Sister, Don’t Marry That Guy – Chapter 29

Chapter 29

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Time flowed quickly.

When I came to my senses, three weeks had passed; it was indeed fast.

Thwack!

“Do you have time to be distracted?”

In the meantime, I underwent rigorous training. Calling it training was an understatement; it was more like being rolled around.

That was because this master’s preferred method was only practical combat! Mock practical combat! Practical combat like practical combat!

Because he believed that everything could be learned in practical combat.

Basic training, what a joke!

As for the basics, he just threw me a white staff and spent a day explaining what mana and magic were.

After that, it was all practical combat.

“Ice!”

『The guardian senses the master’s danger!』

『The guardian explores the master’s consciousness! Consciousness identified. Complete!』

A blue barrier unfolded in front of me. It was a protective shield that Ice deployed to protect me while I was casting magic.

It took so much effort to deploy this.

“It’s weird that the master calls this training!”

“Oh my, you’ve become relaxed? Talking back to your sky-like master.”

Even as he spoke, a small bookshelf appeared in front of me with a whoosh.

The bookshelf was almost empty. Only one section had a few books in it.

『The master, along with the guardian, has explored the consciousness world and the following list is available!』

『1. 「Golden Axe, Silver Axe」

2. 「Cinderella」

3. 「Alice in Wonderland」』

As I reached for one of them, the bookshelf disappeared as if it had been waiting, and the chosen book opened.

「Golden Axe, Silver Axe」

It was a very familiar book.

I cleared my throat and looked at the fairytale book in front of me and the monster in the shape of a dog howling in front of me at the same time.

‘Hoo, I’m nervous.’

In the future, I used magic by properly utilizing fairy tale books and storytelling.

But that was impossible for me now, and Ice, as a guardian assisting me, explored my consciousness world and determined what I could do at my current level.

That was to use magic through these books.

Of course, as expected, it wasn’t easy from the beginning.

“No, what does dropping an axe have to do with using magic!”

“How would I know that? You would know.”

“Aaaah! Please lower the difficulty! That one’s too big!”

My master, who suddenly tells me to summon a monster and fight it, and Ice, who gives me methods but is still difficult to communicate with and teach me how to use magic.

I had to find a way to solve everything myself.

━Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there lived a very kind woodcutter in a village.

At the same time as I naturally recited, the back of a rather large man appeared in front of me.

It was a man holding a huge axe in one hand.

━The kind woodcutter was very devoted to his mother, so he went to cut wood. Oh, but today, a huge tree is visible!

The huge woodcutter I created raised his axe toward the beast howling in front of him.

Calling it an axe, it was a deadly weapon. A deadly weapon.

━One shot, one kill! The kind and excellent woodcutter felled the tree in one go!

Thwaaang!

The dog-shaped monster, hit by the woodcutter’s axe, yelped! It let out its last cry, which really sounded like a dog, and then collapsed.

The corpse automatically turns into light and disappears.

“Haa, haa, haa…”

『The master’s overload is detected! Rest is needed! Rest is needed!』

“Yeah… I think I really need it…”

This was what I had figured out about my abilities in about three weeks.

I can cast magic using fairy tale books that I read in the past.

That magic is to summon the main characters from the fairy tales and use them.

Looking at it this way, it seems closer to a spiritist or summoner who calls spirits to fight.

However, how the main character uses magic was up to me.

‘It took me two weeks to figure this out.’

I gritted my teeth.

It was all because of that annoyingly handsome master over there who kept shouting about practical combat.

The magic circle he used to summon monsters actually brought real monsters, but perhaps considering my age, when the monsters fell, appropriate measures were taken and they disappeared before my eyes.

‘Why am I treated like a child in these areas only?’

Wouldn’t it be better if he showed some consideration for my age and stamina overall? Huh?!

When I was happy to learn magic, I thought I would sit quietly and listen to a lecture about magic.

‘I should have known when he threw me in front of an orc on the first day, saying we should measure my abilities…’

Gasping for breath, I fell straight backward.

Haa haa, as I was exhaling, I saw white hair and a piece of clothing in my vision.

“Hmph, did you already collapse, kid?”

“When will you call me by my name, Master…”

“Only when my disciple becomes a proper magician.”

My master, Braham, squatted down, rested his chin on his hand, and chuckled.

