MushokuTensei Romance System!

[Further gained Rudeus's and Sylphie's favor. Childhood participation score increased.]

[Current Stage: Childhood. Cumulative Participation Score: 54 points.]

[Evaluation: I didn't expect that showing off could also gain favorability.]

Allen frowned at the dissipating system panel.

'Seriously? Where was I showing off? And where did this favorability come from?'

He turned to look at Sylphie on the hill. She was staring blankly in his and Rudeus's direction.

He then turned to look at Rudeus. He was also in a daze.

'...Baffling.'

"Hey, Rudy, stop spacing out. Increase the mana output and give me another one. Look, Sylphie is already mesmerized by you."

Rudeus blinked, snapping out of the suspension-bridge effect, then glanced at Sylphie on the hill, his lip twitching.

'Here we go, the dense protagonist trope. Damn it, this is the path I chose for myself...'

'But... Allen's strength... is even greater than I imagined. He definitely didn't just split the water column by staring at it. I didn't even see him swing his sword. No wonder he said we needed to create distance... If this were a real fight, my head would probably be on the ground by now... no, he would probably have his sword at my neck, leisurely telling me I still have a long way to go or some other cool line like that.'

'No, I have to get serious. If I keep this up, when I see Roxy again, there's no telling whose side her gaze will be on.'

His sense of crisis flaring, Rudeus took a deep breath and extended a hand towards Allen.

"Alright! Take this!"

Allen's pupils constricted. In his vision, water rapidly gathered in front of Rudeus, instantly forming a torrent larger than a Finisher Boar's head. This time, it even soaked the grass stems at Rudeus's feet.

With a loud bang! The surging water column shot towards Allen's face!

"Nijuuzan."

With Allen's almost inaudible murmur, the water column that had filled his entire vision split in front of him again. However, this time, unlike he had expected, behind the water column was not Rudeus's face.

It was a coarse rock.

"Water Cannon! Rock Bullet!"

The two had moved so fast that Rudeus's voice only echoed across the hill after Allen had already split the water column!

The Rock Bullet burst through the spray and shot towards Allen's face!

Because it was hidden by the Water Cannon, this follow-up Rock Bullet was only the size of Rudeus's face. Even so, in that brief moment, the rough edges of the stone were perfectly captured by Allen's enhanced dynamic vision. The surrounding environment seemed to enter slow motion:

The ambient sound vanished.

The wind pressure billowed against Allen's chest, carrying the scent of moisture and earth. The Rock Bullet rotated clockwise 'slowly,' reflected in Allen's deep grey pupils.

Allen slowly narrowed his eyes. The breath from his previous action was still in his lungs, providing him with ample oxygen. A surge of heat flowed from his waist, and the nucleus in his abdomen seeped out wisps of Dragon Saint Touki, dyeing his own inexhaustible native Touki.

'...Interesting. He hid a Rock Bullet this time... Using Nijuuzan again would damage the blade... In that case...'

'Water God Style—Flowing Secret Art.'

'Plucking the String.'

Allen suddenly broke free from his slow-motion senses. He slightly angled the blade he was about to sheathe, scraping the tip along the scabbard towards the ground. At the same time, Allen released the hilt and, with knuckles wrapped in Touki, flicked the hilt upwards.

In the flick of a finger.

The hilt shot up from his waist! With a ding, it struck the underside of the Rock Bullet in front of him.

A gentle, water-like flow of Touki changed the Rock Bullet's trajectory. It shot upwards, whistling past Allen's cheek with a swoosh, blowing his bangs back.

The blade, in turn, was knocked by the Rock Bullet and clattered to the ground at Allen's feet, trembling.

Allen reached down, picked up the sword, twirled it in the air, and sheathed it.

Then he started clapping for Rudeus, who was striking a comical, power-transferring pose.

"Not bad, not bad. Preparing a Water Cannon with one hand, and then, in the instant the water obscured my vision, preparing a follow-up Rock Bullet with the other. Although it's not mixed magic, it's even more unexpected."

"Everything can be North God Style. Even though you haven't learned it from the Master, it seems you understand its essence well."

Rudeus looked at the ground beside Allen, which was now a complete mess from being torn up by the water cannons, and felt a little defeated.

Although he had expected Allen to neutralize his two-shot combo without injury, seeing him do it so effortlessly was still disheartening.

"Is the gap between us really that big? I was just standing here letting you attack me."

Allen blinked.

"Just lucky, just lucky~ Keep it up. Next time..."

"Rock Bullet!"

Allen kicked Rudeus's sudden sneak attack aside. The Rock Bullet was kicked into the ground beside him, embedding itself deeply in the mud.

He didn't miss a beat, finishing his sentence with a smile.

"...you'll definitely get it. But that one didn't feel as fast as the last one. Were you not concentrating?"

Rudeus lowered his hand again, grinding his teeth in frustration.

"This is as fast as I can make it with an instant cast. Any longer and you'd definitely dodge it."

"One more. This is fun."

"No!"

"Oh, come on, just one more~"

"No! Sylph has already seen it, right? Why do we need to do it again? And our real match is in two months!"

"But in two months, I'll be moving. This time, you can do whatever you want~ If you don't take another shot now, you might not hit the bullseye then."

"Heh... you'd definitely dodge it anyway... Ice Blade!"

Allen snatched the incoming Primary-tier magic—Ice Blade—out of the air and examined it curiously.

He didn't dodge this time because the ice blade was shaped like a knife. As someone who practiced with a blade, Allen's control of distance with such sharp objects was extremely precise, and he caught it easily. Seeing this, Rudeus's face fell. He immediately turned and ran towards the top of the hill, wailing mournfully as he went. "No more, no more!! You can kill me, but I'm not doing it again!" Allen casually tossed the ice blade to the ground. It shattered with a crack. He also turned and walked up the slope. "Wait for me~ Just one more~" "No!"

However, things still took an unexpected turn. Allen stared, dumbfounded, at the earnest-looking Sylphie, who had her hands clasped in front of her chest and her eyes sparkling. He replayed the request she had just made in his mind.

"I want to learn swordsmanship! The one where you catch ice with your bare hands!"

"Ah... that one requires a pretty high level of Touki and swordsmanship... I'm afraid..."

Rudeus, seeing that things were not going well, tried to sneak away on tiptoe, but was caught by Allen mid-sentence.

He looked at Allen resentfully.

"I did the demonstration! It's not my fault if Sylph doesn't want to learn! Why don't you just teach her swordsmanship!"

But Allen suddenly turned to him and said with a serious face.

"She's really not suited for swordsmanship... But I think the little scuffle just now was too small-scale. you need to show her something truly shocking."

"Huh?"

The two stared at each other in silence for a moment. Rudeus blinked and said carefully.

"Don't tell me it's..."

Allen glanced at the well-behaved Sylphie standing beside them and nodded with a rather excited expression.

"That's right. The Saint-tier magic you learned from Roxy—Cumulonimbus!"

'Here it comes, where the dream began! What's the point of this Mushoku Tensei transmigration if I don't get to see this spell?!'

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