In the Orchard, I was getting scolded by Margot.
“I’ve been thinking this for a while, Dru, but your magic usage is sloppy. You treat magic like a tool, with no respect.”
“I get told that a lot.”
“If it goes out of control, it’s dangerous. True Word is inherently a power beyond human capacity. It’s not good to get conceited thinking you can manipulate it so conveniently.”
“That’s true.”
“…Dru!”
Ugh, even though I’ve lived for over sixty years including my previous life, I hate being lectured by such a young girl…
“Margot, relax! I know how to use it well, so I won’t let it go out of control!”
“…Really? Even though you don’t even know about ‘Restoration’?”
Hmm…, yeah.
I thought of a way to dodge the question.
“Actually, my magic teacher wasn’t human.”
“…You don’t know human magic, then?”
“That’s how it is.”
“A changeling, a fairy’s replacement child… Don’t tell me, a fairy as your teacher?!”
“I won’t go into detail, but something like that.”
Well, that’s how it seems.
In this world, fairies are very powerful but whimsical beings. More like “spirits,” maybe?
They’re revered in some lands and tribes.
Think of them as being on par with the legendary Magic Beast, “Dragon.”
In other words, they’re demigod-like beings.
“…Learning magic from a fairy is something I only thought existed in legends. Dru, are you an amazing person?”
“Who knows? But I don’t need fame, and I don’t intend to rise to the top as a mage.”
“Why is that?”
“Because what I want is a peaceful life. I don’t want to rise to the top, suspecting my neighbors while engaging in power struggles, a blood-soaked path to supremacy is not for me.”
“…I understand. Dru, you’re a strange person, but I can trust you. There’s definitely no lie in those words.”
Haa, good.
Margot is a friend, or maybe a lover, someone I want to get along with.
I’m glad I avoided being disliked.
Since we were there, I told her she could pick any fruit she liked from the orchard in the garden.
“!!!!”
Then, with agility you wouldn’t expect from a frail, white-haired elf, Margot moved with a shubaba! and came back with a basket full of various fruits…
Margot’s favorite food is fruit.
However, the fruits she brought were mostly apples, pears, grapes, strawberries, and oranges.
She didn’t seem to bring any tropical fruit… Ah, I see.
She “doesn’t know” them.
In this world, there are Magic Beasts everywhere, so the cost of distribution is high, and imported goods tend to be expensive.
Around here, small apples and pears are the main fruits, grapes and strawberries are more common further south, and oranges are only from overseas.
Tropical fruits probably haven’t been discovered yet.
I’m an exception, being able to use Teleportation magic to go anywhere in the world, rapidly grow the collected fruits, and improve their varieties.
“C-c-can I eat them?! Is it okay?!”
“Sure.”
“G-grapes, strawberries, even from the south. If you bought them in this town, they’d probably cost three gold coins…! Oranges, I’ve never even seen them fresh! R-really, is it okay?!”
“Sure.”
Then, Margot steeled herself and put a grape in her mouth…
“Hyaaah♡”
She melted.
“T-t-this, is delicious! So, so sweet!”
Ah, well, I’ve been improving the varieties.
I’m trying to get them closer to the Ruby Roman grapes I ate in my previous life, but something’s still a little off…
“This is big! Why is it so big?”
Margot picked up a grape and showed it to me.
I answered.
“I leave the trees that bear delicious fruit and cut down all the others. Then, I keep growing only the delicious fruit, and again, I cut down all but the tree that bears the most delicious fruit. If you keep doing that… only the really delicious ones remain.”
“…Dru, are you a genius? Amazing, a god!”
I was praised to the heavens.
I’m in a good mood, so I guess I’ll let her try some tropical fruits.
I cut up pineapple, mango, banana, and other fruits and let her eat them.
“Delicious! Fruits I’ve never seen before… What country are they from?”
“Hmm, ah… If you go southeast across the sea, about the distance of one round trip across this continent, there’s another continent. I grew these from seeds I got from the tribes there.”
Suddenly.
Margot stopped moving.
“…Southeast? Continent?”
“Hmm? Ah, yeah. You know, like the adventurer Christius Colombo’s…”
“That’s a legend! The academic consensus is that it’s not true!”
“But it really happened…”
“…Could it be, ‘Teleportation’?”
“Ah, is that also a legendary True Word?”
“…Yes. ‘Restoration,’ which restores all destruction to its original state, ‘Teleportation,’ which allows you to go anywhere in this world, ‘Time Travel,’ which manipulates the flow of time, ‘Elemental Decomposition,’ the ultimate destruction technique that returns things to the smallest particles, and ‘Meteor Fall,’ which can destroy even a country… These are said to be the legendary True Words.”
Eh?
“Isn’t that weird?”
“…What is?”
“‘Time Travel’ would be interfered with the moment you use it, right?”
“…You fought the ‘Guardian Beast of Time’?”
“That thing that attacks while teleporting all over the place, like a semi-solid Shishigami-sama… Also, ‘Teleportation’ is easy once you figure out the coordinate search. ‘Elemental Decomposition’ requires a lot of Magical Power but isn’t that great. ‘Meteor Fall’ is… strong, but not worth using…”
Margot sighed deeply.
“…I’ve decided not to worry about it anymore. Dru, I’m going to eat fruit.”
Saying that, she started eating fruit again…
And then, after eating fruit for lunch, I gave her another private magic lesson.
I taught her a little about True Word, gave her a lot of fruit as a souvenir, and sent her home…
Margot is cute too, after all…
Unlike Shio, she has decent breasts. Well, I like them flat too, though.