Dropped Into Another World V3C33

Chapter 33 – Could It Be….

「It looks okay.」

It’s been around 20 minutes since I filled the crack with mortar magic.

There’s no sign of the turbid magic power oozing out.

However, I guess it would be better to wait and check its status for a little longer.

「Kyuu」

Hnn?

I turned my gaze to the source of the squeak and found the giant diving beetle coming out of the lake.

It was holding a black round thing in its mouth.

「What’s that?」

「Kyuu」

The giant diving beetle came in front of me and put down the thing in its mouth.

What’s that…..round thing.

Ah, maybe it’s the turbid magic thing that should be lying at the bottom of the lake.

「Did you take it from the bottom of the lake?」

「Kyuu」

I pat the head of the giant diving beetle and it squeaks happily.

It’s softer than I imagined.

「Thank you.」

I picked up the thing that the giant diving beetle brought, the solidified turbid magic power.

The moment my hand touches it, I feel a slight sense of discomfort as if I touched something I don’t like.

「Hnn?」

I thought that the turbid magic power was leaking out but it only felt unpleasant for a moment when I touched it.

Holding it in my hand doesn’t feel particularly unpleasant.

Tilting my head in confusion, I look at the black sphere which is around 10 cm in diameter.

「What’s this?」

For some reason, looking at the black sphere makes me feel chilly.

I hurriedly averted my gaze from the sphere.

I felt something strange beyond the unpleasant feeling I felt when I touched it earlier.

I took a deep breath and looked at the black sphere again.

I still feel it.

What is it?

As I stare at the black sphere, I feel more and more uneasy.

I don’t feel good.

「Fuhhh」

I hold the black sphere with both of my hands to hide it.

「Your lordship, I felt something very disturbing.」

Light Blue looked at the black sphere hidden by my hands and said that with disgust.

I nodded in agreement.

It certainly feels something disturbing.

Something that stirs up anxiety or something similar….

「I just stared at it and I already felt depressed.」

Light Blue nods.

「Yeah, I’m full of worry while staring at it.」

Does that mean that Light Blue felt the same way as I did?

I looked at the black sphere in my hands.

The black sphere in my hand looks very scary and my body even trembled for a moment.

I’ve never seen anything like this before.

What’s this?

I can’t take my eyes off it…..

…..I want to destroy everything.

「Your lordship! Are you okay?」

The one eyes immediately screamed at me.

What was that?

Areh?

I looked around and saw the one eyes, Light Blue, and even the giant diving beetle were looking at me full of worry.

The fenrirs, who are guarding us a little far away, are also looking at us.

「Yeah, I’m okay.」

I look at the black sphere hidden in my hands.

Just looking at it made me think of destroying everything.

But I’m sure that’s not something I want.

It’s as if someone has taken over my consciousness…..

I’ve seen Koa almost taken over before.

That time, it was caused by small foreign objects, right?

I look at the black sphere.

「Foreign object catch」

With the casting of that magic, black light enveloped the black sphere.

「Whoah」

I panicked and let it go. It fell to the ground.

Darn it.

I tried to pick it up but the black light had yet to disappear so I only kept looking at it.

After a while, the black light slowly disappeared.

「It’s not black」

When the black light disappeared, a round, pale blue sphere rolled.

When I picked it up, I felt no discomfort like I felt with the black sphere earlier.

「Blue magic power?」

The fact that it remained after the foreign object was removed suggests that this must be magic power.

However, the fact that the magic power has color makes me tilt my head.

I don’t remember my magic power of the fenrir’s magic power being colored.

I have colored them to make them easier to see but….

Since this is what remained after the foreign object was removed….it should be magic power, right?

Areh?

「Ah! It’s getting turbid again!」

The pale blue colored magic power begins to become turbid under our watch.

When I look at the worst part of the muddy area, I see something small and black lying around.

Weird.

Why is it getting turbid again even though it was solidified and foreign objects were already removed?

「Ah!」

When it started to get turbid, I was struck with discomfort again. The same feeling I felt earlier.

「Since I solidified it by magic power earlier, from magic’s point of view, that means it’s magic with foreign substance in it, right? However, I already gathered the foreign object but yet, it became turbid again. The foreign object during Koa’s time was divine power. Does that mean that the foreign object mixed with this magic power is not divine power?」

Looking at the sphere that was turning blacker and blacker, I let out a sigh.

What should I do?

Staring at the sphere, I noticed that the unpleasant feeling is lighter than before, perhaps because it’s not completely black yet.

Well, there is no point in noticing it.

Hnn?

But this unpleasant feeling….I feel like I’ve experienced it before.

Speaking of which, I thought something similar when I first felt the turbid magic power.

I encountered this before.

「Where?」

I’ve never felt this kind of core-chilling unpleasantness in Japan.

That means, I’ve felt it when I came into this world.

…..there were a lot of things that I’ve felt since I was dropped into this world.

Hnn?….when I was dropped?

Yeah, isn’t it similar to the discomfort I felt when I was dropped into the forest?

That was, I think, the feeling of the black shadow covering the forest.

I didn’t know what it was at that time but now, I know what it is.

The black shadow is a curse made by the evil eye magic.

「Curse?」

Come to think of it, when a large amount of turbid magic power overflowed from the lake, it sounded like a human scream, right?

What if it was really a scream?

I turn my gaze to the lake.

The crack has been repaired nicely and no air bubbles have risen.

I look at the blackened sphere in my hand.

「Purification?」

Why did I cast it like a question?

「Ah」

A pale white light enveloped the black sphere as it floated in the air.

「It floated!」

I reached out to take it but retracted in the end, fearing that it might be in the middle of purification.

Light Blue and the one eyes were staring at the floating sphere curiously.

「Your lordship, what did you do?」

「I cast purification」

「Purification…..」

Light Blue sounds a little uncomfortable.

What’s going on?

「Purification means to cleanse. It means to purify. It also means the removal of sins mentally and physically. 」

A one eye said that to Light Blue with confidence.

Well, if you’re going to ask if that’s right, it is right.

However, in this case, the answer might be a little different.

「I know that but that’s not why I’m confused…..I’m sure it’s not turbid because it was dirty, isn’t it?」

Light Blue asked me that and I nodded.

Even so, it tilted its head.

「I think it was a curse. I think it was most likely that the magic power is mixed with a curse so I tried to break the cure with purification. That might cleanse the magic power.」

「…..curse…..」

Light Blue shrugs at my explanation.

Speaking of which, Light Blue had suffered because of the evil eye curse for a long time.

The faint white light disappeared from the floating sphere.

I started at the sphere as it fell down to the ground.

I hurriedly approached and picked it up.

「Ah! Transparent.」

After the foreign object catch, it became a pale blue round sphere but now, it’s a transparent sphere.

I bring it up to eye level and look deep into it.

There’s no turbidity anywhere.

I watch it for a while and there’s no sign of it being turbid again.

In other words, it’s definitely magic power mixed with a curse.

「No way, I never thought it was really a curse.」

I had a lot of trouble before because of the evil eye magic curse….

However, before I knew it, the curse had completely disappeared.

But still, why didn’t I notice it?

I’ve been involved with the evil eye curse for so long.

「Your lordship, is it really a curse?」

「Yeah. The curse must be the reason why the magic power around the core became turbid. 」

When I declared it to be a curse, Light Blue’s body trembled.

「I see. So it’s a curse.」

Light Blue looks disgusted and moves its body away from the sphere.

I guess it doesn’t even want to have contact with it.

Even so, another curse?

However, purification magic is one of those things that I’m very used to.

I think I might be able to solve the turbidity around the core sooner than I thought.