Water Magician: Arc 1 Volume 5 (eBook)

Tadashi Kubou (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-3378-9 (ISBN)

Infos

After helping handle the mayhem in the royal capital, Ryo finally returns to Lune. Back home, he accepts a job with the members of Room 10 in the coffee-growing haven of Kona! As he and his friends solve the village's problems and savor its delicious food, he learns something wildly unexpected-his best friend and partner in crime, Abel, is the second prince of the Kingdom of Knightley.

While Ryo is still processing what he initially brushed off as a joke, the Handalieu Federation declares war on the neighboring Principality of Inverey! To make matters worse, his beloved disciples are kidnapped after being embroiled in the war...

If his enemies think they can disturb his peace, they have another thing coming! They'll be trembling in fear when Ryo shows them what his water magic can really do. And when he joins forces with Prince Abel, their enemies won't know what hit them! The adventures of the strongest, freewheeling water magician continue in this frenetic fifth volume!

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Simply put, he had summoned Ryo to test the power of his new technique. After hitting the ground several times, Ryo lifted his head and stood, determination stamped all over his face.

“Abel, do it again. Exactly as you just did.”

“Huh? No way. You know that executing Sword Skills back-to-back will only tire me out.”

“No excuses! Now, experience the terror that is an ice wall! Laminated 10-Layer Ice Wall.”

The moment Ryo chanted, an ice wall appeared—except this was a special version, which was gradually building up, thickening layer by layer until—until it attacked Abel!

“Hey, you jackass.” Abel leaped to the side. “Stop! Like I can pierce this monstrosity!”

In the end, he treated Ryo to dinner at the Golden Wave. All’s well that ends well.

“I’m throwing in the towel. I can’t even move anymore...”

Inevitably, Ryo booked a room at the Golden Wave and stayed the night there. What else had he expected after eating enough food to feed four people...?

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After the mayhem in the royal capital, Ryo returned to his orderly life in Lune. Occasionally, Abel used him as a test subject for his new skills, but even that didn’t do much to disrupt said orderly life. In the mornings, he dedicated himself to alchemy and magic. In the afternoons, he sparred with Sera in the knights’ training ground. And in the evenings, he would eat dinner, take a bath, then spend more time on alchemy and magic until bedtime...

Sometimes, Sera would show up unannounced in the mornings and read books in his living room. On those days, they would eat lunch together at one of their usual haunts, like The Fill-Up Station, then head to the training ground afterward. That was how his days went.

He had learned a lot from Kenneth, the genius alchemist, during his time in the capital. After he had returned to Lune, Ryo had thrown himself into the study of alchemy. And the results...

“Heh heh heh. It’s finally mine!”

He didn’t even realize how sinister his cackle sounded.

“What is it, Ryo?” Sera stared quizzically at him.

“Sera, come outside with me and take a look, please,” he said.

So out they went.

“Afterimage 8.”

When he chanted the spell, eight Ryo look-alikes appeared roughly thirty meters away.

“Wow! There are eight of you!”

“I tried to project myself into the air using water vapor and ice particles—and it worked! So that’s not the problem...”

An image appeared in his mind.

“Floating Magic Circle.”

Eight magic circles formed around him, perpendicular to the ground and facing the afterimages. Then he fired an Icicle Lance from each circle toward each afterimage.

“Oooh!” Sera, having never seen such a thing before, was amazed by the fantastical sight.

Ryo looked pleased with the fruits of his labor.

“What a lovely bit of magic, Ryo!”

“Isn’t it? Wait...? Did you say ‘magic’? But...it’s supposed to be alchemy...”

“Alchemy? Goodness, is it really? Hmmm, a technique not in my repertoire, then. Nevertheless, quite wonderful!” she said, beaming.

Now he himself wasn’t sure whether what he’d just done was magic or alchemy... Either way, Sera smiled and complimented him for it. That was just the way Ryo was.

On Phi, general alchemy was the study of magic phenomena produced through magic formulas and magic circles. Alchemists engraved both methods into their tools, but...apparently, Ryo hadn’t done that. It would be some time before he realized this.

Incidentally, he had finally succeeded in creating a magic circle capable of firing a single Icicle Lance... He’d been generating them without the circles for some time now, so there was no increase in his fighting power at all. Not even a little bit. But that was just fine with him. Being cool—or wonderful, in Sera’s eyes—was worth a lot more!

That evening, Ryo headed to the adventurers’ guild for the first time in a while. About a month had passed since his last trip, which had been on the day he and Abel returned to Lune. They’d dropped in together, made their report, and that was it.

