Legend

dy of Reiji in his memory had a decent flexibility, Rei’s body was even more flexible than expected.

Firstly, he could touch the ground with his palms without bending his knees, in addition, he still had room to spare.

Then, for a few minutes, he did some suitable stretches that he had learnt in junior high school and high school.

「Now, with this I’m warmed up.」

Saying so, he took the Death Scythe which had been leaning against a rock and took a stance using both hands.

「Hah!」

One yell, one strike.
The blade of the Death Scythe split the sky.
However, he felt something was off and set the Death Scythe up again while tilting his neck.

「Hah!」

Again, one yell, one strike.
This time, the twist of the body was different from before.
When he swung the Death Scythe down, he consciously turned his waist, this was done to accurately transmit the motion to the Death Scythe.

「Well, something like this.」

Understanding how to handle the Death Scythe, he then did two different swings.
Side sweeping from left to right and sweeping inversely from right to left.
He then endlessly tried any swings he could come up with, such as scooping from below, tirelessly.

He persisted in this state for about 30 minutes.
At first, he handled the Death Scythe awkwardly with brute force.
But as time went on, the handling became increasingly smooth.
It can be imagined that if soldiers and swordsmen could see the speed, they would be jealous.

The Death Scythe was swung down and stopped just before hitting the ground, he then flipped the blade back up and to the right.

If that series of attacks was used against a human, they would first be cut diagonally by the scythe, their right arm would then be cut off by the next strike and their neck separated from their body with one sweep.

The scythe was then moved continuously, sometimes he would do tricky movements and use the handle as a spear like against the Water Bear.
After a while, he became used to the handling of the Death Scythe.

At first, Rei stopped after one swing before swinging again, now there was no awkward movement, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it was now like a sword dance.
A single sweep of the blade was sharp and cut through the air, the handle had enough power to penetrate through low quality armour with a single blow.

Rei focused and continued the movements which were like a sword dance of death.
As his movements sharpened……

「Haaaaatsu~!」

With one yell and one strike, the Death Scythe stopped and was placed beside him.

「Phew, I’ve roughly accustomed myself to it.」

It was already a few hours since he started training with the Death Scythe.
Even though he used the ability of the Death Scythe and could hardly feel its weight, Rei had continued to swing around the large scythe without once taking a break.

「As expected of the body that the world’s best magicians crafted.
You can continue to keep moving without losing your breath.」

Although there was a bit of sweat on his forehead, it was something you could barely see.

Returning to the camp fire with the Death Scythe, Set was about to toss a piece of firewood in with his beak.
All the meat had already been eaten off the Water Bear’s right arm, the only remains were the bones which rolled on the ground.

「Gururu~」

Welcome back, Set gave a short cry as he saw Rei.

Unlike normal griffons, Set had an intellect similar to or higher than humans because of Rei’s extraordinary magic power.
This might be evidence that he could understand Rei’s words.
While Rei was confirming his physical specifications, Set, who wanted to be spoiled, endured patiently as he knew his master was training to use the unwieldy weapon that was the Scythe.

So.

「Set, can you make some water?」
「Gururu~!」

When asked by his much loved Rei, he used Water Ball happily.

The water ball that Set created floated buoyantly and stopped in front of Rei.
Rei put his hand in and scooped water out to wash his face.

「……Ah, damn it.
There isn’t a towel.」

He immediately noticed his mistake and decided to leave the water on his hands to dry naturally.

「Guru~」

Set gave a spoiled cry as Rei sat down on the ground and leaned his body against him.

While rubbing Set’s head, he began to think of tomorrow’s schedule.

(For now, we will still look for a town or village as originally intended……but which way to go?　Fortunately or not, we haven’t discovered anything that could be called a highway after leaving some distance from the forest.
In the end, we may have to treat the forest like some sort of new frontier.)

Even if you said that he inherited the knowledge of Zepariu, things like a map of Japan or a world map were not included.
He could roughly state where the next country was, it was over the mountain range……however, it was only information.

And even such information was several hundred years old and could not be used as a reference in the current situation.

(If my bad feeling is correct, most of Zepairu’s knowledge is likely to be useless.)

There was no information on the monsters we met or on the difference in the size of the forest.
When thinking about it, it is likely that hundreds more years have passed than what Zepairu said.

「Well, this can be ascertained if we go to a town or village.」
「Guru~?」

What’s wrong, Set seemed to say.
Rei shook his head and said it wasn’t much while scratching his head.

「Anyway, that’s tomorrow.
Let’s look for a place with people when tomorrow morning comes.」
「Guru~」
「Can I count on you for the lookout?」
「Guru~!」

Leave it to me, Set gave a cry.
After hearing that, Rei was wrapped in silky feathers and fell asleep in the comfortable warmth.