The Neighborhood High School Girl, Miss Isezaki, Is the Great Saintess Returned from Another World~ And I, Suddenly Awakened as Her Exclusive Mana Supply Uncle, Travel Between Earth and Another World with Time-Space Magic~ - 34. Riverside

34. Riverside

“Ah, what lovely weather…”

In the mid-afternoon by the riverside, I muttered to myself while gazing at the gently pouring sunlight and the dazzlingly reflecting surface of the river. By the way, Isezaki-san had school today.

According to Isezaki-san, the best way to measure magical power is to use the ‘Storage Storage.’ The storage capacity of the ‘Storage Storage’ is proportional to the magical power, so knowing the storage capacity gives an estimate of the magical power.

It’s recommended to use water when measuring storage capacity.

While not infinite, there’s plenty of water if you go to the sea or rivers, so it’s a reasonable choice.

So, I took a train and came to the riverside near the company I had just quit. This was the largest river within my easy reach.

Initially, I thought about teleporting to this riverside using ‘Dimensional Teleportation,’ but it didn’t work out.

Since I couldn’t teleport to my parents’ house or my old school either, it seems like I can only teleport to places I’ve been to after learning ‘Dimensional Teleportation,’ or places strongly imagined by companions like Isezaki-san when we went to another world.

After an hour-long journey, I finally arrived at the riverside and decided to prepare to store water in the ‘Storage Storage.’

There are two ways for me to put things into the ‘Storage Storage.’ The first is to open a hole in the alternate space, like when using a trash can, and throw things in there. The other is to transfer the object I’m holding directly to the ‘Storage Storage’ by thinking about it.

This time, I chose the first method. I opened a hole in the alternate space and poured the river water into it.

The size of the hole in the alternate space is about as big as a manhole cover. When I opened the hole in the river, it was quite amusing to see the water flowing in like pulling out a bathtub plug.

However, after a few hours, it became tiresome.

The ‘Storage Storage’ didn’t fill up easily, and I honestly got bored.

At first, I didn’t mind just watching the water, but a middle-aged man (unemployed) staring at the river on a weekday is quite suspicious. I felt like I might get reported.

I started to feel like I wanted to finish the task and go home.

But I couldn’t just leave because I was tired of the eyes around me. Isezaki-san would be disappointed.

I couldn’t show my uncool side to Isezaki-san, who always praised me. With that in mind, I endured the uncomfortable riverside for a long time.

As the evening approached, the ‘Storage Storage’ finally began to fill up.

I think it’s about the size of a high school gymnasium in terms of capacity. It’s just a rough sense, though.

According to what I heard from Isezaki-san before, for people with large capacities, it’s about the size of a truck. Compared to that, it seemed like quite a large capacity. In other words, my magical power must be unusually large.

Despite feeling somewhat superior because of this fact, the first thing that caught my attention was…

The reality that if the ‘Storage Storage’ is full, I can’t put anything else in it.

…I never want to do this task again. With that firmly in my mind, I continued to endlessly expel water from the ‘Storage Storage.’

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As I continued to expel water from the ‘Storage Storage,’ it had already become quite dark around me.

I hadn’t completely emptied it yet, but since there was some space left, I decided to throw away the rest bit by bit, and I left the riverside where I had lingered for so long.

I’m exhausted, so I’d like to teleport home all at once using ‘Dimensional Teleportation,’ but if I did that, my day would end with just watching the flow of the river.

That’s too sad, so I decided to go to a nearby 100-yen shop instead.

So, after buying a bunch of pens and lighters and being looked at strangely by the store clerk, when I entered a narrow alley to teleport to a deserted place…

From the depths of the alley, I could hear the voices of a man and a woman.

“Hey, stop it…! Seriously, stop it!”

“It’s fine, let’s take a break for a bit. Look, there’s a perfect resting spot over there, isn’t it?”

“Isn’t that a love hotel! There’s no way I’m going there! What happened to the story about recruiting cut models?”

“Haha, let’s get along first, okay?”

“Shut up! What do you mean, ‘This alley is a shortcut to the salon♪’! I’m going home already, so let go of me, you jerk!”

– Bash!

“Ouch! Hey, cut it out…!”

“What? You think you’re tough or something? Huh?”

Feeling the tense atmosphere from the arguing voices of the man and woman, I discreetly peeked into the depths of the alley.

There was a man grabbing a woman’s arm, and the woman struggling to break free. Wait… isn’t that woman… isn’t she my former colleague, Aihara?