“What kind of magic?”
“Fly. It is a flight magic.”
Having heard the explanation, Riley smiled refreshingly and asked,
“Wasn’t that supposed to be not possible here?”
“It slipped my mind.”
Riley was smiling, and… Nainiae wondered if she should smile too or if she should maintain her apologetic face. Nainiae pondered about this. Soon, she decided to go with the apology and lowered her head.
“I am sorry. I just remembered, so I was about to tell you, but the four people suddenly showed up, so… Also, you went ahead without me, so… I had no choice but to use the magic so I could catch up with you. Although it is late, I can cas uu u uuuuuuu…”
Her face was grabbed by two hands. Her cheeks were grabbed and stretched out like marshmallow.
“… I’m sorry.”
With stretched out pronunciation, Nainiae apologized again. Riley was letting out his frustration by holding her cheeks. Looking really pissed at Nainiae, Riley mumbled,
“You should have thought of it sooner. Sooner.”
Gritting his teeth hard, Riley was pulling out Nainiae’s cheeks. Having had enough, he unhanded her cheeks and growled at her.
“Grrrrrr.”
“… Yes.”
She raised her left hand to hold her reddened cheek. She raised her right hand to use magic. Nainiae felt around the empty space with her hand and made Riley’s body float up first.
“You used it?”
“Yes.”
Floating like cloud, his feet lifted off from the ground. Riley looked intrigued. He tried moving his feet in the air.
One step, two step…
Unlike swimming, he realized that moving his legs didn’t make his body move forward or backward. He looked at Nainiae who floated up after him.
“I can’t move as I want?”
“The magic isn’t giving us wings or the ability to direct the flight, so… That will be hard.”
“Is that so?”
Having heard Nainiae’s explanation, Riley grabbed the sword from his waist. For no apparent reason, he tried swinging it in front of him.
Paaaaang.
His sword spread blue mana to the air and caused a shockwave sound. Riley’s body, which was floating in the air, suddenly moved as if he was pulled to the back.
“Oh?”
“…”
Watching Riley move in the air by swinging the sword, watching his ability to repurpose skills for the situation, it seemed Nainiae was at lost for words. She just vacantly opened her mouth.
“With a method like that… I guess it is possible.”
“This is pretty fun.”
Riley swung the sword several times and moved around in the air. Nainiae was already far from him. Looking at Nainiae, Riley tilted his head to the side.
“Where are you going?”
“That is… Young Master, you are the one who is moving.”
Nainiae vacantly muttered. She asked if she could be excused for a moment. She used telekinesis to pull Riley to where she was.
“As I thought, magic is mysterious.”
With just hand gestures, magic could be used to make a person float up in the air or pull a person from the distance. Riley said muttered as if found magic very attractive. Nainiae shrugged her shoulders and said,
“I find the way you swing your sword to be more of a mystery.”
Nainiae watched Riley’s sword going back to the sheath at his waist. She used the float magic again.
“Well then, we will go straight to the teacher’s cave.”
“All right. Let’s go see his face soon. We came this far for a good reason, yet he won’t even come out to see us. Gosh.”
Nainiae swung her hand to increase the floating speed and moved toward Andal’s cave which could be seen at the top of the mountain.
“Um?”
They flew for about a minute. Nainiae’s and Riley’s bodies, which were floating in the air, started to fall by the gravity.
“What is this?”
It seemed the distance to the cave was shortened substantially because Riley had been climbing by dashing huge distances. Realizing the ground was coming closer, Riley asked Nainiae,
“Are we there already?”
“Yes.”
Thanks to her flight magic, Riley was able to climb the remaining distance with relative ease. He looked at the huge cliff in front of him and tilted his head to the side.
“This place is not the top?”