Isekai Clichés
The next day, after Raphael and the others returned to the royal capital, they said they would each go back to their own territories and left.
Since they had gone home, I offered the large batch of taiyaki-style cakes and petit barley dishes to the gods at the mansion’s chapel.
“It’s late, but here are the promised items. Please accept them.”
When I knelt and prayed, all the dishes vanished.
I’m glad the offering went through safely.
After this, I plan to relax in the greenhouse.
I’ve been working a lot lately, so I want to take it easy for a while.
I lay down on the reclining chair in the greenhouse and opened a copied book to read, when—
[Open the slate and check it]The glowing words appeared, and I accidentally dropped the book.
When I opened the book again, the message had changed to[Check the slate].
Are they resorting to force because I never check the slate anywhere except the library?
Scary as it is, I can’t ignore a message from the gods.
I opened the slate and checked my mana.
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Level
Water: 31
Recovery: 20
Mana: 13,269
Blessings
[Growth Acceleration] Rank: D — Plants grow in the number of days you imagine. [Library] Rank: D — If you hold the slate over something you want to research, you can search for explanations or related books (however, related books are limited to those in the slate’s library). [Hot Springs] Rank: F — If you hold the slate over a hot spring, you can identify its effects.Notes: The Harvest God, Plant Goddess, and Earth God are pleased that you held a festival in their honor. Look at the books you bought in the royal capital.
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Books I bought in the royal capital?
The ones the shopkeeper said wouldn’t sell?
But I guess the reason I could search for information on the Coco fruit and see plants grow in the number of days I imagined was because these blessings ranked up.
If I’d checked both earlier, I probably could have used them way sooner.
My mana has increased, but my magic level doesn’t seem to have gone up.
But the festival (sports day) in Savai Village wasn’t a festival specifically held to honor the gods.
The villagers of Savai only carried the gods’ statues, and that was all…
I’ll just assume it was the offering and prayer that did it.
And even though I’m told to check the slate, I’m scared to open it because I feel like absurd demands will show up in the notes or in messages.
I thought once a year would be enough, but maybe I should check it once every six months.
My message alert tone rang.
Ah—this is a bad feeling.
“It’s strange to hold a festival honoring only three gods. All gods should be praised. Therefore, we demand the festival be held again.”
Who is the god saying this!!
Friendly… or demanding… or just unreasonable.
“Hahaha, a demand to hold another festival? Sounds like another troublesome request,” Brother Chris said.
Brother Chris, this is no laughing matter.
“But what will you do? You can’t make it a large-scale event.”
“Reinhardt, is there a divine message from the gods?”
Ah, Floria was here.
I forgot because she blends in so naturally with family time.
I explained that ever since receiving blessings from the gods and hints to prevent Lucas from falling into darkness, they sometimes contact me through the slate.
“Slate? What’s that?”
I explained how it can check mana and magic levels.
“So basically, the clichés of another world exist in this world too?”
“That’s right. It’s becoming common knowledge in this kingdom, but hasn’t it reached the Empire yet?”
“I’ve never heard of it. Alright—Status Open.”
A slate appeared before Floria.
“Kyaah, it really appeared!”
Floria happily collapsed onto the sofa.
“Floria!” Mother rushed toward her in a panic.
“Auntie, I’m fine. I just saw something I didn’t want to see…”
It seems her notes section said “Former Villainess of the Soleil Empire.”
“Former villainess?”
Looking resigned, Floria confessed everything about regaining the memories of her past life.
“That’s good, isn’t it? If it says ‘former,’ that means you escaped it, right?”
“I still can’t relax. Maybe it says ‘former’ only because I’m here.”
Then she firmly declared that she wouldn’t feel safe unless she became the adopted daughter of House Clondale and got engaged to Reinhardt.
In the end, it comes back to that.
What do you think about this chapter?
