Chapter 50: Trial Soul Shift

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/51/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Right after I get back from the royal castle, I show my face at the Adventurer’s Guild.
And cling, crying, to Liza, who’d been waiting.

“Liza! The knight-captain sexually harassed me!”
“There, there… that person, see. She goes after me a lot too.”

She hugs me and strokes my head.
Ooh. Soft, and it goes munyu.
The way she strokes is gentle too; it settles me.

“It’s that thing, right. What’s scary is that I don’t actually hate it that much.”
“I know what you mean…”
“And I can’t get rid of her by skill, so it’s insanely awkward.”
“She is, after all, the strongest Hero.”

We both sigh. She’s seriously poorly made, that person.
There’s a feeling she does it on purpose so people will dislike her.
That she isn’t a bad person, you kind of get from how the people around her react.
But if I think she might be serious, it’s a little scary.

I chat with Liza a while, and when it hits lunch I make lunch as stress relief and go home.
Fufufu. First time in my life I made forty extra-large sandwiches bigger than my face.
The filling is chicken and giant shrimp fried in basil sauce.
Lunch is apparently in shifts, but with that many it should be enough.
Just frying filling and cutting bread was pretty fun.

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I finish my own extra-large sandwich and head for the guild backyard.
I want to try something I remembered talking with Kaede.

I completely forgot, but Shimauchi Hayato’s fake dropped a silver card too. If I use that, maybe I can use a sword too.
So. Let’s try.

“Ring, Soul Shift. Shimauchi Hayato.”
“—OK. SoulShift_Model: Durandal. Ready?”
“Trigger.”

The combat record written on the card flows in. Ooh, I see, I see.
But this… uumu? Well, shall I try a bit.

I form mana into a sword shape. I run at a wooden target and slash left to right.
Sooryaa!

A gakin, and the sword bites into the target.

…Ah. Yep, I knew it.
I return the sword to mana and give my tingling hand a light shake.
This card has too much unrecorded.
But it’s probably not the recording side’s problem; it’s the recorded side’s.

That Shimauchi Hayato person is a bit not ordinary.
No experience or training; he handles a sword with the same sense as running or jumping, looks like.
That information isn’t in the card, so I can’t use a sword either.

No, I don’t think I can understand this at all.
If we had similar builds, maybe, but the height difference is too much to apply it.

Nuu. Renju too, but Heroes are abnormally strong even without blessings.
Like their base stats are wrong.
Arei I can kind of get, though.
Anyway this, no point in me holding it. Item box.

Ah. Come to think of it.

“Ring. The card my fake dropped. What happens if I Soul Shift that?”
“—Unknown: not a recommended action.”
“Eh, why?”
“—When installing a combat record, accompanying memories are installed at the same time.
—Ouka has a mechanism that deletes unneeded portions, so normally there is no problem, but when installing identical content, an error may occur in the selection.”

Ha? Umm… in-stall?

“…Sorry, meaning?”
“—Worst case: loss of all memory.”
“What’s that, scary!?”
“—Against that: no assumed benefit.”
“I see. That’s why you can’t recommend it.”

A chance of losing my memories and I get nothing; that’s not even worth trying, it’s just danger.
Muu. Then for now both cards I picked up are useless. I thought they’d be convenient.
…Whatever. Combat and cooking, I’m not stuck as things stand.

“Ah, then. Other people’s cards are fine?”
“—In theory: no problem.”
“Fumu. If I had Kaede’s card, could I use magic.”

The strongest mage. The Hero called Seamless Heavenly Robe, Minazuki Kaede.
She’s said to be able to use every kind of magic.

If I had Kaede’s card, I feel like I might be able to use magic too.
Then I could make fire, fly… wait, I feel like that wouldn’t be much different from now.
No no, but whether I can use magic is what matters.

Ah, but she herself said I can only use dedicated magic.
How does that work. If I luck into one I definitely want to try.

Now then. No point hanging around; maybe I’ll go buy ingredients.
The guild staff keep glancing this way.
And today’s the regular shipment from the port town Asura; there might be unusual things lined up on the main street.
Ah, I mean, I want pudding for the first time in a while.
I used to make it a lot at the church, but I haven’t eaten it since I came here.

If I make the sauce first I can make a lot of portions at once.
Buy eggs and milk. There’s plenty of sugar, so maybe I’ll make it for tonight’s dessert.
Tonight’s menu is… uun. Anyway, shall I go look at the main street.