Superhuman Delusional – Are You Able to Live a Daily Life？ 380

Chapter 380 – Showdown With Ms. Lenny!

“Gargoyles, you say?”

“That’s right. They’re the perfect material for dwarves who haven’t been officially recognized as blacksmiths to practice with.”

Mr. Kelvan continued, playing with a piece of gargoyle stone in his hand.

“For dwarves, processing iron is like child’s play. A true dwarf should be able to handle not only iron but also tough monster materials and other ores.

In that regard, a gargoyle’s body is excellent. It’s much harder than iron, making it the perfect practice material to acquire the skills needed to refine stronger ores or monster exoskeletons.”

“I see.”

“Besides, even if you can’t dismantle a gargoyle…”

Mr. Kelvan put down the stone piece and took a hammer from the desk in the warehouse, then hammered one of the gargoyle corpses.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

After a few hits, the magic stone inside began to show.

“Hehehe, this way, I can satisfy my dwarven desire to mine stones.”

“Do dwarves like mining stones?”

“To be precise, we like mining gems in mountains or mines. For me, the best mines and gems are monster corpses and magic stones.”

It seems Mr. Kelvan’s version of the wall is a version where the original dwarven instincts are replaced with monsters.

“I’m glad you’re not too disappointed, Mr. Kelvan.”

“Hehehe, thank you for your concern, Rant. Then, I’ll give you the payment for the gargoyles tomorrow.”

“Yes, Mr. Kelvan… Ah, I might not be able to come tomorrow. I have a schedule.”

It’s the showdown with Ms. Lenny.

“Hmm? Is that so? Then, see you the day after tomorrow.”

“Yes.”

And I left the warehouse and went back to the Adventurer’s Guild.

Only Tikia and Melissa were in the guild.

“Huh? Tikia, where are Ninya, Noah, and Elsie?”

“They’re at the training grounds. Noah wanted to test out the dagger he temporarily received.”

“Ah, I see.”

Well, even if it’s just a temporary loan, it’s good to swing it a few times to get used to it.

“Aren’t you going, Tikia?”

“I was going to go with you. Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

I went to the training grounds with Tikia.

“Hyaaaah!”

“Your movements are still monotonous, Noah♪”

Noah and Ninya were sparring in the training grounds.

Holding the temporarily received dagger, Noah moved quickly, swinging the dagger or mixing in kicks with paint, but all of his attacks were easily dodged or deflected by Ninya.

“Then… how about this!”

Tap!

In an instant, Noah’s speed increased, and he swung the dagger at Ninya.

The dagger was arcing towards Ninya’s forearm, and Ninya looked slightly surprised at the sudden acceleration.

“Hah!”

Ninya reacted even faster, dodging to the side, then gripping her spear backward and hitting Noah’s stomach like a club.

Thwack!

“Ughyak!”

Noah was hit by Ninya’s attack and flew backward, rolling on the ground and clutching his stomach.

“Ugh, ugh… it hurts…”

“That last attack was good, Noah. Hehe, your strategy of slowing down at first to make me lower my guard is good… but it’s useless against someone like me who already knows your full power.”

“Y-yeah, I guess so… Elsie~.”

“Yes, Noah!”

Elsie ran towards Noah with her staff and cast a healing spell.

“Heal!”

After receiving Elsie’s heal, Noah slowly got up.

“Phew… thanks. Man, sparring with Ninya is good, but why do you always attack my stomach?”

“It’s hard to hit your face.”

“…If I got hit in the face by Ninya, my nose would break right away.”

Then, Elsie noticed me and Tikia.

“Ah, Rant! You’re here!”

“Yeah. Noah, are you getting used to the dagger?”

Noah twirled the dagger with his right finger and grinned.

“Yeah! It’s a good dagger, so I’m getting used to it quickly. Haha, so I got excited and sparred with Ninya… and as you can see, I got completely crushed.”

“You weren’t completely crushed, were you? You’ve improved a lot compared to the beginning. Honestly, Noah’s growth is scary, you know?”

“Oh? Really?”

Noah’s face brightened at Ninya’s praise.

“Of course. I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be overtaken by Noah soon.”

“Hehe, then I’ll teach you when that happens, Ninya.”

“Oh my, then I’ll gladly accept your guidance, Noah.”

It was heartwarming to see such a friendly master-disciple conversation.

Hmm, now that I’m here at the training grounds, wouldn’t it be good to have a spar with Tikia that I thought of last time?

But before that, let’s ask for Tikia’s opinion.

“Tikia.”

“Yeah? What is it, Rant?”

“Did you ever spar or anything like that in the magic city?”

“Spar? Spar, you say…? Hehehehehe… What I did in the magic city wasn’t sparring, but rather a punishment for those bastards who picked fights with me…”

Tikia’s dark side is about to come out.

Let’s change the subject.

“Did you often practice magic alone in that backyard?”

“That’s right, there’s a barrier there to prevent magic from leaking out. …And it’s all thanks to that barrier that there wasn’t a big fuss back then.”

“A fuss?”

“…Rant, that huge mass of magic power you created. It’s a good thing there was a barrier so that the magic power wasn’t felt outside the barrier. If there wasn’t, all the mages in the magic city would have thought we were experimenting with some forbidden magic and would have stormed our house.”

“Really?”

“Of course. It was enough magic power to blow away half of the magic city…”

“Ah, I guess so.”

Thinking about it now, I was so focused on getting recognized by Chamber that I didn’t pay attention to the details.

“I’m sorry, Tikia.”

“It’s okay. It’s already passed… and there were no problems. But why did you ask that all of a sudden?”

“If you’re okay with it, would you like to spar with me, Tikia?”

“…What?”

For a moment, Tikia looked like she didn’t understand what I was saying.

