My saviour Ben is currently carrying me somewhere through a city.
I was bought on the spot.
I sounded expensive but Ben couldn’t have cared less.
What a badass.

Elena the demon looked a little disappointed to have lost her toy, but I couldn’t care less honestly.
Enjoy the potion, you cruel temptress.

I wish I could enjoy some sightseeing in another world’s city, but all I see is motion blur due to how much Ben is shaking me.

*Bam!*
Another door is subjected to Ben’s dynamic entrance.

“CYNTHIA!!” (Ben)
Ben shouts a woman’s name for the whole building to hear.

Hurried high heels approach.

Ben walks into the building to meet up with this Cynthia character I assume.

“Ben, I told you not to shout so late in the day! You always end up frightening the new recruits away!” (Cynthia)

“Gya ha ha ha! If they get scared of this much, they shouldn’t be getting in this line of work in the first place!” (Ben)

“Have a look at this thing!” (Ben)
Ben holds me up to a cool muscular brunette wearing a practical-looking dark blue robe.

There are two delver’s guild masters!

We must be in the guild’s building right now!

I wonder if I’ll get to see some familiar light novel scenes…
Maybe a crystal used for measuring my power will explode…
Or maybe some rowdy adventurers looking to bully the new kid will arrive!

“Ben… what is this eerie thing…?” (Cynthia)
Cynthia looks disgusted by my presence, needless to say, a familiar sight.

Looks like she suddenly realised something.
“Is this something the Alcazar clean up group brought back?” (Cynthia)

“Gya ha ha! I knew you’d notice right away! That’s right!” (Ben)

“It can do some rather peculiar things! Look at this!” (Ben)
Ben puts me down, pours some mana into my crystal and carefully turns my faucet.

*Pshhht*

“?!” (Cynthia)

“Oh?” (Ben)

Phew… that was difficult.

I’m learning to control my emotions.
I can’t just be firing off my mental ability every time someone tries to touch my faucet.

Cynthia grabs the cup of my water out of Ben’s hand and carefully inspects it.
“…” (Cynthia)

She looks at Ben.

“Elena?” (Cynthia)
Ben nods.

“It can produce the aura of a trained master eyeing you up too, though I’m not sure why it’s not doing it now?” (Ben)

“…” (Cynthia)

“Wouldn’t this thing be perfect to put in front of the caverns?” (Ben)

◇◆◇

 

All I'm able to see in my field of view is an enormous cliff face with a giant gaping entrance in it.

Ben had me loaded onto another one of those pitch-black carriages when he moved me from what I'm assuming was the delver guild.

This came to mind when I was firmly planted into the ground by Ben near the scary-looking cave entrance.

When I dismissed all that depressing information, my pants suddenly fell down and caught on fire.
…Is this what it looks like when I receive damage from no particular source?

After a couple of seconds, a generic-looking guard standing near me looks at me in confusion when he suddenly notices the fire.
The guard was in the middle of listening to Ben's explanation of my faucet.
He motions at Ben to pause and points at my burning pants.

"Ben, is it supposed to do that as well?" (Generic guard) 

"…" (Ben)

Ben and the guard are looking at my pants. The fire dies down after a couple of seconds. There's nothing left off my pants.

"I'm not sure… Elena did mention this thing could be rather unpredictable." (Ben)
The generic guard nods at Ben's remark.

Don't nod like this is normal.

Anyway, I guess my gardening life with Julia is officially over now.
Fortunately, she’s still alive, though I don’t know if she’s doing well.

I focus on the part of my status that’s got Julia’s name in it.

I tried ignoring the new bit about the faucet, but the info enters my mind regardless…

"Alright, see you later Isaac! Let me know if anything else amusing happens!" (Ben)
Ben waved goodbye to the generic guard named Isaac.

After Ben disappeared out of sight, Isaac turned to me and approached me.
He's covered in armour and has a sword at his side. He truly looks like a background character.

“So I just need to pour my mana in here and turn on the faucet right?” (Isaac)
Seems like Isaac is the type of guy that talks to himself out loud.

Isaac turns on my faucet.
*Pshhht*

Fortunately, I can’t see Isaac’s face through his helmet.
Not seeing the eager expression on people's faces as water comes out of my faucet should be a little less mentally scarring at least.

Now that I’m out of that demon temptress' hell hole, I’m trying to look at the bright side of things.

Isaac lifts his faceplate and drinks the water.
“Phaa! That hits the spot!” (Isaac)
Isaac audibly breathes a sigh of relief.

“…” (Isaac)
Isaac is looking at me.

“So…” (Isaac)

“Is someone in there? Ben mentioned there's a soul in here.” (Isaac)

Oh? Someone's actually genuinely trying to communicate with me!
Should I give responding to him a try?

I look at my mana…

I’m not sure if this will work, but let’s give it a try!

(Hello, this is scarecrow speaking.)
I tried thinking of something as calm and friendly as possible.

*Don~*

Oh! I managed to keep the mana usage to 1!

“!” (Isaac)
Isaac's armor rattled for a brief moment.

“Oh?! I just felt a subtle fuzzy warm feeling! Was that a response?” (Isaac)
He sort of understood me? This might actually work!

“Ben mentioned you might be able to ease my workload!” (Isaac)
Looks like this guy has high expectations for my faucet.

Isaac gives me an awkward look for a moment.
“So… do you have a name? My name’s Isaac!” (Isaac)

What a courteous filler character you are. I suppose I could use my name from when I was back on earth?

Uuuh, what was it again…

Huh?
I can’t remember?
I guess I truly am just an unnamed scarecrow then.

(I have no name.)
I carefully activate my mental ability again.

*Don~*

“!” (Isaac)

“Hmmm. That made me feel a little cold?” (Isaac)

“…I have no idea what you’re saying! Ha ha ha!” (Isaac)

Yeah, I guess not.