Third Outer World Story Series: Pumpkin Sorcerer - Chapter 21
Translator: MadHatter Editor: MadHatter
Below Pumpkin was a girl being pursued by a swarm of giant bees.
The girl was equipped with… light leather armor and a sword with a somewhat long edge.
The bees, on the other hand, may be numerous, but judging from the amount of magic power they possessed, she would be overrun by a boar and trampled by a bear, in Lean Forest… let alone being defeated by a rat in a one-on-one fight.
“Someone ahhhhhh!?”
The benefits of helping are… well, there are many for me. Should I help her? She can’t stand a chance against the thousands of them who are out there.
“Hyulololooo!”
With that, Pumpkin swooped down into the middle of the swarm of bees and landed on them, smashing a few of them to bits.
[[[Bun!?]]]
“What!?”
“Hyulahooo!!”
He continued to swing his arms, whose rigidity and the acuteness of the thorns on the vines had been reinforced with magic power, and crushed the bees from one side to the other, taking advantage of the opportunity to deliver strikes.
Once he gained their attention, the bees…
“Hmph!”
[[[!?]]]
“Hou…”
Even with a little bit of magic power released, the girl was intimidated entirely.
All of you bees, what are you going to do now? Your attacks will never work on me.
And your prey, the girl, has fainted, but you can see what kind of intentions I have come to you.
[[[Bubu…]]]
The bees, perhaps terrified by his magic power, were slowly retreating.
Yeah. That’s a wise judgment. As expected of wildlife. Out of respect for their judgment, I’ll give you this. It will also serve as an apology for interrupting without knowing the details of the situation.
“Here, take this.”
“Bu? Bububu?”
Gathering the magic power in his hand, Pumpkin produced a nectar-like sweet dew and offered it to the bee closest to him.
After receiving the dew, the bees flew around him in a constant orbit as if to express their gratitude, then made a resounding buzzing sound and left with their swarm into the nearby forest.
They were apparently pleased by that.
“Now, l should carry her to a safe place for the time being.”
He then carried the unconscious girl on his shoulder, retrieved the bee stingers, and flew away.
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“Maybe that tree would be fine.”
Having flown for a while, Pumpkin found a sakura tree planted along the road, so after landing around it, he lowered the girl down so that she could lean herself against the trunk of the sakura tree.
“Ngh…”
“Hmm.”
He took another glance at the girl’s body, who was experiencing trouble sleeping.
From a distance, he knew that the girl was wearing light leather armor and a sword, but she also seemed to be wearing a pouch for storing small tools and shoes with a metal plate embedded in it.
The girl herself had blonde hair with a faint yellowish-green hue, a few scrapes and scratches, but overall she had a well-defined face. Her physique was… respectable enough for someone who made a living from fighting. Although her greenish magic power was as good as the inhabitants of that village, Pumpkin felt that she still lacked a lot of training.
“How can I put it, she looks like a newbie adventurer.”
That was his overall assessment of the girl.
From what she was wearing, it would appear that she was not a total novice. But as far as assessment went, he would have to say that she was a beginner.
“At any rate, I don’t want you to have any major injuries in places that are out of sight, so shall I recover you? [Resonance Spell?Heal].”
Taking out a leaf from inside his cloak, Pumpkin applied a fixed pattern of magic power and flung it at the girl.
When the leaf touched the girl, it shattered and turned into light, causing the scars on the girl’s face, which was enveloped in light, to disappear without a trace.
“This will do.”
[Resonance Spell?Heal]. This was one of Pumpkin’s newly acquired [Resonance Spell] during the winter, and the effect was recovery, as can be seen.
When he first activated it, he couldn’t understand what was happening, so it took him a long time to understand the specific effect. Who knows how many Anregirats were sacrificed in the entire research?
However, thanks to them, it became apparent that a single leaf could heal a broken limb, and Pumpkin was truly appreciative of their noble sacrifice.
“Even so, the cherry blossoms here are a fine one…”
He looked up at the sakura tree where he was laying the girl down.
The light pink blossoms of the sakura tree were in full bloom, and petals containing light green magic were slowly scattering around the tree. If the tree contained this much magic power, it must be fairly aged.
To say the least, if I had a bottle of sake, I would definitely like to have a drink under such a sakura tree. That sounds very refreshing.
Well, I don’t think I could get intoxicated even if I drank sake with this body.
“Or rather, the magic power of this sakura is unnaturally strong compared to that of its surroundings,” Pumpkin said, observing the magic power of other plants and stones in the surrounding area.
If he carefully examined the surrounding presence, there seemed to be a strange feeling of clean air only around this cherry tree, and perhaps this cherry tree had the property of putting up barriers or something.
If so, perhaps that is the reason why it is located along the road.
Hmm. I would like to investigate various things. But I don’t want to damage this sakura in the process of investigation and as far as I am concerned, I have to refrain from doing so because I have a company.
But I will definitely check into it eventually. Yeah. For now, I should collect the petals at least.
“Nghh…”
“Oh.”
The girl slowly lifted her eyelids, letting out a moan here, then looked at Pumpkin with her green eyes.
“You have awake.”
“…Kyu…”
“!?”
After blinking a few times, she then fainted and collapsed yet again.
Huhhhh!? I thought I had properly healed her injuries and such! Why is this girl fainting again!!?
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A/N:
Well, of course she would pass out.