317: Earth God Hero
“Now then, training resumes-dasu! Yoneko-neechan, in order to take the crown of strongest, please give me the chance to fight ya!!” (Sasae)
“Can’t be helped~. Now that it has come to this, I will have ya become the strongest as soon as possible, so we can defeat the Demon Lord and have my next child~.” (Yoneko)
The sharp noises of metal clashing once again reverberate in this battle of current and previous earth heroes.
But Sasae-chan couldn’t endure the fierce attacks of Yoneko-san even once.
All the fights ended in around fifty exchanges.
“Gyeeee! Dasu!!”
“Gyaaaaa!! Dasu!!”
“Once more! …Ata! Dasu!”
That was simply her bullying herself. I don’t think this will grant her any progress.
But charging forward mindlessly might be the essence of the Earth people— their stubborness.
“Hoeeeh, she is really doing her best, isn’t she!”
From the pocket of my clothes, a stretched out voice resounded.
That’s right. You might already know with the flow of things but, the one who spoke was Mantle who we saved at the Nameless Desert.
In the first place, she is indispensable for my objective here, so thinking of her going out of control at any moment, I would need to have her in my sight at all times.
And yet, since coming to Ishtar Blaze, I thought that Mantle was not making her presence known at all, but now…
“Hngh, I can’t see. Entropy-san, can I bring my face out a little more?” (Mantle)
“Make sure not to be caught. Also, call me Haine now.” (Haine)
Mantle was currently inside my pocket.
She has a small body; small enough to enter the pocket of a human.
Her outer appearance of being a naked beauty shining light pink still doesn’t change, but her size has changed from the giant woman you would have to lift your head to see, into a palm-sized one.
This is a trait of the temporary bodies Mantle uses in the surface world.
Different from Yorishiro, Shiva, and I who incarnated to humans, and also from Nova and Coacervate in monster bodies.
Mantle’s body is not that of a human or a monster. With her authority as an Earth Goddess, she can cut off a part of the lifeforce of the plants that are close to her ruling area and change it into a temporary body; that’s a fairy.
Mantle once created a fairy from Grandma Wood. But now that Grandma Wood is gone, it was apparently hard to maintain that fairy for long. And so, she has created a new fairy which is her current body.
“…That body, if I remember correctly, it is proportionate to the plant that you use, right?” (Haine)
Mantle’s new fairy was made from a completely normal tree.
The reason why Mantle’s body was abnormally big in the past was because the source it came from was also the abnormally big Grandma Wood. When a normal tree is used as the source, it ends up as a cute little girl —a pocket-sized one.
Well, a fairy is a unique kind of body, so it helps since this is easy to hide from the people.
“My hero-san is truly a hardworking one, isn’t she!” (Mantle)
Mantle says in a pleased tone.
“Ah, there’s also the previous hero-san! Uuuh, I am scared of that person and am slightly no good with her! The current one is small and cute. She is great!” (Mantle)
A hero that scares the God…
“More importantly, the objective we came here for, please fulfill it properly.” (Haine)
I whisper to her in a voice that can’t be picked up by the surroundings.
With this, the several days we spend will finally bear fruit.
“Totally understood! This time for sure I will make the human-sans happy!!” (Mantle)
You don’t have to get so hyped up.
“Also, I like that little hero-san. She is small, cute, and on top of that, hard-working; not entering the eye of anyone aside from the ones watching directly. I feel like her and I share a lot of things! I sympathize!” (Mantle)
Really, tone it down a little please.
“I should just give that girl power, right?! That way, she can become a God Hero, right?! …I can tell. That girl has received the teachings of Inflation-san and the preparations to receive a God have already been done! Then, there’s only the need to create a link from there! Easy-peasy!” (Mantle)