The fifth day in Kagura. I was having another refreshing morning.

　Just as Tory had said last night, I wouldn't leave Kagura until the day after tomorrow, the seventh day.

　I was told that most of the business negotiations would be completed today, so the members of the trade association left the inn as if it was time to move on.

　And the tourist duo, me and Lumumba, headed to the shrine early in the morning to meet with Haru and Shuichi again today.

　We're leaving early today so that Haru won't be angry with us for being late.

　As we walk out of the inn and towards the residential area, Rumba, who was walking next to me, opens her mouth.

''I'm going to do some shopping and stuff tomorrow, so today is the last day I'm practically free, right?

'Right. So I'll have to say goodbye to Haru and Shuichi today.

Yeah, well, it was fun, but that's all right.

　Roomba mutters in a light tone and walks with his arms behind his head.

　Although he says so in words, looking at the expression on Roomba's face, he doesn't seem to be that lonely.

''You don't seem too lonely...''

'Well, I'm an adventurer who used to travel all over the place. I'm used to meeting and parting with people!　I'd say I'm going to miss you, but being sad doesn't increase the amount of time I get to spend with the people I meet there. So, as always, I'm just going to enjoy my time with the people I meet there as much as I can!

　Hearing such a line from Rumba, I can't help but stop proceeding.

''Oh?　Al, what's up?

...Roomba says something nice.

Hey, what does that mean?

　No, because it's a Roomba.　Roomba isn't the kind of guy who has such good lines. At least, that's the image I had in my mind.

'So Roomba was a traveling adventurer too, I suppose.

That's what I've been saying all along.

　Me and Roomba continued walking down the street, talking about it.

　Before long, we arrived at the stairs of the shrine we've been going to every day.

　Today this guy is still steep and the steps are too many to count.

　Just imagining myself going up it makes me gasp for air.

　I exhale lightly as I look at the steps in front of me, turn to the Roomba and raise my arms and

Come on, take your Roomba.

Hey, hey, come on up here on your own today.

　Roomba refuses to do what I want.

What do you mean? What's the point of coming early in the morning then? Before Haru and Shuichi arrive, Roomba is going to carry me up the stairs in a hurry.

　Today I woke up earlier than yesterday and left as soon as I finished breakfast.

　It's unthinkable from my usual point of view that I didn't include a food break, but this was also so that Haru and Shuichi wouldn't tell me to go up the stairs by myself.

　If the Roomba didn't carry me here, I don't know what I would have done to wake up early and cut back on my meal break.

'I thought you left so early today, but that's what happened. Al, you're working in the wrong direction, aren't you?

You did the right thing. So just go ahead and carry me.

　You can't deny me a food break and an early start. And to bring them to nothing.

　So I want you to carry me up the stairs before Haru and Shuichi arrive.

　I raise my arms and hiss at them, and Roomba points to the top with a bitter smile.

''Well even so, we're both already looking at it from above, okay?

What?

　As I hurriedly looked in the direction that Rumba was pointing, I saw Haru and Shuichi standing at the top of the shrine.

　He could tell I had noticed Haru and Shuichi.

'Alhh!　You're going up there alone today!

"If you're a man, you're going to climb this staircase by yourself!

　The shouting of "I'm up early!

　Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! You must have slept and woken up too early.

It's a good way to get some good exercise. It's good exercise and Al, go up yourself.

　As I bite my teeth, Roomba says that and leisurely walks up the stairs ahead of me.

　Apparently, he's not really going to help me today.

'Aloo!　Come on up here!

　As I watched the back of the departing rumba, I could hear Haru's familiar voice at the top.

　Haru and Shuichi told him to go up alone. But I never told them to go up on their own.

　If that is the case, then you should use magic, which is an all-powerful power to make things easier. That should also be a kind of power of my own. It shouldn't be a wrong interpretation.

　The time has come to try the magic you've been pondering during your journey.

　I've always wondered if I'm on a journey. I wondered if there was some kind of magic that would allow me to fly.

　It's a good thing that you're not going to have to worry about it.

　A magic that was developed as a technique to escape from Elinora sister, a magicless shield that continuously deploys a shield in the air and walks in the air. With that, you can walk in the sky.

　However, the technique is surprisingly quite difficult and nerve-wracking. The shield is strong enough not to break even if your weight is on it. It is constantly deployed to every place you walk while sustaining it. You'll be aware of the shields that pass you by to a certain extent just by existing, and you'll also have to disarm them because they consume magic power. You do that forever while walking.

