I Got Reincarnated as a Minor Character and I Won’t Give Up on TS – Chapter 544: The Most Magnificent Magician in This World 1-9
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Several years after the Heavenly Decisive Battle, Kei was no longer Sorciera but an ordinary female university student.
She was a second-year at the national Sor-Sor Starreading University, and she had just become an adult three months ago.
By now, calling her a girl would probably be rude.
She was no longer a lonely girl, but a fine adult who had experienced much.
“How is university?”
“It’s fun. But surprisingly, not much feels new. Making my own curriculum was the same as Fectom.”
“……Ah, true, our school was still like that back then.”
“But sometimes I really feel like I’ve become an adult. Though, well, I’m still just a novice.”
Kei looked down at the quiche on the table, a little embarrassed.
On a cute plate printed with turtles sat a quiche that Miroku had made.
“Fufufu, you can still be spoiled in front of us, you know. Come, let’s eat before it gets cold.”
“Then, thanks for the food. ……Yeah, it’s delicious! Miroku-oneechan’s quiche is as delicious as ever!”
“I’m glad you like it. You really do love quiche, don’t you, Kei-chan?”
“Thank you, Miroku-oneechan!”
“No, no, as long as you enjoyed it, that’s all that matters.”
Miroku gave Kei a gentle smile and patted her head.
Kei seemed ticklish, but she also seemed to be savoring Miroku’s gentle touch.
“——So, Kei.”
Mizuhi waited for an opening and spoke up.
In her hand was a single bottle.
“Have you had alcohol?”
“Alcohol……not yet. I’m scared to drink alone……”
It was such a pathetic thing to say that it was hard to believe she was the girl who had once overcome countless crises as Sorciera.
“Don’t you drink with Toa-chan and NameToa-chan?”
“If I drank with those two, I’d die. They casually open whole isshōbin bottles. That’s what scares me…… And I hear alcohol is bitter and has a strange smell.”
“I heard Toa and Nameless are already out drinking all over the place.”
“I’m not that good with it either…… but would you like to try drinking with us?”
“……Okay.”
“I thought you’d say that, so I brought this.”
The bottle Mizuhi held up had a surface intricately carved with crimson roses and dragons.
Even to an amateur, it was clearly no ordinary drink.
“Wh-what is this……?”
“A whiskey that Rokuhara and Ryuuko made in collaboration with a distillery…… apparently. I helped with Ryuuko’s work a while back and got a ton of it. A whole ton.”
“I see…… It’s a beautiful bottle.”
“If you’d like, take it. I’ll leave several unopened bottles, so give some to Toa and Nameless too.”
“Thank you, Mizuhi-oneechan.”
“Yeah. Then let’s drink right away.”
With that, Mizuhi poured whiskey into a glass.
A solemn golden liquid, like amber, filled the glass, and Kei timidly picked it up.
Then, with a small “thanks for the drink,” she shut her eyes tight and downed it all at once.
——And then.
“Nnyaa……”
The next moment, Kei’s face was faintly flushed and she was leaning against Mizuhi.
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Doctor sat in a chair, reading a book.
They were no longer even looking at the screen.
Because it was clearly wasted time.
“Ah, she drank alcohol! That’s no good, Kei-chan, underage drinking is no good!”
“Fortunately, this is Atlastia. In Atlastia, alcohol is treated as a medicine, so it’s safe. This is not the world you came from.”
“Is that so…… Phew……”
“Here too, you can’t drink until you’re nineteen.”
“Ehh!?”
“To be precise, those who do not go out onto the battlefield as warriors cannot drink until nineteen.”
“That’s wrong too.”
“Doctor, what's wrong with this person?”
“That one’s messed up in the head. Don’t think you can have a conversation with her. Anyway……”
Doctor glanced at the image projected on the skin-colored wall.
There, unlike the scene just before she drank, the quiche had vanished from the plate, and Kei and the others’ clothes were slightly disheveled.
As if that part alone had been cut out, the scene of Kei drinking simply did not exist.
Seeing only the scene after she drank, Doctor was convinced.
“That one really is just a high schooler at heart.”
“Eh?”
“Even if she knows the concept of getting drunk, she doesn’t know the taste or how to drink. Because she doesn’t know, she can’t reproduce it. That’s why the footage suddenly skipped after she drank.”
“No wonder Miroku-chan somehow has quiche as her signature dish. This really is being made from inside Kei-chan’s head.”
Toa said that with a hint of envy.
It seemed less directed at the three’s gathering and more like she was interested in the combination of alcohol and food.
『Nn…… Mizuhi-oneechan, pat my head……』
『Yeah.』
『Fufu, I’m happy……』
Red-faced Kei nuzzled her head against Mizuhi.