Tikia lowered her head for a moment, tapped her forehead with her right index finger, and then raised her head and said.

“Rant, I tried to find any possibility of me sparring with you based on what you just said, but most of them didn’t make sense.”

“Is that so?”

“Of course. Well, there’s a way to do it like Ninya and Noah, where you spar to improve the other person’s skills even if there’s a difference in skill, but magic is all about research on formulas and image training.

The only possibility is me trying to hit you with magic while you’re moving quickly. What were you planning to do for our spar, Rant?”

Certainly, listening to Tikia, what I was trying to do was more like playing than sparring.

“I’m sorry. Now that I think about it, asking for a spar was wrong. I… I wanted to clash magic with you, Tikia.”

“Clash magic?”

“Yes. For example, when you shoot a Twinkle Buster, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Then I’ll shoot a magic cannon filled with magic power to match it. So, I wanted to play a game where we clash our magic.”

“…Why would you want to play such a game?”

“Hmm… Be, because it looks fun?”

“Haa.”

Tikia sighed.

“Rant, I appreciate you thinking of wanting to play with me. But you know, even though I like Magical Girl Marine, I’m still a mage and older than you.

I don’t think someone like me would like a game where we just clash magic instead of researching it.”

“Is that… so?”

I thought Tikia would like it too, but it seems not.

“Ah, d-don’t be so down. Ah, okay. Let’s do it! We won’t know if it’s fun until we try it! Besides, if it’s with my lover, just being together is fun.

Huh? So don’t make that face. Come on! Rant, stand over there! I’ll shoot magic from here!”

“Okay.”

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And 10 minutes later.

“Woooooooah!!! Take this, my full power deployment! Twinkle Busteeeeeeeer!”

Tikia is shooting a Twinkle Buster with great excitement.

“Haaaaaaah!!”

And I also shot a purple magic cannon towards Tikia’s Twinkle Buster.

Poooom!

My and Tikia’s magic cannons collided, resisting each other as if they were pushing each other’s magic away.

It was just like a scene from a cartoon where a wish-granting orb appears.

“Wow, it’s spectacular…”

“It’s just a clash of magic power, but it looks cool like this.”

“Rant and Tikia, do your best!”

Noah, Ninya, and Elsie were watching us from the hallway of the training grounds.

And so were the other adventurers.

“Wh-what is that?”

“Wow, that’s a huge waste of magic power.”

“But it looks really fun.”

“Huh? I’ve never seen magic like that before? Could it be… original?”

“Was Dungeon Crasher able to use magic like that?”

“I-it’s dazzling…!”

As time passed, more and more spectators began to gather.

“U-ughaaaa…!!”

Just as Tikia’s magic power was about to run out, I slowly withdrew my magic power.

“Haa… haa…”

Tikia, having exhausted her magic power, was panting with her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath.

And after catching her breath.

Tap tap tap tap!

Tikia ran towards me and jumped into my arms when she got close.

And Tikia looked up at me and said with sparkling eyes.

“One more time! Let’s do it one more time, Rant!”

At first, she said she wouldn’t enjoy this kind of thing, and when I got depressed, she started with an attitude of “it can’t be helped.”

But after experiencing it once, Tikia.

“Well… shall we, shall we do it one more time?

She had an attitude of “I’m not interested, but shall we try it one more time?”

Then, in the second time.

“Okay, okay, I see. So this is what it’s like… the collision of magic and magic…”

She showed an attitude like a researcher, glancing at me.

And after that, without even pretending, she’s now clinging to me and begging.

“Rant~ Rant~ one more time!”

“Are you having that much fun?”

“Yeah! At first, I thought it was nothing special, but the feeling of the magic I squeezed out with all my might colliding with a corresponding magic is really amazing!

Even while trembling, the feeling that I can put in more magic and push harder makes me feel like I’m constantly facing my limits, and at the same time, it clearly shows the boundary line for overcoming those limits… that exhilarating feeling…”

Tikia is explaining the charm of the energy wave pushing game while hugging me.

And she’s also sucking my magic power with mana drain while explaining, completely determined to do it again.

“Tikia.”

“Yeah? Let’s do it? Let’s do it again, Rant!”

I also want to do it very much.

After all, it was my idea, and I’m also excited because a phenomenon like a reproduction of a cartoon is unfolding before my eyes, so it’s a shame to end it here.

But even for Tikia, who is so immersed in this game, it seems necessary to take a break.

Because she has done the process of exhausting her magic power to the end and then refilling it several times, which is different from the way she leisurely uses and refills magic power in dungeons.

If Tikia had no problems, I would have done it continuously too.

But now, Tikia’s expression is full of anticipation and excitement, but she’s still panting.

It’s good to enjoy the game, but it would be a disaster if she collapsed while playing.

I thought we should rest for about 5 to 10 minutes.

I supported Tikia’s buttocks with my left hand, as if soothing a child, and gently patted her head with my right hand.

…Actually, I could have fixed her waist, but I used my privilege as a lover to enjoy the feel of Tikia’s buttocks.

“…Can’t we?”

Tikia must have taken my attempt to stop her as me trying to soothe her from her tantrum.

Her cute eyes looking up at me were slightly teary.

How much fun were you having, Tikia?

“It’s not that we can’t. We’ll do it again. But it seems like you’re out of breath right now, so let’s rest for about 10 minutes and then do it together.”

“Ah… okay!”

Tikia, who had a tearful face, immediately smiled brightly like the sun after hearing my words.

So cute!

Tikia, who is older but has a small body, is a magical girl otaku, and even when she tries to show her dignity as an older person, she ends up showing this cute side.

She is so lovely and cute that I can’t emphasize it enough.

Of course, she’s even more fantastic at night because she adds lewdness to it.