　It's great for sitting in the air and observing the scenery, like in King's Landing, but it's a little less suited to moving around.

　I want to move through the sky more easily.

　That's when I saw the non-magical psychic.

　This is a magic that allows you to control inorganic substances by infusing them with your magic power. If you can control it, you can make it float or move it.

　However, it cannot target human beings because they have magical powers of their own. Then why don't you try riding on an inorganic object you've placed under your control?

　That's the aerial movement magic I'm going to try this time. I'm exaggerating, but I'm just going to ride on top of a substance that I've levitated with my psychic.

　That's what I'm going to try out this time.

　Looking around, I see places on the unpaved slope of the stairs where large rocks are exposed. Perhaps heavy rains or something had scraped away the soil, causing the hard rocks in the ground to come out.

　When I find it, I use soil magic to remove the soil around the bare rock. Once the rock and the hardened soil are separated, I cast a psychic on the rock and allow the magic power to permeate it.

　Once I got it under the control of my magic, I pulled the large rock towards me.

''Yeah, that's plenty of room for me to sit on it.''

　The rock is so big that there's plenty of room for a seven-year-old me to sit on it. It's just barely big enough for a big guy like me to sit on.

　Anyway, this would be no problem for me to ride on. However, it's a little dirty and smeared with dirt, probably because it was halfway under the ground.

　It's not a problem if you stand up, but I don't want to be dirty.

　So I used water magic to pour water on the rocks.

　Naturally, the soil stuck to the rocks could not be removed by a little bit of water. This is because the soil that has been stuck to the rock for a long time is stuck there.

　So I decided to increase the pressure of the water on the rocks with even more magic.

　The water pressure rises and is replaced by a shear sound that cuts through the air.

　The water shot out with great vigor, quickly removing the stubborn soil from the rocks.

　This is a recreation of a high-pressure washing machine from a previous life. It is a method of removing stubborn dirt from cars and walls by shooting water at them with high water pressure.

　Just by firing the water, the dirt is removed in an interesting way. I can't even begin to tell you how good it feels.

　I shoot the water at the car and remove the dirt from the rock.

"What the hell is that guy doing digging out a rock?

What?　Is Al teasing you because he doesn't want to go up the stairs?

　I can hear the rumba and the spring already finished climbing from the top.

　No, no, no, no, no, no, it's not me to mess around with this stuff.

　As I left that thought to wash up, I felt that the edge of the rock was slightly chipped.

　Without a second thought I deflected the water I was spraying and observed the rock.

'....oh, shit. Was the water pressure too strong?

　They said it was a little too powerful. There are a few areas where the rocks have been gouged out.

　This is not good. If I continued like this, the rocks were about to be crushed by the water pressure.

　I weakened my magic power to lower the water pressure and poured water on the rocks again.

　The rock does not seem to be shattered this time, though I'll keep an eye on it.

　This seems to be no problem.

　I thought it would be good since I could use it to clean the walls of the mansion and my home, but I'll need to practice this one a bit more. I'm going to have to tear down the mansion and home before I can clean it up.

　Once the whole rock is clean, I'll use fire magic and wind magic to get the moisture out of it.

　As expected, I'm afraid that if I dry off slowly, the people at the top will get numb, so I get on the rock while I'm still semi-thirsty.

　Then I psychic the rock under my feet again.

　Then, more carefully than usual, I let the rock float and it left the ground easily.

　With a faint floating sensation, my vision rises with the rock.

　It's a simple matter of applying a psychic to the rock to make it float. Unlike airborne walking magic that uses shields, I don't need to move, nor do I need to continuously activate the magic.

　It's really easy for me to float in the sky.

　Oh!　I wasn't crazy about it, after all.

　If you're going to move through the sky, this is definitely easier.

　There's no need to walk all the way to a distant place or go through troublesome mountain paths with this.

　When I don't want to get out of the futon in the morning, I move in the air while wrapped in the futon. In winter, when I don't want to get out of the kotatsu, I can move in the same way.

　It's truly an act of God!　It lets you live your life the way you want it to be lived and with ease. That's the essence of magic.

　I walked up the slope with a big smile on my face.

　Going diagonally through the air, the slope was surprisingly short and I was at the top in no time.

　It felt like a ropeway.

I'll be waiting. I'm coming up alone.

　As I say this, when I reach the top, Haru, Shuichi, Roomba, and two strange men turn to me with an acute expression.

''Didn't you want to go up the stairs that far?''

Of course.