1-5 Hell Flame
Prim's lengthy explanation began.
I listened to it all the way through, but it was quite
tedious, so I'll keep it brief.
“So you're the seventh born princess of the White Pearl
Kingdom, and one of the heirs to the king. So, you didn't want to fight for the
succession, so you turned down the succession and left the country, but your
brother or sister from the other heir tried to kill you, and they got their
hands on you.”
“Yes, yes! That's right.”
“Hey, asshole! Don't summarize the princess's thankless
explanation!”
“It's a long story...”
The female knight, Aishera, seems to have known Prim since
she was a child.
Oh, I didn't ask that.
“Prim, how old are you?”
“What? I'm sixteen.”
“What? You're the same age. And how about you, Aishera?”
“Don't you dare call my name lightly!”
“Aishera is seventeen years old. She's only one year older
than me, so she's like an older sister to me.”
“Seventeen…”
“What the hell, you got a problem with that?”
First, Prim.
She had long blond hair with a hair ornament that resembled
feathers, and wore a peach-colored dress that was incongruous in the forest.
Aishera had her long black hair in a ponytail and was
equipped with silver armor and a sword.
What can I say...you stand out.
“Isn't Aishera's dark hair beautiful? I asked her to grow it
long, and she's been doing it for a long time.”
“I am the princess's sword... and I am ready for any kind of
play.”
“Thank you. But it's annoying how you say creepy things
sometimes.”
"Uh ... huh. Hey, what are you looking at?"
“I don't know... you're kind of creepy.”
“What the fuck did you say, you bastard!”
Aside from Prim, Aishera is weird.
I mean, girls... I didn't see many of them when I lived in
the village. I was the only one under the tutelage of a teacher, and the other
kids were under the tutelage of different sorcerers.
I asked Prim as I casted [Which way out? Delderzo].
“Prim, where are you going?”
“...I'm heading west to the Blue Sapphire Kingdom. If it's
the isolated Blue Sapphire, the White Pearl Kingdom shouldn't be able to touch
it. Even if they tried, they wouldn't be able to defeat the Blue Sapphire,
which has the strongest naval force. Besides...”
“Besides…?”
“I have a fiancé in the Blue Sapphire Kingdom. I'm sure
he'll...”
“Wow, you have a fiancé? That's amazing.”
“Well, I refused to marry him.”
“That sea monkey, he's always talking about the princess...
and I'm going to take him down myself.”
“Aishera!!”
It's complicated, isn't it?
Well, it's okay.
“I'll escort you there. Umi*? I don't know what that is, but
it sounds interesting.”
[*Says this in katakana]
“What? Well, if you've never been out of the sea... oh, I
don't blame you if you've never been out of the sorcerer's village.”
“Yeah. I've decided that for the second time in my life, I'm
going to live for myself. I want to go around the world and see things.”
“……”
Prim was looking at me as if she was looking at a dazzling
object...I think.
Because of me, the sorcerers, everyone in the village may
have died. But...I'm sure the teacher doesn't hold a grudge against me.
I'm sure the teacher cried when he tried to sacrifice me,
and I'm sure he didn't know I was going to eat the flames of the Hell Gate.
“Hey, just tell me what you know Prim, tell me what you know
about this world!”
“...Yes! If it's something me and Aishera can understand.”
“Oh, y-you mean me too?”
“Yes. We're going to be together from now on. We have to get
along!”
I'm going to look around this world.
I didn't realize how difficult it would be.
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We walked for less than an hour.
“Oh, there's an exit.”
“I can't believe it. I can't believe how easy it was for us
to escape from the Forest of Death, which we'll never get out of once we step
into.”
Aishera is surprised, but it's not a big deal.
It's more about what we're going to do now.
“Hey, what are you doing for the night? If you want to camp
out, I'll set it up.”
"Don't be stupid. There's a village near here. I'll
rest there tonight."
“Village... nice. I've never been to a village outside of my
hometown.”
"Fufu, Mr. Flair looks happy."
“Hey, don't call me Mr. Just say Flare.”
“But... dropping the honorifics is...”
“It's fine.”
“…Ha, yes. Flare.”
“Damn you for disgracing the princess... you better remember
that.”
“No, why? Isn't it normal to call me that?”
It's surprisingly fun.
In the village, I never talked with anyone except the
teacher, but this is the first time I've walked around talking with someone
like this. It was fun and the conversation was lively. I don't know anyone but
my teacher like this.
Then Aishera stops.
“Don't move, Princess.”
“Oh, Aishera?”
“Hey, you...”
“I know. I'll do it.”
Three little demons emerged from the bushes on the street.
I know this guy. Goblins... we used to see them near the
village.
“I'll do it.”
I punched my fist in the air and decided to try it.
If the flames of hell are engraved in me... Burn.
Then, bright red flames blew out from my whole body. This is
amazing, my clothes and weapons don't burn, and I don't feel any heat at all...
but I can see that it's burning vigorously.
“Those are the flames of hell, the flames of the gates of
hell that were said to consume the world.”
“Even fire magic can't do something like that... is he
telling the truth?”
I take the [Curse Fighting] stance that I learned from my
teacher.
A fighting technique that can only be used by sorcerers, in
which spells are unleashed on the limbs.
If you hit with a curse on your fist, it will go through
even on top of your clothes or armor. In my case, I often give the curses of
'diarrhea', 'stomach ulcer', 'internal bleeding', 'headache', and 'increased
body temperature' to my extremities. There are a few other forbidden arts, but
I was forbidden to use them by my teacher.
What I used on the men in the forest was
"diarrhea" and "stomach ulcer. I took it easy on them, so they
were cured in a few days, but it is right to use a heavier curse on these guys.
"Gagga!!"
"Let’s go"
I kicked the ground and instantly went into the goblin's
pocket and punched him in the back as hard as I could.
For the second one, I crushed its face with a high kick, and
for the third one, I went behind it and snapped its neck.
Four seconds... that's slow. If I did the same thing in
front of my teacher, I would be sent flying. But since I hit him with fire
instead of a curse, the goblin burned without a trace.
“I can't believe how fast you can go... without any magical
assistance, just your physical abilities.”
“It was a good decision to hire Flare after all.”
Don't be surprised.
As for me, I wasn't serious at all.
“Okay, I'm done. I mean, it's too weak to be an
experiment... let's experiment with the flame.”
The flames of Hell Gate, quite a powerful force if you can
master it.
