The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

Since returning to the Kingdom of Lingle after the letter-delivery trip, my body has finally gotten used to the life cycle at the Lifeguard Corps.

I had trained hard during the trip, but the training in the lifeguard corps was totally different. The training that I used to do alone is now more intense with the help of Tongs, who are always there to encourage each other.

......No, it's just a word of advice that leads to an all-out sprint.

It is such a comfortable environment for me, but there is one thing that has been bothering me lately.

"Burlin, you ...... got fat, didn't you?"

"Hugua?"

I noticed it early in the morning when I was feeding him at the stables.

He had always been big, but now he looked ...... more rounded.

For me, it's a good weight to carry on my back!　I thought it was a good weight for running on my back and didn't care about it, but I can't overlook it now that it is so bulky that I can see it.

"I didn't get fat because I was always walking on my trips, but ...... these days you've been eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping."

"......guh."

"I can't go on like this."

Bulrin, who had just finished eating his fruit and was about to coast off to sleep, looks up, his body shaking.

Seeing him like that, I decide to exercise him.

"You're a member of the lifeguard squad, too!"

"Gru."

"You can't just shake your head like that. You know that.　You know I can't go on like this.

Still, Bulrin shakes his head.

......No choice. I didn't want to do this.

I'll leave it to the Commander.

"Grua!　Gruffa!

"Oh, yeah. You're up for it!　I'm glad you're motivated!

I smile at Bulrin, who gets up and punches me in the leg as if to motivate me.

Well, if that's the case, let's get started today...

Let's start today!

Today's menu is running with the tongs.

Usually I run with Bulrin on my back, but today I decided to have him run with me.

He has gained some weight, but he has been my traveling companion.

The potential of the blue grizzly bear is not a joke. He is breathing hard, but he is keeping up with me and the strong men.

"Oh, Usato. "Oh, Usato... I know you've got Brulin, but didn't you bring Nair with you?"

Alec, who was in front of me, asked me this as we were running through the city.

"Nair is being trained at the lifeguard training center," he said.

So you're with Nack and Ferrum?

Yeah, well, she's just doing some running.

Naturally, Nair was reluctant to participate in the training.

She was so reluctant to participate that she was almost infantile.

However, I was so determined that crying it out would not work on me - but I felt sorry for her that I had to force her to participate, so I decided to change the way I was doing things.

After the first failed attempt to persuade him, I visited the room at the time when Ferrum and Nair were together.

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To sum it up in a very simple way, this is how Nair was to participate in the training.

No, it was actually a decision reached after an hour of arguing and quarreling.

He is probably competing with FERUM to the death right now.

"You're a very serious guy, aren't you?

You're starting to look like the Commander.

"Oh, come on, the leader would have used force in the first place, so it's totally different. I'm still the gentler one.

When Goml and Mir refuted their words, the strongmen sighed in disgust.

Why do they sigh?　I'm getting quite annoyed when these guys sigh.

"By the way, I heard you're going to have a mock battle training with the leader next time?

"...... uh, yeah, right."

"Are you sure you're okay with that?"

"On the contrary, I ask you, do you think it will be all right?"

When Tong replies, all the tough-looking guys reply in unison, "I don't think so.

Well, of course they do.

They know more than anyone else the horror of Rose. Because they know him, they understand his extraordinary ability and respect him for it.

Including me, of course.

"Wanna bet who'll win, Usato or the Commander?"

"Well, I bet on you to win."

"Of course I know who's going to win."

Guld. There's nothing worse than a bet that you ...... know you're going to win or lose."

I don't think I've ever seen a bet that wasn't as good as this one.

"I mean, the lifeguard squadron doesn't allow gambling. Idiots."

I agree that the odds are stacked against us, but I don't like it when people make it a bet.

I was so annoyed that I would have filed a complaint with Rose if Alec hadn't stopped me.

"So, how are you really going to fight this?"

"I don't know...maybe we'll just ...... use Nair's help and just go for it. Maybe she'll knock down long-range attacks with her bare hands.

