Living as an Unemployed in Another World

53 – 3. Two Adventurers (6)

6.

“You have no talent.”

“…… Yes?”

A night with three moons. No, at least it looked like that when looking outside through the window of the mansion. In a space with such a twist of cause and effect, she crossed her legs and gave me her ultimatum.

“No, no. Nothing. No talent…… The foundation is not made in the slightest.”

“Now, wait a minute. Witch. That is…… What are you talking about?”

It was like a thunderstorm. For me Since being treated as less than human by her and barely becoming her disciple, she has never once mentioned nothingness to me. At the starting point for absorbing all of you and becoming a wizard, with only one step left, why should I listen to that? Looking at me in confusion, the witch twisted the corners of her mouth to the point of displeasure.

“Jin, you are my one and only disciple. You are incapable of using magic.”

“… ….”

“No, strictly speaking, it doesn’t mean you can’t use it. As long as you put the completed spell in a tool and carry it around, you can ‘write’ the spell at any time. But you will never be able to ‘make’ a spell.”

“…… Why?”

I closed my teeth and asked. You’re a witch, why are you making such boring jokes when you still call me your disciple? I was overcome with the urge to jump right in and strangle that white throat. After that, her sigh spreads all over the place to the extent that it is colored and acrid.

“Jin, poor child. What are the conditions necessary to ‘create’ a spell?”

“Life, intelligence and knowledge.”

“Why?”

“Because only being alive can influence the world, only intelligence can build sorcery, and only knowledge can create spells.”

Forcibly injected knowledge flowed out of my mouth. The witch asked me this time.

“So, do you know which of those three things you lack?”

“… ….”

I couldn’t answer. To be honest, I couldn’t compare with her, but I was proud of her intelligence and knowledge. An intelligence capable of understanding and interpreting the principles of magic and incantations. Intelligence enough to memorize and master it all. This was a fact that even she acknowledged when she recognized me as her disciple. Then she answered on my behalf.

“It is life, Jin.”

“…… Yes?”

I opened my eyes wide. The witch’s naked body was clearly visible. When I suddenly looked down at myself, she looked at me with a pitiful gaze for the first time.

“You are a being who has moved in a dimension with a special power. In other words, I do not belong to this world in the true sense. Their bodies, genes, and reproductive functions are very similar to humans in this world. Therefore, there is no problem in breeding and producing offspring. But…… It is ambiguous to see it as a ‘human species’.”

“Why?”

“Because, unlike your world, there are some additional ‘laws’ in this world. Beings born in this dimension from the beginning often use magic even if they don’t have to understand everything with their heads. You couldn’t, so I passed on almost all of my knowledge. Even so…….”

I hit her before she could finish her sentence. The witch’s naked body, not wearing a single thread, collapses onto her bed and lays under me. The witch didn’t mind that I held her by the neck, and continued on with her words.

“What are you talking about!!”

“Still, Coke, you don’t really believe in ‘magic’. I believed in its existence and confirmed it with my own two eyes, but I can never exercise its power because I think of you and this world separately. Got it?”

In an instant, my body floated without warning. All the power I had in my grasp twisted and broke my hand, and my body rolled over the ceiling several times before falling back to the floor. The witch squatted in front of me, who was in a daze from the impact of the fall, and muttered like a dream.

“That’s why you can use magic tools. You can use completed spells because it is a ‘means’ you can rely on, but unless you change, you won’t be able to use magic in the future.”

My eyes slowly closed. I gave in to her again. The tickling sound of her voice echoes in my ears.

Remember, Jean.

In order to change the world, first think about where you stand…….

*

It certainly was. I woke up from my thoughts and shook my head.

Magic changes the world. The price is only the individual’s belief. It is different from the principle of the human body that breaks down nutrients by eating rice and generates strength from muscles. They only understand the ‘laws’ of the world and create very slight distortions. That is where magic begins and ends.

There are people who meditate every morning, look at the thick spell book, and count the number of remaining slots each time, but there are definitely people who cast magic without any system. This is because each person has a different way of understanding the world.

A wizard refers to anyone who creates and uses spells, but as an adventurer, ‘wizard’ refers to someone who uses magic as a means of defeating monsters. And, I could never be the former, but the latter is a bit ambiguous. Because you can use magic. That’s right, not with my full abilities, but with someone else’s incantation.

The only time I can use magic is if I have the magic item I stole from the damn mansion in my hands. Without them, I’m just an ordinary village boy. Right now, even if I secretly steal Janice’s wand while sleeping at the inn and swing it in the air, I won’t be able to use any magic. But, what do you see when you see me like that?

“Ha ha ha ha ha.”