To his sadness, he didn’t pass the crepe stand on the way there. The owner had pulled up stakes before his return to Lune.

After Nina poured their tea and left, Hugh spoke: “There’s only one reason I asked ya to come, Ryo.” More quietly, he continued, “I sold the last o’ the magic stones.”

He smiled a strange, unnerving smile. Even Ryo, accustomed to Hugh’s quirks, felt unsettled.

“Took a while b’cause we sold ’em all hush-hush since ya boys wanted to keep yer involvement a secret.” Hugh handed him a piece of paper. “Here’s the final amount we’ll be transferrin’ to yer account.” The sum written on it was...

“E-Eleven digits...?”

...well over ten billion.

“Yup. ’Course, that’s after deductin’ taxes ’n’ fees. Goes without sayin’ that it don’t include Abel’s share either. Pretty hefty, eh?”

Hugh sat back in his chair, looking utterly and unrepentantly smug.

“I didn’t expect this much... I could live like a king on this for a year!” Ryo joked.

“Damn, boy, how much ya plannin’ to spend?” Hugh quipped back.

“Well...as long as I don’t build a ship, this should last me a long time.”

“What’s this ’bout a ship?”

“You see, I saw a magnificent one in Whitnash and...”

“Ahhh. Hate to break it to ya, but yer gonna need another digit for that,” Hugh said with a sigh and a shake of his head.

“Nooo...”

“I know which ship yer talkin’ ’bout. The Rain Shooter, right? It cost three hundred ’n’ seventy billion florins to make.”

“That’s...expensive.”

“Ain’t that the truth.”

They both sighed in unison then. Ships like that weren’t built by regular folks like them.

Since Ryo had come all the way here and now had even more money to spare, he decided to treat himself by, as you may have guessed, eating at the guild dining hall. The rush hour had passed, and there were a fair few people there at dinnertime. While he was looking for a place to sit, someone spotted him from afar and waved at him. It was Amon from Room 10. Of course, Nils and Eto were also at the same table.

“It’s so crowded tonight, isn’t it?” he remarked, taking a seat.

“Rare to see you at the guild, Ryo,” Nils replied while eating the daily dinner special.

“In a way, an adventurer who barely shows his face at the adventurers’ guild is pretty amazing too,” Eto said with a smile. He was eating grilled chicken skewers for his meal.

“Well, I had an appointment, so...”

Ryo ordered the daily special.

“You are always holed up at home working on your alchemy, Ryo.”

Amon had ordered pizza, which was apparently a new item on the menu.

“Is that pizza?”

Ryo did a double take. Because right in front of Amon was most definitely pizza... Margherita-style at that.

“I did. I thought I’d try it since they just added it, and it’s delicious. It’s evidently very popular in the Empire, and it has finally attracted interest here in Lune too.”

Amon cut out an eighth of the pizza and gave the slice to Ryo. Grateful, he took a bite. It was most definitely Margherita pizza! What’s more...

“Fantastic!” Ryo exclaimed.

“Right?! I think it will be a hit with everyone in the city.” Amon nodded in eager agreement.

“See, Ryo, we’re gonna be away for a few days on a job.”

That was why they’d decided to eat dinner in the guild’s cafeteria, known for being both tasty and cheap. Of course, that made Ryo wonder what they usually did for meals...

“We usually cook for ourselves,” Eto said with a knowing grin.

Ryo realized that cooking their own meals might be the most economical since they rented a house together.

“We’re heading to the village of Kona, about a day away from here,” Amon explained.

“Kona...” Ryo couldn’t help but react. Just hearing it brought to mind Hawaii’s Kona coffee.

When he’d been on Earth, he hadn’t had any hobbies, but he’d loved coffee and drank different types depending on the day and his mood. Because of this, he’d become picky about his coffee without even realizing it, and Hawaiian Kona had been one of his three favorite beans.

Ryo’s father had installed an espresso machine made by a company with a name similar to the adventurer named Delong. However, he might have been influenced by his son’s love of coffee. And that machine had made incredibly delicious coffee...all by itself! The wonders of automation!

“Yes. It’s a village that grows the beans used for a drink called coffee.”

“Kona coffee!” Ryo gasped, his reaction to this additional information even more emphatic.

A devilish look passed on Nils’s face. “Ryo, weird bugs have infested the coffee trees recently, and strange things have been happening in the village....

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Water Magician
• Mitarbeit: Sonstige Mitarbeit: Tadashi Kubou
• Übersetzer: Tadashi Kubou
• 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: 1-7183-3378-1 / 1718333781
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-3378-9 / 9781718333789