“It really has been over two weeks since we came here hasn’t it.” Rubbing a slime’s head, a man was currently sitting in a large room.

“Hrm!” The slime made a cute noise while jumping.

It has been about a week since the incident with the goblin creature. With this, the situation has escalated to the point of a B-rank adventurer being summoned from a nearby city along with a quest being posted to other nearby areas for all to see.

While the situation at first seemed tame, with only a growth of goblins and bandits, something that happens very often around cities. With the sight of the creature and the partnership between the two groups, the city has deemed it an emergency that needs to be eradicated before things escalate further.

With the situation starting to erupt, it didn’t take long before another one of those goblin creatures appeared in a forest south of Blarchx, causing many to go hunt it down.

Despite the frequent attacks on travelers, the clear growth, and other factors, the situation has not exploded yet. But as Yuu talked to Bedgard two days ago on the streets, the large man told him that it is approaching and it will be a few days before everything explodes.

Though staying clear of that for now, he decided to focus on his studies. Currently, he was in the Basic Magic class.

After arriving in the world of Remshal, it took him two weeks before he was finally able to cast the most novice healing spell, Bandage.

This spell was like it implied. It helped accelerate the healing process, though like what a small stereotypical bandage is used for, this only applied for small cuts or the like unless the caster was extraordinarily powerful.

While the progress was slow, he was only in this world for two weeks. Compared to him, a lot of people would start controlling their mana early on. Not necessarily practicing spells, but at least getting the very foundation down.

Though while he had a very late start, the instructor of the class was patient with him. Luckily he was kind enough to instruct him from the beginning and recently, gave him a new spell to work on.

He also gave Yuu a couple of simple yet convenient spells. The perks of starting early were that while most people won’t become a professional, anyone can learn the most basic spells if they trained enough.

This meant that many used convenient spells to clean, cast light, light fires, and do much more to improve their lives, which was what was given to him along with another healing spell.

But while he was given that earlier, an interesting conversation came up about Leah.

According to the instructor, monsters who did not associate with society, or specifically the inability to live with society; silver-wolves, wild bears, slimes, and many more, had the ability to use magic but only with instinct.

For slimes, they unconsciously used magic that revolved around their body. Specifically with the very transparent stone inside of slimes, being the core that keeps them alive.

With this, the instructor gave Yuu an interesting idea of, what if Leah learned how to control mana? While a normal slime wouldn’t be able to do this, a slime with intelligence and somehow access to storage, this was a possible idea.

Of course, the instructor didn’t know about her ability to store things, but he wanted to test it out on an intelligence slime. While there are powerful slimes, the ones that are currently alive liked to stay away from the public, causing this idea to be a mystery to the instructor and many others.

Due to this, the last class they had, after it was done, the instructor spent time trying to teach Leah to control mana. While the idea was bizarre, she actually managed to disturb the mana around her.

While the disturbance that she caused was extremely small, it was still an exciting result. Due to this, in the current class that they were in, the instructor wanted to continue with this experiment after class.

Going back to the current day, while he and Leah were waiting for the class to start, he heard a loud yell right outside the door, “Good morning!” Leo walked in with his two brothers, smiling like a goofball as he had his hands behind his head.

“Annoying.” A woman snorted upon hearing Leo yell.

“Jaleth, let’s fight!” He barked back.

As usual, the two fought. In almost every class that they had together. Like an arguing couple, they would fight, sometimes for no reason.

“Alright! Settle down. Leo, shut up and be quiet, my ears are hurting,” a grumpy old man came in the room. This was the instructor for the class. Despite his attitude, he had a kind heart, but his words stung wherever it spitted to.

No longer talking as the both of them looked away from each other, the instructor smiled before resuming his speech, “Now let’s get started. Garey, describe to me the procedure to casting Flaming Arrow.”

As the class started, he pointed to random people, making them answer different things regarding magic and how it works.

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With time passing, the class finally ended and Yuu left after the lesson with the instructor.

“Huh?” As Yuu was walking down the road, heading to get food, he saw someone familiar enter his sight.

