Chapter 222: Idle Talk - The Third Princess Layla, The Boy Who Falls From The Sky
Chapter 222: Idle Talk - The Third Princess Layla, The Boy Who Falls From The Sky
The next day after I played Jenga with Eleonora-neesan.
I’m practicing to increase my amount of magic power in my room as usual, then I suddenly had a thought.
「I guess I’ll try to use Teleport to the royal capital for a bit」
I’ve been Teleporting to distant places up until now in order to be able to Teleport to faraway places like the royal capital, the port town of Esport, and Kagura at any time, but I have never once used Teleport to go there.
I went until Kikka using Teleport to look for slimes last time, but I just had the misfortune of encountering Eleonora-neesan in Kikka. And besides, I couldn’t find more slimes than I expected.
And probably it’s because of that reason that made me unable to put it into action even while thinking of trying to use Teleport to the royal capital.
There is no practice today, and Eleonora-neesan - who always comes after sensing something - has also gone to have a vigilante corps training today.
Now will be an ideal time to train my Teleport.
That’s because Teleport magic is consuming an intense amount of magic power compared to using magic normally or just releasing magic power. It is also killing two birds with one stone as I can also do the training of increasing the amount of my magic power.
Thinking like that, I immediately put on my outer shoes and leave the mansion, heading for the grassland.
Un, there’s not even a shadow of a person around here. Looks like it’s going to be fine even if I use Teleport here.
After checking the surroundings carefully, I shape the magic power inside my body and imagine the scenery of the royal capital in my mind, in order to use Teleport.
I got caught up in all sorts of incidents with a strong impression of the royal capital. So there are all sorts of scene that comes to my mind
And the scene that gives me the deepest impression is the one where Eric and I got chased around by those fujoshis and we escaped to the sky.
A terrifying number of fujoshi chasing after me in the back alley――not that, but the aerial view overlooking the cityscape of the royal capital was very beautiful and magnificent.
Even though it’s been quite some time since I’ve been there, I can still recall it vividly.
When I remember the scenery from that time, I was suddenly wrapped by the entire mass of my magic power.
「Ah, not good」
The moment I thought like that, the magic activated. My body was attacked by a sudden floating sensation.
And, the next moment.
My field of vision is no longer that of the scenery of the grassland but changes to that of the view of the royal capital seen from far above.
In front of my eyes is the upper part of the grand Misphilt castle, with the crystal clear blue sky around me spreading out endlessly. The warm sunlight is shining down on me and white clouds are floating quietly while being closer than usual.
It’s a moment where I enjoy such scenery. But now that I’ve Teleported to the sky, I have no foothold under me.
As a result, I’m falling headfirst from far away in the sky to the ground.
From the clear blue sky changing to the scenery of the royal capital’s cityscape.
Then the speed rapidly increases as the ground keeps getting closer.
「Uuwwaaaaaaaaaaaa!?」
An unexpected bungee-jumped from the sky above the royal capital. Moreover, there are no safety ropes or cushions below. Rather, if I were to fall from such heights, it’s useless even if you prepare something like cushions.
Faced with the unprecedented crisis in my life, I pathetically screamed in spite of myself.
No way no way no way! At this rate, I’ll definitely die!
Even while I’m having such impatient thoughts in my mind, the cityscape of the royal capital below me keeps getting closer and closer. The time limit of my own life is shortened as time passes.
I became an object that fall down from the sky, cutting through the air around me.
Or rather, the wind pressure that hits my body is terrible. I’m sure that my face has become really weird right now. It must be a terrible kind of face where tears and snots are running down my face.
「Or rather, this is not the time to think about such things!」
I thought like that while in the middle of escaping from reality, but now is not the time for that.
The distance between me and the ground is getting closer even as I’m thinking like this. I will definitely die by crashing into a building or the ground if it stays like this.
I have to find the probability of survival, whether by using magic or something else……!
And, I suddenly remember a certain place even while being impatient.
「……ooh, I should use Teleport」
That’s right, I can just have to land inside my room as soon as I use Teleport. I mean, I have Space magic that boasts its absolute safety, Teleport. If I use that magic then this kind of situation is nothing to be worried about.
