"Welcome back. Teacher '

When I got off at the entrance of the forest, Ai came running over with full of happiness in my face.

"I'm home. It is useless, I have to stay in the forest. "

"I will not ask you to meet you. Once it's in the forest it's okay. "

From behind the eye Nina shows her figure and sighs like she is amazed.

This world is full of dangerous animals.

Although there are not so many fierce beasts like armor bears, there are a lot of beasts in the forest and plains that are likely to be drunk as much as eye.

If you are in the forest you can avoid the danger with the power of Nina, but you will be worried if it is so close to the border between the forest and the grassland. Although it is -

"No, was it ... ...?　Teacher '

"No, it is useless. Thank you for picking me up. "

When I look at the expression of the eye of Ai, I can not say strongly but I forgive it.

Then Ai got a smile at once and hugged in my nose.

"Oh yeah, it's like that, is this like that?"

Nina rings his nose and tells you to tease.

I just remembered it, I remember well.

She speaks and taught herself not Japanese but Elven.

When teaching languages ​​to an eye without words, I was worried a bit.

In order to be in Japanese, Nina must also remember it.

However, I decided to teach Japanese still in view of the disadvantage.

In elves and Japanese, the number of vocabulary is wrong.

Elf language is simple, and the range of expression is quite small compared to Japanese.

For example, there is no word meaning "word". Because I do not know other languages.

Neither "magic" nor "school", even "elf" or "human" is even.

Under such conditions, it is not where we are at school.

Until now I have substituted words that are not in Elf language in Japanese, but I realized that it would be quicker if I got to learn Japanese itself all the time. Fortunately the grammar itself was quite close to Japanese and elves, so if you even remember the word you managed to do it.

It was good for me to be born before the so-called "translation machine generation", and to have learned a foreign language at a young age.

For that reason, we taught Japanese to two people, and although it is somewhat somewhat somewhat recently it has come to be troubled for everyday conversation. It did not happen in a few days as I did when I remembered Elf but it was a few months after I began teaching. Both of them are amazing learning speeds.

"Nina. My teacher is not stupid. "

An eye that makes your cheeks inflate and get angry.

I think that the girl trembling with that horror often got used to it in just a few months.

"No, thanks pretty, guys"

Meanwhile, Nina is still as usual.

I felt like I was nostalgic with this.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Yeah yeah, I will not fight. Want to come up for lunch?

No, I lightly lifted the fish basket that I had in my forefoot.

It is surprisingly dexterous dragon's forefoot, but it is not enough to knit a fish basket against drift.

This was what Nina made.

"Well, I will return home."

I push the backs of the two of us and head to our house.

Yeah. The age when I lived with the forest's roof as a roof already ended.

Although we have a poor appearance, we have a house.

It is close from the entrance of the forest. It was surrounded by sparse trees, it was.

It is a simple, strong house built with trees. I will never break even if I enter.

Well growing dragon seems to continue unlimitedly as long as you are watching my mother, so it will not be possible to enter anything, but if I am at least now one size larger than a horse, it will not be inconvenient to move It was.

Not only that.

Although it is made of wood, there are also furniture, I made some pottery of pottery.

Nina takes out the unglazed pots and hands as if you are familiar with it, and the eye also arranges the dishes on the table.

What a cultural sight.

It is an unexpected progress from the time when I ate a deer round and eating it at the open air.

"Yes, burn it"

/(adv) like that (used for something or someone distant from both speaker and listener)/so/(P)/

Sprinkle a flame lightly on a fish stabbed in a branch. In the early days, I made many lumps of charcoal and it seemed to burn the house I made, but I'm used to it.

The fish burns up slowly in a blink of an eye and a fragrant smell drifts in the house.

There, Nina sprinkled the salt that I took out of the pot. It is sea salt produced by drawing seawater and evaporating it with flame.

“Well….”

/(conj,int) then/well/so/well then/(P)/(P)

"Yes"「はい」

I will have three voices.

Pick up the skewer with your fingertips, place it on your tongue and take it off and put it all in one mouth. When I bit it, fat that we got on was reasonably blurred, salt was entwined there, and the irresistible umami spread to the mouth fully.

