Huge Holy 70

70 - Don't rely on something like status

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When I got home, I ate the dinner prepared by my familiar, an isekai pot-au-feu made by chopping meat-stuffed sausages and vegetables chopped into chunks and stewed in a savory broth.

Originally, I left my rural village to succeed in life as an adventurer.
Success in life.
If I were to compare it to the world I used to live in, it would be like going to Tokyo, working as a company employee, and earning a reasonable annual income... that kind of life.
In my previous life, I actually lived like that.
That's right... I didn't do much in my previous life――but when I thought about it, I was doing something similar right now.

That is the so-called training of new employees.
While doing my own work, I continued to guide newcomers who don't know right or left.
I wanted to concentrate on my own work, but I was sick and tired of making up for the mistakes of the newcomers and me taking over on their behalf.
In fact, it was even better to do it myself rather than leave it to the newcomer, so as I kept doing it my boss warned me. Don't steal people's jobs, he said.

However, no matter how much time passed, the newcomer still wasn’t good at it.
Does he have a bad memory?
Is my teaching bad?
Were our compatibility simply bad?
Unfortunately, I, who died, didn't know.

...I feel like I understand something.

The reason I seriously gave up on A Empire, which I had been thoroughly warned against, was because no one showed any interest in my call.
No, nothing went well.
The only thing that went better than being an adventurer was the side jobs. I could steal jobs and not get a single complaint. I enjoyed the side jobs because of how efficient I was in doing them and how many of them I could do.

While looking at my dormant familiar, I think.
I even completed a familiar so excellent that Giam praised it, but after that I didn’t care about it.
There are many things I can pursue such as achieving the world's seven great undertakings, but I have no interest in them at all.
This is what they say ‘the heat has cooled’.
All I have to do is build and achieve perfection in my technique formula.

...Well, if everything works nicely, it will obviously feel good.
Either way, it was just a memory that I suddenly remembered today.
I'm not a clean freak, I don’t easily get worried, and I'm not a good-natured person――so I'm fundamentally the same as that shitty god.

I don't give a damn what happens to the people I taught.
It doesn't even interest me.
I wholeheartedly don't care about it.
After all――it's just a hobby.

The child of a frog is a frog, huh?

☆

The land of I Confederacy is large.
After all, it is a collective nation of many countries with different sects. Accordingly, each district has its own laws.
That's why, apart from the guild in the Cameron district where I live, there are guilds in each of the districts.

Today I flew to the guild in the Alston district, the neighbor to the neighbor of the Cameron district, without incident.
When I briefly accept a dungeon investigation at the reception desk, the receptionist reacts strangely.

“Umm, you belong to the guild in the Cameron district right?... no, did you leave? If you have moved to this district, please follow the procedures――”

“No. The location of the D-rank dungeon investigation I want to accept is close to this district. I thought it would be better to call for supporters here.”

“I see...? Umm, if you're looking for a supporter, they’re waiting over there. Please feel free to talk to them.”

I glanced at the supporters’ waiting area.
...Aah. they’re there.
I called out to a female supporter, who was giving off a truly depressing atmosphere.

“Excuse me. Would you be willing to be my supporter?”

“Eh!? Y, yes. My name is Miria! My Job is Healer...”

“...Healer? That’s unusual. Being a healer, but haven't been recruited by other parties that is.”

“That’s... actually... I'm not good at healing. It's not that I can't use magic, but even if I use magic, it takes a long time to recover someone, and it consumes a lot of magic power...”

“Hmm... what is your element?”

“It's water. That's why I can use magic that is unique to water element healers called [Mineral]. I can also use [Cure] to recover from status ailments and [Veil] which is a defensive magic. More or less.”

...I can't say anything at this stage.
But I have a few possible causes. Should I just quickly verify it in the dungeon?

☆

“I was surprised. I didn't know that... I had a wind-element magic.”

To tell the truth, something like status is actually unreliable.
There is a good ratio of people who have two or three elements, as well as those who have the talent to handle them, although it would be indicated in the status.
But, like Miria, if those elements are mixed in such a weak proportion that they cannot form magic, it will not be indicated in their status and they will not be able to acquire magic. However, they can at least combine their magic power if they push through it.

It's not like I’m just saying it to show off like a lot of adventurers I met.
In A Empire, in my rural village, and even in the light-element vocational school, there were others who had another magic power as feeble as Milia's, and they were treated as dropouts.
...I taught these guys the same lesson as Miria.

“Unfortunately, water healing magic won't work well if you don't control the wind magic power. Until you can control it with your senses, you should activate it using magic circles, and the healing magic will succeed properly, for the time being.”

“Haa... so that's how it is. Understood. Thank you for this time. Josiah-san.”

I don't care about her gratitude.
Just as I predicted, just as I thought, I was able to prove everything. I'm――not interested in this girl anymore.

In this way, I decided to go around the guilds in various places.

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