[Even if He was a User of Body Strengthening Magic, He was a Weirdo as I Expected]
When I woke up, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
Apparently Iâm lying in bed.
âHave you wake up? Iâm sorry, if I was careful, Frick-sama wouldnât have been harmedâŚâ
I looked to Noelia, who realized I have woken up even before I opened my eyes.
âNoelia~. Iâm sorry~, it was my fault for teasing the boy. So, let me in~.â
From outside I can hear Gawainâs voice and the sound of door being knocked. This seems to be the bed in his main building.
âGawain-shishou, your prank to Frick-sama is too much. Please reflect outside for a while.â
Noelia flatly refused Gawain.
Nevertheless, Gawain had a physique with unmatched agility and superhuman strength right.
To think I couldnât shake free from him.
âNoeliaâŚwho is Gawain-sama? I donât think heâs just a blacksmith thoughâŚâ
âGawain-shishou is a person who is extremely adept in Body Strengthening magic. I have also mastered it, but it is a kind of magic that I am not good at⌠I was thinking of teaching it to Frick-sama after youâve done learning support magic.â
Body Strengthening magic⌠It was the first time I heard that there is such a magic.
I knew about attack magic and support magic to some extent because mages used them pretty often.
âWhat kind of magic is that?â
âIt is literally a magic that strengthens oneâs body. Gawain-sama has found that he can use magic to strengthen the muscle strength needed to raise his blacksmithing arm. It seems that he has been called a âweirdoâ because heâs been using Body Strengthening magic to increase his strength to inhuman degree, but if itâs just thatâŚâ
âStrengthening your own body⌠is it different from support magic?â
âYes, support magic is a magic that affects other people or people within range, but Body Strengthening is a magic specializing in strengthening only the mage himself⌠The Body Strengthening magic created by Gawain-shishou is a magic that is called heresy by mages who donât need much physical strengthening.â
Certainly, if itâs average mage who doesnât need to be in a close quarter combat, rather than spending their magic power on physical strengthening, it will be better for them to choose attack magic or support magic.
I can understand why the mages called it a heresy.
âHeyăź, Noelia! Youâre slighting the Body Strengthening magic I created, rightăź. I can hear it yâknow.â
Perhaps he heard Noeliaâs voice, Gawain was making a ruckus outside.
âGawain-shishou always used Body Strengthening magicâŚI should mention that the reason why I put up a Wind Barrier before was because it is also measure to prevent injury due to skinship with him. The fact that Gawain-shishou is a weirdo is undeniable, it was my fault for not telling Frick-sama because I was afraid of giving you a strange preconception about him.â
Noelia bowed regretfully as if saying that all of this is her fault.
âIt was a good experience.
Iâll also have to use Wind Barrier from now on, right.â
It seems it would be dangerous if I receive âthatâ many times after all.
I have to protect my own self.
âI recommend doing so. You were liked by Gawain-shishou after all. Therefore, Iâm sure the sword will be made at materials cost. He will only forge a sword for someone that he likes after all.â
âHaaâŚIs that so? He only forge a sword for the person who had received that baptism, huh⌠Now I understand why Gawain-samaâs sword wasnât circulated widely.â
âMeiss said that when my father was young, he managed to dodge âthatâ and then knocked him down.â
âThe young Frontier Count-sama was amazingâŚhe managed to dodge that, huh.â
The movements of Gawain who rushed with his magically strengthened body are unpredictable, and once caught you wouldnât be able to escape from his superhuman strength.
If I can gain that much physical ability, Body Strengthening magic may be able to strengthen my swordsmanship.
It seems to be worth learning.
âNoelia, can you teach me Body Strengthening magic after I request Gawain-sama to make me a sword? I want to try it myself.â
âItâs fineâŚbut, Iâm poor at imagining strengthening the bodyâŚI think I can activate it, but I canât feel any change to any part of my body, so itâs hard to explain it.â
When it comes to magic, Noelia would talk anything about it with bright face, but apparently it seems that Body Strengthening magic is in the magic category that she is not good at.
âFrick! If you want to use Body Strengthening magic, I can teach you yâknow~. Iâve heard from Lloydâs messenger that you have a tremendous amount of magic power. Youâll be able to use it in a week.â
Gawain, who was listening to us from outside, was noisy.
With that much strength, he should be able to easily destroy the door of this house and enterâŚ
Ah, he doesnât want to destroy the house, huhâŚ
Wait, I donât care about that.
An out-of-place thought came to my mind, so I hurriedly dispel it.
Whatâs more important is, is it okay to learn Body Strengthening magic from him?
After all, my master is Noelia.
âHe said so. But, is it okay?â
âHeâs the best person in using Body Strengthening magicâŚbut heâs kind of like âthatâ⌠Itâs just, I think heâs better at teaching Body Strengthening magic than me. Even I became able to use it.â
I can see that Noelia is also worried about whether to entrust me as a disciple to her weirdo master who has various problems.
Hmm~, I know heâs not a bad person, but thereâs âthatâ after all.
However, if I can use magic that can raise my physical ability, I may be able to temper my swordsmanship more thoroughly.
I have to learn it even if I have to close my eyes to some problems I guess.
âWell, Iâll do something about âthatâ.â
âWell then, Iâll also stay to supervise Gawain-shishou. If something happens to Frick-sama while learning magic, it would cause a loss to the world after all.â
âEh? No no no, itâs okayä¸ä¸â
At the moment I said so, I heard a loud flapping sound outside.
This sound is the flapping sound of a wyvern! A wyvern of Yasubaâs hunting ground has come here!?
âNoelia, itâs a wyvern! Hide here, Iâll go save Gawain-sama.â
âAh, no, Frick-sama. This sound is probablyä¸ä¸â
I picked up my sword placed on the side table, removed the bolt of the door, and went out of the house.
Then, what were there are Gawain and a wyvern.
âYo, Iâm going to Lloydâs place for a while to say, âYour daughter will take care of meâ. You can freely use the foodstuffs to make dinner. Iâll be back for dinner after all. Well then, please watch over the house okay~â
Gawain who was saddling the wyvern only told me that much, then he got on the wyvern, which started flapping again, and Gawainâs figure flew toward the direction of Youg Hannotes where we came from.
I could only stand in a daze seeing off that figure.
Really me, is it really okay to request that person to make a sword that will be your partner and learn magic from him�
Thus, while I had the weirdo blacksmith Gawain make me a sword, I decided to learn the Body Strengthening magic.