"Sleepy!"

"Take care a moment!"

- I'm sorry, that was rude of me.

Nina shouts at a piece of fragile flame.

Although control of flames has almost come to be able to be done, it may leak when feelings are high.

"The fish that Nina put salt on is delicious enough to have a fire."

"Tell me the right thing,"

Nina which makes sweet cheeks and swell.

Looking at our interaction, Ai laughed with couscous.

"By the way, how about eyes, how's the magic?"

After finishing the meal, ask the dessert while talking about the fruit that Nina has taken.

Sweet and sour honey flushed over the mouth when you flapped and chewed a round fruit resembling an apple without peeling off the skin. It looks like an apple, but the texture is rather close to oranges.

I call this a water apple.

“I’m sorry”I can not do it yet. "

"No, I will not suffer from it"

Follow up in a hurry, eye-catching eyes.

Even I can not do anything except blowing a fire and floating a little.

Life itself was sailing smoothly, but magical research has not advanced at all.

"Well, you can only fire it or fly in the sky, you can not do it"

To the point of Nina, I am stuck in words.

Certainly, I did not think about that possibility.

If so, I have tried variously on Ai, but it will be totally labor.

"I am fine, I will do my best."

But Ai was like that.

On the other hand, it is a little bit of a heartburn.

But what I can do for people in this world is to only convey magic.

The science of my living era has been highly specialized in division of labor and there are few who know the whole picture. Even more people will not be able to reproduce from where there is no material or infrastructure.

If I do manage somehow to make a hut with trees, if I do not know how to make a furnace to dissolve iron, I do not know how to refine petroleum, how to design electronic circuits, how to make quantum computers.

But, if it is magical.

If it's magical, I will understand it more than anyone in the world.

In the words of science fiction writers of the twentieth century, there are things that "highly developed science and technology is indistinguishable from magic".

If this is true, magic should also be indistinguishable from advanced science and technology.

As a fact, the magic that floats the dragon's bulky body can not be distinguished from the anti-gravity technique just recently developed.

If it is magical, I should be able to develop civilization.

"This one is not yet available. Eye looks similar to me. "

To the fingers raised by Nina, the ivy that came in through the window wraps around.

"How about that ... ....I feel more comfortable to fire than plant operations "

Besides, it is a problem that Nina can hardly explain the sense of using magic.

"What is chukububutsu?"

But the two seemed to be caught in a different place, and tilted their heads together.

"Things like trees, grass, flowers"

If you answer so, they will twist your head more and more.

About what?　Why do you call another thing with the same name? "

I was more surprised at such a question of Nina.

I see。 There is not yet a concept called generic name yet?

"That is because it's convenient. With names that have the same nature and all similar things. For example, it is a living thing that you can think and think by yourself like me, Nina and Eye. Deer and fish are also living things. Stones and water are not living things. It's a substance. "

Hmm, he nods.

It seems that Ai is seriously looking, somehow trying to chew on my story.

"Well, what I can move is not a plant."Tree which dropped winter leaves "and" Cut off branches "can not move"

It was the name of the tree in Elven language that Nina arranged.

There are countless wordings on plants in elven language, each having a fine nuance difference.

It is like rainy names in Japanese.

I understand. Well, you can only move live trees. "

"Lived?　Is it fatiguing, is it? "

"There is no way"

Nina strikes a naive question of Eye, I nod.

"Even trees ......Plants are also a kind of living things. The tree that dropped the winter leaves is not dead ... ...Is it like sleeping? "

"living things……Shikuntsu "

Ai repeats words so that I can bit my words firmly.

"But then do you not be able to move the grass that is growing on the ground?"

"Oh yeah. Well, there is no bone. "

While nodding Mizugongo, Nina as normal.

boneWell, I understand something to say.

"I think that there are no bones in trees though,"

"Well then, what's left if you burn it?"

"Charcoal, it is"

"Um, that teacher"

That was when I was talking about no benefit.

TheseIs not it good? "

In the palm of the eye, the leaves of the branches of the trees were moving dusty.