Light Novel Volume 2

Light Novel Volume 2 is the 2nd volume of the In Another World With My Smartphone light novel series.

Summary
Undeterred by his untimely death on Earth, 15-year-old Mochizuki Touya continues to meander around in another world! After a series of misadventures, the young man has assembled a motley crew of adventurers including the timid mage Linze, the feisty brawler Elze, the ever-hungry samurai Yae, and even the young archer Yumina, heir to the Belfast throne. Together with his party (and a divine white tiger), Touya sets his sights on the horizon, heading for the demi-human kingdom of Mismede! But all is not what it seems... the beastman king issues a personal challenge, and a black-scaled dragon could soon spell out Touya's doom! The curtains lift once again on an epic tale of sorcery, smartphone apps, and... gunblades?! (via J-Novel Club)

Chapters

 * Chapter I - Day-to-day Life I (日々の暮らし その1)


 * Chapter II - To the Demi-Human Kingdom (亜人の国へ)
 * Chapter III - Day-to-day Life II (日々の暮らし その2)
 * Interlude I - A Day Off in Mismede (ミスミドの休日)
 * Interlude II - Slime Castle (スライムキャッスル)

Characters

 * Touya Mochizuki
 * Kohaku
 * Yae Kokonoe
 * Yae's brother (vision)
 * Linze Silhoueska
 * Elze Silhoueska
 * Yumina Ernea Belfast
 * Charlotte
 * Tristwin Ernes Belfast
 * Leon Blitz
 * Olga Strand
 * Laim
 * Leim (mentioned)
 * Lapis
 * Cecil
 * Julio
 * Crea
 * Alfred Ernes Ortlinde
 * Sushie Ernea Ortlinde
 * Arma Strand
 * Lain Netherland
 * Garm
 * Lyon Blitz
 * Azure Monarch (mentioned)
 * Jamukha Blau Mismede
 * Glatz
 * Olba Strand
 * Paula
 * Leen

Chapter I - Day-to-day Life I
Several days after Kohaku was summoned, she explores the Reflet marketplace with Touya. Using her telepathic link, (an ability that all summoners have with their contracted beasts) notes to Touya how crowded the place was. A while later, they come across Yae, who was trying to help a lost girl find her mother but is unable to get any useful information out of her because of her continuous crying. Touya picks up Kohaku and brings her to the girl, who calms down enough to reveal her name: Lim, Touya tries to use to find her family but the spell turns up nothing. He thinks that he perhaps needs more detail and so with convincing from Kohaku he has Lim describe her mother, however even that yields no results. Just when all hope seems lost Touya figures out he can use on his map app to get a wider area, and they successfully locate Lim’s mother at the town’s guard station. Touya remarks that he probably should have just taken Lim to the nearest guard and let them handle it but thanks to this he had learned some new information about his Null Spells.

With this new information Touya experiments with his smartphone and Null Spells, he uses on his phone and with some hints of objects in the vicinity is able to see Yae’s home in Hashiba on his map with astonishing detail. To see if the spell works on specific people, Yae asks Touya to search for her brother which he locates in the family dojo. Yae speaks fondly of her brother, describing him as gentle by nature but fearsome with a sword, almost obsessive with it sometimes. When Yae starts to say that Touya is very much like the brother that she loves, her face turns red and she mumbles that she meant love like family not the other kind, Touya is unable to understand her flustered words.

Upon returning to Silver Moon, Touya finds out he can use on his camera app, allowing it to see what Touya can see when using  himself, narrowly avoiding peeking on Linze in her room. Not knowing about her near-invasion of privacy, Linze goes to Touya and showing him an antique scroll written in the ancient magic language of which she wants Touya to translate. Touya makes another enchanted pair of glasses and gives it to Linze, Linze reads the scroll and learns of an offensive Water spell known as Bubble Bomb. She insists that she try to cast it but Touya convinces her to wait until tomorrow. Touya notes that his newly acquired spells are very criminal in nature.

