What are you? Hey Miguel, you don’t think you can beat my Tia with this piece of crap, do you?”
“You don’t know that until you try!”
Miguel stood up from his seat with a thud at Nash’s condescending words. Then he stood in line next to me and pointed his finger at Nash.
“It’s true that up until yesterday I may have been a failure, but now I’m not! I’m different now! And even Eidos is not a failure!”
“Heh, Bold of you say that. Then let’s settle this in class today!”
“Sure! I’ll show you what I’m talking about!”
In front of Miguel, who challenged him, Nash , uninterested, snorted and stood in line for breakfast. Then, when the situation settled down, Miguel once again held his head in his hands.
“Aaaahhhhh, What am I going to do? I went ahead and said it…”
“Hahaha, isn’t that great! Beat the crap out of Nash!”
“Don’t make it sound so easy Thomas … Hey Eidos, are you sure we’re going to be okay?”
“Of course… that’s what I’d like to say, but what’s today’s class?”
In the first place, since it was Tia who was following Nash, she could do whatever she wanted as far as winning or losing a fight in a normal fight. However, depending on the outcome of the fight, it may be necessary to be creative. I could not remember the contents of a year’s worth of classes that I did not take, no matter how much I remembered from the first round.
“Now that I’ve made a contract with Eidos, I too can participate in practical training in the use of spirit magic starting today. But the first thing I have to do is to draw out the power of the spirits.”
“Yeah, I’ll do my best to draw out Saran’s power too!”
Saran was the spirit with whom Thomas had a contract. He said that he was currently sleeping in his room, but since ordinary spirits do not eat human food, he would not bring him to the cafeteria unless requested to do so by the spirit himself.
Well, this place was still rather crowded, So if there was no use, that was a good thing. Well, that’s that.
“So you mean to say that the class will be a competition between My Lord and that fat boy to see who can better draw out the power of the spirits?”
“That would be the case.”
“How will that be decided?”
“Eh? Is it like… the one who can do something amazing wins?”
“That’s right! Let’s do it with a bang, Miguel!”
Thomas smacked Miguel, who was tilting his head. Hmmm…looks like I should do something fancy, but the evaluation criteria was vague. Well, it was just part of the class, after all, and I’d consider asking Tia to make some adjustments.
And while I was quietly thinking about this, the time was moving quickly. After finishing breakfast and getting ready, we headed to the school building to start classes …, and finally it was time for the practical training in question.
“So today I’m going to have you all practice drawing out the power of your spirits!”
The place was a garden in front of the school building, different from the one where I was summoned. The trampled brown ground covered quite a large area. In addition, there was a grassy area, a water field, and even an area surrounded by a light stone wall where fire could be used, so that spirits of any attribute could exert their power.
And all of the students gathered here had spirits with them. Some looked like ordinary animals at a glance, while others had translucent bodies or floated in the air, or they were so diverse in appearance that they looked like complete deformities and some were nothing more than pebbles.
Among them, the most eye-catching were me and Tia …, humanoid spirits. Well, We were not really spirits, so it was only natural for us to stand out because we didn’t look like them.
“In the classes we’ve had so far, you’ve learned how to handle the power of the spirits well, haven’t you? Then, first try to do it on your own. Then, if you don’t understand something, ask your teacher. Okay?”
“”Yes!””
“Good. Then, please begin.”
As the teacher clapped her hands, the students spontaneously assembled among friends and began to work together to draw out the power of the spirits. Soon after, Thomas came over to us waving his hand.
“Hey, Miguel! Let’s do this together!”
“Thomas! Yeah!”
The two of them, having quickly joined up, squat down in front of me and start talking. Incidentally, Thomas’s feet were covered in flames and a skink lizard covered in flames–A Lizard with gills on its face and able to live under water–was standing there with a dazed look on its face. From what they were talking about in the cafeteria earlier, this must be the spirit that Thomas has a contract with.
“Then, let’s start with me, shall we? Let’s see…… Saran, Spirit of Fire. Lend me, your contractor, your power!”
With these words, Thomas raised his right hand high into the sky. But nothing in particular happened, and the spirit called Saran remained motionless at Thomas’s feet.
“What the hell, Saran! Help me out a little more!”
“Kuaaaaaarghh……”
In response to Thomas’ protest, Saran yawned.. Wait, was that even a normal yawn? Either way, he was not very cooperative, or He wasn’t even motivated to begin with.
“Damn it, it’s not working. I wish I had a spirit that could speak my language.”
“Hahah, But I heard it’s a lot more difficult to convince people if you can talk to them, right?” I said,
“I know, but. Che, I’ll just have to get used to it. Oh well, Next, Miguel, let’s go.”
“Y-yeah…. Human spirit Eidos, lend me your power!”
“Mm, Alright.”
Miguel raised his hand and I quickly grabbed it. Miguel looks at me with a puzzled expression on his face.
“… uh, Eidos? What’s this?”
“Hm? As My Lord commanded, I am lending you my power?”
“Really? No, but this is ……”
“I don’t understand, but if this doesn’t work, what does?”
“What? I don’t know about that either, but …… Hey Thomas, what do you think of this?”
“Even if you ask me,… maybe we should ask the teacher? Atch!?”
Miguel asked with a troubled look on his face, to which Thomas replied while stroking Saran’s body with a disheartened look on his face.
“Come on, Saran, get yourself together. Come on, I’ll prepare another delicious fire next time!”
“Kuahhhh… …”
“…… Thomas seems to be having a hard time, maybe we should really ask the teacher.”
“That sounds good to me. I don’t want to be the one who doesn’t know what kind of power I need to borrow.”
“Yeah. Umm, Sensei――.”
“Gahahahah! What’s that!”
Miguel was about to call for the teacher when a loud laugh echoed from a short distance away. Nash, who had probably been watching the whole thing, approached us with Tia in tow.
“Nash!? What!”
“What are you …… hihih…. that’s my line! That’s how you are drawing out the power of the spirits…… Hihihihihihihihi….”
“S-Shut up! I am sure I am doing it right? Right?… Probably?”
Nash laughed, clutching his stomach, but Miguel’s reply was brusque.
Well, yeah. That’s true. I too had serious doubts about whether this was an exchange that was recognized by the public as “drawing on the power of the spirits,” so I did understand the reaction.
And it was precisely because he was aware of this, Nash was unrelenting.
“Don’t speak bullshit! That’s no spirit magic! If that’s the case, I’ll show you real spirit magic! Tia, spirit of beauty, lend me your power!”
“Bwah!?”
I couldn’t help but gasp at the incantation Nash chanted. Beauty? …. Tia’s calling herself a spirit of beauty? It’s true that Tia was beautiful, but I never thought she would call herself that. …!?
“……………………”
Tia stared at me with a terrifying look on her face as I struggled to hold back my laughter. I turned my face away as quickly as I could … Oh, no. She’s probably reallllyyy mad. And Nash continued chanting, oblivious to all of this.
“Gather round, O Flame! And strike down my enemies! [Fire Arrow!]”
The fire arrow appeared on Nash’s hand and flew in a straight line towards the stone buried in the ground.. Not there!?
“What!?”
“What!?”
“AArghhhhhhh!!??!?”
A fire arrow, which changed its trajectory mid air, hit me in the face, and as I rolled around in the heat, I could imagine Tia’s smiling face clearly in my mind.