Then she lifted Mizuhi’s hand and placed it on her own head.
Mizuhi patted Kei’s head with a gentle gaze.
Toa had no idea what she was being shown.
“I see. If you drink, you get drunk and can expose your true feelings. In other words, the essence of this dream is to destroy the reason within herself and be spoiled as much as she wants. Even though it only needs to grant that, she goes so far to justify it. Even for a dream, you can glimpse her seriousness.”
『Miroku-oneechan, uppies—』
『Jeez, you’re so drunk…… You’re like a big baby.』
『Nfu, Miroku-oneechan, pat my head too……』
『Yes, yes.』
『Both of you tell me I’m a good girl.』
『『Good girl, good girl.』』
『Fufu.』
“I’ll take this footage for now.”
“That’s no good!”
“But isn’t this absolutely material to use against her? I am not a woman of such poor character as to leave someone’s weakness exposed. I should carefully store it and, at the appropriate time, hold a screening on Atlastia’s outer wall. ……Fufu, prepare fireworks and invite Sensei too. Ah, how lovely.”
She smiled gracefully.
The fact that her smile was somehow filled with compassion made no sense either.
“Uugh, Doctor, say something too.”
“Go on an expedition with the seriously-pissed Lecturer.”
“I’ll refrain this time. This weakness belongs to this girl.”
Still wearing that wonderful smile, Conductor spat out the exact opposite words.
By this point, Toa had already quietly moved away from the Conductor and over near the Doctor.
“Why is this person in Silver Twilight?”
“Dunno. The Sorciera of All-Encompassing Love picked her up.”
“That person liked my lies. So I like that person too.”
The smiling Conductor said that.
But the next moment, attacks were launched at her from the surrounding walls.
They likely knew that with Toa gone, her defense had crumbled.
“Ah!”
“It’s fine.”
Conductor held her right hand out to the empty air, and a baton appeared in it.
The moment she gave it a single wave, all the attacks vanished.
In their place, beautiful particles of light danced around her, creating a gorgeous display.
“Th-that’s amazing.”
“That is the Insignia of Harmony. It returns the world to its proper state.”
The Insignias divided from All-Encompassing Love each had their own roles.
Among them, Harmony’s role was uniquely singular, and its true worth was shown precisely after a battle.
Broken things returned to before they broke, collapsed things returned to before they collapsed; everything returned to its proper form.
It was equal to a divine act, like rewinding time.
Though it had many limitations, for Silver Twilight it was an indispensable Insignia.
“That said, the proper state is up to that one’s sole judgment. What is proper, what standard Harmony uses, is decided by that one who holds the Insignia. That really is…… already (exhaustion).”
She was probably remembering something.
Doctor’s eyes were dead as they explained the Conductor’s Insignia.
“Now then, let’s bring this footage to its finale. I’d like to enjoy it for about an hour, but I can’t afford to lose to the angels, after all.”
The next moment, static ran through the footage for an instant.
The footage had been rewritten to its proper state.
『Miroku-oneechan, lap pillow—. Mizuhi-oneechan, hold my hand tight—』
『Did we let her drink too much?』
『Fufu, but isn’t it nice once in a while? Here, this way—』
『Mm……』
Sure enough, a change occurred in the footage that would make the group led by Clam lose their minds if they saw it.
The door that was supposed to be locked became unlocked.
The dream that was supposed to have no more characters now had one more.
That was the proper state.
『Ke-Kei-chan……』
『Hehh!?』
“Ah, it’s me……”
Thrown into this sugary ideal world was Toa, dressed in a jersey.
She was the key to bringing Kei back.
“(A laugh like the murmur of a clear stream)”
『Furthermore, I’ll use Blushing Sorciera to gain a Content Extra Turn from here! This is the Queen’s Duel! The Queen’s Duel must always be content!』
『Hah? If she’s drunk, you should just go straight to $@#. We need to call a judge and have them decide!』
『That is simplistic, Starreader’s Staff. In the first place, in social games, depicting such direct content has no merit other than gaining a temporary trend. While hinting at affection is fine, leaving what comes next to the players’ imaginations makes derivative works more active. Pairings and character traits are the lifeblood of social games. Sorciera is for all ages, so there is also the problem that an erotic scene is impossible in the first place, and I would absolutely never permit such direct expression. A single illustration of being pushed down by a flushed Sorciera is enough. After that, the wind will push you forward. The wind of the players’ creative desire.』
『Every time, I’m scared I’ll lose to this one’s sheer passion for social games.』
『(Silently staring at the lap pillow)』
-Thank you DCRangeRange, Dean Dexter and Cannedbread
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