The next day, Touya brings Linze to an open area in the forest and Linze begins practicing. She repeats the chant over and over without success, eventually exhausting her magic power forcing Touya to bring her to Elze to rest. Linze would continue to attempt the chant again and again for the next few days exhausting her mana every time and still making no notable progress. Wanting to help, Touya and Yumina go to Charlotte in the capital for advice, she tells Touya her old mentor had a Null spell called, which transfers magical power from one person to another. Touya uses this on Linze and thanks to his vast magic reserves, he is able to give enough magical power to Linze that she can keep practicing without tiring out. He later learns that each spell has a has a meaning behind it and people often don’t know what that meaning is. They can however use the name itself to get a close enough idea of what the spell entails to cast it. Hearing this Touya reasons that the enchanted glasses translated the ancient text too literally and so Linze was unable to mentally create the image of Bubble Bomb. With this in mind Touya explains what Bubble Bomb is to Linze and after more practice, Linze is finally able to cast it. Touya notes how powerful Bubble Bomb was in action as well as Linze’s determination

A few days later, Touya brings Elze to Berkut in the capital to buy new gauntlets due to damaging her current ones on a quest they undertook earlier. The shop shows Touya and Elze two pairs of enchanted gauntlets; one was a green defense-oriented pair and the other a red and gold attack-oriented pair. Elze decides to take both of them reasoning that she’ll just mix and match the pairs and keep the excess as spares in case she breaks them again, Elze also assures Touya that it doesn’t matter which hand she uses the gauntlets on since she’s a switch-hitter. On the way back Touya buys a goth-loli style dress for a very reluctant Elze despite it looking great on her. The other girls all compliment Elze when she shows it to them but are miffed that Touya only got clothes for her and demand that he gets new clothes for them too, much to his exasperation.

A while later, Touya receives a letter from King Tristwin saying that he wants to bestow a noble title to Touya. Touya wants to refuse but is worried that it would anger the King, Yumina assures Touya that her father would not force his hand but advises Touya to formally reject the title in person and so they all head for the capital with Kohaku. They enter the palace via and find the King having tea with General Leon and Olga. They exchange greetings and Olga thanks Touya for saving her from the poisoning incident, she sees Kohaku and tells Touya that white tigers were scared in Mismede, said to be messengers from God. Leon congratulates Touya on his engagement and Touya notices that he is carrying gauntlets, Leon reveals that he is a gauntlet fighter in the military known as “Fire Fist Leon”. Upon hearing this, Elze excitedly recalls stories of Fire Fist Leon’s many exploits and the two bond over their desired weaponry, with Leon inviting her to join army training later which she accepts.

The King then asks Touya about the title, and when he answers that he rejects it, the King reveals he expected Touya to decline and admitted he only offered the title as a reward for saving his life. At that moment a very haggard-looking Charlotte bursts into the room demanding that Touya make more of those translating glasses for the rest of her research team and she disappears out the room as quickly as she came in once he does. Linze is disappointed as she was hoping to talk about magic with her but Leon advises against it, noting that Charlotte can get carried away on the subject of magic and unfortunate listeners could be stuck for hours in her lectures. The King has Touya prepare for the ceremony of his title rejection while the girls opt to watch Elze spar.

At the ceremony, the King formally accepts Touya’s rejection and instead awards him twenty royal coins, each worth ten platinum coins, as well as a mansion in the capital. They take a look at the place and Yumina and Kohaku immediately take a liking to it. Touya wants all of the girls to live with him but Elze, Linze and Yae believe that only Touya and Yumina should live there as the mansion was likely a gift to help with their engagement. However, Touya nonchalantly tells the trio that he likes them all and there should be no problem living together, causing them to get all flustered and run from Touya. Yumina assures Touya that she will talk and convince them to accept his arrangement which they all eventually do. Yumina also tells them she will handle the upkeep of the mansion.

Three days later the party move into the mansion. Yumina hires Laim (the King’s former butler and older brother of Leim) as butler, along with several other staff working under him: including maids Lapis and Cecil, Julio the gardener, his wife cook Crea, and guards Thomas and Huck. Touya has the new staff finish furnishing the house when Duke Alfred and Sue pay him a visit. They congratulate Touya on his engagement and the duke jokes about marrying his daughter off to Touya as well, Sue’s positive reception to the idea greatly worries Touya so the duke promises to put the idea aside. He then reveals the real reason he came to Touya was to have him use for King Tristwin to travel to Mismede in order to officiate an alliance with the country. And due to the nature of the spell Touya has to physically travel to Mismede first before the King does which is ten days away from Belfast by carriage, Touya becomes hesitant but the duke offers to make this an official quest so the party will be rewarded for the effort. Yae is concerned that the vast potential of may make Touya a target but the duke reassures her that  is not infallible as it can be nullified with magic barriers. With their fears eased the party accept the mission and they all discuss the finer details long into the evening, the duke also tells the group that Olga and her sister will be joining them on their trip.