Probably, the spell of restraint will not buy time as well as Mr. Karon's.

However, to fight against Rose, who has everything organized at a higher level than me, doing the same thing is meaningless.

"For now, the first thing to do is to avoid the Commander's first blow. Then I'll take a shot at him."

I have an idea of what I want to do, but I know that Rose will do more than I can imagine, so I go in with the idea that I will do more than I can expect.

The corners of their mouths naturally turned up, and the strong faces frowned when they saw it.

"I guess only you don't notice."

"When I first came here, I was just a little shit ......, I should have been."

"Now she's a monster, second only to her sister."

And when he loses his temper, he changes. Sometimes it seems like you have two sisters. ......

"No, it can't be helped, can it?　When you're trained by your sister for real, you can't help it.

A vein appears on my forehead.

No, I can't just lose my temper without saying anything to these guys who say whatever they want.

I try my best to smile and squeeze out my voice without letting out my inner anger.

"Ha-ha-ha, you can say whatever you want, you monsters!

""Ah?""

"Ah?"

He glared at me as he ran.

Bulrin, who is running beside me, looks at me and the tough guys alternately, but we still don't stop glaring at each other.

"Are you getting carried away these days?　We're seniors, we're seniors.

"What's a senior?　Do you think that's enough to scare me off?　If that's the case, I wonder what you've seen so far."

"......"

"......"

Silence reigns over the place.

All that echoes is the sound of running footsteps and the sighs of the kingdom's people, as if to say, "Not again. ......　

After about ten seconds of silence, Tong's voice comes out with pressure.

"...... goal is the lifeguard quarters. There is only one winner.

"Sabotage, incitement, shortcuts, whatever."

This is not a fight. You know that, right?

Yes, of course. This is...

I looked sideways at the tongs running closest to me and sucked in all the air I could get,

""Race you!""

I threw a no-motion side kick at Tong, but all six of us were thinking the same thing and kicked at the same time, blocking each other out of the way.

Perhaps the timing of their kicks was wrong, but they were all hit in the abdomen and blown off at the same time, but they soon got up and started to run separately.

Bulrin, who was not fully grasping the situation, was panicking and running left and right, to which I gave him a thumbs-up and shouted.

If you skip work while I'm not looking, you won't get any food!

"Gua?

With a shocked Bulrin behind me, I kicked the ground and ran out of the place, looking at the tough guys running ahead of me.

As one would expect from someone who has been given a black uniform, his legs are not those of a normal person.

But then again, so am I.

I'm not going to lose!

It would be a shame to lose to these guys on foot.

If I'm going to do this, I'm going to win.

Determined to do so, I ran to catch up with the tough guys in front of me.

I was determined to win, and I ran to catch up with the tough guys in front of me.

"So, is there anything else you need to tell me?"

"I'm sorry. ......"

I had just barely won the fight against the strongmen in the lifeguard squad, but what awaited me was Rose, who gave me a cold stare that would have made even the Grim Reaper run away with his bare feet.

The six of us who reached the rescue team were immediately captured by Rose, and we were now forced to sit on our knees.

"d*mn you guys, you ...... started a race over something so trivial. How many times have I told you that it's fine to make noise, but don't bother the people around you?　Can't you idiots ever understand that?"

"Commander. With all due respect... I don't think it's right to compare me with this monster in human skin.

"That's right, sister. Don't put us together with this super creature in a herbivore's skin!

Shut up.

Rose grabbed me by the face and lifted me up with one hand, and the screams of me and Tong echoed through the deserted forest.

Alec and the others, seeing us, turned pale and looked down.

"Do you know what will happen to ...... the next time you do the same thing?"

Yes, yes ......!"

I was released from the iron claw and dropped to the ground, and Tong and I barely replied to each other as we sprawled on the ground.

Looking down at us, Rose sighs in exasperation, and after she nails Alec and the others, she turns her head in the opposite direction from the lifeguard's quarters.

Alec wondered about this and asked Rose about it.

"Are you going somewhere, Commander?"

"I've been summoned to the castle. I'll be back by nightfall."

Did Master Lloyd call him?

