maya-chan, Rosalier-san, and even mother are pretty harsh, you know..."
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