Chapter II - To the Demi-Human Kingdom
Soon, everyone was heading to Mismede from Belfast, escorted by soldiers from both countries. The group pass the time by playing cards and shogi, Touya also entertains the group with stories from his world. At some point, Lain, a rabbit beastman guard from Mismede hears bandits approaching and warns the wolf beastman Captain Garm who informs the group. Touya locates the bandits on his phone and casts several instances of on them through his phone with. With the bandits down, the captain of the Belfast guard Lyon Blitz (son of Leon Blitz) elects to restrain them and send word for knights in the nearby town to apprehend them in the morning. As they make camp for the night, Touya notes that Lyon seems to hold some feelings for Olga, the girls scold Touya for being so dense with his own relationships.

Six days later the party arrive in Canaan, there they intend to take a boat across a river to Langley in Mismede where another carriage was waiting. Yumina spots Lyon trying to pick a present for Olga. Wanting to help, Touya coaxes Olga’s taste in jewelry out of her sister Arma within earshot of Lyon, enabling him to pick an elius flower hair ornament for Olga. Yumina praises Touya for his efforts but wishes he would get something for her too. Once the party were safely across, Olga sends a message to the King of Mismede about their arrival. Lyon gives Olga the elius hair ornament which she happily receives. Kohaku senses that an unknown individual is watching Touya and Yumina, warning them to be on their guard.

The group then head for Eld village, during which Olga explains to Touya that Mismede is a country consisting of seven clans of multiple races, each ruled by a patriarch. The country overall in turn is ruled by the patriarch of the biggest clan: the king of the beastfolk with the other patriarchs wielding influence akin to a noble. The vast distance of the journey forces them to make camp for the night. Touya cooks soup from Earth while the girls secretly use Touya’s to warp back to their mansion to wash up. Yumina is scared of camping out at night but is assured by Kohaku that regular beasts will steer clear once they see her.

As Touya is bringing the girls back to the camp, a black dragon suddenly appears overhead. Olga explains this is not unusual as while dragons retaliate against any who enter their own territory, juveniles are known to venture out of territory on their own and wreak havoc of which the other dragons will not attempt to avenge, she points out however that even a juvenile can prove deadly for the best Mismedean soldiers. Touya searches the dragon on his phone and realizes that it is heading for Eld likely looking for food, having the potential to wipe it out in the process. Touya proposes to warp Yumina, Olga and her sister back to Belfast using before dealing with the dragon. Garm agrees and the ambassador is safely sent away, and everyone else races as fast as they can to Eld. There they find it in utter chaos, with the villagers running in panic as the dragon lays waste to the land with its flames. Garm immediately orders the soldiers to evacuate the villagers while Touya attempts to lure the dragon away from the village with Linze on Kohaku in her true form.

Once they reach a good distance away Kohaku converses with the dragon, finding out that the dragon merely attacked the village for its own amusement. Resolving to take the dragon out, Touya uses to force the dragon down to the ground, Linze then clips its wings with Aqua Cutter. With the dragon unable to fly, Elze strikes the beast on its side while Yae slashes its right eye, but the dragon’s hide proves too tough for Elze and the dragon spits another barrage of flames, Touya attempts to strike the dragon’s neck with his katana but that fails and Touya’s blade shatters. With seemingly no other course of action to take Touya braces for the dragon’s attack, but is saved by a knife thrown onto its other eye causing it to scream and blindly spit flames. Wasting no time Touya uses on the dragon, he then calls Linze to summon an Ice Wall of which he uses  on to make a giant magnifying lens, Touya then casts  into the lens creating a single devastating attack right toward the dragon’s heart, and the dragon lay dead.

Just as they celebrate their victory however, another much larger red dragon appears over the group. It apologizes for the black dragon’s actions and explains in human speech that it is the dragon in charge of the dragon sanctuary and flew here hoping to rein in the unruly young dragon before it does any damage but has seemingly arrived too late. Kohaku speaks to the red dragon, demanding that the Azure Monarch properly discipline its kin, the dragon is surprised that the White Monarch is in servitude to a human but eventually apologizes directly to Touya, Touya accepts but warns that there would not be any second chances to incidents like these and the dragon leaves, Kohaku rails about the Azure Monarch’s supposed negligence with her kin. Touya then remembers the girls and turns to find them in complete shock over Touya being able to speak to the red dragon so casually, they ask if he was afraid through all that and when Touya answers no, Yae finds it slightly unfair.

