Life with a Tail

"... Hey Natsuki, are you sure you want to eat that?

"Huh?"

That's what Ruti told me when I was arranging meat and weed on the cooking table.

"It's hard to say... is that poison grass?

"What..."

Apparently most of the weed I've been eating has been poisonous. The tingling sensation was found to be due to poison rather than spicy. Is it a good or a bad thing that your body is sturdy...

If Ruti is approximate, he will know, so I will have him sorted. Discard the poisonous grass and simmer the remaining weed and meat in a stone pan.

"There's no seasoning, so there's nothing I can do about the flavor, but my stomach's swollen, so be patient."

"Oh, I have condiments, right? Wait a minute."

With that said, Ruti (...) sticks his hand in his shadow, from which he puts out salt, pepper, etc.

I try to round my eyes unexpectedly.

"?... Oh, this is the magic of creating space in your own shadow"

"Heh, looks convenient. Can you use it for me, too?

"What do you think? It depends on if you can use it properly, but do you want to practice for a try tomorrow?

"Please!"

I'm starting to look forward to tomorrow. The dish that I was able to cook while doing so was a meal, according to a wooden dish that I had made by sharpening it out. The salty dishes I haven't had in a long time are really delicious.

While eating, I ask Ruti about this.

"Speaking of which, I know you've fallen, but why were you flying here in the first place?

"Uh, hey..."

In the first place, Ruti was born. Everything is called the Great Forest. The country east of this forest, the kingdom of Mois, seems to be from, but there is a strong sense of discrimination against that kingdom of Mois, people called subhumans like us. Ruti, who happened to be ancestral and had a strong blood muscle of his distant ancestors' demons, has become the object of that discrimination. Because my parents are normal people, they left the house because they didn't want to cause trouble.

By the way, they collectively refer to people like demons like Ruti as intense demons and dragon men like me as subhumans.

"That's why I tried to make my way to the Aristotle Kingdom without discrimination."

They're going to the Aristotle kingdom to the west, via a country called the Harvest Commonwealth, which would otherwise be to the south, but Ruti seems to have tried to traverse the woods. Then the forest was bigger than expected, so the food I brought ran out, and I couldn't rest in the woods down there and crashed until now.

"On second thought, you could have died like that. It was really helpful to have the nuts. Thanks again."

"You're welcome. It's been a long time since I've spoken to anyone."

After that, he wore dead grass instead of a futon and went to bed enjoying the long chat.

◇ ◆ ◇

The next day, they were to teach me magic quickly.

"Magic is something that embodies and outputs the magic in your body by image. So, they manage to say attributes in the direction of the image, you know what magic is in the first place?

"No, refreshing"

"Well, at first, right?... give me a hand? I'm going to circulate magic now, so grab your senses."

That's why I took both my hands and began to concentrate.

After a while, I feel like I'm flowing from left hand to right hand. A little ticklish.

"I think I had a feeling I was moving through my body right now, but that's the magic. It's like converting it into fire and water and using an image to output it."

That's a pretty fluffy explanation. In the meantime, I just have to try it before I forget what it feels like, and I'll try this with all sorts of things in mind. but no matter how much I try it, it doesn't even matter.

"That's crazy... I don't know if it's normal. One or so is supposed to take shape... yeah? Speaking of which, this morning as well, Natsuki, how did you light the fire? It's not firestone, is it?"

"How do you do this?

I'll throw up a fire while I say that.

"Uh, I fell to my heart. I would have figured it out sooner if I'd seen that."

Speaking of which, I don't feel like I'm showing Ruti the moment I light a candle. But I wonder what happened to that.

"Natsuki, maybe that's all I can do. Unfortunately."

"Er!?

I am told the facts of the shock. When I asked him what that meant, he said that magic can only be used in certain forms depending on the race. That seemed to mean exhaling (braces) in my case. Drop your shoulders disappointingly in shock.

"Well, well, I'm not depressed. I know how to handle magic, because that exhalation should have been adjusted a lot. Spit on a fire that's strong enough to try."

That's what they said, and I was a little self-absorbed in shock. I try to imagine a strong fire and throw up as much as I want.

At the next moment, a faint heat wave strikes, the area begins to burn and the ground begins to melt.

"STOP! STOP!?

Ruti immediately sprinkles water with magic as he screams, and starts to extinguish the fire in a hurry. But the momentum is strong and hard to disappear.

"Help me with the nuts, too! You don't have anything? Like this water exhalation!

"Yes!? Uh, uh, yeah!

Imagine the water this time, as it is just miserable. but the water came out fine because of the rush, but the momentum is too strong and now the area blows up. The situation worsened further.

"" Ghaaaa!?

Eventually, the ice exhaled and froze the area, finally quenching the fire.

"I thought I was going to die..."

"I told you to try it cheaply. I'm sorry, too, but hey, isn't this terrible?... Kushi!

It is very cold because it quenched the fire with cold air. White on one side, like Alaska or Russia.

"I hope it's melting tomorrow..."

"I don't think I can do it for a while, this..."

I started a fire to keep warm, and today's practice was over.