Reborn as the Hero's Daughter

The three climbed on the roof, then got down to the beams and started the repairs.

Finia and I were tasked with carrying materials to the roof. Finia first tied them to a rope beneath, while I used enchant while standing at the roof edge and pulled them up.

Naturally, I didn’t look very dependable on my own, so one of the Adventurers called Tony was assisting me.

He was around to quickly join in to help if he saw I was failing to lift it up. In that sense, they were quite a dedicated bunch.

Like us, they also had cards bordered in red, marking them as first-rank Adventurers.

They seemed to be slightly older than Cloud, so it was probably more appropriate to call them youths than men.

“Okay, Finia, I’m lifting it up now!”

“Alright, everything is fine on my end!”

Finia replied back from below as she tied one lumber to the rope. I immediately activated Enchant and strengthened my muscles. At the same time, Finia also cast Reduction on it.

The Reduction spell wrapped the target in wind and created a dynamic lift, reducing the weight of things.

With both spells in effect, I was able to lift the lumber as if it was a twig.

“Hoh, you’re doing quite fine there.”

“Well, we lack power, so we have to make up with creative originality.”

“I’m jealous. We don’t have anyone who can use magic.”

“Only Finia and I can use magic among our group too.”

“Our rearguard is an archer, so I can’t deny the lack of flexibility.”

“We are blessed in that sense I suppose.”

“I would have agreed if those words didn’t come from the magic user.”

We joked lightly while carrying the lumber.

The Reduction spell that Finia cast lasted for five minutes, give or take, so quickly carrying it away after lifting it was less burdensome.

Seeing how I lifted up the lumber with my tiny body and how Tony was carrying two of them at the same time, the other Adventurers became shocked.

“Here you go. They’d stay light for two more minutes.”

“R-Right…”

“These girls turned out to be more useful than I thought. So much that I’d want them in our team.”

“R-Really?”

The working Adventurers said as they took the lumber from our hands. They got down on the thin beams and started nailing the lumber in reinforcement. In the meantime, I headed to get more.

Like this, the two Adventurers repaired, while Tony and I carried materials as Finia tied them to the rope below, and our work progressed smoothly.

By noon, the beam strengthening work was done, so we decided to take a small lunch break.

The lunch boxes were provided by Lange. As expected of a recipient of a big company, there were no problems with the taste, so all five of us ate it with relish.

I asked for the other Adventurers’ names too in the meantime. They were called Mark and John, kind of generic names you’d forget immediately.

We resumed working past noon.

It was time to work on fixing the roof shingles from the outside and inside while standing on the beams.

The problem was that, the one doing the fixing from the inside would have no ladder to get down unlike those on the roof.

Thus, it was decided that I, who could manipulate the threads, and Finia, who could use wind magic, would be the ones to work from the inside.

Once the work was done, I would use my threads while Finia her wind spells to get down.

“Hey whitey, please support that part from below.”

“Mark, being called whitey rubs me really, really wrong, so stop it.”

“You have trauma or something? Ah well, then let me reword. Hey pipsqueak, support that part.”

“I’m not exactly happy with that either, but I guess it’s still better.”

I supported the plank from below and we plugged the hole in the roof. Mark hammered it down a little roughly. Perhaps because he hit it too hard, the plank under his feet cracked and snapped.

That caused him to pitch forward and fall down the hole.

“O-Oh shi-!?”

The roof was about ten meters tall. The employee that fell before escaped injuries due to the pile of jerky cushioning his fall, but it was no longer there now.

The floor was stone-paved, so falling down wouldn’t end well. Mark realized that instantly and desperately reached out towards the beam.

But his hand missed it by a paper-thin distance.

Neither I, who was supporting the plank from below, nor Finia, who was separated from us, could make it in time.

Mark’s face was filled with despair as he turned towards me in an attempt to grab the beam. At this rate, he would slam his head to the floor and die instantly.

I immediately removed one of my hands from the plank and sent a piano wire in his direction. It wasn’t a long wire, maybe 10 meters at most. But it was still enough to twine around the guy who fell beside me.

Twined with a wire, he was now flung like a pendulum. But my muscle power was not enough to support him.

“Gkhh…!”

I lost my balance and was on the verge of falling off the beam like him. I clung to the beam with both legs and somehow managed to stop myself from falling.

Incidentally, since I was now using both hands to support the piano wire, I ended up hanging upside down from the beam.

“Lady Nicole, I’m coming!”

“Mark, are you alive!?”

I heard voices from the roof and a distant place confirming our safety. I somehow stopped his fall, so all that was left was to wait for people to rescue us.

But I had forgotten one thing.

I was supporting the plank from below earlier. But I had let go of it and was holding the wire instead now.

The nailed plank came off with a crack and fell down. Needless to say, I was right below it.

Both of my legs were twined around the beam to support the weight, and both my hands were supporting the piano wire.

To keep supporting Mark, I could not move an inch.

In other words… I ended up taking the plank head-on having no way to avoid it.

It hit my head along with a dull sound.

I started seeing the stars and my vision turned white. My vision grew out of focus and started to narrow down.

If I lost consciousness now, I would slam to the floor ten meters below. Despite knowing the fact, I had no way of defending myself.

I lost my consciousness despite resisting in vain, and slowly started to fall from the beam.