With that in mind, I’m no longer scared of the threatening bungee jump. No, I’m actually quite scared when I experienced it.
But when I remember about Teleport, the impatience I’m having until a while ago completely disappeared and my head suddenly became clear and calm.
Falling down from above the royal capital is frightening. I should probably use Teleport quickly before I faint.
But I finally came to the royal capital after much trouble. I want to stroll around the royal capital aimlessly.
So with thought, I confirm the building where I fall with Eric back there by sight, instead of imagining my own room and,
「Teleport!」
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- Layla's POV -
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I look up to the sky from my bedroom window today, the same as always.
From the day I saw those two boys up in the sky, I have made it become my daily routine to look up at the sky through the window.
I thought that, ‘If I stay here like this, I wonder if those two boys from that time will appear in the sky again’. While holding on to such a faint hope.
「We also have nice weather today」
「Yes」
As I’m quietly staring at the sky from the window, Sariya - who waits upon me nearby - says that while smiling.
Since I started to look up to the sky, Sariya also often looked up to the sky like me.
But that does not mean that Sariya also cares about the boys up in the sky. Maybe, she just has a lot of free time since she only takes care of me, who rarely comes out.
But, thanks to that, we can look up to the sky like this, or chatting while looking at the city outside.
It’s very fun, that’s why I like to see the scenery outside of the window together with Sariya.
And as I was happily staring at the outside scenery, a gentle wind blows in from outside.
The feeling of my skin being caressed by the wind is pleasant that I involuntarily close my eyes.
「The wind feels nice」
「But, will you not get cold if you keep being exposed to the wind like that? Although it is now summer, the temperature of the room is dropping because of Layla’s magic……」
Since I can use Ice magic, I lower the temperature of the room using the cold air of Ice magic in summer, when the temperature is hot.
Therefore, it is comfortable and cool to spend your time in the room I’m in.
That’s why, Sariya is worried and wonders if I will get sick because I have been exposed to the wind.
「It’s fine. Ice magic is my specialty, so I can also adjust the temperature so that it will not affect my health」
I confidently smile at Sariya - who sounds worried - and answer her worries.
I couldn’t walk ever since I was little and I was exposed to magic ever since I’m old enough to understand the things around me. For me, who found it difficult to even move around inside the castle, I have nothing else to do other than learning magic.
For that reason, I have some confidence in my magic control.
「So you said, but you caught a cold when you cool yourself with the cold air last year, right?」
I twist my body as if to escape from Sariya’s scrutinizing gaze.
But, I couldn’t really escape from her in this small wheelchair so I go around her.
Uuuh, if only this wheelchair is wider……
「B, but my magic control was perfect you know? I should also have adjusted the temperature to a comfortable temperature just like the normal temperature that day!」
「Even if you can adjust the temperature and did great on the magic control, there is no meaning in all that if you can not understand the condition of your own body. Even at the best of times, Layla’s body is relatively weak」
Uguuh, it’s actually just as Sariya said.
No matter how I adjusted the temperature, it would be meaningless if the temperature does not suit my health at the time.
It was stupid of me to catch a cold after using my own Ice magic in midsummer.
「You’re still looking at the sky today?」
「……yes」
「Then I will bring you a blanket after this so please use it. You can just put it on your feet since it’s summer」
「……yes」
When I nodded obediently to her, Sariya nodded in satisfaction and leave.
「Sariya, thank you for everything」
「No no, it is also my duty to manage Layla’s condition」
After she grins at me, she went out of the room, and perhaps she headed for another room to get a blanket for me.
Just as the room becomes quiet, I turn my gaze back to the sky.
Today the blue sky spreads out making one feel good. It naturally cheers you up seeing such good weather.
I also wonder if those two boys will suddenly appear again when the weather is nice like today.
Though that’s what I hope, it has already been two months since that day.
I have been looking up at the sky every single day, but I never saw those two boys even once.
Since they did not appear again after such a long time, then the scene of those two boys at that time might just be my mistake in seeing something after all. These days, I often think like that.
The scene I saw that day, was it just an illusion that was made up due to the outside world that I yearn so much for?
