The Water Magician: Arc 1 Volume 4 (eBook)

Tadashi Kubou (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-3376-5 (ISBN)

Infos

After escorting Prince Willie to the capital of Knightley, Ryo feels a weight lift off his shoulders. He's even managed to secure a position teaching the young prince how to use water magic. Life couldn't be better!

Before long, Ryo and Sera happily go on a sweets tour together. The two of them bond as they visit the other elves, but after they go their separate ways, a horde of monsters emerges from underneath the Temple! And then while he and Abel are trying to find the cause of this outbreak, an 'island' falls from the sky and crashes right through the royal castle! As one crisis crops up after another, Sera struggles to protect her friends and is attacked by a powerful opponent.

'Do you really think I'll let you hurt the people I care about?!' Ryo will use his superhigh-pressure water currents to stave off a scheming enemy nation that has bared its fangs! The adventures of the strongest, freewheeling water magician continue in this frenetic fourth volume!

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Converging in the Royal Capital

“Everyone, you have my gratitude.”

With those words, Prince Willie bowed his head. Mr. Rodrigo, standing diagonally behind him, did the same.

“No, no, please. I’m just glad we managed to get you here safely,” Cohn said, embarrassed.

“We were only doing our jobs. Please, raise your head, Your Highness.” Ryo sounded a bit panicked.

They were in front of the Kingdom of Knightley’s royal castle. The volunteers from the Bureau of Royal Magicians, who’d escorted the prince’s entourage, had already departed, returning to their official duties. As for Matthew and Luca, after expressing their thanks, they had set off for the ministry of finance, accompanied by burly bodyguards who had appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

That left Prince Willie and Mr. Rodrigo, who were now saying their final goodbyes to Ryo and the other adventurers.

“Ryo, won’t you grant me one last boon?!” The boy looked determined.

“How may I assist you, Your Highness?” Curious, Ryo kept his tone light in response.

“May I call you ‘Master’ from now on?”

“I’m sorry, but I would rather you didn’t...”

“That is unfortunate,” Prince Willie said, disappointed. “Then I shall simply call you my mentor.”

“I wish you wouldn’t...” But the word didn’t feel like much of a compromise to Ryo.

And then the boy and his retainer entered the castle to report on their safe arrival in the capital.

“All right, Ryo, we’re thinking about visiting the adventurers’ guild. What about you?”

With them gone, it was just Ryo, Cohn, and the other adventurers the other man had led on the journey. Once Cohn and the others went to the guild, this temporary party would dissolve. Since this was his first time in the royal capital, Ryo was in no rush to be anywhere in particular. The only thing on his agenda for the foreseeable future was to say hello to Special Advisor Berasus.

So just as he decided to tag along with Cohn and the rest...he heard a familiar voice call out to him from a group of people coming out of the castle.

“Ryo?”

When he turned around, Sera rushed him at the speed of sound and hugged him tight.

“Ngh...! S-Sera? Why are you here? I suppose that question goes for all of you in Lune’s order of knights too.”

For a few moments, she simply embraced him in silence. Eden, a platoon commander in the order, answered Ryo instead.

“Ummm, we were entrusted with the task of transporting certain items to the royal family. Which we actually completed just now.”

“Huh... Wait, Sera too?”

“Yes, Madam Sera as well. Although, technically speaking...she wasn’t part of the original plan. You could say she was a last-minute addition...” Eden was clearly trying to be diplomatic.

“It’s not like I had any other choice.” Lifting her head from Ryo’s chest, Sera finally spoke. “You asked Sue of Switchback to deliver to me your letter, yes? Then, when I opened it and read that you’d be visiting the royal capital, I... Let me explain myself properly. You see, Ryo, we elves require a vital nutritional supplement, and...that is what you are to me. Without you, I’m lost. So now that you know, please act accordingly henceforth!”

“Uhhh... I’m...sorry?”

“Nutritional supplement”...? What the heck kind of nutritional supplement am I? But also...that’s the first time anyone’s said something like that to me.

“Good.” She beamed. “So long as you understand.”

The destructive power of her smile transcended everything. Ryo was willing and able to fight the entire world for the sake of that smile...

But first, he needed an answer to the mystery she had just dropped on him.

“By the way, what exactly do you mean by ‘nutritional supplement’?”

“Hm? Oh, that. Right. Do you recall the guardian beast who mentioned something about how being around you extends one’s lifespan?”

“I do...”

