The World’s Strongest Martial Artist who has Worked too Hard, Survives in the Magic World With Ease

After I broke up with my apprentice, Nemia.

We reunited with our former classmate, Nina, and we first moved to a park near the college.

When you sit on the bench, Mr. Nina giggles at you.

"Honestly, it's a hiccup!

Was Mr. Nina this bright?

I've always had troubles, and I have a quiet impression that it's negative.

"Nina, you've changed in a little while."

"I get it!? Actually, I'm taller! It's a late growing season!... Well, I'll lose Mr. Noir's growth."

Oh, it's the usual Mr. Nina.

It's not getting brighter, maybe you're just getting tense to reunite with us.

"Anyway, it's good to see you! Neither of us will even show our faces for graduation! I was worried about what you were doing!

I wanted to go to graduation, too.

At that time, we were in "Between Training", and when we returned to the real world, the moon was flowing for more than ten months.

"By the way, what were you doing in college earlier?

I wouldn't have stayed a year in this tension...

"I'm training for a pharmacist! Look, me and Ash-kun, we tried the promotion exam, right?

"Me and Nina are going to be formulating some energy drugs."

I suddenly wondered what would happen when the Demon King game started, but I was able to formulate it safely.

"After that, Dr. Sharm praised me for being so good at it that I was so happy to be a pharmacist."

Mr. Sharm is a top-notch pharmacist.

There's no way I'm not happy that one praised me.

"So I studied every day since I was in third grade, but I didn't have enough knowledge or experience to be independent as a pharmacist..."

I see, I see you're talking.

"So you're saying you've been apprenticed by Mr. Sharm?

"Yeah! I'm doing Mr. Sharm's assignment while I work at a neighborhood pharmacy!

I just got an assignment from Mr. Sharm and left the staff room, so you're reunited with us?

"What assignment did you get?

"Uh... this is it. Yikes!

The list that Nina had expanded to show me contained more than ten materials.

But it says the ingredients you need to formulate, but it doesn't say 'mix the XX pills'.

Thinking about it is one of the challenges?

"It's going to be hard."

Mr. Noir is teasing his head when he sees the surprisingly described material.

Nina sighed,

"It's especially difficult this time. Because this' honey bag 'is a material, it's very hard to get..."

"Is that in a financial sense?

"I have that, but I can't really buy honey bags at the store. That's why I have to go to the Panup Valley to harvest... there's no magical junction there, and it's hard to get one without dark magic, or water magic and wind magic"

"Is Mr. Nina in the water system?

"Yeah. So... I'll ask my friend because he has a wizard of the wind lineage"

"Then I'll help."

"What, okay?

"We were just heading for the Panup Valley."

I don't know how far you can help me with my magic, but you can't leave your troubled friends alone!

And I've been waiting for a chance to act as a wizard!

"Yes! That would be really helpful! It's a convenient day for Ash and the others to leave!

"So I'm gonna shop today, so can I just say we're leaving on tomorrow's starting train?

Mr. Nina nodded happily.

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And the next day.

After Elstadt, we came to the nearest town in the Panup Valley.

We had a late lunch and now we're walking in a mountain full of trees.

"The road is this way, isn't it?

"Yeah. If this map is right, it should be time to get there."

"If you walk through the map, you'll fall over."

"Oh, yeah. Look right in the front..."

Nina looked up and turned pale as she walked through the map.

"Fuck, fuck, it's a spider -!?

There was a spider hanging from a branch of a tree.

"Spiders."

"Spiders."

"Wouldn't you both be too calm!? A spider!? Big!? It's about my face!?

"Your face is small."

"Mr. Noir's face is smaller! Isn't this a demon!?

"Well, that's just a spider."

"I'm scared the other way around!? Just a spider and this size scares me the other way around!?

"You're too scared."

"You two just have too many livers sitting around!

You're surprised at Mr. Nina's scream, the spider runs away.

"I was scared..."

Disappointed, Mr. Nina sighs deeply.

"You're both amazing...... How can you be so calm?

"If you travel with Ash, you'll soon get used to it."

"What journey have you made..."

"There have been a lot of things. Besides, I wouldn't be scared if I had Ash."

"That's comforting to have Ash... but I'm still scared"

"If you're scared, I'll hold your hand."

"Oh, thanks..."

While I was being treated like a child, I guess I was happy.

By joining hands with Mr. Noir, blood returns to Nina's face.

Then after a short walk, Mr. Nina stopped.

"Well, here we are. This is the Panup Valley. Be careful not to let either of you slip your legs. If he falls, he dies. Height..."

Look at the cliff in front of you, Mr. Nina is frightened.

"I'll be careful not to fall."

"Right. So, where's the honey bag?

"It's the bottom of the valley. Honey bags stick to the riverside walls."

