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Various Ways To Play
「Al, thanks for waiting!」
Maya returned to her inn for a few minutes and came back. In her hand is the sandboard made with Earth magic. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「……that one, is that the one I gave you last time?」
「Un, this one slides down the best and the easiest to use so I came back to get it!」
Maya said with a bright smile on her face.
It seems like she’s been using it ever since that day. Even though it’s consumable because it’s made of Earth magic, I’m still happy she said something like that.
It also has a simple fixture with a belt attached, so she must added it herself or maybe her dad did it.
「Rather than that, let’s quickly go outside!」
Urged by Maya, I left Jaisal with her in a blink.
When you step outside of the protective wall of the town, you are surrounded by a desert world. There’s an unimaginable expanse of sand. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I climb the sand dunes with Maya, which are incomparably softer compared to the soil in Koryatt village.
There were neither obstacles nor shade around, not even a millimeter of shadow falls.
If anything, I would have liked to see Jaisal’s oasis, but I couldn’t say such a pathetic thing when I saw Maya holding her board in a good mood.
「Oh, have you gotten the hang of walking in the desert?」
「I played a lot last time after all――oops」
「Ahahaha, still not yet it seems」
Even though I said that with a composed expression, I almost tripped right away and ended up being laughed at by Maya.
How is it Maya can walk normally even though the sand is so soft and clings to our feet like this?
According to Maya, there are places where the sand is soft and hard, but it seems like I haven’t reached the level where I can discern them.
If it were Eleonora-neesan, she might be able to easily walk in the desert quickly.
「The sand dune here looks great for today!」
As I was walking while thinking of such things, Maya seemed to have arrived at a highly suitable point.
The slope is at quite an angle and the distance is long.
Maybe because I did it after quite some time I felt somewhat nervous, but I’ve been dragged to the mountain with Eleonora-neesan recently. So this kind of slope doesn’t make me nervous anymore.
Giving a sidelong glance at Maya - who is putting on her board with practiced movement -, I use Earth magic to create a board for myself and fix my feet on it.
「Let’s take a quick slide first!」
「Sure」
Maya jumped on the spot to gain momentum and slid down the dune when I answered.
I also jumped to follow suit and use the momentum to go down the slope.
「Yaahoooooooー!」
Maya’s pleasant voice echoes through the sand dunes.
Maya is maintaining an impressive form as she is sliding down the slope up ahead.
Her black hair is fluttering in the wind, tracing a path through the air.
Although Maya was the first one to go first, she was still very fast.
I’m sure she skillfully uses all her body weight to accelerate.
The sensation transmitted from the contact point of the ground from the board was different compared with snow-covered ground. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Whether it’s snow or sand, the feeling of sliding down a slope to our heart’s content is quite pleasant.
The slope - which looked far and high from above - was over in the blink of an eye as we went down at such a speed.
「Haaー, the feeling of cutting the wind is the best!」
「Looks like you’re having real fun when you’re sliding down the slope」
「Un! But, it tends to become a bit repetitive lately….」
Maya had a refreshing expression on her face, but it changed to a slightly lonely one midway through her words.
「What’s the matter?」
「I’m bored of just sliding down fast. Say, were there other ways to play other than just sliding down fast in Al’s hometown?」
I thought that she would surely get bored of the sandboard altogether, but it seems like that wasn’t the case.
For Maya - with her athletic ability - just sliding down a slope straight down wouldn’t be satisfying.
So Maya seemed to want more ways to play with the sandboard and at a higher difficulty level.
「There are various ways」
「Really!? Teach me!」
There were quite a few board-based and snowboard games in my previous life so I can just recreate them here.
「Then first, let’s start with the easiest, obstacles course sliding」
「What kind of game is that?」
「If you’re tired of just sliding straight down then you just have to make it so you don’t slide straight down. So if there are obstacles, you will have to turn and avoid them, and thus increasing their difficulty, right?」
While saying that to Maya, I use Earth magic to create sand pillars in the middle of the slope.
Now it’s impossible to just slide straight down. You need to make sharp turns to pass these obstacles.
