Isekai Walking: Volume 1 Elesia Kingdom Arc (eBook)

arukuhito (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-5250-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Ordinary student Sora has been summoned to another world as one of seven 'chosen heroes' meant to battle the Demon King. While the other six are blessed with grandiose titles and superlative stats, Sora is stuck with no title, no level, and a single, underwhelming skill: he never gets tired from walking. After being judged useless to the cause, Sora is thrown out into the streets and left to fend for himself. Nevertheless, he grows determined to turn his unjust treatment and seemingly 'useless' skill into a positive by earning money, making friends, and seeing sights he's never seen before!

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Ordinary student Sora has been summoned to another world as one of seven "e;chosen heroes"e; meant to battle the Demon King. While the other six are blessed with grandiose titles and superlative stats, Sora is stuck with no title, no level, and a single, underwhelming skill: he never gets tired from walking. After being judged useless to the cause, Sora is thrown out into the streets and left to fend for himself. Nevertheless, he grows determined to turn his unjust treatment and seemingly "e;useless"e; skill into a positive by earning money, making friends, and seeing sights he's never seen before!

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Chapter 1

“You, who have answered my call... Welcome!”

As my vision cleared, I found myself in a place I’d never been before. Last I remembered, I’d been on the train heading to my high school, but now my school bag was gone, and my uniform pockets were empty... Ah, except for my handkerchief. That was still there.

Before me stood an extravagantly dressed older man. He was quivering in excitement, his arms outstretched dramatically...and was that a crown on his head? He was surrounded by a group of men—large, middle-aged, and bearded—who themselves were flanked by armor-clad, knightlike men who eyed me cautiously.

I, meanwhile, was surrounded by people dressed...well, similarly to me. School uniforms, business suits, casual outing wear... There were seven of us in all; three men (myself included) and four women. The others all seemed disoriented, and some even looked uneasy.

I couldn’t remember answering anyone’s “call,” so I was thinking that we’d actually been dragged here against our will somehow or other.

“Where are we? And who are you?” asked one of the men—a student like me, I suspected—taking a step forward.

One of the knights moved in response, but the central figure raised a hand to stop them. “This is the Kingdom of Elesia, and I am its king. I brought you here with Otherworldly Summoning, a secret technique handed down through our kingdom.”

After this, he proceeded to subject us to a long-winded monologue. The long and short of it was that summoned people were gifted spectacular skills, which they were expected to use to slay the revived Demon King.

The student asked if defeating the Demon King would return us to our world, and the king responded that the Demon King’s magistone should allow us to do so. The magistone was similar to a heart in a human, so...

He wants us to kill a guy and steal his heart? I thought incredulously.

The king’s men stressed to us that they couldn’t be completely sure of this, because they were just working from old records that described heroes using the magistone to return home.

“Now, heroes,” the king declared. “Say the words ‘open status’ and reveal to us your powers!”

I heard whispers of ‘open status’ around me and joined in obediently enough. My own recitation of the words made a translucent, panel-like display appear before my eyes, looking a bit like a status screen from a video game. Surprised, I looked around at the others, but I couldn’t see their screens. However, they were focusing so intently on the air in front of them that I assumed they were seeing a similar screen to mine.

Name: Fujimiya Sora / Job: Jobless / Level: None

HP 10/10 / MP 10/10 / SP 10/10

Strength: 1 / Stamina: 1 / Speed: 1

Magic: 1 / Dexterity: 1 / Luck: 1

Skill: Walking / Effect: Never get tired from walking

“What’s with these stats?” I murmured, but my mind was racing. Am I...cannon fodder? Can I even beat the weakest monster in this world? And even though I was a student in my old world, now I’m jobless?! Is it because I haven’t done anything yet? And how come I don’t have a level? Is this just how everyone starts off, or do I literally not have one? If I don’t have one, does that mean I have no hope for improvement?

“Has everyone checked?” cooed an old man in a cloak standing next to the king. “Then kindly take turns touching the crystal, if you please.” He gestured to a crystal atop a fancy dais and explained that it would make our stats visible to others.

One by one, the others proceeded to step forward and touch the crystal.

First came the student in the orthodox school uniform, the one who had first spoken to the king. He was followed by a slightly sleepy-looking woman in casual clothes, a young woman dressed professionally in a suit, and then her opposite—a man whose suit looked positively silly. The next to touch the crystal was a girl in a blazer-style school uniform with long black hair down to her waist, followed by a timid-looking girl whose hair was in a bleached-brown bob.

