The Next Day.
At the Log House.
“Bau bau!” “Wow wow!” “…………”
As I sat in the kotatsu in the living room of the second building, the Puppy Fenrirs climbed onto my lap, one on each side.
I hadn’t been able to spend much time with them lately.
“I’m sorry, everyone. I’ve been busy outside doing various things.”
I scratched the backs of Feruta and Feruco, who were sitting beside me.
“Wafu…♡”
“Bau…♡”
They snuggled up to me with blissful expressions.
And then, at that moment.
PRRRRRRRRRR♪
“Oh, a call.”
My smartphone on the kotatsu rang.
“Bau!”
Feruta picked up the smartphone with his mouth and zoomed off somewhere.
“Feruta~! Bring back the smartphone~!”
“Bau!”
With the smartphone still in his mouth, Feruta shook his head vigorously.
Ugh, so stubborn.
“If you bring back the smartphone, I’ll give you a nice scratch under your neck…”
“Bau!”
Before I could finish my sentence, Feruta dashed back and slid next to me.
I began to scratch under his neck.
“Ahh…♡”
He opened his mouth in pleasure.
The smartphone fell to the floor with a soft thud.
“Alright then.”
“Bau!” “Wowooooo!” “…………”
Feruta and Feruco protested loudly.
Meanwhile, Ferumi was the only one raising her front paws and waving them.
So, the one who called me was Lisia-chan, who was in Dead End.
I had arrived at the capital Averell of Dead End using Greater Teleportation, but…
“What are all these people doing here…?”
Outside the walls of Averell, there were elderly men and women, along with… some little kids and a few adults.
About fifty people in total?
“Ah, Mother Mika!”
“Mika-chan!”
There was the Young Girl Lord Lisia-chan and… Dagza (the former Supreme God).
“Lisia-chan is one thing, but why is Dagza here?”
“I was bored, so I asked Lisia to play with me!”
How carefree, the former Supreme God.
“Mother, I’m sorry to bother you during your break. I have a favor to ask.”
“A favor? Sure, go ahead and tell me.”
Even without her parents around, Lisia-chan was such a hardworking girl that I couldn’t help but want to help her.
“Actually, I would like you to train the people here.”
“Train them? Why the sudden request?”
“It seems everyone heard from Muzika-san about how you trained me and I reached level 150…”
Word had spread among the residents that I had trained Lisia-chan, and they wanted to follow suit.
“Please, Mika-rin-sama!”
“We want you to train us too!”
I was being asked by the elderly and the children.
“But why do you all want to become stronger?”
First, the elderly men and women answered.
“We want to become strong for Lisia-chan’s sake…”
“Lisia-chan protects our territory, but we old folks haven’t done anything to help her.”
Lisia-chan really is well-loved by the elderly.
“What about the children? Why do you want to become stronger?”
“I want to get strong and become a hero!” “I want to learn a trade!” “I-I like Lisia-chan… Ah, never mind!”
Three boys around the same age (about five years old) answered.
Unlike the elderly, the children didn’t seem as serious about it.
But it seemed they wanted to grow stronger for the future.
“And what about the adults over there?”
I turned to the remaining adults, excluding the elderly and children.
“We’re the gatekeepers.”
“Why are the gatekeepers here?”
“Thanks to Mika-rin-sama, monsters haven’t been able to enter this town. So, we gatekeepers have nothing to do.”
Since the area had become a Dragon Vein Area, monsters had stopped entering the town of Averell and other small villages.
As they said, the gatekeepers had less work to do…
“Sorry for taking your jobs.”
“Mika-rin-sama doesn’t need to worry about that. More importantly… we want to become stronger so we can defeat the monsters outside the walls. Right now, we’re relying on the Twilight Dragons for monster hunting, aren’t we?”
Currently, we were asking Rita and the Twilight Dragons to handle the weaker monsters around the territory.
Those four were strong.
But conversely, there were only four of them.
We couldn’t have them working day and night.
Even though monsters couldn’t enter the Dragon Vein Area (like the town of Averell), we still needed to hunt monsters to go outside.