I dived to the bottom of the valley.

"Gee!? Ash-kun!?

As we landed along the river flowing at the bottom of the valley, Mr. Nina's screams came down.

Don't you know I'm a militant, Mr. Nina?

... Well, even if you knew, it doesn't make a difference that you've given your heart such a bad sight.

"I'm fine!

"Really!? My legs don't bend in weird directions!?

"Come on! I'll get it right away, just give me a minute!

Uh, honey bags... is that it?

When I looked at the wall, there was an object that looked exactly like an immature banana sticking up.

Let's just take it home!

Shh!!

The moment I pulled from the wall, the muddy juice erupted.

Honey bags have completely shriveled... but was this a bad touch?

"Ash-kun! What's it like now!?

"When I touched the honey bag, the juice erupted!

"I forgot to tell you, you harvest honey bags without touching them! If you touch it, honey will erupt!

"Then why not just harvest the juice!

"The juice will rot as soon as it erupts! So float the honey bag and harvest it without touching it!

"This is what it was like to need wind magic to harvest!

"I also use it when I go down to the bottom of the valley!? And that's what I'm talking about anyway!

If that's the case, it's your partner's turn!

"Let's go, buddy!

I found a new honey bag, and I drew a levitating magic rune.

Then the honey bag floated...........................................................................................

With my magic, can't I just pull the honey bag off the wall...

Then I'll have to use my wife's hand!

Zung!!!!

"Ash-kun! What's it like now!? It sounded amazing!

"Sounds good!

"You floated a honey bag!

"No, I took every wall!

"Why!? Why every wall!?

If you take each wall back, you won't have to touch the honey bag!

But at this size, it's hard to get on a train...

Span!!!!

Slash the rock with a hand knife and make it look like a plate.

It's just like having a banana on your plate.

This would be easy to take home...

The question is how to get it to the top of the cliff.

If we jump, the wind pressure's gonna blow the juice out.

The only way to transport the honey bag without irritation...... is to use that hand?

Zung!!!! Zung!!!!

"Ash-kun! What's it like now!? Something amazing is coming up!

"Bullshit! That's my footsteps!

"Is it footsteps!? Aren't you supposed to fly back in the sky!?

"I thought about it, I decided to walk back on the wall!

"How could you come to such a conclusion!? I mean, how do you walk!? The wall!? Vertical!?

"By sticking your foot in the wall, you can walk!

"I can't walk!?...... I imagined it for a bit but I couldn't walk!?

While we were having such an exchange, I came back to where Nina and the others were waiting.

"I'm home!

Look at me back in the gloom, Mr. Nina puts her butt on.

"Ho, you really walked home... are you hurt?

"I didn't. Yes, this."

Offer a honey bag stranded on a plate of rocks.

Mr. Nina coughs to get back on her mind and chuckles.

"Thanks! Then it's my job!

Nina draws a rune with a magic wand (Withers Rod).

Then every rock dish honey bag was wrapped in a membrane of water.

"Looks like jelly."

Indeed, the membrane of elastic water looks just like jelly.

I think I can take this back without irritating the honey bag.

Was this the case that wind magic and water magic were needed for the harvest?

"That's it," he said.

When Nina put the honey bag wrapped in jelly in the case, we went down the mountain.

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By the time I got back to town, it was evening.

"I'm hungry."

Mr. Noir is in tired mode.

I took a walk today.

Should we go to the red dots tomorrow and stay in this town today?

"We're staying here, but what about Mr. Nina?

"I'm going home to Elstadt. Because I want to make it quick. Hey!

"Okay. I hope it goes well!

"I'll back you up, too."

"Thanks both! See you later! Come visit me anytime you come back to Elstadt! I'll treat you to a treat today!

When she says so, Nina walks away to the train station.

"You've traveled for two again."

"I'll talk a lot. Maybe tomorrow we'll go to the red dot place?

"I plan on doing that. If we don't get there early, the red dots might move."

Because of the precedent of the Grune kingdom, you can't be alarmed just because you confirmed your whereabouts once.

"I just saw it yesterday, will you confirm my whereabouts just in case?

"I'll check."

Mr. Noir widened the map and frowned.

"What's going on?

"The red dots are changing."

"What?... really. You're moving southeast. And the two red dots overlap..."

"Another red dot, could you?

"Yeah. One's me."

Which means the Lord of the Red Dots is near me.

"Are you just going to see me?

"Because I'm close. Let's meet first in person and talk, then have dinner."

"I'd love some meat today."

"Whatever Mr. Noir wants."

That's how I made my plans, that was then.

"Oh boy! Ash-kun and Nowa! What are you doing here?

Called back by a lively voice, Mr. Fermina had skewered grilled meat on his cheek.