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I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched (Web Novel) - Chapter 379: The Destruction Within Acceptable Limits Is Merely a Temporary Alteration
Chapter 379: The Destruction Within Acceptable Limits Is Merely a Temporary Alteration
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So, having pretty much wrapped up almost everything to do in this world on the first day, we spent our days playing with the fairies, as planned.Well, it can’t be helped. Despite having an interest in what lies outside the forest, the Hero fairies were usually flying high in the sky, and even if I called out to them, they wouldn’t come over. So, I can’t leave this village.
Of course, forcibly catching them and moving on was possible, but that would likely lead to opposing the Demon King, and kidnapping fairies for mere curiosity or to dispel boredom was not my intention.
So, in the end, we had no choice but to spend our time in this forest… It’s been about a month since we came to this world. On that morning, like every other morning, after finishing breakfast, Tia and I were surrounded by the usual fairies.
“Big outsider, let’s play!”
“Big outsider, I’ll play with you!”
“Big outsider, what do you want to play?”
“Hahaha, it’s confirmed we’ll play again today. Hmm, what should we do?”
Actually, I couldn’t identify individual fairies. They had personalities, but there were so many of them without names. Moreover, they easily flew off somewhere even in the midst of doing something, and they might join in playing without any relation in the middle of it. So, I couldn’t remember them.
Well, the fairies didn’t have a fixation on individuals either, so I never had any problems with that.
“Hey, Tia. What about you?”
“Me? Well…”
Tia, who was tilting her head next to me, was in the same situation. In fact, she seemed to accept the idea of “no distinction between individuals” more smoothly than I did. It was a bit surprising, but when I was told, “Spirits are like that too,” I understood.
“Big outsider, what are you going to do?”
“Big outsider, let’s play that!”
“Big outsider, fuwa fuwa?”
“Fuwa fuwa… Ah, you want to play with magic again? Fufu, sure, why not. Alright, shall we then?”
In truth, we can’t compete with the fairies’ requests, as they seem to have settled on what to do. Well, it seems that magic is the key to their requests. Oh well, I might as well provide them with an attractive play, but…
“Yay, fuwa fuwa!”
“Yay, zawazawa!”
“Wowww, spinning around!”
“………………..”
The fairies gathered around me seemed to particularly enjoy Tia’s swirling wind magic. The lively atmosphere around me until a moment ago suddenly felt lonely.
“Sorry, Ed. It seems like I’m more charming again today, huh?”
“Hahaha, seems like it. Well, you might as well enjoy it while it lasts, right?”
Facing Tia, who had a triumphant expression, I responded with a strained smile.
Our recent source of enjoyment was mainly about “who can play with more fairies.” The one who offered a more splendid, flashy, and enjoyable play would win…. By the way, in the matches so far, I have three wins and seven losses.
However…
(Hehehe, being able to enjoy this mood is only for now. I’ve passed “sweet things” to the Demon King and secured the supply. If I can reproduce what I saw in that world, I should be able to firmly capture the hearts of the fairies…)
“Wow, Ed seems to have a really wicked expression…”
“No, no, it’s nothing, really? I’m definitely not planning some major entertainment that would shake Tia-san’s stronghold.”
“Heh, you thinking about something? What could it be, I wonder.”
“Exciting!”
“So fun!”
“So enjoyable!”
“…Ah, yeah.”
It’s dazzling. Tia and the fairies genuinely looking forward to things were so dazzling. Oh, what the heck. When did I become so messed up…
“Wow, now Ed seems down…”
“Big outsider, not feeling well?”
“Big outsider, cheer up!”
“Big outsider, not stinky!”
“Uh, thanks, everyone… And it’s not like I’m down because of a smell or anything.”
After the small fairies patted my head with all their might, they jumped back into the whirlwind Tia created and shouted. I think if you were a human, getting caught in a tornado would blow you away… but, well, if you can fly on your own, it’s probably not that scary.
“But you know, fairies are really different from spirits.”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
“It might have been my own misconception at this point, but I thought fairies were closer to spirits. So when I heard that fairies can’t see spirits, I was really surprised.”
“Oh, now that you mention it, we talked about that.”
It was one of the things Tia mentioned when we started playing like this. She was certainly surprised back then…
“Is that really such a surprising thing? Well, I can’t see spirits in the first place, so even if you say they’re different, I wouldn’t understand.”
“Fufu, that’s true. Spirits are much lighter than fairies, and they don’t have strong emotions. It feels like they’re truly a part of nature… For example, there’s quite a common belief among humans that if you ‘recklessly cut down trees in the forest, spirits will get angry,’ right?”
“Oh, yeah, that’s a thing. There are quite a few who say if you disrespect nature, you’ll ‘incur the wrath of the spirits.'”
“But that’s not true. Because, you know? Spirits don’t have strong emotions like fairies. It’s more like being an integral part of nature… For example, if you cut down the trees in the forest, the spirits that dwell in the trees will certainly leave, but as a result, sunlight can reach the ground, and the wind can blow through more easily… It’s just that the active spirits change, and it doesn’t mean something is lost. So saying that spirits get angry when you destroy nature is incorrect. It just looks like their existence disappears because the medium needed to exert their power is gone. It’s only a matter of the medium disappearing.”
“Wow! Uh, then why do they say ‘the spirits get angry’?”
“Probably, but if you cut down too many trees, landslides are more likely to occur, or something unrelated to those spirits, I think spirits are using the easily understandable expression of ‘getting angry’ to warn of natural phenomena. In deserts, there are desert spirits, remember when I told you that, Ed? So it’s not that the desert is disliked by spirits more than a forest, and even in lush green places, there are places where the spirit’s power is weak. Places with excessively strong magic or, conversely, places with almost no magic. Since plants don’t easily wither even if the power of the spirits disappears once they grow, there are places that, despite appearing rich in forests, are more withered than deserts… that kind of place.”
“Ohh! Is that so!”
With the newly shared knowledge, I nodded emphatically. The spirits in my mind were like tiny lizards spewing fire or small fairies wrapped in wind, so it’s quite a different feeling.
“Hmm? But why suddenly talk about that?”
“Well, remember on the first day we came here, I said, ‘The spirit’s power in this forest is really weak’? And also, that the forest will die in ten years is probably much more serious than what Ed is thinking. However, I thought that the fairies living here might be helping to heal the forest. But after spending time here, I don’t feel that way at all… So I started to worry a bit, wondering if it’s okay to leave it alone.”
“I see. Then let’s go to the Demon King later and talk about that, and—!?”
[Offer.]
A small but firm voice came from high above in the distant sky. Raising my face to the slight shiver in the spine from the echoing sound, there was the figure of a shining white fairy.
“Ed, what’s that!?”
“Oh. That’s… hey!?”
[Offer.]
I know that white presence speaking those words well. However, regardless of my vigilance, other fairies approached the white fairy defenselessly.
“Idiots, get away! Danger—”
[Offer… offer… offer sweetness…]
“Wha…?”
[Offer it!]
[Offer it!]
[Offer something sweet!
In front of me, who frowned intensely, a fairy holding what seemed to be brownish gooey stuff, probably made by the Demon King, handed it to the white fairy. The white fairy then ate it with a nibble and smiled satisfactorily with its small face.
[Bliss… sweetness is justice.]
[Sweetness is justice!]
[Sweetness is wonderful!]
[Hail to sweetness!]
“…What’s going on here?”
In my bewildered state, the white fairy didn’t do anything in particular and floated away in a flutter.
