Chapter 96: The Egg Vanished
Chapter 96: The Egg Vanished
A blue, cloudless sky. On the other hand, the scenery around me is green, and you can hear the sound of the carriage’s wheel and the horse neighing.
It’s not hot, and it’s not cold, a journey in this fine weather is wonderful.
I’m a little worried about the shaking carriage, but I got used to it, maybe because I rode the carriage for a long time back when I went to the royal capital.
Once you get used to it, it seems that even the shaking of a carriage also has its charm. The sound of wood along with the vibration feels nice.
I listened to the chirping of small birds and the calm breeze as I took a nap, but when I woke up I had nothing to do.
It seems that the escort adventurers, Mort, Irvine, and the others are the same. Even more so since they can’t take a nap.
To begin with, ferocious monsters rarely appear in the surroundings of Koryatt village.
Even if they do appear, at most, they would be weak monsters such as goblins. That kind of monster will be instantly defeated by the B-rank party. Excluding me, there are two magicians here and three warriors.
So there is no need to be vigilant here.
With the fact that there are no ferocious monsters around us, I was killing some time by playing with Mort and Irvine.
「Look, this here is a bag.」
I showed them the rough, hemp cloth bag that I’ve prepared. Mort and Irvine nodded when I showed them the inside and the outside appearance of the bag to let them know that this is just an ordinary bag.
「Then I will place this pebble inside the bag. After that, when I snap my fingers, the stone will no longer be in this bag.」
That’s right, I’m going to pass the time with magic. Naturally, there’s a trick and a calculated manipulation in this. The pebble is a small and light pebble that I picked up from the ground. Its size is that you can hold it between your index and middle finger.
「Really?」
「Liar」
Mort and Irvine react doubtfully after hearing what I said.
Irvine even went as far as snorting.
I can’t help but look forward to changing that totally lazy expression of his into that of astonishment.
The both of them don’t look to believe me at all, but I continued to keep my composure.
「Well then, I’m going to put this stone inside the bag alright?」
I guess they had too much free time on their hands, but when I put in the pebble that I hold between my fingers inside the bag, the two of them stared at it with a serious look on their faces.
Inside the bag where it’s not visible from the outside, I cast Space Magic to store the pebble. I threw the pebble into the subspace.
Because of the stiff material of the hemp bag and the small pebble, we had already confirmed in advance that a pebble of this size will not protrude.
「Okay then, I’ll start okay? ……one……twoー……threeー!」
For the sake of staging, I mysteriously moved my finger in front of the bag and snapped my fingers.
After the sound, I showed the inside of the bag without making any suspicious gestures to them.
「Look, it vanished」
「「!?」」
I turned it upside down and shook the bag, and when I carefully turned it inside out, Mort and Irvine’s eyes were wide open. The two of them had this 「haa!?」 expression on their faces.
「No, wait. The pebble is too small, so it got stuck at the corner of the bag, right?」
Irvine asked me to lend him the bag for a moment and started to examine the bag.
I have no guilty conscience, so I just directly gave it to him. I mean, the guilty one is the magic itself.
Irvine looked into the bag carefully.
「Nn!?」
He turned the bag inside out, turned it upside down, and shook it as he made a strange groaning voice.
「Not here!?」
「No way」
Mort snatched the bag from Irvine who had his eyes wide opened.
However, the result is the same as Irvine's.
「The pebble has vanished!」
Mort's eyes were wide open as he shouted. Thank you for your nice reaction.
「……the pebble, it was actually not placed inside the bag, but you hid it in your sleeve when there was a chance, right? Your arm moves when you snap your fingers isn’t it? Since people who use such a little trick are usually good at using the gap in one’s perception after all. 」
Guess he still didn’t believe it even now, Irvine still doubts me.
Eventually, he even had an expression full of confidence on his face, but I have to disappoint you.
「But, I have short sleeves.」
My current outfit now is a short sleeves shirt and short pants, I also have no sleeves to hide things.
「Uu, when your arm moved, the pebble was casually dropped under your foot………」
I stood up, but there was no pebble under my foot.
「E, eh?」
I guess they must have thought that I had cleverly hidden the pebble somewhere since it’s small.
That was also my aim, but I want them to be astonished so let’s make it even more openly.
「Well then, I will snap my fingers one more time, to bring the pebble back. And this time I will only snap my fingers, my arm won’t move.」
「O, ou」
As if they don’t want to miss it this time, Irvine and Mort leaned forward and stared at me.
They would be able to point it out if there were even a slight change.
I snapped my fingers next to my right pocket.
「Then, believe it or not, that pebble from earlier come out from my right pocket.」
「「Haa!?」」
When I stuck my hand inside my pocket normally, there was the same pebble inside.
