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CHAPTER 4 – I’M JUST A REGULAR PERSON, CAN I BATTLE THE MOST POWERFUL WIZARD?
PART 03
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*BOOM!*
Just then, the room door crushed inwards and fell apart with a deafening crash.
And the one who strode in was none other than the owner, Iris. I glanced her way, and noted that she somehow looked extremely angry.
“Hey you! How dare you come here and snatch my Rekka away!”
“
Your Rekka?”
Satsuki narrowed her eyes as she moved away from me, which I was grateful for, but I could sense that trouble was brewing.
“Rekka, what is the meaning of this?”
Satsuki asked with a scary expression on her face. It was a total switcharound from the mood a few moments ago.
As if adding fuel to the fire, Iris cut in.
“HEY! What do you want with my Rekka?!”
Now, Satsuki whipped her head around to face Iris.
“And who are you to Rekka?”
“I’m Rekka’s lover!”
“The Rekka I know will never get that close to a girl he just met
 I don’t believe that he has touched you
 So you can’t be lovers.”
“But we are! Rekka and I have been sticking together all this while, right? We’re truly in love!”
“I’m Rekka’s childhood friend. We’ve been together ever since we were children, so I’m more important to him than you are.”
“What do you mean, more important!?”
“I mean what I said. We even took baths together.”
“Huh? You mean you can take baths together? What does that mean!? I want to do it too!”
No, I don’t think I would want to take a bath together with Iris in that washing machine-like contraption she had on her spaceship. We’d probably knock into each other.
“That happened when we were children
”
“”Shut up, Rekka!””
How did the both of them manage to agree on that?

I give up.
“I’m cuter than you, so Rekka will choose me.”
“Rekka will never choose his lover just based on looks.”
“Stop speaking as if you know everything about Rekka!”
“But I do. I even know that the mole on his back has a single hair growing out of it.”
Huh? Really? I reached behind myself to check.
“You have no boobs!”
“Don’t look down on my chest. I’m as endowed as anyone else.”
I had no idea what they were arguing about anymore.
“Anyway, there’s no need for you and Rekka to kiss! You just have to defeat that Messiah person!”
Unable to win the verbal war, Iris stamped her feet as she stabbed a finger in Satsuki’s face.
“I won’t be so troubled if I could do that. Messiah isn’t just powerful in terms of possessing offensive magic, his real specialty is in impenetrable defenses.”
“
What do you mean?” I finally managed to join in the conversation.
“Rekka, you threw a metal pipe at Messiah back at the abandoned factory, right? But it didn’t do him any harm. That is the work of his Defense Barrier. It surrounds his entire person, and serves to repel any physical and magical attacks from enemies. It is so strong that even a hundred wizards working together would not be able to destroy it.”
“
Aside from a hundred wizards, how strong is his barrier, actually?”
“Well
 Even if something strong enough to destroy Earth hits him, he will still survive, I guess. Though the loss of his home planet would be troublesome for him too.”
So even a blast strong enough to destroy Earth wouldn’t work against him?
It really sounded like he was the most powerful wizard. I could never win against him.
It was ironic, really. The blast strong enough to destroy Earth that Satsuki was talking about was actually going to hit us, no thanks to the Satamonian king.
Either problem was trouble enough on its own, and to have both thrown upon me at once
 It was like a cruel joke
 Hmm?
“Ehh?”
Just then, something sparked across a corner of my mind.
It was the sole advantage that I had learned in the other world.
Having been dragged into numerous “stories”, it meant that I would not be bound by the rules which usually govern each of those “stories”.
Just like how I defeated the Demon King with the laser gun
 Maybe I could ignore the rules of each “story” and try to defeat both the meteor and the wizard together?
I made myself recall everything I had experienced today. Each part of the day, the items I used, the items I didn’t, the people I met
 I pieced it all together like a puzzle.
Could it
work? Could it really work? No, I was still missing some pieces of the puzzle. Did I miss something out? The final idea to glue everything together
!
I clutched at my head, almost fainting with the agony of thinking, when Harissa’s face surfaced in my mind.
That’s it! Harissa would be able to help me!
“Hey, Rekka?”
“What’s wrong?”
Iris and Satsuki had stopped their bickering, and were looking at me. They were probably worried since I appeared so deep in thought.
I assured them that I was fine, before I turned to Satsuki.
“Satsuki, you can use the Great Magic of Creation to find out about anything aside from the future, right?”
“Huh? Yes, that’s right.”
“Then please, there’s something I need you to find out.”
“Alright
but Rekka, what are you planning?”
I started to explain my battle plan to the two girls.
In order for them to understand, I told them everything, including all that I’d experienced today, as well as the “Namidare Lineage”. As I explained, their faces slowly darkened.
“So the reason why you rescued me at the factory was because of your Lineage?”
Iris asked uncertainly.
Satsuki remained silent, but she looked worried as she gazed at me.
They must be thinking that I was forced to solve their problems against my will, that I wouldn’t be helping them if not for my Lineage.
“Don’t worry about that. Even though my constitution makes it easy for me to be dragged into ‘stories’, I really hope to rescue the both of you.”
It was true. I had every right to ignore these “stories”, so it was because of my own wish to help them that had landed me in this situation.
So they really had nothing to worry about
 I did my best to make them understand this.
“
Yes! Rekka is just so cool!”
“I’m really glad you’re here, Rekka.”
Iris and Satsuki smiled
 Was it my imagination, or were they both blushing slightly?
Oh well! Now, I just had to put my plan into action. I asked the girls for any suggestions they had regarding the plan.
“You can do it, because you’re Rekka!” was Iris’ straightforward opinion.
“It’ll be tough, but I don’t think it’s impossible,” Satsuki agreed.
Their encouraging words gave me strength.
“I see. Now we just have to do it, then!”
I only had one goal in mind, and that was happy endings for the girls’ “stories”!