「……it’s true now that you mention it, I didn’t think of it at all! Al is amazing!」
「The amazing ones are those people who thought about it a long time ago」
I'm just recreating the game that I know of after all. I’m not amazing at all.
「Hey, hey, can I try it?」
「Sure」
As soon as I nodded, Maya started running and headed toward the top of the sand dune, as if she was unable to stand it anymore. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
It’s not like I couldn’t have carried her up there with Psychic, but I guess she couldn’t resist moving her body.
I decided to stay below to watch over if Maya could slide down properly.
It’s not that I thought going up there was a hassle, alright.
「I’m going now so watch meー!」
When I raised my hand in response to Maya, she energetically slid down from the sand dune.
Despite the obstacle, I feel like she’s gaining speed.
Even so, Maya skillfully dodges the first pillar with a turn using weight shifting.
She also dodges the second pillar with a minute turn. However, she lost her balance and crashed into the third pillar, perhaps because she accidentally made a large turn.
The pillar made of sand collapsed with *zabaa* and covered Maya’s body.
「Are you okay, Maya?」
Even though those are soft pillars made of sand, I still got worried since she hit the pillar so flashily like that and collapsed. She’s completely buried in the sand. I made the sand pillars too big.
When I rushed up to her, Maya vigorously pushed herself up and laughed.
「Ahahaha! I was going a little too fast!」
She gave me a beaming smile as if to dispel my worry.
It seems like she’s not injured.
「Well, yeah. You have to avoid the obstacles after all so you have to slow down to some extent」
「But, that would make it slow, right?」
「Yeah. That is the difficult part and the depth of this game」
The key to this game is how fast you can slide down while making minimum deceleration.
It looks like Maya notices that despite this being her first time.
「Hey, are there other interesting games?」
「You can play it alone, but there is an interesting way」
「What is it, what is it?」
I stand up and cast Earth magic in front of the greatly interested Maya.
But, this time I’m not making sand pillars like earlier. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I manipulated the sand in an area around 8m x 5m to move it up and down like a wave.
It’s the practical application of the flat escalator I recreated back in Sylford’s territory.
「Uwawawa! Amazing! It’s a sand wave! Can I ride my board on top of that?」
「You can. But it won’t let you slide easily though」
「Yosーh, I’ll show you how it’s done!」
Daringly taking up my provocation, Maya enters the sand wave in high spirits with her board.
Still, if you’re not used to it is impossible to slide on the fast-moving sand wave so I’ll start slow.
「Ok!」
Once Maya is able to fully keep her balance on the slow sand wave, I increase the wave’s speed.
「This is amazing! It feels like the sand is flowing on its own and I’m sliding through it all! It’s funー!」
Even though this is artificial surfing, it must be quite difficult to maintain your balance on the wave.
As expected from the girl with outstanding athletic ability. Seems like a little bit of sand wave made with magic is enough.
She maintains her balance while smiling happily.
Then, I’m going to try and increase the difficulty.
I increase the speed of the flowing sand.
「Oops……yoh!」
Even so, Maya skilfully balances on them so I increase the level even further and causing the sand to be undulating.
「Uwaaa, wait this is impossible! Hebbuh!」
And as expected, even Maya seemed unable to deal with the irregular sand wave as she was swallowed by them.
Maya is being swept away outside the range of the magic along with the board with a *zazazazaaa* sound.
Like a fish washed up――no, like a survivor.
When I got closer, Maya abruptly got up and shook her head violently from side to side.
Maybe sand also got inside her mouth as she spit them out 「Beh」. Maya is covered in sand today.
「How was it?」
「……it was fun, but Al is sneaky for increasing the sand like that」
「That’s also the real thrill of this game」
How skillfully someone can create rough waves naturally is precisely a measure of a magician’s ability.
So in order not to make the already-familiar-to-sand Maya alert, I cast the magic to a minimum and catch her off guard.
「I knew it, Al’s personality is bad」
「Ehー, even though I’ve sincerely taught you to play like this?」
「Un」
We exchanged such words and laughed in the middle of the sand dune. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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So that's what Maya looks like.
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