There was an inaudible muttering. Only then did I let go of Mira’s cheeks. Despite having a slim face, her cheeks are softer than I thought. I pretended to be angry and wanted to keep touching him, but I’m sure there will be another chance someday. Mira grimaced, rubbed my cheek, and muttered pouting at me.

“But…… Since she became an adventurer, she wanted to be with Jin…….”

It’s no use pretending to be pitiful. I really like the life I am living right now. Yes, when Mira goes out to earn money, the time she spends with her decreases, so it might be a bit boring, but she will always be at the inn at night anyway. It is enough to use only one talent. I sighed and shoved the empty plate I was given into my pocket. I have to give it back, but the line fills up quickly.

“Don’t complain, ask Emily to arrange a request and a colleague again. Maybe some decent people can get together.”

“Hmm… ….”

Mira looked around her with her sullen face. We were leaning against each other on the stand table, enjoying the bizarre lives of adventurers who make a living each day. Anyway, what if someone I don’t know hates it? Sure enough, at the end of her commotion, Mira knocked out all the adventurers lined up in front of her with a single stroke. She says she’s basically been playing her solo all along. It’s true, but for me, who knows the inside story, it was a shocking statement in many ways.

“Your first request…….”

Mira jingled the long string of her plates that entangled in her hand. Her unprocessed, rugged metal speaks for her as an adventurer.

“If I succeed in any quest, does the grade go up right away?”

“I don’t think so. As far as I know, it took Gerald almost four years to start from the bottom and go blue.”

This is true. Adventurers are divided into six categories. Each of them is classified by color and the meaning contained therein is different.

First of all, an adventurer in white. In fact, there are only one or two teams in a country, and they are monsters at the level of strategic weapons, and a representative example is the dragon slayer party that resides in the royal capital.

A red adventurer. Excluding the sacred white, which is virtually out of the question, it is the standard for first-class adventurers in the sense that it is covered with the most blood. I know it’s not in this city, but it’s crowded in the capital.

A rock adventurer. Green is used to mean that your skills have matured, and in fact, it is said to be the highest grade that adventurers with little talent can survive and reach. Those who are talented are aiming for red, and those who are not are already dead.

A blue adventurer. Even in this guild, there are only four teams based here, and one of them is Gerald’s party. It is said that blue is given in the sense of a prospect or an expected rookie, but considering that most adventurers fail to wear blue or are demoted again, even if the plate is blue, it is enough to be confidently called an adventurer anywhere.

Hwang’s adventurer. Someone saw the plate painted yellow and said it was the color of sh*t. In fact, 80% of the adventurers carried plates of this color, and among those who invited Mira to recruit them, there was not a single blue one. They can be seen as the lower life that Celine hates so much.

And…… The empty plate we are holding now. This grayish plate symbolizes a novice adventurer. It would be a little better if the name and class were engraved, but it is still an embarrassing token to wear around the neck. I repeated the explanation to Mira.

“Perhaps even after you have engraved your name, you have to complete it safely two or three times and come back alive to be promoted to yellow. After that, it’s a pure skill fight. It’s not that Gerald has been hiding the plates all this time.”

“I thought that an adventurer would end just by killing monsters, but it is more difficult than I thought.”

Mira, who didn’t want to hang her plate around her neck, stuffed it into her pocket just like I did, and took out the dagger I made for her and twirled it in her hand, as was her habit. What the hell is she talking about this young lady. She couldn’t make her work at the inn, so she personally brought her to make money while being an adventurer. Soon Mira came leaning on me, slumping over her table with a languid expression on her face.

“Um, can’t we just go to the dungeon together? Jin, you don’t know much about it, but you know how to use strange magic. That’s why I lied to you as a wizard.”

“That… ….”

I’m guessing you’re referring to the work at the mansion. The thing that turned into a woman, the necklace, and the flask that swallowed the guards are the same. But what Mira needs to know is that most of the things I own are things that have an effect on humans. The placenta is related to the curse. There’s virtually no way to physically damage it.

Of course, there is no need to worry about this in the first place. She didn’t know how Celine would get ripped off when she quit the inn job and she decided to become an adventurer. She tried to persuade Mira by shaking her head and saying that if she had to go back to the inn, she would talk to Gerald.

“Don’t ignore it——!”

Someone screamed. Clear high voice like a soprano. I unconsciously turned in the direction of the sound. There, the half-orc who had been having a fight with Mira earlier was confronted by a blonde woman, no, a woman with strangely long ears sticking out over her bright light green hair.

I opened my eyes wide. Elf? No, I felt something out of place about that. Just as she mistook a half-orc for an orc, if you look closely, there are many parts of her that are close to humans.

It’s an amazing day in many ways to meet two people of mixed race in one day. I admired her as she looked at her long razor strapped to her waist.

That woman. It’s a half elf.