“If we, the idle ones, become stronger, it would lessen their burden. Of course, that includes Lisia-chan!”
I see… Everyone had their own motivations for wanting to grow stronger.
“Okay! Leave it to this Mika-rin mother!”
With that, I first used Omniscience (Internet) to search for each person’s strengths.
There were fifty people in total, so it was quite a task.
But… the real challenge was about to begin.
“Training fifty people individually… this is going to be tough…”
The fifty residents each had different talents.
Swordsmen, mages, priests… and so on.
It was going to be difficult to instruct such a diverse group.
To put it more bluntly… there weren’t enough types of people who could teach them how to fight.
“Isn’t just raising levels enough?”
“Just having high levels won’t help against monsters, right?”
No matter how powerful they were, it meant nothing if they couldn’t hit. They needed to learn how to fight.
Now, what to do?
“Gahaha! Why not summon a Heroic Spirit?”
Dagza suggested.
“A Heroic Spirit?”
“They are the spirits of heroes. They are experts in martial arts and magic.”
“I see… If we could have heroes come and teach, that would be great. But… where are these Heroic Spirits?”
“Morrigan knows where they are.”
I decided to contact Morrigan.
I have a consultation request.
Tetetetentetetete♪
“Mika! Long time no see!”
“Yeah, it’s been a while.”
She answered the call at an incredible speed…
Are you working, or something?
“I wanted to ask you, where can I find Heroic Spirits?”
“The souls of heroes are managed in the Heavenly Realm.”
It seems that the souls of heroes exist in the world where gods and angels reside.
“Is it possible to summon a Heroic Spirit here?”
I conveyed my wish to have the Heroic Spirits teach the residents.
“I understand your thoughts, Mika. However… it’s impossible.”
“What do you mean?”
“A soul of a deceased person cannot leave the Heavenly Realm except when they are reincarnated. That’s the rule.”
“Even the Supreme God can’t bring them here?”
“Yes.”
I understood that I couldn’t bring back the souls of the deceased who had ascended to heaven.
Now, how could I find a loophole in that rule?
When in doubt, I turned to Omniscience (Internet).
“Morrigan, I just sent you a tablet via KAMIZON, so please receive it.”
KAMIZON allowed me to send items not only to myself but also to others.
It’s similar to Amas●n.
“Next, deliver the tablet to the Heroic Spirits.”
“I understand, but… what are you planning to do?”
“Remote training.”
“R-Remote training…?”
I asked Morrigan to go to the Heroic Spirits.
Then, I had her launch the Zoom app on the tablet.
“Can we converse with people on the ground like this??”
On the other side of the smartphone, a silver-haired handsome young man appeared.
His body seemed slightly transparent; perhaps it was because he was a Heroic Spirit.
“Hello. I am Mika Nagano. Just so you know… I’m a god on the ground.”
“Thank you for your courtesy. I am the Bow Saint King Otaku Iida di Madyukas.”
Madyukas?
Isn’t that the name of the empire I visited recently…?
But he’s called the Bow Saint King…
“So, you’re the hero of bows?”
“Indeed. So, you wish for me to train your residents?”
“Yes. I don’t have any rewards to offer right now, but… I’d like you to teach them if possible.”
It wouldn’t mean anything to give money from this world to a deceased person.
So, I had no choice but to ask.
“Understood! If my bow techniques can help the people on the ground even a little, that would be enough for me.”
Wow… what a nice person.
“Alright then, Bow Saint King. I’d appreciate your help. There’s a girl named Muzika-chan here who has talent with a bow…”
And so, I communicated with the Heroic Spirit, and Muzika-chan began to learn techniques from him.
Just a little instruction from the Heroic Spirit…
～～～～～～
Muzika
【Race】Human
【Level】500
～～～～～～
She jumped from level 150 straight up to 500.
“Direct instruction from a Heroic Spirit provides far more experience than mindlessly defeating monsters. Using Zoom to have heroes teach is a brilliant idea, Mika. Only you could think of something so wonderful.”
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