Published at 12th of April 2023 7:28 pm

Chapter 312: Squirming About In The Creek

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「Yosh, shall we go?」

Deciding to play with Torr and Asmo, I wear a straw hat, put a towel in my shirt, and then headed outside.

As I open the front door, the suffocating air envelops my body, and the strong sunlight shines on me.

Even so, the heat is not to the point of being unbearable. The heat in Japan in my previous life was more than twice as hot as this, and it felt very uncomfortable. Compared to that, this heat is nothing.

Desperately convincing myself of that, I opened the door widely and went down the stairs, and head to the courtyard where Torr and Asmo is waiting.

「Ou, you’re here! Hahaha, that straw hat perfectly suits you!」

「That said, you really look like a naughty brat, Torr」

White shirts and brown shorts. Wearing a straw hat, moreover, if he were to bring an insect cage and a net, then he will completely look like a countryside boy.

「What do you mean ‘look like a naughty brat’......」

「It literally means what I said」

「Shut it Asmo. You dressed like an obaachan in a field」

「Say whatever you want. It’s cooler like this」

Asmo also wears something similar to Torr, but he wears a towel under his straw hat, it looks like it’s to protect the back of his neck and the side of his face from the sunlight.

Sure, it can protect you from the sunlight and makes it a bit cooler, but combined with that plump figure of his, he completely looks like an obaachan in the field.

(Something like this, found this by chance, maybe this is what Asmo in live-action looks like?)

「Huh? Al, you’re not bringing a flask with you?」

「No, I have Water magic anyway」

Torr and Asmo have water flasks in their leather bag hanging on their waists but I have none with me.

「Ahー, that’s unfair!」

「I just don’t use Ice magic to wrap around my body, but I will use Water magic and Wind magic in moderation」

I wanted to enjoy nature this time, and it’s not like I’m trying to live without relying on magic for everything. I won’t hesitate to use Water magic to replenish water.

「I already drank half of my water on the way to your mansion, give me some water」

「’kay」

「Aahh! Me too!」

Since the water in Torr’s water flask had been reduced on his way here, I reluctantly replenish their water flask for them. I don’t think it will happen, but it won’t be a joke if they collapse due to dehydration.

「Now then, let’s leave」

「Right!」

When their flask is full, Torr leads us in front, and Torr and I follow behind him.

The weather outside is fine today, we can clearly see the verdant plains and the straight road leading from the mansion. In the distance, you can see plenty of mountains overlapping with each other, meanwhile, we can feel the wind caressing our skin.

「I thought it was going to be windy, but it’s cool」

I’ve been using the cold air of the Ice magic to surround me and to keep out the heat recently, so it feels like a long time since I felt the coolness from the wind alone.

For people who are accustomed to this feeling, the coldness from the Ice magic’s cold air would surely feel a bit too cold and make them uncomfortable.

「The wind is strong here for some reason, so it’s cool」

「This kind of place occasionally appears, but I wonder why?」

「That’s because there is a path for the wind due to the terrain」

「Path for the wind? What is that? Was there such a thing as ‘a path for the wind’?」

I give Torr and Asmo - who tilted their heads in confusion - a casual explanation about it, but it looks like it has unnecessarily made them doubt it even more.

It will be difficult for the two of them to understand it since they don’t know about things like the working of the airflow itself. Although, Since even I - who only learned about it in general education - is not a specialist on this topic, I can’t tell them about it in detail though.....

「If there are a lot of mountains, the course of the wind will change. The wind that hit the mountains will then flow down to these unobstructed plains」

「Hmーm, so it’s something like, it’s easier for the wind to move down to an unobstructed place due to the mountains?」

「Un, something like that. And so, this place is a place where the wind can pass through easily」

「I don’t understand it that much, but the wind can blow through this place easier and cool here!」

Well, although the theory is like that, it would be nice to know about places where the wind is blowing strongly due to the terrain.

As we walk down the road while feeling the blowing wind with our whole bodies, we arrived at a small wooden bridge, with a stream flowing beneath the bridge.

We don’t talk to each other, and the refreshing sound of water is getting clearer as if inviting us.

Summer streams are the living habitat for all sorts of creatures. Just by walking through the grasses and pushing them aside, grasshoppers will jump out, and butterflies that had perched on the vegetation also start fluttering up.

Is this the instinct of living things to reach the waterside?

Peering into the water, small fish are swimming leisurely and river shrimps are living quietly near stones and on their edges.

When I put my hand into the water, the water temperature in the stream was low and cold, even on a hot summer day.

「Just sticking my hand inside feels good」

「Un, the feeling of water flowing through the palm of my hand is nice」

The flowing water will pass right through when you deliberately use the palm of your hand to resist the flow of water.

When you’re talking about the pleasant feeling of water passing through between your fingers, it’s something that can’t be put into words.

「Ah, I wonder if the thing Al said about ‘path for the wind’ is something similar to this?」

「「…………」」

Hearing Torr’s casual remarks, Asmo and I become speechless.

「Oi, what now. Your face looks like you saw something unbelievable」

「Sorry, to put it mildly, I thought Torr is an idiot, so I didn’t expect you to say something like that」

「Are you all right, Torr? Did you feel strange in your head due to the heat?.....but, you don’t have a fever, right?」

There doesn’t seem to be anything strange even when Asmo spontaneously put his hand on Torr’s forehead to measure his temperature.

「If anything, maybe his mind went full circle due to the heat and he became smarter?」

「……that’s possible」

「You guys are really so rude!」

Torr suddenly gets angry and throws water at us when Asmo and I are seriously worried about him.

「It feels nice and cold, but don’t aim at the groin, you! Even if you know the reason for this, it’s still hard to walk in public like this, y’know!」

「Hahaha, you deserve it!」

It feels uncomfortable when my groin is wet, and it will look as though I peed my pants, so stop it.

「Hiiiiiii! Something is creeping around my body!」

While I was protesting Torr for his action, Asmo - who is also a victim like me - suddenly started to take off his clothes.

From under the clothes that were wet with sweat and water, fatty meat comes out.

I saw something unsightly even before I walk a hundred meters from the mansion.

Even so, something creeping around your body, just what the heck....

Just when Torr and I are watching him in surprise, we saw something jumping out from Asmo’s body.

「What was that?」

「Aah, it’s a river shrimp! Hahaha, it looks like it got thrown together with the water I threw at you!」

When I question what happened before, Torr laughs while pointing at the jumping river shrimp.

「What the, so it’s a river shrimp. I thought it was surely a centipede or a strange insect that got in」

Knowing that the creature that got under his clothes is a river shrimp, Asmo breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the river shrimp is small, they still have those legs of theirs. It’s natural for people to get the wrong idea. Or rather, if I went through the same experience, I will also be going to make the same reaction. I will scream and think that it’s a centipede or a spider.

「Haha, you got punished for making fun of me」

「Then what about Al?」

「Ooh, then why don’t we also put a river shrimp inside Al’s clothes?」

Torr said with a light feeling like when you offer someone if they want to drink juice or not.

I felt danger and tried to escape immediately, Asmo - who was near me - hold me tight.

「Al, don’t run」

「Uwaaah! Release me, you’re naked and slimy with sweat and water!」

’Normally, I would hate this kind of situation but I won’t mind it if others also experience misfortune like me’. I knew it, these guys are genuine scums who thought like that.

「Hahaha, accept your fate Al」

After that, I also squirmed about and took off my clothes like Asmo.

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