With the dragon defeated the group spends the rest of the night cleaning up the village. Thankfully no one was killed during the attack but the village was considerably damaged, Lyon asks what Touya intends to do with the dragon’s corpse as the material from it is highly valued, Touya elects to give it to Eld Village to help rebuild. Village Chief Solum thanks Touya for his generous donation and awards him one of the slain dragon’s horns, suggesting he use it to help replace his broken katana. Exhausted from the fighting, Touya falls asleep on the grass, upon waking up he finds himself to his embarrassment resting on Yumina’s lap. He gets up and sees Elze, Linze and Yae sulking, he asks if something happened and they claim it was nothing. Yumina walks up and tells them not to grumble over rock-paper-scissors. In an attempt to diffuse the tension Touya Models some silver bracelets based on a design from Earth and gives them to the girls of which they happily accepted. As they resume their journey to Mismede’s capital city, Olga gives Touya the dagger lodged in the dragon’s eye which Kohaku confirms was thrown by someone outside of the party who was watching the group.

The party eventually arrive at the capital, Touya notes that it reminded him of a place straight out of Arabian folk tales. The group head straight for the Royal Palace which resembled the Taj Mahal and finally meet the ruler of Mismede: Beastking Jamukha Blau Mismede, a Snow Leopard looking to be in his early fifties. King Jamukha is surprised when Yumina introduces herself but she gracefully explains her presence demonstrates Belfast’s commitment to the alliance, presenting a letter from her father to the Beastking explaining the events that transpired during the journey. The Beastking responds that he will deliberate on the matter and allows the group from Belfast to make themselves at home in his residence. He then asks Touya about his white-tiger companion to which he confirms that Kohaku is indeed his servant. Impressed, King Jamukha immediately requests that Touya spar with him much to his shock.

King Jamukha’s aides lead Touya to a large arena resembling the Roman Colesseum, Chancellor Glatz asks Touya to forgive them and to give it all he’s got as King Jamukha always tries to fight anyone that he thinks is strong, to the point that he repeatedly ignores state affairs. Touya picks a wooden sword and heads to the arena. The referee explains the rules, Touya confirms the Beastking’s eagerness to fight and the duel starts, Touya immediately uses to bring Jamukha down before swiftly charging forward and winning the match. Jamukha demands a rematch which forbids Touya from using that spell again, promising his court to involve himself more in state affairs. The court agrees and round two begins; this time Touya is slow to cast his elemental spells and is barely able to dodge Jamukha’s attacks. Touya tricks King Jamukha into revealing that the reason for this is his personal Null spell which accelerates the caster’s movement, enabling Touya to use  himself and attack again and the battle escalates as both he Jamaukha go at each other at supersonic speed. Eventually, Touya exceeds Jamukha’s speed by combining with  and is able to strike him from behind, King Jamukha concedes and Touya wins the match, he acknowledges Touya’s skill while stating he should rethink his strategies, Touya wonders if there is a faster way to cast elemental spells.

Later, Touya attends a small party in formal attire, Lyon approaches him and asks if he has seen Olga. As Touya replies no Olga’s sister Arma and their father Olba introduce themselves, Touya does likewise and Olba also thinks Touya is from Eashen. Lyon is so nervous about meeting his crush's father that he fumbles his introduction. Touya finds out that Olba is a trader in high value items, and after hearing that Olba was seeking to procure himself a shogi board after learning about it from his daughter, Touya subtly sets up a meeting with Olba and Lyon by asking Lyon to bring the shogi set Touya brought during the trip to Olba and play it with him later on.

Touya then heads toward a commotion near the entrance hall and finds that King Jamukha, Olga, Yumina and the rest of the girls have arrived in party clothes with Yumina, Elze, Linze and Yae wearing clothes that looked like Indian saris. They compliment Touya's outfit and Touya does likewise, deciding to take a picture of them all with his phone. King Jamukha is curious about the device and Touya tells him it is his Null spell that records images to view later, which King Jamukha notes that he knows someone from the Refreese Imperium that has a similar spell. Touya then uses to print the image onto paper and soon everyone goes up to Touya clamoring for a photograph for themselves. Touya obliges for a while before sneaking out the of party hall for a break. As Touya sits down to rest, he spots something very unusual: a stuffed bear walking down the corridor. The bear sees Touya and motions for him to follow, where it leads Touya to a fairy dressed in gothic lolita clothes. She introduces herself as Leen, the matriarch of the fairies, when Touya expresses surprise at this she reveals that despite appearances, fairies live far longer lives than humans. Leen also introduces the bear that led Touya to her as Paula, an actual stuffed bear brought to life using her Null spell. Leen gets suspicious when Touya use himself but keeps it to herself, she also reveals she was Charlotte's old mentor. She is shocked when Touya reveals he has an aptitude for all elemental magic and asks him to be his disciple which he refuses.

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