Of course, I just opened up a small subspace inside my pocket and took the pebble out.
「What’s going on!?」
「Did you put the pebble in your right pocket in that short of a time? No, but there’s no movement at all.」
Irvine looked at the pebble in astonishment, while Mort patted my right pocket then started to ponder about it. Oi oi, it’s a bad manner to touch a magician's body during their performance you know. You can only enjoy it with your own eyes.
「Can’t be helped, this time I will make it easier to follow, I’m going to do marvelous magic, you hear.」
「O, ou.」
「I have an egg right here.」
「「Wait! How come there is an egg coming out from your right pocket!」」
The two of them suddenly retort in unison.
「This is also the marvelous magic you know」
「I, I touched his pocket a while ago, but there was no egg in there………?」
Since I’m going to perform magic from here, they have been aptly tricked. There will be no answer even if you think about it normally, but you can’t help yourself from thinking about it. That is also the true charm of magic.
「Next, I will insert this egg into the bag. After that, the egg will vanish just like what happened before.」
I inserted the egg into the bag. After that, I boldly took out the egg from the bag and held it in my hand to the side.
「Now the egg has vanished from the bag.」
「Oi oi, just what are you doing, taking it out so openly like that. Didn’t you set aside the egg?」
「Set aside? But the only thing inside the bag is only the pebble?」
「「Ha?」」
Looking at the pebble that was replaced using Space magic, the two of them let out weird voices.
Since I stored the egg inside my subspace, there is no egg inside my pocket. I opened a subspace just as large as the space when I put it aside, ordinary people will not notice it.
And when I took it out, I also opened a subspace just the size of the pebble.
「What’s going on? I don’t understand it. But, I feel like I was being made a fool of」
「You put the egg aside, that’s for sure. But where did the egg go to………」
Irvine and Mort were dumbfounded.
「Once more! Show us one more time!」
「Well then, I’ll show you just one more time okay?」
Mort and Irvine shouted as they drew closer to me.
Their determination to get to the bottom of this is keenly felt and transmitted to me.
Therein, I took out an egg from my right pocket just like before. Mort muttered 「How could there be another egg coming out……」, but I don’t mind him.
「Look! You put the egg to the side again! Will it be a pebble again? Or it’s going to be an egg?」
「Haa? There’s no egg or pebble at this side you know.」
「「You liar! You’re holding it just now!」」
When I suddenly said that in a funny man-like manner, Irvine and Mort pointed their finger in unison.
On the other hand, I raised my arm and showed it to them.
「H, huh?」
Naturally, I put the egg away into the subspace, and I hadn’t taken the pebble out, so there was nothing was falling from my hand.
It became an abnormal scene where two men were looking at a boy’s side inside the carriage as if they were going to eat him.
「「What the heck is going on!?」」
「You, you ate it already, right!?」
Oi, is that something you said to a noble? But, oh well, since it’s also another way of seeing how much I was being praised then I guess it’s fine.
I can use only Space magic to make things disappear or make them move, and I can even use it to teleport or escape out from a box. If I were to be in a straitened circumstance, then I can just use magic to make some money.
「Do it one more time! I will figure it out this time!」
「The two of you, what’s all this commotion about since a while ago? I can hear you to the back you know?」
While Irvine and Mort were shouting as if they’re excited, Aleutia - who was guarding the carriage at the back - showed up.
「Alfried-sama did amazing magic!」
「It vanished! The egg!」
「Amazing magic? The egg vanished?」
Aleutia cast a doubtful gaze this way, after hearing what Irvine and Mort said.
I took out eggs one after another from my right pocket and gave them to Aleutia.
One egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs, five eggs………
「Eh? Ha? Wait a minute Alfried-sama? How could there be so many eggs coming out from your pocket?」
Aleutia had both of her hands full receiving the eggs that I handed to her.
「Is that right pocket food storage?」
「………it doesn’t make any sense.」
It seems that people have a weak reaction when they see a strange occurrence. They are staring at my pocket and eggs in amazement.
Eventually, Aleutia couldn’t carry all of the eggs, so now each person is holding four eggs.
I took the eggs from them one by one and put them in my left pocket.
One egg, two eggs, three eggs……… Un, it can enter my pocket with space to spare.
「……oi oi, how many eggs can you store?」
「Eh? Eeehh!?」
I took each egg and stored them.
Then finally, all twelve eggs were all put inside my left pocket.
「Ahー, I took everything inside」
「「…………it doesn’t make any sense」」
「The eggs break while inside the pocket right……?」
Aleutia gingerly asked me that, so I turned my left pocket inside out to show her that there is nothing inside.
「The egg vanished!」
Aleutia shouted out loud, and after that Roomba and Ilya came and I showed them for the second time.