Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 3] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

“That Gonzou is really hopeless. Let me introduce myself again. I’m sure you figured it out by now, but my name is Mizuyo. But you...you’re not just any forestfolk, are you? The water seems excited just to be near you.”

I had heard that merfolk could manipulate the flow of water, but her statement still surprised me. It seemed she could also tell how the water was feeling, or rather, how the spirits that inhabited it felt. But being a merfolk, she likely couldn’t see the spirits, so she could only interpret it as the feelings of the water itself.

That small difference in perception was quite interesting to me. If I told her about the spirits and how to communicate with them, would her ability to control water improve? Or were her abilities to manipulate water entirely unrelated to the spirits, and so it would have no effect at all? That result would give me all sorts of room to speculate on the nature of her abilities. I almost wanted to start experimenting.

“I suppose you’re right. My name’s Acer. I’m often called a forestfolk, or an elf where I live, but actually I’m a high elf. There’s not much difference between how we live, but we’re closer to the spirits.”

Mizuyo nodded at my introduction, not the least bit surprised. This was how I met Mizuyo, the woman who would teach me the history of Fusou.

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Before the arrival of the oni, humans, merfolk, and skyfolk lived together in the land of Fusou. They lived separately back then, so there was much more distance between them. But there had always been stories of humans lost in the mountains being guided back to safety by skyfolk, or humans falling in love with merfolk who accidentally found themselves caught in fishing nets.

But as the three races began to grow closer, a problem arose: half-bloods started to be born among them. Though it was not easy for members of different races to have children together, it was not impossible.

Of course, the children themselves weren’t the problem, but the different ways of life among the three races meant their differences in raising children started to become a problem. My adopted son Win had the ability to see the spirits, and was better able to rely on their help than most elves, but he was lucky. As far as I knew, all elves could see the spirits, but that wasn’t the case for half-elves. It seemed about half—or potentially even more—couldn’t see the spirits at all.

Half-bloods born between humans, merfolk, and skyfolk would face similar difficulties...or even many more, due to the huge differences in the ways they lived. Half-bloods born between humans and merfolk typically had the fused lower body of the merfolk, meaning they had the same difficulty as other merfolk when it came to operating on land. However, only about half of them could control water or even breathe underwater like other merfolk. They could not live on the land with humans nor in underwater cities with merfolk, driving them out of both societies.

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