Isekai Nikyoten - Chapter 50

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Sketching Monsters

「Hmーm, it’s difficult」

「What is the matter?」

　As I was groaning at the tree I painted, Lefyria stopped her hands and responded. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

「Ah, no, I was just talking to myself, please don’t mind me」

「Please don’t say such a lonely thing. I am also happy I am able to paint with someone」

　I felt bad for interrupting my client - Lefyria -, but she doesn’t seem to mind it at all.

　If anything, she ended up looking very sad when I tried to gently turn her down.

　I can’t just say ‘Please don’t worry about it’ and reject her if she already said that much.

「I tried painting a tree, but it didn’t turn out as I thought」

「I see. Then I know an easy way to paint」

「Is that true?」

「Yes, first you draw a large silhouette of the tree you want to paint」

　Lefyria holds her own sketchbook and moves her pencil.

　The silhouette drawn on the paper was rougher than the one I had imagined.

「It’s like a mushroom, isn’t it」

「Right. When sunlight shines on this mushroom, the sunlight will be strong in the upper right like this, weak in sunlight in the middle, and the bottom becomes shadowy. Now I will add three-dimensional expression while being mindful of these three levels of light and shade」

　Lefyria explains while adding the mushroom cap with the three levels of light and shade.

「Ooh, when you say it like that, it makes me feel I can paint with more awareness. But, how should I express the leaves?」

「I will borrow the brush for a bit. You paint the leaves with your brush, like trying to lightly brush with a warm, bright green as if letting the brush skip or splitting the bristles and dabbing forcefully」

　Lefyria turns over a new page and begins painting directly onto it. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

「Aaah! That looks like leaves!」

「Right? Next, add dark green color to express the leaves while keeping in mind the previous light and shade」

　Saying that, she mixes new colors in the palette and creates a dark green color and an even darker green to express the leaves.

　Lefyria also uses red color - not just blue - to express the texture of the leaves.

　Such a smooth movement of her hands showed that she had complete familiarity with colors and knew which colors and how to mix to create the desired color.

「Here, now the tree is complete! Now I think even Kureto-san could create this!」

　Lefyria managed to paint a splendid tree in less than 3 minutes.

　How strange. It has such a quality that it’s hard to think it was made in just 3 minutes.

「Thank you very much for your consideration. It’s going to be difficult to paint to such a level, but I think even I’m going to be able to paint a tree now」

　I immediately started to paint while paying attention to the light and shade combination Lefyria had taught me.

　Keeping in mind the three light and dark shadow, I try experimenting with various brush techniques, like laying the brush flat or dabbing with the split bristles.

　I tried painting the tree while keeping in mind the tree’s silhouette and without spending too much time on it.

「Ooh, it totally looks the part when you look at it from a little distance!」

　I guess it’s because I haven’t been able to capture the characteristics like Lefyria that it looked rough up close.

　It’s a world of difference from the painting I drew myself earlier.

「But, there’s still something different」

「It would be good to paint the branches while paying attention to their natural flow」

「Their natural flow, huh……」

　I try walking toward the tree to observe it after hearing Lefyria. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

　First is the thick tree trunk, from which the branches split off, and from those, even finer branches divide further.

　They gradually become finer and spread out, but I can’t see all of them.

　They are hidden by the tree and can’t be seen, to begin with, it will end up only painting branches if I were to paint everything.

　I should only select the most distinctive parts and express it.

　I return to my original spot after I’m done observing the tree and quickly add new branches.

　I paint the thicker branches in layers while keeping in mind the three levels of light and shadow.

「It’s great. It became much better now」

「Thank you very much. Next, I want to express the leaves more clearly」

「This is something you get used to. If you paint many of them while observing, one way or another, you will start feeling you want to capture things like the spread and the texture of the leaves」

　I will probably become an impressive pro if I could enter that realm in painting, huh?

　But, I want to be able to understand those kind of things by feeling someday.

「I’m sorry, thank you for putting up with my painting」

「No no, it’s fun to teach someone else」

「Have you finished your painting Lefyria-san?」

「Yes, I am done」

　When I tried taking a quick look at Lefyria’s painting, there was a beautiful painting of Kartz plains over there. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

　A majestic plain continues to spread out while a dirt road is visible on the foreground.

　With a clear blue sky and white clouds floating.

　The gentle plain revealed itself through the bleeding and overlapping colors of watercolor painting.

「Uwaa, I knew it was beautiful. I especially like how the Diarca blends it」

「I also like that」

　We smile at each other after saying that.

　As expected, the point where the artist’s likes were conveyed when you looked at it. 

　No matter how amazing the painting is, that fact doesn’t change.

　Just as I was feeling deeply moved about it, I suddenly felt the presence of something other than the Diarca.

