921 - - 02 The Goddess of Mercy
"Well, you were involved in an accident and found yourself here."
Shuki Tsutsui...... introduced himself, and Adriana thought for a moment. Then Shuki asked her a further question.
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I should have been seriously injured, but what about it? Did you take care of me?
"Oh, yes, I didn't tell you about the time you came here. You showed up here ...... two days ago out of the blue in the basement of my lab."
"What?"
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Shuki was about to say something when Adriana interrupted him.
"Wait a minute, let me explain everything. ...... I am currently studying <
As expected, Shuki could no longer remain silent.
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"I'm sorry, but I just want to say something. I have never heard of or seen <
"What ......?"
Adriana was surprised by this information.
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"Let's get some information straight, shall we?
"Yes, I agree.
So, Adriana started off by explaining everything.
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I am Adriana. I am a mage. A mage is a person who can use advanced magic. Those who can only use elementary magic are simply called
"Yes."
Shuki wanted to say something, but he just kept his mouth shut and listened to the conversation.
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"So, many mages are studying to develop their own areas of expertise. I'm studying the things I mentioned earlier about
"I told you that this land is rich in free magical element (ether), didn't I? This is convenient, since it is believed that the free magical element (ether) has a close relationship with the state of space."
At this Adriana cut off her speech and coughed deliberately.
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"Well, this
"......"
This was a theory that even Shuki could not fully understand. He was a realist, for better or worse, and had never read much science fiction.
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The only thing he knew about was a robot from a TV cartoon (not an anime at that time) that started in January of the same year in Japan where Shuki was living.
And there was no way for a student to afford a TV set.
I have only seen it a few times in my landlord's room with his son, who is now in the second grade of elementary school.
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However, I was interested in it because the author is a cartoonist and a doctor of medicine at the same time.
But let's not dwell on the subject.
Adriana's explanation continues.
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"Bubbles in water sometimes stick together, don't they? In the same way, it seems that separate worlds can sometimes stick together and then separate again.
Adriana explained that in the case of bubbles, once they are attached they never leave, but in the case of worlds, the boundaries are reasonably strong, so they can leave without ever being attached.
"In your ...... case, Shuki, I think you got caught up in that, didn't you?"
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"Well,...... I have no idea what you mean. I don't know if it's right or wrong, or even if the analogy is even remotely appropriate."
"So ....... Yes, you're right. You said that there is no magic in your world. But ......"
Adriana was about to say something, but thought of something else.
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"Well, if you don't mind, may I examine your body with magic?"
"What?"
"You see, I told you that it is normal for you to be injured. I might be able to find out something about that, or whether your body is made differently from ours.
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"......"
After a few moments of hesitation, Shuki nodded.
"Okay, but you're not going to cut ...... off, are you?"
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Adriana was surprised.
"What do you mean, 'cut'? I don't have that kind of taste! I said, by magic, by magic!"
So, with Shuki's agreement, Adriana uses magic to find out.
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After repeating several times, Adriana sighed.
"......Thank you, Shuki. I didn't see any difference between you and us as creatures. At least I didn't."
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Adriana broke off at that point, but then said something surprising.
"You said that there is no magic in this world. But your body is almost entirely made of magic, isn't it?
"What?"
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I can feel magic in your head, face, torso, limbs, almost everything. ...... Don't ask me why? I don't believe it either."
"......"
Shuki pondered. As a doctor ...... no, as a medical student, even if it was a streetcar, what would happen to me when I was supposed to be crushed by the train's body.
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Suddenly, he looked at his left wrist and found his watch was gone. I am further reminded of this.
"What happened to the watch that was supposed to be on my left hand? And did you find a bicycle or a book with it?"
To this question Adriana immediately answered.
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"I don't know what the udedokei or the jitensha is, but I have the package with the book in it. I don't know what it is, but there is a package with a book in it, and some kind of weird metal skeleton with two distorted rings on it. And the thing that was on his arm is on the table.
I looked closer and found a wristwatch under his tattered shirt.
"...... is broken."
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The glass was cracked and the watch had stopped. He wound the mainspring, but it did not start moving, so he assumed it had been broken by the shock.
"The book was dirty, but it's over there."
Adriana pointed to the next room.
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"I see. ...... and the bicycles?"
They are still in the deepest basement.
Then show me later.
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Shuki was a little relieved to know that all his belongings from that time had come here.
"But then, I could have died, couldn't I?
"What? What do you mean?"
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Shuki then explained in detail what had happened just before he lost consciousness.
Adriana was surprised to hear the details, since he had only said that he had been involved in an accident in his initial explanation.
What is that? You were trapped under a huge iron box! You won't survive, normally!"
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Then she thought about it.
"...... could it be that when you cross the world, the magical element compensates for the broken parts......? But is that really ...... possible?"
After mumbling, he turned to Shuki once more and began to explain.
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"You know, my master's master said that the world is floating in something with higher magical power than free magical element (ether), and he proposed a theory that something must happen when we cross the world.... ..."
"You're saying that this
"That's all you can think of, isn't it?"
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"Well, ...... I'm sorry, but I can't say."
"Well, you're right. It's not like I have any memory of that time."
At this point Adriana suddenly remembered and clasped her palms together.
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"Oh, I'm sorry! You are hungry, aren't you? I'll make you dinner right away!"
She then rushes out of the room.
Shuki, who was left alone, lay down on the bed again, trying to think over what he had just heard.
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（Why did I think I was in another world? (Why did I think I was in another world? It could have been some faraway country.)
As a side note, overseas travel was not yet common in Japan at that time. Therefore, there were still unknown regions on the earth, and people believed more than half of what they were told, such as that there were monsters in unexplored areas and magical tribes surviving.
（But that language. Not Japanese, of course, but not English or German either. I hardly know French, Italian, Russian, Spanish... ......)
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The intonation, vowels, consonants, etc., intuitively made me feel that it is not a language of the earth.
(The decisive factor is that magic...).
Shuki thinks that if there is such a thing as magic, it should be a little better known to the world.
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(And the fact that he is still alive and well even though he was crushed by a falling streetcar is, after all, ......)
) Thinking of this, I feel a chill down my spine. At the same time, I wonder if I will ever be able to return to that world ...... of Japan.
(Will I be treated as dead over there? (Will I be treated as dead over there? Or missing?)
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(Will he be treated as dead over there? Or missing?) If there is neither the bicycle he was riding nor the dead body, he wonders if he will be treated as missing, and then it occurs to Shuki.
"Kamikakushi ......!"
Since ancient times, missing persons cases have been given the name "Kamikakushi. Most of them are said to be unsolved kidnappings. .......
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"Perhaps some of them have been transported to other worlds in this way?"
"Hmm? What do you mean, "What might be out there?"
I seemed to have said it out loud unintentionally, and Adriana, who had just returned to the room, accused me of saying it out loud.
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"Ah, ah, you know, ......."
Since it was not something to be kept secret, Shuki presented the theory he had come up with.