Black Iron Magician ~ Training Story of the Untalented Disciple ~

Zeta, who took her left arm off, does not show any particular pain, but behaves as if it were natural. On the contrary, the gaze she directed at that prosthetic hand was somewhere feverish and the ice eyes seemed to lie the first time she saw it.

"Uh... Mr. Zeta, you were a prosthetic. It's also quite exquisitely made…"

"Yes! Unfortunately, the right arm is biological, but the left arm and both legs are mechanized! It's a divine thing to be in love with just looking at it, isn't it? Oh, what a terrible thing does God do? I wish you would have changed everything about me as well as my left arm and both legs......!

………

Yuna and Chinatsu overwrite and modify their ratings for Zeta. Though she is a good daughter, she has rather dangerous values. Too bad things went wrong.

"It is no exaggeration to say that my life began after I met this prosthetic leg. No, to be precise, are these overwhelming science and technology! I'll never forget that one snowstorm day!

And I told him something. Hi Zeta seems to be inclined to rap when it comes to prostheses and prostheses. It would be a good image if I metaphorically described it as expressive, but the truth is my eyes are bloody and slightly scary. The cool thing about the time of the face-to-face meeting, where did you throw it away?

"As I said earlier, the village I was born in is both a border and a border. It was also located in snow-tailed areas and isolated from the surrounding area. If we follow the original, we hear that the insane weirdos have gathered and formed naturally. But there's a danger attached to such a place. If we live nearby, we have to deal with monsters like adventurers and soldiers of the country on our own."

"I see..."

"Yeah, yeah, it will, won't it? My master's home was in the mountains, so I know perfectly well."

Yuna and Chinatsu, read the air and listen to people. Especially Yuna, who has been empathizing all the way here.

"The villagers of the strangers were just proud of their power to move to such land. He was also a translated former adventurer, and it wasn't that hard to get rid of the monsters trying to strike the village. Born in such a peripheral village, I also fought monsters and lived in hunting by the time I sprouted myself."

"You have that, too. I was often taken to the mountains by my father and mother, too, by bears and pigs -"

- Yuna, as a native of Japan, there is never one.

Though Chinatsu puts a toothpick on it, the definition of village daughter is well breaking.

"But one day. The villagers who went hunting in a different group from me didn't come back from Snow Mountain. Among them are my parents, and all the other villagers stand up in arms. An emergency rally was held among the remaining villagers, wondering if something unexpected had happened."

………

The tone of Zeta's voice, which was exalting, drops, and the flow of the story begins to turn in a smelly direction. Yuna and Chinatsu corrected their nature and posture.

"It's starting to get rough outside with snow. I was worried about the safety of my fathers. Whatever you say, Snow Mountain, because every time time time passes, your life becomes more dangerous. Bet on whatever possibilities you can before the weather gets really rough. We ran a search party with the rest of them, found the footprints that the missing person would have left behind, and we followed them."

"And then...?

"Follow in the footsteps and we will proceed to the depths of Snow Mountain. But move on, children, move on, you have not seen the Lord in your footsteps. By then the sky was rough and my vision was about to turn white. When we tried to get back to the village, he showed up."

Gokuri and the two swallowed saliva.

"The shadow of that giant was already in front of me in the midst of loud, snowy sight. How many bad sights didn't you notice until you were at such a close range? The first thing that came to our minds was inadvertently that. And if you notice again, the upper body of the neighbor that was closest to him was gone.... he ate me, in a bite."

"... what the hell kind of monster was that?

"Do you walk bipedally, is it a large white monkey? Arms and legs, fat and tough like a tree. And above all, whatever the unusually developed large mouth is, it chews and chews. I was then prepared for the obvious death that would fall next. 'Cause I was right behind the first fellow that got eaten. Yeah, my father and mother were eaten by this monster, too.... Oh my god, foolishly enough, thoughts are divided into extras, and then memories are neglected. The next time I regained consciousness, I was falling over a snowfield. left arm and without both legs."

Whatever the cause, the monster had eaten Zeta's body halfway through and changed the spearhead of interest in the meat of his next prey. Next to Zeta, he said, only the neck of a villager who was familiar with him had fallen off, or a pile of dead bodies had been built with his limbs torn apart. Only Zeta, who was the youngest in the search party, was able to survive while being eaten, after which he was wiped out without remnants. It was only a matter of time before Zeta, who was barely injured in the head or torso, also died of heavy bleeding.

"By then there was no more pain, it was just cold all over my body. My vision got a little darker, and I wanted to sleep... but I realized it was there. That the carcass of that hateful monster is rolling around in the sea of blood."

"Well, what does that mean?

"I doubted my eyes at first, too. It was a cloudy dying eye, but I crawled through the snowy ground trying desperately to make sure it was true. Then I could see someone standing behind that white monkey's body. Shame on you for squeezing your last strength, and that person also noticed that I was alive. I was already unconscious, but I still remember the sound of walking on snow."

Thank you, and I want to say a word of thanks. But Zeta's mouth was reaching its limits, unable to move any further. I'm already dead. Then I'd at least like to see who took my parents' and my people's revenge. When Zeta looked up thinking so, she saw a figure like a knight armor who couldn't possibly be in such a neighborhood.

"Hoohhhhhhh! What luck to have a survivor! You were so right to come and collect resources at this time of year! However, the lights of life are still slightly behind you! I'm not too good with more interference than you need, but, well, you can't replace human life! Adults, we will take the punishment from Lord Lilivivia later! Huhahahahahahahahaha! '

"- And this is what they said. Shortly after I tapped that word into my head, I lost consciousness again. The next time I woke up, it was a strange city inn room. The bleeding of the body was completely stopped and the missing arms and feet were fitted with this prosthetic arm and prosthetic leg..."

………

Yuna and Chinatsu had a sense of who was making that high laugh, very, very much as if they had met recently.

"Oh, I think this is God's call, and I am deeply and deeply grateful! Asked the master of the Inn about the Mitsujin who carried me, tracked the information and traces, avoided various processes and after a while I was able to gradually find something deeply related to Mitsujin! His name is Zex, who founded Made in Zex! He was the founder of great mechanical technology!

Oh, I knew it. Yuna and Chinatsu joined their voices in their hearts.