　When I looked over, there were goblins approaching unnoticed.

「……there are goblins」

「Eh? Ah, it is true」

　The green color of their bodies blends well with the plain but with such a good visibility it’s no use to hide.

　When we turned around, the goblins - who had been slowly approaching - made faces as if they had been found out. Then they run towards us with a crude club in their hands.

　There’s around 40 meters between us, so there’s no need to hurry.

　Lefyria had also finished her painting so let’s gather the art supplies and teleport away.

　I was relaxedly thinking like that, but Lefyria suddenly opened her sketchbook and began drawing with her pencil.

「What are you doing?」

「I am making a rough draft」

「Eeh?」

　I was surprised by Lefyria’s sudden action.

　Although monsters are approaching us, to think she will start making a sketch.

　I guess that just shows how much confidence she has in me.

　She’d be in the middle of drawing the picture even if she tried to escape with Teleport, and just slaying them just doesn’t feel right, too.

　As a compromise, I decided to keep a certain distance. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

「Teleport」

　As the three goblins approached, I forced teleport them to teleport to the same distance as before.

「Ara?」

「I moved them away with my teleport. Now you can draw safely」

「Thank you very much」

　The goblins are tilting their heads in confusion as the distance between us increases.

　But when they saw us again, they ran towards us once more.

　Once they closed the distance to 20 meters, I moved them away again with teleport.

　After solely repeating that again and again, the goblins finally gave up, I guess they lost their motivation. 

　The way they threw their club and sat down looked as if they were complaining 「I’m done with this」.

　A continuous shuttle run where you can’t close the distance is simply torture after all.

　Seeing their appearance, Lefyria continues drawing the sitting goblins while chuckling.

　 ●

　And thus, Lefyria and I move to various places with teleport and continue painting.

　The port town Pedrick (ペドリック), the spreading desert Madahad (マダハッド), and Garoll forest, where I teleported the adventurers before, and the nearby wetlands. She devoted herself to painting the beautiful scenery, animals and plants, and even the monsters living in there.

　As we went around painting all over the place like that, time passed before we knew it, and we returned to her studio in the royal capital as the sun set. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

「Thank you very much. I was able to paint a lot of things thanks to Kureto-san. I was also able to see beautiful scenery I can never go alone. The people, animals, and monsters.....it was a lot of fun painting them」

「I’m glad Lefyria-san was satisfied」

　We basically teleported according to my choices but I was a little worried whether she would be happy with that or not, so I feel relieved.

　After that, I returned the art supplies I had stored in the subspace for portability.

「These are the two paintings as the payment but, what do you think? What should I paint?」

「Would it be possible for one of them to be the view from the bell tower you painted first?」

　As expected, when I think of the scenery of the royal capital, it is that scenery.

　It was a picturesque scene I teleported to the first time in this other world. That scene left an extremely strong impression on me, and I thought I always wanted to keep it as a painting if possible.

「It is all right, but is that fine with you? I could paint a new one for Kureto-san, you know?」

「 It’s fine, I liked this one」

　Although it would be more profitable as a reward for the request to do that, I liked what Lefyria had painted at first sight.

「Even I can not paint the exact same painting. But if Kureto-san said so, then I will give it to you. But, I feel bad for that, so I will paint the other one in a large size as a service」

「Thank you very much」

　Perhaps she thought it was not enough of a reward and Lefyria was thoughtful enough to do that.

　That made me very happy, so I decided to obediently accept the consideration.

「What kind of painting would you like for the other one?」

「I would like you to paint the scenery of a place called Howling village, please. Could you spare some time from tomorrow morning?」

「Sure」

「Well then, I will come to pick you up tomorrow morning」

「Yes, I look forward to it」

「Excuse me then」

　After making sure Lefyria nodded, I teleported to the company’s office from Lefyria’s studio.

「……Kureto, huh」

　Despite the setting sun, Emilio was doing paperwork as if it were the natural thing to do.

　It makes me worried, I mean, when does he actually rest? www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

「I’m done with the request earlier, I have also sent Lefyria-san to her home」

「You came all the way here to report it, eh. Thank you」

　Emilio knows my magic really well, he’s not that worried, but I thought it was the right thing to do, so I reported it.

　I think it is important to have this kind of attention to detail.

　In my case,e I can use teleport, so it was not that much of a hassle.

「Thank you for accepting the request despite it being a personal one」

「It’s rare for Emilio to bring a friend after all. I can understand why you want to support her when you look at her painting」

　There are not many women who enjoy painting as much as she does.

　Not only in the middle of painting, but even just looking at the finished artworks brings a deep sense of peace and fulfillment.

　I felt like I understood the reason why Emilio became her patron. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

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