For me - who can’t leave the castle -, I wish those two boys would take me out.
I mean, it is strange that they can play around in the sky. It should be an impossible skill even if you have the ability to use magic.
I knew it, that might just be an illusion created by my desire……
「Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?」
As I hung my head with that kind of thought in my mind, I heard a sudden scream-like sound.
Surprised by the abrupt scream, I look around inside the room in hurry.
However, I can’t find the source of that voice. Rather than inside the room, the voice that I heard was clearly from outside.
「Eeh? Could it be from outside?」
And following the direction of the voice I heard, I hurriedly shifts my gaze to the outside of the window.
Thereupon, it was there.
――the boyish person I saw on that day was falling headfirst from the sky.
「……someone is falling from the sky?」
I don’t understand with the current, sudden situation at hand, that I only stare at the phenomenon happening over there.
Rather than that, the situation is happening so sudden that I can not keep up.
Just what is going on here?
Even while my mind is filled with a lot of question marks, the boy is falling head first from the sky.
Is the boy's present situation unexpected? He is struggling and flailing and in the air, while making strange voices I don’t understand.
Seeing the boy’s situation, I now understood that the boy is in a very dangerous situation.
「This is terrible! At this rate, that boy will fall to the ground!」
What would happen to that boy if he crash into the ground from such height, and with such speed? Just imagining it alone makes me shudder.
I have to help him somehow!
But, I don’t know how to help that boy in such a situation.
I have to help him by stopping his fall somehow.
But, the magic that I can use - Ice magic and Water magic - can’t be used to stop his fall.
To begin with, the boy will crash into the ground earlier while I’m chanting for using the magic.
What should I do!?
「Layla, I brought the blanket」
Just when I am confused and panicking, Sariya returned at just the right timing.
「Sariya, this is terrible! A boy is falling from the sky! He will die at this rate!」
「Ye, yes?」
When I desperately as her for help, Sariya comes to me in a hurry even while not understanding what happens.
「There’s a boy in the sky!」
Sariya looks out through the window as I point out at the sky outside.
However, the expression on Sariya’s face is not a surprised expression like mine, but it was one of doubt.
「……Layla? There is no boy in the sky though?」
「There is! Look, the boy is falling headfirst over there!……eh? He is not there?」
I looked up to the sky intently, but the boy’s figure can not be found.
……no way, could the boy have hit the ground and died?
When I arrived at that fact, I feel like blood suddenly drains from my face
「What’s wrong Layla? You’re looking pale right now? I knew it, the room’s temperature was too cold, wasn’t it?」
The conclusion that Sariya reach is somehow off the mark, but that’s not it.
There might be the horrible figure of the boy at the place where he fell.
There might be a scene that will make me avert my eyes. And yet, I still look at the place where he falls with magic power in my eyes.
If I remember correctly, there should be a famous theater of Dragon Slayer around the place where the boy fell.
If a person falls in such a place with high pedestrian traffic, the people should scream and panic――they are not?
I look at the place in front of the theater with my magic-enhanced eyes, but the public place in front of the theater still looks very peaceful. People are coming out of the building, perhaps a play had just ended.
It is the usual peaceful scene of the royal capital.
How strange.
If a person falls down from the sky and crashed down to the ground, the people down there should have noticed it.
Don’t tell me, he fell into a back alley where there is hardly any traffic or something?
If that is so, we should investigate it since that might be possible.
「……Sariya, can you please investigate the area in front of the theatre? That boy should have fallen in that area」
「Investigate? Did you see the boy fall from the top of the building or something?」
「That’s not it! That day, the boy I saw that day fell in the area around the theatre! So, I want you to check on the place!」
「Ha, haaa……it was the boy in the sky from that time?」
Sariya is perplexed by my request.
She probably thought ‘Just what is she saying now’, because she is not in my position.
「Yes, I saw the boy in the sky from that time fell to the ground」
「……understood. It’s coming from Layla who rarely asked for anything before. I will ask my knight’s acquaintances to search around the area near the theater」
Though she still looks dubious about it, Sariya nodded and agree to my request after seeing my serious expression.
「Thank you, Sariya」
That boy, I hope he is safe……
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