Black Iron Magician

Chapter 173 Complete

I wonder how long has the time passed since I started to receive Nell’s scolding? I was considering the possibility of her using violence and prepared myself, but probably thanks to the power of love, it didn’t happen. But instead, my legs died.

「Shishō, I think you are going too far.」

「Really? I think it’s okay since it has romance. A flying house is fairy-tale-like and wonderful, isn’t it?」

「Not at all, and I don’t want to hear it from someone whose existence is far from fairy-tale-like. Deris, don’t just lie there, get up.」

「W-Wait. My legs are in a terrible state…」

Do you know the pain of keeping sitting seiza for a long time? I experienced it just now. Moreover, it was on the unleveled gravel and I had to keep my house floating. Even though she didn’t kill me, it was as if I was being tortured to death. Still, if I think that this is also Nell’s love―― no, let’s think about it for a moment.

「Come on, Deris, I’ll give you three seconds.」

「O-Okay. Stop smiling like that…」

I recovered my legs by myself with light magic and stood up. It’s an upright standing, not that of a newborn fawn.

「Sigh… Well, it can’t be helped since you have already brought it here. There’s vacant land in the backyard, so put it there. Are you okay with that?」

「Yes, I don’t mind! Thank you very much!」

「So, are you going to live in this house?」

「Y-You can think of it as my workplace…」

「… I see. You’ll be living your normal life in my mansion.」

Nell is somehow a pushover after giving punishment. Oh well, it was worth it to bring the house while being prepared to be killed.

「Ah, that’s right. While we are at it, why not make the house as Lily’s hut as well? That way, the house won’t be wasted. She’ll be inside the plot, but I won’t need to lend her a room in the mansion.」

「Hey, what do you mean by hut!? I object!」

「There’s that way…!」

「Goshujin-sama!?」

「Well, listen, Lily. I trust your exceptional maid skill and I’m trying to leave my former house to you. We can’t just leave this house to the servants of the mansion, can we?」

「T-That’s true…! Besides, the position of a maid who welcomes her master in his workplace is quite delicious. It seems that it’ll be easy to establish the position of a mistress.」

「「Wait a minute.」」

As a result of the discussion, we agreed to appoint Lily as the head maid for the workplace. That said, it’s Haru and Gobuo’s job to manage the cleaning, so the role is not so different from before. Also, there will be no accident. Or rather, I won’t let it.

Now that I have permission to bring the house in, the first thing to do is to place it. Guided by Nell to the backyard, I earnestly carried the house in the air.

「Shishō, are you using magic to make this float?」

Haru seems to be interested in the magic that makes the house float. She asked me when the talk had calmed down. She was curious ever since I arrived at the mansion.

「Well, yeah. It’s a kind of dark magic. Dark magic is often about wicked things such as manipulating corpses and scattering poison, but the most useful things are gravity and space manipulation. Haru, you’ve been receiving its favor in battle so far, right?」

「Yes! I always use it when I use Doggan Staff!」

「If you master the dark magic system, you will be able to use this magic someday. Well, compared to Chinatsu, your growth in magic is…… yeah, so it will be a long way off.」

「I-I’m doing my best even if I’m like this….」

Haru suddenly felt dispirited. Ah, come to think of it, I haven’t checked Haru’s status recently. Let’s take a peek using 『Uncrowned Master and Disciple』.

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Katsuragi Haruna | 16 years old | Female | Human

Job: Magician LV6

HP: 2520/2520

MP: 950/950 (+250)

Strength: 1397

Endurance: 503

Agility: 685

Magic Power: 720 (+150)

Intelligence: 141

Dexterity: 945

Luck: 284

Skill Slot

◇ Martial Arts LV100

L Martial King LV36

◆ Dark Magic LV100

L Darkness Magic LV20

◆ Staff Arts LV100

L Staff King LV58

◇ Pleasant Sleep LV57

◇ Evasion LV100

L Fleeing Hare LV26

◇ Throwing LV100

L Boulder Throwing LV60

◆ Magic Power Detection LV73

◇ Strong Shoulder LV100

L Super Shoulder LV34

◆ Cooking LV64

◇ Jump LV50

◇ Not set

◇ Not set

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…… She has leveled up~. Hey, Haru-kun, you overlooked your level up again, huh. Well, me too. I’ve been busy lately after all. Let’s settle this one with being equally guilty.

「Haru, you have leveled up, you know?」

「Eh? ――Aaahhh!」

Everyone’s eyes gathered at Haru who let out a hysteric voice. Still, we have to think about her skills again. If we don’t decide it before I and Nell go out, the experience points from the training will be a waste.

「What, you’ve leveled up already?」

「To be exact, we missed the fact that it was up a long time ago…」

「A long time ago… it was during the graduation festival, right? Hmm, now she’s the same level as Chinatsu, huh. I guess Chinatsu will be left behind if I don’t train her again.」

「Don’t push Goddess Chinatsu too hard…」

「God…. What?」

「Ah, no, just talking to myself. Rather than that, should I put the house around there?」

「…? Yes, that’s right. The exposure to the sun is not bad there and it won’t get in the way of the servants.」

That was close. My identity as a hidden Chinatsu-believer was almost got exposed. I have to be careful from now on.

「I brought it together with the basement, so I’m going to scrape the ground a bit.」

「You really have no restraint, do you? Do as you please.」

「Then, I will.」

I need to make a hole in the ground for the basement that was brought together with the house. Doing it with a shovel will take too much time, so I will do it with magic too.

What I’m going to use is―― uh, what were their names again? Well, whatever. The magic I’m going to use is 『Belial Shade』, a convenient magic that I used to deal with the delinquents who used to be Haru’s classmates. It forms an intangible shadow on the ground that sucks in anything it touches and throws it into the trash can. However, since it doesn’t target living things, it cuts off parts of them when it sucks them in, pseudo-removing them from the category of living things. You can think of it as an all-purpose shredder. But, the problem is that you can’t take things out of the trash can, so you can’t use it like Haru’s pouch.

「It’s dangerous, so don’t approach it. You will die.」

「Ehh…」

This time, the target is the soil in the vacant land. I created Belial Shade and moved it down to the bottom of the ground. I shape it into the shape of the basement and insert the house in. And then, voila――

「――The move is complete!」

Hah, it was easy.

「What are you talking about? You are going to live in my mansion, so you have to move things such as your daily necessities.」

「…… Haru, Gobuo!」

「You leave it to others in the end, huh…」

You know, people have wonderful words like, ‘the right person in the right place’. My job is done here.

「Ahaha, I kind of guessed that. It’s close to the mansion, so I think it will be easy. Let’s do our best, Gobuo-kun!」

「Gobu!」

「Then, I’ll have my servant show you the room first. Now, you come here, Deris. We are going to continue our talk.」

「Please be gentle.」

I was dragged by Nell and went into the mansion.