He had the appearance of a handsome youth, but when I saw him like this, he acted exactly like an old man.

“If you lie down on the cold ground, you’ll catch a cold. You’ll lose mana.”

“What kind of muscle loss nonsense is that… Ugh, I don’t have the strength to get up.”

In this space, with the power of my master and Ice, my stamina is better than usual, and the rate at which it decreases is slower.

But it was useless after practicing magic like crazy like this.

“To roll such a cute, pretty girl disciple like me like this…”

“Oh my, did all the pretty girls freeze to death?”

We had become close enough in three weeks to make such useless jokes.

“Well, if I think about my older brothers, I’m a bit insignificant.”

This wasn’t an inferiority complex, it was a fact. Whether it was the author’s arrangement or not, the villains in this family, in this book, were all incredibly handsome.

Especially the Dandelion Duke or my father, Titan Blackwinter, who gave birth to these people, it was pointless to even mention it.

Kyle was beyond words. But our black puppy is the best. Roy is the best!

At that moment, a stinging pain flashed across my forehead.

“Ouch, why did you hit me?”

“Tsk tsk, kid, you need to learn shamelessness.”

“Suddenly?”

“Yes. Sometimes you need shamelessness that comes from objectivity. Who made you like this?”

“Huh?”

The master only clicked his tongue and didn’t say anything more.

Instead, my body floated up. Sweat dripped from my cheeks.

Ice fluttered over and patted my cheeks. Then, a cool breeze blew.

I smiled and rubbed my cheeks against Ice as well.

Our cute Ice, so cute today too!

“That’s enough for today. It looks like you don’t have any mana left.”

“Ah, Master. I still haven’t been able to get past the first part of the book, the first chapter, why is that?”

“I don’t know. It doesn’t seem like you’re lacking mana… Aha? I’ll give you investigating that as homework.”

Ugh. I shouldn’t have brought it up.

But it was a question that I had been curious about. Somehow, I figured out how to use magic through fairy tales and storytelling, but I couldn’t get out of the introduction of the book.

For example, in 「Golden Axe, Silver Axe」, I still haven’t been able to get to the part where the woodcutter drops the axe into the pond.

It felt like I was playing the tutorial or the first stage of a game about 100 times.

Even in a novel, you get tired of reading the introduction 100 times.

My master seemed to have an idea about this as well, and he had a knowing look on his face.

But as always, he seemed to be about to shout about practical combat, and he ended it with the word homework. That petty old man.

『The guardian casts a simple cleansing magic on the master!』

“Ah, thank you.”

And so, today’s lesson ended, and I was about to leave for the library when, for some reason, my master, who always sent me off coolly, cleared his throat and subtly blocked my path.

“Master?”

“Wait a moment. I have something to say today.”

My mischievous master, who was always busy chuckling at my appearance after class, was acting like this. I blinked.

It was because his handsome face looked slightly troubled and serious at the same time today.

“Are you perhaps going out somewhere? Is that why there’s no class tomorrow?”

“Where would a dead person go? I can’t leave this legacy.”

“Yes. I know, but you seemed serious, so I said something. What’s wrong?”

“Ugh…”

Braham stroked his chin and slowly opened his mouth.

“Kid, have you ever been to Cronos’s room?”

“Grandfather?”

I shook my head.

Cronos Blackwinter.

My grandfather, who was the head of the family before my father, Titan, who is the acting head of the family, was said to be a very great hero.

When I remembered my memories of reincarnation, he was already lying in a vegetative state on his sickbed.

Perhaps he had been sick since before I was born?

No. He collapsed not long after I was born, I think.

Anyway, I had only heard rumors about him, and I had never seen my grandfather in person.

‘The only thing I’ve seen is the huge portrait hanging in the central dining hall.’

He was handsome. But he was a handsome man who was very sharp and scary-looking.

“I don’t know the exact period, but my grandfather has been lying down since I was young. And my grandfather’s room is under strict guard.”

“I see, so that’s how it is… Even if you, a direct descendant, requested it, you wouldn’t be able to see him?”

“Um, yes.”

I nodded with difficulty.

Perhaps it was because I was not just a direct descendant but a half-wit direct descendant who was treated like I was abandoned, but it was also difficult.

Even if that wasn’t the case…

“I heard that only my father can enter grandfather’s room.”