Maybe I'm being self-conscious, but most of the times when Rose is summoned to the castle, it involves me, so I'm a little curious.

When I got up normally after the pain subsided from my face, Rose, who was about to go to the castle, turned around to look at me, as if she suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, yes. Usato."

Yes?"

"We're going to have a mock battle tomorrow, so get ready."

.......

"That's all I have to say. Then don't skip your training.

Ignoring me, who was unable to move with a rigid face, Rose went straight to the castle.

Tomorrow?　Isn't tomorrow too soon?

If she had told me about a week before, I could have prepared myself for a lot of things.

I can't make fun of this.

"I feel for you, man, I really do."

"Well, you'll get your shot. Worst-case scenario, you might actually get crushed, but good luck.

Don't die, Usato.

From the looks of it, she's looking forward to it.

"You guys, don't think of me as someone else's problem. ......!"

I walk to the training ground to tell Nair about tomorrow's mock battle with Rose.

On the way there, I find a blue blob lying on the ground in a big heap.

"Ah, Burlyn!"

"...... guh!"

Bulrin noticed me, got up with a start, and came running toward me with great energy.

He hits me with his body, anger in his eyes, but I catch him head on.

"Mmmmmm!"

"Grrrrr ......!"

I back away slightly, but still catch it completely, and apologize for having left Bulrin behind earlier.

"Ha-ha-ha, I'm sorry I left you. I'm sorry I left him here. Bulrin worked hard today, so I'm going to make him more rice as a sign of apology."

"Guffaw."

I laugh at him as he sniffles and sits down on the spot.

I wonder if he did what I told him to run, and I cast a healing spell on his exhausted body as we head for the training grounds.

"I'm sure Nair, Ferrum, and Nack are at the training grounds. ......"

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When we arrive at the training area, we see a strange sight: Neck looking at Neah and Ferm lying near the center of the training area with his forehead pressed to the ground.

Nair and Ferrum are not fainting, but are just too exhausted to move, but they are cursing each other instead.

Needless to say, it is a very surreal scene.

"Ah, Usato-san!　I was just about to call for you.

"Nack, what the hell is going on here?"

Nack rushes over to me and asks me how I got into this situation and why.

He explained the circumstances with a subtle expression on his face.

"Well, at first we were just running in the training area, but Mr. Ferrum and Ms. Nair started fighting and started competing with each other to see who could finish their quota faster. ......

"Oh, I see."

They fought, but understanding that fighting is not allowed in the lifeguard corps, they tried to settle the matter in another way.

Or rather, they were doing what we had done earlier.

But why is that why Ferrum is down?　I don't think Nair can beat Ferrum physically, even if I look at him favorably.

But why FELM too?

"Nair, you know, she used some kind of strange purple magic?　Nair cast some kind of strange purple magic on Ferm. Ferm, who didn't notice it, played a game with Nair and won. ......

"Oh, yeah."

Nair, you didn't want to lose that badly.

Ferrum should realize that ...... restraint spells are not that difficult to understand .......

I can't stand to watch them for now, so I touch the backs of the two who are still lying on their backs and cursing at each other and cast a healing spell on them.

"Usato, listen!　I beat this naughty demon tribe!

"You cheated!　d*mn this guy. ......!

"...... ha!"

I don't know what to look at Nair with a big smile on her face and Ferrum with a half-crying face.

I'm stunned, but at the same time I'm sure I'm smiling. ......Yeah, we're kind of the same.

I'll let Nair know about the mock battle with the Commander while I'm at it.

Nair.

"Hmmm, what?　If you're going to give me a compliment, why don't you go over the top?"

"The mock battle with the Commander is set for tomorrow."

"......"

Nea froze with a pithy smile.

I know how you feel, but you have to accept it.

I have to be prepared for a lot in this fight with Rose.

It will be painful, that's for sure.

I'm so scared that I'm trembling.

But still, somewhere inside of me, I want to show Rose, my master, that I have matured.

"Also, because I hate to lose. ......?"

That's the only advantage that hasn't changed from the original world.