“That. That’s it. I told you before how elves are essentially half fairy, so I suspect the guardian beast you encountered also falls in the fae category. Our term for this is the ‘fae facet’ and for those who possess it, you are a very valuable source of nutrition, Ryo. Another feature of this involves the ability to exorcise evil...is the best way I can describe it. And of course, the refreshing effect. We mustn’t forget that either. I suggest you keep all this in mind.”

The knights listening in on their conversation nodded while oohing and aahing.

“Uh,” Ryo said, “does that have an effect on humans too...?”

“No, not at all,” she said frankly. “As far as I know, anyway.”

“Um...then...does that have an effect on me?”

“No, probably not. As far as I know, anyway.” Her bluntness remained unchanged when he pressed further.

For whatever reason, a tremendous sense of defeat afflicted Ryo then. Amid all this, he didn’t even notice Cohn excusing himself and the other adventurers with a “Uhhh, we’re just going to head out now.”

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“So let me see if I have this right. Luca has taken refuge in the ministry of finance and Sica’s whereabouts are unknown. With the fetters we placed on him gone, the Minister of Finance not only has no incentive to align himself with me, but there’s a good chance I’ve made an enemy of him? I’d heard the Federation’s Information Agency was staffed with only the elite, but you buffoons can’t even catch one man. Seems the rumors about you lot were just that, considering these disastrous results.”

“We are deeply ashamed.”

“Not to mention, Hilarion is backing Fuca from the shadows. Have I missed anything else?”

This was Duke Flitwick’s estate in the royal capital. A man and a woman were talking in the duke’s office. The slender man wearing a monocle spoke while perusing the documents before him.

As for the woman, her brunette hair was trimmed to her shoulders and her gray eyes glittered with intelligence. Though her appearance was lovely, her conversation with the man made it clear that it was all calculated and she did, in fact, work for the Federation’s Information Agency. Even her apology was no more than a token one...

“Moving on. This man named Abel connects them all?”

“Correct. He was conducting his own investigation into the Black Dust as well.”

Abel had already attracted the scrutiny of not only Sica and his people but also those under the duke’s command. An inevitable circumstance because his principal occupation was adventurer and not intelligence analyst. However, what these people didn’t realize were the bits of misinformation and disinformation riddling the documents.

“Where is Hilarion right now?”

“We received reports that he left the capital yesterday and was bound east on the Second Highway.”

“Which means, now might be our only opportunity to dispose of this Abel character.”

The monocled man fell into a thoughtful silence for a bit. Getting rid of him might prove more difficult than expected. According to their data, he was quite a capable young man. If he didn’t send in their best, they could expect to have the tables turned on them.

“Then...we’ll have to use them to ensure his elimination.”

“Agreed. We have already taken the necessary steps.”

“Oh? Tell me more.”

“Gordon, Berlocke, and Roman—these are the three who will be deployed. Gordon alone should be able to handle him easily enough, but including the other two guarantees success.”

“Fine. Clean this mess up before Hilarion returns.”

“Understood.” With that, the brunette woman exited the office.

The man with the monocle smiled faintly.

“An ambush by the Hero, eh...”

◆

Gordon was on cloud nine. This was the first time in his twenty-three years of life that he was popular with women. As the fire magician in the Hero’s party, Gordon most definitely wasn’t a bad-looking guy. In fact, you could say he was better-looking than average.

However, he was a tad insensitive, a tad overconfident, and a tad condescending, all of which explained why women never gave him the time of day. They might have been able to overlook one of those flaws, but all three? In one man? Impossible.

But his time in the sun had finally come because a woman crazy about him had appeared here in the royal capital. Her name was Nancy and she was Viscount Othniel Fletcher’s secretary. The monocle-wearing noble was a man possessed of a calm aura. Duke Flitwick’s chief retainer in all but name, he managed the duke’s interests in the capital. As for Nancy, his secretary, she was a lovely woman in her twenties with very expressive eyes.

And Gordon was hopelessly in love with her.

At long last, springtime had arrived for Gordon...

Roman the Hero couldn’t be happier for his friend. The same went for Berlocke, the earth magician, who toasted to Gordon’s happiness countless times. Graham, the clergyman, simply nodded with his usual stoic expression. Meanwhile, Alicia, Morris, and...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Water Magician
• Illustrationen: Mebaru
• Übersetzer: Kashi Kamitoma
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Epic Fantasy • fantasy political intrigue and drama • genius main character • Isekai • Light Novel • OP overpowered protagonist • worldbuilding
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-3376-5 / 1718333765
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-3376-5 / 9781718333765