Approaching the figure, he waved his hand near their face, however, he got no response. They were in deep thought despite the lively road being traversed.

Deciding to surprise them, Yuu prepared to speak loudly to surprise them. “Kebfa!”

“Ah!” she shrieked in a high-pitched voice, taking a step back before looking around with a blushed face.

Seeing this side of her, Yuu smiled as she was generally quiet and sometimes downright rude with her tone and choice of words. Yet her reaction right now carried a cute tone to it.

Though this quickly ended as he saw her grip the spear on the back, preparing to attack anyone near her.

“Calm down! It’s me!” Yuu panicked since he knew that she would get serious and really try to attack someone if they were suspicious.

Seeing Yuu anxiously waving his hands, she heaved a sigh of relief before looking at him with a stern face, “If you didn’t speak up I really would have stabbed you.”

Listening to her words, sweat dripped down from his face, “Haha, I wanted to surprise you since it has been a bit. What were you thinking about?”

As the words entered her ears, she looked slightly down, “Nothing much. Just thinking about the upcoming fight. In a few days we are going to head out and destroy their groups.”

Seeing the worry appear on her face, he gave her an uplifting comment, reassuring her that it would be alright.

“T-Thanks,” she didn’t maintain eye contact and looked away as her mouth moved a bit, as she was trying to say something. “I’m also sorry.”

“Huh? What for?”

“For being rude to you since meeting you. I know this is a late apology, but I wanted to apologize now rather than not say it at all.”

Understanding her words, Yuu placed a hand on her head, “No worries. I never took it to heart since you didn’t mean it. Though hearing it from you makes my old self feel even more old!”

She looked up at him with confusion, “Huh? Wait, Yuu, aren’t you like eighteen or something?”

“Uh… I’m twenty-six.”

“Eh!?” As the response made its way to her ears, she made an almost high-pitched sound, causing some of the bypassers to look at them weirdly.

Even though Yuu wasn’t an old man, just in his mid to late twenties, he did have a youthful appearance. He had no facial hair as he shaved it very often and he didn’t have much of a mature appearance, only looking like a young adult.

While he did tell Chrisel more about him; his age, birth, and other things as he was collecting information, that took place in a more private conversation with just the two of them.

Kebfa had a wryly smile on her face as she looked at him, “I really thought you were my age, maybe even younger if I’m being honest, I didn’t know you were my senior.”

“I’m not that old!”

“Pft!” For the first time since he has known her, she finally revealed a more innocent and cute side to her instead of her usual aggressive self.

The two talked for a bit more, discussing other things unrelated to guard duties or fighting. Though when it did come up, when Yuu mentioned that he wanted to join the fight, Kebfa’s eyebrows slowly angled themselves.

“Yuu, I respect all the work you’ve done since you crossed over, but you are still weak. If I’m going to be honest at most you would be in the backline, and even then you would mostly just take care of the small fries.”

Seemingly knowing that she would throw some harsh words, he refuted, “Even If I can’t do much I still want to help. Besides, I can’t grow if all I do is stay at home and practice.”

“Even so, while death may not happen daily, it is still a thing. The Captain could take down a hundred of you and he isn’t even the strongest. You’re going to find many of those characters on the field who will just obliterate you as soon as you appear.”

Despite sensing her eyes staring down at him, he kept persisting, “It’s a choice I’m going to make. I don’t want to throw my life away, as much as I like living here, I also want to see my friends back home. Even Leah wants to go fight, and she’s usually lazy about doing things.”

“Hrm!”

Sighing, she gave up on trying to deter him from joining, “You don’t have any reason to actually join, but if you seriously want to, sure. I just don’t want you to die early on like the others.” She said her goodbyes and left.

Leaning against the wall, Yuu heaved a breath out. Even though Kebfa didn’t use any magic to suppress the surroundings, just from her eyes alone he could tell she was being serious about him not going.

“Even though she said that out of kind words, it was still scary to talk against her. Though, her personality really changes when it gets into fighting or her job. I kind of prefer her more gentle side,” he scratched his head while thinking to himself.