Their stats were displayed to the onlookers one after another, and with each job title revealed—Fencer King, Sorcerer King, Paladin, Swordmaster, Saint, Shaman—the king, the old man, and everyone around them let out shouts of joy. Along with fervent whispers of each job title came cries of astonishment at the levels displayed, ranging from a high of Level 50 to a still-impressive low of Level 30. Each profile also revealed multiple skills, the highest having around ten or so different ones with the lowest still having around six...

I decided to check my own stats again...and cringed internally. This is a little too cruel, isn’t it? The feeling just got worse as I sensed the expectant gazes turning toward me. But there was no going back now, so after taking a few hesitant steps forward, I resigned myself to my fate and touched the crystal. It buzzed with static for a moment, then revealed my stats as it had done for the others.

Everyone in the room, including my fellow summonees, were stunned into silence at the sight...in the worst possible way! It felt like someone had just dumped a bucket of cold water over the whole celebration.

“What kind of stats and skills are those?!” the king cried.

I know, right?! I agreed internally. I’m thinking the same thing! Give me a mulligan here!

But just as the whispers and my own feelings of inferiority were about to break me, I happened to look at the text on my status panel again.

“Eh?”

Something there had changed.

Skill: Walking Lv. 0

Effect: Never get tired from walking (earn 1 XP for every step)

XP Counter: 21/1000

Skill Points: 0

This extra information hadn’t appeared on the crystal’s display, but now I could see it on my own panel. Was it saying I could raise my level just by walking around? But if I didn’t have a level, what was the XP counter for? Was it related to the “Lv.” number next to the Walking skill?

The XP counter currently read “21.” Had it counted the steps I’d taken to walk up to the crystal? I couldn’t be fully sure, but I thought it was about that many. And then there was the question of those “skill points”...

By the time I pulled myself out of my thoughts, I noticed that the room around me had grown quiet. I looked up at the king, who didn’t meet my eyes. I moved my gaze to the man in the cloak, who also looked away.

At long last, the king spoke. “Erm... Well, we did manage to summon six Chosen Heroes, so...let’s celebrate! Heroes, this way to your welcome feast!”

Six, huh? Guess I didn’t qualify?

My fellow summonees didn’t look happy with the idea—some seemed actively worried, while others just kept their eyes down—but in the end, they couldn’t help but get dragged along. No matter how impressive their job titles and levels might have been, they had all come here from a peaceful society. They weren’t prepared to fight back against a crowd of armed and armored knights.

I stayed behind in the room along with a single knight, who walked up to me, quietly whispered, “All right, come on,” then began walking without waiting to hear my response.

In the end...you guessed it, I was kicked out of the castle.

I was marched to the front gate and told to wait there, which I did for thirty minutes under the watchful eyes of the guards. Eventually, a rather fancy carriage pulled up. I was shoved inside, and it started rolling along.

I wasn’t told where it was headed, and the curtains on the windows stopped me from seeing outside. Are they going to throw me in prison or something? I wondered.

Escape would be impossible, though. I was flanked by two burly knights, with two more sitting across from me. And even if I could get away, where would I go? The knights’ metal armor chafed against me each time the carriage hit a bump.

At last the carriage stopped. I was told to get out and got unceremoniously ejected.

As my feet hit the ground, I looked back and saw an open gate towering above me. Through it I could see a well-tended road lined with expensive-looking houses leading up to a grand castle.

As I just stood there, staring at the sight in awe, one of the knights finally came out of the carriage and tossed a small bag at me, calling it a “farewell gift.”

I managed to catch it and checked the contents: two shining silver coins and ten copper ones. I had no way of knowing whether that was a lot or a little, but when I looked back at the knight, he was wearing a mocking grin.

Do I detect a little spite in there? I thought.

The knight got back on board and, soon enough, the carriage drove back through the gate, which slowly closed behind it.

“People are the same no matter what world you’re in, I guess...”

Thinking about how jerks were jerks the multiverse over, I reassured...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Isekai Walking
• Illustrationen: Yu-nit
• Übersetzer: Elizabeth Ellis
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Game elements • male protagonist • mascots • Subverted Tropes • summoned hero • Underdog • unique ability
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-5250-6 / 1718352506
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-5250-6 / 9781718352506