Published: July 4, 2025
Today, November 20, 2021 (Saturday), the release date for "The Water Attribute Mage" Volume 3 is here!
To celebrate this, we have released the first 2700 words of Part 3 of the "Narou Version" in advance.
It was originally planned for 2600 words, but it ended up being 2700...
"Hey, Ryo, wake up."
"…I can't. I can't eat any more cake. I'm so full… mmm..."
"Probably, there isn't any cake here."
Was that remark from Abel the decisive blow?
Ryo opened his eyes wide and literally jumped up.
He looked around.
Beside him was Abel.
The two of them were on a sandy beach.
In front of them, the ocean spread out.
Behind them, a forest was approaching the coastline.
He was wearing his usual robe.
He was also wearing the shoes he received from the dullahan.
Murakumo, Mikael's Custom Knife, and his self-made sheath were all there.
The identification plate he was told to always wear was hanging around his neck.
There were no particular problems.
"Phew, that's a relief. It seems like there are no fatal issues."
Once Ryo grasped the situation, he said that with a relieved expression.
"No, from any angle, this is a serious situation..."
Abel seemed unable to agree with Ryo's opinion.
And that was understandable.
The world is made of diversity.
One must always maintain the basic awareness that there are people with different opinions and ways of thinking.
"Certainly... I left my usual bag behind, so I don't have any salt or pepper seasonings. That's quite a serious situation, but I hope you can endure it. Abel, have you lost your patience since becoming the king?"
"That's not it! Besides, where the hell are we?!"
"It's a beach, right? Where else could it possibly be...?"
Ryo answered Abel with a puzzled expression at his unreasonable outburst.
"Ah, yeah... I see, my wording was poor. Why are we on this beach?"
"I see. Abel doesn't understand what happened back then."
Ryo finally grasped why Abel was saying such things.
…It seems he thinks he has understood.
"The magical power of demon Garwin… or rather, the magic went out of control. Demons are usually skilled in gravity manipulation magic, right? A great physicist once said that gravity is the curvature of space, so I think the space got seriously warped and we ended up being teleported to some unknown place."
"…Sorry, I don't understand at all."
Even after Ryo explained it in great detail, Abel couldn't comprehend it...
It's difficult to get someone with no fundamental knowledge to understand.
It's like trying to make someone who can't do basic addition and subtraction understand a tenth-order nonlinear partial differential equation.
…Well, first of all, even that tenth-order nonlinear partial differential equation itself is not something I can comprehend.
"So, both of us have been teleported somewhere far away, right?"
"Yes, I think that's a good understanding."
Abel summarized it roughly, and Ryo accepted his words.
"We need to return quickly."
"Yeah. But it will be difficult..."
Ryo replied to Abel's words.
Then Ryo fell silent.
Even after a while of waiting, Ryo remained quiet.
Abel could see that Ryo's expression was unusually serious, as he was deep in thought.
It was different from the usual serious facade.
After being friends with Abel for so long, he could grasp that difference.
"What's wrong, Ryo?"
"Abel... I believe we will eventually be thrown into an unavoidable battle."
"Where's this coming from?"
Ryo spoke with a serious expression, and Abel tilted his head in response.
Ryo stretched out his arm.
The place he pointed to was...
"The sea?"
"Yes. Unless we stay here forever, we will have to venture into that sea someday."
"Ah..."
At that moment, Abel understood what Ryo was concerned about.
"The inside of the sea is a different world."
"That's right... It's said to be a world where people shouldn't enter, even more so than the night forest."
Abel nodded in agreement with Ryo's words.
"There are no ones who can defeat the sea monsters in the sea..."
Abel muttered.
Indeed, that is obvious.
In an environment surrounded by water, attacks using fire attribute magic or wind attribute magic are meaningless.